Lesson Two: Recap from last lesson/ Determination
 

Qaz entered and took a seat in the back. She was one of the first to arrive, so she pulled out one of her textbook and began to study.

Ludo walked tiredly into the Great Hall. He felt as if he'd gotten very little sleep and his throat felt congested. He hoped very much that it wouldn't put him out of participating in the second Apparation class.

He spotted Liz and made his way over to her. There was still some time before the lesson started. "Hey." he croaked...it was a bit difficult to speak.

Lyra walked into the second lesson of the apparitions lesson and took a seat at a desk. She pulled out things to take notes on as she didn't want to be one of the students who allowed part of her body to be left behind. She wanted to do this the right way.

Elizabeth glanced over as Ludo sat next to her, a concerned expression appearing on her face at how he looked. And it grew even more when he spoke. "Hey," she said in a low voice, before adding, "Are you okay? You don't look too good." She grabbed her bag, then dug around in it, finding a throat lozenge. She didn't really know how old it was, but it might still help.

Handing it over to him, she said, "Here."

Kayla came running into the great hall at break neck speed, she was late she just knew it. She really hated it when she was late for something, it meant she missed all the important parts of the lesson and this was one lesson she didn't want to miss.

As she ran into the hall, her foot slipped on the floor and she could feel herself falling...oh craaaaap! Kayla flung out her hands and felt something soft underneath them which stopped her from falling. She looked up to see Lyra, standing there and she giggled. "Nice catch Lyra, thanks for that."

Ludo smiled at Liz as she inquired about him. "I'm a little under the weather. Just sort of woke up this way...nothing to serious I hope."

He smiled as she handed him a lozenge. "Thanks." he took it and popped it into his mouth, waiting for the instant relief that was supposed to follow, as it usually did in most wizarding medications.
When it didn't Ludo asked, "Is this a wizard or muggle lozenge?"

The concerned expression stayed on Elizabeth's face as Ludo talked about waking up that way. "That's definitely not good," she said. "I hope that it's not serious too." She cared about him too much to want to see him seriously sick.

"You're welcome," she said as he thanked her for the lozenge, then laughed softly when he seemed confused by something. "Y'know, I don't really know anymore. It was in my bag, but there's so many things in there, both Muggle and Wizarding, that it could be either one," she said sheepishly. "I'm not even sure how long it had been in there." Then she realized he could take that the wrong way. "But obviously it wasn't bad or anything," she hurriedly tacked on.

Daphne walked into the Great Hall, nervous for this lesson. She was very apprehensive about apparating, but knew it was something she needed to learn to do. She saw a few students she knew and waved to them.

She took a seat and got out a few materials for the lesson. Her eyes wandered around the room, wondering when the instructor would come in. She kept looking at her pink watch, anxious to start.

Kaika looked up as someone started to speak. Good. The last one was a Department Head, and this woman was a Division Head whose name was...something Gold or Gold something.

She blinked her eyes and tilted her head to one side as she listened to the question, and answered it after raising her hand, "Ummm, well, wasn't Destination the place where we're suppose to apparate to? I mean, it is where we're going to apparate to" she turned her question tone into an answer one at the very end.

Ludo chuckled as Liz became unsure of the origin of the lozenge. "I'll take your word for it. Next time I'll try to examine it like we did that mystery Potion for the Headmaster."
He smiled and put a finger to his lips as the Ministry official began.

"Goldbloom..." he thought. "Much easier to remember than Bro-..Bre-..what's her face."

The Ministry woman informed them of why she was there and asked for a recap on Destination from the last lesson. He raised his hand, "Ms. Goldbloom? Destination is simply the location the apparating wizard or witch wishes to go to. They've got to have that place be the sole thing they think of."

Angelica was delighted to hear that some of the students had done their homework. Smiling warmly at both the girl and boy she said "Yes, your both very correct. Destination is the place which you want to apparate too." Eyeing the boy she added "And, yes its Ms Goldbloom. I'm not married." Taking up a small parchment from her bag she skimmed it through once before looking out over the class again saying "Last lesson you also learned about splinching. Can anyone tell me what splinching is?"

