William took another piece of the chocolate and began to feel much better. He heard a voice coming towards him and looked up to see a fellow Ravenclaw walking up to him. "I'm fine. That last part really shook me up" he shook his head, "These are happy tears, no worries." he added grinning slightly.

He held out his hand, smiling, "I'm William, in case we haven't met yet." He said introducing himself to her.

Her hands were shaking as she looked over and saw William. It looked like he had been crying too. "William are you alright?" She stood up and walked over to him. She pulled him into a gentle hug.

Slamming the door behind her to make sure the thing didn't follow,Sarah sunk to her knees.It was several seconds before she looked up and saw the room she was in was populated with quite alot of people.
"There was a dementor!!" she shouted to no-one imparticular.Suddenly she spotted something much nicer... "Oh boy....is that chocolate?!"
Running over to the table she picked up a bag of Honeydukes finest,which she was going to place in her pocket until she noticed it was filled with sticky goo.Deciding it was best just to hold them,she reached forward and grabbed a mug of cocoa,taking a nice long sip of it. "Oh yeah that hits the spot."

The door felt so heavy to Nia, as she relyed purely on her weight leant forward for it to open. As her eyes eyes adjusted to the light, she put her wand forward just in case. Who knew what else there could be as part of this final. They had covered boggarts as well, afterall.

Eventually her eyes were back to normal, and she saw that other students were in the room, and looked chilled. No sign of any boggarts, and the smell of chocolate. "Is it over?" she asked no one in particular, tears now dried on to her cheeks, and her shoulders visibly shaking. She lowered her wand, and moved through the doorway a step. She felt exhausted and drained. Even quidditch didn't take this much energy out of her. And much as she wanted the chocolate she wasn't sure she could safely get over to the table. Instead she tried to stay standing where she was. Maybe someone would notice? Though at the same time she hoped they didn't, everyone looked far more calm than her, and less covered in horrible smelly gunge or blood.

She shivered, and pulled her robes around her shoulders a bit more. That cocoa sure looked good. And with that, she slowly tried to head for the refreshments on her legs that seemed to be made of jelly.

Now that she was safely away from the Dementor and all the despair it'd made her feel, Willow was feeling very pleased with herself - a little bit smug, even. She'd made it! She'd finally managed to cast a proper patronus and saved her soul from getting sucked out of her body by a horrible dementor.

Granted, now that she could think properly, Willow was sure that Professor Kazimeriz would not have let that happened to her or any of his students, but back in that room, where the only thoughts that she was having at first were full of misery, it had been quite difficult that think about that.

Shaking her head and thinking that this had been even more complex than Arithmancy, the fifth year turned on the doorknob -expecting to see a Lethifold awaiting for her, or something of the like- as her other hand held her one tightly, and walked in.

Only to see that there were no more dementors, or gobstones, or . . . CHOCOLATE! There was chocolate in the room.

Kazimeriz wasn't so bad after all.

Dementors and all those kind of dreadful things forgotten, the fifth year made her way quickly towards the chocolate and took one before starting to nibble in one of the corners of it. Hmmm.

she walked into the next room fearing the worst but with a sighed of relief she saw the other students and a table with chocolate, cookies and cocoa.
She smiled weakly to the other students due to all the things they had passed through and started to eat the chocolate, cookies and cocoa, trying to calm down her heart, that was beating so hard and fast and her legs and hands that were shaking.

Slowly eating the chocolate she looked to the others and to the door expecting and hoping for more people to appear.

Livvy stepped through the door with a large smile. Yes! She did it! She didn't die yet! She managed to escape deathly pokey gobstones and a freaky dementor with temper problems. Go her! Livvy looked at the sign and almost danced with joy at the sight of all those yummy foods sitting on the table, just waiting for her and chanting her name. She could hear it. Livvy!... Livvy!... Livvy! Livvy stuck her wand in her pocket and grabbed all the food she could get. MUAHAHAHA.

