Muggle Scouts? That was an odd name, but they did have a cool motto thing. "Couldn't we like be prepared..." Yeah he'd started off before he really had time to think. "By always knowing what's going on around us." Mmmm. He wasn't too sure if that had came out as he had wanted too. "I mean, like always being aware of what is going on around us. It would mean that if anyone is going to randomly attack you, you'd be ready to defend yourself."

Amy raised a shaky hand
"we can always be aware of our surroundings and always carry you wand on your person, and always be ready to defend yourself from any attacks"
she said this nervously, and she then returned to writing notes
when she heard they'd be continuing tomorrow she gathered her stuff and headed for the training room

Muggle scouts, ahh stupid boys with pen knifes and knots, well Amy said, putting up her hand, the scouts always have a backup plan, but they'd always pack things like a pen knife and rope, so for us it would be, always have our wands she said in her normal tone, the Headsmaster really wasn't that scary, everyone was a lier evidently. But they also have a back up and our back up would be something like, knowing non verbal spells, knowing escape routes and if worst came to the worst, knowing enough muggle defence techniques, I mean most wizards wouldn't be used to someone begining to punch them or running away she finished, putting her arm down and ducking down in case she had completley failed

Jay put his hand up, "Amy is right, they would have to learn wandless techniques, even Accio, then they can at least summon there wand, or if they are good enough they can defend themselves, Its like it would be harder to attack somebody if they shoot spells at you, if they are non verbally and wandlessly shooting spells at you, your more likely to fall back because it takes great wizards to... doesnt it?" he stated, not really knowing what he was talking about, then putting his hand down quickly and then looking around hoping no one else thought he screwed up.

URGH! This lesson wasn't as easy as she thought it'd be. She stretched a bit and shifted in her seat starting to concentrate more on the topic with a quill in her hand. She could use some 'constant vigilant' right now... if she knew what the heck that meant.

She glances towards the students and saw some really bright and nice answers. She didn't have any so she continued to listen. Know what that meant? MORE library and LESS housetree. Meh.

Oh. Um... okay? Thought was held.

Ha. GlitterPuff.

If situations had been changed slightly, and Kellen were the one to be called something that ridiculous, he could only imagine that he'd be beyond indignant. As it was, it was pretty amusing just watching this Fletcher boy react.

There was a carefully neutral tone on Kellen's face as Neptune gave her contribution to the class. While he couldn't exactly fault her thinking, because pairs or even groups sounded like a good idea to him, he wished she wouldn't have started giggling again. The only problem seemed to be that the switch only went two ways: giggle or pout.

Though he did feel the need to clarify, "There's a difference between working in a pair and having a human shield, though. One implies teamwork. The other suggests someone's going to wind up as cannon fodder."

Which... hadn't he had a conversation like this with Arya?

It was the first lesson of the year, so Brielle had expected it to feel weird, but just not this weird.

So far she had known the answers to all the asked question, and even though so far it was merely a class discussion, Brielle could not make herself speak, and put forth her suggestions. It all boiled down to the fact that she felt that in a way, but answering she would be robbing the Hogwarts students a chance to have a go. And this was rather surprising to Brielle, she was normally the one to answer first, to have her hand in the air the moment the teacher's final word passed through their lip. But up till this moment she had remained silent.

Her parchment was covered with dot pointed notes, but she still thought she would wait to talk.....perhaps in the practical section I will show off she smiled to herself.

Joshua had been quiet throughout the entire class, mostly trying to understand what the people around him were saying. They all knew hard words! The kind is Dad told him to write down and look up in the dictionary later.

HAH. As if.

Something the Professor said, however, got his attention and he sat straighter on his seat - legs still dangling and pretty far away from the floor. "OH!" Wait ... did he have to raise his hand to speak?! A ickle arm rose hastily. "Mum says I should always be prepared for any circu .." What was the word? AAACK! Teeth clinging to his lower lip, Joshua blushed a bit but stubbornly cleared his throat. He had something he wanted to share! "... anything when I go out to ride my bike alone. Be careful of any cars, people or animals around, wear a helmet and keep band-aids in my pocket!"

