Nessa beamed at Zander as he offered his answer. He possessed such presence.. a quality she could certainly appreciate. ”Oh that’s a good part of it,” she nodded. ”There have been many statute breaches regarding the Yeti.”

Nessa turned her brown eyes on the Gryffindor and called on her as she raised her hand. ”Well, in a sense, yes..” she mused aloud in a wistful voice. Really, anything could be rationalized as that so it wasn’t as if she was wrong.

”Oh, there were quite a few incidents, actually,” she replied to Lux’s offering with something of an excited expression. And they miiiight be talking about some today.

Nessa grinned as Flobberworm!Kyroh broke character and rushed off to his seat. Nodding to him as he raised his hand, she listened as he offered an answer. Aww! Was that not the cutest answer? Nessa tried to picture wee little yeti babies.. they had to be simply adorable! And she sort of drifted off in thought for a moment. ”Oh.. oh yes! It’s always important to learn from events in history to know what to do or not to do. And this is no exception.” Who would want to get attacked? That would be dreadful.

Nessa was still so delighted with her Watson and Holmes, especially that they seemed intent on staying in character through class. She really should have a conversation with them after class sometime. But for now, they had a lesson to tend to and she called on Ethan as he raised his hand. Oh, the enemy? She supposed some saw the Yeti in that manner.. she preferred antagonist in certain stories, but that was not the point of his answer. ”Yes, knowing and studying them would help in having to deal with them.. and even perhaps in better upholding the Statute of Secrecy in that area.” Those poor Tibetans sure seemed to have their hands full.

Oh, goodness.. Nessa was rather glad that someone brought this up, though she knew it was inevitable. ”Supposed to be is probably a good choice of words, Angel,” she said with a warm smile at the girl. This was Angel, right? Nessa glanced over to her identical sister.. yes, she had made a note of where they were sitting and she was correct in her thinking. ”In reality, he relayed stories of other great wizards and projected them onto himself..” But more about that in a minute.

Nessa did not have a response for the boy’s retort. Just because it wasn’t a curse didn’t make it not unfriendly. But he was missing the entire point and she wasn’t going to waste any more of class time trying to make him understand because she was afraid that would be futile.. and possibly get him into more trouble. And Nessa felt just horrible as it was. She didn’t want to be the mean teacher. But she did want him to learn and unfortunately sometimes kids had to learn the hard way. She would definitely be tapping it out in her office later. That always made her feel better. And maybe he could learn something while he waited for the Headmistress to arrive.

”Oh isn’t that a horrible nickname?” Nessa said with a small frown. Who would want to be called abominable? Even if they were frightening and attacked people and things like that. ”But actually, the weather was something of an inspiration for today’s lesson..” At least her mind kept going there because of all the snow. It just made her think of it.

Nessa thought this one over, tapping her chin lightly. ”There are some noteworthy events regarding Yetis,” she finally said. Not so much one particularly remarkable one.. though maybe their own kind would dispute that.

Nessa beamed at Cutty as he raised his hand, not noticing his less than pleased expression. ”True.. we won’t be discussing the biologic specifics of the Yeti as that would be something more relevant in Care of Magical Creatures. We will be discussing more events as they fall in line with Wizards and Muggles.” So yes, as she basically said in a roundabout way, he was correct.

Nessa eyes widened slightly as Aubrey provided her answer. Now those things could be called abominable in her opinion, and they probably wouldn’t even care. ”No..” she sort of trailed off as she looked out the frosted windows in the classroom, trying to connect the dots. Was the girl implying there were chorts in the snow? Those things were clear on the near other side of the world. She was lost in thought for a moment before shaking herself from her reverie. She had a class to conduct! Focus!

Brown eyes fell on Emmylou a moment. No response just yet? That was fine and the History of Magic professor gave her a soft smile to see her looking through the book. Perhaps she would glean something from the text to contribute later.

Nessa gave Adi a bright smile for his effort. ” I suppose that is a matter of relativity.. but in general no.” At least not by their standards. By Yeti standards, it would be likely.

Did Cassie know how awful she felt about having to give that boy detention? She did know it was necessary, right? She couldn’t just let students go around attacking each other or their professors or mass chaos would erupt. And the child needed to learn. But that didn’t make her feel much less bad about it, just wishing they could all have a good time. A mani-pedi would have normally been in order after class following something like this, but since she had to forego her salon appointments being stuck in the castle, she’d have to give herself one. Nessa beamed at Cassie as she got up from her desk-arm chair. ”Thank you so much for your assistance.” Really, how fortunate t was that she had decided to drop in today. What would she do without her?

”Oh that certainly does come into play with what we’ll be discussing, yes..” Such bright little students she had! ”And maybe why they have such a hard time concealing the Yeti’s existence..” And other things along that line.


