Siriana saw a familiar slytherin girl waving at her "Yeah have seen you too. I'm Siriana" she smiled and eyed the older huffie it was nice older students came to help them she thought. She spotted another Ravenclaw with a broom in hand at a distance and then looked back at Professor McAiken. She nodded her head about reading the rules, she thought she wouldn't want any accidents happening to her and waited for more instructions.

Drusilla had brought her own broom with her. She was still wondering why Professor McAiken had asked her to help him with this lesson and not some Quidditch player of their house. Seeing a Hufflepuff boy she had surely met before wearing the prefect´s badge - Lee was his name, if she remembered right - she thought it must be the Professor was asking Prefects for the job.

She nodded shortly to Lee and Professor McAiken and realized most of the people at the Quidditch Pitch were Hufflepuffs. No wonder, she thought to herself, with McAiken teaching. Had it been Professor Branxton all the Slytherins would probably have been there.

"Who can tell me the command to raise a broom into your hand?" McAiken asked. He hope the formal lesson would be short. The actuall flying was the part he like best to teach. Safety and such had their places but nothing could beat the joy of the wind and be in the air on a broom.

Phoebe shot her hand up in the air. "up or something similiar" she said hoping it was right.

AJ nodded, "UP!" she said, "you call your broom my sticking your hand over it and telling it UP!" she repeated. she turned to Siriana, "AJ, nice to meet you."

"Correct, 10 points to Hufflepuff. What two pieces of safety equipment should a flyer always wear?" McAiken asked. "Sometimes people forget to wear them but for the general flyer both are a good choice for protection." He hoped the students would be prepared.

Phoebe beaming with pride that she had earned some points raising her ajdn again she said. "Wrist guards and elbow pads. Shoes of couse but i don't think that is what you mean" She said not as certain to this answer.

AJ copied down the notes and thought, "arm and leg pads?" she guessed.

"Phoebe, sounds more like muggle skateboarding than flying. No these two pieces of safety equipment protect two things you need for flying. All that other stuff you might wear for quidditch but every flyer should wear these two items, even if they are only flying to Diagon Alley to store."

Safety equipment? Drusilla looked a bit confused. Like a helmet or something, she thought to herself, but since she didn´t know the answer she didn´t say anything. She surely wouldn´t put a helmet on her head, it would look so stupid.

Two things we need for flying ... Drusilla frowned. The broom and our brains, maybe ... But how to protect them? A spell, maybe ...

AJ thought harder, "gloves? and... umm... possibly the flying robes? or maybe the boots?" she didn't know this one but would keep guessing

Phoebe smiled at the Proffesors comments. Sher thought for a moment then raisng her hand agin "Maybe gloves and a cusioning charm on your broom?" She gueesed again.

Drusilla suddenly raises her hand.

"Goggles, maybe, to protect your eyes with," she says.

"5 points to Hufflepuff for gloves and 5 points to Slytherin for goggles. Who can me why those are important? Durcilla and Lee feel free to answer this one.

Lee smiled and raised his own hand this time," A means by which to keep your grip on the broom and a means to protect your eyes so you can see where you are going."

"Goggles are important so you don´t get insects into your eyes and gloves to get a firm grip of the broom," Drusilla answers quickly.

Noticing Lee had been a bit quicker to answer this one, she felt a bit stupid, but the answer was somehow similar, so it probably was right.

AJ smiled, well she tried, she coulda gotten 5 points too because she said gloves first but oh well, she shrugged, "because GLoves you will keep your grip and with goggles you can see where your going no matter what wheather," she said shrugging, why hadn't she thought of that?

"Exactly, 10 points to Hufflepuff for both and another 5 to Durcilla for saying the goggles protected the eye to begin with. So we have 25 points so far to Hufflepuff and 10 to Slytherin. Well done.

Now we need to all go down the pitch. Lee and Durcilla will show us how to mount, push off and fly around the pitch." McAiken explained as he started to climb down the stairs to the grass. "All first year please take a house broom and if you are second year without one of your own, please also take one, also. Each broom has a set on gloves and goggles so please put those on."

ooc: Pigwideon was first for the gloves so that 5 points belongs to Slytherin, not Hufflepuff. So points thus far are 20 H and 15 S. Sorry about that but I do correct my mistakes.

AJ climbed down the stairs, grabbing a broom with goggles and gloves on her way. she put the gloves on on her way down, but waited until she was there to put on the goggles.

Siriana was sad she didn't get any points. She knew the answers but everybody was faster than her. Frowning she grabbed one of the brooms, put on her gloves and goggles and followed Professor McAiken down the stairs and on the grass.

james grab a broom and some goggles and as he walked past phoebe he winked at her.

"Accio Firebolt," Lee said with his wand out and his broom came flying down to him. His goggles and gloves were in his pocket already. He headed down the stairs, heading for the grass. Slightly nervous about performing in front of the younger ones.

"Okay, please make two straight lines. Be sure you can see Lee and Durcilla. Okay you two, command your brooms up." instrusted McAiken as the last of the first and second years formed lines. He stepped back so Lee and Durcilla could be seen.

james looked at lee coming down the stair "oooooo i can see the nerves lee"james shouted at him laughing