DADA Class 3
 

The Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom is brightly lit, if not overly warm, but there is no professor in sight. Instead, there are stations established around the perimeter of the room. The sign posted on the chalkboard is quite visible:
Station 1
The water in the aquarium is murky and dark, in spite of the lighting in the room. You may be tempted to think it is simply an empty tank until a face like a demon monkey smashes against the glass. The strong scaled hands that pound futilely against the tank sides are webbed.

Station 2
A squat cage sits on another desk. The creature inside is fierce looking in spite of his gnomish little face, glaring at any onlookers with red eyes and occasionally beckoning toward the lock on the cage with its long fingernails.

Station 3
Another aquarium sits near the windows, although this one contains no water. Instead, it seems to hold a large, gray rock. Strange.

Station 4
The last station is simply a trunk placed on the floor. It rattles from time to time, but the heavily charmed lock will keep you from opening it. What could be inside?

ooc: Please do NOT share answers in this thread. You can RP to your heart’s content, but please do not give anything away.

Entering the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, Dianna was about to greet the Professor when she saw that there was no Professor. Instead there was instructions on the board and four different kind of cages with different creatures.

Walking towards the first tank, Dianna looked closely until the creature smashed itself against the glass. "Woah!" Dianna was able to mutter before falling bottom first to the ground.

Adelyn walked into DADA. She took out her notebook when she saw the message on the chalkboard. She was strangley attracted to that rock. It just seamed, strange. She took out another notebook, where she wrote down wicked helpful information. She decided to makeher first and last year at Hogwarts useful. She finally found a note on a rock-like creature. She qucickly scribbled down information on it, and tried to observe it in as many ways as possible.

Eino walked in the classroom, took his usual seat in the far back, and watched some of the students move to the front of the classroom to study some unusual containers. At first he feels stupid, having just sat down, to get back up, so he pretends he sat down to tie his shoelaces, which he does so very discreetly, then gets up. As he approaches the containers and reads the note he takes a few steps away from the containers to examine them from afar. Then, he takes out a small notebook and starts to draw sketches and jot down some notes as he slowly approaches the containers. The contents of the first one startle him, and he lets out a monstrous shriek, which he blames the creature for. The second creature will definitely deprive him of sleep for the next two or three days, which he will devote to his studies. The third seems to be missing. He looks around the rock, but he can't find anything. When he finally realizes the creature is invisible he moves on to the final container, which he doesn't know what to make of.

Marie ran to DADA to see Headmaster Hottie because it was her favorite class. Slowing down before she got to the room she took a minute to catch her breath. She didn't want to walk in looking like she had just run a marathon, even though she did sprint to the room. Finally walking in she felt sudden disappointment when she seen that Headmaster Tate wasn't there, instead there were instructions telling them what to do. Did this mean he wasn't going to be in class at all? Well that just totally ruined her day.

Looking around she didn't see any of her friends there yet so she just plopped down in the nearest seat and got out her things. Looking at each of the stations she felt this was going to be a pretty simple assignment, she still wished Headmaster Hottie was there, you know in case she wanted to stare at him ask him a question.

No, man, he had all the time in the world to get to DADA in time...that's why he was walking and whistling as if he had nothing to do, until he stopped in front of the door, and then...looked puzzled.

This was the classroom, no?

One look at the chalkboard told him so, but the Professor was not here, instead there was that note, and the cages and aquariums were odd things to be seen in DADA, it suited Saylen much better.

Either way, he was going to sit down when he decided it was better if he ventured a little closer to whatever specimens Headmaster Tate had placed in store for them.

Mia was casually sauntering towards the DADA classroom, she knew that she had plenty of time to get to class because probably for the first time she was going to be early.

A few feet away from the door, Mia felt something rush passed her in a blond blur and she giggled softly as she watched Marie enter the classroom. Someone obviously liked the DADA class or perhaps it was the person teaching it.

As she made her way into the room she stopped to read the note on the desk and glanced around the room to see each of the stations containing a different creature.

Easy peasy.

Throwing her bag into the corner, Mia sat down beside Marie. "Well this should be a piece of cake right?"

At least they would be able to remain clean in this class.

