Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Well, at least they didn't have to run across the grounds tied up like this. Just walk around in the inside the circle and try not to crash into other people. Kurumi could handle that...she just hoped that Eino could too. His costume was rather heavy and bulky. Kurumi adjusted her phoenix headdress and turned around to make sure that her tail wasn't going to smack into everyone. Just as she was about to give the command to Eino to start walking, music began playing. Holy Merlin's toothbrush, that was, um, an interesting choice in music. "Eino," Kurumi said trying to ignore the music for a moment. "Let's try stepping in rhythm with the music, left foot first. Are you ready?"

Originally Posted by Wenzlebug

Three-Legged Race! Not Three-Man Race. Alrighty, then.

"Common leg, separate legs," Cedric muttered under his breath, merely repeating what his partner was saying. It seemed harder than he thought; having been tied together, that is. "Sure, a spin will do the trick." He found himself laughing, too. Heh. Wouldn't they look somewhat silly, though? You know, to all the people who'd see them and all, tied together and spinning. Spinning Prefects. Hehe.

Cedric wondered if they would be starting soon. Professor Saylen's further instruction, and the play of children's music definitely indicated the start of this game. He turned to Patroclus, "Hey, you hear that? We're gonna walk round the circle."

Originally Posted by Zoerawrr

Jake only looked at Salander for a minute.

Waiting.

Waiiiiiiiiiiiting.

THERRRRRRRRE it is.

With a smile at his fellow seventeen year old, Jake nodded his head and looked around but not in a suspicious way... and tugged the leg back which was attached to Salander's. One looooong stride backwards put them out of Saylen's eyeline, and so Jake continued... slooooowly moving backwards with Salander, a smiled on his face like he was enjoying that INCESSANT music.

"Ooooh, maybe she has something by The Chimaeras. The was the band my dad was in," Jake said in a low voice, stiiiiiill smiling, not moving his lips. He could taste the victory already.

It would be like The Shawshank Redemption. BAHAHAHA.

Originally Posted by Zebragirl

Ok, they were off. "How should we do this?" Emily asked Nika, putting her arm around her shoulder to help keep balance. She thought mabye putting their seprate legs forward first, then there tied leg but she didn't know. This was so strange! Minus the fact she was dressed as a droagon as well.

Originally Posted by Steelsheen

Still keeping the we're-just-two-dudes-walkin'-dancin'-to-the-music grin, Salander backed up with Jake sllooooowly towards wherever they were going. Its kinda hard to be sure given that neither of them had eyes at the back of their heads.....

"Your dad is in a band?" he tilted his head at the other lad without taking his eyes off the Professor "That's awesome!" Striiiide backwards, striiiiiiiiide backwards "So what does he do in the band? Frontman? Drummer? Manager?"

.... and suddenly he could hear the wild adulations from an imaginary crowd....

... to be interrupted by Ol' McDonald.

must.get.rid.of.it.

Striiiiiiiiiide.

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Kurumi looked over her shoulder to check on Walnut who seemed to have his full attention on the crup sniffing Professor Saylen's feet. His tail was swishing back and forth like windshield wipers on a rainy day. "Walnut, behave yourself!" she called.

I will if that forked tail dog does. Walnut began to try and wiggle his way out of the strange woman's grasp. He was going to get up close and personal with this new creature, right now!

Originally Posted by top94a

Raven failed to find a partner, he is likely ignore because of his lion costume. he sit in a place watching the race. enjoying the the music. he remembered he need assistance of the lovely professor
"Professor, by body is likely in out of shape in running in just two rear foot, sorry for having a disgrace in your fun class" Raven say it apologetically.

Originally Posted by JeshieRAWR

Sebastian was so confused as to why they were having a three-legged walk around thingy. Okay so now to find a partner. "Umm, anyone want to be partners with me?" He asked blandly, hoping someone would like to. He couldn't just stand there and be left out. And...there was the music. Old Macdonald? Hah, funny.

Originally Posted by Amira With a C

Parke was frozen in panic. They had to what?! It was bad enough they'd had to wear a costume. A costume!!! He could barely see out of his dragon costume. Worse, everyone had found a partner. And even if he found one, they'd be tied together! Touching!! Oh Merlin, he suddenly felt faint.

Originally Posted by hermygirl

Spike wriggled in his spider outfit, his extra legs jiggling around as he did so. He was very proud of the costume he'd made, and had even taken to walking in it bent over (using his hands as well as his feet) to get the full spider effect.

Now though, he had a dilemma. He had nothing against three legged races, and would usually quite enjoy it. Perhaps apart from the finding a partner bit. Running around outside in the fresh air with a bunch of creatures? Pure win, in Spike's mind. But today, well today he was a spider. And he was taking it very seriously, as one should do, if you're going to impersonate your favourite creature. He was making Matilda proud.

