Fear: Dada Class 2
 

The shutters have been drawn on the windows of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, leaving the room in partial darkness. As you enter, your footfalls click against the cold stone floor and echo against the cavernous ceiling. There is a noticeable chill to the room. The sparse lighting is dim; slivers of dreary light from the closed shutters interrupt the darkness and cast undefinable, unnerving shapes against the walls. A few flickering, melting candles hang by ornate wall sconces, their light dancing almost ritually against the wall, as if being lightly blown by an absent wind. The faint, eerie whine of a floorboard creaking peals out from somewhere near the front of the room. (is it just a floorboard? are you sure?) Grotesque photographs hang on the walls of the classroom, depicting images of malformed men and women suffering the effects of cruel, brutal curses. They writhe helplessly in pain, shrieking silently. Two rows of mahogany desks and benches line the walls, leaving a long, wide aisle empty for students and professor alike to walk through.

Several large wardrobes sit at the head of the class, the classroom’s regular dusty chalkboard moved to the side. Soft thumps and bumps echo about the room from no known source, often sounding like they are coming from above you—or right behind you. A chest sits at the top of the stairs to the professor’s office, rattling occasionally.

The professor is not yet apparent in the room. There is a note on the classroom board:

Please come in and take a seat at one of the desks... You may wish to avoid the darker corners, and instead choose to sit in the dead center of the room. After all... You never know what might be lurking in the shadows.

-- Prof. Kazimeriz

ooc: Please go ahead and RP yourself coming into the room; have fun with it, for you might've noticed it is a tad spookier in here than usual. ;) I'll start the class in a little while and it will run for 2-3 days so every time zone can play. Thanks, Xana~

After finding the library rather dull, the Grey Lady was on her way to visit dearest Valon in his office when the open classroom door beckoned her instead. Floating past the threshold and up the center aisle, she situated herself at a desk located on the left side of the room and waited.

Jai walked into the class bouncing along obviously expecting a semi-normal class, when lo and behold it wasn't. She stopped dead in her tracks and groaned she didn't hate the dark, but she prefered being able to see around her. Taking her wand out she lit the tip and extened her arm out shining a light on the board.

"Avoid the corners? Dead center?" Groaning again she went near the center looking around with the light of her wand.

The nice Ravenclaw ghost was back. She was oh so much nicer than his Grandmamma.

"Hi Lady Ravenclaw!" he said brightly, immediately at ease with her around. She seemed to mellow Professor Scary Man out a bit, and he liked that effect. Like, A LOT.

"What brings you to the dungeons?" he asked.

Eek! What was thisssss? Kaika didn't want to go any further, but really, what could happen? And was this the example a Captain was going to give?

Pffft. No!

But yes, it was way toooooo spooky and those photographs in the walls, well, were not to her liking to say the least So she sat at the closest desk, not wanting to be too far away from the door. Really, brooms should be allowed in the Castle, they could be very useful for an emergency exit, right?

She was now afraid of Kazimeriz. Or at least, the DADA classroom.

Emalyn peaked into the room and gasped. Was the lesson really scheduled for that day? She wasn't sure...the classroom looked empty, or what she could see of it. She entered and stode between the desks toward the blackboard, looking earnestly to her right and left as she proceeded on. The eerie sounds from the shadows and the pictures on the walls made her want to turn and run, but she was sure her schedule had written that it was today.
She read the note, peering anxiously at it in the partially dark room. She wasn't sure if she dared take a seat near the middle...was this reverse psychology? She bit her lip and listened to what she had read, and sat near the middle of the room, looking around her as she did so.

"Why learning, young Gryffindor!" exclaimed the Grey Lady. "And may I ask why you are here?"

Walking into the classroom, Liz looks around, as her jaw drops open. Jumping at the rattling, that she hears. She looks nervously around.

Seeing Ms. Ravenclaw, she looks a little more relaxed then she was at first. For some reason, the beautiful ghost, always has that affect on Liz.

Taking a seat near the center at a desk, she places her bag on the floor next to her.

"This will be interesting." she moved closer to the Gryffie boy in the center. Taking a fistfull of her hair she fixed it into a ponytail and put her bag on the floor next to where she sat.

Cedric walks into the Defense against the dark arts classroom then as he enters the classroom he notice the writings on the board..."avoid dark corners..sit in the dead center..scary.."Cedric muttered..then he walks in the middle in the classroom and take a seat..a seat with the ravenclaw girl.."umm,Hi!are you scared?"