Yeah, Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Destiny was starting to enjoy these classes more and more. Not that she ever disliked the class, but with the food fights and paint bubbles it was becoming one of her favorite classes.

Not really, but seeing as Professor Headmaster Tate was teaching, she had to pretend, right? Maybe.

Stepping inside the classroom, she took notice of the people already present, Professor Headmaster Tate not being one of them. Maybe he was going to pop out at them like Professor Carlton does, only Tate would be far scarier. Noticing MARIE, she slowly made her way over to her friend who she hadn't seen in like FOREVER, and sitting down on the other side of her, she gave Mia a nice, long glaaaaaaaaaare.

Best friend stealer!?

Destiny Shepard did not think so.

umm yea, you peoples. *points to you, you, and you*
 

Evelyn was rather reluctant to come to this lesson. Why? Because it took her six hours of showering to actually feel like she was clean enough to go on with her daily life last time.

That's why!!!!

However, here she was, moping her way towards the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, trying to get her whining and groans of boredom loud enough for Destiny to hear and make her STOP and wait for her. No such luck. Which made her sigh and just continue on because her friend couldn't hear her. Even louder now though.

Flopping against the door frame when she finally made it, the Slytherin rolled herself on the wall and into the classroom, landing with her back against it and looking around the place. Meh. What was all of this stuff?

Before she could spot the chalkboard and instructions, a head of blond and two heads of brown met her vision. Heey look, it was Marie! Been like, forever hasn't it? Since they last spoke? Dragging her feet over, Evelyn sat down next to Destiny, giving her a quick glance and GLARE before looking at the other girl. Mia right? The one that was totally awesome in Charms class. Yup, she remembered her.

*sigh* Now what?

Which class was this agai-OH DADA. Legend strolled into the classroom tiredly. He had been up late last night making jokes with Mat so of course he would suffer in the morning. As soon as he walked in he noticed something was different. It was eerie and sort of quiet and there were just random stuff around.

Looking up at the chalk board, his mouth formed a small 'oh'. Alright this seemed interesting. Dropping his bag on his desk he took out a notebook and a muggle pen.

Looking toward the left of him he noticed that Huffie dude who was in the forest with him. "Why you just sitting down for? Too scared of being attacked again?" Of course he was joking. The spider thing was AWESOME.

Evelyn Too
 

Marie looked up when someone sat next to her. "Oh, hey Mia. Yeah, piece of cake." she said. Talking about cake made her think of the last class and the food fight they had. Sure that was a messy class but she did have loads of fun, not to mention she made a new snogging friend.

Where was that boy anyway? Class wouldn't be a total loss if he showed up.


And then there was Destiny sitting on her other side. "Hey Destiny," she said smiling at her friend. "You know Mia right?" she asked looking between the two girls.

What was with the look Destiny was giving Mia?

And Evelyn was here too. Now the party could start. "Hey Evelyn, you should try to contain your excitement there a little." she said laughing. Really, how could someone look so grumpy coming into this class?

Now all she needed was a certain 'Claw to show up and she would be extremely happy.

Totally oblivious to Destiny's glare, well that wasn't strictly true, Mia had noticed it but she decided to simply ignore it. She hadn't done anything to the girl. Not that she knew of anyway.

So Mia gave the girl a warm smile. "Hey Destiny. Haven't seen you around in a while."

And then in walked her friend. Evelyn. Yep that's what her name was. Mia smiled at her also as she took a seat beside Destiny.

"Hello Evelyn." She said inclining her head towards the girl. Mia didn't know what else to say to her. From what she remembered from Charms class, the Slytherin wasn't very talkative.

Not until Mia had set herself on fire that is.

Turning back to Marie, she smiled a little as she made the introductions. "Yeah I know Destiny. We met on the train and I helped her out with her stalker." Mia said and then belatedly remembering that the guy had been Carter and he had been Marie's boyfriend who had been under a love potion given to him by Destiny.

Whups!

Freya was running towards the DADA classroom. She was afraid that she's late. She was arrived in front of the classroom door. She took a deep breath before she pushed the door open. She looked around but she couldn't see Professor Headmaster Tate there. She was in the right classroom, right? She saw instructions in the board mentioning what they have to do in the class. Yup, she was in the right class.

