"Professer, what is the safest dragon? Or will all of them kill you?" asked Barry well he mught as well make the best of it.

As much as Dragons were cool, this class was starting to make Miranda sleepy. Sure they were awesome, but listening to the professor talk about himself was starting to get... Pppft, he thinks he's all that...

Head resting on her hand, Miranda watched the students go all crazy over the experiences that the professor had been through. One hop, two hop, three hop did the bunny hoppp...
"Oh yaaay!" Miranda breathed and clapped once absentmindedly. It was almost like she herself was going to play... Heh.
And what's up with Professor Lupa hopping in during class? Did she also have some extraordinaire experience with the Dragons?

But, surely, this was going to make it all interesting! Grin.

"Oh we will get to that." Ethan nodded.

"We don't play with dragons." Ethan blinked and shot a look at Iliana. Sugar was so not a good thing. "You are welcome to sit down." Ethan gestured to where Professor Dumont had sat and eyed him for a moment. Was he eating candy too? And that poor Ravenclaw girl was salivating as if her life depended on a sugar hit. What was this world coming to?


"Plenty of times. I have scars from claw slashes, venom, bites; it is a risk that you have to take when working with dragons. I'd like to point out here, Joanne, nobody is dealing with a dragon. You will all be having an encounter with one, providing all the rules and instructions are followed. Can anyone guess why you had to hand your wands in?"

"Very good question. The most foolish thing I have done would be turning my back on a newly hatched dragon. Or possibly apparating right in front of a juvenile Vipertooth," Ethan tapped his wandcase, "I'll show you what happened to me that day in just a moment. "I suppose you can argue that my first encounter was fairly stupid also."

"The common Welsh Green and the Antipodean Opaleye are the least dangerous to humans, but the only safe dragon is one that is unaware of your presence. And they won't all kill you, unless they are hungry or bored."

Chris raised his hand. "Is it that the dragon may feel threatened and start to attack if they saw alot of people with wands?"

Tobi raised his hand, he knew exactly why. "Survival of the fittest, sir," He said wildly. "We're all gonna run away, and the slowest of us is gonna be some hungry dragon's lunch. No wands to save us now."

Funny though, why didn't he see or hear any hungry dragons? you'd think they'd be noisier.

Uhhh...
Miranda raised her wand, errr, hand
"Professor, is it so that incase we freak out we dont accidentaly cast a pell at them and then run away like our life depended on it?"
Sure, why not. Miranda knew that if she had her wand with her, she definitely would have it at the ready.

Joanne nodded at Professors Trubridge answer to her question "Oh, ok, but the word dealing has many meanings Sir, I didn't actually believe we were going to be left alone at our own luck with one dragons. " she said blushing a little, trying to explain herself "well I think that we handed our wands so no one feels tempted to use it against the dragon, break rules and endanger the entire class...right? Because, even if we tried to jinx a dragon, their skin is so strong it wouldn't do much, other than irritating them." she answered.

Herminny was eager to try to give an answer to the absolutely amazing Professor Trubridge's question and said, "I think we had to give our wands in so we could not do something stupid if we felt threatened by the dragon cause if we strike it, th dragon will probably strike us back even if ti is a small strike cause drgons have protection against magic".

Cela raised her hand, "I think you took our wands so that we don't hurt ourselves or the dragon if we get scared. I also think that we wouldn't be able to see one unless it was reasonably safe, so I guess maybe there is going to be a dragon that is magically asleep or something and you don't want to risk one of us accidentally waking it up and going on a rampage."

Ohhh she could smell candy.

Freya nodded while raising one of her eyebrows, 'Geeezzz...must have been insane when that happened.' "Possibly, Sir. I was taught never to turn my back on any animal...or human for that matter." 'Which is why I want mmyyyy wand back!'

Anna took notice of her professor's brilliant smile. She was obviously oh-so-excited about this lesson, and to be honest, so was Anna! Feeling another rush of excitement surge through her, Anna smiled at the professor once again. She didn't think Professor Morgan saw the smile, though. The professor seemed a bit preoccupied with the fact that the weather outside was absolutely gorgeous.

Oh! They were studying about...dragons?!?! Holy Merlin, this was going to awesome! Nearly bouncing with excitement, Anna returned to her seat and listened as the professor went over the general rules and guidelines of the lesson. Of course Anna wouldn't even think about stepping even a single toe out of line. She'd be too busy trying to convince herself to not freak out over the fact that a real, live dragon would be amongst the students and professors today. Anna wondered who the professor meant by "we," but she didn't ask. Instead, she flipped to page 257 oin her textbook and began to look for various places that housed dragon reservations.

Raising her hand, Anna said, "Well, Professor, there's a Romanian Longhorn Dragon Reservation in Romania, as well as a Swedish Short-Snout Dragon Reservation in Sweden," she said. "The reservation in Romania is actually the world's most important dragon reservations. Wizards can actually go there to study a wide variety of dragons, as well. After she'd answered, Anna glanced up to meet today's guest---Professor Ethan Truebridge.

OOC: Sources: HPL and Fantastical Beasts and Where to Find Them, by Newt Scamander.

