DADA Lesson 2: Creature Feature
 

Ashley walked into the DADA classroom. noone was there yet but she knew that they would be there soon. She took a seat and waited for class to begin

Cecilia walked into the classroom, "Hi professor!" She said and sat down in a front seat, she took out her quill, book and new parchment notebook. She was ready for class to begin.

Kerry entered the classroom and found a seat at the back of the classroom and sat quietly. She wondered to herself what crazy things this lesson might be, as she took out her quill and parchment and readied for the class to begin.

Cassandra entered the classroom, seeing a few studetns already there. "Hello Professor, have a nice day so far?" She asked while passing the Headmistress. She took a seat around the middle and sat down. She took out her parchment, textbook, Quill, and ink. She looked aorund the room, waiting for class to start.

Torie walked into the DADA classroom. She enjoyed this subject immensely and so was looking forward to a new lesson. She picked a seat near the front of the classroom and began taking out her books and supplies. Putting them on the table in front of her, she smiled happily. She opened her robes and withdrew her wand from her inside pocket. This too she placed on the desk. Having finished with her preparations, she looked up at Professor Rae in expectation.

"Most witches and wizards can develop that ability." She flicked her wand hand and a piece of chalk drew a ridiculous smiling face on the blackboard. "But it is an advanced skill, and I think you and Aurora both shouldn't attempt to delve into it without a professor's guidance. It is a fifth or sixth year skill, and those who are younger don't have enough grip on their power to go off the wand. The wand acts as a focus, helping you to figure out how to use the power you have."

"Yes ma'am. Thank you for explaining that." Kennedy looked at Aurora with a look that said, "Please don't ever try to cast a spell on me again without a wand" but with a friendly smile, of course.

Rae smiled tightly and put the roses on her desk. "That's very nice, my dear. Let's get started on today's lesson, and perhaps you and I can discuss this another time."

She held out her hand, and the chalk stopped it's doodling and flew back to her. "Last time, we started a discussion about the different dangers you will face in the Wizarding World. Specifically, we discussed Dark Objects and how to identify them. We also went over my memory device for approaching a dangerous situation. Can anyone tell me what it was and what each letter stands for?"


OOC: Please remember that only the first person will get credit, so there's no need to repeat what someone has already said :).

Kerry raised her hand, I believe it was called SOAR, which stands for Surroundings, Opponent, Abilities, and Resources," she said biting her lip hoping she was right.

"Professor, That would be S.O.A.R, =Surroundings. Opponent. Abilities. Resources" Aurora raised her hand as she spoke

"The memory device was S.O.A.R. SUrroundings - Opponent-Abilities and Resources. The spell for dark detection was Apenbarria." Kennedy answered.

Torie flipped back to her notes from last class and located the aconym Professor Rae had taught them. Unfortunately, many of her classmates had already answered. 'Oh well,' thought Torie, 'Next time I guess.'

"Exactly, Kerry. That will be five for Gryffindor." The acronym appeared on the board. "Today, we're going to move from Dark Objects to creatures. We'll actually talk for a little bit about regular creatures, as well as Dark creatures, so let's take a moment to make sure we're all on the same page."

"Can anyone tell me how the Ministry of Magic rates creatures regarding how dangerous they are?"

Kerry smiled at getting points for Gryffindor, and then raised her hand again "The ministry of magic rates creatures by how dangerous the creature is to wizardkind, human kind and some creatures earn their rating for other reasons, such as difficulty in capturing or training them." Kerry said, not sure if that was the complete way the designated ratings but knowing it was close.

Ooc:
Glad SS is back up and running again! :D

Torie raised her hand. "Umm, they use Xs? The more Xs a creature has, the more dangerous it is."

Cassadnra slowly raised her hand, "Don't they use a type of scale? 1 being harmless and 5 being deadly? 1: Boring
2: Harmless / may be domesticated
3: Competent wizards should cope
4: Dangerous / requires specialist knowledge / skilled wizard may handle
5: Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate " She leaned back in her chair, hoping for it to be right.

