Brownies AND cookies? There were intelligent students at Hogwarts after all! "Ooo! Thank you," exclaimed Vindictus as he accepted the baked treats from Taylor and Kurumi. Now he had a snack to eat while the kiddos were up in the air.

"Summer was good. Nothing beats relaxing on a pristine beach with...." He stopped just in the nick of time because what he was about to say was completely inappropriate for the ears of underage witches and wizards. Not to mention, he knew the parents of several of the students and they would frown upon his sudden lack of professionalism.

"OKAY!"

Clap, clap.

"Welcome to the first Flying lesson of the year! For those of you who do not know me, I am Professor Vindictus. The guru of all things Flying and Quidditch related at Hogwarts, and soon-to-be published author. But THAT is something that we'll look forward to later in the school year."

Grin.

"I want each of you to walk over to a broom and stand to the left of it. And Mr. Odessa, promise me that you will do your utmost best to not destroy school property in this lesson."

Sophie had decided to go to the first flying lesson for a couple of reasons. One, she actually missed flying! She hadn't done it in a long while and she remembered how fun it was in her first year. Two, it was good to take her mind off certain things... and threeee... it was a good place to meet new people! Her first flying lesson, two years ago, had awarded her with some pretty nice friends, yep!

Anyway! Class was starting already! Sophie half smiled as she walked to the left side of one of the brooms. She remembered perfectly well how her first lesson had been... she wondered what would happen this time.

Okay so maybe he hadn't forgotten. This made no sense because Vindictus was old and weren't old people SUPPOSED to forget things?

West just nodded. "Promise." Unless someone made him super mad. Nothing could make him as mad as the Quidditch final had though, so the baby brooms were safe.

He went over and stood at a broom.

Stupid school brooms.

Yes! Lesson start time. Now she just had to get through the professor explaining the basics to the new students and then she would once again be flying. Published author, huh? No doubt it was a book about Quidditch. That was cool; Silvia wouldn't mind writing and publishing a book herself one day. For now she did as he said to do, she walked over and stood to the left of the broom closest to her.

Tay grinned at the professor, "Your welcome." She strolled over to the brooms and walked to the left of one. Taylor was always bored until they got to the actual flying part.

Kurumi sort of just gave Selina a LOOK. Did she have to beam like that?

The seventh year instantly returned to scratching her arms nervously, too focused on how itchy her arms were at first to realize that Professor Vindictus had started the lesson. They were...going to stand by brooms...already? Couldn't they have a 30 minute session discussing the history of the Cushioning Charm and the importance of it in relation to Quidditch or something?

No? Fine then...

Dragging her feet slightly and scratching her arms even more furiously, Kurumi stood to the left of one of the school brooms as instructed and...scratched some more.

Scratch scratch scratch scratch.

Lex tilted her head slightly and looked up at the man with curious eyes when he began talking about his holiday but suddenly cut himself off. Weird...had he forgotten how most of it had gone? Such terrible luck. She had a bad memory too but hers wasn't that bad.

She was about to ask him about this when he gave instructions, this must have meant that the lesson was starting.

Alexa walked over to a broom, standing on the left side and waited eagerly to be given the next set of instructions. She knew what would most likely come next and she couldn't wait!

His brows goes up in pleasant surprise. Vindictus an Author? Well.... about time wasnt it? He knew the man has done enough to publish maybe two books under his name "Congratulations Professor!" he called out before stepping forward beside a broom, eying the one near his left foot.

First day of flying. Juliet can fly, possibly not as good as everyone else but she can..... in a way. She took a deep breath. Professor Vindictus seems like a nice guy, not that she knows much about him but she did accept those cookies from that girl. So yes?

After he introduced himself to everyone, he gave them specific instructions. Juliet walked over to a broom and stood next to it, on the left side. Done.

Okay, okay.

There goes the clap clap signal. Class will start now. Yeah, no more chitchat people.

Following the instructions as usual, Beezus walked over to a broom which looked a lot more decent than the others, stood on the left of it and waited. She was really wondering what sort of things they'd be playing with this time. They already had spiders..Hmm.. A friendly Quidditch match would be good, no? He can group them or something. Yes, that'll be awesome.

Not long after Violet had greeted the Professor, the loud sound of his voice was heard throughout the entire pitch, or at least it seemed like it did. And because of his sudden voice being heard it made Violet jump slightly from the surprise. The next thing she knew, he was telling them to walk over to their brooms and stand beside them. Violet took a deep breath trying to keep calm as she made her way towards one of the school brooms, making sure to stand to the left of it.

When she had done so she looked back at Professor Vindictus waiting for his next instructions. She nervously began playing with some of her hair a little bit, but not too intensely.

Sierra blinked at the sound of the clapping. Merlin, that man clapped loudly. Then again, she guessed he had to, what with having to call a whole class of kids to attention all at once. She'd have just used Sonorus and blown their eardrums out, but that's just her.

So anyway... She moved to the left of one of the brooms, all the while thinking what an ego that Vindictus had. Did he honestly think she was sitting nearby, biting her nails in anticipation of his book?! She could care less. That is, unless he agreed to help her with a little favor she needed.

That would come later, though...

Ariana was off in a daze when she suddenly heard a loud Clapping noise 'whoa!!' she said to herself as she followed the rest of the class and stepped over to a broom

Unfriendly of him not to wave back. Vivi considered doing something childish, but... she was a seventh year. Super mature and grown up Genevieve Branxton was not going to give the man reason to write to her father.

She crossed the green and chose the least wobbly looking broom, taking up a position to the left of it. What was this about West being a broom destroyer? That wasn't a story that had crossed the hedge from one house to the other over the summer.

