Laura looked around and saw Sophie and Ella standing together well that was nice, she would speak with them later about something she had news but now she had work to do, she walked upto Elliot and Hannah and stood next to them, "Hello." Laura smiled innocently, she was loving this.

So, history! Pao couldn't wait for this. He loved history, especially if it had to do with the two M's: magic and mathematics. Unfortunately, it seemed these topics rarely intersected.

He sauntered into the... Classroom? Where had the classroom gone? He gazed over several heads to see a note on the wall. Well I have tons of parchment and a quill, so I'm good. He spotted some of his teammates and went to mill around by them.

"Hey guys," he greeted. "What's up with this?" he asked, gesturing to the obvious changes about them.

Nate walked into the History of Magic classroom ready for another day of class. Once he walked in his jaw dropped to the floor in shock to see that half of the classroom is missing, and it's a different place. His first thought was Am I in the correct place????? He had to be because he just walked down the corridor to the classroom. It was official Nate had no clue what was happening. Was he losing his mind? Was it a mirage? Was he asleep? Nobody knows.......dun dun dunnnnnn. He had to duck or else he'd almost hit his head which he wouldn't be so happy about. So he just waited for the Professor to arrive.

... Was he lost?

Alec blinked as he stood just a little outside the... classroom? No... it didn't even look like a classroom! It looked like they were being punished for something and... well... they had to stand in this weird room. But they hadn't done anything so... they couldn't really be punished. No. And no one should get punished for eating ice cream in the middle of February. That was not allowed.

The fourteen year old bit his lip and took a few tentative steps into the room. This was actually pretty scary. Like... like Quidditch scary. And they really did need Superman or someone to come and save them if anything happened. He was really sure about that. NOD.

Alec looked around the classroom until his eyes landed on... a note. Right, so they were at the right place. And quill and parchment? No problem. The Hufflepuff grimaced at a few jostling action and started making his way over towards a familiar head of red hair. NESSIE! It was always good to see the Captain! As he got closer towards the girl, he realised that she wasn't actually alone! There was Ells! And Sophs! And Theo! And... his favourite little first year! AWESOME. "Anyone else confused?" he asked as he reached a stop right beside Pao.

Someone else seemed to be voicing his opinion directly behind him. Who was..? "Alec!" Man, Pao liked this guy. He was just so, so cool! What with the awesome Seeker skills and the sweet hair ruffling and such, Pao was completely in awe of his awesomeness.

The first year's mind went blank for a short moment. What was he... Oh, right! "Yeah, I'm confused! I'm REAL confused, like I don't know anything right now." Internal sigh. Nice going, stupid. You look like an idiot right now. Oh well. At least Alec had said he was confused first, right?

Anya's eyes slowly scanned the room. When was the professor going to get here? She wasn't claustrophobic or anything. She... just didn't want to get trampled on and DIE.

Okay. A bit dramatic, but whatever.

She smiled a little seeing Milton approach her. "Hey..." Was she alright. "A lot better now that I have something to focus on." Something that wasn't how tiny she suddenly felt compared to everyone else.

Vivi was lucky to be small and able to slip around elbows and bags and things that blocked her access into the room. Why in the world were people congregating near the door? It wasn't like they needed...

Oh. Because the entire room consisted just beyond the door. She paused a moment before continuing to dodge her way through the crowd, where she gave Vick and Max a gentle elbow to the ribs before coming to stand with Louisa.

"If the walls start to close in, I'm blasting a hole right there," she pointed out the opposite wall, one that seemed more likely to give way and not just be a futile effort of blasting rocks with a stick. "But if the walls really start closing in, I'll be very displeased."

Nigel walked into History of Magic and wondered why the room felt smaller. He was pretty squished between people. Nigel must have missed somethings because he could not tell if he was something wrong with the room. But he did read the note and had ready the pieces of parchment.

Alright so history of magic wasn't a favorite class of his and Gideon certainly didn't care much for Professor Scabior like most didn't like Lafay. But what was up with the classroom? The seventh year followed the rest of the arriving students into the room, his sachel filled with supplies slung over his shoulder and confused as everyone else appeared to be. The one thing he knew was the man in question wasn't in the area. His eyes glanced back at the door at that thought with a brief wonder if it was a trick to get them locked into the windowless box.

Get a grip, Gert.

With a shake of his head, he silently berated himself. Scabior may be mean but he wasn't in the likes of Gr---him. "Just have to wait to see..." he mused quietly as he took up a spot along the wall nearest the door.

Cora stepped wide-eyed into the classroom. There were already quite a few students inside, and it was crowded. Luckily, Cora was great at being invisible and slipped by students to get inside.

She noticed a small boy (who was pretty much the same size as her) squeezing through the crowd. Cora seized the opportunity, and followed behind as he paved a path.

