Melanie looked at Moiser with an extremely annoyed look on her face as he gave her some sort of weird eyebrow look and ignored it as they weren't supposed to be talking.

"Just try." she sighed exasperatedly. She was seriously hoping the professor wouldn't take anymore points away from her house. She ignored the support group comment because this teacher wasn't exactly someone she wanted to get it into with.

Obediently she zoomed off around the pitch, counter-clockwise. She let out a sigh of relief as she couldn't even hear what was going on down on the ground.

LALALA I can't hear you Vindictis! she thought smiling to herself.

Vindictus walked over to Jack. "So when did Hufflepuff's call it quits?" he asked and looked at the boy.

Jack stared at her and then turned to Vindictus

"Since they've had too many accidents in life" Jack told him "I can hover, but that's about it" he admitted, this was hard for him, usually Jack would have walked off, but he was persevering, he looked up at Vindictus, Jack suddenly felt really short, Jack gripped his broom scaredly

Marina felt unstable on her broom and tried to keep it as close to the ground as possible. It didn't matter much, if she wasn't good at flying (she had kind of expected it).
She found it very entertaining to watch the flying teacher tell off the annoying Hufflepuffs and Gryffindor.

Vindictus shook his head and pulled out his wand. He pointed it at the broomstick and gave his wand a simple flick. "That should do it," he said to Jack as he put his wand away. "You won't go higher than two feet, so your feet can touch the ground at all times if you're feeling unsteady. I want you to try flying forward at this height because the charm I just put on that broom will move slow. As a true Badger, I want you to try. Can you do that for me?"

John went around a corner so fast that he lost control of the broom, the broom went down to the ground and he crashed into the ground, the broom stopped dead but he went flying and landed on the ground with a thud. He picked himself up and walked back to the broom before grabbed it and going into the air again. He hoped the professor didn't mind him crashing, well it was the first time for a while he had been on the broom, He looked at Jack and hoped he would join him in the air.

Jack nodded shakily eyeing the mans wand "Ok" he took a deep breath "I'm going to do this" he told himself

You can do it! You can do it! You can do it! You can do it! You can do it! You can do it! You can do it! You can do it! You can do it!

He kept telling himself that as he clung to the broom and started to lean forward a little, it started to move Oh nooo Jack thought scaredly, Jack bent his knees so that his shoes were just skimming the grass I'm doing it! Whooooooo Jack smiled a little as he sat up straight and pulled his feet up more so he was hovering, he leant forward again Do itttt he told himself Nooooo he shouted in his head as he put his foot on the grass You stuuupid child! Failure, your brothers were right Jack swallowed and managed to stop hitting his head "Cut it out" he mumbled, talking to the voice in his head "I'm going to do it" Jack lifted both feet off the ground and leant forward again, it was working, he had managed to get both feet off the ground without falling, albeit only a short way from the ground, but still, he did it, he turned to the professor as he stood up again "Was that ok?" he asked worriedly before looking at the ground and faking a voilent sneeze so he could wipe away the tear in his eye.

"Very good, Jack," Vindictus commented and pulled his wand out again. He gave it a flick and put it away. "Now I want you to try it again, but let me give you some advice. Don't look down - keep your gaze forward, upwards and to the side. If you feel like you're going too fast, then slow down. If you feel like you're too high, then fly at a lower level. You can do it."

He looked at the other students. "You're doing well. To land, push down on your broom handle slightly and the broom will travel in that direction. When you get near the ground, sit back on your broom while pulling the handle towards you - this will cause the braking charm to work and you'll find yourself with both feet safely on the ground."

John listerned to the professor. He went around the course he was told going faster and faster until he got to a speed he hadn't been before, he was going so fast that on the ground he must have seemed like a blur, he loved going fast, he decided to go down to the ground, slowing down he did as the professor told him to, but for some reason he lost control as he put the broom up, he went flying again and landed on the floor, going over to the broom and getting back onto the broom he went to the Professor. "How am I doing?"

Jack nodded to show he understood "I will do it" he spoke more to himself but Vindictus could still hear if he was listening, Jack stood over the broom again and this time, he felt a little unsafe, Jack hovered on the broom, then, he decided to go a little bit higher, but then he unwillingly went higher, and higher, and higher "Oh, not good. Joooooohn" Jack called "Joooooooooooohn" he called louder as he kept his gaze forward "Joooooooooooooooohn" he called out in a high pitched voice

Lasca started fly in a counter-clockwise direction when the professor instructed them to. She was taking it in turns, a fast lap then a slow lap. It was a lot of fun, after she got the hang of how to do it. Then the professor told them how to land.