Abby walks through the door still shaking. The first thing she does is poor herself some cocoa. It feels warm going down her throat. The chocolate seems to warm her all over. Abby then gets herself a piece of chocolate and eats it in two bites. I'm sure glad that's over with. I hope I do better with the rest of my written final than I did with the first question.

Breath still coming short and fast, Mariel ran through the next door, only to stop short at the sight of the rest of the class. It was over and she was successful. As she got her breathing under control and wiped the unshed tears from her eyes, she smiled slightly to herself at the realization that she just warded off a dementor.

Glancing around the room, she noticed Sarah standing near a table filled with what she was fairly certain to be chocolate. Giving her Hufflepuff friend a wave, the second year started to make her way over. Chocolate sounded really good right about now. It always made everything okay.

As she headed that way, Mariel noticed Nia not far from her who seemed to be visibly shaken. Not that Mariel could blame her or anyone else. That dementor was terrifying and she could hardly believe that she had managed to escape from it herself.

Gently throwing an arm around her fellow Ravenclaw's shoulder to give her some support as she walked, Mariel grinned at her, now that she was able to regain her composure. "Hey, we did it!" she told her, proud of her own accomplishment as well as everyone else's. Sure, it wasn't quite as exciting as when they won the Quidditch Cup... or maybe it was, just in a different way. "Let's go get some chocolate, it'll make us feel better," she added to the second year. And then she was going back to the dorm to take a nap. Taking on dementors was physically and emotionally draining.

Jaimine turned from the closed door and moved away from it, she survived, she couldn't wait to tell Billium that he was her happiest thought, that would get back at him for making her blush to an unnatural colour. She sighed and walked towards the table. "Really professor chocolate?" She looked around "For all I know, you could have laced this with something. Constant Vigilence remember, though its rude to decline a gift." She wasn't sure if he was even in the room but she smiled just for him, this was her last year and he made this exam the most exciting she ever had "Oh yes and Professor, I'll send you my uniforms for cleaning." She glanced at the dirt and slime on it and grinned. Taking thE chocolates she walked towards the door "I'll see you when I do Professor Valon Kazimeriz."

Nia felt an arm on her shoulder, and looked up she see Mariel there. Her fellow second year's grin made Nia smile. She rubbed her sore eyes and nodded. "Yeah, we did," she said softly, half in wonder. "Though I'm not sure I did it very well," she added, with a crooked smile. It was funny, everything started to seem better now - Mariel's smile had helped remove some of the cold and doubt the dementor had caused inside Nia.

"Chocolate. Good idea." Nia said, noting her legs now weren't feeling quite so wobbly. Still not the most stable to walk on though. She looked up at Mariel sheepishly. "Tell me honestly, do I look awful? Like worse than when I come off the pitch with windswept hair?"

Still in a state of shock after that encounter with the dementor, Dominic practically raced into through the door even though he shouldn't have. What waited on the other side could have been big with teeth the size of his face. With drool dripping down his hairy, tough skin. No one knew what awaited and the fifth year should have dreaded it more. He should have learned what his patronus was that was so small and so fast. He should have . . .

WHAT!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The room was empty! Well almost anyway with the exception of a few other students who had completed their final and a small table with a note.

Congratulations! You passed the practical portion of the Defense Against the Dark Arts final and will advance to the next level of the class.

But even though he should have been exhilarated at having passed the practical portion of the final, Dominic wondered if he really was going to advance because he was a fifth year. If he didn't do well on his OWL exams, then he could forget Defense. And even though he still couldn't master a corporeal patronus and Kazimeriz irritated him to no end, Dominic wanted more than anything to continue with his Defense training.

Shakily walking towards the table, the fifth year took a chocolate cookies and didn't even bother to remember the fact that he didn't like chocolate - which mind you he never had - and bit into it. Tasty goodness and surprisingly comforting too.

Smiling wryly at William, Liz replies "I know...it definitely wasn't an easy final. I'm Liz!" taking his hand. Dropping it, after shaking, she takes a piece of chocolate out of her bag attached to her wrist, and pops it in her mouth.

"I'm so glad, finals are almost over!"