He had arrived at least a good ten minutes ago, but Dima had been standing at the door for AGES watching Bellaire and Quigley. Sit. Do not sit. SIT.

Er.... if they were so immature as to keep bickering over who had more authority over students, why were they holding a lesson together? Just saying.

After a good while of debating, the third year entered the classroom. "Hi professors. Lovely day, isn't it? If one of you takes points, will the other one give 'em back?" Dima headed over to the seat by Dot and.... remained standing because that was the most recent order given. Yup.

Angel looked at both the Professors, seriously it was a case of who she thought was scarier and she was sorry Bellaire for once she was finding the other person more scarier and she would rather have detention with Professor Bellaire then Professor Quigley, so she was going to stay seated and if she lost points she would go find her head of house and tell him all about what was going on, the only thing that was missing her was someone saying Simon said because that is what she was being reminded off, she would stay seated and Professor Bellaire would just have to speak to her about it later if she wanted too.

..........So twenty points off if he stays seated and only ten if he stands. Dante did not think this was an Arithmancy class. He did not know he was going to have to math today. But he would take the ten instead of the twenty thank you every much

Well Dante knew Queen Bellaire longer, so not sitting for him. Though he was not totally standing. Dante probably looked pretty funny if people were looking at him.

This class was already a disaster.

.... All Evie knew is that she did not want to be here. Seriously? She was fifteen and she was fairly certain she was more mature than both Quigley and Bellaire combined at the moment. It was either sit or lose ten points, stand or lose twenty? How was this even fair? It wasn't.

Evie raised her hand, quite frankly a little upset at the lack of maturity of her professors, who were supposedly adults. "Professors," she said loudly above the chatter of everyone else. "Don't you think it's a little unfair to punish us for your poor communication skills with one another?" Don'tcha? "It's not our fault you can't actually stand each other enough to come up with some common ground." And she (obviously) wasn't afraid to say it.

So, Evie dropped her bag and compromised.

She STOOD on her chair. She was on it, but she was standing. Win-win?

Ugh, this was getting further than it needed to. It...honestly wasn't that serious and he couldn't be bothered with the back and forth. It was exhausting and considering the class had only JUST started, it would be ridiculous to expect a nap.

Eh...

Ehhhhhhh.....Maddox didn't remember signing up for all this. Finally, he raised his hands, quieting the students with their questions and suggestions because a glance at the clock told him they needed to get started NOW or they would never get through the idea thing.

"Alright, alright. I think it's time we get settled." Not their fault they weren't settled, he wouldn't be throwing that on them. "I'll ask you guys to sit because we'll be beginning now." Unless Bellaire figured they'd stand through the whole thing? He didn't think so. Maddox watched the chalk rise from his desk as he took another munch of his apple.

"As usual, we'll begin with a simple question or two." Hopefully they were on the same page and beyond the...er...display earlier. "Dragons. Why aren't we allowed to have them and how do you think people could skirt this rule? Note, I don't mean Ministry regulated reasons, I mean why do you think the way you do about this topic."

OOC: Class has officially begun, please don't post your charrie arriving after this point unless you want to face the IC consequences ^^ we'll move this in maybe 12-18 hrs

This was pathetic.

These two childish adults were completely incapable of compromising with one another and there was some points war going on between them. Layla really didn't care whether she lost or not but she cared that this was supposed to be a lesson and these two were 'supposed' to be 'professors'. The thought was currently laughable. Whereas one had been polite in his addressing of Layla, the other had demanded rather than asked and Layla had decided that it was she who should learn respect.

How many points exactly would she lose if she just straight-up walked out of this moronic classroom? She was oh so tempted.

She sat. Mostly because she was fed up of standing around watching these two fight and she wanted the lesson over and done with quicker. Why were they doing a lesson together if they were incapable of getting along?

She ignored everything that was happening and continued to stare at the cage in front of her blocking out the sounds of everyone in the classroom, the frown she had intended to leave at the door permanently etched across her face. Take the points from her, see if she cared. She was here to learn anyway.

The lesson thankfully started but Layla didn't bother answering. She was going to spend this whole lesson listening and taking notes. She didn't need to contribute, she didn't even want to be here. As for what her answer would be? Because they were dangerous. Because letting lose a dragon in the middle of the countryside would be a stupid idea?

Wasn't that obvious?

Yeah, YEAH, they were like totally all rebelling against one Prof or the other right now. HILARIOUS. Zeke was very amused. So amused he couldn't help but sit and grin despite the stupidity of it all. HAHAHAHA. Nevertheless, he was already sitting, so all he had to do was take his things out of his bag now.

But wait, did Quigley just say dragons?!

DRAGONS?!

IS THAT WHAT THE CAGES WERE FOR? THEY WERE GETTING PET DRAGONS?... one could only hope.

