Violet heard Elektra's comment and then looked at her whispering,"Elektra, no, stop, this isn't helping anyone.." She then heard the instructions and put her hand over her broom. Violet looked down at the broom and said,"Up!" The broom didn't move at first. She took a deep breath and exhaled calming herself, trying to get the professor's rant out of her head. Violet looked down at her broom again and then said more firmly,"Up!" The broom immediately lifted up and she gripped her hand onto it tightly. Violet then smiled a little feeling proud of herself. Just because the Professor didn't like her, doesn't mean that she had to doubt herself at all.

Luin looked down at the broom still not completely confident. She opened her hand and put if over the room, "U..up!?" she kind of stammered and the broom just rolled over and stayed down on the ground. She frowned, knowing she needed to be a bit more confident about this. She held out her hand again and then said, "Up!" this time in a much firmer voice. Her broom quickly rose up and hit her palm and she grabbed it tightly as it did so she would not have to command it again and probably take another few tries. She looked around her at the other students and then at the teacher, fine with holding the broom for now.

Adam put his broomstick off to the side and said "UP!"In a very demanding voice.Just like a trained puppy the broomstick hovered in the air for a few seconds then found it's strength and shoot right into his hand. He caught it right off the bat and smiled to himself- maybe he was a beginning natural when it came to brooms.

Vindictus walked over to the young Hufflepuff boy who asked a good question.

"It doesn't matter for this step of the lesson. Now if there wasn't anyone standing to your left, then you could do this with your left hand," he smiled.

Conan nodded. He looked to his left. There was someone there. He sighed. He put the broom down to his right side. He took a deep breath, and muttered, "Up." The broom had barely moved. Maybe it could sense his slight fear. He wasn't wearing a four point harness or anything. He needed his shoulder restraints. He tried again. It moved a bit more but still not enough. "Sir I think my broom is broken." Well everyone else's was working.

Rowan opened her hand over her broom and in a commanding voice, perhaps a bit too loudly, said "Up!" To her amazement the broom slapped the palm of her hand and she quickly grasped it before it had a chance to sink back to the ground. She couldn't believe that it had actually worked!

"Be the master of the broom. Command it," Vindictus encouraged the boy and stepped back so that he could instruct the class on the next step.

"Mount your broom and keep both feet planted firmly on the ground. Place your hands on the broom handle - if you're right handed, then your right hand should be on top. Lefties, its the opposite for you. Don't grip the handle too hard - if your knuckles turn white, then loosen your grip."

Lara was still upset about the fifteen points that vanished because of a careless firstie ,but she is in a lesson, so she have try to forget it.

She placed her right hand over the broom and said weakly "up" but of course that didn't work! Lara's mind was really busy thinking of what she should do to that student, but once again she calmed herself down.

Now thanks to that student she can't focus and she suppose to be a profesional!In an attempt to concentrate she closed her eyes took a deep breath and then she opened her eyes , glared at this old broom and yelled "UP!" and the old broom jumped up to Lara's hand. And that was somethng that make Lara feels better.

Finally she held the broom, she wanted to ask the teacher if she can take off, but it seemed that some student still facin some problems with their brooms. So she shall wait.

Rowan mounted her broom, dreading what was to come next. Don't hold too tightly? Easy for HIM to say, she thought to herself, remembering last year when she had ended up hanging upside down on her broom.

Belle saw Jania, they both sat down and she told her "If you ever fall or become klutzy on your broom, i will be there for you don't worry, and stand up for you whoever makes fun of you." she told her reassuringly. "You won't fall off you will be suprised by your abilities sometimes." she smiled.:hpbroom:


Belle got a broom for the professor and she said "Thank you." then she put in on the side of her. She saw the broom, put her right hand over the broom and said "UP!" in a firm voice and it floated towards her. "Wow!" she said in amazement. Belle got onto her broom, her right hand on the top since she was a righty. She learned how to do this because her older brother taught her how. She waited for her next set of instructions from the teacher.

Emily mounted her broom. This was scary!
Right hand on top, grip the handle... Ok, this was officially scary! And they wern't even off the ground!

Come on Nika command your broom. After what Nika thought ought to be the tenth time her "Up" seemed suitable enough that the broom finally lifted. Nika grabbed ahold of her brrom with her right hand at the top of the handle. She finally got it. Nika was very nervous, but she was looking to forward to flying ever since she came here.

Conan smiled as he spotted Alex near to him struggle with a broken broom too. Oh. His wasn't broken. Maybe listening to Vindictus was a good idea then. Be the master of the broom? How was he meant to do that? They were meant for cleaning. Not flying. The only way he flew was on a Flying coaster. And then he had full restraints, on his body and legs. He was safe on one of them. He was not safe on a broom.