The problem of course, then, was that Spike already had eight legs. And in his head, being a spider, those were all real. So to get only three would mean a whole lot of mutilation. Did he need the same spell as the crup had on its tail? He wrinkled his nose, a look of distain on his face.

Should he mention it to the Professor? Ignore his legs and just find a partner? Or do some kind of hands and one foot hopping motion on his own?

He knew which one would be most fun... Hehe.

Originally Posted by hermionesclone

Originally Posted by Gryffindoll

But Braeden's mutant deer costume was so thick and large and heavy that the boy didn't even feel Deus whacking his arm. More like... a fly strolling through his fur or something. So it wasn't until his Ravenclaw friend began to call out that Braeden turned to the side, only to find that Deus wasn't there anymore.

Huh? Where'd he go?
And then he turned around.
There was Deus, trying to catch up as best he could and looking quite irritated. Braeden tried not to grin in amusement at his friend's frustration, but then he remembered his costume was covering his face, so he grinned anyway.

"Well we still gotta stay ahead so when the race does start, we start off in front of everyone else!" said Braeden, though he did slow down enough for his friend to catch up, at least enough so that Deus was walking along with him rather than being dragged across the ground like a rag doll.

Originally Posted by Luna Laufghudd

What.

"Boys, I think you're going the opposite way..." from everyone else that is. Heh, whatever, they could walk whichever way they wanted. Or wait, there was no opposite way. Heh. Nevermind, they all looked funny and thats what mattered.

But her attention was needed somewhere else.

Originally Posted by JeshieRAWR

Sebastian was so confused as to why they were having a three-legged walk around thingy. Okay so now to find a partner. "Umm, anyone want to be partners with me?" He asked blandly, hoping someone would like to. He couldn't just stand there and be left out. And...there was the music. Old Macdonald? Hah, funny.

Originally Posted by Roselyn

Taking the rope, the Slytherin girl bent down next to Arya, moving her leg just a tag closer to the girl's so she could tie them together. This was ridiculous. Couldn't the Professor just give them a maze to go through or something? Something that didn't require to be so close to someone?

Glancing up when a question was asked, Evelyn pondered on it for only a second before shaking her head. "Off. Definitely...off." Yes, keep it off. It made her look more human.

Now, with that taken care of and she wasn't so twitchy about Arya's costume, Evelyn continued to wrap the rope around their legs, adding in a few knots in between before one final knot at the end. There. It'll stay. Not too tight, yet not too lose where they will be tripping over the rope. Juuuust right. "How does that feel?" she asked while standing up- Meep!

How in the world did she manage to forget she couldn't use one leg already!?

Originally Posted by princess of*hp*

Amadeus was about to slap himself, as if he were in a dream. Was Brae really that thick, that excited? "There is no front; it is a circle." To emphasize his words, the Ravenclaw traced the circle that they were walking in with his index finger (or rather, claw). "Besides, you don't want to scare the crup that the professor has." Amadeus looked at the creature apprehensively before his eyes traveled to meet Walnut's, the cat. "Nor the kitten. I don't think the creatures would take nicely to you stomping around." He shuddered to think what would happen if the crup or kitten became frightened or angry with Braeden, who appeared to be a creature from one of those scary muggle films. It was a wonder that none of the students seemed frightened because of his attire.

Originally Posted by Gryffindoll

Oooooh. Right. A circle. But... but... but!! Braeden turned to Deus and looked at him with large, brown I'm-about-to-burst-into-tears-and-it's-your-fault eyes though Deus couldn't really see that under the boy's mutant deer costume. So he straightened up. "Alright, alright, we'll move slower," said Braeden, sounding like a scolded little kid. "But when the race starts, we're storming ahead of everyone!"

And then Deus mentioned the crup and the cat.
Well, the crup Braeden didn't mind all that much. It was actually kind of cute, except for that tail. But the cat.... aw man, the cat. Braeden shuddered. He'd never had any luck with cats. They always scratched him and bit him; they were foul creatures. "Y-You d-don't... you don't honestly th-think they would... attack me, do you?" he asked in a hoarse whisper. That cat looked like its claws could dig through the 87465 layers of fabric on his oversized costume. Just the thought of it had the poor Gryffindor boy near to tears.

Originally Posted by Mordanyes

"I'm fine with it." K-Lee answered, taking the tie and tying their legs up. Standing up she felt like a midget, with Simon being so much taller than her.

"So lets start." K-Lee said.

Originally Posted by Michael White

Originally Posted by grangerfan8

Arya moved her leg closer to Evelyn's when she worked on tying their legs together. A three legged race with costumes. This was awesome. It was a shame that Evelyn's wasn't more festive, it would have added to their fun. But it would have made walking more difficult? Hm.

Off it was then. "Okie dokes." While the older girl continued working on tying them together, she worked on removing the giant dog head. It wasn't easy as putting it on had been, especially since she needed to keep still, but she eventually got it off and tossed it beside her bag.