Hand UP UP UUUUPPP in the air, Zeke jumped in with his response. "Dragons are dangerous and stuff and people could use them to fight and things, so that'd be totally bad." Yep.. super bad, but as for skirting around it, hehe. "People keep them a secret, hide them and disguise them, shrink them and things. That way they can sell them on the black market, use them to eliminate their enemies or use them for dragon fights and things to make money from."

That was a thing, wasn't it?

How dare all these people - INCLUDING the new Charms professor - be rude to professor Bellaire? How DARE they disrespect her and her rules like that!? And how RUDE of this silly new professor to be so defiant and tell students they'd lose points if they didn't sit down.

How rude. How. RUDE.

Agatha did not like him nor his silly subject. Nevermind the fact she's skipped many of his lessons so it was also her fault she didn't know Charms that well.

No. She was standing and would only sit down when professor Bellaire told her to.

See, professor Q-whatever, Agatha could be defiant too. AND she could ignore your question.

RUDE man.

Eyes on professor Bellaire because SHE was worth to be listened to.

Dragons!

Well that peaked Dante's interest. They were on the same level of awesome animals as Toads where. Dragons were only slightly better because of the whole fire thing and being giant. Hopalong Montezuma would be so mad at him right now.

"It is because if people had dragons they would try and rule the world with them. And people in government would not want that"

These are the types of things Dante ponder when he was bored or you know he would just annoy portraits for fun.

But that gets old after a while.

Finally, the lesson was starting. Normally, she wouldn't be too excited over this, but she was in a sort of crouch with one leg dangling over her seat while the two professors went back and forth over the sitting situation. Phew. Maybe the two professors were actually in love. No need to mention that little thought process. Bellaire wouldn't take too kindly to that, and they had just been given permission to sit. Sort of. Erm.

Best not call attention to herself then. Oh, they were going to talk about dragons. AJ eyes her cage. Could they--- No way. Not even a baby dragon. Ahem. Anyways. What did she think besides the fact that dragons were awesome. It made her think about Adi and Benny. Benny the dragon that is. "We aren't allowed to have them because boring people complain." There is always that one person that ruins everything for others. "You know those people... I can't have a dragon so nobody can." But there was ways around that. Oh yes. "We're wizards though. We can just put an invisible charm on them. Or put a horn on their head and swear that it's a scaly unicorn." Totes could work.

Puck grinned at the question…dragons? “Well personally I think Dragons are pretty awesome?” She admitted with a grin. “I think the reason people are afraid of them is because of their strength and the relative ability to train them to be ‘domestic’.” She mused as she sat there.

Leaning back in her seat as she thought more on the topic, “as for getting around not having them – people might shrink them down using the Diminuendo charm?” she offered as she brushed her hair off of her shoulder.

The professors. The rules. Paloma's eyes had just gone back and forth looking at both, trying really to just not...go against any of them. It was awful already. She gulped, taking a grasp of the end of her shirt, then thought about the answer. And raised her hand...

"Well, keeping track of them is quite...hard. They grow at a fast pace, their eating habits also change. And well, the black market is quite interesting, they trade them, they use them for unhealthy diversion..." It's quite difficult to explain, in her own words about dragons, to actually make a good and coherent thought about it. Her hand slowly, really slowly put her hand down. Not very clever.

Finally could they get past the whole sitting/standing thing? 'Cause Norah had sat down and stood up so many times her legs were starting to feel funny, and those were her BEST skipping legs, she NEEDED 'EM.

Dragons, COOL. Norah put her hand politely in the air, just in case somebody was gonna start yelling again, to give her answer. "Dragons are dangerous 'cause they can blow stuff up with their fire breath! Plus I bet they're probably hard to control being so big 'n all. They're still really cool, bust some people mistake EXCITING dangerous stuff like dragons, with SCARY dangerous stuff, so they made 'em against the rules." If you asked her, people should REALLY be outlawing spiders, 'cause those were gross and scary and very not cool. "I don't really know how people get 'em if they're against the rules, but if you have one you could probably make it invisible or super small or so it looks like a dog and then hide it somewhere." Hehehe imagine having a tiny ickle dragon to play with.

The facepalm. Zander definitely saw that. Except he figured it meant that Professor Q probably had a grand headache with this whole 'stand up' and 'sit down' thing just like he did. Though, he would imagine that the Professor would be elated that Zander Adair was able to come up with such a clever idea of half sitting and half standing. It was pure brilliance... Yet the man seemed to be more annoyed than anything?

Welp. Uh. Q wanted him to sit down properly? But Bellaire said-- O______________O 10 WHOLE points?!?! No. That was it, Zander was sitting for sure now. Answer locked in. Set. Go.

TWENTY??? TWENTY WHOLE POINTS??? Nope. He was standing again.