Cora hardly noticed when the boy stopped moving, and she lightly bumped into him. "Oh!" Cora exclaimed quietly. "I'm sorry." She tried to be as polite as possible, as she usually did. With a smile she added, "I'm Cora by the way." She knew he was a first year, and hoped he wouldn't be too annoyed with her clumsiness.

So Asher was just heading into the History of Magic classroom, thinking it would look like it does for almost every other lesson. As he walked into the classroom, the very small room came into focus.

O.O

Asher couldn't breathe. Too many people and not enough space. He breathed. And breathed again. Crises averted. He moved over to where Alec was standing. "Hey bro." He said quietly and grinned.

Oh there was a note. Paper and something to write with. He pulled them out of his bag. Paper and something to write with. Check. Study buddy bro Alec. Check. Panic attack over. Check. Professor. No check *le frown*

"OIII!" Aidan shouted. AGAIN. And whipped around in another direction to GLARE at another person.

"Well, Cora, you ought to be more careful." HMPH. You would think she would. Cause she was a GIRL. And girls were SUPPOSED to be careful. AND her name started with a "C", just like "careful" did.

BUT HMPH.

History of Magic. Woot. Not really. Kennedy'd rather just go on his broom and fly endlessly, but he had his studies to take care of first. He was just about to enter the classroom when his foot stopped at the threshold. It was as if his body had registered the inside of the room instead of his brain. Odd.

The Prefect eyed the room with a raised eyebrow. He wasn't expected to go in there, right? It was too...too stuffy and there were people in there already. Plus, it looked really crowded and Merlin knows Kennedy doesn't like to be touched that much.

He eyed the room once more and ended up giving in. It was all for the lesson. It might even be an illusion, no? Please let it be an illusion.

As the last student enters the "classroom" the door slams shut and then suddenly disappears! Don't be completely scared however, in front of you- across from the door your entered, a second door appears. This door is slightly different, old and with a mail slot.

Beside the door the old message is suddenly replaced with a new one:

The object of todays lesson to to make it out of the classroom through use of your logic. You will go through a number of different rooms, each with their own riddles. The answer to each riddle should be placed on a piece of paper and pushed through the mail slot. If your answer is right then you will be allowed entry to the next room. If your answer is wrong, you will be deflected back into your current room, in other words you continue trying. The first person to the last room is excused from homework. Do not share your answers. Any person who shares an answer will be stuck in the room until the first person reaches the last room. If any serious problems occur knock hard on the wall behind you three times.

Enjoy.

-Professor Scabior

Riddle 1:

We are not wizards.
We are not witches.
We are all magical beings.
At first when you see us,
You may have thoughts of fleeing.
And if you feel the need to touch us for a bit of thrill,
You will find yourself overcome with a little chill.
We all look different from each other,
Yet have a silvery glow.
What are we exactly?
You see us every day, you really ought to know.


OOC: The first person to reach the last room will also receive maximum points from the homework they were excused from. Place your answers in spoilers and NO CHEATING GUYS! I will post next to tell you if you are right or wrong, and if you are right I will give you the next riddle and it will continue on like that. Any questions just VM or PM me!

So.Not.Funny.

Kurumi jumped with surprise when the door slammed shut and disappeared. Again...SONOTFUNNY! See, Kurumi knew Professor Scabior was crazy and creepy and totally the Heir of Slytherin. Now he had them locked in a room with no windows OR doors and...there were creepy messages being written on the walls. EVEN MORE SCARY!

Kurumi read the message and snorted softly to herself. Fleeing? Yeah, Kurumi wanted to flee here right now. Did that mean the the answer was Professor Scabior? But no, that wasn't it.

Ella was standing around with her friends, glancing around the room nervously when suddenly the door slammed shut. O____O The third year nearly jumped out of her skin, grabbing hold of Theo as he was closest to her. She immediately let go of him, ignoring the fact that she had probably freaked him out. Her mind was trying to wrap around the fact that the door they had entered through had just disappeared. Everyone had noticed this, yeah? But then she saw the new message that appeared...

Blink.Blink. WHAT? So they were stuck until they figured out the riddles? Meep. Ella turned to Theoman and shrugged. "At least we're not being put in jail..." Bright side? Not really but still.

The third year removed several pieces of parchment from her bag, then her quill. She then thought about the riddle that was given. What magical creatures could be seen as scary, were cold, and silvery? Her first thought was the enchanted armor but she knew that was quite silly, as not everyone found them scary and they didn't exactly glow. With that she went with her second guess, writing it down.



Taking a deep breath, she re-read her answer and then folded her parchment. She then placed it through the slot. Now to wait for something to happen...