Good, everyone knew each other here, that made things easy. "You helped her with her stalker?"

WAIT!

Destiny had a stalker?

O________O

"You had a stalker? Why am I just now finding out about this?" she asked looking from Mia to Destiny. What other kind of information was she not telling her.

Destiny did in fact hear Evelyn's groans and whines, she just chose to ignore them and walk even faster to class. It wasn't like she couldn't get another shower if she became all messy again, and really, it wasn't all that bad! So what a little bit of potato landed in her ear, get over it.

Turning her head as Evelyn sat down next to her, she noticed she was being glared at. What was that for!? "Keep glaring and your eyeballs will fall out." So true! Destiny's parents were Healer's and they had told her all about that. Just like they told her about cooties.

Ehhh, which meant she shouldn't have glared at Mia like that. Destiny liked her eyeballs in their sockets where they belonged. Well, she wasn't about to apologise! Pffft, she'd just stop the glaring. Taking her bag and placing it on her desk, she started rummaging through it while Marie said something. She wasn't really paying attention..until Mia spoke!

Stalker!

Train!

Carter!

Crater!

She tried to give Mia the universal signal to SHUT UP, but she just kept on going!!

*FACEPALM*

Annnnnd Marie had caught on.

Gah!

Destiny wanted to go and DROWN herself in that aquarium with the dark and murky water, but deciding that was too drastic, she stuck her head in her bag and let out a long and silent scream. Removing her head, she looked at Marie and nodded. "Oh yeah, I had a stalker alright. He was a big guy, too! Mia had to jump on his back while I ran away."

Riiiiight Mia!?

RIGHT!?

"And you are only finding out about this nooooow, becauseeeee.." Mia has a big mouth. "I was..too scared to tell you."

Nod, nod, nod, nod, nod.

What? "Says the girl who just glared at Mia." Really now, if Destiny was going to tell her something, at least follow her own words...right? What was it that the muggles said? Wait...O___O!! Is this what she has come to? Mentally saying muggle phrases? Or for the love of Merlin! EW!

… "And I'll try not to kill the party." She smirked, glancing from her to Mia. Because it was so lively when she got here. Yup. Teehee. That could change of course. Unless Mia was one of those tattlers, then this class was going to be rather boring.

"Hey Mia." See? She could be nice and polite at times. She even put on a small 'Hello' type of smile after her greeting. And why not? The Hufflepuff girl, no matter if she was in the house of freaks or not, was alright after all.

As the mention of Carter came up, Evelyn snickered scoffed quietly and got out her notebook and pencil, flipping to a blank page. Apparently though, Marie didn’t know what was being talked about. Well, this could get awkward.

Hehe, nice cover up. It actually sounded somewhat believable enough. Then again, this was all rather boring at the moment so why not make it even more uncomfortable? "What? Destiny! You should have told me too! How come I didn't know!? What's his name? Do we know him?"

*snicker*

Finally spotting the chalkboard though, her eyes quickly moved over the words, before she stood up. "Well, as exciting as stalkers are, I'm going to go find out what’s in this tank thing." That had like nothing in it! Pffft.

She didn't really need to know who this mystery stalker dude was anyways. He was a Gryffindork, and that's all that mattered.

Hehe...you know who you are
 

Destiny looked as though she was constipated or something. Her face was all screwed up and she kept looking at Mia. What on earth was she supposed to do about her problem.

But when she spoke to Marie and pulled out one of the best stories Mia had ever heard it was then she realised what the look was about.

Oh.

Riiiiiight.

Mia looked at Marie and nodded her head vigorously. "That's right. He was huuuuuge. Big as a troll, he was." Now if Marie believed that then Mia was a damned good story teller. "I must have worked him over real good too because I haven't seen him since."

That may have been a touch overboard.

Deciding this would be a good time as any, Mia stood up just after Evelyn. "I think I'll go and see what's in these tanks as well. Hey Evelyn, wait up."

Mia loved Marie too bits but she did not want to hang around for that conversation and Destiny was probably going to kill her for her big mouth. Maybe hanging around the non talking Slytherin might be the best bet right now.