Whoooaaaa. Now that was pretty cool! This dude, erm...Professor, had been in the class this entire time! Nodding slowly to indicate she was pretty impressed, Anna listened as he asked if there were any questions regarding his interractions with dragons. Anna was sure that if she thought carefully, she could come up with something to ask. Raising her hand, Anna asked, "Have you ever been able to get a dragon to act outside of what's typical for its particular breed? I understand that the Norwegian Ridgeback differs from other dragons in that it can also feed on water-dwelling creatures. Have you ever known of a different dragon breed to do this, or to do anything else it's not typically known to do? If so, could you tell us about it? If not, what sorts of traits do you imagine dragons may have that we as humans aren't aware of?" she asked. Eeepp. That was a lot. She hadn't intended to ask so many questions, but she had a feeling the professor could keep up.

"So we know we`re perfectly safe" said Barry "And you`ll save us"

"Not quite, Dragons don't seem to identify threat coming from wands in particular."

"If that did happen, I have my wand and Professor Morgan has hers, and your own wands could easily be summoned. Relax. As a seventh year-- an intelligent seventh year-- I expect you to set a good example for the younger students, not communicate panic and hysteria."

"Of Fight or Flight, neither reaction will be necessary, but you are on the right track."

"No. There have been cases where a human has been captured by a dragon, and looked after... up until the eggs hatched and the human was used for the first meal. Dragons cannot be tamed."

"You are quite right Joanne, thank you."

"You are on the right track, Herminny."

"I didn't decide to. I just never left the reserve once I got there. And I found I enjoyed it and suited it perfectly. There are many things in life that can hurt you, I much prefer facing those that are more obvious. I would have thought being a Professor would be a safer job, but that isn't always the case."

"Spot on, Celandine. Good job."

"Exactly. I was taught that too, by Kazimeriz actually. Which is why it was foolish, because I did it anyway."

"The scales aren't necessarily hard -except for the Ironbelly- but certainly they are highly resistant to magic."

"The thing is Anna, we are still learning about what is typical for particular dragon breeds. They still surprise us. And in answer to your question, the Antipodean Opaleye has been known to eat water-dwellers, usually when crossing the Tasman sea." He winked at her, "There are many behaviours that have been observed and developed into theories, I have plenty of information that you are welcome to ask me for after class if you like. But for now I think we need to carry on, don't we Professor Morgan?" Ethan looked at her questioningly.

He glanced at Barry. "You aren't perfectly safe. But as long as you all do what you are told, you will be moderately safe."

'Moderately safe...YEP! Knew that was coming. Which is why it makes so much sense to take our wands away.' Freya sighed a little bit and tried to relax. Maybe this class wouldn't end with half of them being killed after all. Goodness she was moody today, usually Freya would love this kind of thing. But no. Today was all about conspiracy theories and death wishes. Ugh, how horrible.

Well, Miranda had almost been right, that's something.

But now, finally, they were going to get to the point of this entire class, hopefully. They were actually going to see a dragon? Weeeeeee!

Miranda looked around the class, she was entirely sure they wouldn't actually stand so close to a dragon, but if they did, there were more than enough teachers here to help out if needed beeeee. Awesomeness!

"Well... I play with Dragons..." she said under her breath as she sat by Clifford Carden. "Pssst... So where's the dragon?" She whispered to him.

Ah. Professor Lupa.. Clifford thought he'd managed to get rid of her.. he jumped a little when she whispered to him. Well, that was certainly an improvement than trying to snog him anyway. Eh. "I dunno!" He hissed back, glancing at Morgan and Truebridge. Lupa best not get him in trouble. Hmpf. "It's around.. somewhere." How was HE meant to know!?

Moving on are we. Joanne squeezed her hands together and gave a furtive look around, waiting for a dragon to just POP out of nowhere. Moderately safe, where the words used by the professor to describe their condition towards the dragons, so Joanne prepared herself to follow orders like never before, because she DID NOT want to mess up on this class. After all, it was one of her favorite classes, one that she kept having on her NEWTS even if she didn't actually need it to her Auror career.

Professor Morgan watched and listened with something like an awed silence as Truebridge spoke of his experiences. It was no wonder that Antonio had decided to join in the fun. Though as she caught movement again out of the corner of her eye, she turned her head sharply in time to see a very exuberant Professor Lupa make her entrance. Catching Ethan's look, Iliana shrugged and shook her head slightly.

"Yes indeed, and thank you Professor Truebridge." She said sincerely. "For those of you that still have questions; don't worry. We will be covering a lot of information throughout this lesson and I believe that most of your questions will be answered. But for now, let's move on." She said, once more clearing the board with her wand.

"Let's start with dragon breeds. I'd like each of you to give me one. Just raise your hand and call them out." She instructed.

And then there were three! Iliana thought looking over at Professor Bunbury incredulously. What was there, like a large beckon somewhere drawing all the professors to the forest?

Well, THAT wasn't helpful... "Pssst... PPSSSSSSTTT!!!!" she whispered again, "so... like, are we going to ride it? Or pet it?"