Professor Levy
September 11, 2011 9:36 PM
Beginner Level (Years 1-2): Lesson II by Professor Levy
Erika sat at her desk starring at a picture of her wife. A quill was paused in her hand. She had been grading test papers when the thought of their discussion over midterm drifted to her mind. They had discussed the possibility of starting a family. It would be difficult no doubt with her being away most of the time teaching, but others managed it and she didn’t doubt her ability to do so. But to be honest, she was a little nervous about the pregnancy in general. She would be away from Torra and was worried that something could possibly happen to one of them. She was also worried about her job. She had stayed at Sonora longer than she had anticipated doing, but she had found that she actually enjoyed teaching. It had surprised her to no end.The problem was teaching at Sonora wasn’t like teaching at a muggle school or having a different career. She didn’t go home to Torra every night or even every weekend. Though, she tried to go home as much as possible. But what would she do if she and Torra decided to go through with pregnancy? Would she be able to take an early leave? What if she wanted more time with the babies after? Would she be able to see them more often? She supposed that she would have to talk to Regal when he returned to see what could be done. She was nervous that it would become a choice between her career and family, but she supposed that she could always find a nine to five job, if she had to. She supposed she would just have to wait and see where the cards fell.
Her first and second years entering the classroom distracted her from anything further. She quickly finished marking the last couple of tests while they settled themselves. Once done, she drew their attention to her, “Good morning, class.” She stood up, the papers in her hand. “I have here your scores from the last test. I was surprised to say the least.” She failed to mention if the surprise was good or bad, but her face suggested that they had been good for the most part. There were always one or two that didn’t do so well, which is why they had review every week. She passed them out herself since she felt that no one else needed to see, or worse discuss, someone else’s grades.
After the tests were handed back and the students had settled down once again, Erika began the assignment for the day. “Today, we’re going to be learning two spells – Stupefy and Rennervate. Stupefy is a stunning spell. When the target is hit, they are knocked out. To revive someone knocked out by such a spell, we use Rennervate. Stupefy works against most wizards and creatures; however, there are always exceptions such as giants. You can read more about the spell in your textbook on page seventy-two. Though, it is a good spell to use when you don’t wish to harm, but merely get away.” Erika looked to each of her students. She understood that they didn’t really understand the significance of the spells yet, but eventually her words would have more meaning. For now, it was enough that they got the basics.
“Rennervate, as stated, revives someone hit with a stunning spell.” She didn’t say more about the spell since it was fairly straightforward what the spell was used for. “To perform stupefy, point your wand like so,” she demonstrated, “and say Stupefy! Then, to perform rennervate, wave your wand like so and say Rennervate!” She pushed her dark hair away from her blue eyes. “Any questions?”
After any questions were answered, she went on to how they would be practicing the spells, sure some of them wouldn’t like it, but it was good practice. “We are going to break up into two groups – black team and white team - one on this side of the room and the other on this side. As a team, you will be trying to stun the other team using stupefy. If any of your team members go down, you may use rennervate on them. Last team standing gets five bonus points.”
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Valerie Lennox, Crotalus
September 12, 2011 9:48 PM
Incapable by Valerie Lennox, Crotalus
It was with great trepidation that Valerie entered Defense. She knew full well that she literally could not handle a good portion of the lessons that she was taught in this class. Her theory was good, the Crotalus did fine with written work. However, there was a practical component of the class that might have been fun for some but was impossible for Valerie.It wasn't as if she simply did not like doing things that required movement and athleticism, it was that the first year was genuinely not capable of them. She genuinely was not supposed to. There was a reason that Valerie had been excused from flying.
The frail first year was usually getting over something or coming down with something even when she wasn't actually ill. Right now, Valerie was getting over a rather nasty bout of the flu. She was never ever in an appropriate condition for running around. She got tired and winded very easily, especially if she'd had something infecting her lungs like bronchitis. Not to mention that Valerie could fall and get a cut, which would most likely get infected.
She received her test back and was pleased to see that she'd gotten an E. The Crotalus absolutely could not do some of the practical lessons, not because her spellwork was bad in the least, Valerie put a lot of effort whenever she could though she got tired quite easily and was never able to work on things for long. However, Valerie didn't do too well on the lessons in class simply because of the form they took. She hadn't really been able to catch pixies last term, for example. Not a single one and it hadn't taken long for her to get dizzy either. Therefore Valerie needed to do well on written work to make up for it. Though she got tired putting forth effort in that too.
