Aileen looked at professor Truebridge who started speaking and he asked a question. She was raising her hand when some boy answered. She wanted to say the same spell, so she lowered her hand and thought hard to came up some other defensive spell but she didn't know any other so instead she wrote down the answer and then she listened to the others.

Evan, still eyeing the armours, raised his hand. "Expelliarmus is an example." There were tons of defensive spells, but this was the first that he could think of.

Diggy looked up at the question. He had to think about it for a moment and then he raised his hand, "Protego Totalum is one sir," he offered.

Raising his hand, Santi answered, "Protego horribilis sir." He had known of the spell before, well he had even seen the spell before, though in some ways he wish he hadn't. It was only used against powerful dark magic.

Melissa thought for a moment then raised her hand. "Finite Incantatem is one," she nodded then fixed her eyes on the armour which shocked her when she came in.

Cedric briskly raised his hand, "Sir, Stupefy is one. I know that's an offensive spell but I just think that offensive spells can be a defensive spell too," Ced answered and confidently added, "and vice versa." For him, that could really happen, that offensive spells could be performed as defensive spell... when people would use them right... and in a creative way.

Ericks raised his hand. "If you mean literally,then Protego is usefull in defence."

Alcemee said, "Protego is one." She couldn't think of many others right now, and didn't even know many since she was a first year.

Teegan sat there in the bleachers looking at the suits of armour with an eyebrow raised, surely this wasn't going to be too difficult, right? But she'd just have to wait and see what the Professor wanted them to do.

Defensive spells, that would be...Teegan raised her hand in a fluid motion, "Incarcerous, Professor." She told the professor, she had a strong urge to do anything it took to make those suits of amours to stop making so much noise, it was really starting to annoy her.

Twirling her wand Arya listened to the answers that were given in class and then thought long and hard about Truebridge's question. To her the question seemed extreamly vauge, like he wanted you to be creative or something, which was why she was slightly hesitant to answer.

After another long moment, she hesitantly rose her hand. "Do you just mean spells that were like....invented for the purpose of defense or spells that could be used defensively?" She mused, vaguely remembering the last lesson she had with the professor. "Cause if its the former then spells like Finite, Protego, or the Fidelius Charm are some. But if its the latter then a lot of spells could be used defensively I think. Immobulus or Impedimenta could be used to stop a spell or object. You could use a Conjuring spell to conjure object to use for defense. Muffliato....could be used defensively in a duel. Kinda like an element of surprise thing, so if your opponent can't hear you then you have a greater chance of winning the duel?" Maybe? Arya lowerd her hand with a slightly quizzical expression, still musing over her answer, unsure if she had gotten her point across. Looking around her, she picked up her notebok and jotted down some notes.

Alexandrie raised her hand and answered, "I believe that any spell can be used defensively. All that matters is how you use them for example transfiguration spells help you block your attackers spell and charms aren't something an attacker would think you'd use."

"Yes, Protego." Truebridge agreed. "And we'll be practicing this today."

"Yes, thank you Celandine. In fact that particular shield is one we will be touching on today."

"Yes, the Patronus charm. We aren't going to work on that one today, but we will in a future lesson."

"Right, Evan. Expelliarmus is a defensive spell."


"Yes the Protego variatons are defensive spells. Good Dillon and Santi."

"Yes Finite Incantatem and Finite can be used defensively. Impervius is in some ways, if one is trying to avoid liquid based spells in particular."


"Good. Incarcerous is certainly useful defensively." Truebridge agreed.



"Ah yes. We have touched on this before. Offensive spells can be used defensively and vice versa. Thank you both for that." He had left it open for those answers to be given intentionally.

"But we are going to work specifically on shielding today. Protego, The glass to sand shield Celandine mentioned plus two others. I believe one of the others has been on the transfiguration curriculum in the past... perhaps... three or four terms ago?" Truebridge hinted.

Surely someone knew what he spoke of. It was particularly useful when conjuring arrows...

Teegan smiled as Truebridge agreed with her on the Incarcerous spell. She brushed her hair behind her shoulders getting annoyed with her hair for a moment. She rolled her eyes a little as Truebridge finally responded to the two first years who had gone completely overboard on their answers. He hadn't asked for evidence did he? She hid her annoyance by brushing her hair back with her hands and tied it in a ponytail on the top of her head. Her bangs fell down in front of her face as she swiped them to the side and waited for the Professor to ask another question.

Three or four terms ago? Teegan gave a very apparent looking confused look on her face, what happened four terms ago? She had absolutely no idea, she was in a small Greece school at that time, how was she supposed to know...although she might've been able to figure it out if she wasn't so annoyed at the moment.

Alex shrugged helplessly, she was a first year how was she supposed to know if she just started recently? But she did take notes on all the spells suggested as defensive.

Simon put up his hand. "Professor isn't there that Shield Charm." He wasn't sure the name of it, or if that was the wrong. "I can't remember the nam.." He stopped and just stayed quiet, he was sure he'd gone wrong.

Pam had been listening attentively to what the professor was saying and the answers given by the other students. She then jotted down some notes. She had no idea what the answer to the professor's most recent question was and so she just waited for somebody else to answer. After all, it was her first year and she didn't know much.

Tori raised her hand and said, "What about Finite , it negates spells,which makes it a counter spell."
She wrote down the others,
>Expelliarmus
>Protego
>Incarceous
>Patronus charm

She gave her wand a quick twirl in satisfaction before slowing back to normal twirl pace. They were going to work on shielding, this should be fun. Sir Lawson had already helped both her and Ivory last term with their shield and she had improved greatly because of it.

What really had her excited was that they would be learning the spell the Cela had mentioned, it sounded fun. What the other spells were she didn't know since she had only been here for a year, but someone in the class knew yes? She looked around the class curiously.

Ericks didn't answer. He didn't know ahat happened then cause he wasn't here. b

Kate was writing every spell that others have been saying. This was all new to her, and she wanted to be prepared... So she wrote>