"Ah well, Mission accomplished then..." was that maybe too strong a hint?

Erm maybe.

"Anyways, lovely time talking with you, you probably have lots of other Professors on your circuit, don't want to keep you, tally ho and all that," JD rambled as he all but shoved the girl out of his office.

Phew.

Children were creepy.

And he'd not even held his first class.

It was the enthusiasm.

Sidney knocks on the professer half open door. "Is it alright if I come in sir?"

JD did not squeak.

DID NOT.

He gathped.

It was just a bit squeaky because his nose was a little stuffed still.

"Sure you can... Miss..."

No name.

He waved Miss No-Name in.

"Sidney Marlowe, sir. First year Hufflepuff. I thought I should warn you before class." Sidney doesn't know how to say this without just blurting it out. "I've had some problems with my magic sir or rather lack of magic. I've never performed magic until a few week before I got my letter here to Hogwarts. I'm really not sure I even performed any. I mean. My brother Harry said I had to have performed magic. How else could I have avoided breaking my neck. My brother dropped me out of his second story window.

Then I couldn't do the Cruciatus Curse in DADA class. Professor Duskurk said it would be next to impossible for any of us to do the curse properly, but I couldn't even get the spider to twitch one of his legs... Of course I didn't want to hurt the spider. I don't like spiders, but I've never deliberately hurt one. I usually get my mom or dad to squish them for me. I'm just afraid I'm not going to be able to do any magic in your class."

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"Sidney Marlowe, sir. First year Hufflepuff. I thought I should warn you before class." Sidney doesn't know how to say this without just blurting it out. "I've had some problems with my magic sir or rather lack of magic. I've never performed magic until a few week before I got my letter here to Hogwarts. I'm really not sure I even performed any. I mean. My brother Harry said I had to have performed magic. How else could I have avoided breaking my neck. My brother dropped me out of his second story window.

Then I couldn't do the Cruciatus Curse in DADA class. Professor Duskurk said it would be next to impossible for any of us to do the curse properly, but I couldn't even get the spider to twitch one of his legs... Of course I didn't want to hurt the spider. I don't like spiders, but I've never deliberately hurt one. I usually get my mom or dad to squish them for me. I'm just afraid I'm not going to be able to do any magic in your class."

EGAD!!! JD's Eyebrows shot up so high they DISAPPEARED into his hair.

Duskirk was teaching the Cruciatus curse? To FIRSTIES?

"Twisted Old Coot," JD muttered under his breath before remembering there was in fact a child in his presence. A child that needed his reassurance!!

"If you aren't really magical, I don't think you'd have gotten past the sorting," JD told the child, "Unless someone confunded the sorting hat, in which case all the first years and transfers would need to be resorted and you'd of course be expelled, your wand snapped, and a formal inquiry -" Hmmmm.... not reassurring.

Let's try again.

"But that is HIGHLY unlikely. Like your brother," (who, by the sounds of it, is slightly dangerous,) "said, if you got dropped out of a window without injury, there has got to be some magic to you we can build off of. You just have to put some effort into it."

JD smiled widely and what he hoped was reassuringly at her.

Big reassuring grin.

Wand snapped, confunded charm, expelled! If Sidney wan't already upset by Professor Duskurk, she would be now. "I swear I didn't use a confunded charm on the sorting hat. I don't even know the incantation for a confunding charm. Please sir, don't make me go and see Headmaster Tate. He already thinks I'm a flake I promise to study and practice." Sidney is grateful her wand is in her bag.

Then Professor Kade calms down some. "I promise I will practice and practice. I want to learn magic. Thank you sir." Sidney sticks her hand in her robe's pocket and takes out the two chocoballs and Pepper Imp. She places them on the desk and pushes them toward Professor Kade. "I thought you might need these."

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Wand snapped, confunded charm, expelled! If Sidney wan't already upset by Professor Duskurk, she would be now. "I swear I didn't use a confunded charm on the sorting hat. I don't even know the incantation for a confunding charm. Please sir, don't make me go and see Headmaster Tate. He already thinks I'm a flake I promise to study and practice." Sidney is grateful her wand is in her bag.

Then Professor Kade calms down some. "I promise I will practice and practice. I want to learn magic. Thank you sir." Sidney sticks her hand in her robe's pocket and takes out the two chocoballs and Pepper Imp. She places them on the desk and pushes them toward Professor Kade. "I thought you might need these."

