Ancient Runes Lesson I
 

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The classroom was exactly the way it always had been; desks and chairs laid out in parallel rows, the small dais upon which the professor's big desk sat. The rectangular blackboard fixed to the wall over the dais. The only difference in the class, for the hawk-eyed students only, would be the lack of any Gandr baskets near the desk. The lack of anything interesting, really. However, the desks were freshly clean, and so was the floor and the whole room. The professor should be seated at his desk, reading, when the students show up. He'd greet and nod at them as they filed in.

Enter the room, take a seat, follow the instructions on the blackboard, then wait for the class to start.

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Originally Posted by Blackboard "Write your name & your year on the parchment before you. Tap it with your wand to turn it into a desk name tag. Cease any other magic activities."

ooc:- Class will start in 12-20 hrs. You can RP your character walking in class freely. Try to keep the chatter down, please, though. CLASS HAS STARTED. Do not announce your arrival, just pretend that you've already been here all along.
- Please refresh yourselves with the Rules & Expectations of this class. xo

[]-> Class Progress
[] Greetings + Q1
[] Answers + Q2
[] Answers + sub-activity (practice the Intaglio spell).
[] How do we make the carving smoother?
[] How long does it last? What about bindrunes? (Activity still going)
[] Activity II instructions :: Gryffindors - Slytherins - Ravenclaws - Hufflepuffs
- [] Results of competition & class dismissed

Sarah really did not enjoy Ancient Runes as much as she enjoyed the other lessons. It just never enticed her and all. Also there were myths and legends involved and Sarah felt like that was a waste of time. She never did like the fantasy genre after all.

She walked into class though determined to enjoy it. "Hello Professor!" she said greeting him. "how was your summer?". She wondered what old people did in their summer. Sarah's summer was all about running around, romping and just having fun. Yet for old people it must be boring, boring enough to actually want to read those silly stories about the Norse.

She sat down at a desk and wrote on the partchment.
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She then took out her wand and tapped the partchment and tada she had a desk tag.
Then she looked around. She wondered what they were doing that lesson as Sarah noticed that there were no Gandrs around

After breakfast and having downed his cup of espresso, Ethan sprinted back up the stairs to the sixth floor towards the Ancient Runes classroom. It was time for class and he didn't want to be late.. what kind of example would that be? And when he turned in towards the door, he should have realized he needn't have worried. He was nearly the first one there.

That was slightly odd and remotely embarrassing, he thought as he slowed his steps and glanced at his watch. When was he ever one of the first ones in class? Especially when he was hurrying because he thought he was running late.. He was never that enthusiastic, even for Herbology.. but here he was. "Good morning, Professor," he greeted Botros with a nod as he walked past. And now he had his choice of pretty much any seat in the classroom.. which, thank Merlin, was immaculately clean.

He chose a seat smack dab in the middle of the classroom and sat down, pulling out his things from his bag to set on the desk. Glancing up at the board, he noticed the instructions and pulled out a piece of parchment to write on it.

He then tapped his wand on it and it turned into a name tag for his desk. Now what.. he would have to wait a bit for class to start since he was so early.. he opened his textbook and distractedly skimmed through it, his mind vaguely wandering to what they might be studying today.

Well at least the desks were not dusty.

Nigel was getting pretty sick of everything being dirty in this school But guessed that was the case with no house elves here. But still he did not want to clean. Even though he did learn some awesome cleaning spells in charms.

Now what was he suppose to do Nigel looked at the blackboard quickly. Then back to the Professor.

"Hello, Professor"

Maybe he had a hard time remembering names. Whatever, Nigel walked to a open desk and wrote down on his parchment

He then tapped it with his wand and made sure it turned into a desk name tag. Well that was all the magic Nigel was going to do in this class. Nigel did not hate Runes. He just liked using magic.

RUUUNES.

Well, Kat wasn't really a pro in this subject but she liked the Professor. Botros was awesome and he made most of his lessons really interesting. Kat liked most of the activities in class cos they were both educational and fun (but Kat liked the fun part more). She made her way to the Runes classroom with her charmed (undetectable extension charm) bag again. "Hi Professor," she said as she entered the classroom and took a seat somewhere.