She heard more students and turned to see which houses they were from. "Do I frighten you?" Helena asked no one in particular.

cedric look at the grey lady formerly Helena Ravenclaw.."of course, not I feel braver when you're here.."

Miranda briskly walked inside the DADA classroom, but slowed down as she felt the chill and the fact that she couldn't really see well.
Uh oh. Maybe I'm in the wrong classroom...

Making her way back to the door, she accidentaly bumbed into a few people. "Uh, excuse me...Sorry!" Looking up she squinted and saw that it was Kaika! "Oh thank goodness it's you!"

Grabbing hold of Kaika's robes, she followed her to a desk and sat down besides her captain.

Turning Miranda saw a ghost. A ghost!
"Ooooh how cool!" she said in awe, "Hello miss ghostie!" Miranda wasn't sure who she was, but grinned and waved all the sane.

Chris Potter entered the once almost cheerful DADA room to find it dreadfully dark. He hated the dark. It wasnt that he was afraid its just it annoys him to not be able to see everything in the room. He smiled to a few of his fellow students in the room and said a gretting to the Grey Lady and then took a seat in as close to the center of the room as he could.

"I'm flattered, young Hufflepuff," Helena said respectfully.

"As a leader, you must never show fear," the Grey Lady advised. "I see that you wear that captain badge with pride on your Ravenclaw robes."

"Of course you may, young Ravenclaw miss. I'm always honored when students wish to sit by me," she answered with a ghostly smile.

"Professor Kazimeriz is preparing you, for it is his job to teach you. His methods are different than others, but quite effective," Helena informed the Hufflepuff girl. "Many current and former professors were taught by Valon, as were many of your parents or grandparents for that matter."

Kaika suppressed a scream! Who was this person right beside her?! Oh, Miranda! The little sunshine in all this darkness.

"Oh, yes, thank Merlin it was you" because, otherwise, what would she have done? Froze in place? Seriously. But she was feeling a little bit better since the girl was now by her side, at least she could protect one member of the team if something happened.

Because she could protect the rest but not herself? That's quite odd.

Oh, yes, the ghost. Kaika failed to see it. Until Miranda greeted it. Yes, the atmosphere, not the ghost, was frightening.

Cedric saw Tobi.."Hi!Tobi"Cedric said..tobi defending the grey lady..He thought

Emalyn smiled weakly, though it didn't matter in the dark, as a second year from Gryffindor took a seat next to her in the middle of the room.
"Hi," she said, through her clenched teeth. If anything freaked her out more, it was the dark...and mysterious sounds...the ghost, oddly enough, helped her overcome the fear a little bit, and the other students, of course. "Kinda freaky, isn't it?"

What on earth?! Kaika jumped as someone screamed. But it seemed to be the Ravenclaw Captain. For a second there she thought that the match will be suspended and they'll be advanced to Championships....

BUT...

Sigh. It was only Dominic. Could the boy be any more of a trouble??? The Ravenclaw Captain was beater....soooo, she should expect one less chaser after the match. Great. How come he didn't think about his Captain or the team a lot more!?

Bludgers will be on his way for sure.

"That's a lovely story," Helena said and her ghostly laugh sounded like high-pitched bells. "You are a brave lad and was rightly placed in Gryffindor. Yet you show wisdom that is typical of Ravenclaw. Pray tell my brave Gryffindor lad - does the Baron frighten you?"

Jai raised a brow at Lady Ravenclaw, she'd been there long enough so the hogwarts ghosts didn't scare her but Professor Kazimeriz seemed to have a collection of ghouls locked in the room that might do the trick.

"I bet he had a boggart somewhere in here." she glared at the boggarts. She heard Lady Ravenclaws question and looked at the Gryffindor beside her "I love the baron." she said chuckling.

Shaking her head, Liz replies "Actually, I was more frightened, before I saw you in the room also...I'm not sure why. Perhaps there's more things to be frightened of, then death..."

Lyra walked into DADA class. Immediately she wished her robes were a tad thicker as the coolness of the room raced against her skin causing her to shiver. Or maybe the shivering was from the awful portraits that hung along the walls. This man was just....crazy and there was not another one like him. Maybe this class would be fun once again as she was rather upset at the fact that his classes were extremely interesting, too bad the professor wasn't that interesting to her, just mean.

