Kurumi was thinking about trying to fly some more figure eights around the goal hoops when she heard Professor Vindictus SCREAM at them. It startled her so much that she jumped while still sitting on her broom and ended up doing a full rotation around its handle before returning to her seating position, her hair a little frizzy from the spin.

Why did she need to get off her broom?

Frowning a bit since she had JUST gotten used to the whole feeling of flying and keeping her movements fluid as Simon had suggested, Kurumi commanded her broom towards the ground when...
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WHAT?! THEY.WERE.FLYING.ON.CURSED.BROOMS?! Did that mean that they were cursed too for touching them?!

Kurumi quickly dismounted her broom and ran it over to Professor Vindictus when her eyes bugged out of her head even more...
THEY WERE GOING TO BURN THE BROOMS?!

That seemed...VERY unlike the man to suggest destroying a broom - even if it was cursed. After all, hadn't he JUST taken points away earlier from a student for looking at their broom strangely and insulting it? Kurumi wasn't sure that brooms even had feelings, but she wasn't about to voice this to him.

He seemed like he was about ready to snap anyway...or already had...Kurumi wasn't too sure...
Really? Points taken away for simply hugging? Note to self, just stay in your own little world during flying classes from now on. Don't even look at other people.

Kurumi tilted her head to the side when Professor Vindictus mentioned that cursed brooms couldn't fly...nor could they respond to commands.

Wait a second...hadn't their brooms been doing all that JUST now? Kurumi raised her hand, but then decided to pretend like she was simply stretching.

She didn't want him to feed her to the man-eating plant.
More eye poping and jaw dropping as she saw the slightly crazed man take away the Ravenclaw's badge.

What in Merlin's pink hippogriff was going on?!

Kurumi managed to close her jaw just in time for it to be announced that class had been dismissed.

Well, at least she had managed to learn one new trick during the lesson and was just a little bit more confident on the broom. She couldn't be sure, but Kurumi thought that she saw a vein about ready to explode on the man's forehead. That couldn't be good for his blood pressure, especially at his age.

Returning her broom to its proper place, Kurumi bowed quickly to the professor before gathering her things and scampering back towards the castle.

When Kyle heard Professor Vindictus scream she winced slightly, quickly she ducked down and headed straight for a quick landing running almost as soon as she landed she quickly placed the broom back in the broom shed. Something was deffinitely a muck about this school and those brooms right now - and destroying them? She thought giving the broom a soft pat, almost a sorrowful one saying 'nice try' but it really didn't have a chance with being cursed now did it?

'Well, that was strange!' Rose thought as she left the lesson. 'Why would someone want to curse some broomsticks!?'

Aurora looked at the broom in her hand, she hadn't been flying it when Professor Vindictus had spoken and she had heard everything. What the hell was going on? It was like he kept forgetting what he was thinking... it was like... Shaw! "Oh..." she said to herself. "Ministry dealings..." Shaw was a ministry appointed teacher and he was clearly mad, Professor Vindictus had had 'ministry dealings' maybe that was sending him mad...
Aurora shook her head and put her broom away. Then she began to make her way back up to the castle.

After hearing the brooms are cursed, Aiden was at the state of shock and release it, letting it fall to the ground. As she hears Vindictus' instruction to put the brooms away, Aiden quickly picks the broom back and walks as fast as she could to the brooms shed.

Certainly, Professor has yellow-blue two eyes like a hawk. Looking at her own broom Anasta Riddle noticed how there was brown look slightly arranged types directly. She makes her right hand over the broom supervised one more time movement with team: Up!
Then she feels joy like that readily jumps in hand and when sitting down on broom, it keeps good at the top. When Anasta before be placed the ground, noticed how wonderful it remains steady position during lifting up to 1-2 meters, then tilted forward descends carefully at all.

Isobel really didn't have any idea what was going on. She heard Vindictus' voice, telling the captains to put the brooms away, then heard Maybelle say bye to her. She snickered, because she definately hadn't missed the girl hug a Slytherin. And she had lost five points for hugging without permission. That was HILARIOUS! Isobel saw three Slytherins right in front of her but she resisted the urge to hug them, because she didn't want to lose points. Isobel walked over to the broom rack and helped the other captains put them away. Did they know what was going on?

She didn't.

