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Post by Tunks on Feb 27, 2004 20:54:48 GMT -5
~Begin Description~
The Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom was a normal classroom. If you were to enter it, you would be facing many desks aligned in rows facing the opposite direction towards a blackboard and a desk. To the left was a tall cupboard with a small Siamese kitten with a small scar on his leg perched on top wearing a small vest that had a leather latch sticking out; with all the black on the Siamese cat, it blended in perfectly with the dark corner…. wait a minute, this isn’t normal. Anyways, if you were to walk through the perfectly aligned desks, you would notice a small blue owl perched on top of the desk at the front… wait, this is getting even weirder. The blackboard behind the desk had words written on it, as if written by magic:
Please take the following rules down as notes:
1. Always respect everyone.
2. No talking out of turn.
3. Always refer to me as “Professor Tunks” or “Professor”.
4. Turn homework in on time.
5. Obey teacher.
6. Listen carefully.
7. Always have fun.
As I said, the classroom for the Defense Against the Dark Arts is completely normal.
~End Description~
The small blue owl looked over at the kitten and hooted. The kitten meowed back. Neither of the animals moved. Then, the door suddenly swung open as the first students came in for their first Defense Against the Dark Arts N.E.W.T. lesson.
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Post by Lynn on Feb 28, 2004 13:53:14 GMT -5
Ari walked from the commonroom, rubbing at her eyes a bit and yawning. First class back at Hogwarts, she thought, this will be excitng. Quickening her pace, she saw the door ahead of her. Opening it, she came in, and stopped. "Maybe I got the wrong class...?" She looked around for a moment, but decided not to take chances and sat down. Looking right at the oddly colored owl, she raised an eyebrow in a quizzical look. "I don't suppose you will be teaching us", she said to the owl on top of the chair in the front of the room.
Looking about at the room, she saw nothing in particular and went back to scanning the front of the room. She looked at the board and took a moment to read and sighed. "Well, at least I know the Professor was here at one point..." She chuckled and looked at the strange owl. "What is it that makes you such a unique color?" She put her head down and waited, closing her eyes a bit. Before she knew it, she was snoozing in the middle of the room at one of the desks.
-Ariana R. Rezza
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Post by Lynn on Feb 28, 2004 14:09:35 GMT -5
Harry's tread was slightly heavy, as he had just woken up. He walked down the many flights of stairs to his first class of the day. Defence against the dark arts, that brought back memories. He smiled, he had taught DADA for a while, to Dumbledore's army...He smiled and opened the door, one that he had just come up to. Stepping inside, he looked at the board moentarily.
He came in and chose a seat, and looked about. He only saw what appeared to be a blue owl and the sleeping form of a fellow Gryffindor. He smiled at that, and chuckled, asleep at the wheel, he thought. Sighing, he shook his head, wonder where the Professor is...And for that matter, I wonder if Ron or Hermione will come.
-Harry Potter
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Post by Nova on Feb 28, 2004 14:27:35 GMT -5
-=Albus Dumbledore=-
Slipping down the hallway with ease that belied his ancient form, Dumbledore turned a corner sharply, his form shimmering and vanishing in that moment.
Dumbledore grinned, what a useful trick...his thoughts momentarily drifted back to his younger years, when he had mastered it.
Chuckling slightly, he continued his thread down the hall until he reached the door of the newly assigned classroom and slipped inside.
New teacher, Albus had figured he'd sit in and simply see this new teacher's method, that was always fun.
Smiling warmly to himself, he went to one side of the room and casually leaned against a wall...noticing the small cat on the other side of the room and grinning...Tunks was going all out....
-=Draco Malfoy=-
Draco awoke from his slumber and glanced at the time, he had about 10 minutes to get to class. Sighing heavily he dressed and shook his hair, letting it fall loosely about his head, he had given up the routine of combing it merely for classes, that was tedious.
Slipping from the commonroom, he made his way up from the dungeons, and up a few flight of stairs and down a coridoor, until he finally reached the newly assigned Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.
As he entered the room, he smirked. "Potter," he said simply and went to a secluded seat on one side of the room and seated himself,wondering where the teacher was for a moment, then shrugging to himself.
Why do Slytherin's always have double classes with Gryffindors....?
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Post by Lynn on Feb 28, 2004 14:55:29 GMT -5
He narrowed his eyes at the newly arrived enemy, "Malfoy." He turned back around, paying no further attention. Just as he did though, he felt thehairs stand up on the back of his head. Shaking it, he settled down and waited for the seemingly late teacher. "I wonder if he is even coming...", he said to himself. This was certainly strange, the teacher missing and all. Agaian he felt the nervousness like there was someone else in the room. Shaking it off, he looked about but saw no one except him, the girl, and Draco. Must be my imagination...
-Harry Potter
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Post by Alenia on Feb 28, 2004 15:03:13 GMT -5
Ron took off from the common room rather late and was now spriting down the hall to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.
As every year he figured it was with the Slytherins and while running in the hall he saw several Slytherins going slowly to class.
Her sprinted through the corridor and stopped at the door catching his breath. He walked through it and saw Harry.
Without even thinking it he walked over to him and sat down.
"You'd think the teacher would be here earlier than the class eh?" He looked to the otherside of the room. "I see the slimy git's already made it but where are his two monkeys?" Ron sniggered a bit then looked around. 'Four people only?' he thought, 'Small class...'
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Post by Tunks on Feb 28, 2004 15:34:23 GMT -5
The owl and the kitten watched as the fours students came in. They both stood extremely still, awaiting for something to happen.
The owl gave another small hoot after a few minutes, but the kitten didn't reply this time; it seemed to want to stay completely unnoticable to the students.