"Up!" It wobbled a bit more fiercely this time. "Come on you stupid broom. UP!" he called at it, in rather a harsh tone. He didn't want to be left behind. He flew up into his hand. He tightened around it. YES!

He mounted it. Ok. Just like a bike. Left hand forward, right hand back. He was ready. Ok maybe he was holding on a bit too tightly. He did have white knuckles. But that was ok. Even if Max had said no to it. He was scared.

Jaina smiled at Belle. Thank goodness she's there for me, she thought. Jaina put her hand off to the side of the broom (not paying attention) and said "UP!" The broom zoomed up past her arm and hovered above. She looked up "Well, I'm gonna say that was a bit to firm, don't you think, Belle?" She thought about it for a second, then said "DOWN!" just as firm. The broom thudded on her head. "OUCH!" She rubbed it, but didn't let it discourage her. "Up!" she said one more time. This time her hand caught the broom. She proceeded to straddle the broom and awaited further instruction.

Belle couldn't help but giggle when the broom fell on her head. I mean come on she would of have laughed if she done it. "See you are getting better at broom practice, well a little bit!" she said reassuringly. "Once we start flying i will be by your side." she whispered. "It will be easy, trust me."

"Very good!" exclaimed Vindictus as he watched the students. He'd make fliers out of them yet!

"Before we get to fly in the air, let's discuss how to maneuver the broom in the air." He ran over to the broom rack and selected a broom for his own use, then ran back to his position in front of the class.

His motions were exceedingly quick and in a blink of an eye, he was hovering on the broom with his feet resting comfortably on the metal stirrups located on either side of the tail twigs.

"To make your broom move forward, lean over the broom and keep the handle horizontal to the ground. Now watch." He slightly leaned forward over the broom handle and kept it level over the ground. Slowly (and deliberately) he flew back and forth in front of the class. He was no higher than five feet off the ground.

"Now I'm slowing the broom down by sitting upright and pulling the handle slightly towards me," he said as he came to a gradual stop, hovering in the air.

"Now all of you will try this. Gently pick your feet up off the ground and stretch them backwards until the soles of your shoes touch the metal stirrups located on either side of the tail twigs," Vindictus instructed the class. "Then lean forward over the broom like I demonstrated. I want you to fly forward about twenty feet and then return to where you started."

He saw that several of the students were nervous and smiled. "No one will be flying fast or high in the sky... yet. Everyone - give it a go!"

Jamie gently picked up her feet and smiled as she hovered there. She leaned slightly forward and smiled as she flew, very slowly. She flew in a neat circle a couple of times then landed on her feet and smiled. She wasn't going to die just yet.

Adam paid attention. He put his legs over and kicked them off the ground, at first he wobbled just slighty, but once he got his hands up to the front, holding himself steady the broom hovered in the air gently. He leaned forward, and quickly made his legs get on the stirrups.Leaning slightly more forward, so that he was almost parallel to the broom, he calculated 20 feet to be somewhat close to the classmate to him.
He moved his hand down the wood and returned back to his original spot.

Flying fast and high in the sky...why did Kurumi not like the sound of that? She began having flash backs to last term where she was literally hanging onto her broom upside down. Either that, or she was spinning around in circles trying to steer herself. Not exactly a natural flyer to be sure.

Which was exactly why she was here. Flying seemed to be the only class at Hogwarts that she wasn't good at. This was probably due to it being about matters that were not in textbooks, but rather had to do with magical skill and raw talent, but Kurumi was determined to get better.

Mounting her broom, Kurumi kicked off from the ground a little more slowly than was probably needed, but she didn't want to go shooting off in some odd direction and repeat the holding on for dear life scenario from last term. To her surprise, her school broom slowly left the ground and was flying at a nice, slow, and steady pace in the air. Sure, her other classmates were zooming around like a bunch of hyper monkeys, but Kurumi was fine taking it slow. She had to master her balance before anything else.

"Professor Vindictus," Kurumi asked as she glided past his head. "Last term we practiced on wet mops," and that was certainly an interesting experience. "Is there a difference if we were to say fly on brooms made out of plastic instead of wood?"

Annabelle heard the instructions and she went over them in her head. She picked up her soles of my shoes and stretched them backwards and touched the metal. She felt it so she knew she was doing it right. She moved forward and flew about 20 feet and returned to where i started. "Piece of cake." Belle said with a smile. Some people were starring in amazement. She saw some people were getting like she was, so at least she wasn't the only one.