Kat took her wand out after writing on her parchment and tapped it. Now her parchment was a shiny and pretty desk name tag. Time to wait for the others now... hmm.

Theo walked into the classroom looking glum. Classes tended to do that to him after a while, especially Ancient Runes classes. It was a subject he could not get his head around at all, so it obviously was not meant to beeeeee. He slumped down into a seat next to Kat, and smiled at her, and then he looked at the professor. "Hi, professor."

He wrote it down messily, then pulled out his wand to tap it. Ooooh... name tag.

Runes!

Ella had been looking forward to this class since the start of term and so she entered the room happily, a broad smile on her face. "Hello Professor!" GRIN. "Having a good day?" She hoped so. Botros was a favorite, of course. Feo too now. The blonde had gotten to spend some one-on-on time with the crup and he was a great little guy. YUP.

Taking a seat towards the front, the blonde smiled at those she knew then focused on her parchment. Scribble. Scribble. Scribble.

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Ella Bishop Fifth Year

Tap.

A clean classroom. As in its clean when they walk in and not have to clean it themselves. Such small blessings they can appreciate now eh?

Clutching her things extra tightly, as she always seem to do now whenever she walks in for class, she gives a bright smile to the elder Wizard “Good day Professor Botros.” She spots the instructions on the board and dutifully takes her seat, scribbles her name on the parchment and hesitantly, taps the parchment with her wand. Lo and behold!—and handy dandy desk plaque.

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Aquila Llywelyn 3rd year Ravenclaw

Wand down on the desk. Yeah she added her House in the end, mostly for her own reminding than for his.

Ancient Runes, a lesson who seemed to be very difficult. Sonea had followed this lesson during her first year, and she had learned that this was one of the most difficult thinks she had learned on Hogwarts, besides arithmancy, no she had totally no idea what she needed to do with arithmancy... But, she was now a second year student and she needed to do her best to become better, and if she did her best she probably could learn this lesson also!

“Hello professor” greeted Sonea friendly and looked around her. She saw a girl she had met before and walked over to her, “hi, can i sit in the chair besides you?” Sonea smiled friendly at the older girl and wrote while she waited on her parchment.

She waited with her parchment in her hands until the older girl said that it was okay to sit on the table who stood besides hers.

Jory had really enjoyed Ancient Runes last year and was looking forward to the lessons this year. When he got to the room, he saw that there were a few students there already. "Good day, Professor,'' he said to the man at the desk.

Jory found a seat and sat down, reading the notice on the board. Taking the parchment, he wrote the information required:

He then tapped it with his wand to turn it into a desk name tag.

If someone had told her at the end of her first year that she would like Ancient Runes, she probably would have thrown something at them to be quiet but after last term no one needed to convince her of that! They got to smash things and fly through things and be destructive without even using a wand!!!

Obviously this class would be a grand one for her!!

Lex hopped into the room, just finishing up a chocolate frog as she entered. No need to take it to class with her now. There was a wide grin across her face that faded only slightly when she entered.

No grandr baskets...did...did this mean they wouldn't be breaking anything this lesson??? "Hello Professor!!!" BEAM. "I see the class got cleaned...but...er...I think you might have forgotten to put the grandr baskets back. I assume we'll be needing them for the lesson, won't we?" Because she was sure that if she tried breaking things with her wand all she'd end up with was a broken wand and a tear stained face.

Oh and name tags! She plopped down in a random seat and began scribbling away.

Tap.

Voila, she now had a name tag! GRIN.

Here we go!
Acient Runes class... now where was it? Front row smack in the middle. There was hisdesk. The same one he crushed under the weight of Thor's Pseudo Hammer. Setting his bag below the desk Oakey smiled at Professor Botros. "Good Day Professor. Hope all is well with you?"

Quickly scribbling his information on the card Oakey gave it a tap and...

Ta-Da!

That last part was stupid, he should had crossed it out better.

Minerva made her way to Ancient Runes. Sleeping in a bit, she was rushing, not that she was going to be late, but Minerva Wheatborn was never one to be the last in class either. Slowing her pace as she entered the room, Min put a rushed smile on and nodded at the professor, "Hello Professor, hope you are well today."