Penny had laughed when Oakey realised what she'd said..."Maybe.."



Penny was looking around her as she flew back and forward between her friends... and then it all went crazy...



Penny didn't understand what was going on, but wasn't going to question Vindictus - he seemed really angry for some reason....
Flying down to land, Penny used the new technique that Isobel had just shown her, landing perfectly and swinging her leg over the broom...



Penny didn't think her broom was cursed, it had seemed fine to her while she was flying it... but brought it over anyway - she really didn't want Vindictus to yell at her or worse take points of Hufflepuff for something stupid reason...



Surely they wouldn't need to burn the brooms, that seemed to be overkill in her opinion - couldn't they just strip them down and check for curses...
Penny seemed to remember that a broom could be stripped and checked without actual damage to the item....
She deposited her broom in the rack, as indicated by Prof Vinny.... then turning to look at the pitch - sighed... that had been the most fun class since she had arrived in Hogwarts

Professor Vindictus have told for students at Lesson class flying basics that class dismissed for quick kind work, Anasta has smiled for that with thankful speech, making sure that she puts her dear broom away.

When she wanted to reply Sarah, she heard the most scariest shout she have ever heard in her life. Professor Vindictus just ordered them to land? already? GAH. She was getting the hang of it... Oh well...

"Hey Sarah, talk to you later okay?" She then leaned downward(?) trying to land after seeing other students doing it... After a moment, she finally 'managed' to land on the ground and immediately put the broom she into the closet. Cursed? ... What in the world?

And then when she was looking at the Hufflepuff girl hugging the Slytherin girl. Hug a Slythering Day? You gotta be kidding me... Then she witnessed the Ravenclaw Captain gave his badge to the professor... What... And then thats it, she was dismissed...

Realizing she was still at the pitch, Hayley just left the place hurriedly, though she had no idea why was she in a hurry...

WHAAAA? Amy was c o n f u s e d. As in, realllly confused, because whilst she hadn't been enjoying the whole flying with no feet on the ground she'd just been getting used to it when Vinny had gone mental. Actually mental, he'd started shouting at Isobel and then started screaming. Scary.

Amy hated flying and if there was any chance she was on a deadly, dangerous broom then you know, she was going to scream. Reeealllly loudly. Their ears would burst. She hit the ground and practicly threw her broom into the case, before she stood back and stared at the professor, confused



Amy stared angrilly at the professor and glared at him, professor you can't do that! She cried outraged, just because you hate anyone who isn't a Ravenclaw! She was being honest, because there was no rule about hugging and he had no right to take the points, she'd take them out of the Ravenclaw jar and replace them herself.

And then he "decaptained" a captain. He WAS mental. Professor you can't do that she said shocked, shaking her head. She was, to put it mildy, terrified of her professor at the moment.

And then he dismissed the lesson and she ran. Hell for leather. Straight off the pitch, because there was no way she was appologising to him now. And she wasn't going to the next lesson either. She was too scared

Ella landed with a thump. She had followed Amy down. Looking at the Professor, she saw Amy legging it off the pitch. Merh.

Putting her broom down she gathered up her things and wandered back to the castle.

Fee sat on her broom and shrieked a little as she heard Professor Vindicuts scream.What was upp with that man?How was she supposed to finish her flying session when he wanted her off her broom?Pfffsh,weird man...Flying back down to the ground the blonde got off her broom and sighed.Maaan,this wasnt fun.

It were those brooms?Cursed brooms?Really?Come on who would want to harm poor flying beginners?That person would have to be super mental.After all most of the students here were first years...

And now the professor wanted to set them on fire?Okaaayy this was getting weirder and weirder...

Selina giggled to herself as Kurumi shyly moved through the air and came back around to met her in the sky. The girl was seriously trying and Selina personally thought she deserved an A for effort. Besides her zig was not half bad. Actually... it was quite good. Selina knew that she could make a good, no great Quidditch player out of Kurumi if she would just let her. It would be something that she would gladly do for her friend if Kurumi would go down to the Pitch with her for four hours a day. Just a brief work out.

Then when she came back around Selina said, "You did great Kurumi, you just- you just need more confidence on the broom. Sometimes jumping right into the thick of things is where you learn to do your best work. I mean that's why I've been flying so long. When I was three my dad just threw me on a broom and told me to go."