WHOA!

Backing up backing up!!!

"Miss Marlowe, if you could do a confundus charm, you wouldn't need to confund the Sorting Hat. So try not to worry your" weird and panicky "little head about it. Just focus on your studies."

OH CANDIES!!

"Thank you, Miss Marlowe," he pulled the chocoballs toward himself like a house elf might cradle a bottle of Mrs Skowers. "Was there anything else you wanted to discuss?"

Sidney is relieved when the professor likes the candy. "I thought you might need it. My younger brother, Tommy, suffers from low blood sugar. His symptons are very similar to yours, so I thought some candy might help you feel better. I think that's everything. I'm sorry I got upset. Geez, Tate, Duskurk, and now Professor Kade sounds like some kind of MLES agent. I know my dad said security would be tight at Hogwarts, but this is the extremes. "No sir, that's all I wanted to talk to you about. I hope you feel better."

Candy makes EVERYONE feel better.

"Alrighty then, off you go," JD waved her off, eyes focused NOWHERE but on the chocoballs.

Was she even still in the office?

Meh.

"Thank you sir. Sidney leaves before Professor Kade decides to send her to Headmaster Tate. She doesn't know what Tate, Kade and Duskurk are up to, and Sidney doesn't want to hang around and find out either. I don't understand it. I always imagined Hogwarts as such a friendly, dull, boring place. Not a thing like this place.

An organized mess? Jack was not sure such a thing existed!

Still, he walked into the office on Kade invited him in, holding his mutant frog under his arm. There were others walking into the office as well, but since none of them had settled in yet, he decided to speak up first.

"Erm, well, to be honest professor...this is kind of embarrassing...I was practicing the Geminio spell for homework, as you instructed and..." he pulled out the stuffed frog that had two heads and five arms and set it on the table. "THIS happened. I'm not sure how, but it's not going back to normal and...to make a long story short, it's my sister's and she will KILL me if she finds out!"

GAH. He was such a pathetic excuse for a head boy. He couldn't even duplicate objects without creating a disaster.

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An organized mess? Jack was not sure such a thing existed!

Still, he walked into the office on Kade invited him in, holding his mutant frog under his arm. There were others walking into the office as well, but since none of them had settled in yet, he decided to speak up first.

"Erm, well, to be honest professor...this is kind of embarrassing...I was practicing the Geminio spell for homework, as you instructed and..." he pulled out the stuffed frog that had two heads and five arms and set it on the table. "THIS happened. I'm not sure how, but it's not going back to normal and...to make a long story short, it's my sister's and she will KILL me if she finds out!"

GAH. He was such a pathetic excuse for a head boy. He couldn't even duplicate objects without creating a disaster.

Oh SNORT!

"Geeze kid. You make me glad I'm an only child." JD cleared some papers off his couch and put them on the book shelf. Yeah... they worked there.

"Put down the Frog-frog thing. And sit your butt down too." He dug into his desk and pulled out a large box containing brightly wrapped chunks of Honeydukes Nougat and chucked one at him.

"And stop wibbling, this is not grounds for murder. Vanishing your father's hair at your parents' 15th Anniversary dinner? That's grounds for murder."

Stepping into the office, JD's curious to who this professor might be. All he knew is the man's initials were the same as him.

Charms...ugh. he didn't care much for charms. Mainly for the fact, he couldn't even get a simple spell as Windgardium Leviosa to work, without setting something on fire.

Maybe if he got to know the professor...it might help?

Oh there is another one.

"While I'm at it..." he shrugged, "catch the Nougat!" he tossed another one at the younger boy."

Looking around he spots the person attached to the voice. Reaching up, he grabs the nougat coming towards him. "Thank you." he replies with a smile.

"I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm JD Stevenson." Biting the corner of his lip, he figures he better warn him now. "And I'll probably be the worst student you'll ever have in class, just as a warning. Believe me Professor Masterson, could vouch for me."

"I wish I were an only child," Jack said with a sigh. He placed the frog on the table and sat down, fumbling with the nougat as it was launched through the air at him. "Erm...thanks!" he added with a smile. Smiling was a more appropriate response he decided than saying he didn't like sweets very much. A piece of nougat wouldn't kill him after all!