Then she turned and gave a look around. Nodding at a few of her friends as she walked towards.. not her usual front seat, but... the middle.. honestly boy did he not know she sat in the front. Sighing she gave Ethan a smile and sat down in the empty next to him. Well maybe the middle wouldn't be so bad, "Good morning.." She said a bit rushed, still trying to wake herself up from over sleeping.

Pulling her hair up quickly to be out of the way, she pulled out her book, parchment, and quill. Alright now she just hoped she would be awake and ready enough for the information that would come with Ancient Runes. Glancing at the board she wrote the information and then pulled out her wand giving it a tap so that it was her nice new name tag. Now was class about to start?

Time for hanging out with Mo's all time favorite person. Or at least his favorite professor and possibly his best friend, because Mo had an opening for best friend, and Botros was awesome. Mo entered the classroom and gave Professor Botros a huge grin and a wave before scooting over to take a seat near the front of the room.

"Hey, Professor Botros, sir. Good day to you. How'd you like those Ashwinder eggs you bought? Not really good with a side of bacon, but I bet they were plenty useful." See, he was making egg jokes. They were practically buddies.

This was sure to be... interesting.

Tobias entered yet another new class, curious as to what it would be like, and his gaze fell immediately on the blackboard.

They had to do a thing.

A magic.

A magic thing.

That was almost enough to convince Tobias to turn straight back round and leave, but no... it wouldn't do to be discouraged by every tiny challenge. Instead, Tobias entered the room and took a seat near to the front so his view wouldn't be blocked by the head of a taller student. Retrieving his quill and ink and some extra parchment of his own, Tobias sat and did as told.

He then tapped it with his wand in the vain hope that it would become a desk name tag, but no go. Tobias tried again, but still no, so he gave a shrug and put his wand away, before moving the parchment so it was the right way up to anyone who was reading from in front of him. Then he waited.

Laura walked into the classroom and smiled. "Good Day Professor." Laura had been looking forwards to this class, after the detention and the talk in his office last year, she had realized that the Professor wasn't as bad as she had thought he would be. "Did you have a great summer sir?"

Laura sat down and followed the instructions on the board, so far it was so good.

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Glancing around the room as Nerida entered she felt kinda saddened, no interesting stuff anywhere!! Sure it was clean but where was the cool looking stuff!! Stupid budget issues, making them loose awesome runic stuff and making them use solo cups in divination.

"Hello Professor Botros..." she smiled before adding, "It's nice to see the room is clean." She walked towards an empty desk.

Once sitting down she smiled at the professor before writing her name and year onto the tag.

She pulled out her wand, gave the parchment a tap with the wand and grinned. How cool now it was a desk name tag.

"HI, professor." If anyone was late, it wasn't Alice. She arrived right on time for her favorite class, choosing the closest seat she could find to Botros' desk and supplying the elderly man with the biggest beam she could muster up this early. "Nice day, isn't it? Clean, too, at least in here. Will we be jumping through more hoops or smashing with more hammers this term? Where are all the Gandr baskets? Are they not here? Is this why we have to be making our own outside of class and stuff?" While she filled out her name tag, she chattered on relentlessly to the professor, tapping it with her wand when she finished.

And then she resumed smiling all contentedly up at Botros' desk. Hiii, professor.

YES. The class Dylan was MOST excited about was happening...Professor Botros WAS the man. Yes, he was.

Stepping into the classroom, the Slytherin Captain immediately looked around for the Professor...noting the man at his desk. "Good to see you again, sir..."...His voice trailed off, though...as he really got a look at the room. Something was different about it. Something...was missing.

Not being able to put his finger on it immediately, Dylan moved towards his seat, taking it at once. His eyes continued to rake his surrounding area, though. Very curious...Oh, wait. Where were the gandr baskets? That's what it was...and it looked rather bare in comparison to the last lesson they'd actually had in here.

With a look on his face, he pulled some parchment and a quill. It was a big thing, these name tags or whatever. Even though he knew the Professor wouldn't forget him. How could he?