But then Vindictus started to panic and go on about cursed brooms. Selina's eyes filled with fear as she nose dived toward the ground and jumped off her broom. The last thing she wanted was to be caught up in some broom accident. When her feet hit the ground she grabbed the broom with one hand and threw it in the pile.

Then Vindictus left and left all of his students quite bewildered.. what was wrong with Vindictus?

Rachel zoomed around on her broom, she noticed her friend Presley and zoomed over too her, " Hi Presley!" she said.

Rosemary walked alongside Rose, "I don't think the brooms were cursed.... That's the irony of this..."

Pres had freaked. Cursed brooms? Then she calmed down. Something was not okay with the Professor. The brooms were fine. He looked like something was so wrong with him. Presley didn't dare disobey though. She landed, put her broom away, and called to Rachel. "Hey, Rache! C'mon. Vindictus says to put the brooms away and class dismissed." Rachel had missed that, Presley was sure. She was still flying, and while Pres didn't necisarily trust the man's judgement, she wasn't going to question. He knew more about brooms than she.

Kana jumped when she heard the professor yelling, and pulled her broom to a stop immediately. Then he'd shouted to get off. She quickly brought the broom down and swung off easily, listening intently, and rather taken aback. Cursed brooms? Huh? Kana had no experience with brooms, but if...

...What?

Kana put the broom away and, after listening a bit more and glancing around at her fellow students, headed back to the castle after the professor dismissed the class. Odd. But, then again, Hogwarts was an odd place, from wat she had heard.

Tayla couldn't stop smiling as she hit off from the ground like her Mum had taught her, like Professor Vindictus instructed, like she had practiced in this pitch a few days ago. She sore as fast as she could and forgot about everything but the wind in her face and the beautiful view as she flew around the pitch.

"Quidditch..." she said longingly, now watching some of her classmates and staring at the goal hoops. She couldn't join this term, but she definitely wanted to next term. And maybe it was better, too, because by second year she'd be allowed her own broom - instead of the Hogwarts brooms first years were forced to use.

It seemed only a few seconds of flying when suddenly Professor Vindictus yellwed them to come back down. Then she heard him say something about cursed brooms. "Cursed brooms?" she thought. She went back down and dismounted her broom. Her eyebrows were furrowed as she listened to the professor and wondered what was going on. Before she could ask however, he dismissed the class and went trudging to his office.

"Odd..." she wondered as she returned her broom. So far, this class was the shortest and strangest (even stranger than Transfiguration with Shaw) class she had had. "Maybe I should go to Professor Vindictus' office and...or maybe not..."

"You're not going too high," Charlie smiled as the wind made her hair swirl right over her face. She should have tied it back. "It's probably just because it's your first time," She added nicely.
"Yeah, I've flown before but I can't fly all the time, you know because I live near muggles." Charlie nodded. She could still remember the first time she had flown and it had been the best and most exhilarating experience of her life. "I probably only fly about once a month or so." She said sadly. If only she lived in a wizarding community where she could fly every day...
"Do you want to have a race or something?" She grinned.

"Oh do we? Ok then, I love this class!" Rachel said, she didnt really want to stop flying, but the professor had said to put them away.

"I would love to, but Presley said that the Professor said to put away the brooms, something to do with a curse or something!" Rachel sadi, she didnt really want to stop flying, even if the brooms were cursed, but the Professor had said, so she went with Presley and put it away.

"Oh, I didn't hear him." She said with a suprised expression. Charlie was having too much fun flying. She flew down to the ground and jumped off the broom. She definetly didn't want to be stuck on a cursed broom! Charlie hurried over to where Rachel was standing and dropped the broom next to hers.

"Neither did I, until Presley mentioned it!" Rachel said, it was true, she was having a bit too much fun flying that she hadnt heard him.

"What do you suppose is going on?" Presley asked Rachel and Charlie. "I mean, I didn't notice anything wrong with the brooms, but he just flipped out on us....It must have been for a reason." Why would anybody curse a whole school broomshed full of brooms? Vindictus was crazy! Maybe he had Paranoid Schizophrenia. Presley had just recently read about that in a psychology book her father had sent her. She doubted it though. Most people with PS thought they were the devil, or tried to hurt other people, right?