Miranda was still clutching onto Kaika's robes, when suddenly she felt her captain make a twitching movement which made Miranda gasp and look around. "What in the world is going on!?"
Turning to see where Kaika was looking, Miranda started to giggle at the sight of Dominic and Willow, being quite close.

"Dominic and Willow sitting on a broom..." Giggle giggle, snort.

"Not overly so..." Tobi said, considering, "I mean, he doesn't have, shall we say the best reputation, and I guess it's a bit rightfully earned," he looked up at Lady Ravenclaw a bit apologetically, "but he's had good few centuries to live with his mistakes. He's mostly just gruff, at least around me. I think my Grandmamma could give him a run for his money actually."

Caroline Kinney Avalon certainly got a kick out of terrorizing Tobi, but then, when you're dead, entertainment must be hard to come by.

It was the tiny, but yet loud scream that alerted Dominic to the fact that the chair he had thought he had been sitting on was much more supple and sweet than any chair before. Because of course, it wasn't a chair at all!

Feeling soft hands in his back, the fifth year jumped out of the seat as fast as if the snitch had been just seconds flying past his eyes and whirled around to be face-to-face with . . . .

The Ravenclaw Captain.

Despite the dimlit room though, he was sure there was a hint of rosiness on her cheeks as well. Which meant that as angry as she sounded, she was also -- PLEASED!?!?!!

"I'm... Oh, I was just ..." There was nothing he could really muster out as plausible explanation for his blindness. "Testing the chairs?"

...Cedric saw his fellow hufflepuff,Miranda giggles.."Hi!why are giggling..aren't you scare?"Cedric asked he thougt that miranda was crazy

Chris smiled at the second year Hufflepuff as she greeted him. "Yeah it is a bit." he held out his hand to introduce himself. "Im Chris Potter."

"Nothing important" she said, to answer Miranda's reaction. Because it was, after all, not important. There were many replacements, sooooo.

But she turned her head towards the girl again, "Who's Willow?" she asked, as she tilted her head to one side. That phrase simply confused her. More especially the name pronounced after Dominic's.

"Oh! She's Willow?" what did Miranda know? All Kaika knew by far is that the Ravenclaw Captain was named Willow. That was it. And she'd just found out about that.

The Grey Lady grew silent as the students chatted around her. There was something she needed to ask them. "Children, do you enjoy playing games?"

Miranda was still giggling when a boy adressed her. Her face fell a bit when she indeed remembered the scary classroom.
"Oh well...yeah it is scary..." she said thoughtfully, grimacing a little. But then as she remembered why she was laughing, a grin appeared on her face. "Well you see, that boy over there," she pointed at Dom, "He accidentaly sat on someone!" she whispered hurriedly and started to giggle again.

Miranda turned to Kaika who was looking confused. Atleast Miranda thought so, it was hard to see in this light.
"That is Willow yes!" she whispered again. She remembered how they had met at QQS when Dominic went kablamo all over the store, tearing down the equipment and such. Poor Dominic... What are you gonna do?

"You think he needs any help Kaika?" Miranda asked a bit concerned. Even though Dominic could be an annoying person, he shouldn't get hurt before the game!

Games? Tobi loved games. Who didn't love games?

"What's not to love?" Tobi exclaimed, momentarily forgetting he was in a creepy-like-woah classroom.

Looking at Ms. Ravenclaw again, she nods "I do, especially math ones."

Her head was turned in the direction of the ghost now, the question seemed kind of odd, which is why she was paying attention now.

"Well, that depends...is it Quidditch related?" if not, it could be a waste of time. But she failed to notice the randomness of the question, and the place they where sitting in...

Jai smiled "I love games, espeially challenging ones." she grinned. She hadn't done anything fun since Josh left.

"Wonderful!" Helena exclaimed. "Some stones are enchanted and used for protective purposes, yet other stones are used for entertainment purposes. The former stones have been placed for safe-keeping in a vault, but the latter stones were taken as a joke yet she knows not they are gone." She stopped and wondered if her strange riddle made sense for it made perfect sense to her Ravenclaw mind.

Jai raised her eyebrows "Riddle? What are we finding out?" she asked hugging her knees.

Tobi rubbed his neck. A riddle? Okay, he wasn't great with those, but he could try. Riddles often used metaphores so what were the metaphors here?

"Do you want us to work it out on our own, or discuss it with each other?" he asked the clever ghost.

