"Ok" Brittany said brightly. She began coating the opposite side of the tent that Mike was working on with the yellow paint

After following the Professor outside with her cushion in her arms, Ella listened curiously, and didn't really know what to make of the lesson today. She wasn't complaining, it sounded a lot easier to make a tent than sit down and do an actual Anicient Runes lesson.

Making a camp? Ella had done that.. literally zero times in her lifetime. So this should be a doddle. *sigh*
She would very much like a partner for this, because she really would fail by herself. So, she looked around for her cousin. Trixie was a smarty-pants, so she was definitely a safe option. But, ehhh.... Ella couldn't find her!

She dropped her cushion for a moment, then walked over to the supplies that were provided. Apparently, staring blankly at them, did nothing towards the actual activity. She looked up every now and again, for a possible partner.

Kurumi looked around as everyone began setting up tent. She was still clutching her notebook with all the notes she had taken during their time in the classroom and was trying really hard to figure out what this had to do with Runes...but she couldn't get her head around it...might as well try and set up a proper tent. She had gone camping before with her family, but more often than not, she had built small forts down by the stream near her home. She chose a white tent fabric, some poles, and thick wire to start. She looked around for what could be considered a good spot. Everyone was pitching their tents on the ground...but she was feeling a little adventurous...creative...She decided to try something that her and one of her brothers had always wanted to do - pitched a tent suspended in the air.

First task was putting the tent together - that wasn't a problem and she soon had the usual triangular shaped tent put together. She looked around and found a nice sturdy tree nearby. If she knew any magic, it would make things much quicker, but seeing as she was just a first year and the only magic she had had time to practice in the classroom was Pingo, she knew she had work ahead of her. First, she took off her shoes and was glad that she had decided to wear black pants today instead of the usual black skirt. She then climbed the tree holding some of the thick rope and wire between her teeth. She tied several knots to the tree's limb and then looked down at the tent that was resting on the ground...how was she going to get that up here?

She then remembered a spell that her brother had practiced a little with her before she came to Hogwarts that could possible be of assistance. She took out her wand and pointing at the tent and in as clear a voice as she could muster said, "Wingardium Leviosa" and secretly prepared for the worst. BUT! The tent slowly began to rise as was soon within reach for her to tie it to the tree. Very pleased with herself, she tied a few more knots using what was left of the rope and wire before climbing down the tree to examine her work. It looks like a wet tissue hanging from the tree. Now, that just wouldn't do! Kurumi scratched her head for a moment trying to figure out what to do next. She went back over to the supplies and found some very sturdy looking stakes and took a few of those back to her wet tissue tent. Sticking 4 of the stakes in the ground, she then uses the rest of her rope and wire to ties the 4 corners of the base of her tent to them. Now it didn't look like a wet tissue. Kurumi stepped back to look at her work and thought about climbing in it to test how sturdy it was, when she realized that the tent was a little too high up for her to just jump into. She scratched her head again and looked back at the supplies. Boxes! Of course!

She ran back and took several boxes and brought them back to her suspended tent. She then stacked them so they made a sort of staircase leading up to her tent. Yes, this would do. She tested the stairs first and found she had done a good stacking job and was able to make it up to the entrance to her tent where she then unzipped the front and climbed inside. It felt a little like walking on water bed, but she could stand in it no problem. She then climbed back out and saw the mismatch of colors - brown and yellow boxes with a white tent. Deciding to try the magic she had just learned in Defense Against the Dark Arts, Kurumi pointed her wand at the stairs first and said, "Pingo Violet" and violet sparkles began to shoot out of her wand dying the stairs a deep purple. She then looked up at the tent and decided that a nice sunset them would be nice and painted it accordingly using magic. Kurumi's eyes were bugging out of her head as she saw that she was able to perform magic and not destroy anything. Now with her tent completed, she climbed the make-shift stairs and sat in the tent's entrance waiting for the professor's next instructions.

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Ohh..

"So tents.. have to do with Runes?" That was kinda strange. But Cameron liked strange.

Hm. Now what to build?

