Ancient Runes was a subject that Sean isn't really familiar nor is he good with. It is a difficult subject and Sean is just hoping he can get through his class fine and dandy. First off, he doesn't really know what they will learn. All those years of Ancient Runes classes and lessons down the drain. Was he even listening or copying notes? He doesn't even know. He can't really remember.

After eating his breakfast, he put on his Slytherin robe and headed down to his first class. Upon entering, Seas paused everything was in Runes. It feels as if he was visiting his family back in Korea where everything and every sign was in a language he can't read well.

Whoah. Culture shock.

Anyway he saw the Professor up front and gave him a small nod then greeted him. "Good morning Professor Sokolov" he greeted. He's one of the new professors at Hogwarts. Sean is just hoping he is not super strict. He made his way to one of the seats, he tried to hurry it up the seats were beginning to be full. On his table he saw the same fancy letters again. He squinted his eyes trying an attempt to read it...

Cornelius was only taking the class for his mum.

Okay, okay. He was sort of really intrigued by it, and his mum had mentioned it, so why not? Maybe it'd be more of a challenge than his tutor's rune lessons. It was still too early in the term to decide. The only upsides was that the professor was good-looking and didn't smell like onion.

Green eyes scanned the room once he entered. They spotted the pretty blonde at the front, but there were students sitting by her. Rats. Losers. His eyes kept their path until they landed on pair that made his lips curl into a smirk.

"Lovely day, isn't Professor?" the boy greeted as he made his way towards a desk by the two ladies he was going to bother.

"Why thank you, Noelle. That is so very sweet of you," Cornelius said with a smirk, crouching between Azura and Noelle, squishing both of them in a BIG hug. "'Sup, guys."

Not to be negative but Tak hadn't really expect someone to sit beside him. He just hadn't. So when a body smoothly lowered itself into the seat next to his he looked up.

Catching Aslan's gaze for a split second he slowly inched his head downwards, nodding back.

But she wasn't the only one who had decided to sit next to him. No sooner did he turn his attention back to the desk when his next neighbour came along. His eyes flickered to her wiggling brows for a few seconds. Glancing at the blonde the corner of Tak's mouth slowly curled upwards. [b]"I don't mind Liv."[\b] She was his friend. Which was a rarity. So how could he mind at all?

Ancient Runes.

Not Hugo's favorite class but it was...interesting at least better than Arithmancy. He had dropped off that one. The Slytherin made his way to the classroom and greeted Sokolov once he was there, "What's up, professor?" as usual. He was somewhat scary looking though but cool, yeah. Like, just look at his eyes, pretty sure he was hiding something. Mhm. Then proceeded to take a sit and wait for the class to begin.

Adjusting his tie and tucking his shirt back into his pants, Silas entered the classroom. Not much else was going on in his head besides being there on time. "Good morning, professor Sokolov." He greeted with a smile but stopped short at the look on his professor's face. Silas felt like the professor never seemed to be pleased with anyone around here. He decided he would just go find a seat instead of just standing in front of the professor for too long. He noticed something was on his table. What was this? A ruin piece? Interesting....

Ancient Runes. Niomi has always been interested in the subject but upon arriving at Hogwarts the class wasn't offered. This year the school hired a professor and Niomi could now take ancient runes class. This excited her greatly.

Niomi arrived into the classroom and took a look around. At the moment she didn't spot anyone she knew. Maybe, hopefully some people she knew would show up late. For now Niomi headed over to an empty seat near the front and way off to the right of the classroom. On her desk she spotted a rune. She had no idea what this was or meant, but hopefully she would soon find out. Placing her book bag down, Niomi looked to the front of the classroom to see runes written on the board and the Professor standing in front. Shyly she said, "Hello, Professor."

Juno wasn't very good at Ancient Runes, but she felt like she needed to learn them, especially if she wanted to be an Auror like her dad was. She didn't know if it was completely necessary for her to take but she thought maybe it would just be a good idea to take it anyway. You never know when something may have Runes on it!

She quietly walked in, "Morning Professor Sokolov," she said with a grin. She quickly found an empty desk and pulled out everything she would need for the class, before sitting down quietly and waiting for class to begin.

This would be interesting.

It was really hard to keep one's focus when such subjects are taken right after lunch. Jace rubbed his eyes as he made his way to the Ancient Runes classroom, and tried to shake off the feeling of taking a nap. Ancient Runes is a pretty cool elective to take, so the Ravenclaw was somewhat excited to learn more about it. Their first few lessons were pretty easy...so he was expecting some sort of...challenge today.

As he quietly entered the classroom, Jace shuffled to the front and gave his professor his greeting. "Konnichiwa, Sokolov-sensei." With an enthusiastic grin, he plopped down in his seat...and had a stare-down with the runes written on his desk.

Oh?

Runes?

Runes!

"Heya Prof!" The Gryffindor Ace greeted the new Professor. He was still struggling with his name-- pronunciation mostly, he didn’t quite know how to say it. So perhaps the Professor would kindly remind them? Yes? No?

Because otherwise he'd call him Professor Socks.