Tobi figured many brains were better than one, but if it was a game, maybe he should try and work it out himself.

Listening closely to what Ms. Ravenclaw was saying "Ok, I think I understand. Are we supposed to figure out who this person is, and where the stones are?"

Games? GAMES?! GAMES!!!!

Oh, Peeves LOVED games! Yes he did, yes he did. The mere mention of the word practically sent Peeves into a tizzy.

From a dark corner, he shouted in a thundering tone, and as loudly as he could, "LET'S PLAY A GAME!"

Peevsie's voice boomed over the chatter in the room as he zoomed into the room riding Four-Eyes, the ghostly pink thestral Professor Bontecou had so kindly conjured for the master of mischief.


"This game," he said, shining a candle in front of his face, "Is called aurors and Voldypoos. I'll be the auror. You're all..." And just as he screeched the last word, he began racing around the room and pelting the students with water balloons. "VOLDYPOO!"

SPLASH. SPLASH. SPLASH.

Cedric laughed"hahahah..that's funny..oops.I'm laughing too much"

Stones? Pfft. Stones were not in Quidditch. But curiosity was on her side, she wondered what the ghost could be talking about. Vaults, protective stones? Yes, that sounded like a riddle, and she was not the one for riddles.

But there were a bunch of Ravvies in the classroom, right? They were supposed to be good at those. If only she could think beyond practices and plays.

This was silly, where was Professor Kazimeriz? Why were they sitting in such a cold place? Why was the light not high enough? What will they be doing today? So many question, no one to answer them...

Paris had gotten about 3 hours worth of sleep in between Quidditch practice, chasing her Imp around the grounds and doing homework. But like the diva she was she looked fabulous in her skinny jeans, silver tunic and green vest wtih her purple baby doll flats. She walked into classroom and stopped dead in the doorway. What was he playing at with this set-up.

She cautiously walked in and sat down in a group of students.

She squeeed and ducked for cover as Peeve zoomed into the room.

This was going to be crazy when the lesson started.

Tobi didn't think didn't pause, didn't hesitate a moment. He pointed his wand up in the air and bellowed. "Protego!" A large shield erupted over his head like an umbrella.

For all of Kazimeriz craziness, Tobi would have to bake him a pie for teaching him how to cast that one.

Honestly couldn't Peeves keep out of the Dungeons just for a little while?

"errr..that's not funny peeves,you poltergeist..if you keep doing that I will report you to the bloody baron"Cedric sighed with a nasty smile

Suddenly hit with a lot of water. Liz jumps up. "What the..." and suddenly sees Peeves.

"Ok, that doesn't make any sense." she starts to say to him, but realizes that was his point.

Jai groaned when peeves entered and shrieked as the first balloon struck her. "What! Are! You! Doing!" she grumbled. reaching for her wnd that had fell on the ground infront of her. "Protego." she said with a pout in her face, the water caused her hair to sag and she hated being wet in her clothes. She watched as the water balloons bounced off her shield and she made a face "The bloody baron would love to hear about this. Peeves pelting Slytherin students with water balloons. He'll be furious. In fact I saw him in the dungeons just before I got here and he was gumbling about no wanting any problems today. he wont take this news lightly."

Miranda giggled, covering her mouth. "Yes it is! But it cant be that easy seeing where youre going, with no lights and all..." Miranda always seemed to have excuses to why Dominic acted. Sure he was annoying at times, but human. A human in looooooooove! Snort.

There was a high pitched scream and it was coming from Miranda. Who in the name of MErlin's greyening toenail would pop up like that and scare them???

Sure, Miranda had done that with a few prefects and her camera...But this was different and scarier!
Miranda hurried to hide under the desk, fumbling with her wand. Did she even know any spells to keep her dry from the balloons??

Her arm poked from under her hiding place and she was aiming it at Peeves. What to do, what to do... "Stop it you little...you crazy...argh!"

"How about we be the Aurors and he's the Voldy-whatever?" Tobi suggested. "There are more of us."

His shield failed and he hastened to put it up again.

"Working together is wise, but do you not play with stones?" she replied.

"Has she noticed her stones are missing? I think not and yet these are her favorites of all! Perhaps her mind has been befuddled with numbers and such," the Grey Lady hinted without saying it.

The Grey Lady floated upwards so that she could look the pesky poltergeist in the face. "Peeves! How dare you create chaos in this educational room! Professor Kazimeriz will not be pleased."