"Really? But...you don't know Jasmine Fritzera," he added with a defeated sigh. His younger sister used to BEAT HIM UP. It was a fact that he was not proud of at allllll. And it was certainly not a fact he was about to share with anyone anytime soon.

Vanishing hair...hmmmm...he wondered if the professor had actually DONE that at his parent's 15th anniversary dinner.

"Do you have any idea what I might have done to cause this?" he asked. He certainly didn't want that to happen AGAIN, especially if this was on his NEWTs or something.

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Looking around he spots the person attached to the voice. Reaching up, he grabs the nougat coming towards him. "Thank you." he replies with a smile.

"I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm JD Stevenson." Biting the corner of his lip, he figures he better warn him now. "And I'll probably be the worst student you'll ever have in class, just as a warning. Believe me Professor Masterson, could vouch for me."

JD shrugged, "I'm lousy in Divination, what's your point?" Poor Professor Baum; he had had some very hard years with JD.

"As long as you don't irreparably damage yourself, me, someone else, or anything I'm rather fond of, I don't really mind you're lousy. As long as you put some effort into it. And try to pay attention when I'm talking... all that good jazz." Ah bless the boys with confidence issues, not a problem he had suffered as a child. Heh heh... "You'd really be surprised what you can accomplish if you're not afraid to mess up and you're actually trying not to."


He glanced over at the Head Boy...

"There are... accidents of course, but nothing we can't fix with a healthy dose of my brilliance."

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"I wish I were an only child," Jack said with a sigh. He placed the frog on the table and sat down, fumbling with the nougat as it was launched through the air at him. "Erm...thanks!" he added with a smile. Smiling was a more appropriate response he decided than saying he didn't like sweets very much. A piece of nougat wouldn't kill him after all!

"Really? But...you don't know Jasmine Fritzera," he added with a defeated sigh. His younger sister used to BEAT HIM UP. It was a fact that he was not proud of at allllll. And it was certainly not a fact he was about to share with anyone anytime soon.

Vanishing hair...hmmmm...he wondered if the professor had actually DONE that at his parent's 15th anniversary dinner.

"Do you have any idea what I might have done to cause this?" he asked. He certainly didn't want that to happen AGAIN, especially if this was on his NEWTs or something.

"Getting the feeling I don't really want to know her." JD pulled his wand out and trained it on the Frog... thing. "I'll tell you this while your young and it could save your lives gentlemen; Women? Give them whatever they want and back away slowly. As soon as they are distracted by something shiny, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES." How did they think he got stuck with 74 hideous unicorns? Crazy women.

"My best guess on what you did? Being new at the charm, not focusing on what you wanted to do quite properly. Or focusing too much. Finicky stuff, Charms. If you visualize the Frog reappearing right where the other one was... well it will. Inside or attached to the original. The good news is you've really got staying power with your charmwork, the bad news is you really need to work on your visualization."

Kade made a sideways slash motion and muttered, "Secui," removing the extra head and limb from the frog.

Thinking back to the corn maze last year. He never had checked to see if the corn had even grown back. He was too afraid really to even go near that thing again. That was definitely nothing that was easily repaired. Nodding he listens to what the professor said. "I do try...it's just that, well." remembering back to when he first got his wand, "I think it's lack of confidence. And...maybe expecting something to go wrong."

"Like setting things on fire..." thinking back to that corn maze again, he winces at the thought.

Watching the professor make extra limbs disappear from the frog, and listening to what he said about women. Shaking his head, he silently agrees. Having not even spoken with Anya, since last term, causes him to really rethink relationships with them...

"Pfft!" JD waved at the boy with his same name, "you're a Secondie, you're not supposed to do everything right. That's why I'm supposed to be Awesome. And know Extinguishing Charms. And probably why Masterson is so adept at them..."

Grumpy one, that Masterson... might have something to do with his Maze...

"Look, if you haven't got confidence now, I can work with that, you'll get it eventually." He rifled around in his desk once more. You couldn't imagine the STUFF in there, "as long as you don't burn down my WHOLE class, I won't get too upset with you, and you'll learn stuff. You already know the incendiary charm, looks like... I wouldn't normally teach that below third year. So look what you can do that others can't. So just RELAX kid. Have a Tea or something." He passed the kid a coupon

SPOILER!!: LITTLE!JD's Coupon

Chuckling a little, he nods. "Don't even need the incantation to do incendio." Thinking back to when he was supposed to trim off the bottom of his robes, because he kept tripping over them, and had set them on fire instead.

