Professor Levy
May 11, 2010 11:22 AM
DADA Beginner Level (First and Second Years): Lesson I by Professor Levy
Erika was thankful that the last Defense Against the Dark Arts professor had left his notes for her to use since it had given her some ideas for this new career. Yes, it still felt new even though it was only her second year, but then she had thought by now she would have moved on instead of finding that she had begun to enjoy the routine her life was settling into. The only thing that could have made it better would have been able to see Torra everyday, but that would have been in a perfect world and life was anything but perfect.The Defense Against the Dark Arts class had met in its normal classroom. She figured this would have been easiest since some students may not have ventured out to the Gardens yet, or worse, try to use it as an opportunity to try and ditch class. Of course, it was worse for them than her since they would be serving detention while she did the normal grading of papers that she always did in the evening. Once she had taken the usual role call, she picked up a box on her desk and led the group of first and second years outside to where she would be conducting the lesson.
Standing in front of the entrance to the maze, Erika called out, “All right, everyone, listen up! Today, we’re going to be focusing on three spells. Point-Me, Expelliarmus, and Protego. Point-Me is a directional spell. Okay, wands out. Place them in your hand like so,” she lectured as she placed her wand on her flat palm. “Then, say Point-Me.” Her wand shifted to point North. “If done correctly, your wand should be pointing North.” She waited while everyone got the spell down.
“Now, then, let’s move on. Most magic is neutral and it’s the intent of the person that uses it that makes it good or bad. Honestly, I’m not going to sugarcoat it. There are some wicked people out there who love using magic for evil purposes, but that doesn’t mean you should live in fear,” Erika paused looking at her students intently before continuing. “You may go your entire life without ever meeting someone that means you harm. However small the chance, there is still a chance and that’s what we’re here to learn. How to defend ourselves.”
She didn’t mean to scare anyone, but Erika didn’t believe in lying to them about why they were taking the class. “It’s best, if you can, to get out of a dangerous situation, but if you can’t, the other two spells I mentioned before come in handy. Expelliarmus is probably the most simple and most useful spell that you could ever know. It’s used to disarm your opponent and if you can do that, then you take away anything they can do with a wand.” She didn’t mention anything in regards to wandless magic as that would be a lesson for when they were older.
“However, the spell can also be used to disarm you. Protego is a good counter move. It’s a defensive spell intended to deflect minor spells. Now, then, I need a volunteer.” She chose one of the second year raised hands. She figured it would be better if they had already had a little experience with the class to give a proper demonstration. “All right. First, I’m going to show everyone Expelliarmus. Watch me. Expelliarmus!” The wand movement was smooth until the ending jab when her spell was sent towards the student.
She showed them once more before continuing to the next spell. “Watch me again, but this time I’m going to do Protego.” She instructed her opponent to do Expelliarmus and once they sent the spell her way, she easily deflected it with the proper wand movement. “Protego!” She demonstrated the spell once more. “I think everyone has the basic idea, but practicing will help more than me just showing you. Don’t worry, though, we won’t just be dueling today.”
Opening the large box she had brought out earlier, Erika pulled out one of the vests inside. “There are four different color vests inside this box. Blue, yellow, purple, and orange. The color you get will make up what team you are on. Each team should come up with a name and come get a map from me, because you’ll need it when going into the Labyrinth.” She gave a grin. “So, you’re probably wondering what the spells, vests, and maze have to do with one another. Your goal is to protect yourself and your team members from other teams while trying to make it out of the maze. The first team with all of its surviving members out of the maze wins whatever is in this bag.”
She paused for a moment allowing each of them a good look at the colorfully decorated paper bag. “Whenever someone disarms you using Expelliarmus, your vest will change from its current color to black. When this happens, it’ll be like you are no longer there. You may continue to move along with your team, but you may not help them or talk to them. You can, however, talk to others with black vests. Before everyone goes running off the maze, one more thing, if anything happens in the maze and you need help, point your wand up in the air and use the Spark Charm,” Erika said with a quick demo, “and I’ll come find you. Once you have a map and a group, you may begin.”
