"Hi Im Naomi Cambridge." Naomi said to the boy who offered to be her partner. "Ok what should we use?" Naomi looked down at the items the professor had given them.

Cordova looked brightly at his partner and continued to think about their conversation and the safest resolution to removing the chain before actually tying each other together. "You're absolutely correct about a Grindylow's grasp and how even if we were extremely slippery, it wouldn't just slide off of our skin."

He stayed seated examining his partner's notes, looking over his own, and taking slight glances towards his Professor who roamed the room quietly smirking and giggling at others failed attempts. "I think," he started and stopped mid-sentence deciding that it's probably best to not go blabbering about all his ideas. "Even though it's not necessarily a defensive spell, Transfiguration and Charms could be useful," he said outwardly tapping his wand against his brain. "I thought about the vanishing spell and then again,” he said doubtfully, “making an object invisible doesn't mean that it is not tangible or loses it’s particle characteristics.”

“I have it,” he exclaimed as excitement took over his body and he leapt out of his chair. Completely embarrassed, he shook his robes, coughed awkwardly and leaned over his desk to examine the chain. “This chain is a metal,” he said as if it was the most profound statement ever made. “Basically,” he continued quickly hoping to revive himself of feeling like a total troll. “If we convert the metal bars, to stone, it should, hopefully,” he added “make the texture and matter less durable. Therefore using Relashio or Confrigo would and should do the trick.”

He looked at William and grabbed the chain. Cordova shifted his weight onto the table and peered over his notes to once again to assure himself that his assumptions were plausible. “Yup yup,” he smiled happily and looking back at William. “Transform the creature or target, and then puncture it or a certain part of it.” He wiggled the chains franticly and gazed back and forth from his partner to the dirty rustic chains held in his hand.

So far the only thing about the lesson that had caught his attention was the mentioning of Kelpie’s… because the mane of that creature was currently in the core of his wand. Anyways, other than that he’d been sketching some stick figures that were up to no good.

But the Professor DID manage to catch his attention. Handcuffs? Ropes? Partners? Ohh it was just too genious. His brown eyes scanned the room rapidly but he found no one he felt like partnering with. Instead, he made his way up to the desk and grabbed some of the handcuffs.

They were just a little cooler than ropes…

Now it was time to find his victim! The wry smile flashed across the Aussie’s face as he spotted Vanessa Corbette, that Prefect that FELL over him and almost ruining his dungbomb plan. He was too quick though, he’d managed to hide them. MASTER OF DECIET.

Anyways, the first year walked up behind her. He clicked the handcuffs onto his left hand and grabbed the other one as he got closer and closer to Vanessa. It was a fast, lightning quick motion as he grabbed the Prefects right hand and clicked the handcuffs together. He let out an evil laugh and gave a first pump.

“Welcome to yah’ worst nightmare.” Cy said, looking up at the girl.

Handcuffs? She had to handcuff herself to someone? Vanessa was innocently considering the pros and cons about handcuffing herself to someone when she felt someone grab her hand. She looked around confused, before she heard the click. Oh no. Turning around she shot a glare at the younger student.
"Cyrus Paul Andrus! What on earth are you doing." Vanessa flailed about, throwing her arms, before remembering that her hand was now connected to Cy's. Better not dislocate the boys shoulder or anything.

Vannie sighed, trying to calm herself down. "You better have a good reason for doing this Cyrus....you could have at least asked me!" She shook her head, before smiling at him. It couldn't be that bad. "You better know how to get out of these." She sighed, looking at the hand cuffs.

Laura grinned. "Alright then!" she said, smiling up at Natka. "So, what type shall we choose? Do yuo want to go first, or shall I?" As she spoke, Laura turned to the desk behind her and began looking at the different objects in there. Rope, Chains, and....handcuffs...

Her fingers hovered above the hancuffs, and the young Ravenclaw could sense that there was something...not right about them. And it wasn't due to the fact that her muggle best friend (before she had come to Hogwarts, of course) had got them stuck on him in a magic show once, and had had deep cuts and red rings around his wrists. No, it wasn't due to the memory, these handcuffs had a certain magic about them.

