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While your everyday classroom would be set up with desks, chairs and maybe even an indication as to what the lesson was going to be about, this classroom was different. The chairs were gone, the desks had vanished and the only ‘new’ thing about this class were the two boxes sitting by Professor Hirsch’s desk. One box, sealed, was sitting on the floor by the desk and the other, open and empty, was sitting on the man's desk itself.
With the desks and chairs gone, the Defence Professor has placed comfortable mats and cushions around the room. Each cushion has a small name tag on it and every inch of the floor is covered with the same mats that can be found in the Defence Training Room, if anyone has had a peek in there. If you look up at the board, you'll find out exactly what it is you're meant to do with your name tags...
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Take a name tag and write down your name, house and year before sticking it on your chest.
... And no fake names, please. He'd know. He would.
Speaking of, Professor Hirsch himself can be found leaning against his desk, his arms crossed across his chest and his legs crossed at the ankles.
So come in, grab a cushion, and wait for the lesson to begin.
OOC: Please make sure you're familiar with Hirsch's rules as well as the SS site rules before posting. Class will continue in about 21 hours time (Saturday 16th at roughly 3-4pm GMT). Hope you have fun! ^^
OOC: Class has already started but you may still jump in if you want to! Please don't post your charrie arriving, simply pretend as though they were there the entire time.
Okay... 1. HIII SAM!! Dora beamed at her FRAND and maybe scooted her mat closer. Heheh. Bestie status right there!
2. CHLOE NEWMAN WAS BLUSHING AND DORA FOUND THIS MOST CURIOUS. In fact, she was staring at her friend. Hehehehehe!!!
And now, Professor dude, you are indeed being judged, sir. Aaaand her hand shot up quickly, "Kick them in sensitive areas! Especially dudes! And if it's a girl... well the stomp their foot and then punch them in the nose! " #GRYFFINDOR
Attacked? By a bigger person? The minute firstie looked around the room suspiciously, as everyone present seemed likely to be bigger than he. How would he fight any of them? He wasn't particularly strong, but he was small and quick... his hand went up.
"Chop 'em in the throat and poke 'em in the eyes," he said simply, holding up two fingers to demonstrate his eye-poking abilities. "Then run and find something to hide in before they can see or breathe again."
This was how Jaemin would settle pretty much any physical altercation, really. He didn't know enough magic to properly defend himself even with a wand.
"Hey Kitty, Az, Mossy!" She greeted them all at once with a huge wave, and then waved at the other three Ravenclaws. So what if she didn't know them yet, they were her house.
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Mossy... Mossy... Mossy...
That stupid nickname again. But, no. Katherine was the bigger person here, so she just smiiiiiiiiled back at her. She wouldn't show any sign of negativism in front of a professor.
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With name tag in hand, she scanned the room, giving Dot a little wave before plopping herself down on a mattress next to a baby firstie (Katherine). A bottle of purple, broken quill, little bag of sparkles (in case there was an emergency), and single shoelace tumbled from her bag upon impact with the floor, and she gave the younger girl an apologetic grin as she rushed to stuff it all back in again, finally looking at her name tag once she had sat up and blown a curly strand of hair from her eyes with a small huff of air. "Nice to meet ya, Katherine Mary Moss." Katherine Mary Moss. Her name alone was more proper than Norah's entire existence could ever wish to be. Not that she ever DID wish to be proper, but y'know. Theoretically. She looked at her palm to make sure there were no remains of her breakfast left on there before sticking it out for a handshake. Top notch socialization, right? RIGHT.
HPASADKOPEW APREFECTCHOSETOSITWITHHER HSODJLL I REPEAT: A PREFECT CHOSE HER SIDE TO SIT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111ONEONEONE!!!!!!!
People of authority were usually almost fully excluded from her criticism, and this proved no different. That she had a broken quill, sparkles and a shoelace dropping out from her bag? WHO CARED!?
!!!!!!! NOT ONLY DID SHE SIT, BUT SHE ALSO GREETED HER!!!!!!!!!
Katherine went completely red and she had to breathe before she could even answer. "Hi, Miss Kiltridge," she said as her admiration for the girl couldn't be more obvious, and shook her hand.
She casually looked around to see WHO noticed it - that she was cool enough for a PREFECT to sit by her ON HER OWN while the class was still HALF EMPTY.
She had to write this to her mum!
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As he did so, he spotted Norah sitting with Kath, wearing Ravenclaw robes. He waved at them both because it would be rude to only wave at the Prefect but he did gave an extra wink at Norah as he walked passed her.
Of course, she had already met and impressed the HEAD BOY, so Katherine smiiiiiiiled confidently back. Ah, she was popular already!