Finally, the bell rang and the door closed with a loud, bang! This seemed to be what the animals were waiting for because the kitten stretched and the owl spread its wings and took flight. The small blue owl floated lazily over the student's heads and steered its direction towards the kitten in the dark corner.
The kitten moved towards the edge of the cupboard and turned its back to the owl, so the leather latch sticking out of the black vest stuck out towards the owl. No sooned did the kitten do this than the owl reached out its' legs and grabbed the latch, turning towards the desk at the front of them room.
The kitten looked closely at the students as it soared with the owl towards the desk, not seeming to be frightened by the fact that a small owl was carrying him there.
As the owl flew over the desk, it let go of the kitten and flew down to the desk, perching itself on top. As the kitten dropped towards the right side of the desk, it started to grow. It took a few seconds until a loud 'POP!' was heard and there stood none other than...Professor Tunks.
"Welcome class to Defense Against the Dark Arts N.E.W.T." he said with a great smile.
~Professor Tunks~
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Post by Lynn on Feb 28, 2004 15:39:56 GMT -5
Ari lay sleeping, but was jolted awake by the sound of a voice. Sitting up, she could feel as something stuck to her face and a bit of drool lay on her chin. Blushing a dangerous red color, she quickly removed both from her face. Looking in suprise at the teacher who seemed to have appeared out of no where, she turned to see that while she was resting, a few other students had come in. Including Harry and Ron...and Draco....
Sighing, she looked at the teacher, "Hello Professor! Um...so nice to see you!" She smiled and slienced her self, trying to become unnoticed. Man, when did I fall asleep?
-Ariana R. Rezza H6
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Post by Lynn on Feb 28, 2004 15:44:35 GMT -5
Harry smiled at his friend who had just enetered, "'Ello Ron! How are you? Slept alittle late I see!" He chuckled and waited as he sat. "I suppose the teacher may be asleep, or just being lazy and coming in late.." He was interupted by the owl as it flew overhead. Looking to where it went, he watched in curiousity asit picked up a kitten and carried it to the front. He was even more suprised as it slowly changed to form a man. Their Professor to be more exact. "Oh, hello Professor, didn't see you there..",he smiled and tried not to look to suprised by the sudden entrance.
Waiting patiently, he looked at the professor for further instructions. I hope this turns out to be an interesting class...
-Harry P.
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Post by Nova on Feb 28, 2004 18:06:28 GMT -5
-=Albus Dumbledore=-
Albus stayed still at the back of the classroom, observing as Tunks made his entrance.
With a half smill still on his face he couldn't help but think...
Not bad...
-=Draco Malfoy=-
Draco raised a questioning eyebrow as the kittin soared across the room, well that was slightly interesting, as the kitchen dropped down and changed into what appeared to be their teacher.
Unimpressed, Draco took out some parchment and wrote down the stuff on the board, after saying...
"Hey Proffesor."
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Post by Tunks on Feb 28, 2004 18:26:14 GMT -5
Professor Tunks returned the greetings and then frowned at the small class.
"It seems that young Draco here is the only one who followed directions. Five points to Slytherin," he said slowly.
"Now please take out your quills and parchment and kindly do as Draco has already done," he said again, moving towards his owl to pet him.
"Thank you Speedy, you may go if you wish," Professor Tunks said to him. The small owl gave a hoot and an affectionate nip at his fingers, but didn't move.
Professor Tunks then moved towards the blackboard and waited for everyone to be finished.
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Post by Alenia on Feb 28, 2004 18:39:58 GMT -5
Grumbling and cursing a Malfoy under his breath, Ron pulled out a piece of Parchment, some black ink, and his quill.
He began to write the rules. He was wel assure that he was going to have a hard time following the first rule. By the time that he finished the professor was already standing at the front of the class.
"This new professor might prove to be slightly better than Umbridge. At least the rules said something about "fun"," Ron rolled his eyes at the word "fun". Many people had their opinions of fun. Umbridge used the word fun last year and what they had was probably the farthest from fun you could get.
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Post by Tunks on Feb 28, 2004 22:21:28 GMT -5
Professor Tunks' ear twitched as he heard what Ron said (he had extremely good hearing).
"Oh come now Ronald, i assure you that this year will be much better than last year, i did here about what happened, very dreadful the way she treated you," he frowned and waited for the rest of the students to finish.
He did have an excelent lesson for today, and he hoped that the students did like it.
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Post by Lynn on Feb 28, 2004 22:51:41 GMT -5
Ariana R. Rezza H6
Ari suddenly noticed the second part on the board and frowned. Pulling from her bag a new quill and some paper, she began to jot down the notes while still listening to the teacher. Sighing, she rubbed the last bit of sleep from her eyes and finished her notes. Looking up just in time to hear the teacher talk about something Ron said. Smiling, she looked to the boy who was in her own year and house, "Nice going, Ron.." She giggled and turned back to the front of the class. I wonder what we are going to do....
Harry Potter G6
Noticing as both the girl and Draco began to write down something, he looked up again at the board with the rules and noticed the part about taking them as notes. Sighing, he took out some paper and slowly wrote out the script, his eyes looking up every so often to get more info. Finishing he set his quill down and waited for further instructions. He smiled at Ron and shook his head, "Umbridge was a terrible woman, and having anyone but her is fine with me..."
He nodded and went back to waiting patiently, hopping that this new teacher didn't turn out to be like her.
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Post by Nova on Feb 29, 2004 0:21:39 GMT -5
-=Draco Malfoy=-
Finishing his notes Draco put his aside and listened as the others spoke.
Now really, Umbridge wasn't to bad...if you were on her good side it was actually quite fun.
Draco smiled to himself at the memory of taking points from the Gryffindors. That had been worth sucking up to that crazy woman...
Looking up from his desk at Tunks again, Draco awaited further instruction.
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