It seemed Jimmy was still lazing around being a total slacker, so she picked herself up and drew her wand.

She wasn't just going to make a tent.. it was going to be a hut. Yeah. Like a whole sticks and branches type thing.

OOOOOHHHH! And it was going to have a swing set. Just cos.. she was cool like that.

Getting back to her own tent Brittany began coating her and Ems tent with yellow paint. she was glad that they had learned a spell in defense against the dark arts to help them her with that. She was actually starting to really like this class because everyone that really knew Brittany knew she loved to draw and create stuff. Instead of using her wand to do the outside of the tent she walked over to the supply area and gotten a paintbrush and some black paint. She began sketching her house mascot and the words Huffie firsties under it. After about 30 minutes of hard concentration she stepped back to look at her finished work.



She hoped Em didnt mind her doing all the decorating on the outside. It was her passion so that urge just sort of took over. But they still had to design the inside so she definetly could help with that.

If you wanted to send Bubba off now would be a good time just make shure he know to come back to you first whistleing for the bird whith to loud blast

The lakewater felt cold. Then again, Davina had expected it to. Feet still dipped in it, the Runes teacher raised her head a little to look at the Prefect who had addressed her.

"I'm sure I can pop in to see what it looks like, Prefect Leone," she said, cheerfully.

Di smiled. "I rather think everything can have something to do with Runes, Prefect Caddock," she said, cheerfully.

Salander followed the rest of the class outdoors. He slows his pace as he recognizes some of the equipment piled on the ground. "We're going camping? Cool!" he shrugged happily, at least its an activity where he had one some experience and would at least entail him to move around instead of sitting in class feeling stupid. or sleepy. or both.

He recognizes the young girl he saw at the Age Line. Walking over he looks at the camping stuff she has apparently taken already. "Hey there Haughtine! Need help setting up camp?"

They were setting up camp? That was pretty epic. Although Finn hadn't actually ever put a tent up before. So he was kinda sat on the floor, staring at the material that was the tent. How on earth was that meant to go up? Hmm. Would it work if he poked it? He though not, but that could easily be a option if everything else epically failed.
Kneeling he unfolded the fabric, and held something that looked like a big black stick made of metal. What on earth was that. It seemed that it kinda hooked it self together, although Finn did really have no idea what he was supposed to do when the sticky things were together.

help?

Kurumi spotted Cam and waved down to her from her spot in her elevated tent. "Hi Cam! How is your tent coming along?"

And here she thought that Runes were going to be hard. But all they had to do was pitch a tent. Mia was in heaven! She lived in a tent, this was going to be easy, peasy, Japenesy, lemon squeezy.

Moving over to where the tents were stacked, she picked one up and dragged it over to an area where it wasn't too crowded. She took out the poles and the canvas. She laid down a floor first and then laid out all the poles and ropes.

Now she could have this up in about ten minutes but the Professor had said that they could use magic and Mia wanted to practice. That's why she was here at Hogwarts, right?

So with everything set and ready to go, she took out her wand and pointed it at the materials lying on the ground. Now she knew the incantation and all but she was just not good at putting her intent into the spell.

Okay she could do this. Taking a deep breath, Mia gave her wand a flick and said, "Ere - cto." Her voice kinda wavered and the incantation came out in two halves. The canvas did a half little flip flop but the poles sprang into the air and flew towards her.

Her eyes widened in shock and she dropped to the ground covering her head with her hands. Waiting to be stabbed by a tent pole. As the seconds went by and she realised that she was still alive, Mia slowly raised her head up to see what had become of the poles and was amazed to see that they had surrounded her and she was now in a type of tent pole prison.

Eh...she guessed that wasn't supposed to happen.

*Matty had never been or done anything close to camping in his life. Not really a shocker but still wasn't great. He bet everyone here had been at least once. Grabbing his tent pack he looked for a place to set up then saw Mia behind bars, or poles. Laughing he walked over setting down his pack.*

"If I bail you out will you help me set this up the muggle way?"