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Almost immediately she spotted a Dora and her Ravenclaw dorm mates, Rachel, Katherine,Haddie and Olivia. Undeterred by the lack of mats in their vicinity, she plopped down on the nearest available mat, and scooted it awkwardly across the floor so that she could sit between them all. "Hey ev'ryone!"
Katherine was glad Ravenclaws weren't the type to be late ever. Well, they were the most clever for a reason, after all. She waved at the girl back as she said "Hello." Hiiiiiii house-mate.
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"Hey guys. Morning Professor." He so belonged here.
Katherine saw Blaise enter, and she smiled at him when he made his way over to them. Even though Miss Prefect and another boy she didn't even know (who was funnily a Ravenclaw though) were between them, she still greeted her troubled friend.
"Hi Blaise."
However, as soon as she said that, the lesson started... so better to be fully attentive now.
Hmm...
Katherine had no idea, because she was still arrogant to think she would never find herself in such a situation. However, a question was a question and for the sake of the smaaaaaaaall possibility, she listened to her classmates' answers before rushing to give her own.
She liked some of those answers, and some were outright absurd (like that Slytherin boy's). When it was her turn, she raised her hand.
"It heavily depends on the surroundings," she said like the arrogant know-it-all she was, "if there were plenty of places to hide, I'd hide first and surprise attack my attacker. However, if I was quite visible, I'd try to make my attacker angrier, because angry people do unwise things in a rush. I'd also try using my own physical ability to its best - and this means knowing my body, of course. But the first thing I'd so would be stealing the object they are attacking me with - if they have one."
"If I had a Quidditch bat I would beat them up with it!" Kitty began excitedly. "I've never been in a fight before thankfully but I know most people would be knocked out after getting hit with one of those in the head. But if I didn't have a bat then I would go after their vulnerable spots, with guys that would be easier. My nails are always long, I could use them to scratch at my attackers eyes. If he was wearing short sleeves then I could scratch his arms too!"
"But I hate violence and I would only fight like that to defend myself or someone else." She felt morally compelled to add this. "And I would never kill anyone, no matter what. I mean I could kill a monster if it was attacking me but I wouldn't kill a human or goblin or elf.
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Class was finally starting! Of course, Garreth had been far too nervous to say much during his first ever Hogwarts class, but it was starting to dawn on him that there wasn't anything to be afraid of. The first-year anxiously awaited the professor's introduction to the class, making sure his nametag was clearly visible. He couldn't very well have the professor mistakenly giving all his house points to some Hufflepuff student, could he?
Instinctively, the boy wrote down all that the professor said, not fully registering the meaning of his words until after they had been put to parchment. What would he do? What a way to start! He'd have to think long and hard about his answer, lest he disappoint the professor.
"I would try to hide, professor." he said after some moments. "If there was a way to avoid being spotted in the first place, I would want to do that. Otherwise, I suppose I would try to run away or disarm them somehow." perhaps his answers weren't the most impressive, but the question wasn't about what the ideal reaction would be, it was about what he would have done. "I guess, in the end, it really depends on my surroundings.
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Tia beamed when the professor said he was pleased to be there, but she guessed he didn't know just how pleased she was he was there and sooooo good looking.Nodding as he went into explaining the dueling club would in fact be returning, the seventh year made a note to check for the signups later.
She was in danger and needed a way to get out, which her first instinct went to apparition. But what if it was like Hogwarts where apparition wasn't allowed. Sitting thoughtfully for a moment as she listened to her peers before raising her hand, "First I would probably attempt apparition, but if for whatever reason I couldn't apparate then I would probably find some place to hide safely where I could call for assistance to get out of the situation" because, Ravenclaw here . she wasn't for violence which could further threaten her life...
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Finally, it was time for class to begin. Janelle listened as the Professor introduced himself to the class. She wondered how he would compare to their previous professor, who she thought was pretty awesome. And then, Professor Hirsch made an announcement. They would continue to have the Dueling club at Hogwarts. Janelle was glad because she hadn't had a chance to join the club last year. Now she would have the opportunity to participate.
Then the professor presented a scenario and posed a question. What a question it was. This one, Janelle had to think about for a while before she raised her hand. "That's a very hard question professor. There are a lot of things that could affect my answer. Is the person attacking me a witch or a wizard? Do they have a weapon? Are they big and slow? My size? What I would do would depend on these things. I'd probably have a split second to make a decision." Janelle paused for a moment to give it some more thought.
"If the attacker is my size and don't have a choice, I might look around for something to use as a weapon and try to fight them. If they are very big and weaponless, I might try to run because I'd probably be faster than them. If they have a wand.......that would be a problem. I've been known to talk my way out of trouble, but..........I don't think that that would be my best option in this situation." Hopefully the professor would shed some light on the subject because being prepared was probably their best advantage.
