LESSON ONE ;; Introduction

[Professor Matthew Potter]

Matthew Potter had been teaching at Hogwarts for coming on fifteen years now, and during that time he had taught many different classes. He had been an auror for sometime, but after a promotion within Hogwarts the man had decided that it was his time to leave the Ministry of Magic. Now one of two Headmasters and his usual position of Ravenclaw Head along with Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Matt felt more confident that he could successfully dedicate his time to the school, as well as all of his old friends.

A graceful smile grazed his soft lips as he exited his office on the fourth floor, standing now on the small staircase in the back of the large classroom. Most of the seats were full with students animatedly talking among themselves, the ancient chandelier above their heads as rickety as ever. The man raised his wand and sent a violet jet of light towards the board on the far wall opposite of him. As if he was standing there himself writing, words began to appear on the chalkboard.

During the course of this year, you will be taught every aspect in which will assist you on your path to mastering defense against the dark arts. The following is a schedule in which this class will follow.

Lesson One : Introduction to the Class
Lesson Two : Defensive Spells
Lesson Three : Offensive Spells
Lesson Four : Dark Creatures
Lesson Five: Dark Magic [theoretical]

The following is a list of rules which you are expected to follow while in my classroom. Failure to comply will result in deduction of house points and/or a detention assigned with myself.

1.) You will not receive homework in this class, though if I find that students are not focused than I will revoke this rule.
2.) You will keep all negative opinions, comments and problems outside when you walk in the door. This will be a safe environment.
3.) If you miss a lesson, the work can not be made up and you will not receive credit. You are expected to keep active within each lesson to promote an active discussion.
4.) You will not use your wands unless I instruct you to do so; we don't want an accident that can easily be avoided.

"Good morning class, my name is Professor Potter - Headmaster of Hogwarts, Ravenclaw Head of House, and your Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Please copy what is on the board in your notebooks, and we can begin." he stated kindly as he walked the length of the room over to his desk. With another flick, textbooks rose from the table to his right and landed on each student's desk with a plop.

[Hunter Beaumont]

Hunter had been sitting alone, near the back of the classroom when the professor had arrived and announced himself. Who did he think he was exactly, some sort of a god? Like anyone really cared if he was the Headmaster, or whatever other accomplishments he rambled on about. Any real man who was sharing such a high position would have knocked out all competitors early on - some man he was.

With a sigh, the teenager pulled out a quil, a sheet of parchment, and began to copy down what was on the board.

[Kris Killjoy]

Kris heard the professor walk in and he sighed. He wasnt ready for the class to start. He had watched the board and all the stuff being wrote on it, so he grabbed a quil started to write down what was supposed to be written. He sighed when the book came to his spot and he picked it up and looked at it. He set it back down and finished writting the instructions on the bored.

When he finished, he smiled and looked at the room before anything else happened.

[Nicole Hudspeth]

Nikki let out a small sigh as she sat in the back of the room, a few seats away was somebody named Hunter. And well he seemed very bored by the teacher, Nikki was just bored in general and she wasn't a morning person. Sloppily coyping down what was written on the board, she rubbed her eyes a little abit and placed her chin in the palm of her hand.

[anish4]

As the Professor walked in he sat up. He had benn slumped down and was snoozing. As he walked up to the chalkboard Anish slumped back down until he was finished. When he was he told them to copy it down. So Anish got some parchment and copied.

After he had copied it he sat up and awaited his next instuctions.

[Adrienne Taylor Hunter]

Adrienne had woke up late again, it was a common thing for her. She didn't care if she waslate for lessons or even missed them. But one lesson she was rather eager to go to this term was Defence Against The Dark Arts. It had been one lesson that Adrienne had taken since her first year.

She made her way through the hallways and into the classroom. To her suprise she wasn't late, she made it with minutes to spare. She saw Hunter sat on his own at the back and walked and sat next to him. She said nothing, instead crossed her legs sat back and crossed her arms.

Once Potter walked in she rolled her eyes, he always did think that he was high and almighty, better than everyone else. When he eventually shut up she got out her quill and parchment she began to write down what was on the board.

[Hunter Beaumont]

When Hunter finished his notes, he looked up to find that Adrienne had taken the seat to his left. He looked to capture her gaze, and when their eyes met he rolled his eyes and jerked his head slightly towards the idiotic Professor. He could already tell that this was one of those goody-goody professors that always followed things by the book; surely it wouldn't be the most exciting year.

[Lieth Safatli]

Jafar was sitting on the first seat next to anish, Then the professor entered the class and spoke to the students then he asked them to copy what was on the board in their notebooks . so Jafar started writing until he was done.

Then he opened the textbook that was amazingly on his desk by professor potter's magic and started looking at it and waiting for the professor to give them other instructions.

[Mikaela White]

Mikaela had been sitting, peacefully reading from her book when another, much larger, book fell atop her open one. She gapped in startlement before removing the larger book from atop her other. She carefully bookmarked her spot and shut the book, storing it away within her bag. She traded the book out with a nice few peices of parchment and a nice writing utensil.

Once situated, the young girl started to write the notes down quickly as instructed by her professor.

[Taylor Love]

Taylor moved swiftly to class, long legs pounding up the stairs as he finally arrived at the appointed classroom. Sweeping a thick sheet of pink hair out of his eyes, the fifth year spotted his good friends NIkki and Kris and waved to them rather energetically.
Quickly, he brushed past the other students and threw himself into a seat beside Kris.
"Are we suppposed to be copying this?" he asked in a whisper, regretting the fact he'd missed anything the teacher had said.

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[Kris Killjoy]

Kris looked over at Taylor that had come to sit by him. He smiled at him and nodded. "Yes Tay. We copy the stuff on the board." He smiled and finished writting the stuff down and watched Taylor start to write. He smiled and looked around to see who else was there. He saw Jafar and Mikaela, and Nikki that he had met once before. He smiled and returned back to Taylor and back to his parchment that had his neatly handwritten instructions down on it. He smiled again and looked up for the next task.

[Naomia 'Mia' Granger]

Mia slid silently into the class, and saw Tay, Kris and Nikki sitting in a bunched group. mia walked over and sat behind Kris, giving him a poke and a weak smile, thinking of what she had to do... She sighed and swiftly copied the noted, then eyed the large book wearily. She looked up at Professor Potter and gave a soft sigh, then looked at the book, unable to bring herself to look at the boy she was dating. She fidgeted with her hands under her desk uncomfortably, and waited for further instruction from Professor Potter.

[Kris Killjoy]

Kris smiled as Mia poked him in the back of the head and he looked at her and then turned away thinking about the day that he had yesterday. He was wondering what Mia would do if he said that he kissed someone else. He smiled once again at her and then loked back down to his parchment and then took out a new piece of parchment and waited for something else to happen.

[Duwane Peters]

Duwane entered the class and sat in the middle, waiting for instructions on what to do

[anish4]

As soon as Anish had finished writing the stuff of the board down a book slammed in front of him. Anish looked around to see that it had happened to everyone. Anish took the book an flicked through the book. It looked ok. He turned to look at Jafar and said "Are we supposed to read the book?" He then gazed at the board and waited for Jafar to reply.