Following his next set of instructions she landed a little wobbly a short distance away from the professor. She gave a goofy smile and then gave him a solemn look. "What is next professor?"

Cam stopped with the flying and then looked back to the professor, listening to his every word as he instructed them how to go down on the ground. He horribly landed on the ground, accidentally pushing his handle too hard on the ground but oh well. He listened on for further instructions.

John heard Jake and zoom upto him, hoping that he was okay, now what was he to do. He wanted to make sure that Jack was okay. "Jack can you control the broom?" He hoped the answer was yes because then he could get him down to a hight that Jack would like. "Follow me." He said as he went lower and lower.

The coldness... it buuuuuurns...

Erm...

Jake strained his ears to hear Vindy again and circled a little more so he was a tad closer. When he was near enough Jake followed the professor's instructions, but was a bit too eager to get down. He stumbled in his clumsiness and fell down to the floor. "Ok..." he mumbled. "I think I establised that I suck at landing..."

Picking himself up, Jake awaited further instruction... again.

"Err... no?" Jack questioned himself, he copied John and managed to get lower, all the way to the ground, he stumbled off his broom and slipped on the grass, he landed on the ground "Nice" he muttered as he pushed himself up, he then stood up "I am not going up there again" Jack pointed a finger towards the sky.

Spence hovered and looked around. She loved this. She felt so free.

"I want each of you to practice taking off and landing," Vindictus said and looked at their scared and somewhat eager faces. "It's important that you can do both. These are basic flying skills, so feel free to take off and zoom around the field, then try landing. All of us professional players had to learn these skills in our first-ever flying lesson just like you!"

Lasca nodded and went to follow his directions. She took two fast laps around the area and then practiced landing. The first three times were sketchy, the fourth time she ended up sprawled on the ground.

She picked herself up and dusted off her robes. With a determined look, she shot off and did two laps. Leaning down, she angled the broom towards the ground. At about 6 feet from the ground she pulled back and sat up. The broom slide to an even stop, her feet skimmed the ground for a couple feet and then touched down. The young Ravenclaw gave an excited whoop and then looked around bashfully.

Jack shook his head "Nu-uh, no way, not happening, not in a million years... ok, I might then" Jack blushed, oh no, he'd done it, he'd given in to his personality, not his sense, nooooo, that meant nothing, who needs sense when you have impulse? Jack scowled at his own stupidity and then grabbed the broom, he stood over it and pushed off lightly, then, almost straight away, he put his feet back on the ground "Ok, worked for me"

Easy, John thought to himself. He grabbed his broom and then took off zoom he went once round the practice course then decided it was time to land. He tried to land but once again he pulled upto slow. He landed on the ground his arm hurting and blood coming from his nose. He wondered if he had broken his arm. He got up and whiped his nose to see if the blood would stop but it just seemed to want to come out, fine he thought as he got back onto the broom and took off again. He zoom around he was going to get the landing right even if it killed him. He prayed that this time he would get it right, He started to go towards the ground again and when he was ready he did as the Professo said and landed perfectly. He looked at the professor. "How was that?"

Well, taking off wasn't an issue, nor was being in the air.

Jake just wasn't sure how many times he could faceplant the ground before it became painful.

Picking himself up, Jake mounted his broom and took off, flying once around the practice pitch before trying again to land.

"ACK!" Jake hesitated at the last moment and then leaned back too suddenly. he rolled backwards in the air before hitting the ground, the broom landing on top of him.

"Okay..." He muttered. "Can't win 'em all... Try again, Jakers..." And with that, Jake mounted the broom and took off for another try.

Practice taking off and landing? Uhh. OK, whatever. With an uneasy face he put his right hand near the end of the handle and his left about 2 or 3 inches behind it. With the tip of his shoes, he pushed them off the ground and hovered in mid-air, still wobbling a bit but he at least perfected on flying in the air. The only thing he was horrible at was his landing, he couldn't really get the handle to be just right. Cam repeated the process a few more times until he got the hang of it.

Spencer nodded at the Proffesor. She zoomed down the field and landed easily. Got off, got back on and zoomed back and landed again. She had had practice using the broom from her Aunt.

"Looking good!" Vindictus commented to each student. "When you think you've mastered it, then you can leave your school broom with the rest on the ground and have permission to leave."

Spence dropped her broom in the aloted place and started to walk out.