Kayla raised her hand, "Fear is an unpleasant and often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger. Fear is completely natural and helps people to recognise and respond to dangerous situations and threats. However healthy fear or fear which has a protective function can sometimes evolve into an unhealthy or pathological fear, which can lead to exaggerated and violent behaviour."

Jack stared at Kayla, fear, she knew an awful lot about fear and how to make someone feel fear, Jack let out a small nervous laugh as he moved into the corner, his back against the wall, best place right now.

Shana didn't know the answer to this question,so she looked threw her text book.She glanced around the classroom,wow! this is rather scary.She thought and this was coming from a girl that didn't get scared very often.She smiled at the Professor and carried on looking threw her text book.

A tut came from one of the desks near a back corner, that golden hair seeming to pierce the gloom, what a text book answer.

The taste of fear was bitter on his tongue. This room was trying to invoke a primal emotion, something possibly more powerful than any hex or curse. Those bright blue eyes bore holes in the back of Kaylas head. Those that did not respect her, feared her. You can't buy that kind of power.

"Fear is a negative emotion. It comes first from the center, opposite of hope. It is represented by the color yellow. Malleable to it's users desires, it can render an opponents willpower inert."

Ok...he rarely ever spoke up in class, and this is why. Crazy? Yes. Jibberish? Maybe..it made sense to him at least.

Freya's head merely turned as the professor entered the room; goodness it was a bit loud though. Her eyes spotted that 'Tobi' student as well, 'Wow, he's actually taller than me now...'. She waited as Kazimeriz spoke to the class,'Fear...oh goody.' Freya thought as she sat in her seat with her wand in her hand, waiting for whatever class participation to take place. "Fear is what can rot a person from the inside out, make them go insane, waste their lives worrying and dreading about something that is inevitable, a strong caution, or simply unworthy." Freya had raised her hand and spoke almost in a whisper to herself, after hearing a couple of other students make their thoughts heard. Her heart started to flutter at a few less than pleasant thoughts and she looked to the top of her desk, shivering slightly...all she could hear was that awful sound now....

Celandine visibly relaxed when Professor Kazimeriz entered the room and immediately raised her hand at the question. This was something she'd had drilled into her from a young age. She spoke as if she'd learned completely by rote.

"Fear is a barrier to learning. Fear is the opposite of thought. Fear, and the conquering of it, is the truest measure of one's character. Fear is conquered by clarity of thought, clarity of thought is achieved by defying fear and not allowing it to interfere with one's quest for knowledge. Fear is a beast of terror imagined by the mind and perpetuated by the fool. Only the truly wise can defy fear and gain clarity."

Cela paused and blinked before adding to her answer in her regular tone, "Professor Kazimeriz, fear is a sensation of uneasiness magnified by bad experiences and human instinct. To run, to hide and to fight are survival mechanisms which most living creatures have developed in relation to experiencing fear. Not all fear is bad or necessary to overcome in order to prove yourself, sometimes it is there for a reason; in order to save your skin. The trick is learning to tell the difference between instinctual fear and imagined fear. And I don't think fear is an emotion which is felt, it's more of a sensation which is experienced."

Herminny was quite bemused by this class cause this was her first encounter with one of the ghosts at Hogwarts and Peeves too, so cool, to Herminny Lady Ravenclaw was quite the elaquaint ghost unlike most she heard of.
She was quite pretty too.
As for peeves, he was quite a peice of work but much more pleasant then Vindictus.

Then Herminny decided to answe the question at hand, what is fear?,and said, "Fear is anything that that makes tou uncmfortable in a way that frightens or scares you".

Miranda pouted as she looked up at the Poltergeist.
Well then, maybe thats why he was so crazy, because he didn't go to Hogwarts... Atleast Myrtle has the diecency to not cause chaos!

And then he dissapeared. Finally. And then the Professor appeared as if from nowhere! Miranda squealed. She really much wanted to hide under the table now.

But what is fear? Huh... Miranda decided to just listen in to what the others were saying. Anyway, she wasn't sure her shaky voice would sound all that great.

Ana raised her hand "Fear is an emotional response to threats and danger. It's a basic mechanism which help us surviving. It's a innate emotion."

Emalyn, upon Professor Kazimeriz's entrance, had just shaken the boy's hand, but hadn't been able to tell him her name. She smiled quickly at him, nodding, and listening to the Professor. It was hard to smile when dread was forming in the pit of your stomach, and you felt nauseous.

Nick flew into the DADA classsroom, excited to see that there was a lesson going on. What he wanted right now was to be around students - NORMAL students - not professors who were acting like they were still attending Hogwarts. Even ghosts got frustrated at times!

He raised his hand to the students as he floated near the back of the class, not wanting to make a big scene but certain that he was visible to anyone who turned around.

Freya spotted another Ghost in the classroom now, 'Seems like this should be really fun today.' She thought as she gave the newcomer a nice smile and turned around again, starting to fiddle with her notetaking materials and looked around the room some more, wondering if there was anything she had missed.

Already a girl had noticed Nick, which was fine with him. He waved his hand to her, the equivalent of a ghost smile, and settled back quietly to watch the fun.

Nick sensed the presence of Peeves nearby. He could see him out of the corner of his eye. He frowned at him, warning him not to make a fool out of himself. The only ghosts he worried about were Peeves and Myrtle, neither one had much self control. It was good just to be in here, it was somehow - comforting.

Barry raised his hand "Fear is a feeling. Its a feeling of uneasyness. Your stomoch feels weird , you don`t want to do something. Its a horrible feeling but yet wonderful. It gives you experiance and it builds courage. So yes it can be wonderful and yet horrible,you never know" he said, looking at things differently.

Looking as a ghost entered Barry gave him a little wave, it was nice to have
some ghosts around, Barry had given up on finding out how they had returned.

Tobi glanced up and noticed his own house ghost, he was pretty fond of him too. Honestly, what were people's problems with ghosts? he wondered. Muggles, that's one thing, they were raised on a culture of complete lunacy about ghosts, but wizards should know better.

He smiled at Nick and tried to focus on the lesson, Cela and Kayla's answers were interesting, while Clifford's was just plain funny, funny is good, but he didn't think Professor Kazimeriz would be entirely thrilled with it.