They were no ordinary hancuffs, but Laura wouldn't mind if Natka chose them. She gave a small shiver as she turned around to face her.

Natka watched Laura's hand hover above the handcuffs hesitantly. the girl really didn't look comfortable using them... thinking there would be no point making the binding any more uncomfortable than it was bound to be anyway, Natka picked up the rope. It looked by far the 'safest' option there.

"How about the rope then?" she asked, hoping it would suit Laura. "And I don't mind, you can tie me up first if you prefer, it's up to you," she said, allowing the younger girl to go with what she felt more comfortable.

He bobbed his head an agreement, completely agreeing with the boy before him. He didn't even feel the need to point out how ridiculous he looked jumping up like that. Making a fresh note on his parchment, underlining the word "Chain" he glanced up at Cordova again and replied, "That is true. Would these spells work properly under water though?" He asked curiously, more to himself than to Cordova. He seemed to know what he was talking about however so he listened.

Looking at the rusty looking chains he gulped unconsciously and rubbed his wrist. this was going to be a bit more difficult he thought before glancing back up at Cordova and saying, "'What's the transfiguration spell?" He asked as he stood up holding his wrist out for him to wrap the chain around.

"Confringo could be very dangerous, if done wrong and not positioned properly. So I think Relashio would work best. If not then we could try congringo." He said confidently, even though his heart was beginning to pound thinking of it.

-cut anything right off-

...wait what? Say again please?

-cut anything right off-

Right. He hadn't misheard it.

WHAT?! What were they cutting off that they didn't want to?! Raiden stared at his hand, face turning down a shade or two. Cutting... off... not his fingers, surely. Because he needed those. And his hands. And his arms. Pretty much his entire body was made up of necessary parts! He needed to not cut off anything, thank you very much.

"Snipping Charm... I..." He scratched the back of his head with his wand hand. What was that charm? He knew it but he couldn't call it up from memory... "I can't remember iiiiiiit."

Flipsomethingsnippy? Flip... something. It was definitely something like that.

Watching Natka pick up the rope, Laura gave a sigh of relief. Though she wasn't sure why. Although she could sometimes sense whether things were good or not didn't mean that as a rule Laura followed that sense. Sometimes, the young Claw liked a bit of danger in her life. Not this time though.

"Ok!" Laura smiled. "The rope it is! And, would you mind if I went first, I mean...if you don't want to...."

Lawson got out of his chair and moved around the room once again as he observed each of the student's efforts to break their bindings. Pretty much everyone was doing a great job, so he figured he would up the anti a little.

Casting the Impervius charm over himself before flicking his wand at the ceiling and causing a rainstorm. "Okay now not only do you have to get out of your binds but you have to fight the elements as well. Use whatever spell you think necessary."



ooc: I realise Quidditch is on, so I'll come back to this in a few hours to continue.

With the chains held in his hand, Cordova moved off the table and towards William. Again he tied himself and his partner together and was careful to not tie them too tight. "About using spells underwater," he went on as he finished up securing the chain around their wrist and stepped away to give each other space. "I don't think it'll make that much of a difference. It'll possibly move slower because it's traveling through matter but I doubt the spells affect would alter."
"The transfiguration spell is Du-ro," he pronounced slowly and showed the wand movemnt. He tapped the rope on the table and whispered "Duro". The rope immediately transformed into a grayish stone material that lay just as lifeless as the rope did a second ago. "Not tricky at all," he looked at back William and pointed his wand at the chain. "I'll let you handle this," he said calmly as he looked down at the rustic chain.

He snapped his head back towards the Professor and all of sudden a large amount of rain heavily dropped onto the students, their notes, and posessions. "Great," he mumbled as he placed his wand inside his robe and carefully placed his important belongings in his bag and under the table. He wipped out his wand quickly and drew a square over William's head and his head. "Cave Inimicum," he thrased his wand above both of their heads and the rain no longer poured heavily ontop of them. Instead, the water blew on the sides of them but not as much as it was at first. "Sorry for not being able to do much," he spattered as water flew my from his mouth in all directions. With the combination of wind and rain it was going to be really difficult to maintain focus. "Let's continue?"

