HoM: Lesson One
 

Another day, another History of Magic lesson. Stepping into the classroom not much has changed since the previous lessons. The open windows have allowed for some leaves to fly into various places in the classroom, not that Scabior would care enough to pick them up. That was a house elf’s job, or more specifically the nutjob caretaker’s.

The desks are arranged so that only two people are capable of sitting next to each other. A toy train placed on a circular track, strangely similar to another famous train sits between each pair of desks.

Up at the front of the classroom, Scabior is seated behind his desk instead of his usual stance of leaning against it. This is most likely because, placed smack in the middle of his desk is also a train on a track similar to the ones on each pair of desks. This train however is different from the others despite looking exactly the same. While the others all sit motionless on their tracks, the train on Scabior’s desk happens to be moving in a continuous motion around the track with a stream of gray smoke trailing behind as it.

“Hurry in, come on. Take your seats.” He would advise that they sit next to someone they would want to work with, but it was too much work.

Class Progression:
Question One: The Hogwarts Express
Question Two
Question Three
Question Four
Activity

OOC: Class will officially begin in, 81/2 hours. Please familiarize yourself with the updated classroom rules. Your characters can chat, dance, try to set the room on fire. Just remember Scabior is there, and SS and RPG rules apply. Class has officially started (i'll edit in whoever i've missed in this post)! 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.

Sutton made her way quickly to the classroom. It looked like she might even be the first on here. She was excited, though, because she was preeeetty sure that History of Magic would not actually require her to USE any magic. At the moment, she was pretty overwhelmed with how behind she really was with her magic.

Striding into the classroom, she made her way over to the Professor. "Hello, Professor. I'm Sutton Piatek... new student," she explained by way of introduction. Once the niceties were finished, she made her way to a desk and sat down, observing the trains in the room and wondering if they'd be talking about the Hogwarts Express today. For some reason, that gave Sutton a really strong feeling of foreboding...

Alyssa quietly walked into the classroom. She smiled when she saw toy trains sitting on top of tracks located between each pair of desks. Alyssa noticed Professor Scabior sitting at his desk on which another train set was placed only this one was actually running along the tracks. Alyssa loved watching toy trains running on its tracks. It reminded her of home where the family would spend hours setting up the train tracks on Christmas Day, so that the train would run around the Christmas Tree and along the miniature town they would set up.

Shaking her head to bring her back to the present, Alyssa walked up to the Professor and greeted him.

"Hello Professor. It is really good to be back in another of your classes." Alyssa smiled in greeting. Then she turned around and picked an empty desk and wondered who would join her. From the way the tables were arranged it looked like whoever sat with her would be partnering up with her.

While Alyssa waited for class to start, she took out her journal and writing materials and placed them on the desk. Then she pulled out her History of Magic textbook and turned the pages to see whether there was anything in that that mentioned the history of the Hogwarts Express and the town of Hogsmeade.

Entering the History of Magic classroom, Kurumi felt somewhat...uneasy...but for reasons she was totally unsure of as to why. Her father had mentioned meeting Professor Schirmer and Professor Scabior over the summer at some event and THAT alone alarmed Kurumi beyond belief. Maybe if she walked into the classroom with a bag over her head? No, the man would probably tell her it was an improvement or something and Kurumi really didn't need more flack from the man.

So, into the classroom as calm and collected as possible she went, stepping on a leaf that had come through the window. EEK! Kurumi bent down and scooped up the crumbled bits and tossed them in a rubbish bin before making her way towards the front of the room to take a seat. "Good day, professor," Kurumi said, noticing the trains on display but not commenting on them...especially the Hogwarts Express...brought up too many cringe worthy images at the moment. Namely Alice and her broken leg.

Kurumi quietly slipped into her seat and pulled out her things, lining them up on her desk while she waited.

Ira was early. She had gotten done with breakfast and all the other things pretty early this morning. A little surprise considering it was her, but she was actually in the mood for studying History of Magic!