Louisa and Viv joined Max and Vickers by the wall soon enough. Max gave both of the girls nods in agreement to their statements, quite glad that Vivi was there in particular. She was undoubtedly the most aggressive of them all. Or, at least, she would likely be the first to save everyone from harm with ease.

When the door slammed shut near him, he jumped and stood up straighter, no longer leaning against the wall. He eyed those nearby who had more frightened reactions to the slam, then turned his gaze to the new door that had appeared. He took a long moment to read over the message twice.

Oh.

That was easy enough, wasn't it?

Max felt like Ravenclaws had a little bit of an advantage here, since they had to answer some kind of riddle every time they wanted to enter the common room. And the older kids had an advantage - which was, of course, fantastic because it was quite likely that he or the three Ravenclaw seventh years near him would win the exemption from homework.

Quickly pulling a piece of parchment from the bag over his shoulder, Max removed a self-inking quill along with it. He turned his gaze back to the riddle, read it quickly for just a moment, then scribbled on his parchment, using his knee as a table. Easy enough.

SPOILER!!: Max's parchment

Ghosts

He folded the paper, slipped through the crowd, and pushed it through the mail slot on the door.

Riddles? RIDDLES? Was Scabior kidding? There were Ravenclaws in the room... of course they were going to get out of there the fastest. Vivi gave Louisa a look before pulling parchment out of her satchel and shoving her way through the crowd of students toward the door.

She mulled over the clue on the door for a moment before the answer came to her in a flash. Or... at least she hoped it was the answer. She scribbled it on the parchment and shoved the piece of paper through the slot in the door.

SPOILER!!: Vivi's answer

Ghosts

Just when he thought of stepping out to the corridor to wait there he felt someone stand closer to him "Oh hey Max!" he murmured to his dorm!buddy. "Any idea whats going--" Oh Louisa's joined them, and this Ravenclaw caught himself snickering at her comment. "It have that feeling doesnt it?" he murmured back to the Head Girl, which gives him more reason to want to just step out by the doorway. It was then that he felt someone elbow him-- ah Vivi has joined them. Blasting a hole through the wall? "... or we can just get out from where we came in-- through the door...."

.... which has now slammed itself shut.

Yup slaughter-house feelings commences.


Just when he was about to nudge the others to get their wands ready for wall-blasting he spotted the other door with the mail slot, and the instructions... plus a riddle. He eyed his fellow Ravenclaws-- this was something like what they have to do to get into their Common Room everyday. He struggled to get some parchment and quill out of his bag despite all the elbows and scribbled something quickly onto it....



... then dropped it into the mail slot.

Kat examined the riddle... Silvery glow. At first, Kat thought it was a Patronus, but she doesn't see one everyday, right? When they touch this thing, there's chill. These are magical beings it said... not magical spells or whatever they can conjure... That's when Kat made her final answer which she wrote on her parchment.



After writing, Kat dropped it inside the... door or mail slot?

Jory was intrigued with this lesson. The use of logic. That was something different.

He drew his attention to the riddle and an answer came instantly to his head. The Puff quickly wrote his answer down on a piece of parchment.



And...through the mail slot.

Okay. He didn't jump at the door closing. Nope. Kennedy was simply moving out of the way to fit more students in. Yep. Not scared...maybe just a tad creeped out. But then, this reminded him of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.

Kennedy carefully nudged his way to the front and read the riddle. His eyebrows furrowed and un-furrowed repeatedly as he concentrated, but the answer was pretty clear, no? Well, it was to him. Taking his quill and using the wall as leverage, he wrote his guess on a piece of parchment, then slid it through the mail slot.

Ok then. Just when Emmanuelle thought that Hogwarts couldn't weirder, the professor goes and shuts them in a room and makes them solve a riddle to get out. Honestly, this was the oddest lesson she had had ever. And she had had some odd lessons. Reading the riddle, she thought it was pretty easy. Hopefully, the riddles would stay like this, but she highly doubted it. Nope, they were likely to get harder as they went on. Ugh.

Anyway, she jotted down her answer and quickly shoved it into the door slot.

Laura was sure that this Professor had gone insane but she wasn't going to say it out loud the rest of the class could find out in their own time but she did think it was a pity that the Professor had.

Laura took several pieces of parchment from her bag and a quill to write the answer down with, she then listen to what the Professor said and sighed, she wasn't very good with riddles.

Minerva jumped and let out a little squeak as the door slamming scared her, but then more fear took over when it was gone, just gone. Before she could think to say anything or do anything another door appeared. What was Scaibors up to, she wondered thinking about the chamber of secrets lesson a few terms ago. How did this have anything to do with History making them scared and play riddle games. Reading the riddle she thought for a second.



Watching the door hoping it would open she glanced around at the others to see if they seemed as freaked out as her or if they seemed to think this was actually going to be fun.