Alyssa stood and listened as Professor Vindictus gave them their instructions. She quickly walked over to the a broom that was lying on the ground and stood to the left of it. 'Good it looks like we're going to get to fly today.' Alyssa smiled to herself as she waited for further instructions.

Author... okay. Probably a Quidditch book - figures. Glenn frowned slightly and looked for an at least slightly decent broom. She stopped in front of one, standing on the left side.

She looked down at her hands and picked at the nails while she waited. Would there be some kind of like, sticking charm so you wouldn't fall off your broom?Learning, she'd fallen off exactly 302 times. Her brother had found it funny to count. Her... not so much. It was her that had to explain to a muggle doctor how she had broken both arms in such weird places. Her mum had insisted upon no magic being done... none at all. She wasn't even supposed to have gone into Diagon Alley.

Had the Professor said something? She looked up from her hands. No. It was fine. Merlin Glenn, stop being so nervous. You've done this a bunch of times.

Nigel was waiting to hear the rest of his story about being on the beach. When he suddenly changes topic. That is so not fair. He should have continued his story. There must be a law against that. Nigel was so disappointed. Then he hears that Vindictus was going to be an author. Nigel had sure to remember to buy his book when it came out.

Well it was not like he could just stand there and stare. Nigel walk to the left of one of the open brooms and stood there waiting for more directions.

Great! The lesson was starting already! Penelope didn't pay a whole lot of attention to the part about being a published author - she didn't read a lot of books anyway. She barely even read the textbooks. But depending on what it was about, she might read it. Maybe. But that wasn't important now.

What WAS important was flying! Which they would be doing really soon. But first, she went, stood to the left of one of the brooms, and hoped this would go a little more smoothly than it had last year. The broom hadn't seemed to want to come up at all last year, but hopefully this time would be different.

Selina shot Kurumi one more smug look when Vindictus officially started to handle the lesson. The prefect knew that Selina was thinking, there was no need to even verbalize her thoughts. Sometimes Selina often thought that her and Kurumi had best friend telepathy. It was sort of creepy how well they knew each other and how well, when they were distressed, the two of them could comfort one another without even saying anything. Then again, Kurina was sort of awesome. Did she expect anything less?

There was a brief moment when Selina was going to ask Vindictus more about his summer, but she decided better of asking that question. She was smart enough to figure out that he was insinuating something not school appropriate.

Instead, she just walked over to the brooms and stood to the left of the broom right next to Kurumi. She wanted her best friend to KNOW that she was watching her.

Gideon earned a smile from Selina when she registered his presence before she switched her attention to Genevieve. Investigate...were they talking about the search for the beater bat again. Sigh. He looked around absently for the moment as more and more arrived. It seemed Violet too was joining the class, the Hufflepuff girl one Gideon had never seen in flying class.

Clap clap...Right...the call to action.

Gideon turned his full attention to Professor Vindictus as he started the lesson in earnest. Modest the man was not as the Ravenclaw HOH introduced himself to the class before giving his first instructions. The prefect moving to stand to the left of one of the school brooms for his use preparing for the next task at hand that he pretty much was certain of.

Pao made his way hesitantly to the first flying lesson of the year. Why am I doing this again? Logan Mancini was one of the most clumsy people in the world. That's right. Because mother said I had to learn under professional supervision. If it were up to him, he wouldn't learn to fly at all. At least, not without a massive three-foot-thick cushion underneath the entire area.

And yet here he was. Walking to his doom first lesson. Curious, he looked to see if he knew anyone. To his relief, he saw the friendly seventh year that had helped him through the barrier at King's Cross. Her name is... Kurumi! He could ask her if he needed help again, right? Pao sighed as the professor began the lesson.



Well, this Vindictus character didn't seem to be all that bad. He looked competent, in control. Able to catch a small child falling from the air...

Obediently, Pao walked over to where the school brooms lay. He held out his hands, furtively glancing around. He glanced at them both. That one's my left. He then stepped to the proper side of the broom. Just to be doubly sure, he stole a look at what Kurumi was doing to see if he was right.

Annabelle had been to previous flying lesson classes before, but it couldn't hurt to get little refreshers. She loved flying and it just came naturally to Belle. She loved having the wind blown through her hair. She was glad that the lesson was starting. She needed some refreshers about flying on her broom, plus she was itching to go flying again. She walked over to one of the empty brooms and waited for directions from Mr. Vindictus.

Published author? HUH? Ells raised her eyebrows curiously, taking in Vindictus. Hmm. Author...who woulda thought. Anywhoo...it was time for flying. FLYING. This was going to be brilliant.

Ella walked over to her broom as instructed and stood to the left of it, doing her best not to jump the gun and fly off before instructed to do so. She just wanted to be in the air SO bad. It had been WAY too long since she had flown last and with Quidditch coming up, she needed as much practice as she could get.

Oh...and hopefully there would be no crazy pixies or squirrels during this lesson, yeah?

Awarlesta was beyond excited for flying lesson! As soon as the professor clapped his hands, Awar knew it was time for business. She stood to the left of the broom she was standing over. Okay. Left side of broom. Check.

here we go again. Oh, bloody hell what am I getting myself into? Elektra thought as she stood by her veela friend having fond memories of her first ever flying lesson. Yeaaaaah, that didn't end so well first year. That voice from Vindictus sent chills through her body and not in a good way. Blah blah blah blah blah blah...no one cares about your bloody publising Mr. Crypt Keeper. Get on with the bloody lesson so I can get this over and done with already... Elektra thought angrily. This was probably the top thing that Elektra HATED. Flying. Yeah, she's scared of heights. So what? She stood hesitantly to the left of her broom as she looked over at her friend and Violet and gave her a little nod to assure her that they were going to be fine this year and not like how they were in their first year.