"That is a question to bring up with your Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor. Try to think of something really happy." Professor Crafts eyes caught light not coming from a patronus.

"Please extinguish your wand Ms. Lua and try and produce your Patronus." Professor Craft waited for the other students to cast.

Tasha looked across the room at Cassandra and mouthed the words,"Happy? Like how happy?"

Stacey took hold of a worksheet that the professor spoke of and made her way towards the right side of the classroom. She was only in her 4th year and at this point, she was learning far more than ever, but rather enjoying herself with each new lesson.

She listened to the professor speak the words, "Expecto Patronum" and decided to try it herself once the professor asked them to do so. She spoke the words of the spell herself and watched a form of the silvery light escape from her wand. She was more nervous than anything at this point and did not know what to expect.

Cassandra looked at the girl and said "Very happy."

She then closed her eyes and she pulled her wand from her sleeve. Her father made her do this every day, just so her skills were up. She thought of her happy memory, and said "Expecto Patronum!" Out of her wand a silver Occamy came out and flew around the room.

Happy thoughts?Alanna thought. I think I can manage those...she tried thinking of her letter to Hogwarts.

"Expecto Patronum!" Yet again, another thick silvery white mist exited her wand's tip. Getting incrisingly frustrated now, she managed to stop herself from trying to attack her weak patronus.

Lua frighteningly satred at the professor, why would she leave them in darkness?.
Crossing her eyebrows in suprise, she extinguished her wand but kept a stronger grip on it. "Sorry professor" she said, and watched everyone else try their patronus waiting for her turn.

Tasha wrote "Very Happy" on her parchment, then picked up her wand. Thinking back to the vacation she took with just her and her dad, she remembered all the wonderful things he said to her while they sat on the beach with her head in his lap, looking out at the dolphins bobbing through the ocean. At her peak of emotions that were flooding through her, she waved her wand and said, Expecto Patronum!" Out of the tip for just a few brief seconds came a siler, scaily, porpus with a dragon like tail. It darted across the room and deminished into vapor.
"Anybody get a good look at that? What was that?" she asked excitedly.

A happy thought...hmm. Jenna didn't have too many of them.

Wait a minute, she thought--and then she had one.

She thought of her first kiss, and then said "Expecto Patronum!"

A silver liger came from the tip of her wand, stayed for a bit, then disappeared.

Tasha tried again, and nothing but the silver mist formed. Clearing her mind and breathing deeply, she thought about her happy memory again. "Expecto Patronum!" she said loudly, and yet again, just a little silver vapor. "Professor? Whats the meaning of a patronus? I mean, what does it say about that person?"

Brianna held up her wand, thought about her first day at Hogwarts, and said, Expecto Patronum! and a silver vapor emitted from her wand. "That wasn't it." she muttered

Emma bit her lip and squinted her eyes - HARD. Concentrating as much as she could, Emma chanted out the spell - "Expecto Patronum!" and thought about the day that she first went to Diagon Alley.

A little whisper of a sound made Emma open her eyes, and once she did, something white was disappearing. I wonder what it will be when I finally get it... she thought hopefully.

Taylor focused her mind on a happy thought. She let the energy of the happiness flow through her mind, body, and soul. She closed her eyes and relaxed. She finally opened her eyes and raised her wand. She loudly said,
"Expecto Patronum!!"
A silvery light erupted from the front of the wand and protruded a long silvery string of silver. There was a little problem though, Taylor couldn't make out what the patronus was. The long silver light coiled around her body. Taylor tried to touch it, but before she could, the light faded away and the long silver patronus disappeared. Disappointed, but not suprised, Taylor focused once again.

Rave grinned, she had been able to produce a patronus for almost a year now. Clearing her head she thought of her memory and said, "Expecto Patronum!" and a silver leopard shot out of the end of her wand and eyed the other occupants of the room. It walked over and sniffed Lua aswell as a couple other students before Rave extinguished it and sat back.

Jackie thought hard about a happy thought. Even though she was in her fifth year she just couldn't seem to get it. "Expecto Patronum!" she cried. A little puff of silver came out of the end, but didn't resemble any animal that Jackie knew of.

Tag gripped his wand, not sure of how he was supposed to see to do the movements in the dark. Happy thoughts. . . happy thoughts. . . okay. He concentrated on the day Hawken surprised him with a Komodo dragon. Isabella. "Expecto patronum," he said firmly, flicking the wand he couldn't see. A tiny jet of silver burst out, breaking the darkness and blinding him momentarily. "Shoots. . . expecto patronum!" Again, this time brighter, the image stayed in front of his eyes even after it had gone out. Tag blinked, trying to clear the light from his retinas. He couldn't make out a form yet. He watched the other students for a moment, recognizing some odd animals.
He raised his hand, even though he wasn't sure if Professor Craft could see it. "Professor, can Patronuses be mythical creatures, or are they all real animals?"