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She just smiiiiled up at the Professor like a fool when he had said her name. Sure, her face was as red as a tomato from the nametag incident and it probably didn’t help that her forehead was still red and slightly sticky….but, wait they were learning about defense? THIS WAS SO HER CLASS.
Raising her arm HIIIIIIIGH into the air she just grinned. SHE HAD SO MANY IDEAS OF DEFENSE it was like her thing. Really, it was. Totally her thing. “Professor, I think I would at first try and reason with the attacker,” she smiled – beamed really. “but that doesn’t always work and sometimes the best offense really is a good defense…so I would try to see how the attacker was leading so if they were punching at me from the right I would try to duck left and throw them off balance while maintaining my own balance that way I could stay on the balls of my feet and run to safety” she grinned. “that of course is if it were with a muggle or in muggle areas.” Yep. Statute of secrecy totally needed to be followed here.
She was like a defense queen.
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See Dante appreciated a Professor that played along to a name tag. Even if all Dante wrote was The before his name. WAIT The Dueling Club was returning. Now that was cool. Which meant Dante had a chance to redeem his terrible finish to last years one. Which nothing against Thornton and Hady. Which are both awesome. He wanted to win. So of course he would be signing up again. It was fun minus getting his butt kicked by Thornton and Hady like he said.
Anyway onto the first question and what a hypothetical question it was. You could surrender. But he never said if the person was rational attacking you. All you know his your are being attacked and you have no wand.
"Well since this person is already attacking and i assume it is stronger and faster than me so running away to fight another day would not help. I guess i would do what Dima said wandless magic"
Dante would try and not get himself in those situations in the first place. But apparently nobody could be that smart in this hypothetical situation.
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Someone sitting nearby had caught Daxton's attention, and he looked up to see Dora not too far off, in turn looking towards the professor. Daxton watched her for a moment, then finished off the small but detailed drawing he had been before turning his own gaze back to the... professor.
He gave no discernible reaction to being called 'Mr. Name'; it was, of course, what he had written on his nametag, and simply kept his eyes fixed on the man up front, expression now unreadable as he looked him up and down but never once directly at his eyes. After a moment, Daxton shifted his position so he was no longer sitting cross-legged, but instead with his feet planted on the floor in front of him, knees bent and acting as a sort of barrier between himself and everyone else in the room, particularly the... professor.
Daxton's expression did not change when Hirsch started talking, even when he mentioned the renewal of the Duelling Club. Still he scrutinised the man - this newcomer, this usurper, this masquerader - thinking hard. Though just about what, it was impossible to tell.
The hypothetical situation provided sent a jolt of recognition through Daxton, but still on the surface he remained cool, calm, composed, and completely closed off. He had one potential answer instantly, having the... benefit of experience, but the Ravenclaw said nothing, wrote nothing down. Aside from tensing up - a minuscule action only those who were paying close attention might notice - no response came from Daxton in the slightest. The smart thing here was to stay absolutely silent and non-reactive; anything else might lead to trouble of the least appealing kind.
And so he simply stared.
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Text Cut: Bast, Char, Professor before start of class
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Bastien was looking forward to this lesson more than any of the others at Hogwarts because he wanted to compare it to dark arts at durmstrang. Honestly, he didn't think it would hold up, but he could still have fun, yeah? And find out about the dueling club. If Hogwarts had one this year.
Please please, Merlin have one.
He didn't bat an eyelash at the lack of proper seating, nor did he care about it. The third year liked sitting on the floor just as much as he did in chairs. And if he thought anything of the girls practically falling over the professor it was impossible to tell by his serene expression.
What he DID notice was his cousin not sitting. He gently hooked his arm with one of hers and lead her to the front of the class. "Hey, Sharky." He read the name tag, and he spotted people he recognized, but it was Rula that he sat them by since she was already in the front and his BFF. She got brief grins.
Pulling out his name tag he wrote with his wand:
Bastien
Slytherin
Third Year
That was all the professor needed to know. Speaking of him, the blonde boy inclined his head in the man's direction as a form of greeting.
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SHE WAS BEING KIDNAPPED! KIDNAAAAPPED! By her cousin, but STILL! Charlotte might have gone ahead with a dramatic reaction just for the fun of it but the fact that Bastien always was willing to call her Sharky, plus the fact that he was GOOD AT SPELL THINGS AND COuLD HELP HER BE THE BEST TO SHOW EVERYONE AVA WASN'T BETTER THAN HER meant that she was more than willing to be herded to the front. She smiled at Rula (knowing that Rula was to Bastien as Davie was to HER) and squished down right where Bastien had brought her.
