There is a lot going on in this class in a span of.... probably an hour. Sean heard something about an earthquake. He even looked around to see if everyone else felt it because he didn't.

Was everyone going mad? Merlin's beard. What in the world is going on?

Blink...
Blink...
Blink...
And then there was fire. Sean stood up, wanting to help but the other students already have or tried. It was quite the chaos. He was still overwhelmed with what has happene. Student's storming out and not to mention house point reduce.

The next thing he knows the professor has dismissed class. At this point, i think dismissing the class is for the best. After all how is everyone going to concentrate after what has happened. Without a word, but still at dumbfounded, exited the classroom in an orderly manner. His eyes was still eyeing the classroom even when he walked out.

Outside, he took a deep breath as reality came back to him. Phew. "What happened in there?" he said to himself, his voice very confused.

Silas blinked at the younger students who just left the classroom. He had to admit that was quite entertaining to watch. Of course, Silas wouldn't dare to be disrespectful in front of the professors in this school. His Quidditch scholarship was on the line and he needed to keep his track record squeaky clean. And then, there was fire happening on Charlotte Kettleburn's desk which was unexpecting. How did that happen? Hope she was alright...since she wasn't burnt or anything. Silas stopped working on his ruin notes taking and packed his bag as soon as the class was dismissed. No points taken from Hufflepuff which was a great thing, plus no HOMEWORK. Yes! "See you around, professor." He bowed his head in respect and left the classroom. On to the next class.

Jace cringed as he eavesdropped on the on-going conversation between the professor and his classmates. His mind wandered to the situation as he wrote down the galdr for Eihwaz on his parchment. Maybe he’ll drop by Sokolov’s office to learn more about stuff, however, a part of him wants to experiment on his own. Maybe he can use one of the runes to help him focus on his Kendo training? How about inscribing one of the characters into his shinai?

The disappointment he felt earlier left him just like that as he entertained the idea in his mind. Lost in his thoughts, Jace looked up, slightly confused about the class being dismissed.

Wait, already?

The Ravenclaw looked around, and immediately he packed up his things to go. He didn’t want to hang around in a classroom full of drama anyway. Quietly standing up from his seat, Jace inclined his head to the professor and walked out of the room.

Carl smiled back at his fellow Hufflepuff. "No problem." He said, but was quickly distracted by the drama in the class. They could talk as soon as it was solved... then he heard Tenacius say something about class dismissal. He looked up, hoping they were going to continue with the lesson. It was really interesting!

But yeah, class was dismissed. The Third Year packed his things away and stood up. "Bye, Professor Sokolov!" He said as he walked out of the door. Was Miranda coming with him?

To much was going on. A fire was started on the younger Gryfinndor's desk. Then another young girl pitched a fit and walked out slamming the door only to be followed out by another two students. Lots of points were being taken away in only a small matter of minutes. None from her house. Sitting up a little bit straighter Hady gave her house mates an approving look, way to prove themselves. Remain calm, minus a bit of raised voices from Tak but she supposed from what she had heard of that situation the boy had been right.

With all the hectic activities dying down finally it was time to get back to work and for the lesson to move forward. At least that's what she had expected to happen, see that was what was SUPPOSED to happen. Only it didn't. Professor Sokolov went ahead and dismissed the class! The lesson was over. Hady just sat there for a brief moment a small frown on her face. Sad. This was just sad and wrong because some of them actually were doing the work and were trying to learn. SIGH.

With a small breath and shake of her head the brunette finally began putting her things away. Slinging her bag over her shoulder she rose to her feet and turned to learn. "Thanks Professor, see you at the next lesson." She would be here and ready to learn.

He LOVED Ancient Runes! Why didn't anyone ever tell him what great a subject it was?! Gryffindor and Ravenclaw lost house points. Not as much as he'd hoped for, but it was something. Down side was Slytherin didn't get any points, but at least they didn't lose anyone, which was always a win.

Shoving his belongings into his bag, Cornelius swung the satchel's strap across his body. "GOOD day, Professor." He meant it. Until next time.

Toodles!

Right, galdrs or whatever they were called. Hads flipped the page of the book with the galdr for her rune--Elhaz, or Algiz--and just stared at it a moment, eyebrows raised, mouth slighly open. What?

Ummm...

"Elhaz Elhaz Elhaz...
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...
uz az iz..."

Oh, lesson over? Okay. Cool. Hads slammed her book shut and slipped it and her quill and parchment back into her bag. She stood up. "See you next time Professor." And she skipped along out of the classroom.

Honestly, when the Curly Top blurted the question class dismissed, he was partly expecting Profy man to be the same as when he suggested the earthquake: completely unperturbed, ignore the smartypants and carry on.

But Professor Socks actually dismissed the class. Holy canolli. If he knew the Professor was this agreeable Tenacius would've asked that they all have an ice cream party and fireworks care of Runic magic. Heck Char was already heading it off by setting her desk on fire. Pretty sure one of these desks had some kind of ice rune and they could all have a slushy.

But hey an early ending-- and essentially a school appointed nap time-- was just as good to him. The leonine lad scrambled to collect his things and zipped towards the door, slowing down only to say to the Runes man "Thanks Professor Soakalove--" he probably mispronounced that but hey he's trying "--awesome class lets do it again." spesh if they get to leave early next time eh eh? Yeaboi.

Needless to say, Matt had been doing pretty much nothing except poke at the rune drawn on his desk and watch all of the stuff going on around him once crazy things started to happen because of the students working with the runes.

Like that fire. MAN, that looked AMAZING! That actually got Matt slightly more interested in the subject, but not enough to want to go to the professor's office later to learn more about it.

He kept trying to entertain himself by looking around his desk and, again, just watching his classmates losing it and even leaving the classroom and losing house points. Lol. The Gryffindor was pleasantly surprised when... class was dismissed! This soon! Mwahahahaha, WOOHOOOO!!! That was the thing about professors who didn't look like they were having fun: they were either going to make all students suffer by keeping them there until the very last second ooorrrrrr they were so done with everything they let the kids go.

Matt liked the second type a LOT more. "Thanks, professor Sokololvo!" Yeah, he was doing it on purpose. "That was fun!" The boy actually meant that. The point loss didn't bother him at all.

Holy butterscotch. What was going on here? Apparently Charlotte was reassuring him that her desk was not burning and all Owen could do was give her a cautious, hesitant smile. Riiiiiight, Kettleburn. Then another one of their classmate, Tak this time, was standing over Char, and there was a quite a bit of arguing and then came Trixie from behind who also had a say and the other blonde, Liv was it?... Well, Owen didn't really know where to look or who to listen to at this point.

Wait, why was everyone leaving? Why were people losing so many points? Owen was so freaking confused. Was that it? The lesson was over? Did he learn something? Anything? Um, just that he had a lot of spare time till the next subject and that Professor Sokolov was...how to put it...not what he really expected? But he supposed something good came out of everything that happened. No homework. Yes!!

Owen began packing up his things when something occurred to him and he called out to his seat mate, "Hey, Char. You think I can join you if and when you go see Professor Sokolov about his offer?" He didn't know much about runes but she did which meant that if they went there together then the girl will do most of the talking even if she was asked or not. Besides, Owen wanted to learn how to work with runes safely just as the Professor said.