Walking into the classroom rather nervously seeing as things hadn't been exactly the best last lesson, Kurumi approached her usual seat in the front. She was on time this time, thank Merlin, and that itself was enough to put the Gryffindor at ease. Until she realized that as she entered the room the man was looming right there, causing her to almost jump with fright surprise. "Good day, professor," Kurumi said with a polite bow before scurrying to her seat in the front of the class.

Taking her seat, the sixth year set her parchment and quill on the table. Her eyes darted to the map now and she cocked her head to the side. It was still weird to see maps like that, with Japan all the way off to the right like that. The maps she had seen growing up in Japan had the small island country right in the center of it.

Lea Carter simply ran into the History of Magic Classroom. Expecting to see the professor at his desk, she rushed towards there but when the realization that he was not there came to her, she halted quickly.

Huh?

Then she looked around, only to find the professor standing near the door where she had just walked past.

Oooooooooooh...

Cheerfully, she waved at the man. ''Hello Professor Ha-...Professor.'' She did not understand why he did not like to be called handsome but whatever. She knew another way to send her message. Hehe.

Grinning, she chose a seat from the front row ''That's a handsome map, professor.''

Anya stepped into the History of Magic classroom. She was instantly greeted by the warm air. She gratefully took off her scarf. Her eyes darted toward the Professor's desk to comment on how comfortable the class felt. But he wasn't there.

But she nearly fell over out of surprise when she noticed the Professor was standing near the door. "Hello Professor." she greeted once she regained herself.

Whoops. She forgot to comment on the air. Oh well.

Smiling she looked around for a seat. She spotted a grumpy looking Milton. And decided the spot next to him was a perfectly acceptable place to sit.

She stopped in front of Milton with a smile on her face. She began to motion to the seat next to him when she suddenly stopped.

And there she stood as still as stone: with a vacant look in her eyes and the familiar smile still plastered on her face and halfway to motioning to the empty desk.

Milton's glaring at Kennedy was suddenly halted when a small girl stepped into view. Well, she wasn't really small. He was pretty sure she grew since the last time he saw her. And she had definitely had grown since the first time he met her when she was squeaking her head off in his train compartment.

But that was besides the point, because she was standing in the way and all Milton wanted to do was glare holes into the back of Kennedy's head.

Sigh. Fine. "'Ello," he greeted, finally meeting her eyes as she motioned to the chair next to him.... and froze. Like, almost literally froze. Milton raised an eyebrow at her.

No..? Nothing...? Milton waved his hand in front of her face and snapped his fingers. "Oi! Squeakers!" Milton snapped his fingers at her again.

"I know I'm hot, but the staring's a bit creepy, love." Especially since she wasn't moving at all. Just saying.

Oichi entered the History of Magic classroom for her seccond lesson. The first was suprisimgly more interesting then she thought and even lead to legit protests. She could only wonder where this lesson would go? She saw a plain classroom setting but one thing stood out, a huge map in the middle of it all. Maybe they would be learning about famous wizarding world travelers or famous wizards from all over. Either way Oichi was excited for whatever this class may bring. She took a a seat and waited anxiously for class to start.

Anya remained completely motionless while Milton snapped in her face. She then suddenly finished motioning to the seat just as suddenly as she had stopped. Her smile faltered and she tilted her head to the side a bit. "I... umm... wasn't staring." She did just get here after all. A smile could hardly be considered the same as staring. "I was just going to ask if I could sit here."

Not that she needed an invitation or anything. Because she was sitting there no matter what he said. She just figured she'd be polite. Plus, it looked to her like something was bothering the older boy. And everyone knew how much Anya liked helping people with their problems.

Then, without waiting for an answer, she slipped into the seat next to the Ravenclaw. Hmm... they were studying something to do with maps today. Probably. Unless this map was a placemat of some kind. Which... would be more awesome than a lesson on maps. Because place mats meant fooood!

Scabior peered through the door, looking to see if he could spot any more students, some rushing late to class. The hall was strangely empty. No one there. With that finally look he pushed the door shut, anyone who entered now would be official dubbed as late.

"Morning, morning." Scabior repeated again as he made his way to the front of the class. "I think its about time we got started." Everyone on time was here and he was ready to begin.

"I hope all of you have at least glanced at the maps on your desk." If not, well then it didn't matter. "If you tap your wand against it twice on the country of your choosing it will enlarge to display the cities." A little tidbit of knowledge there.

Only when he was up at the front and comfortably leaning against his desk did Scabior speak again. "Now," He paused, hoping that everyone was paying attention. "Which city and country are each of you from?" Born in, or just lived in. It didn't really matter, just where they felt like they were from.

OOC: Class has started now, please no posts announcing late arrivals, as that will result in lost of points. If you want to join in, I encourage you to! Just act as though your character was there all along.