Ha. So, not only students arrived late to class or lessons or anything. Interesting sight. Miss Department Head arriving late.

But her attention was focused on something else right now, since the Division Head spoke. Yikes! Splinching, yes, she'd heard about that before.

Kaika shivered involuntarily, even if they already said that it didn't hurt, "Splinching is when the one that is apparating leaves a part of him behind...right?" she said, adding the last part to make it sound like a question, she could be mistaken anyway.

Ludo's ears turned red as the instructor informed him of her marital status.
"What?!" he thought.

He looked down at his parchment and took notes for the splinching recap.

Angelica watched how Lorraine slipped into the great hall and silently took a seat behind her. There was no time to ponder why her boss was late but it probably had to be a crisis or something at the minstry that must have held her up. Angelica gave Lorraine an acknowledging nod before turning her attention back to the students.

Angelica took in the students answers and said "Good, good girls. You have both learned what bad apparition attempts can lead too. Splinching is not painful, but the process of putting back splinched limbs is very painful." Glancing back at Lorraine she asked "Isn't that right Ms Brothmeister that putting back splinched limbs is a painful process? Anything you want to add on about splinching?" Angelica let Lorraine answer as she herself cast a quick glance at her lesson parchment. Folding her arms she said about ten minutes later "Let's move on to the topic of todays lesson which is determination. What do you all think that determination means? Feel free to give both textbooks definition and your own personal answers."

This teaching thing was hard. Angelica had absolutely no idea if she was doing a good job or messing things up. Hopefully though the students would understand and get the important gist of what she was trying to teach them about apparition. As a hand shot up to answer her latest question Angelica turned her attention to the Ravenclaw girl. "Yes, your correct. Determination is all about focusing on where you want to go and no where else. A lapse in focus and determination can in the worst cases lead to splinching."

"Moving on.. If i were to tell you that you that I had a box of chocolate sitting up here in my bag, most of you would probably desire nothing more than to get that chocolate. However, you only get a chocolate if you are determined to get it. What are some ways that you could prove yourselves to me that you might deserve this fine Honeyduke’s chocolate?"

Angelica stooped talking and gave the students time to think and scribble down notes. Just seeing them dressed in their robes made her remember when she not too long ago to had been a student at Hogwarts.

The word chocolate made her look up to the one who mentioned it, and after raising her hand she answered, "Well, that depends on many things, Miss Division Head" she said, her face business-like because chocolate could be involved somehow.

"First, I'd like to know if there is chocolate in the room...then I'll ask if I can have some, but since it won't be easy to get it, I assume...then I'll just follow your indications and try my best to apparate without splinching...or simply apparate" she shrugged, sureeee, there were other ways to get the chocolate, especially using her wand, but retrieving the chocolate by force was just rude, not to mention unHuffie like, "So, there...two things at once...determination to apparate and determination to get the chocolate by doing a good job" yes, she didn't know what other way to get the chocolate, then again, she didn't even know if the woman was carrying chocolate.

Lorraine must have been caught off guard by her question directed at her, but her boss recovered quickly. Angelica nodded if the procedure was done by a skilled wizard then maybe the process of putting back limbs wouldn't be painful. But it all depended on the skill and competence of the healer. Now, back to the actual lesson again.

Miss Lockhart a Hufflepuff by the judging of her robes was the first and only student to raise her hand to answer her question. Angelica focused her blue eyes on the girl saying "A very well thought out answer, Ms Lockhart, very good! Yes, to prove yourself to me you could have showed determination and also apparated successfully without splinching. All of which would have landed you some chocolate."

Glancing down at her watch it she noted that it was high time to wrap up the lesson. They had almost gone over time and she didn't want the students to be late for dinner. Looking out over the students "I'm afraid we don't have more time today. In the third and final lesson you will get the opportunity to try apparating for the first time. If you succeed and perform and successful apparition then you will get a apparition license/certificate from the Ministry of magic."

Turning Angelica picked up her bag and headed towards the doors calling out "Bye, students!" and with that the division head had left to go back to her office at the Ministry.