Looking at Ms. Ravenclaw confused, all of a sudden it hit her, as another water burst hit her, too. Totally drenched now, Liz leaps to her feet. "I got it!"

With a huge smile on her face, she asks "Am I aloud to say who it is?"

Water balloons. O good grief. Now how was she supposed to concentrate? But a smile could not help but ecape from mandys lips as she saw many students get showered with water balloons. Herself included. But then her book got wet. Never wet a book worms book... She let out a snarl and looked up at Peeves. Trying to decide what to do about hium.

Twilight entered the classroom and had to admire the work of her professor. She wasn't creep ed out by the dimmed room after all grandfather's residence had alot of places with no electric so this was normal.
She read the note and then looked around. She noticed the Grey Lady and started over to her second favorite ghost in the house, when she heard Peeves cackle and heard the swoosh of water balloons.
She quietly took out her wand and used a shield charm to avoid getting wet. Actually she liked Peeves in spite of himself and smiled to herself in secret. Finally she arrived at the desk next to the Grey Lady;

"Can i sit on the other side of you my sweet Lady?" she asked.

Abby writes the riddle down. Terrific another riddle to solve. Why can't for once they tell us what they want us to know. Abby grabs her parchment just in time to avoid Peeves splattering it with water. I wonder when Professor Kazimeriz is going to get here.

Helena floated back down to the ground and over to Liz. "Of course, you may my smart Ravenclaw lass," she said softly.

Cedric didn't want peeves to spoil DaDa class because it was his favorite class..He point his wand to the atmosphere of the room with a great concentration he said"Impervius"it is the spell that repels water..He hope that it works

"They are professor Lupa's stones!" she says with a grin.

"...but who took her stones then?" she asks looking up at her. "and why?"

"Mandy, come on over" she invited her under her shield "We're doing riddles." she smiled at the fifth year "Umm I'm good with charms I just don't know which to use right now." Jai thought "Your welcome to stay under my shield."

"Don't you play me, boy," Peeves said, casting a dirty, unmerciful look at the chiild who DARED to cross him the wrong way.

Where were the days when the students feared a Peeves attack? Oh, how he missed those days. Oh, how he longed for the students of yore. These kids just didn't know how to play the game. It seriously put a damper on his good time.

"Oh, you're no fun," he said, hurling a water balloon at her extra hard.

"Or what?" Peeves teased. "Wah wah wah. All you kiddies ever do is whine and complain! No wonder Myrtle was a Hogwarts student. Eeeeheheheheheheheehehehehe." YES! He got to make fun of a student AND Myrtle at once? Oh, this was a good day.

"That is not how the game works, my friend," Peeves said. "You sure don't know how to play aurors and Voldypoos."

"Like I'm scared of him," Peeves scoffed, thrusting his ghostly nose in the air. "He's no more scary than a prune. Then again....." he stuck his tongue out and danced around the room, letting more water balloons fly at the students.

"Ooohhh!!!!! That's a good one! Girl, what is your name? You may be of use to me...."

Miranda's high pitch sound made Kaika placed her hands in her ears. She'd forgotten she was barely a second year, but getting under a desk?! Really? After getting hit by bludgers and getting wet by rain?! That didn't make much sense at all.

But, oh, she was also wet. And Kaika didn't enjoy rain-related things, including wetness. But her wand was out, and with a flick of it she was already dry.

Nice. Now Miranda was threatening the poltergeist? That should be fun to see, perhaps. "Hey, don't, sit up...the desks won't..." ummm, won't what? protect you from something evil? was it evil? "...keep you dry much longer" she decided, not wanting to scare the girl.

But Kaika was now paying attention to another scene...Hmmmm, the next Quidditch match won't be an easy one with Dominic behaving like that in front of the Ravenclaw Captain, Willow, who was also in charge of bludgers, too.

"You're quite mistaken," the Grey Lady said with a hint of disappointment. "She isn't the one."

"Oh," she says sitting down, she was so sure, that she was right. Thinking some more, she asks "Could we have another clue, please?"

Jai grumbled at the balloon that caused her shield to faulter "Stupid peeves." she grinned "Oh peeves!" she called "Aguamenti!" She shot a stream of water at him, she hated the little ghoul but he had to get a taste of his own meds. Jai grinned and sat replacing her shield "Lady Ravenclaw is it your mother?"

