Jasmine arrived at the Defense against the Dark Arts classroom wondering why they weren't meeting in the Dueling Arena this time. Walking inside, she looked around the room. No desks, no mats, just leaves all over the floor. Jasmine couldn't imagine what they were in for today. As she navigated her way around the leaves, she tried to decide on agood place to stand.

Seeing Professor Romanos in the back of the room, Jasmine said, "Hello Professor". Picking a random wall, she leaned against it and waited for her classmates to arrive. Hopefully, the Professor would explain things to them soon.

.............. Why were they HERE all of a sudden?

Because Grayson had headed over towards the Duelling Arena, as per usual, only to find that no one was in there. He had almost decided to pay Romanos a visit to ask her when he remembered reading something about a classroom 1C in the notice board in the Common Room. SO. He came here. To this classroom 1C. Which was on the opposite side of Duelling Arena.

Thanks for all that unnecessary bit of exercise.

And this classroom was WEIRD. There weren't any desks or mats, which made the fifteen year old pause at the door and furrow his eyebrows. Instead, there were leaves on the floor. Freaking LEAVES. They almost looked unnatural, both because they were in a classroom and because the Slytherin couldn't remember the last time he had seen them before. Thanks snow.

Shrugging, Grayson made his way into the classroom, his feet crunching on some of the leaves. "Hey Professor!" And he stood. In the middle of the classroom. With his hands in his pockets and his bag hanging off of his right shoulder. Because there really wasn't anything else to do.

Errr, why were they HERE?

O_____o

Confused, Lux stepped inside the incredibly bare classroom and blinked. The only thing she could see were the leaves on the floor. And people too, of course. "Hello, Professor Romanos. Jasmine. Grayson." A weak smile on her face, she waited for the lesson to begin. Hopefully things would be explained, because she was very confused.

By this point in his magical education, West had ceased being surprised by where classes were held and had learned to go with it. At least this one was an actual classroom, even if it was filled with leaves....

Right. West skirted the room, avoiding the leaves as best as possible, and found a patchof wall to lean against.

"Good day professor."

Leaf yoga was probably going to be a thing.

This was very interesting. The only good thing about autumn was in this room right now and Nigel did not know whether to flop right now the leaves or be cautious and just greet Romanos and stand in a corner.

Though with Nigel, Option One usually wins out and it did. "Hello, Professor" Nigel said before he flopped onto the floor and started making leaf angels. Or starfishing. Whichever is easier for you to understand. He did not care about the other people in the room. They could watch him be awesome standing waiting for Romanos to give instructions.

Nigel was starfishing and not really caring if anything was in the leaves or not.

Anna walked in and glanced around... This wasn't where they normally were right? Yeah... maybe skipping class hadn't been the best idea for her, but she didn't see the need for going to her classes as much this year. She glanced around and sighed. Leafs? Really, now what were the meaning of the little mess makers being in here?

She just rolled her eyes slightly and stayed away from them, she wasn't going to lose house points for going near somewhere she shouldn't have. She leaned against the back wall and looked around again. Why do this? This room was just strange and honestly, it felt cramped to her, maybe she chose the wrong day to come down from her bed. She just sighed again and frowned, could they get this class over with already?

Agatha entered the classroom and was greeted by the oddest sight ever. No, she wasn't surprised by the leaves, she even walked on them and heard them crunching under her feet, but THAT.

Nigel, the master of weirdness, was lying on the floor moving his legs and arms as if he were doing snowangels. In this case, leaf angels. It was impressive how the strange Ravenclaw had the ability to come up with bigger nonsense than Agatha could imagine.

The third year rolled her eyes exaggeratedly and shook her head as she walked as further away as possible from the freak. "Hi, professor." She finally greeted the woman, giving her a polite nod before going back to judging STARING at Nigel.

Zander walked into the room with a skeptical look on his face. Okay, there was no denying it.. Romanos was totally evil. And sketch. She was like the most evil and sketch. Mhm. She definitely had something to do with this Cold Ones invasion. And she was most definitely the leader of their army. NOT TO MENTION that she was brought up with those 'Chort' things too in the research meeting. Most definitely evil. And that's that. He casually walked past Romanos and nervously greeted her, "Uh...H-hello Professor...." He knows what you are Romanos. He knows.