Not that Joshua did any of that, but ah well!

"It might work the same way, no? We must be prepared for anything that might happen during the battle! I mean, know those ... protective spells thingies and all!" There were protective spells, right? Pssh, sure. His face grew slightly confused for a moment as he considered what his Mummy always told him. "... I'm not sure band-aids would work in this case.." He added in a lower voice.

HMMMMM.

WAIT! He had just remembered something else!

"I think you should always take a snack with you to the battle field. You don't know how long this battle will be and you'll need FOOD!" He finished with a bright smile which showed the gap in this teeth in its full glory and settled back on his chair.

Arabella-Marie had been sat taking loads of notes and not sure what some of the answers well and looked about at her classmates and tried to think what muggle scouts would use to protect themselves and wasnt sure what some of the things were

Daniel was sitting in the second to back row. He always sat in rows acording to how involved he wanted to be or how much he liked the subject. He didn't like DADA that much. Not because the fighting and stuff wasn't fun more because he didn't know anything so he didn't think there was any point in sitting at the front. And they were doing a discussion today. So Daniel leaned back and relaxed.

He finially decided to answer a question so the headmaster didn't think he was dozing off or something. He listned and waited for a question. He heard the question but before answering he looked around for glitterpuff. What kind of nickname was that?He had expected to see a girl but instead it was a boy. Ha. He'd make fun of him but he was in a class. The boy looked strangley familiar like he'd seen him before. Meh. It probably wasn't anyone important. He didn't know a Fletcher.

Back to the question. " Well it's just going the extra mile isn't it? Always carry your wand and maybe a small sneakoscope. Be extra careful and have your eyes peeled for anyone suspicious or someone that doesn't like you. They might try and attack you. Then of course there is practising. You have to practice defensive spells and offensive spells. If you duel someone make sure you know the location. Know escape routes and perhaps objects you could use in the fight. " That was a very good answer. He better get ten points for that

Fee was listening carfully to every word the professor said.
"Ummm.. we can be prepared by looking who is around and changing from left side to right or go down a side road if we have a feeling of someone following or watching us. Dont take ways trough woods when you are alone. Especially not when its dark", she said after raising her hand. Fee was quite unsure about that but she hoped it would be right.

Enya so far had been quite in the class - bit change for her it seems - but now she felt she should speak up. What could she get wrong? She was a good student. She'd been told she was. Ha. To all those who weren't. She smiled while she thought out the answer. How could she always be prepared for....umm...for what? She actually hadn't been listening. Opps! Enya bit her bottom lip. Was it war? Be prepared for a war? Or something like that...hmmm.

After a few minutes what the Prfessor had asked came back to her, she giggled. Scout's? GlitterPuff? What were they? They sounded really funny to her! Ha. Enya was still giggling when she put her hand up in the air. She could at least guess an answer right? Yeah. And she was being polite, she'd put her hand up!

"Always carry your wand. I mean you'd be really stupid not to have it on you" She said first to the Professor, she really didn't care if she was rude, but it was the truth! You would be! "And....and...." She thought some more! ,"If you have a wand you really don't need anything else, because you can summon it to you" Enya added proudly folding her arms, she leant back in her chair.

But then she thought, wait there was something else she needed to say. Something you couldn't do with a wand. What was it? What was it? Oh Yeah! "You also need Food and Drink!" She added jumping slightly in her seat.

Alice was very excited to be in this class. She didn't know anything about spells but figured it was always good to know spells to protect herself. She took an open seat, looking around the room, before focusing her attention of Professor Tate. Alice wasn't really sure about participating in the first class, since she was only a first year and didn't know much, so she merely pulled out some parchment and a writing utensil, and listened to Professor Tate and the other students.