Aaand he pops onto a seat near Tory, playfully swats his arm and mouths How do you say his name? then thumbs at the Prof up front.

Here we go again. Ancient Runes. Another subject that Owen wasn't good at. He needed his buddies to survive this, more so because the new Professor looked too hard-faced. "Good day, Professor sir." Owen said with a cautious smile and nodding as he turned towards the rest of the classroom.

Was Henry here already? How about Milo? It didn't look like it and he couldn't just stay standing near the door. So he was just going to sit next to the first kind of familiar face he could recognize. Right in the middle of the classroom. "Hey, Char."

And hey, rune in the desk.

Huh.

Of course Char waved at people as they came in and sat near her, or passed her, or sat far from her. Trixie, Bentley and Blaise, Clara and Chloe (which reminded her she needed to ask both of those pairs what exactly was going on because yoooo they were confusing ok), and of course her cousin got a big smile and wave too. Liv as well just because it was Liv and she DESERVED smiles and waves.

And she might have spent more time watching the door and seeing who was coming in and sitting where but her attention was caught when Owen sat down next to her.

"Hi Owen!" She greeted. Wow! She hadn't seen him around in a while. Was he smaller? Or... no he was still wayyy bigger than her but less roly poly? Not that she would say that out loud, she had learned SOME restraint since they'd first met, surprisingly to some. And anyways, she WAS pleased to see him, and totally cheerful about him sitting next to her. Were they going to get to work together?

"Do you know much about runes?"

Just a hi from Charlotte? Nothing somewhere along the lines of hey giant? Well, that's a first. He really did lose some of his belly. Who wouldn't when his friends made daily jogging a friendship deal-breaker.

So did he know much about runes? Huh. Owen started to grin at Charlotte when it occurred to him that this girl was one of the smartest, if not the smartest, in their class. He was going to look totally dumb next to her if they were going to talk about academics. This made him nervous. Rubbing his neck, he chuckled lightly in response. "No...not really. I suck at most magic-related subjects. But you, I bet you already know what our topic for today is going to be."

Even at Durmstrang, Mason had appreciated the Ancient Runes subject. He wasn't exactly fond of it nor was he really good at it but he managed to keep up. So after checking his schedule and seeing that the lesson would start in a couple of minutes, the Ravenclaw picked up his pace as he walked to the classroom door.

Once inside he noticed that not much had changed in the classroom, or so it seemed. He greeted the Professor with a nod of his head and a quick "Hello" before he sat down on one of the seats and opened up his bag to take out his textbook. When he placed it on his desk, the Ravenclaw noticed a symbol on it and he frowned. Then looked next to him and saw that that desk had a symbol as well.

He sat back in his chair and opened his textbook on his lap and flipped through the pages to find out which rune was written there.

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Not to be negative but Tak hadn't really expect someone to sit beside him. He just hadn't. So when a body smoothly lowered itself into the seat next to his he looked up.

Catching Aslan's gaze for a split second he slowly inched his head downwards, nodding back.

But she wasn't the only one who had decided to sit next to him. No sooner did he turn his attention back to the desk when his next neighbour came along. His eyes flickered to her wiggling brows for a few seconds. Glancing at the blonde the corner of Tak's mouth slowly curled upwards. "I don't mind Liv." She was his friend. Which was a rarity. So how could he mind at all?

Liv BEAMED at his response, because it was simply easier when they didn't mind. She liked people who were agreeable with her best.

Leaning over a bit to whisper at him ... Or, stage!whisper, rather... "I'm so excited." This wasn't their first Runes lesson of the term, but the subject matter was STILL brand new territory, and Liv was all Gryffindor, you see. Brave to the point of stupidity, just like her da! And she'd heard they could be very dangerous, yet here she sat! UNSCARED and ready to learn something.

Hmm, her book, Runes journal, A GLITTERY GEL PEN ... Yup, she was ready!

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Of course Char waved at people as they came in and sat near her, or passed her, or sat far from her. Trixie, Bentley and Blaise, Clara and Chloe (which reminded her she needed to ask both of those pairs what exactly was going on because yoooo they were confusing ok), and of course her cousin got a big smile and wave too. Liv as well just because it was Liv and she DESERVED smiles and waves.

Also. Her Hometown!Bestie got those smiles and waves returned, of course.

HAI, CHAR!

Tea, biscuits, and snacks after class, yas? Yas.

Hadleigh Lynch had never really been one for Runes. She had always claimed to not understand them and that it was much to difficult, therefore she had been rather happy honestly that the school didn't have full on lessons recently. So if she didn't enjoy the lesson then why was she here?

Truth was after having taken her OWLs and getting an 'E' she learned it wasn't so bad. She did actually understand most of it and she was capable of using Runes in a situation that called for it. The off chance that Runes might someday come in handy for her future career in Creature Healing was what had her returning the room today and for every lesson that had been held previously.

Tucking a lock of long brown hair behind her ear the seventh year smiled as she entered the room. "Good morning, Professor Sokolov," she greeted warmly her eyes moving from the man sat in his chair up front to the board behind him. Seeing it say that they could sit anywhere she choose an empty sit somewhere between the front and the middle of the of the room. Slipping down onto the chair she took out what she would need for the lesson and set it on her desk, fingers brushing lightly over the rune that was craved there.