OOC: Please remember that posts should be a minimum of two paragraphs (ten sentences). Points will be awarded on post length, grammar, creativity, etc. You may be in any group you like, just make sure to put the color of your vest (blue, purple, yellow, orange, or black.) Have fun!
Subthreads: This... is.... SONORAAAA! (Orange) by Neal Padrig, Pecari with Ellie McGill, Neal, Orange, Dani Adair (Orange), Kirstenna Melcher (Orange)
My application said this would be my favorite class... by Nicodemus Sawyer (Blue) with Dmitri Petrovskii (Blue), Brian Moore, Blue, Alessa Hinckley
And I was so sure it was going to be a boring lesson! by Mariana Ravenmore (purple) with Autumn Collins, Purple, Cosette Miller, Purple, Veronica Kerrigan, Purple, Rachel Bauer, Purple
Is it cheating to fly over the maze-thing or strategizing? by Tristan Volkmann, Yellow with Tobar Brishen, Brad Hayman (Aladren, Yellow), Caleb Nichols (Aladren)
Class is Closed! (nm) by Professor Levy
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Tristan Volkmann, Yellow
May 16, 2010 8:29 PM
Is it cheating to fly over the maze-thing or strategizing? by Tristan Volkmann, Yellow
Tristan was starting to see a trend. In all of his classes he had so far, partner work and chat was encouraged. He didn’t usually mind working with other people, but he was starting to get bored with it. Having been used to private tutors, all this partner play was a bit overwhelming and led to nothing but trouble. Not one of his classes had gone exactly right so far, and that could all be blamed on the fact that he always had to work with somebody else. Well, Care of the Magical Creatures wasn’t too awful since he skipped out on the lesson, but he doubted the professor was fawning over him for the decision.He watched with evident boredom at the lesson, not in the mood to be ‘dazzled’ by the simple spells. Why couldn’t they use cool ones? Or better yet, what class did they get to learn how to put fires out? He was pretty sure that would be a useful one in the future, seeing how he could only ever recall fire-casting spells whenever he needed to recall any spell in general.
The assignment sounded kind of interesting though, at least Tristan liked the idea of actually getting to do something other than sit around at a desk and cast simple spells. He wondered over to the vests and grabbed a purple one since it was closest. He was slipping into it when he noticed that annoying chick he worked with in Potions sporting one too. Desperate to not have to work with her again after the disaster that was Potions class, he ripped it off at the speed of light and swapped it for the second closest vest he could get his hands on. He looked down to see yellow and shrugged. Not his favorite color, but it wasn’t his least favorite either. The color didn’t matter as much as the team did.
He noticed a few people wearing yellow not too far away. He walked over to them boldly, hoping this class would turn out much better than all the ones before it. “Is everyone here?” he said, looking around at the people in yellow vests coming together. It seemed like everyone who was yellow was meeting up here together, but he wouldn’t be shocked to find out that half-way through the maze they had a teammate back at the begging that hadn’t found them right away.
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Is it cheating to fly over the maze-thing or strategizing?
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Tobar Brishen
May 20, 2010 2:26 AM
I'm pretty sure it's cheating. by Tobar Brishen
Tobar Brishen didn’t hate Defense it just wasn’t his favorite. Care of Magical Creatures was his favorite and if he didn’t have to lead the caravan once Papa died he would’ve been a Creature Healer, or even a Dragon Keeper like Professor Dakin had been before coming to teach here. Professor Levy wasn’t bad but she just didn’t have the zeal Dakin had. Plus the subject matter was dull to Tobar, especially today’s lesson. He wasn’t all that competitive unless it was Quidditch, so he didn’t understand why they had to hunt each other in the labyrinth.He grabbed a yellow vest and put it on with a sigh. The second year watched a group of yellow students stood off to the left of him. He walked over and smiled at them, he was about to talk when a younger student walked over and said. “Is everyone here?” Was he really trying to lead them? What self respecting second year would listen to a first year? He scanned the horizon for other yellow vests. Being a bit taller then the other kids he was able to see that none were missing.
