Professor Levy
April 26, 2011 4:35 PM
Intermediate Lesson (Years 3-5) by Professor Levy
Erika was sure that when the students walked into the room, they would find it rather odd. Small tents that would probably only fit a person or two had replaced the desks and chairs in her class. “Good afternoon, class!” She called out, as the students began entering. She was sure that quite a few of them were surprised by the change. Oh, it wasn’t that the desks and chairs didn’t go missing every now and then. It was necessary to allow for some of the spell work that they did, but tents were definitely not a normal part of a lesson. “Everyone, please pick a partner and then come stand in a circle in the middle of the room.”Once all her students were gathered, she began speaking once more, “Okay, everyone has a partner? Good. Now, look to the person on your opposite side and meet your new partner.” Undoubtedly, a few grumbles preceded her announcement, but it would be a good lesson for them. “In real life, we don’t always get to pick our partners and sometimes, especially in the field of Defense, being able to work with other people can mean the difference in whether or not someone gets hurt or worse.”
She knew this better than anyone. “Maybe to give you an idea of how important it is, I’ll tell you a story. There once was a young Auror. She was the best in her class. She thought she had a brilliant future. But it was cut too short when her partner, too new and eager, out only for himself, wasn’t there when it counted. Now, she has a different career, one she enjoys all the same, but will forever have a knee that is quite lame.” It was rather personal to share, but she felt it was important to signify the necessity of being able to work together. If they had been able to work together, then she might not have lost her career.
“Hopefully, you all learned a valuable lesson in cooperation. Now, to what we will be doing today. We will be having an exam,” Erika smiled at them. She knew that not everyone liked being tested, but she figured this one wasn’t horrific. “So far this term, we’ve been covering protection spells. You will work with your partner to hide a small area containing the tent and one of you from view. The other should stay outside the area so I know where your tent is. You will be graded based on how many ways I could figure out there is something there. Here’s a hint, just because the area is hidden from sight, it doesn’t mean it is hidden completely.”
She wasn’t sure if they would all pick up on her subtle meaning or not, but she couldn’t give them a detailed list. It was a test after all. Besides, it wasn’t like they would have a guiding hand in the real world should they ever find themselves in such a dire situation and she really hoped they never would. “Unless anyone has any questions, you may begin.”
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Nicodemus Sawyer, Crotalus
April 26, 2011 8:02 PM
Seriously? by Nicodemus Sawyer, Crotalus
The most surprising thing about walking into DADA and seeing the desks and chairs replaced by tents was how surprising it wasn't. Nic attributed this lack of surprise to Professor Crosby. Even if she taught them nothing else, the Transfiguration teacher was certainly making sure the students of Sonora learned to expect the unexpected. Which, in all honestly, Nic supposed was a good trait to have for DADA.With some difficulty, he found a partner and moved into the circle, hoping desperately that there would be no campfire singing this class or he was going to have to revoke Professor Levy's designation as his favorite professor. Fortunately, there was no singing. Less pleasingly, his effort in finding a partner was wasted. It wasn't that he'd been looking forward to working together with that particular person, but he'd forsaken his normal silence to ask 'do you want to be partners?' and now he wouldn't even reap the benefits of that social interaction.
At least this hadn't been the one time he worked up the nerve to ask Rachel Bauer to partner with him. If that had happened today and then he was told to work with someone else, he wasn't sure he could have ever forgiven Professor Levy.
He shrugged at his former would-have-been partner, and then turned to the new one he was assigned randomly. He didn't mind random partner assignments at all, in fact he normally preferred that, but seriously? He'd like to have it happen before he went through the trouble of speaking to somebody else. Doing it afterwards completely negated all of its advantages.
Looking from his new partner to their nearest tent, he said, "Sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste. I doubt Professor Levy is going to try licking the air near us, so we probably don't need to make the tent tasteless, but do we know spells for hiding it from the other four senses? I think I know an illusion spell that will cover it up visually." As a third year, making things insubstantial to touch was a bit beyond his skill level, but he thought he could handle sight and possibly sound. "I know a muting charm, too."
Then, belatedly remembering the social niceties he'd already expended on his first partner, he added, "Oh, and hello. I'm Nic," he added, in case that hadn't already been obvious after two and half years of attending the school.
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Seriously?