Just a heads up, my next post will be tomorrow at around 2pm EST, when the class will be in full swing

Well wasn't Professor Scabior all cheery today?! This was good news, yes? Though Ella didn't want to get her hopes up. Not just yet anyway. She eyed her map as the man told them that if they tapped it twice, it would enlarge. That was quite cool! She was tempted to do it right then but decided to wait.

So they'd be discussing where everyone was from today? That was interesting. Ella was always fascinated by other countries and their customs and such. A love she had inherited from her Granddad. Raising her own hand, she shared where she had grew up. "Professor, I grew up in Camden Town, England."

The professor soon spoke, working to gather everyone's attention back to him so he could begin the lesson in ernest. He nodded absently once as Scabior mentioned them having looked at their maps seeing as his gaze had been there when called for his attention. The prefect took note of the map's ability and as the question was asked where he came from, he looked almost unconsciously to the country of Scotland. The home of his family for centuries. As for town it was tougher seeing as the house was actually between two of the more well-known cities of the county of Fife, having been built out of muggle view.

Taping his wand on the map over Scotland twice as instructed, it changed to a large map of that area. Finding what he was looking for Gideon tried to think over his options. In the end he picked the closest one, making a choice."I am from Dunfermline, Scotland," he finally answered after raising his hand.

Nigel was listening when the professor told the class that when you tap your wand twice on the country choose it will make it bigger and show its cities. Now all Nigel wanted to do was to tap his wand twice on some country.

Hmm. What country did Nigel want to tap. He closed his eyes and and just moved his wand and stopped after a minute.

Oh he landed on The United States. Well Nigel had lived there and Canada for a couple years so why not. He tapped his wand twice on The United States and watched it enlarge. THIS WAS AWESOME Nigel thought as he saw New York enlarged along with other cities.

He then thought why not try Canada. So he figured if he tapped twice more to would go back to normal. Then tapped twice on Canada and it still was awesome. He even saw the city of Montreal.

Well he figured he should answer the Professor question. So he left his map still expanded and raised his hand. Nigel said "Professor I lived in Montreal, Canada for a year."

Mika was staring at the BIG map and tilting her head from side to side like a little confused puppy there were so many countries and places and she wanted nothing more than to go to all of them. Yes, ALL of them. She looked up at the Professor whose name always reminded her of pirates and swords - really people had silly names sometimes but his was cool! Cool and Silly!

Yay. She liked it.

Mhm.

She looked at the board raised her hand up HIGH and was nearly lifting herself off of the seat as she raised her arm UP UP UP into the air. She wasn't going to yell her answer out. Nope.

When she thought her arm had been up long enough she spoke up. "I'm from Melbourne Australia, from a place called Albert Park" she nodded enthusiastically and it was like the girl couldn't sit still she was vibrating with awesome energy of awesomeness and yeah she was excited or she had to pee people would have to guess.

Stella had looked up from her idle tracing of the map on her desk as she'd heard the classroom door close, then remained looking up as Professor Scabior had started making his way to the front of the classroom. Where he honestly belonged, not making everyone nervous as they'd entered. The fact he was still being oddly pleasant was still a bit odd, in any case. She stayed quiet, though, as he'd spoken. At least now she could focus on the lesson. There was a bit of curiosity if what he'd said about the maps was true, but she didn't try it. Her attention had shifted as Gideon had, however. Almost as if he wasn't certain where he was from.

She knew where she was from. Either answer, and it really wasn't clear which the professor was aiming for. She raised her hand anyway. "I'm from Hauts-de-Seine, France. Although, I was actually born in Wiltshire, England," she said, surprising even herself as she'd given both locations. Apparently she really had wanted to see if the good mood was actually real or if it was just an act. Please don't turn evil again, she silently pleaded.

Vickers, who was a good ways away from where the Professor stood, sat in his seat quietly and in the most BEHAVED manner. Not that he would ever think the Historian would suspect him of having done something to his office, but he thought it best to just make sure he was as far away from the man's reach as possible.

So he said to tap their map twice and see the cities? Tap twice the Ravenclaw did.

As he watched USA expand and gave a first level exploration look at his state he couldnt help but get a twinge of the old homesickness. It was true, you wouldnt know what you're missing until its not with you anymore.

He raised his hand--like a well behaved, dutiful student that he was-- and replied, "Sir, I'm from Upstate New York, USA." He didnt have to give the county and city did he? After all, their Wizarding village was supposed to be unplottable.

Minerva put her hand up this was a hard question, she moved around alot with her dad being in the Military, "Professor I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but have lived in Knoxville Tennessee, and a few other cities in the United States." She then put her hand down and listened to the other students.

Anya examined the map. Finding Russia, she double tapped the country. She studied the enlarged version for several minutes. She wasn't even sure what she was looking for. She'd never actually bothered to know where she came from. She just knew it was north-eastern-ish somewhere.