Entering the class, the first thing she noticed was the train. Or trains. Which looked like Hogwarts Express. Oh! So were they gonna discuss the train matters at the start of the term? Ooh! This seemed interesting.

"Good day, Professor Scabior." Ira greeted, before taking a seat somewhere in the middle. Why were the desks all placed so as to be paired? Were they gonna pair off for an activity? Anyways, gathering everything out of her bag and settling it on her desk, she waited for class to start.

History of Magic class....

Alexa had mixed feelings about this one. History had never been her favourite subject and the drawings and crayon marks in her text books could attest to that. The subject just involved so much reading and the last time she checked reading made you dull and boring. SIGH. But she did drag herself here anyway because Sarah said they got to see mermaids last year and she figured something else could happen to distract them from their reading.

Entering the room she was more than a bit puzzled--but very excited to see trains. TRAINS! What would they be doing those those?! Would they run them into each other and see who's makes the biggest explosion????

That. Would. Be. Epic.

"Good morning Professero." Yup, the trains had put her in a great mood so she even flashed him a wide smile before taking a seat in the middle...leaves...

Mmm...

Lex took an extra second to brush the leaves from her desk but felt bad that they were now on the floor. House elves shouldn't have been given extra work..."Professor, why do you have so many leaves in the classroom? Are they apart of the lesson?" Because then she'd have to pick them up and put them back on her desk....

Yet again one of Oakey's classes that he just did not enjoy one bit. Although if he had to admit it, Professor Scabior did make the class interesting occasionally.

He sulked his way into the class room and took notice of the all the Toy Trains between each desk. "How're you today Professor?" Oakey asked Scabior putting on a sort of smile. He moved to a desk some where near the middle and set his things down beside it watching the Toy Train. Go on Professor Scabior just how are you gonna make a class about trains interesting?

Minerva walked into class feeling a bit nervous, she always felt nervous coming into this class. Every since term one Professor Scabiors had a way of making her feel uncomfortable. She looked up when she saw him behind his desk and a.. was that a train on his desk. Hmm interesting Minerva thought being distracted by it for a moment, but then her eyes went back to the professor, "Hello Professor.. " she trailed off and then turned to the student desks. Hmm more trains she thought this was interesting and she thought of what they might be doing for class today as she made her way towards the middle desks, the only class she was ever found not sitting in the front.

Louisa strolled down from their common room to the first floor, she'd woke up pretty early today to do some extra study and by the time it was class, her brain was all warmed up and her manners were freshly sharped for Scabior. Technically, this professor was the one to take most of Louisa's deducted points over the years. And she didn't hate him yet, she just hated his carelessness about everything other than his teaching.

Anyways, the Ravenclaw walked into the classroom, paused and raised her eyebrows. Trains? That was new. They weren't going to discuss the near history, were they? About when the Hogwarts Express broke down? Hehehe, that'd be fun. She waved at the man, "Hello professor Scabior." And moved to sit on one of the empty desks. Hopefully someone studious would join her instead of a class snoring Reem.

Stepping into the History of Magic class, the first thing Emmanuelle noticed was that the window was open, which lead to some leaves being in the room. It was letting in a nice cool breeze, though. So, no comment on the leaves. The second thing she noticed was the train sets that were set up on the pairs of desks. As she got closer to one of the desk pairs, she saw the resemblance between the small train and the Hogwarts Express. Something told her this wasn't a coincidence. "Hello, Professor Scabior," she said, a little less cheerily than she might have otherwise. Please tell me this isn't going to be about a certain event from the beginning of term.... She took her seat, placing her bag on the floor underneath her desk, just so no one would trip on it.

Ella hurried into the History of Magic classroom, bag slung over her shoulder. It didn't seem like she was late so she breathed a quiet sigh of relief. Passing the Professor's desk, the third year eyed the little train curiously before greeting the man. "Nice to see you, Professor." And now to find a seat.