"peeeveessssssssss..you're jerk,crazy,freak and evil"Cedric shout at peeves..He really hate poltergeist he had once encounter a poltergeist when he went on his granma's house..the poltergeist in his granma's house make him fall in the ladder..

Distracting her from shooting spells at a ghost that probably wouldnt notice anyways, mandy smiled and went over to Jai. "Thanks. Figure out who took the stones." she asked her immediatley getting back to the class. She looked around though, Class was a riot with all the water ballooons and people getting wet adn some yelling.

She looked up at the Grey Lady, "Is it those stones they found last term?" She asked. She remembered her brother had helped some Slytherins find the stone and they made some potion.

Suddenly her eyes lit up again, "Ms. Ravenclaw, is it professor Shackleton's Gobstones?"

Did he just insult them? Wha- Miranda gasped emitting a small squeal. "Yeah Myrtle was a Howarts student, where did you go to school?" she almost pouted. If only there was a ball she could throw at him...
Not a ball...Maybe a shoe!

And before Miranda could get a chance to take off her shoe, Kaika was tugging at her to get up. She obedienly stood up, not wanting to seem foolish infront of her captain. Although she probably already did.
"Yeah, your'e probably right..." she sighed as another balloon landed next to her. Well Miranda wasn't sure she wanted to part with her shoe. It was a pretty shoe. She liked it. But if that poltergeist did anything else...

"Oh yeah those rubys?" she smiled "I dont think its them though." she was there and at least they got out, a lot of stuff has happened to her at hogwarts.

"Those stones are safe, young Slytherin miss."

"Does she know they're gone?" the Grey Lady asked and began to float away. "For there's only one besides the fair Arthimancy professor who knows the personal value of such stones. Yet all was done in jest."

"Oooohhhh, a mystery and a game. Liz breathes. "Thank you Ms. Ravenclaw. Will we hear more soon?"

Jai raised a brow at the ghost. "Was is her or is the person dead?" she asked again.

She nodded toward the Grey Lady. "Well I am out of ideas then," She said. She would have to go back to her room and think about it some more without that stupid poltergiest throwing water balloon about like a crazed monkey.

Hmmm.. Mandy was having a hard time concentrating but she was trying to get her mind around who it could be. She looked at Jai. "I have no idea. Im stumped" For like the first time Mandy was stumped.

"Constant vigilance," replied Helena as she floated through the threshold and vanished from sight.

Heeeheeeheeheehehe. Oh, how cute! The little girlie was trying to play along. "Nice try," he said, shaking his finger at her, "but that won't get you anywhere."

:O Peeves found the boy's insults rather funny, and feigned offence. "Oh," he wailed, grasping where his heart would have been had he ever lived. "My soul! You offend it so! WAAHhhHAHAHhahAaaaaA," he continued wailing.

Suddenly he snapped out of it. "Name calling will get you NOWHERE."

He flew into the kid's face. "NOWHERE!"

Well, if they were going to ask questions, he might as well answer them. "Oh, childe," he said, mimicking the Grey Lady, "I was never alive, you see. Poltergeists are merely a manifestation of energies.



When he finished his explanation, he eerily disolved back into the shadows to......continue plotting. Mwhahauuhahauwahahwahhwu

Nodding as Ms. Ravenclaw left. Constant Vigilance...

Was that our class... she wonders. Looking around for their professor.

Daniel was trying hard to restrain himself from the commotion. He was not afraid of the dark, so he sat in the front but at the side, not the middle... He looked and saw Peeves on his usual character... very playful naughty little demon...

He also saw the Grey Lady.... She was looking ever grey that before... I hope the Baron is here... that would be a laugh...

he listened to Peeves and then followed it with his sight into the shadows... I wonder what would scare us this time...

cedric bit scared when peeves flew into his face but he pretend that he wasn't"well,I'm not scared,but I hope Bloody Baron cross this room so he may see what you're doing"Cedric said

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Tobi shook his damp self. "Well that was... refreshing.." he said in a dry tone that didn't match his person.

He pointed his wand at his sleeve and tried to perform a drying charm.

WHOOSH!

"Eeeeeeeeeeepp!"Tobi squealed in surprise at seeing his sleeve go up in flame. He whacked his sleeve on the desk to put it out, patting out the top with his textbook.

By the time the smallish blaze had been put out, he had no sleeve left to try again on, and he wasn't keen to attempt on his pants.