And apparently, today was going to be one of those lessons that Valerie wasn't supposed to do. Her healers wouldn't want her to do it, wouldn't allow it, but unfortunately she didn't have permission to sit out of anything other than flying so she had no choice.
She rose to her feet, feeling slightly queasy and made it over to one side of the room. Before Valerie could even draw her wand, she was hit by someone on the other side of the room and went crashing to the floor. Another place she wasn't supposed to be.
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Sullivan Quincy
September 14, 2011 12:45 PM
Will you be my Damsel in Distress? by Sullivan Quincy
There were some classes Sullivan was better at than other. Potions, for example, was not a good one. That was at least in part because most of the labels on his ingredient kit were illegible, but the fact that you had to keep track of time and remember where you were at and all that didn't help either. He liked DADA better. There was less extended concentration needed there. Most DADA stuff was pretty immediate, and often urgent enough that he was unlikely to forget what he was doing and get distracted by something else.Like today's class, for example. He had to remember exactly two words (one of which was stupify and therefore especially easy to remember) and there would be enough magic getting hurled around to make it downright stupid to not pay attention to the class assignment. Plus, it was sort of like dodgeball, and that was one of his favorite Gym activities.
He dodged out of the way as one burst of magic flew toward him, and shot one of his own back at the offending classmate. "STUPIFY!" he called out, pointing his wand, and it totally worked. A Teppenpaw girl on the other side of the room went down. Ducking under another glowing strike, he noticed one of his teammates down on the floor.
The space was too open, so he turned over a desk to provide some cover while he tried the harder spell. It wasn't really enough to protect both of them, so he decided the girl was already out, so he took the better cover himself. "Rennervate," he cast and waved his wand just so. She seemed to stir a little but did not come to, so he tried it again, with feeling this time. "Rennervate!" he cast again, and this time it seemed to work. He hurried to get out from behind the desk so she could get in. "Here," he offered, "Get behind the desk while you reorient yourself."
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Valerie
September 22, 2011 4:47 AM
That's a pretty acurate description by Valerie
Blue eyes fluttered open as Valerie awoke. She felt disoriented and strange, more so than previously. She was acutely aware of being on the floor, which was not only dirty and germ-infested-it didn't matter how clean Seth and the elves got it, Valerie was sure they did a perfectly adequate job, but with all her classmates running all over it, it wasn't going to stay that way-but not very comfortable. Her head was throbbing from where she'd fallen and she reached up to rub the back of it."Thank you." Valerie told her classmate, Sullivan, she thought. The Crotalus was certain he wasn't a pureblood, but he seemed to be a gentleman just the same, judging by his actions right now. He had saved her, reversed the spell. Of course, that was what the lesson was, but he'd also tried to protect her by getting her behind the desk.
Where she wished she could stay. Or better yet, go back to her room and lie down. Valerie wasn't sure how much of this lesson she could take. She was already feeling woozy and exhausted, and class had just started. By the end, Valerie would be ready to drop.
She knew she was supposed to keep going. Otherwise, her grade would suffer terribly and Professor Levy might be mad at her. Valerie didn't know which staff members knew about her condition aside from Medic Rocamboli and Seth and Coach Pierce and maybe Professor Crosby. It wasn't as if doing the activity necessarily exposed the first year to more germs than anything else-though that was sort of an issue in COMC where they were outside a lot-but the fact that Valerie was generally getting over something or coming down with something if not actually sick meant she was never really in any condition to run around because she was too weak. To exert herself too much when she wasn't feeling too great to begin with usually lead to relapses. Plus, Valerie could trip and fall (or be stunned and fall) and get a cut or scrape which could (and likely would) become infected.
Fortunately, however, the Crotalus didn't see any cuts or scrapes from the fall. A couple of bruises and the possibility of a bump on the head perhaps, and Valerie felt horrid anyway, but at least she hadn't broken the skin.
Unfortunately, she was going to have to try and get back out there. In the future, Valerie was going to see if she get excused from lessons like this. Her parents would have a fit if they knew. She hated to make a fuss, hated standing out and being different, but this wasn't good for her in the least.
For now, though, Valerie slowly made her way out from behind the desk, but she hadn't gone two feet before being hit again.
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That's a pretty acurate description
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