After all this evidence against the woman, how was he not supposed to look all skeptical upon entering the room. It was all first year knowledge. When you have evidence and stuff, it's true. 100%. She was bad news, she really was.

Also, could someone explain this new classroom? There was no way this place existed before. Nope. He would not believe it. And he leaves. DID THEY COME FROM OUTSIDE?! OH MERLIN, this was probably where she was planning on keeping them for the Cold Ones attack! She was going to keep them all here TO DIE and to get their hearts frozen!! Nooooo, Romanos spare him PLEASE he likes his heart!! See, he would've just skipped out on class all together because he KNEW who this woman was. Buuuut he couldn't let all his classmates die! He had to save them! So instead the third year ran over to strategically take a seat by the--- THERE WERE NO WINDOWS?!

Now it was really time to freak out. O___o

Toby was all excited to be in a different classroom than usual today, but then he was basically excitable about everything at all times, so that probably meant nothing. He all but bounced his way into classroom 1C after a steady stream of other students, and glanced around the room to take things in. No surprises really, after a while you sort of go used to the unorthodox teaching spaces.

No desks though, so Toby just wandered on into the room, fighting the urge to kick gleefully and childishly at the piles of leaves all around. Instead of that, he grinned over at Romanos and gave her a wave and a beaming grin.

"Hi Professor Romanos!" Hi. Hiiiiiiiiiiii.

Just why was he so happy and upbeat? Merlin only knew.

Hayden was overjoyed to find that the room she stepped into was warm Well, it wasn't warm warm, but it was considerably warmer than the rest of the school so it felt pretty warm. It felt like fall more than it felt like eternal winter, and it looked like fall too. Hayden surveyed the room. LEAVES!

"Hello professor," she said as she walked into the room, enjoying the satisfying crunch of a few leaves beneath her feet. She wanted to run around to them all but restrained herself. She decided to stand near the middle of the room, seeing as there were no desks, but she eyed the leaves. "Can we make a leaf pile and jump in it?" Pleeeease?

After what seemed like AGES, Noel had a good night sleep because the flu was getting better. He was less cranky, and more yawn-y. He felt fresh, yet wished he could have slept some moooore.

So he didn't notice at first the leaves on the floor, he just walked right in - until a few crunched under his shoes. AUTUMN LEAVES?

Oh how perfect!

"Hello Professor," he grinned.

Ethan was definitely getting tired of being inside, and it didn't help one bit that this classroom had no windows. At all. The Slytherin took a deep breath, and willed himself to relax. No, no. He's not claustrophobic. It's the cabin fever slapping him on the face again.

And, leaves?

The boy was careful not to step on any of it, instead he watched where he was going, and got himself a spot at the back. Looking up front, he saw the professor. "Good day, professor." No cheery greeting for now. Not in this classroom.

"Good morning." she smiled, pulling a pair of gloves out of her pocket to slip them on. It was chilly, but goodness, at least it wasn't like the dueling arena.

Ahh gloves. That was better.

"Good morning, Mister Whitlock."

"Gooood morning." she smiled towards the Hufflepuff with a little nod.

That look of confusion hadn't gone unnoticed.

Of course, the first seventh year to walk in was West. Naturally. The term was coming towards it's end and even with the tense atmosphere from the dementor incident, she would still miss the Slytherin after the year ended. "Good morning, Mister Odessa."

Ahh, naturally, another parting seventh year. But......Oooh?

"Save some for the rest of your classmates, Mister Barrington." Teehee. Not that it was an issue.

There were plenty of leaves to go around.

The quiet ones, she noticed. Most of the time.

Though with Nigel creating leaf angels, there was a bit of delay in greeting the Hufflepuff with her usual welcoming smile.

"Helloooooo." she smiled, sliding her hands into the pockets of her coat. Brr.

Odd behavior was odd.

Her eyebrows raised just a smudge, unsure whether to be amused or concerned. Was that a stutter in Zander's voice? She didn't particularly remember there being one from before. "Good day." she greeted with her usual warmth, smile turning a little more sly. Lighten the mood a bit. "I hope the cold isn't getting to you too much."

May just need an excuse to roast marshmallows or something.

Oh my. "Zdrasti, Mister Tempus!" Happiest greeting she'd received as of yet today!