Patrick took out his wand and thought back to the days before Hogwarts . . . before anything had happened. "Expecto patronum" he chanted. Nothing. He tried again. "Expecto Patronum". Wispy smoke. One more try he thought. "EXPECTO PATRONUM" he said thinking about what he felt when he was with Katherine. Another wisp of smoke came out but this one formed itself into and ocelot, small but reassuring. It stayed a while so he moved forward to pet it. It felt like everything he and Katherine had every felt as if he and her memories were stored up inside this one small thing.

Thinking about all of this had brought tears to his hazel eyes. He brushed them away as the Patronus dissappeared. Then bringing himself back into the class he looked around waiting for the teacher to give further instructions.

Brianna thought of another happy thought and said, "Expecto Patronum!" only it once again turned out to be a silvery wisp of smoke, she looked around and saw a boy, he looked a bit upset. "Are you allright?" she mouthed to him, thinking that she might get in trouble if she talked out loud

"Expecto Patronum" Tasha called out again, and again, and again, but still nothing. "I didn't get a good look at that thing the last time; Was that a patronus, or did I mess it up and something else happened?" Tasha looked around at the other students confused about what her wand did. It happened so quickly, she couldn't focus her eyes in the dark fast enough, and the image she saw wasn't that bright or big to begin with. "Professor?" Tasha asked with her hand waving in the air (as if anyone could see her in the dark) "Does a patronus have anything to do with the type of wand you have?"

"Yeah," he muttered back.

Phoebe took out her wand and first leared her mind. This was perticularly difficult due to the strange things happening. She next tried to think of her happies memorys. Thinking of what the nurse had told her she thought of a few and imagined the clearly. Focusing hard on those thoughts she said loud and clearly "Expecto Patronum" A silvery mist erupted from her wand forming a feeble sort of lion. Competely exhausted she sat down the lion gone, she was smiling. "Finally" She whispered. Her patronus needed work but was it sort of worked.

Ghada was sitting at the end of the class noticing Lua she wanted to suprise her but when the Proffesor had turned off the lights Ghada gasped and closed her eyes it reminded her by the attack Ghada raised her wand and muttered 'Expecto Patronum' but nothing came out Ghada tried to remember happy memory's but couldn't she just stood there looking at other patronus's that have been casted.Ghada then thought of an idea she thought if she would walk to Lua and suprise her that she was out of the Hospital wing that that will be a happy memory Ghada walked to Lua who was giving Ghada her back and tapped her shoulder 'Remember me?' she whispered in her ear.

Alicia took a worksheet, she was sitting in the middle of the class. "A spell? In Divnation?" she asked herslef quizzically. "Happy memories, think of happy memories" she said. She thought of a very deep, indepth thought, and shouted "Expecto patronum!". A feeble wisp came out. She sighed heavily. "Better luck next time" she said as she prepared to try again. This time she thought of an even stronger memory with her friends, and shouted very onsiely, and clearly "Expecto Patronum!". This time it was much better, a comfortable silvery shield exploded out of her wand, but after a few seconds or so, it collapsed as it drained the power out of Alicia from the happy thought. "Nerly!" she said happily.

Professor Craft was begiining to regret her lesson plan, "Why did I think to use Patroni?" She thought as she scanned the darkness of her room. She saw few actual Patroni and lots of mist and vapor. "Students if you can't produce a Patronus by the end of the lesson than I will give you the busy work and teach Animal Symbolism to those who can. Now keep trying!" She hadn't meant to sound angry, Professor Craft removed her wand from her sleeve. "Watch me once more, think a happy though, then brandish your wand like your sending a great army off to battle." Professor Craft's face was serious as her wand cut through the air. "EXPECTO PARTRONUM!" Just as before, a silvery Wolf shot ot of her wand and howled. It remained for a minute and then she released the spell. "Keep trying, once we have our Patroni then we can move on to what they mean." She placed her wand back into her sleeve and observed the students.

Jordan got to her feet. Yes, she had produced a patronus before, but never in front of this many people. She held out her wand and commanded “Expecto Patronum!” There was a moments pause, and then a giant silvery tiger emerged from the tip of her wand. Jordan stood motionless as to not disrupt the flow of energy going through her body.

When she had completed her task, Jordan quietly took her seat and waited for the rest of the class. She was grateful the room was still dark because, just like every time before, the sight of her patronus had brought her to tears.

Cassandra looked around at the other patroni. Few were as solid as hers. She felt like thanking her father for the one thing he made sure he taught her. As her silvery Occamy was flying about the classroom, Cassandra walked to the pile of worksheets and pulled one. Although she didn't really understand what it was, it seemed like fun. She almost wished she had been on the right side, instead of on the left.