One second Laura was standing holding one end of a rope and looking up at the third year, the next she was drenched! Spluttering, she stared around wildly, only to notice that Professor Lawson, who seemed to be completely dry, had caused some sort of rainstorm to pour from the ceiling. Blinking rapidly, Laura tried to get the water to stop going in her eyes, and to stop her side fringe getting plastered over them.

Pulling a slide from an inner pocket of her robes, Laura clipped her fringe to the side of her head and began to think. Quickly, she used the spell that Rachel had used on her when she had come out of the flooded dungeons to dry her robes off. Then, to make sure that she didn't get wet again, she quickly shouted "Impervious!" No more water landed on her, and Laura was very proud off this acomplishment.

"No, of course I don't mind. As in, you tying me up first, right?" Natka wanted to make sure. She smiled at Laura just as the first frop of wetness hit her hair. And then another landed on her nose.

Looking up, she found her face spattered with water as it began to rain from seemingly nowhere.

Uhoh, I'll be completely soaked if I don't do something soon, she thought, drawing her wand and pointing it to herself.

"Impervious!" she whispered, and suddenly she stopped feeling the drps splashing across her body. Not that Natka didn't like the rain - really, she had no problem with it, but only when she was prepared. not during a lesson in the classroom with absolutely nothing waterproof on, and no umbrella at hand.

Abby points her wand at the lock on her handcuffs and does a silent Alohomora charm. Still nothing. "I wound if these are a pair of those trick muggle handcuffs. Of friend of mine had a pair of those. You had to break a beam to get the cuffs to open. I think if you said something to the chain that triggered the beam. Lets see." Abby raises Kaika and her arm. "Professor Lawson uses trick handcuffs." Abby shakes her wrist hoping the cuffs with open. They don't. Then Professor Lawson starts it raining in the classroom. "We've got enough artifical water around here with out more in the classroom. Metroljinx Recanto! Hopefully that will take care of the rain."

Demetria stuck her tongue out at him, then watched as he undid the cuffs. "Nicely done." she smiled. Dem examined her wrist that had the cuff on it, everything was still in tact. She looked as he repaired the cuffs. "Can I try this time?" she said getting ready to put the cuff back around her wrist.

NOTHING?! But...they had to get the cuffs off, right? Right, that was the assignment. Man, she was now hoping she didn't have to deal with any dark creature now.

She'll totally fail. For sure.

"Oh, I've heard of that, but I'm sure Professor Lawson gave us regular handcuffs, right?" or so she was starting to hope, "Ummm, how about an engorgement charm for the cuffs...we could get them off it they're bigger than our hands" and then...

RAIN.

And, then Professor was okay with that?! "Wait, what if the floor above is flooding?! Professor? Shouldn't we...like...get out to avoid being drowned?!" yes, rain was something she disliked more than cookies...she could freak out oh-so-easily, it was...cute?...ridiculous.

"This is ridiculous," spoke Daphne before blowing at raindrops dripping down the point of her nose and over her mouth. Not that she was unhappy about her cuff partner, after all it was the Celandine Toussaint, but it was raining.

No. Correction: It was storming.

"This is ridiculous."

Just in case Cela hadn't heard her over the drumming of pouring rain hitting the floor.

The muggle magic trick didn't work. "I like that idea better than trying to use the shrinking charm on our wrists. Why don't you give it a try. My magic doesn't seem to be working on these cufflinks."

"Sure thing!" he said reatatching the cuff to them both. He watched as the Professor started the rain.

Satine looked down at her rope and then realized what Professor Lawson was doing...she could immediately feel the rain sinking through her clothes...wow these were some huge raindrops. She looked around watching everyone cast the "Impervious" charm, but decided to think of something else to use to set herself apart since she had blended into the crowd during today's lesson. She set the impervious charm just to keep her clothes from getting too soaked. But she thought for a moment for something else that might stop the rain from hitting her face and blocking her eyes since it was so thick.