Leaning against the wall behind her, her gaze shifted to Hayden, unable to contain her smile from growing. "If you vish." she replied, crossing a foot over the other. "Ve haff a little time before the lesson. Be careful though."

"Hellooo, Mister Wallace." Wallace. What a wonderful last name to say. Just rolled off the tongue.

...

The leaves didn't biiite.

"Good morning." she greeted in return, smile as pleasant as ever. Ahem. Someone didn't wake up on the wrong side of the bed did they?

Her smile just spelled evil. It did. He could feel it. She was OOZING EVIL. Good day?! Of course it was a good day for her! She was going to feed them to her Cold One army. Of course SHE was probably having the best day. Luring all these unsuspecting children into her second dueling classroom of DEATH.

I hope the cold isn't getting to you too much?! What WAS THAT supposed to mean!?! Zander's eyes widened and probably doubled their normal sized. What she probably meant was that she DID hope that the cold was getting to him. And by cold, she probably meant THE COLD ONES!!! He knows who you are Romanos. Can't fool this smart nugget. He's got you pinned down for what you truly are. Evil.

Instead of opting to speak again-because that did not work out well the first time- he just nodded sloooooowwly with eyebrows raised and suspicious look still there. Why weren't there windows!?! WHY? Backing away now...

THUD!! Man down. Darn leaves. This woman was SO clever! She had left leaves on the floor so that if they tried to run and escape (or back away without looking at where they were headed oops) they'd slip! So clever. And so evil. Hmph. He just lied there. No major damage. Just his back ached a little. But it wasn't a big deal. THERE WERE BIGGER PROBLEMS HERE. Like the Cold One invasion about to take place! Why was everyone just standing around!? THEY NEED TO ESCAPE!

One freaked out Zander was not just about to lay in the middle of the room on his back. No! He decided to army crawl all the way to the edge of the room, where he'd be safe... For now! Dun. Duuuhn. Duuuuuuuhhhn.

Kyroh had gotten lost. But it wasn't his fault. And if he DIDN'T find the classroom soon he was going to go back up stairs to the warmth of his-peaking his head into the classroom a sightly disappointed look spread across the first years face. So THIS was where classroom 1C was. Aw. No warm dorm.

Steeping inside he FIRST noticed that there where no desks, chairs, or even YOGA MATS. How was he suppose to keep warm?! He needed his makeshift blanket. After that though he oh so observant Ravenclaw took notice of the leaves. Which..... Autumn was long gone....and this classroom had no windows. "Professor did you get into a fight with a tree?-Wait now! I know! You're turning into a tree aren't you!?" He glanced at her. No bark like skin but it could still be possible. Did a Cold One come and make a mistake and turn her into a Tree instead of a Skygge? Not waiting for an answer he looked around once more until his eyes locked onto West. Quickly Kyroh made his way over to the older boy making sure to step on LOTS of leaves in the process. Coming to a halt he glanced at West's stance and promptly leaned against the wall as well. He even crossed his arms. Heh. Cool.

"The Professor is turning into a tree." He informed the older boy. Yup. No big deal or anything. Too cool to care and all.

Also...Zander was crawling? Alright then sidekick!

Ethan did smile back at the professor, but dropped it when his eyes fell on the leaves again. Yes, he's being paranoid because there's no window! Merlin. Now he realized that he'd rather be snowed in than be inside this room with no windows at all.

The Slytherin jerked a little when he saw a boy lying on the floor. Zander? What's he doing? Class hasn't even started and there was a little commotion already. He watched as Zander crawled all the way towards a wall, and the Snake made his way towards the boy.

Crouching beside him, Ethan sniffed the leaves. Yes. Sniffing stuff.

Sniff sniff sniiiiiiiffffffff.

The end of the term was coming awfully quickly, along with her birthday and the dreaded exams, yet all Lily had been able to focus on as of late was the cold. The cold and how much she’d wanted the snow to clear and contact to be reinstated before her birthday, which she honestly felt wasn’t going to happen. At this point, she was resigned to the possibility that they’d be trapped for the rest of term, and that was thinking positively. NEWTs were important, but she just wanted warmth. As she’d stepped into classroom 1C, though, she realized that somehow it was even slightly warmer than most of the rest of the castle, save right next to the fire in the common room. That was promising, and she’d smiled a little. Even more at the amusing sight of Nigel on the floor making leaf angels. In the layer of leaves that were mysteriously covering the floor in a classroom that appeared to have no windows, possibly explaining the slight change in temperature.