Aurora raised her hand and said,"Professor, in the text book, they are marked with a number of X's to determine how dangerous the creature is to wizardkind, although some creatures earn their rating for other reasons, such as difficulty in capturing or training them."
She hope that was right. She really wasnt sure

(Uh, shoot me because I didn't read properly and I don't know how to delete my own posts.)

"Three X's" Kennedy answered

Kerry raised her hand, that's a 3, which means competent wizards should be able to cope with it

Having stayed quiet up until now, Eric was glad that he knew a few of the questions that had been asked. At the next question, his hand shot up. “XXX."

"Also, three X's" Kennedy answered

Kerry raised her hand " a Pogrebin is also 3"

Kerry raised her hand, "another 3 professor"

Torie raised her hand. "That's also a three, professor."

" that would be a 3 as well professor" aurora said

"No a dragon is not a dark creature. Dark creatures must have the intent to do harm for the sake of harm. A dragon is dangerous but not dark because they act out of self-preservation." kennedy answered

"NO i dont believe they are." Amber replied

"It all depends on how you treat the Dragon I guess. If you treat it fairly and with compassion it won't turn into a Dark creature. But if you treat with it hate, than yes. So I guess, it just depends on the dragon and it's attitude." Ariana said, raising her hand, not quite sure. She didn't think any creatures were dark, it was just how you treated them.

Kerry raised her hand "I don't think it's a dark creature as it can't really be trained by anyone to do any dirty work, it's classified a 5, which means Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate. I would think a dark creature is one that is purposely trained to be dark and evil, but I could be wrong."

Torie raised her hand. "I don't think so, Professor considering that they don't meet all of the criteria for being a dark creature. Although they are magical in nature, they don't intentionally seek to harm humans. Often times it is humans that seek to harm them. As well, dragons have a complete life cycle. They are born, they live, and they die. They don't stick around simply for spite."

"No a dementor is ALWAYS dark because it always seeks to harm others. It doesn't act only to survive. It actually enjoys harming people." Kennedy replied.

Suzy raised her hand, "i dont think that a demontor is ever not dark. I mean yes they are controled, but they still can try to do dark things with out being provoked."

Kerry raised her hand, "But there are times that if a dementor doesn't sense evil or darkness, it will not bother with someone and will pass them over, so maybe in that sense it's not dark. I mean they sense the deepest darkest memories in people... since they are blind. They feed off these emotions. If they can't sense these emotions in people then they can't act upon it, right?" Kerry asked really confused.

Amber agreed with al of hem she knew the answer but didnt answer quite fast enough

Ariana wanted to answer, but bit her toungue hard to stop herself. She knew what the answer should be, but she had her own ideas. Instead, she sat back and wrote everything down.

"A Manticore. It may attack you but it will do it to eat you. It wants you as a food source to survive. It is a predator but not a dark creature."Kennedy answered.

"a hipogryff" Amber said

Ariana raised her hand, "Um, a Blast-ended Skrewt? They may be dangerous but if you know how to handle them, you'll find they are quite harmless, well sort of. But certainly not dark." she said.

Torie giggled. "A Pixie! They are merely pests!"

Kerry raised her hand, "the merpeople unless really provoked or finding themselves in dire need to defend themselves I would think are not dark."

Suzy raised her hand, "n erumpent is a dangerous creature. Its a rhino like creature that has fluid in its horn that explodes."

Torie raised her hand again. "As well, bowtruckles can be dangerous if they are provoked, but they only do it as a defence mechanism, not to purposely harm people."

"Some dark creatures include grindylows, red caps, hinkypunks, and kappas, banshees, dementors, and boggarts." KK answered

SUzy raised her hand, "Um would banshees be a dark creature?"

"Um, would Inferi be one?"Ariana asked, her hand raised. She honeslty didn't know since she wasn't really happy studying the dark creatures.

Kerry raised her hand, "would a werewolf count?"

"A baslisk." said Torie.

"During the time when the werewolf is in its human form, it is not a dark creature. However, when it does transform, its sole intent it to attack people with the intention of passing on the disease to others or to kill them, thereby making them dark during that time." KK suggested.

SUzy raised her hand, "i think that most werewolves cant help the fact that they are one. I think most of them are good genuine people."