........ Once Professor Q turned to address the whole class once again, Zander found himself letting out a sigh of relief. For the first time in his life, Zander Adair was actually HAPPY that class was starting. Bellaire only made them stand for the beginning before the lesson started... And Q wanted them to sit... So. Brilliant. This meant he could finally sit and wouldn't be breaking EITHER of their silly rules. Merlin. Headache was still there though, there was nothing he could do to fix that... Probably.

"Dragons are really just misunderstood," YUP he was talking all the people who were saying stuff about dangerous and unruly and stuff. Dragons were cool. "But I guess they have the potential to be dangerous 'n all..." Well, anyways. Not going into detail here because Merlin forbid that was probably against the rules too. Wouldn't put it past Bellaire in all honesty. "And as for the rules... You could just have one and not tell anyone about it? If they don't know, they can't do anything... Right?" Like his cruppy. If his parents knew, they'd kill him. Except the didn't know. HEH.

This sitting and standing thing was driving Adi crazy, man. Why didn't the two Professors just make up their mind? And that girl, Evie was her name? She was right to do that- stand on the chair. Still standing but basically on the chair. Hehe.

Soooo... they could sit? For real right? No jokes? Adi sat down and got his books out. DRAGONS? The Hufflepuff's head jerked up to look at Benny beside him, a huge grin plastered on his face. FINALLY! A class where the could talk about the creatures! Adi listened with interest. It was one of his ambitions to get Benny his first dragon (SHHH! DON'T TELL THE BESTIE!) but with a law or rule or whatever the Ministry had made things complicated.

The Hufflepuff shoved his hand in the air. "We can't have them because they could be a danger to people especially those who aren't trained well enough to handle them.'' Like AJ said, those people were boring. "Persons who have one or a few can change the dragon or dragons appearance or simply put a charm on them to act as a disguise.'' Heh. That was pitiful. Dragons were not meant to be disguised.

Twenty-points? Amur stared and stared hard.

Yup. This was totally what her parents had gone through. Sides and all. They even had the facial expressions down right. So Amur decided she would do what she did back then. She rested against the back of the chair and folded her arms across her chest. Not. Moving. An. Inch.

Thankfully, almost everyone else seemed to have come to the same conclusion, and for those that didn't Professor Quigley cleared it up quite nicely by starting the lesson. And the topic, well, that was a deal-breaker for attention.

Amur squirmed forward in her seat as her hand went up. "Because they can fit a whole person in their mouth." Yup. Usually things that did that were illegal to have or be around, for obvious safety reasons. Still, they were really cool. "But I imagine that if we could breed a domestic line that wasn't partial to eating people, they would be pretty neat to have and more readily accepted, as a pet and a working creature." Like draft horses. "They're intelligent, strong, can make a good roast and fly!"

But how to breed a domestic line? "Muggles might have some ideas on how to pacify them. They keep smaller versions, like bearded dragons, just without the wings and fire-breathing." The cool stuff.

Still leaning against the door, Kevin looked at the charms professor in surprise and even shock. Was he standing up for him? What was happening?! He took a step in to the classroom after he was told to come back in but one look at the transfiguration professor and he took a step back again. What was he supposed to do here?! Bellaire had been the one to kick him out of class and she WAS more scary than Quigley but he should also listen to him. After walking a step back and forth, he finally came to the decision to enter the classroom.

He said down after Quigley's threat of losing points but then stood back up after Bellaire's threat. The Gryffindor was already angry and mixed with extreme confusion was a bad combination. Why weren't they thrown in detention? ! Stupid adults. And he had to pay respect to them when they didn't even respect their own colleagues? ! STUPID!

Finally, class started with the first question and Kevin sat down not caring about the points anymore. He listened to the question and then opened his mouth to answer.

No sound came out. Right... stupid silencing spell! They weren't going to control him when to speak right? !

Bianca just kept silent watching this two Professors bickering and all that jazz. Seriously, why in the world they DECIDED to make a joint lesson if both of them could not agree just in one silly rule? Tsk.. They should feel ashamed now because they had a silly argument IN FRONT OF the students who were more mature than themselves (including her).

HA HA HA

At least they were entertaining.

Finally the lesson had started and Quigley let them to sit since the lesson had started and they were talking about dragons. Raising her hand, the brunette girl gave her opinion. "I think because dragons could danger the wizards and muggles and only capable wizards like the dragonologist could handle them." Maybe she's the only one in this class that didn't feel excited about having the dragon. She doesn't like any kind of animals or magical creatures.

As much as Professor Apples started his veeery first class in a cool way by turning from cat to human, this class right now sucked. He was bored of the competition between the two professors who had different opinions on whether to allow the students to sit or not yet. He saw some of his colleagues trying to decide whose instructions to follow but not Dante. He'd already sat and didn't care much about points? He probably should start doing so, though.
A familiar voice caught his attention. Turned out it was Evie. And she couldn't have worded it better. He nodded in agreement at what she said and gave her a thumbs-up. Then she just went ahead and stood on the desk. An amused half smile tugged at his lips.