“I think we are.” He said with a nod of his head. “What should we name our team?” He asked with a raised eyebrow.
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I'm pretty sure it's cheating.
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Brad Hayman (Aladren, Yellow)
May 22, 2010 3:00 PM
Cheating is for supervillains, tsk, tsk! by Brad Hayman (Aladren, Yellow)
Defense Against the Dark Arts was Brad’s kind of class. It combined the two things that interested the redhead most: fighting crime and, of course, magic. He always felt like he was a true superhero whenever he cast spells in the class.Three spells? Awesome! The idea of doing so much magic was almost overwhelming for the Muggleborn; fortunately, he kept his cool instead of passing out from excitement. He took his wand out at Professor Levy’s command and placed it in his palm. “Point-Me.” It worked right away. “Score!” he exclaimed. He’d had rotten luck with a lot of the spells he’d been doing in his other classes, so this made him feel a lot better.
Brad listened, intrigued by the professor’s explanation of good-versus-evil in the magical world. Wow, it was just like the comics! He would definitely never turn into one of those wicked people she was talking about. How lame and irresponsible would that be!
He nodded seriously when the teacher told them there was a small chance that anyone could encounter dark magic sometime in his or her life. Honestly, he wanted to have that chance—to go head-to-head with some evil soul, bring them to justice, save lives! It was what every good hero got to do at some point, and he knew he could do the same one day. He just had to stay focused in school and keep a positive attitude up, just like his parents told him to do all the time. If he did that, anything was possible!
Professor Levy asked for a volunteer. “Ooh, ooh! Pick me! Pick me!” Brad waved his hand excitedly, his eyes wide. Unfortunately, some other kid got picked. Blast! he thought.
He watched as she performed both Expelliarmus and Protego. The first one was the offensive spell while the other was for defense. Cool.
So they were going to do another competition. Great! Brad loved that Sonora offered so many different games to its students to teach them various lessons. It made everything much more enjoyable, and it was nice to get something out of his hard work every once in a while. This particular competition reminded him a lot of the laser tag birthday parties his Muggle friends had invited him to back home. He’d definitely write to John and Carl about it later.
…Wait. Blast! He couldn’t tell them about it because of the magical secrecy statute thing. That was lame. He would have so many good stories and he’d have to keep them all to himself! He frowned in annoyance.
A moment later, he shook himself and walked over to the big vest box. He picked a yellow one because it reminded him of Daredevil and found his fellow yellows. “Hey, guys! Ready to save the world?” He grinned at his teammates.
“What should we name our team?”
“The Super Squad!” Brad exclaimed enthusiastically. How could they possibly refuse it?
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Cheating is for supervillains, tsk, tsk!
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Caleb Nichols (Aladren)
May 24, 2010 10:23 AM
Cheating, schmeating. As long as we don't get caught. by Caleb Nichols (Aladren)
Caleb was curious as to what the DADA lesson would be today, considering the fact that it was being held in the Labyrinth Gardens. He was excited as he made his way from his dorm room to the gardens and stood outside with all of the other students as he waited for the directions.He watched as the professor told them about different spells. When they were asked for a volunteer, Caleb kept his hand securely by his side. He normally didn't like being a volunteer for something because he usually made a fool out of himself. So, he watched as a student came forward and the professor did the two spells Expelliarmus, and Protego on the student. He was very intrigued. When the teacher said that they were going to be making teams, he looked around at some of the other students. He walked over to some of the other students and stood with them and decided that he would make some new friends.
When they asked what the team name would be he looked at the boy who suddenly shouted "The Super Squad." Caleb didn't particularly like that name, but he was polite so he waited for the other's take on the name. But, he offered his own name anyways. "How about...The Dream Team? I mean, it rhymes...." He smiled politely at the other students who were gathered around him. He had hoped that they wouldn't think he was too weird for offering that name up, but he couldn't help it.
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Caleb Nichols (Aladren)
Cheating, schmeating. As long as we don't get caught.
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