A very slight change in temperature, as it was still cold. It was just not freezing cold, and she kicked a few of the leaves experimentally with a booted toe as she made her way around to a spot not far from Lux. They seemed like normal leaves, but she couldn’t be sure. That depended on Professor Romanos, who got another smile from her as she’d looked up and seen her. “Good morning Professor Romanos!,” she said, kicking a few more leaves that had shifted near her just because. At least she wasn’t smelling them, like it seemed Ethan was.

Lucy walked into the classroom of DADA..
She was very surprised no to see any desk nor any chair but only a lot of leaves on the floor..
Lucy said:"Good morning professor!" and she began to wait for the start of the lesson..

Angel was feeling really cold at the minute but she couldn't help that, it was this stupid weathers fault. She suddenly noticed the Professor standing at the back of the room. "Good Morning Professor." Angel then stopped in her track, had the Professor opened the window and leaves had come into the room? Or was this her usual behaviour.

Leah had done a good job re-reading the notice before heading for the lesson. Otherwise she would have arrived at the dueling arena waiting for the professor and her classmates forever. So, classroom 1C. She imagined the classroom to be the same as any other, but -

Leaves. Leaves? Leah had to think whether it was autumn right now before realizing it was actually spring. The weird weather had definitely affected her brain. Because she only just realized something missing. "No mats? Really?" The Hufflepuff had grown to love those since her first ever DADA lesson. The fact that there were no desks nor chairs did not even reach Leah's mind.

"Good morning, Professor Romanos." she said, seeing the professor at the back of the classroom. She sat down on the leaves, leaning against a wall. The second year missed the mats, and WHAT was wrong with the boys? Zander crawling, a Claw boy claiming that the professor was turning into a tree, and the Ethan guy sniffing the leaves. Merlin.

The first question was ..why were there leaves on the ground in an indoor classroom? But that question wasn't that important. What was , was WHAT ON EARTH WAS ZANDER DOING?!

The moment Kevin had entered the room he had spotted his friend yes he had a friend shush on the ground and then crawling away towards the other end of the room. Kevin pinched the bridge of his nose while shaking his head and while ignoring the Professor he stepped on the leaves, some of them crunching under his shoes as he made his way towards the Gryffindor. "Dude, you forgot how to walk or something?" he asked the moment he stood near him and sat down next to him. "You're such a weirdo" he grinned.

AJ was seriously debating on just staying in bed today because she was so over fighting the cold. It didn't look like it was going to warm up any time soon. Forget the fact that summer would be here before you knew it. The ONLY thing that made her get out of bed was the fact that the lesson was DADA and that meant that she might be able to have a chance to zap or blow something up. Without thinking AJ put on Adi's jacket and made her way down to where the lesson was being held.

The first year felt like she was behind in homework assignments so she told herself that she would get it together. She was messing up a good thing that was going for her. AJ could let that snowball. Walking in, the first she noticed were the leaves. Weird. She spotted the professor. "Hello professor." What was up with the leaves? Her eyes landed on her sister and she walked over to her. "Hey Angel."

DADA in a strange classroom? Adi wondered what was up with that. He stepped curiously into the room. Where were the windows and furniture?! And why, why, why was the floor covered in leaves? O_O

Trying to avoid stepping on any, he grinned at Lux and Jasmine. Hiiiii, guys! Oh and Professor! Hiiii, to you too. The lady got a wave from Adi before he turned his attention to the commotion in the form of Zander. The Hufflepuff nearly laughed out loud at the sight of his friend crawling away after his fall. Was the guy okay? He decided to go find out. "Dude, why are you crawling?'' Kevin was right. Zander was weird. Hehe. "Hi, Kevin.'' Couldn't ignore the little Gryffindor, could he? Nah. Adi was a rude one.

And...and was that AJ wearing his jacket? Had she known she put it on? Adi gave her a small wave.

... No. No smile back for the professor. She wasn't in a smiling mood, nor a talking mood, so hopefully today she could just be left alone and not have to bothered. Annaleecia just glanced away from her teacher. Just leave her be and she'd be a good student and be quiet and do as she was told... Just leave her alone, and no more smiling at her either.