The small blonde made her way to the right side of the classroom, plopping down in the nearest empty set of desks. She placed her bag next to her chair, pulling out her quill and parchment, before observing the train in front of her more closely. Hogwarts Express? Wicked.

"Hello, Professor,'' Jory said as he entered the History of Magic classroom. "It's great to see you again.''

He took in the model trains and the tracks. The badger smiled. As side of the fact that they reminded him of the ones he had when he was smaller, they were the smaller versions of the Hogwarts Express.

"Today's gonna be exciting,'' he decided as he went off to take a seat.

Kat made her way to History of Magic class. Kat admits that she was never good in history... and memorizing those dates and significant events but at least she tries her best. That's what's important.

She stepped in the classroom and greeted, "Good morning, Professor Scabior," Kat smiled. "How was your summer?" Kat took a seat at her usual place, at the right side. As she sat down, she noticed a toy train and its circular track on her desk. Hmmm... I wonder what the lesson's about. Maybe this is a smaller representation of the Hogwarts Train! Kat thought to herself.

Theo hurried into History of Magic. He felt that he needed to get into Professor Scabior's good books after the feast situation. He certainly did not want the professors to think that he was a bad egg. Cos he was a good egg. "Hello, Professor. How are YOU today?" And yeah, he'd never usually ask a teacher that.

Cos he never usually cared.

If the lesson was about trains today, Theo took a mental note to brace himself for bordom. He pulled up a seat next to Ella, purely because she was the first of his friends that he could see. "Hey." He said, grinning widely at the blonde.

...
Uh-huh, Ella would be putting up with a Theodore today. Sorryyyyy.

Laura walked into the room and smiled. "Good Day Professor." Laura decided then she would be polite like the good child she was. "How are you today?" Laura asked, she was going to show the professor that she was turning over a new leaf.

Nigel just wanted a nap right now. He walked into to class and spotted the most comfortable desk.

"Hello, Professor Scabior"

He then turned and went to the desk he spotted, sat down, and closed his eyes until something interseting happened.

History of Magic. This class should be interesting considering what he learned in this class in the past two terms.

Messer walked to the HOM classroom, since its in the first floor its not that far from the Hufflepuff common room, so he didn't have to claim so many stairs. With his bag on his shoulder, the third year entered the classroom.

Was that a toy train? Blink. Blink. Blink. He wondered what's the toy train is for.

"Hello Professor Scabior." Messer gave him a polite nod before he went off to find himself an empty seat.

Savannah walk into the class room and walked up to the professor.Hello Professor Scabior
How are you today.Then took her seat next to an empty desk for her sister.

Cassia entered the classroom with her bag slung over her shoulder. She used to think that history was boring, which it is, but the classes seemed to be interesting. Especially that they had visited that sunk city last term. And because of that Professor Scabior earned his place in Cassia's favorite-lessons list. Though the list is editable.....just saying.

However, when seeing the trains and especially the one which is running on the professor's desk, Cassia grinned widely and got excited right away. Apparently that should be a fun class.

She stepped closer to the professor and beamed at him, "Good day Professor." She fought the urge not to ask him about the trains, but he probably won't answer yet. So better wait for the lesson to start.

The second-year bounced towards one of the chairs and sat down.The seat next to her was vacant someone of her friends can join her or any student. Until then ,Cassia started fiddling with her bags straps because she needed something to occupy her till the lesson starts.

Helen walked into the classroom and observed the surroundings and what everyone else was looking at. She guessed from all the items that they were studying some kind of famous train and she wondered if it was the Hogwarts Express as that was the only magical one she knew.

She took out all her equipment like quills, parchment and textbook and saw that she was sitting next to another fifth year that she had seen in Herbology. She turned to him and said " Hey, I'm Helen. I've seen you around before. You're Jory right? "

The HEAD GIRL. teeheeheee