Except, heeeeyyy.
"You forgot your LAST NAME, Bast!"
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She was funny. It was the main reason, aside from being family, why he hung out with her so much.
"I don't want my last name up here. It's on a need to know basis." As in, when the professor needed to owl his parents or he needed to get out of something, then he threw that out into the wind. Otherwise all anyone ever needed to know was Bastien.
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"But the professor NEEDS to know because BASTIEN isn't even your proper name, so in his book thing it probably says Marius Sebastien Toussaint." Charlotte reasoned cheerfully. It wasn't like his name was EMBARASSING or anything right?
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"Charlotte." Bastien groaned. "Could you not announce my name to the entire class?" He was by no means embarrassed of it. There was nothing he was more proud of, but that didn't mean he went around introducing it in full unless necessary. "Just Bastien. That's all I want him to call me, so that's all that needs to be on my nametag."
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Was this girl lost?
Hirsch, who'd noticed the arrival of someone else, had turned to face her only to catch her getting a good look at the classroom or the boxes or even himself. He doubted it was the last one because........ well, just because. She did, however, earn a raised eyebrow look and an amused smile as she headed further into the classroom.
See? You're not lost, Miss.
"Hello, Miss Botros. Glad to see that you've made it." Hm. Botros. Botros. Was she related to the previous Headmaster, by any chance?
Hm, indeed.
Hehehe, the way Handsome!Professor said her name was really lovely. She felt her face warm a little, but fortunately she was distracted from her slightly flustered state when Bast and his cousin Char come over and sit. Rula offered them both a smile and tried to contain her giggles as Char got after him about his name.
No comments from her either way, she was just gonna watch them and be amused.
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Oh, will you look at the time? It was time to get this lesson started! So, with a flick of his wand, Roderik made the door shut itself with a small SNAP! Anyone who was late was going to miss out. Their loss, frankly.
Standing up properly, he smiled around at the class before launching with his speech, "Hello one, hello all, and welcome to Defence Against the Dark Arts. I'm Professor Roderik Hirsch and, as most of you should know by now," Unless you were living under a rock. "I'm going to be your new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor."
"Before I launch into the main gist of the lesson, I'd like to mention one thing first." At this, Hirsch paused, mainly for dramatic effect. His eyes landed on Ava and he gave her a smile - was she listening? - before continuing, "I've been approached by a few students about, as I understand, a Dueling Club that was running last year. After some consideration and planning, I'm pleased to announce that the club will continue this year as well. All those interested in the club, look out for a sign up sheet after this lesson is over."
Was that an exciting enough introduction to the lesson?
"Moving ON, I want to ask all of you something." Another dramatic pause and another smirk. "Picture this: you're stuck somewhere, anywhere, and you don't have your wand on you. You're in danger and you need to find your way out of it by using your body, your mind and your surroundings." Interesting thought, wasn't it?
"In fact, imagine that you're about to be attacked........ by another human, say. They could be bigger, tougher, whatever you imagine them to be. I want to know............ what would you do to try and defend yourself against this person? How would you put your body, mind and surroundings to use?"
Be careful how you answer this, kids.
Oh, and class was starting. Time to focus on Handsome!Hirsch's face on the lesson. Yes, okay, she could do this.
Dueling club announcement was great, and she glanced over at Bast briefly with a grin before paying attention again.
So imagine a situation where she didn't have a wand and was gonna be attacked by some bigger, scary bad person. What would she do? Hmm....
Rula let some other students answer first while she thought, occasionally getting a little distracted by the professor's face, and then finally raised a hand once she had an answer. "I think I'd try to pretend to be really helpless and scared so the bad guy would either feel sorry for me and not attack me, or they'd get overconfident and underestimate me, and that's when I'd surprise attack them." Seemed like a solid plan to her.
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There had been a dueling club last term? Well that sounded AWESOME! Sign Scarlett up! She wanted to learn how to fight, even though she knew the chances of her actually being in a duel someday were pretty slim. Still, it was good to KNOW.
She raised her hand. "Well I'd probably scream, then punch them in the face. And hopefully the adrenaline going through my veins would make my punch strong enough to do damage. Then I'd run," she told him truthfully. Because that was EXACTLY how it would play out.
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Some of these ideas that people were coming up with were making Melbourne a little squirmy. “Professor?” She asked raising her hand, “are we aloud to use weapons?” Yes. That was an important question.
“Because really anything could be used to ward off an attacker even mint breath spray to the eyes…or blow horns or your own shoes especially heels can be rather painful” she nodded as if she had an extensive knowledge on those sort of things. She did. She collected them but that wasn’t the point right now.