Look at all of you lying to my poor Marie
 

Marie eyed Destiny as she told her that crazy story about her stalker being some big guy that Mia had to jump on the back of. Really, if something like that would have happened she was sure she would have heard about it.

What? She was scared to tell her? "Why would you be scared to tell me about some big guy stalking you?" That didn't make any sense to her.

And Evelyn didn't know either? Something was not right here. Destiny never keeps anything from Evelyn. Well she keeps her chocolate from her but that is only because she doesn't want Evelyn to take it from her.

She looked back and forth between her friends trying to figure out what was going on. "Yeah, what's his name and do we know him?" and now Evelyn was leaving without getting any answers to her question. Yeah, something was up here and she was going to find out what it was.

Looking at Mia when she started to agree with Destiny she knew instantly that she was lying to her. "Big as a troll? You really expect me to believe that one?" How stupid did her friends think she was? And Mia was leaving too? Sure they had an assignment to do but she had a feeling that wasn't why her friends were up and leaving her there.

Looking back at Destiny she glared at her as if daring her to get up and leave too. "What exactly is it that you aren't telling me, and WHY did they feel the need to get up all of a sudden and leave? And don't tell me so they could do the assignment either. I know you guys are keeping something from me and I want to know what it is." If she knew what was good for her she would tell her what was going on.

Blah, blah, blah Evelyn. Destiny refrained from making duck noises while her friend talked about glaring and killing the party. She didn't know Defense Against the Dark Arts class was a party, and if she did know, she would have brought party hats. And streamers. And BALLOONS, because a party is not complete without balloons.

And then Evelyn was asking questions about this stalker dude. She tried to give the universal sign of SHUT UP to Evelyn, but, just like Mia, she kept going. Could she just reach over and strangle her? No, no she couldn't because she stood and walked away. Some friend she is! Destiny would deal with Evelyn later..like while she was asleep. She remembered those Transfiguration spells to make noses turn into fruit. She would wake up with a grapefruit for a honker.

At least Mia went along with the story! Maybe a little too much, but yeah.

She was doooooomed. Doomed to be tormented by Marie and her fists of fury. Her feet of fury as well. As Mia left, she Destiny decided to bang her own head against her desk. Whyyyy did this even come about and whyyyyy did they leave her!?

She stopped banging her head and was juuuust about to run over to them when..

..Marie started.

Destiny was being EYED! Sweet Merlin, she did not like this. Mia..she should have been EYED. She was the one to bring this all up and it was lucky that she didn't share a common room with them. She would have given her a nice pair of peachy ears. If she thought old people had hairy ears..

Scoffing, she rolled her eyes like the answer to the question was obvious. "I was scared to tell youuuu because..you know how stalkers are. Once they know who your friends are, they stalk them as well. I was looking out for your health." Or something, she wasn't sure. She also wasn't sure how long she could keep this up.

She slouched further down in her seat, and any minute now, she'd be on the floor crawling to freedom. Crawling to freedom as in using Evelyn and Mia as a human shield. "How do I know what his name is? He was a STALKER! I'm not going to ask what his name is while he is stalking me." Really, Destiny wasn't that dumb. "And no, you don't know him." Slouch, slouch, slouch.

Almost to the floor!

"Ginormous. Maybe bigger than a troll." BAHAHAHA!! Picturing Mia hanging on a guy's back, a guy who was bigger than a troll, made Destiny burst with laughter. Mia..just swinging from the guys neck..oh right, serious. Putting on a serious face, which was really, really hard, she looked up at Marie. "They left because..they had to do the assignment!"

And with those last words, Destiny finally hit the floor and started crawling away.

Heeeeelp!

The frown once again formed on her lips as she stopped a few feet away from the group. Glancing to the side, she noted Mia getting up. Aw well, it was better than Marie at the moment. She didn’t want the girl to get all Hulk on her like she was Destiny. Thank Merlin for that. Her Slytherin friend seemed to be doing fine on her own anyhow.

Smiling towards the Hufflepuff, Evelyn moved closer to the empty-ish tank and farther away from the other two Slytherins.