"Well, the Werewolf used to be a human being with a heart and feelings, until it was bitten and turned into the monster. It knows why it's doing what it does, so it can think for itself to survive. I don't think it's necessarily dark, though it does have dark tendacies, like murdering people to keep itself alive. I think it feels sympathy for its victims, but it can't help itself." Ariana said, just throwing her idea out there, she shrugged and began to write everything down again, not missing a thing.

Kerry raised her hand, "Well, there are some who are werewolves by circumstance...they were bitten by one and don't enjoy or want to be one and even take wolfsbane to help themselves and there are others like Greyback who are truly evil and intentionally harm people as a werewolf.

The other thing is that a werewolf is usually just a creature during the full moon which makes it really unique...although if I remember correctly Greyback was somehow able to attack even when not fully transformed. So does it depend on the person behind the creature?" Kerry asked.

Torie thought for a moment. "When a werewolf is in wolf form, it is definitely a dark creature since it seeks to infect as many people as it can. However, when in human form, werewolves are not by nature dark, although there are those, like Greyback, who purposely sought to infect humans. I would say then that werewolves as wolves are dark creatures, but as humans can be either good wizards or dark wizards. It is not the fault of the human when they are in werewolf form since they take a temporary absence from their moral mind."

"Exactly, Kennedy. A werewolf isn't dark necessarily when it is in human form. Like any human, that person has the free will to choose whether they are good or evil. However, in wolf form, they are pure dark creature. They can't do a thing BUT be dangerous without magical intervention." She nodded at Kerry. "But like all humans, they can choose to be evil in human form, and they are significantly more dangerous."


OOC: Sorry, guys... I'm going to bed. I shall leave this open for questions at this time, but NO CHATTING.

Kaytryn, who'd been sitting quietly in the back of the room the whole class, raised her hand timidly. "Wouldn't it depend on the personality of the individual who is a werewolf? I mean, for a creature that spends the majority of its time in human form, it would depend on if they were a dark wizard/person to begin with."

Troy sat quietly in the back of the class taking notes. He raised his hand but thought again and brought it down

Kassie raised her hand, "Proffessor, if werewolves have the ability to be kind when they are not in wolf form, why do we shun them from society? Is it fear of the unknown? or is it just that we are scared?"

Sebastian rose his hand. He'd studied werewolves before, but never in depth. As this was his sixth year, it was finally time that he buckle down on the dark creatures.

"Headmistress," he started politely after being called upon. "Is it all possible for a person who has been bitten by a werewolf to use pure will power to overcome the evils of his alter ego? I know some people believe the mind is more powerful than anything."

Ariana thought this sounded right, yet she still felt it could be controlled by some means. She decided to raise her hand and ask a question, "I understand they are dark when they're in form, but professor I have read that there's been a few werewolfs who have been tame without the use of a potion or spell. When they're in their human form, they're despressed and nervous about going out and only have remorse, I understand that, but what if they also feel that way while in form? They could just hide out, fighting the urges to kill and dismember. They know they're dark but they don't want to hurt anyone, they just want to be alone."

Ariana sat back down, thinking that this was going to turn into a debate instead of a friendly class. She hoped it wouldn't, she didn't think her opinions would matter much, especially when it came to creatures. If she said what she was really thinking, than there would be trouble. Instead, she left it at that and went on to write more notes down, waiting for the pracitcal part of the lesson to begin.

Cassandra raised her hand, "Professor, can a werewolf harm someone in human form? I think I've read somewhere that one byt he bame of Fernir Greyback attacked someone while in human form, but the person did not become a werewolf, only features of it, is that true?" She knew that was a kinda stupid question, but oh well...

how about hypogryffs" Ashley asked curious of what they actually could do.

Ashley agreed"yea i like her idea better" She said and gave a smile towards Kennedy

Also the fogg and i think she has everything else covered."

Kerry raised her hand, "well first and foremost we need to realize we are entering the creature's territory and we must have respect for that, especially when it comes to hippogriffs."

"Well, we know that they are proud animals that can severely injure or maim an human. They value politeness above all else and are highly intelligent. They also demand eye contact and generally submissive behaviour."