“If those weren’t accessible I’d say a good kick to the shins could help or as Scarlett said yelling could help.” She nodded. “Not only could the yelling attract attention from others in the vicinity it has the potential to distract the attacker but its not always the safest option” yes. She knew things.
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Tenacius gave Mel a look, staring at that nametag on her forehead, but that wasn’t the oddest thing he found about it "Just when was your name Amelia?" blink blink. "Werent you always Ms Australia?" Then they were joined by another girl and that dude from Astronomy. Nods to you Cavalry Kid.
SPOILER!!: The Prof
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Hirsch was then distracted by the appearance of someone else who'd entered the classroom in such a fashion, that it was almost as if he hadn't seen a classroom with no desks and chairs. Maybe this wasn't the norm, then? He'd thought it'd be useful to get rid of those. What use was learning how to defend yourself if there was going to be a lot of chairs and desks in the way?
But back to the bouncy kid. The overly bouncy kid. One who was leaping through the air and launching himself onto seat. Merlin.
"Hello! Nice to see you so enthusiastic." Nice was one word for it.
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Oh, will you look at the time? It was time to get this lesson started! So, with a flick of his wand, Roderik made the door shut itself with a small SNAP! Anyone who was late was going to miss out. Their loss, frankly.
Standing up properly, he smiled around at the class before launching with his speech, "Hello one, hello all, and welcome to Defence Against the Dark Arts. I'm Professor Roderik Hirsch and, as most of you should know by now," Unless you were living under a rock. "I'm going to be your new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor."
"Before I launch into the main gist of the lesson, I'd like to mention one thing first." At this, Hirsch paused, mainly for dramatic effect. His eyes landed on Ava and he gave her a smile - was she listening? - before continuing, "I've been approached by a few students about, as I understand, a Dueling Club that was running last year. After some consideration and planning, I'm pleased to announce that the club will continue this year as well. All those interested in the club, look out for a sign up sheet after this lesson is over."
Was that an exciting enough introduction to the lesson?
"Moving ON, I want to ask all of you something." Another dramatic pause and another smirk. "Picture this: you're stuck somewhere, anywhere, and you don't have your wand on you. You're in danger and you need to find your way out of it by using your body, your mind and your surroundings." Interesting thought, wasn't it?
"In fact, imagine that you're about to be attacked........ by another human, say. They could be bigger, tougher, whatever you imagine them to be. I want to know............ what would you do to try and defend yourself against this person? How would you put your body, mind and surroundings to use?"
Be careful how you answer this, kids.
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OOC: Firstly, ohmygosh the turnout for this class ;____; The main reason this took a long time to post was because I was too busy fangirling over all of you ugh. Thanks for turning up you guys <3
Secondly, a signup sheet WILL be up for the Dueling Club later on today, as well as rules and more info about it all. Be on the lookout for that!
Be as creative as you like with your answers. And I won't be posting until sometime tomorrow. Thanks once again! ^^
Well it doesn’t look like the Professor was gonna be biting his head off, to which the curly top broadened his smile as he relaxed some more. Mr Enthusiastic? Almost as awesome a name as Mr Fantastic.
And whoah there is a dueling club? That got Tenacius all sitting up alert. Ohhh he wanted to try that out, are they going to be using swords? Probably wands, but he wants to try out swords, like the ones in the armory! He's had experience!... Ok maybe it was plastic lightsabers BUT THEY ARE THE SAME THING!
And ok, looks like everybody was wearing a name tag. He was missing his wasn’t he? Scuffle scuffle whereisit-- AHA!
And wow what a question. This got the curly top thinking-- yeah he was thinking! Because he was ickle and he knows that. If he was built like a Green Bay Packer this was easy peasy answer, but he wasn’t. He also wasn’t a Jedi or a Sith, or an Air/Fire/Water/Earth bender, so that’s all out. All out.
This was a hypothetical situation that can totally happen in reality.
"Uhm.... Take the higher ground?... Higher ground that’s difficult to get to by the bigger guy, like a tree, or as close to volcano as possible, because those has rocks and I can throw those." He was an ickle, and if he ever gets transported to that situation right now, at least he knew what to do.
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Dot leaned back on her mat, resting her weight on her palms and tilting her chin back as she stretched out all the muscles in her back, arms, and legs. It just seemed like the thing to do, sitting on a mat on the floor, even if she wasn't about to go to a barre and start dancing.
The mats meant they were going to do something practical, anyway, so she might as well be limber. As for the question? She sat up straight again and raised a hand. "Yell, sir. Loud. It puts off my attacker, draws attention to my plight, and maybe gives me time to figure out a better plan. And then probably run away, because, Merlin, have you heard how violent these kids are? If I met one of my classmates in a dark alley, I'd prefer to leave said alley."