Nessa had to admit that she rather enjoyed Gilderoy Lockhart and not for the reasons one might necessarily think. She hoped they didn’t think she asked them to bring the book today as a completely accurate work of fact. But she would get to that in a minute as well. ”I’m glad you brought that up,” she said, tilting her head slightly. Was he still in character? She couldn’t quite tell with that answer. ”Gilderoy Lockhart was a great storyteller, but he was just that. He didn’t actually do any of the things he wrote about. And that is perfectly fine to be a storyteller..” There were so many great ones throughout history. ”BUT it is important to be honest and up-front about that fact.. Something that he was not. That being said.. the accounts in that book are true.. they are just accounts that belong to other people.” And she would talk more about why she had asked them to bring that book in a few minutes.

”None quite of that magnitude,” Nessa said, nodding a bit at Jasmine’s answer. ”But yes, there have been reports of attacks.” She supposed she would attribute it to the weather there. She knew everyone was rather tired of all this snow, most people didn’t want to hang out in this all the time.

Definitely true. Nessa nodded at Nigel’s answer. ”That they are..” And she supposed they’d be touching on that today.

Hmm.. Nessa tapped her chin thoughtfully as she heard Alexa’s answer. ”I don’t think so..” she said slowly, still searching the reserves of her memory. That sounded familiar, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on it. Did that come up in her improv classes? ”But check your book.. there might be mention of something like that.”

Nessa gave Grayson a conspiratorial smile at his answer. She remembered his homework theories. ”That’s a possibility.. “ she started slowly, building suspense. ”There must be some explanation to why they aren’t as easily hidden as some other things.” But sometimes the stories were even better.

Hmm.. well, that would be the more obvious answer, considering the class they were in. But even though it was right in a general sense, it wasn’t exactly correct in a specific sense. ”There have been quite a few events involving Yetis.. but their importance is relative.” There wasn’t anything major like what they had talked about last time but there were plenty of other things that had happened.

Nessa really liked how this little Ravenclaw enunciated certain words for effect. She would be really good at telling stories. ”Well, that’s really good advice about anything that happens. It’s important to learn from what happens to shape your responses to future events.” But what she offered next really struck her interest. ”It certainly would be interesting to see if any of you could come up with a better solution than the ones already in place,” she told her with a knowing smile. She knew how creative they could all be though.

Hmm? Nessa’s eyes snapped from Zahra to the frosted window. A Yeti outside? ”I don’t think so,” she mused, still sort of squinting out the window. Wouldn’t that be exciting though? They’re all taking about Yetis and BAM, one shows up... but no. ”A little too far from home to be here.. but yes,” she grinned. ”That’s one reason why we’re talking about Yetis.. I did determine the subject of today’s lesson.” Sometimes she just really loved the literal and couldn’t help but to chuckle.

Nessa grinned at Dima as he crabwalked up to the front of the room to get a book. That took some talent. ”Wellll, no, not today,” she started, still smiling widely. Hey, good guess and she actually could do a lesson on the author if she wanted. She did enjoy the man’s flair for dramatics. ”We are actually going to be learning about Yetis today.. but I do know plenty about Gilderoy Lockhart, the author of the book. We’ll talk about him a little bit, but if you have any other questions about him, just ask!” She gave the Ravenclaw a beamy smile.. she did like talking about that man with a flair for the dramatics.

Looking around for anyone else with their hand in the air, Nessa couldn’t help but to allow her brown eyes to settle on Penelope for a moment. Oh, she just looked so out of sorts, didn’t she? Professor Glendower so wanted the girl to have a good time in class today, especially after the last episode she had in this room, but it was clear that that was not happening yet.. and she supposed the earlier negativity did not help matters. Nessa fought the frown threatening to appear and instead gave the girl an encouraging smile. Even if she had nothing to offer right now, there was still plenty of time for her to participate and have fun.

Nessa nodded at Fern to call on her and gave a mildly impressed look at her contribution. “Well, we aren’t going to be learning about that today.. but what a fantastic idea for a future lesson!” Nessa beamed back at the girl as she grabbed her planner stashed on a shelf inside the podium along with a quill and jotted that down. She was always on the lookout for something interesting she could turn into a fantastic lesson and she thought she might be able to fit that in somewhere. There were plenty of famous wizards to learn about.. starting with Mr. Lockhart himself.


Nessa tilted her head in thought as Beverly provide her answer, then she turned her eyes to the frosted window again. “Hmm..” Her mind started drifting as she imagined bundled-up children riding piggyback on a herd (pack?) of Yeti through pre-dug tunnels in the snow. Maybe if there were actually Yeti out there and it was still snowed in when school was being dismissed for the summer..

She was snapped out of her reverie when she heard the voice of Kace Lecium and she turned her attention on him. ”Hmm? Oh.. yes.. well, there are stories about long winters in there. But mostly because that is the climate of their natural habitat.” Long winters.. those creatures liked the cold.

Nessa could sense the eagerness bubbling under the surface of this young man. Perhaps it was the fact that he not only raised his hand to offer an answer, but his entire body as well. "Why, yes.. there are quite a few parallels between the Yeti an that very incident," she beamed at Mo once he sat back down. "I think making it a good subject for today's lesson.." And the perfect segue from one to the next, or so she thought.