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Andrew Duell
April 26, 2011 9:25 PM
Yup, seriously by Andrew Duell
Okay, time for Defense against the Dark Arts, this was good. DADA would be good. It had to be good, everything else had been not so good. He entered the classroom and noticed the tents. Were they camping? Maybe he should team up with Jose again, his patronus might come in handy. It didn't take to long to partner up and find his way to the circle. Once there, the professor switched things up a bit. She made a good point though, and he got the feeling that her story was a little more than just a story. Anyway, he found himself now partnered up with Nicodemus. He hadn't worked with Nic before, so this should be an interesting experience.Nic started working out the problem right away, that was a good sign. "Hi Nic, sounds like you've got a good start on a plan. I'm Andrew by the way. I guess the other thing we need to figure out is who is going to be inside, and who is going to stay outside." He looked over their tent area, "I'm not an expert at charms, but I think I've got an idea for scent and maybe touch." He pondered a bit more, he was relatively sure he could use some transfigurations. They just worked better for him than Charms. The idea with scent was camouflage, he would just need to change the hidden area to emit the same smell as the rest of the room. Insubstantialabilty would be the more interesting challenge. He was pretty sure he could pull it off, but would that interfere with the dispersing the other charms? And if those were still active, could he break the insubstantialness without the visual or auditory aspect? Maybe it would be safest if he was the one inside the zone.
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Nic
April 29, 2011 2:11 PM
Fine then by Nic
Andrew. Nic was glad the older student offered his name because he hadn't been entirely certain of it. He'd known the guy was a prefect and Quidditch player, but Nic probably wouldn't have been able to come up with his name. As a third year, he hadn't shared any classes with the current fifth years until this year, and even then only sometimes.But he was glad to be working with a fifth year, however unexpectedly, especially since Andrew seemed to have ideas for the senses Nic couldn't even begin to affect.
"No preference," Nic said, when asked who was going to be in the tent and who outside of it. Andrew had two years on him, so even with being obscenely tall, Nic wasn't a lot taller than him. They'd both fit into the tent about equally uncomfortably. "If I had to pick, I'd say outside," he added, because he really didn't want to crouch down into one of those things if he could avoid it.
"So do you want to do the smell camoflauge and attempt touch, and I'll do sight and sound? I only know a muting spell though, so whoever goes in the tent will still have to try to be quiet. I don't think actual silence is what we're looking for anyway. That might be as noticeable as no sound suppression at all."
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Andrew
April 29, 2011 6:28 PM
Indeed by Andrew
"I have no problem with being inside, some of mine might work better from within the zone rather than outside of it." Nic probed to have a good head on his shoulders, he would be good at this. "You're probably right with the sound suppression. The thing we may have to be careful of though is everyone else." He indicated their fellow classmates working on doing the same thing that they were. "If they start tossing around complete silence, this room is going to get really quiet, really fast. I wonder if misdirection counts?" He got a bit of a sly grin, "How are you at ventriloquism?"With that Andrew opened up the small tent and sat down cross-legged inside of it. He began by touching the material of the tent, and breathing deeply through his nose. In order to fool the senses, he had to know what to edit out. The tent fabric was cool and smooth, he could smell it wafting through the air. The tent had to go, and so did he. This would be interesting. He started with scent, that would defiantly be the easier of the two. His first attempt with rather unsuccessful, his second made everything smell like smoke, but his third came reasonably close to what he was aiming for.
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Nic
May 02, 2011 10:37 PM
All right. by Nic
Nic nodded, quietly relieved that he wouldn't have to be the one in the tent. And while it hadn't even occurred to him that other cones of silence might exist in the room, he shrugged a little, not sure what they could do about it. "I can't do ventriloquism," he admitted without difficulty because even if he could, it wasn't something he would advertise, "but I'm not sure how much it matters. Their empty spots will just make our tent stand out even less, right?"Normally, it would bother him, doing too well in a class, but this was DADA, and he'd decided DADA was cool enough to excel. So he wasn't going to hold back too much on their concealment of the tent.
Of course, the visual concealment was going to be tough regardless of how hard he tried. The muting spell was relatively simple and well practiced so he didn't bother Sam when he stayed up later than his roommate. There was less cause to go around hiding things from sight.
"So I guess get started now? What should we start with?"
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All right.
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Andrew
May 03, 2011 8:43 PM
Yup by Andrew
"Right." Andrew agreed at Nic's logic. "Where do we start?" He began ruminating to himself. Do any of the spells require some of the elements that they would be eliminating? Will we need to be able to see the tent to mute it? Will we need to be able to touch it to camouflage it's smell? "Which illusion charm were you thinking of using to turn it invisible? Will it effect me if I'm within the zone of the charm? I might need to be able to see it to work some of mine."He thought for another moment, "Smell and sound are the least to cause problems to the other two, right? We should probably start with them. Once they've been canceled out then we can do touch and vision." Another thought struck him while he was talking, "Does the muting charm just set up a barrier or does it suppress sound everywhere within the zone? If I'm in the zone and can't speak, I may run into problems casting the spells as well." This may end up being more tricky than he initially thought. The senses were vital for targeting and casting the spells, once you start eliminating them... hmmm... "What do you think?"
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