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OH CHARLOTTE HAD A WHOLE LOT OF GREAT IDEAS. TWO OF THEM WERE IN THIS ROOM EVEN. She put her hand up.
"Professor I think it depends on the situation but, I'd SIC MY COUSINS ONTO THE BAD GUY!" Yeah! She enthusiastically pointed with both fingers, first at Dima and then at Bastien and then nodded a few times for effect. See? They even had good ideas right? "And if they weren't right THERE then I would try and SCARE the bad guy by telling them about BADDER GUYS that I know," Her uncles, actually, Dima and Bastien's fathers', "And if they weren't listening or were dumb, I'd YELL and then KICK THEIR SHINS." Those things would work. She also considered flinging a snail at someone who finds snails gross, but she wasn't sure how you'd know that in a split second, and also wasn't sure that if it came down to it she would sacrifice one of her snails. "Also because we have a house elf, I'd summon her, and she could take me away to safety! OR use her house elf magic to like... have a wall collapse on the bad guy or something like--" Charlotte snapped her fingers. House elf magic. Like that.
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She had to.. WHAT NOW?
Oh goodness! In a room, with no wand and she was being attacked? Her purple eyes were wide and she bit her lip a little.. there would be no way she, little Azura Kennedy would be able to fight anyone! Not without falling and breaking something! Could she use that to her advantage? The purple eyed Ravenclaw slowly raised her hand.
"I don't think I would be able to fight them Sir." She admitted honestly. "I might possibly be able to run, but I'm not very good on my feet." Let's hope he hadn't heard about the charms incident or the fact that she had broken her nose.. THREE times now! "I think my best defense would be to hide and try to get out of the room using stealth,maybe hide in a box and slowly move towards the door. otherwise I wouldn't be able to escape." She said honestly.
Because.. without her wand.. she was slightly helpless!
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Having filled out his name tag, although of course the professor already knew who he was, David leaned back on his hands and looked around thoughtfully as his classmates gave answers. These answers were interestingly very indicative of their individual personalities. Oh, and Dueling Club WOULD be back? Alright. He'd been torn on whether he wanted it back or not, and ultimately reasoned that dueling would be a useful skill to learn... not to mention something his parents would expect of him...
Anyway. The twelve-year-old eventually raised his hand to answer when it was his turn. "I would do what Daxton Prince is doing." Why this kid, you may ask? Other than the boy's INNATE NONHUMAN ABILITIES due to his being half-goblin, he was remaining quiet, perceptive, and... maybe a little bit defensive, what with that knees-to-chest bit he had going on. But David didn't say all that aloud, mostly because his goblin theory wasn't ready to go public yet although he was still watching the kid. What? Prince livened up the lessons sometimes.
"I mean," the spectacled boy tore his eyes away from studying his dormmate, "I would get into some sort of defensive position, perhaps behind a rock as Ariadne mentioned, and quickly analyze what I could of the situation. Is there an easy way to escape? Some kind of weapon to utilize against them? An easily discernible weakness of theirs which I could manipulate to my advantage? Could I talk or reason my way out of things, to prevent their attack entirely? Is this conflict avoidable by any chance?"
Davie certainly wouldn't attack first, nor would he attempt wandless magic nor apparition because he wasn't even sure of his older classmates' abilities to do any of that. And who was to say his house elf would come on command? Pinky was loyal to his mother, first of all, not to him. Not really. He certainly didn't let Davie get away with keeping spare chocolate frogs under his pillow. So it was best to act defensively, in his opinion, in this hypothetical scenario which seemed to be primed to garner some sort of telling response out of them, particularly since it didn't have many details. Hem hem. We're on to you, Professor Hirsch.
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Helloooo. Hugo was in the room waiting for the class to begin, with his name tag on his robes next to the Prefect Badge. EHEM.
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He didn't even bothered to write his middle name 'cause it didn't mattered. So...first question and it was a very interesting one. Well, in fact the room itself was interesting, especially the sealed box. He wondered what could there be inside it. Anyways, back to the question. To be honest, Hugo couldn't picture himself without his beloved wand, I mean, it was necessary, okay? Especially if Hirsch was talking about surviving.
He raised his hand. "I would definitely need my wand" he was sincere "But if I don't have it. Umm...I would run away from that person and then look around at my surroundings to find like a piece of wood to defend myself. Just in case the person wants to do me some harm and then, I don't know...maybe hide behind a bush" yeah. That worked for him.
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Oh, how this next kid reeked of teenagerdom. That outfit. That outfit said it all.