Finally, she said proudly "Finite" pointing up at the rain coming down...she had read about this spell in one of her books. She waited patiently for the rain to stop but soon realized that she must've done it wrong and started thinking agin.

Celandine checked that the handcuffs were fastened properly and nodded absently in agreement at Daphne. "Ridiculous. Sure."

She rummaged in her bag and pulled out a flower, eyeing it for a moment and finally, "Engorgio!" She enlarged the flower. Holding the flower up, Celandine flicked her wand in a smooth arch at the giant flower, "Paraplyo!" She transfigured it into an umbrella and passed it to Daphne to hold over them. It was a spell she'd worked on over the summer, though she hadn't mastered transfiguring an umbrella from different sized items yet, her spell did allow transfiguring almost anything.

"Okay, so, we can try unlocking the handcuffs with alohomora, we can try enlarging the handcuffs if we aim carefully and don't hit out hands, likewise we can reduce the size of our hands a little, we could glisseo our hands and slip them out, we could soften our bones to make that easier too, we could rust the handcuffs until they are brittle enought to break, we could vanish the handcuffs, or at least the chain so that we aren't stuck together. But for starters we should figure out what charms are on them so that we don't set off any traps or anything because from what I can tell," Cela looked around the class, "some of the handcuffs are enchanted so that we will have difficulty. What do you think, Daphne?"

"Flipnsnip... no, I don't remember," Copernicus made an embarrassed face. He wasnt going to let the little nervous looking Slytherin cut anywhere near his hands. He needed them both!

Cope glanced at the partners nearby before leaning toward Hopton and Cela. "Do you remember the snipping charm from last term Herbology? Flipnsnip... something?"

Herminny felt rain coming from the seiling and groaned, her partner Cedric had not said a word of how they could possibly get out of the handcuffs and it was his idea to use them. She gave him a dirty look as she took out her wand and said, "relashio", waving it just right way over the handcuffs but it didn't work, she sighed and gave Cedric another dirty look and said, "This would have worked if we used the ropes instead of handcuffs, why did I even listen to you?", Herminny scowled her attitude at it's peak because she was cold and wet and it was so not fun.

Oh. Flower Umbrella! Holding it over them, Daphne beamed up at Celandine's handy work. "Genius! Pure genius!" She wasn't even aware such a spell existed, and chewed on the inside of her cheek thoughtfully while casting suspicious looks at the Professor.

"I agree. I really doubt the Professor would have made it so simple. I don't believe Alohomora will work. It's such an obvious spell to use." Tapping the handcuffs with her wand twice, Daphne hummed. "I don't like the idea of messing with our bones," murmured the blond Gryffindor not keen on having a wobbly wrist. "I'd suggest vanishing them but I'm sure there's a counter-charm on them just for that. We might end up in a tighter situation than we are now."

Heh. Pun? No? Okay.

"Can we even charm our own wrists? For all I know he could have placed some kind of spell to prevent our hands from changing form--or properties."

Hopefully they wouldn't be forced to cut their hands off. She liked her hands.

Cue Copernicus Kettleburn just when she was trying to be smart. Grinning sardonically at him, she shook her head. "Sorry, Kettleburn. I can't say I do."

Daniel looked at the Slytherin that he had at one time or the other saw in their common room and her name was.... Hmmmm, that sound of a vegetable. Aha! Daniel almost shouts as he remembered the name. Leticia or Lettie for short.

He waved at her and said, "Hi, Lettie. I would love that." not only that he would have a partner for the unusual assignment or task, it is also great for his partner was a girl.

He moved close to her and grabbed a rope and started tying himself up with the girl. He had heard of Plymouth's comment on tying the knot. This is tying the knot. he thought. Not the one with that little man Tiro.

"So shall we do this now?" he said grabbing his wan by one hand.