Andi's eyebrows went sky high and her voice suddenly acquired the sweet drip of arsenic. "I would definitely want to know you, you say?" she drawled, a smile spreading across her face like a pool of blood. "Is that so? How... presumptious of you."

She beamed. "Ten points off Gryffindor, and close the door behind you when you leave. Thank you very much."

Andi rolled her eyes. "Not all of his behaviour, good Lord. For example, be very, very sure that you don't act like a sexist pig, don't patronize people till they long to give you a right ding across the ear, don't let your eyes roam suggestively over someone who is likely to rip them out... you know. That sort of thing."

"Sure, Professor," Tia said brightly, her voice still acidly sweet. She had known this was coming and, very frankly, she didn't mind. There was always time to redeem herself in the Professor' eyes - Well, if that was actually possible - but, for now, she was pretty much enjoying herself.

She took several steps towards the door, before stopping, her hands on the handle. Then she turned around again, an acidic smile spreading across her face. "I'm Tia Ray, by the way, Professor," she said, bowing, before hurrying out at once, fully aware that she had gone too far, careful to close the door behind her - a little too loudly.

It wasn't her fault - Honestly, It wasn't.

Nik smirked as the prof took points of the first year Gryffindor. He could just imagine what the new students were saying about AMMZ and longed to catch one of them at it so he could hex them.

He snorted at what the woman said about his father, "Why you trippin' on me?" he chuckled to himself at the odd sounding words and went on, "It's not like I'm about to idolize the man anytime soon, there's no reason I'm going to want to act like him."

Andi waited till the idiotic girl had left, slamming the door before returning her attention to Nikolai.

She looked oddly at him. "Have you hit your head recently?" Andi inquired. "Hard to believe as this is, Nikolai, but your father does have some good points. Though I'm hard put to find them myself..." she sniffed. "Do me a favor, quash every damn rumor circulating about - there aren't many, are they? - about your father and I."

Andi studied the petulant boy in front of her, remembering that smug letter Andrei had sent her. Yes, daddy dearest, he was. "Oh, and have you delivered the letter to him?"

Andi almost smiled. "You do that. And see the nurse about that toe, I think it might have affected your head." She nodded at him dismissively. "Thank you, Nikolai and good day to you. Happy squashing."

She leaned back in her chair, more relaxed and started to shred a piece of paper.

eliza stood up "have a nice day professor." she said,leaving

"Hello-proffeser..I really liked the class today.said Amanda shyly.

After knocking lightly, Lauren entered the office after a thoroughly enjoyable Charms class, still a bit jittery from enduring her first class ever at Hogwarts. She had expected the worst from a teacher by whom many were intimidated and, quite frankly, terrified, but was only disgusted by how her classmates treated the professor with such sass. Professor Mao-Macdougal was actually extremely intelligent and competent and, as Lauren could sense, only wanted her students to do their best. The amount of house points she shaved from their totals told her as much - Professor would never settle for mediocrity or stupidity, only hard work and success.

As Lauren scanned the wall-hangings and bookshelves, the shining items and prisms of light, she felt as thought the furnishings didn't fit the person she expected Professor Mao-Macdougal to be ... and yet, watching her professor scribble furiously on parchment at her desk, she seemed right at home. It was almost as if the room had been built and furnished around her.

"Umm ... Professor?" Lauren looked expectantly at Professor Mao-Macdougal. Perhaps she was waiting to be verbally acknowledged or, at the very least, for the professor to glance in her direction. Waiting a few moments, she realized neither was going to happen and wisely continued, "I...uhh...I, I was just wondering when our next class was going to be." Lauren took a deep breath. She got so stressed speaking to her professors outside of class. "I just, I want to get a headstart on our homework assignment and would love to know when you are expecting us to turn it in." Phew. Getting her question out of the way, Lauren stood in anticipation of a response.