Interesting.

Slowly she looked from the craving on her desk back up to the board and then onto her professor. Yes, she was ready.

Oh oh! My first class EVER! Leesha almost couldn’t hold her excitement while entering the classroom with her bag hanging over her shoulder and her rat Flam in her pocket, safely hidden for anybody to see. Looking around her she saw that everybody just took a seat randomly so she did the same thing, wondering again how this class was going to be! This was absolutely NOT a lesson she had followed on her muggle school, that was for sure!

And about the things on the school board… She had NEVER seen anything like those symbols before! Almost as if they were forming another language… To her surprise she saw that on the table another symbol was made but what it was she still didn’t knew. She even didn’t knew WHAT for class this was! What were runes? Hmm…

Echo had to run here actually run. She peered through the doors to see that class hasn't started yet. "Hello Professor Sokolov" she said in tween her gasps and went immediately to an open seat.

Soo close to being late.

She traced the rune with her finger and didn't even bother trying to figure it out. She'd probably get it wrong anyway. This class was so confusing and the longer she sat there the more she wanted to leave. Seeing a certain Slytherin prefect male walk in she fidgeted in her seat that's when she noticed Paige's hand. She had gave the girl a weak smile as she first sat down, but now Paige had her hand palm up like she was there to support or even comfort?

She blinked a few times, possibly feeling a bit emotional over someone doing this, but she held her own and took a deep breath. She knew a little of what went on, she helped Nat with the dream journal two terms ago. Slipping her hand in Paige's she gave a little squeeze. "Thank you"

As her eyes lifted again she saw Hady come in and gave her bandmate a smile. At that moment she was glad she picked the seat she did.

Noelle was studying the professor while she waited on class to start. His features were very sharp. Direct. Almost had an ..... ancient twinge to them. It was kind of cool how that happened. She needed to look at the other professors to see if they had a hint of what they were teaching in them as well.

And since there were new professors, this wouldnt be too hard to decide. Airey had a bit of spacey twinge to him, and he matched what he was teaching. The new head of house for Gryffindor ... hmm.. he taught potions.... did he look like his subject?

Pay attention Noelle.
She jolted when she heard a voice in between her and Azura. Then there was an arm around her... hugging her. His

Corny

Noelle sideways looked at him and offered her best smile but it came out as annoyance. "Corny" Noelle simply said. And left it at that.

Contessa glided into the classroom. She looked at the professor. "Gooooood morning, Professor." The young Slytherin was excited for class. Tessa plopped down in a seat and glanced at the board. She took out her parchment and wrote the two words down before absentmindedly tracing the rune that was on her desk. She sighed and twirled her quill, not noticing the few drops of ink that landed on her parchment. She hummed a little as she glanced out into space.

Az was rethinking her spot in the classroom, it had quickly gotten crowded with people who..uhh..well anyways..

So she moved back to a spot in the right corner and smiled as Noelle came to join her! "Noelle!" she said with a grin as she hugged her friend before she sat down..

She was just about to reply to her comment when suddenly Cornelius was there hugging them both. "Cornelius!" She hugged the boy back before grinning at him.."She was talking to me.. But I suppose I'll let you share it. " She said with a grin as she looked over at Noelle and noticed her expression.. She raised an eyebrow at her..

Uhh.. Was she okay?

New class. Yes!

ANCIENT RUNES. YESSSSS!

Samantha was sooo excited to start their new class today. Between talking to her sisters, and looking at their old books she may have filched, she knew just enough to spark her intrest. Entering the classroom, she greeted the professor wit a potentially over enthusiastic "Morning Professor." Before making a bee line to where her friends were sitting. Passing by Ace and giving his head a pat, she plopped down in the seat next to him, and gave both of the boys a huge grin. New classs!

Hadley was excited for this class. Ancient runes. Among other things, it was a secret language, or at least a secret alphabet that she could use to keep things secret from the muggles in her life. Of course, she'd teach them to her twin, because, hey, secret twin alphabet for their secret twin language.

Hads stopped when she entered the classroom. It wasn't exactly the way she'd imagined it being. Actually she wasn't sure how she imagined it looking but this wasn't it. It was just a normal classroom. How boring. Oh, well. "Hey, Professor Sock'o'love!" She gave the professor a wave and made her way down the rows of desks, looking for her friends. There was Ace and Sam, and Tory. She wouldn't get to sit next to Ace, oh well. Instead she took a seat directly behind Ace. "Hey Sam. Hey Sizzlin' Salamander. Hey, Torrance."

A ball of nervous energy, Andrei entered the classroom. Ancient Runes ..... he wasn't sure how this was going to go, he had done a little reading before the start of the year, he hoped that would help

He nervously smiled at the Professor and sat down

Miranda entered her Ancient Runes class... Not looking forward really to learning the arcane alphabet, but it was necessary and so she went..
" Hello, Professor Sokolov... good to see you..." she smile as s ehscanned for a seat in the middle of the classroom.
'HUH?" strange markings on the desks... must be some of the runes they'd be learning about in today's lesson....