In fact, this kid had the right idea and Hirsch was silently pleased to see him come in such a getup. Just like he was pleased to see that, when the kid sat down, he'd proceeded to do some stretches. Smirking slightly, he watched the young boy curiously before saying, "Hello, Mr Browne. Limbering up, are you?"
Limbering up? Why yes, yes he was. "Have to be prepared for anything," he replied with a smirk. THAT, and he didn't much fancy sitting around and twiddling his thumbs while the girls in the room swooned and drooled all over the place. Mmhhmm. No, he was going to get himself IN THE ZONE and ignore the fact that there was ANYONE here other than himself and the Professor. He call call it private tuition, and it would be spectacular.
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Oh, will you look at the time? It was time to get this lesson started! So, with a flick of his wand, Roderik made the door shut itself with a small SNAP! Anyone who was late was going to miss out. Their loss, frankly.
Standing up properly, he smiled around at the class before launching with his speech, "Hello one, hello all, and welcome to Defence Against the Dark Arts. I'm Professor Roderik Hirsch and, as most of you should know by now," Unless you were living under a rock. "I'm going to be your new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor."
"Before I launch into the main gist of the lesson, I'd like to mention one thing first." At this, Hirsch paused, mainly for dramatic effect. His eyes landed on Ava and he gave her a smile - was she listening? - before continuing, "I've been approached by a few students about, as I understand, a Dueling Club that was running last year. After some consideration and planning, I'm pleased to announce that the club will continue this year as well. All those interested in the club, look out for a sign up sheet after this lesson is over."
Was that an exciting enough introduction to the lesson?
"Moving ON, I want to ask all of you something." Another dramatic pause and another smirk. "Picture this: you're stuck somewhere, anywhere, and you don't have your wand on you. You're in danger and you need to find your way out of it by using your body, your mind and your surroundings." Interesting thought, wasn't it?
"In fact, imagine that you're about to be attacked........ by another human, say. They could be bigger, tougher, whatever you imagine them to be. I want to know............ what would you do to try and defend yourself against this person? How would you put your body, mind and surroundings to use?"
Be careful how you answer this, kids.
Sitting up a little straighter and holding his knees, Zeke stretched his neck from side to side as Professor Hirsch began their introductions. All standard stuff... almost. At the mention of Dueling Club, Zeke's eyes widened a bit before he settled into a casual grin. IT WAS HAPPENING! Internally he was fist-pumping, externally he was just a guy on a mat. The news was excellent, it would mean that his sessions with Sabel and Elijah over the summer wouldn't be wasted efforts, and he could defend his title. Dueling Champ in the house, yo.
But celebration could wait till later, he was curious about why they had to wear comfortable clothing - which screamed PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, and he yearned for it.
As they jumped back into lesson material, Zeke pondered the scenario Hirsch put to them. Wandless, danger, worthy opponent... obviously there were many things he could do, but what he would do wouldn't be something he'd decide until the very minute it was required of him. As such, he valued Janelle's answer, but also so many others. That Jaemin guy had the right idea about the neck, because he was a fan of a well-placed punch to the throat. Accuracy with strikes was a factor though. Wandless magic, yeah, if you were able... frankly, he wouldn't be relying on it any time soon, he trusted his body more than that.
With so many of his ideas already spoken, Zeke wondered if there was much value in speaking them again. Regardless, he raised his hand to participate.
"I don't like vague scenarios," he stated simply at first, because yeah... his answers were taken and the scenario was too open to really give a response that he was happy with, "but generally speaking you'd assess the situation, can you fight and win? do you have to fight? or should you run? and if you're fighting, disarm, disable and confine... using of course whatever you have available." Sand to the face, direct knocks, height leverage, objects of the environment... yeah, endless possibilities to which vagueness didn't help.
This professor was a descendant of Spiderman that for some ridiculous idea decided to wind up at Hogwarts and teach rather than live an exhilarating life saving lives and kicking butt. It was sad quite frankly. Cornelius was sure of it. In fact, Professor Hirsch was like...Spiderman-mixed-Harry-Potter. The glasses and that geeky look to his face.
There was something about him and Cornelius was going to make sure to keep a close eye on him.
Aside from that, Cornelius had made himself a comfy bed spot with the cushions after jotting his name down and all that jazz. He was quite comfortable which made it both easier and harder to concentrate. The question wasn't a hard one but a very broad one. His imagination let loose as he raised his hand.
"I would SING. Depending if my attacker already had a hold on me, I would SING." Cornelius nodded seriously. Did Hirsch know what SING was? Cornelius wiggled, sitting up straight. "First, you target the solar plexus." He chopped his hand sharply through the air. "Then you JAM your heel into their instep." He picked up his foot and brought his heel down on the floor. BOOM! "Then you swirl around and you hit them in their nose and then the most PAINFUL part of all." Cornelius SMIRKED though he wiggled in his spot. It hurt even thinking about it. "You get them in the family jewels." YA'OUUUCH. M'HM.