*He had never been let alone used a tent and he wanted to do it the muggle. Mia would be the best to ask for help.*

That was.. deep. "Right." Course it did.

Yep..

*tumbleweed*

Finn.

Failing at tent making.

Was she surprised? no.

"Having trouble, pretty boy?" *smiiiiiirk*

Spotting her favouuuurite little Lion she gave the girl a hug. Yes. Because she liked her and she made her cookies. YUM

"My tent.." She repeated and stared at her blank piece of ground. Erm.. "Not so well. You seem to be doing well." More than well. She had a full palaceprettyness going on. Sweeeet!

"Maybe you can help me?" Talk about role reversal. *giggle*

Oh dear..

Um..

Cameron didn't think that the girl stuck between a circle of poles was MEANT to be there.

"Need some help?" She asked cautiously.

Kurumi hugged Cam back and looked over at the tent she had attempted to make. She tried not to laugh. Most people, even those who grew up camping like a non-magical person, had trouble setting up a tent. She looked back at her tent and felt especially proud of herself. Though, she wished she had some chairs or maybe a swing hanging with the tent as well. "Do you want to help me decorate? The professor said we are allowed to work in groups." Just ignore the fact that Kurumi had already set most of the tent up. "I thought about adding a swing to the side of the tent." Kurumi really liked swings.

Ohh. She was so kyute!

Cameron did like this idea. Her tent was pretty cool. It was hanging from a tree. That was more than cool. THat was incredible.

"Sure!" She really did think it need a tyre swing. One of those old fashioned cool ones she used to play in when she was little. Telling the first year to wait a moment, she grabbed some left over rope and a tyre [seemed Professor Markovic had had a similar idea] and walked over to the tree before tying the rope to the tyre in a sturdy knot she'd learned from her Pa.

With a craft levitation spell followed by a self-tying one, the rope sturdily attached itsefl to the branch.

Stepping back she grinned and decided there was ONE more thing missing. If they had [SUPERUBERCOOL] purple stairs, then the rope should be purple too. Once THAT was done, Cameron was pretty sure that the tent was missing some Gryffindor RAWRRR.

The doors flapped open and then emitted a rather startling rawr.
Well.. that settled it then.

"YOU, Rumi, are getting very, very good at magic." Like uber good. The girl had been awesomesauce in the paintball DADA game thing.

Kurumi blushed. She had really enjoyed the DADA game - despite now have a set of robes covered in green and yellow paint. "I'm...really not that good...not yet," she clarified. She liked the tire swing very much and decided to test it out. Yep, nice and fun to swing on. She looked back at the tent and still wished it had something more - the rawring was a definite plus. "Hmmm....what else to add..." she said aloud looking at Cam for some more ideas. "Maybe we should make a campfire as well?" Then they could roast some marshmallows or something.

These sticky things really did look rather complicated. Finn groaned as he heard a voice behind him, and he turned around to roll his eyes at Cameron. "Like you care Cameron." He grinned at her before watching what was going on behind her. Mia...looked a little stuck. He glanced at his mess of a tent, before walking over to her. She lived in a tent, she'd be able to put on up right?

Apparently someone had beaten him to Mia, but that was good right? If there were 3 of them, then maybe they'd be able to put the tent up with a bit more ease. "Mia..." He grinned at her, really wanting to laugh because she seemed to be a prision made by those sticky things, and Mia lived in a tent. He was pretty sure that wasn't how you went putting the tent up.
He glanced at the other guy, before waving his wand, so that mia was free from her prision. "Maybe...we should like put it up together?" He shrugged, because he didn't really care, but he knew he wouldn't be able to do it on his own. "It might be easier with 3 of us."

And there was Matty. Apparently it was her turn to look like a bumbling idiot. Well she had always said they she was no good at magic and here was the proof.

"Stop laughing Matthias." Could he not see the trouble she was in? "But - but I wanted to practice my magic. As you can clearly see." She said gesturing with her hands at the poles. "I clearly need it."

As she looked up at him from her position on the ground, Mia's lip jutted out into a full blown pout.


At the sound of someone's voice Mia turned her head, pout still in tact and looked into the eyes of an older girl.