OOC: And, to add on to my character's question, do we private message the essay to you? Or post it somewhere? Forgive me, this is the very first time I've attempted to do any sort of RPing, let alone RPing with homework involved! ;)

natalie knocked on the door of the professors office and waited for a reply.

OOC: I posted instructions on the homework board, so you can check there. And no problem! You're going about it the right way, you're a good RPer so far as I can see *painfully honest, or just plain painful*

Andi turned to look at the Slytherin girl, her eyebrows raised. The half written letter lay on her desk, along with some old photos. Andi had been sorting through them in preparation for her next lesson. In the event of being completely unable to find a fairytale in the Brothers Grimm book that didn't involve beheading and the like, she had decided next time, she'd teach something simple and easy: how to charm photographs to move.

She had been looking through her collection to find a few, mostly of her younger days, and of her parents and various relatives. Right now, her hand rested on one ancient shot, taken when she and her four-months-younger cousin Karl had been about three years old. Little Andi had a big smile on her face, black hair blowing about, and a huge bouquet of peonies. She was near Karl, who had a smaller smile. There was no sign of the grouches they would become.

Andi smiled fondly, remembering the last words she and Karl had exchanged.

"You bloody git!"

"You miserable shrew!"

She rather missed her cousin.

"The next class will be when I choose it to be!" she snapped, shaking hair out of her eyes. "As for the homework, rest assured I have posted the requirements on the homework board outside. I believe you possess all faculties? You can read? Yes? Very good then."

Andi sighed, irritably. "Come in," she called, through gritted teeth. But before the girl could enter, Lee had rushed in...

Andi picked up the note and studied it, not without glaring at Lee first and pointedly picking her pieces of paper and photographs up. She read the note and her face hardened considerably. Hung on a door, it would have frightened children and ghosts away for sure. There was murder in the flash of her eyes, and the line of her mouth. As always, when she was extremely angry, Andi seemed as calm as death.

"Poison-pen writers," she said contemptuously, "are the lowest of the low. Bring this to the Headmistress. Inform her of it. The rest, I will sort out myself..."

She steepled her fingers and smiled at Lee. "Thank you indeed for bringing this to my notice, Mr. Andrez. I assure you, the perpetrator will be... sorry for this."

Andi's brows drew together in a frown as yet another knock sounded on her door. "Come in," she said, starting to clear away her photos and pieces of parchment.

Andi raised her eyebrows. She was calm. Almost too calm. Painfully, nervewrackingly calm. She was calm in the way the rope hanging between a gorge full of poisonous snakes is calm. Andi smiled at Nikolai.

"Mr. Andrez," she gestured at Lee, "has already been kind enough to deliver some of these childish letters to me. I recommend him take them to the headmistress."

Lauren flinched, slightly shocked by the biting response to her innocent question. She thought for a moment that she would've done better just keeping her mouth shut and asking an older student for help - why did she think she could come in here and her professor would treat her any better than the rest?

"Yes, I can read," she said, her voice cracking halfway through. She was scared of this teacher, reduced to physical shakes and a dry mouth in her presence, and yet she was fascinated by her demeanor, her office, and her life. She had never met anyone quite like her. "Uhh...okay, so I, um, I'll check the homework board. Thank you for your time." Nodding at Professor Mao-MacDougal in a final thanks, Lauren ducked out of the office with her head down, releasing a large breath of air once the door shut behind her that said she was never so glad to be swallowed by the crowd of students in the halls.



OOC: I'd say painfully honest. Though, if she were my teacher, I'd probably have cried by now! lol, Thanks so much for your help - I really appreciate it. :flowers:

Jenni thought about earlier and decided to visit AMMZ. She patiently knocked on the door and waited, not wanting to annoy the teacher anymore.

Andi gritted her teeth, feeling a temper begin to brew somewhere under her ribs and work it's way up so she had to clamp her teeth tightly together to keep the scream inside.

"Come in," she trilled, every syllable soaked in poison.

Jenni slowly opened the door. She knew about the professors temper and now had to be careful. "Sorry to interupt Professor but I wanted to talk to you."