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Rachel had just applied the tag to her clothing when she saw Azura waving to her. She waved back with a smile on her face. She was pleased to see that she was being acknowledged by some of her other friends. Esme got a wave in return as did Katherine, Olivia and Sam.
Her best friend arrived with a literal bang. Rachel winced when Haddie collided with the door. “Are you alright?’’ she asked with concern the moment the girl had joined her. “Did you hurt yourself?’’ She cast an eye over Haddie then giggled softly. “Yes, you do. You can be so clumsy like Azura.’’
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With one last concerned look at Haddie, Rachel focused her attention on Professor Hirsch. She was confident she would enjoy his lesson and couldn't wait to get to that aspect of the lesson where they found out what the boxes were for. Oh, a dueling club? Rachel knew instantly she wanted to sign up for this. Hopefully, her dad wouldn't be too over protective and let her take part. She would work to convince him on this.
About the question, the eleven year old focused on finding an answer. After a moment, she raised her hand. "I would do an observation of my surrounding first, Professor. Then I would use my wits to find a way to use what there is in my surrounding to my advantage either as a shield to hide myself or as a weapon or as both.'' In Rachel's case, she would use it as a shield, however.
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"Hello Professor" he greeted with a smile before he turned around to find a place to seat. As he did so, he spotted Norah sitting with Kath, wearing Ravenclaw robes. He waved at them both because it would be rude to only wave at the Prefect but he did gave an extra wink at Norah as he walked passed her. A moment later he took a seat next to carl and poked him on his shoulder. "So you got Hufflepuff huh?" he said as he wrote his name tag.
The poke on his shoulder made him look around and to his surprise, he saw Yoongi taking a seat next to him. "Hey! Oh, yeah. Hufflepuff." He said as he straightened his yellow and black tie proudly.
And the lesson had begun! At the mention of the Dueling Club, Carl grinned excitedly and took a mental note to sign up after this lesson was over. Moving on, he took out his parchment and quill to take real notes. Hmm, he could answer that question for sure. So in his imagination, there was this big, tough man in front of him ... he had a large beard for a scarier effect - wait, a scary effect. The Hufflepuff raised his hand and answered, "I would glare at my opponent and try to appear really intimidating. Maybe they would be scared and run away from me!"
No? Well, chances were slim but it was possible, right?
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The nod her greeting had received was only rewarded by another calculating look. Brooklyn was filing all of this away for later, especially the part where the professor was seemingly much more polite toward everyone aside from her. That wasn’t exactly the best idea, but then she wasn’t about to tell him that. He’d have to figure that out on his own. That she wasn’t polite for no reason. She expected a reaction, and that meant more than just a nod. She’d nearly rolled her eyes at the sarcasm his introduction had held, too. Nearly. It had stayed in her head, not a physical reaction.
She’d mentally shrugged in response to the dueling club announcement as well. She hadn’t been part of it last term, so it hardly made her excited this term. In some ways she just felt it was an example of new professors trying to make it seem like nothing was changing. She knew things were changing. She wasn’t stupid.
She also wasn’t quite as afraid as it seemed like some people thought she was. “Obviously if they’re attacking me, they aren’t very smart,” she replied, lazily raising a hand. “If they did, I’d find a way out of the situation. Dodge them, hit them,” if she had to. She would do something. The important part was that she wouldn’t hide. She didn’t cower, and she most certainly didn’t curl up into the fetal position if something dangerous was around. Preferably, she’d get someone to defend her, but she wouldn’t hide. “Or I’d use a potion to incapacitate them.” It wasn’t a wand. He hadn’t said they couldn’t use magic at all.
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Penelope Would they be learning about non-magical means of self defense? She would use her Ravenclaw wits to assess the situation. Why was she being attacked? Did the attacker have a wand or other weapons? Was there anywhere to hide? Could she run? Use some nearby object as a weapon? Climb to higher ground and jump at her attacker? "Depends on the situation, my surroundings, if the attacker has a wand, and the physical strength of the attacker. I would assess the situation and use my wits to figure out what to do. Might run, might hide, might jump at the attacker." Jumping at the attacker would be only for if it had to come to physical combat, a surprise attack.
Dima had said something about wandless magic. Smart idea, if one knew how to use wandless magic. Young wizards and witches used magic without wands, but that was unfocused and mostly unintentional. Wands helped focus magic. Maybe intentional wandless magic would require extreme focus and concentration. This was a topic that she would have to research later. Wandless magic sounded incredibly intriguing. She would have to ask Dima what he knew about it.
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