EEEK!!!!

Not only was the girl a seventh year but she was a Prefect too.

GASP!

Mia immediately stopped pouting and gave the girl a sheepish look. "I should have just stuck to the muggle way of doing it. Because I know how to pitch tents the muggle way. I live in one you see and it's really quite easy but I wanted to see if I could do it by using magic but as you can see it didn't work. I am totally useless."

And please stop babbling she told herself silently.


"Don't you dare laugh at me either Finlay." She was trying to be all cranky but she couldn't help the smile that spread across her face. She must look like an idiot especially since she knew that Finn had seen how she lived.

When the poles disappeared, Mia looked at Finn. "How did you do that?" She wanted to be able to do that too. It really sucked not being able to do magic properly. Oh she could set things on fire really well. She was actually surprised that she hadn't done that.

"Yes. Yes let's all work together. Sounds like a good idea." That way she could leave the magic up to those two.

Cassandra noticed Kurumi by a tree with her purple tent already all set up. "Kurumi! Kurumi!" She called to the girl as she ran towards her with her arms filled with the things that she would need to set up her makeshift camp.

"Going by the full name huh? I'll take that as a Yes I would like your help Matty." *Bending down he got to work on pulling her out of the poles.*

"Don't feel bad Mia, no one becomes a wizard or witch over night. It takes time..."

*Sticking out his tongue in thought he worked on the tent poles and finally got her free thanks to Finn. Those were some tough buggers.*

"Oh...but you're just so funny Mia." Finn smirked at her, but refrained from laughing, knowing that she would probably hurt him once she was free. Although he knew she probably felt a little embarassed, so it was best he didn't laugh at her, especially with the way that she was using his full name. Uh oh.

"With magic?" He asked with a little grin. He was only playing with her reallly, because well he knew magic wasn't one of her strong points, but really Finn had been doing magic his whole life so he knew what he was doing. "You just need to pracitce more Mia." He assured her, with a small smile. "I'll help you, as long as you don't set me on fire." Because that would be rahter bad.

Awesome. Mia liked her idea, that was awesome. "But you'll have to tell me what to do Mia...because I really have no idea." Nope. Not at all.

"Cassandra!" she smiled glad to see another first year she knew. Trying not to forget her manners, she introduced Cass to Cam. "Cassandra, this is one of my Gryffindor prefects, Cameron," she said as she then turned to Cam. "This is one of my friends, Cassandra. She is a first year Slytherin."

Now that introductions were finished, it was time to get back to the task at hand. "What do you think you are going to do with your tent?" she asked Cass.

Arabella-Marie was sitting on her cushion and made her way over to one of the tents on her own she didnt have anybody to partner her and she thought that this was a strange way to conduct a lesson

Cameron waved her off. She'd been awesome in there. Seriously. "That's not true. You can't argue with meeeeee!" Because she tallerolder and wiser. Shame about the height thing though.. she didn't stand a chance at being intimidating.

A CAMPFIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE!

Cammmy clapped at the amazingness of this idea. "Yesyesyesyes!" That was so coooooooooool! And they could have marshmallows and like.. stuffs. YEAH! She giggled. "Maybe we should do it the muggle way? For fun?" Just.. where to find twigs? Masterson kept the grounds pretteh tidy.

Cameron laughed. "You're right Finlay. I don't care." His name was so good if you wanted to 'authority' on his behind. *giggle* Still it was [s]fun watching him struggle. [s]her job to make sure he was doing the task well.

Er.

"You live in a tent?" Well that was interesting..

Um. Back to the task.

"Muggle way is probably easier actually. You don't really get taught much 'tent setting up' magic at Hogwarts." Well.. not reaaaaaaally.

Kurumi giggled. "I can try to argue with you...but I probably would only win if I threatened you with no more cookies!" she laughed. She laughed some more at Cam's comment about doing things the muggle way since that was the only way that she knew how to do things. "I volunteer you to try rubbing two sticks together," she said patting the prefect's shoulder. Time for Cam to get her hands dirty!