Err... that wasn't going to be an acceptable answer, was it?

She raised her hand. "Guildford, England." she offered. She'd spent the past decade of her life there. So... that was an acceptable answer, right?

Now. How was she supposed to get her map back to normal?

Nerida smiled at the Professor's answer and said Well then I hope your day is good! she wanted to say I hope your day is not ruined by other students but she did not say that. That would have been funny if she had said it though.

Of course she had looked at the map being the Geography Nerd she was! Wow, wait in zoomed in! Taking out her wand she tapped it twice on Switzerland. It quickly enlarged Switzerland and the past world map was now a Switzerland map! Awesome she loved magic! Which country was she from, well Nerida was born in Switzerland so she considered herself from there, plus she was a Switzerland citizen and an UK one too because of her parents, she thought. Nerida raised her hand, and answered I was born in Basel, Switzerland. Its on the border of Switzerland and Germany and France! She threw in that little fact in case no one knew where Basel was.

Curiosity getting the better of her first, Kurumi tapped her wand twice over the country of Japan and leaned back a bit when the country suddenly enlarged and slowly city names began to appear. At least the major ones. She was almost positive that her small town wouldn't show up, but she removed her wand from the map and made Japan go back into it before it was given the chance to prove her wrong.

Attention back on Professor Scabior now, Kurumi raised her hand. "I'm from Yuzawa, Japan."

That was interesting. Kennedy took out his wand and tapped it twice on the map just were California was. He was intrigued with this. Could he have one of these map? It may come in handy one day. Before he got even more distracted with the map he set his wand down and watched as the imaged vanished.

The Prefect glanced up to the professor and with a raise of his hand he said, "I'm from San Diego, California." Though he hasn't been there in a little bit over a year.

No, Sierra hadn't really looked at the map on her desk, but she was now that he mentioned it. Using her wand, she tapped twice on the country she was born in, and then watched as it enlarged. She stared at it for a moment, taking it everything it had to offer, and then raised her hand. "I'm from London, England," she said, although she lived in Hogsmeade, Scotland now. Hogsmeade was much, much better. An all-wizarding village was right up her alley.

Alyssa tapped on the west coast of the continent of North America where the state of California was with her wand.

Then she raised her hand and said,"Professor, I come from the Golden State of California in the United States of America and I live in Bel Air which is a city a few miles from Los Angeles."

Erin studied the map by pointing her fingers at the different continents murmuring to herself, "Asia, Europe, North and South America..." Merlin, there were so many places in the world and Erin wanted to visit all of them. She was very interested to whatever Professor Scabior had to teach them today.

Erin reached for her wand and did what the professor had told them, she tapped it towards Europe, France particularly and different cities enlarged. "Wicked." Erin murmured again.

Erin raised her hands up in the air to answer Professor Scabior's question, "I am from Somerset, England Sir."

.... Weird girl. But then again, Milton already knew that. His eyes narrowed in slight confusion as she unfroze and continued speaking. She was just going to ask if she could sit there. "Right."

He didn't bother telling her she couldn't sit there either, because he was pretty sure she wouldn't even wait for an answer. And he was right. It was amusing. And if he said no, she probably would have sat there anyway. Oh well. At least she wasn't as squeaky as she used to be.



When the professor made his way to the front of the class, Milton glared one more time at Kennedy before turning his attention to the front of the room.

Oh, and of course, the first thing the professor suggested to do was use their wands. Luckily it wasn't required at the moment, because Milton's wand was still sitting in the bottom of the black lake. Or in Bartholomew's stomach...

Anyway. Milton raised his hand. "Saundersfoot, Wales," he said simply. Also known as the middle of nowhere. Which was convenient at times.

Emmanuelle was glad that this professor was having a good day. The last time she'd encountered a bad-day-having professor, things had gone pear shaped quite fast. But now wasn't the time to reflect on that unfortunate potions class. Nope.

She double tapped her wand on the outline of France and smiled was it enlarged and the cities started popping up. The map was definitely awesome and could also be very useful if it would zoom in farther and show the streets and things. Once most of the cities had popped up, she raised her hand and answered the question. "I'm from Nice, France."

Aspen liked Professor Scabior a lot and all, but he was being WAY creepy today. Naturally, she began to ponder WHY.

[speculation]
Looming.


Weird smiling.


Now home addresses?


This clearly equated to a Serial Killer on Staff. Obviously. Cool. [/solid conclusion]

Aspen didn't give up her hometown, but just kept her map up, studying this NEW bit of awesome of city-finding with her wand.

The... maaaaaps?

Nope, Nora totally ignored them. But now that he mentioned them, she did look at the one on her desk, and was SO tempted to start tapping it with her wand, but she didn't. Only because she raised her hand to answer the question. "I'm from Copenhagen, in Denmark." She had no idea how this would be relevant to this lesson, but it wasn't her place to complain, eh?