But he could definitely understand how younger students shouldn't know that spell. Remembering some of his classmates, he definitely undstood that. Even some older ones...

Taking the coupon, he reads it and gives him a grin. "Thanks!" mmmm, cake...

"Oh yeah, that definitely makes sense," Jack said. He definitely had NOT been focusing on his spellwork when he had been...erm...playing make believe with the duplicate frogs. Perhaps he had just gotten too caught up in reliving his childhood, and his success with the charm before the whole incident, that he didn't think he really NEEDED to concentrate. Hmmm.

Well, lesson learned! That was for sure.

"Luckily for you, Jasmine failed her Charms OWL, so you won't be coming into contact with my dear baby sister any time soon," he said with a smile. "And...is that true? About the running away thing?" he asked. Now that he was in a serious SERIOUS relationship, he was going to take any relationship advice he could get. Even if it was from a professor.

"Whenever I give my girlfriend shiny stuff, like jewelry, she clings to me!" he said. He thought that was...a good thing? Maybe it wasn't? He was confused!

Aaron wasn't really concerned over getting into trouble. If anything, he could use the excuse that it was practice for his homework. Which true in some regards, but he wasn't really sure that the Professor would appreciate more papers. Nonetheless, the young first year crept stealthily along the third floor corridor and stopped only upon reaching Professor Kade's office.

Dun. Dun. Dun.

Casting a basic Merlin! he was only a First Year! Of course it be basic! disillusionment charm on himself, he could hear the Mission Impossible theme music playing inside his head as he peeked around the corner into the Professor's open office. Messy, just as anticipated.

"Geminio!" The young boy cast upon the various piles of Daily Prophets and other books that were in the room. He repeated until the stacks and piles were about three or four times the amount originally there.

Mission completed, Aaron moved away the Professor's office and back to the common room to write about it. Naturally Professor Kade would be expecting such a thing, right? He had asked them to practice duplicating things around the castle and technically speaking it wasn't anything prohibited . . .

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Aaron wasn't really concerned over getting into trouble. If anything, he could use the excuse that it was practice for his homework. Which true in some regards, but he wasn't really sure that the Professor would appreciate more papers. Nonetheless, the young first year crept stealthily along the third floor corridor and stopped only upon reaching Professor Kade's office.

Dun. Dun. Dun.

Casting a basic Merlin! he was only a First Year! Of course it be basic! disillusionment charm on himself, he could hear the Mission Impossible theme music playing inside his head as he peeked around the corner into the Professor's open office. Messy, just as anticipated.

"Geminio!" The young boy cast upon the various piles of Daily Prophets and other books that were in the room. He repeated until the stacks and piles were about three or four times the amount originally there.

Mission completed, Aaron moved away the Professor's office and back to the common room to write about it. Naturally Professor Kade would be expecting such a thing, right? He had asked them to practice duplicating things around the castle and technically speaking it wasn't anything prohibited . . .

Kade returned to his office after sweet talking the house-elves out of some pumpkin cookies to - GATHP!

"WHO MESSED UP MY MESS?!"

There was nearly three times as much mess as there had been before.

He stared at his news papers, his books, his... why were there two copies of his Halifax Comedy Festival Poster?

Since when did Groucho Marx have two moustaches?

As he asked himself these questions, his second ship in a bottle dissolved from beside the sofa.

LITTLE VANDALS!!!

Kellen stepped into the office ahead of Professor Kade and tried not to look at the huge mess. The huge... slowly... disappearing... mess? Huh, maybe he'd been offering extra help to someone. Kellen glanced around for the jacks, but on failing to spot them in the clutter he turned back to the professor.

Determined not to let Kellen or himself be overwhelmed with ancipation or fear, Sabel's filter turned to 'off' and he spoke without thinking as he clapped a hand on his friend's shoulder and stepped into the office. Well, more like spoke in a raised voice to try and boost morale. "FOR WRATH, FOR GLORY AND FOR A RED DAWWWNN-oooohh.....wow..."

He blinked at the mess and bit his tongue, remembering something the Headmaster had said about sarcasm and timing. Ooops.