It was like a weight had been lifted off of her, and she felt less, confined with the head gone. Pulling her hair into a quick ponytail, she wiggled her leg that was tied to Evelyn's. Grinning at how the older girl's leg moved with her's. "It feels good. Ready to get going?" Arya was, and if she wasn't tied to a Slytherin, she would be bouncing.

Originally Posted by Gabben

"I'm not sure. I don't write with my legs... I'm right handed if that's what you mean?"
*He said with a small chuckle and he put his right leg out.*

Originally Posted by Luna Laufghudd

[B]
"Alright, everyone seems to have partnered up and ready to go." How was she going to do this with two hands occupied by a cat and crup? Nevermind. "I want you to walk around inside the circle, like you normally would," exept they had another leg tied to one of theirs, "And that is all you have to do." Simple enough? Yes.

Putting the crup down on the ground to sniff around her feet, Maya drew her wand and pointed it at her cottage, where suddenly music could be heard coming from it. Loud and clear.

Ready?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, BEGIN!


OOC: Anyone without a partner still has time to find one, and those of you who have only just started to participate, is more than welcome to jump into the lesson. Just act as if you've been there the whole time.

Originally Posted by aussiegirl

"Oh. I guess not." Mia had absolutely no idea what it took to sail a ship but yeah now that she thought about it some more it would probably take about ten or more people to sail one. Those things were huge.

Before she could ask him any more questions, Jacob was now asking about her. "Um...let's see wizard father and muggle mother. We live in a commune with about fifty other people which are all muggles. Some people call us hippies." She shrugged her right shoulder since her left was occupied at the moment. "I don't know about that but we do sleep in tents, have no electricity and live off the land." And that had been okay with her when she hadn't known any better. Now that was at Hogwarts, Mia sometimes wished for something more.

And just when Mia thought they were going to get a rest, music started up and the Professor told them to get started. Merlin! She and Jacob had already been walking around.

At his question, Mia chuckled. "I think it might be the latter. We could have done this in our uniforms. But I suppose it would look amusing seeing a gorilla and fairy joined together and walking in circles." The things their Professors made them do, they would want to get some points out of this. "Something about balance, maybe?"

Originally Posted by Roselyn

What...what was she doing? NOWIGGLING!!

Holding onto the girl's shoulder, or so she thought was Arya's shoulder, she scowled and WAITED for her to stop wiggling her leg so her leg would stop wiggling too. Yes, it was plainly obvious that their legs were tied together. Could she not seeeeeee that- oh. She stopped.

"Yes." she muttered, letting go of the girl's shoulder for a moment...before changing her mind and hooking her arm with Arya's instead. This...was...torture. If the close proximity wasn't annoying her enough, it was the blasted music that was! "Tied leg first forward...now."

And...first step!

Originally Posted by princess of*hp*

"Of course we will!" Amadeus scoffed, as if there would be no other option but to blow the other competition out of the water. Deus was unaccustomed to failure, especially in something as simple as this. Besides, he would be humiliated if he was beaten by any of the much younger students. When Braeden spoke again, the seventh year was slightly taken aback by the fear in his voice. Was the cowardly lion afraid of animals? Deus wasn't afraid of them, per se, but chose to disassociate himself from affiliating with lower-ranking creatures.

"Be cool," He murmured to Braeden as they began to walk in a comfortable rhythm together, without waddling along. "I can't be sure if they would, but that's why it's paramount that you stop acting a fool." He knew he was being harsh, but it would be the only way to save Braeden and himself from being attacked by the creatures and from possibly being laughed at by the others.

Originally Posted by aaetha

Ariana laughed. Write with your legs... "No, I meant which leg is stronger. Like, if you do gymnastics or something." Oh good. He was right-legged (possibly). She stuck out her left leg (she knew that from gymnastics) and slightly awkwardly tied them together before putting her leg back down and standing on it.

"Now we have to step together. Inside legs- 1, 2, 3,"

As she said 'three', Ariana took a medium-sized step forward with her left leg.



"Okay, ready to go?' Ariana asked Matty, having managed to take a few steps without falling. And then the cottage began to play... muggle nursery rhymes? Odd.

"Inside foot first. 1, 2, 3, ", and at 3, she took a step with her left foot... and then her right... and then her left...

Originally Posted by Gryffindoll

Braeden was encouraged by Deus's determination to win - at least they agreed on something - but soon turned serious as his Ravenclaw friend advised him to 'be cool' and 'stop acting a fool'. "Merlin, Deus, you have such a way with words," said the Gryffindor boy with mock admiration, putting on a girly tone to his voice as he brought a hand to his chest, right over his heart, as if Deus's words caused it to go all fluttery. A moment later he was laughing again, though, shoving his friend playfully as they continued walking around the circle.

Outer legs first, third leg second; outer legs first, third leg second. They were actually doing pretty good! It also helped that they were both moving at the same pace rather than trying to fly around the circle like earlier.