And they were starting. Excellent move if you ask Dante. Because it was wiser to move on that to try crushing the other colleague. Not so professional either.

So, what were they going to talk about? Ooh, dragons. Not bad.

"Because most people will start using them the wrong way," Though was there a right way to use dragons? They were dragons!

Angel was bored and annoyed about this lesson, seriously both Professors needed to sort things out and get on with teaching... she was about to say something when Professor Quigley started the lesson well that was good, hopefully they wouldn't fight now.

She listened to the question and then raised her hand to answer it. "We aren't allowed dragons because Muggles might see them, though I doubt it because I spent 11 years as a muggle before I got my letter to Hogwarts and all I was interested in was swimming, the latest boy band news and having tea-parties with my friends, then that turned into sleep over when I got older, so I probably wouldn't have seen one." Angel then stopped to get her breath before continuing. "Professor, do people hide them in caves and things like that to get around the rules?" Angel thought about some of the books she had read.

Sophia should have left Professor Hair Ball Cough Pants to conduct his lesson his bloody self. He was clearly not ready for the teaching world and was disrespectful to boot. She never had any issues with her rules in her class and this was why she should have insisted on having this lesson in the transfig classroom.

The urge to hex him in the back was unreal....unreeeeal. But alas...she wasn't ready just yet to pack her bag and leave the Hogwarts joint so she fingered menacingly with her wand instead while he asked silly questions.

Everyone knew dragons were around to provide her with fabulous dragon skin dresses and shoes. Dragon meat wasn't bad either if you were into trying that sort of thing.

Dear Merlin!!!!! What in the world was going to happen during this lesson. Thank goodness the lesson started because her internal dilemma as to whether to sit or not was driving her batty!!!

But the lesson had officially begun so she took her seat...........and then waited to hear what the Professors were going to say. "Dragons are dangerous. With the whole breathing fire and tails and what not" Margo said smiling. "I personally wouldn't want to skirt around the rule." Margo added, she hoped that answered the question anyway.

And Bellaire countered with a loss of 20 points if they didn't stand. Ugg who was being childish? Could they just get on with class...or was this going to be like every transfiguration lesson where all he learned was stuff he didn't want to know? Right now he was learning that the woman had a seriously mean streak. Thankfully as Benny debated whether or not he should bother getting back up to his feet again, Professor Quigley had started the class in ernst.

That meant sitting...even with Bellaire's rules.

So he continued to sit, freezing in place when the mention of dragons was brought up. That got him interested! Caught in surprise and looking over at the cage on his desk in wonder, he almost didn't catch the question directed their way. HELOOOO!!! They were talking about DRAGONS here!! Cue Benny bein downright excited...as long as they weren't doing anything fashion-wise with them.

Shiver.

Right...the question.

Why couldn't they have them? Well there were many given reasons by his fellow students, each of them probably right in some way. Finally he raised his own hand to give something. "We can't have them because they are misunderstood and not everyone would know or be able to handle them. And Muggles would see them but they could be disallusioned like hippogriffs and flying horses. "

Yeeeees, Professor Quigley was starting the lesson. She wouldn't have to hear anymore confusing bickering and her butt could stay in the seat... Unless Bellaire would make them stand for the lesson just to be mean. Fortunately she remained silent, which Lux took as a good sign.

Anyway, there was a question about DRAGONS. Eagerly she raised her hand because she loved dragons. "People don't understand how wonderful dragons are and treat them like a scary menace that has to be dealt with. I think educating people about dragons can help them better understand and appreciate the beautiful creatures."

Quote:

"Alright, alright. I think it's time we get settled." Not their fault they weren't settled, he wouldn't be throwing that on them. "I'll ask you guys to sit because we'll be beginning now." Unless Bellaire figured they'd stand through the whole thing? He didn't think so. Maddox watched the chalk rise from his desk as he took another munch of his apple.

"As usual, we'll begin with a simple question or two." Hopefully they were on the same page and beyond the...er...display earlier. "Dragons. Why aren't we allowed to have them and how do you think people could skirt this rule? Note, I don't mean Ministry regulated reasons, I mean why do you think the way you do about this topic."

DRAGONS!!! Awesome! Would they get to work with a dragon today? The second year sure hoped so cause that would be seriously epic! All the confusion from earlier was still there but Hady pushed it aside and focused on the lesson.

There wasn't much she could add that hadn't already been said so she kept quiet instead pulling out some parchment, her quill, both the Charms and Transfiguration textbooks and whatever else she'd need. For now note taking would do, so jotting down some notes she sat calmly her eyes looking at the cage quite often.