Muggle scouts? What a peculiar phrase. Was he referring to police men? And who in the world was Glitterpuff? Alice thought for a moment about how a policeman would handle a tough situation....Alice raised her hand, deciding the worst thing that could happen was she would get wrong. "Well Professor I think it's important to make sure you are armed with your wand, and have at least some idea of the area around you, as well as an estimate as to how many people or creatures you might be dealing with?"

Rex raised his hand.We can be vigilant by knowing where where are surroundings are all the time." Rex told the teacher.

Rubiey had been ferverantly taking notes on the lesson; steam was practically rising from her pen. She looked up; she was scared to participate, but she desperately wanted to. She timidly raised her hand.

"Sir, I think that if you know your immediate area, and always keep your wand handy, then you can always be vigilant. As you already said, you have to be expecting the worst, especially when you're in an unknown area. That way, you are, well, always prepared for any iminent danger." She explained, steadily growing redder and redder.

Hugo had been quiet for the entire lesson, taking notes and looking around. He didn't follow it quite well, and he needed to prove himself.

Riley was a bit confused on what Headmaster Tate meant by muggle scouts...did he mean someone that went and looked for them? Because, in Riley's honest and open-minded opinion...that was just plain DUMB! They were everywhere! London is a whole city of them for crying out loud.

Well apart from the idea of a who career devoted to trying to scout out muggles, Riley did think he had an answer for the how to stay vigilant part of the question. "Headmaster, a good way to stay vigilant is to be well versed in sheild and basic defensive spells. You don't want to be jumped and not have anyway to protect yourself, also a good idea would be to not go snooping around in places you shouldn't." he said with a nod. "Well unless you are supposed to for some reason." the gryffindor shrugged.

Victoria knew that she had to make lots of notes because she would need them for your O.W.L. exams.

Arabella-Marie continued to take down notes and thought of something that could be of good use in protection and raised her hand and said "You could protect yourself by not going looking for trouble or sneeking about places that you shouldn't be" Arabella-Marie knew that it might have already been said but she wanted to get some points

Victoria raised her hand and said "You could use a full body bind or jelly leg curse to distract your enemy!"

Muggle Scouts and the GlitterPuff? Mmmmmmmkay..

Ella sat there, motionless for a good few minutes, but then decided to think about it. Because there was nothing wrong with contributing your opinion. It was what classes were all about actually. Vigilance. Vigilance. Reluctantly, she raised her hand.
"You should make sure that you have good defence and protection first.. then use all your senses to be aware of your surroundings. That would make you see any potential danger easier.." If you had that down, then vigilance would be easy, right?

Vigilant... Vigilant... Jason thought hard through his memories, he had once been told by his father to remain vigilent... He had also said to expect the unexpected and always have a wand close at hand. Jason decided to approach the Teacher with this answer, he raised his hand and said, "Well, umm - You should always expect the unexpected and have a wand close at hand." Jason felt extremely pleased with this answer, and felt it had done him well...

Taking notes and being quiet was Daisy's forte, but sometime she'd have to speak. "Well being prepared for the unexpected is always a good way to be vigilant. Have the tools needed at hand, like a wand for instance."

Adeline sucked on her chocolate ink while she was thinking. "Umm, with are wand and smarts and umm a book?" she said stupidly. She wasn't good at being 'prepared'. She isn't that type of girl, well thats what she thinks and what the heck is a GlitterPuff? "Whats a GlitterPuff?" she asked with a twisted look on her face.

What...on Earth...was a Glitterpuff.
Ever-Lily thought long and hard...and raised a shaky hand in the air.

"Um...Doesn't that mean having anything you might need on a moment's notice? Say, if you need a first-aid kit, you'll keep it handy, wouldn't you? It's more than just being equipped...i-it's...bracing yourself for what might happen in any given situation."

Oi...I just faiiiiled, Ever thought.