With a notebook in one hand and her pencil in the other, she opened it up to a blank page before looking at the tank. Was there anything in it? Like...for real? Tilting her head to the side, the Slytherin glanced towards Mia out of the corner of her eye before looking back towards the cause for the concentrated look on her face. A small smile did appear though, tugging the side of her lips up into what at least could be called a fake smile. Even though it wasn't.

"So...are you the cause that I haven't seen Marie in awhile?" she asked, raising a brow. "Or has she met some new guy that we don't know about." She didn't mind if it were either. Just the guy...could Marie like a guy that Evelyn actually liked? Or can put up with civilly? As in, no thoughts of hatred or dislike towards him? Would make it soooo much easier.

Well at least the girl was smiling. That was a good sign, right? Encouraged by this and also hearing Marie's voice from across the room, Mia moved a little closer to Evelyn.

Even though she knew that Evelyn would likely push her into the onslaught of Marie if the girl should happen to come over this way after she was done yelling at Destiny.

Mia glanced guiltily over her shoulder at the other two girls and felt extremely bad now for bringing that up. But she had honestly forgotten about that whole situation until the moment it had left her lips.

Turning back to Evelyn, Mia's mouth dropped open slightly at the Slytherin girl's question. She blinked a couple of times before finally answering. "I...well...we have hung out a couple of times." Mia was unsure of why she felt defensive all of a sudden. It wasn't like she was purposely taking Marie away from anyone.

"I have been trying to help her get over Carter." She shrugged her shoulders and looked over to Destiny and Marie again before returning her gaze to Evelyn. "I introduced her to Salander but I honestly have no idea if they are seeing each other." Mia bit on her lip and shifted her gaze to the tank in front of her and instantly recognising what was inside.

Writing down the description of the creature, Mia spoke again without looking up. "I consider Marie my friend but I really don't think that I am the cause as to why you haven't seen her."

Damn these Slytherins were hard to be friends with.

Leaning down closer to the tank, the fourth year peered inside before jumping back in surprise as something suddenly flung itself onto the glass, scaring her slightly. Darn creature.

Taking a deep breath, to calm her nerves and to try and keep a straight face, Evelyn turned her head towards Mia, nodding a bit at what she said. Well that was good. It wasn’t like she or Destiny were helping with her with the Carter situation, and she’d think that Destiny would stay away from that topic. It was a shame she couldn’t stay away from it for long. And with no Professor in sight? Oh, this could end badly.

…What? "Salander?" she repeated, glancing towards Marie. Well, Evelyn supposed not all guys Marie hung around were all that bad. Salander was decent enough. "Well I hope she is. Salander is…good." For her. Well, as far as she knew, the Slytherin guy was just someone she liked, so he was good enough. One pinky out of line though and he was toast.

She couldn’t help it anymore. The small chuckles and snickers escaping her could alert even the most oblivious person across the room that something was up. "I'm sorry…Mia. Relax. Really. If you’re a friend of Marie’s then you’re a friend of ours." Regardless of the fact that Evelyn did not like any of the boy’s Marie had…befriended. Except Evan. Now why didn’t they work out again? Then again, Mia was not a boy.

"I'm just messing with you." With a few remaining laughs, Evelyn wrote down what the creature was and any other characteristics of it, including a haphazard sketch before taking a step towards the next station area. "So we know how you and Destiny met, what with troll stalker dude on the train and all... but how did you meet Marie?"

As Daisy walked around the classroom she tend to shy from the first tank ever so slightly, it would be with her luck that she would get hurt...again. But the urge to throw in a cucumber was one that she suppressed. Moving around slowly she began to wonder what the station two and three creatures were. She had come across the station one creature last term and as for the station four, this term. She stared and stared and stared not sure what they were.

Cass was running down the corridors towards the DADA classroom as fast as her feet would take her. When she got to the door, she opened her mouth to start apologizing for being late, but then noticed that there was no professor in the room. She leaned on the door for a moment to catch her breath and looked around.

Cass smiled when she saw a familiar face. She walked up to her bestie with a brilliant smile "Hey Freya, what's going on?" She asked. Then her eyes strayed over to the board and she nodded in understanding "Ah, I get it."

So she linked her arm around Freya and asked "So, where do we start?"