Lyddia sat picked up her wand and began to practice the wand movement on her pencil. She made sure not to recite the spell by accident. Though she did let herself imagine the pencil turn to stone. She kept making the movement over and over, jabbing her pencil, making a dent in the wood.

She giggled at the dent then jabbed the pencil some more, making several dents and forming a smiley face on her pencil. She giggled again, then stopped realizing she'd gotten distracted and began jabbing other things, things that wouldn't be dented.

Ruby bit her lip, concentrated on her the wand in her hand and jabbed it directly at her schoolbag. She jabbed and jabbed. It was hard practicing with the wand and not speaking out loud the spell. Ruby felt as if there were something twisting in her mouth. She wanted to try the spell on her schoolbag, yet she knew that she could not and had better practice carefully or she would do something bad to herself before she could turn her bag into stone.

Magenta quickly snapped out of her day dream, looking around the classroom for a possible group. "Are you in a group?" she asked the person next to her, adamant not to be a lone ranger again

This class is sooo awesome! Working in G-R-O-U-P-S? How...fabulous!
Blake stood up and grabbed Nikki & Shana by the arm, "C'mon girlies!! Annd we are one person short, if anyone wants to join." Blake narrowed his eyes, pointing at the bajillion students sitting on the floor.

Jab jab jab.
OK that enough then.

Sarah looked up as the professor spoke again, telling them to get into groups.Oh great, who on earth am I going to partner up with? Shuffling her foot over the stone floor, she glanced around hoping to see someone nice that she could ask.It was always the part of a lesson she didn't like much, due to the fact very few people ever seemed to want to work with her. Can't think why.

Tibi'll partner with Sarah :-)
 

Yay! HI! :-)
 

"Oh!"
Sarah practically jumped as she turned and saw a young Ravenclaw speaking to her.Breaking out into a smile, she shook his proffered hand and nodded. "Nice to meet you Tiberius, I'm Sarah.And I would love to be your partner."

Looking up towards the front of class, she spied the box that Professor Svensson had placed on his desk.Sighing she turned to her new young friend. "I guess one of us had better go up and get the feathers.Should be interesting trying to turn them to stone!"

Practicing in groups? Something she did not expect. Ruby looked around the classroom nervously. There were many of older students and they seemed to have their groups already. She looked for some familiar faces hoping that she could join in a group.

"I'll get them!" Tibi smiled brightly. School was FUN; he wasn't going to be turned to stone.

Skipping up to the room, he looked into the box and selected two large feather. Accidentally brushing his nose with one of them, he let out a squeaky sneeze and blushed before scurrying back to Sarah.

"Got em! Do you want to go first?" Tibi wanted to see it happen first, before he tried it himself.

Josh was thinking of 'jab' the boy's head sitting before him with his wand when he realised that the professor what talking about something different. 'Groups! That's great!' he smiled enthusiastically, loved teamwork and immediately turned to Rose ''Let's get duro, shall we?'' he asked with a wink.

Abigail looked around for the other Hufflepuff first years but decided she’d like to meet people from the other houses. She just had to figure out who was, and who wasn’t already in a group. Of course in a mass of students like this, that was easier said than done.

Deciding that it would be easier to just ask the class room as a whole and hope someone answered, she cleared her throat. “Does anyone need a group member?”

Ruby!!!
 

Jecca came toward Ruby then to Abigail ...Hello!! Not expecting this, but I guess this will be fun!!! Jecca said to both of them. Don't have any groupmates? Can I be one of your Groupmates? We'll do great....

"Let's get duro?" she repeated, standing up. "For some reason that doesn't sound right." she laughed, going up to the front and grabbing two feathers. Walking back to their place, she handed one to Josh. "You want to go first?"

''Do you remember a non-weird thing that i have ever said so far?''he laughed and bowed to her some ''Ah no no! Ladies first!''. This class had finally started to be interesting, if he had the opportunity to work with her, he'd probably join all the classes.

anyone
 

Lyra placed her wand back in her holster again and listened to Professor Svennie's instructions. Making groups......right...Lyra could do that. Standing up, Lyra started walking around in the classroom , searching for a group she could be in or someone who was alone too.

"Hey!" Mikaela announced as she spotted another alone-strolling student to practice with.
"Want to practice together?" She asked and smiled.

Lyra smiled at the girl she had never met before and stopped walking. "Yea sure" she said calmly and looked at her. She seemed younger than her. "i'm Lyra" she greeted and looked around towards the Professor and the boxes that he had placed on the desk at the front of the class. "shall i get the feathers?" Lyra asked and pointed at the boxes.

Sara looked around the classroom. "Does anyone else need a partner?"

"I can remember one or two times maybe." she joked, sitting back down next to him. Evelyn was kinda relieved when Josh said she could go first. Her wand arm was buzzing to use magic, and it was irritating her greatly. "Alright." she said, giving him a small smile and placing the feather in front of her. Pointing her dark ash wand at the feather, she repeated the professor's wand movements she had seen earlier and said, "Duro." Nothing happened, though she thought she saw the feather twitch slightly. Her mouth dropped open in disbelief. Never has she not gotten a spell right on the first try. Closing her mouth, she shook her head slightly as if to clear all thoughts. She was slightly angry, not at herself, no, but at the feather. 'What is it, defective or something?' she yelled in her mind. She hadn't noticed that her expression had set itself into a frown, eyes flashing dangerously as whenever she was upset. "Duro." she repeated more forcefully and confidently. She smirked when she saw her feather turn to stone instantly. Reaching out and picking it up, she turned to Josh. "Your turn."

"Yes please," Mikaela said and smiled at Lyra."I'm Mikaela, First year," She said. Lyra seemed nice. She was maybe a year older than Mikaela, but they were pretty close to age anyway. Mikaela looked at Lyra and smiled again.

Nataly started looking around the classroom. All the faces were unfamiliar to her, and it made her uncomfortable. At Durmstrang she knew everyone, even if they mocked her all the time, calling her a blood traitor.
She sended the class another lost look, and then asked quietly, "Does anyone need a member to his or her group?"

"If you don't mind being partnered with a first year, I'll be your partner..." Sara told the older girl standing beside her.

"You could always join us!" Mikaela said and pointed to her and Lyra. "We wouldn't mind," She smiled at the girl who had asked. She looked a bit nervous. She smiled a reassuring smiled and gestured towards her to join them."We could be all four!