𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚, hogwarts [V.2], accepting

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( seventeen ) ( gryffindor sixth year ) ( keeper ) ( location ━ transfig classroom ) ( tags ━ flora, jasper )

━━ TURNING up from her desk, cartia-leonette heard her name being called. she gazed over her shoulder to see flora, a sixth year hufflepuff standing. "hey flo!" she smiled and looked upward. she moved over so flora could sit if she wanted to. the professor introduced himself, and began to drawl on about the new year, and the upcoming n.e.w.t's. cartia-leonette internally groaned, and perhaps some of it slipped out. "those are so far away though." she mumbled. coming fresh off the holidays, cartia-leonette was not prepared to get straight into the exam details.

"IT'S more of jenny's job to deal with the new talent, but i'll be there in support. i think she had to talk to me about something." she shrugged, looking down at flora's page she already saw little doodles dotting the lining of the page. art was not cartia-leonette's thing, unless it was about the stars. oh the stars she loved. she craved the night sky, and loved it sometimes more than she loved herself. dusk, night and dawn were the most beautiful time's in cartia's opinion. the beauty of them were unable to be captured in simple photos or books.

the professor, who seemed to know what he was doing, took the attention of the class as he asked the first question. cartia didn't bother putting her hand up to answer, but just opened her mouth. "transfiguration is the act of transforming one object or being into another object. conjuration is making an object or being from nothing, or the traces of something related to it." she spoke smoothly, as if she knew this information from birth.

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( seventeen ) ( slytherin seventh year ) ( chaser ) ( location ━ dada classroom ) ( tags ━ alexandra, alyssa, zach )

━━ LAURENCE still felt out of it. he wasn't neasuses (thank merlin, he wouldn't have to miss tryouts) and not entirely tired - just misplaced. the shift from holidays to school was always a little hard for the deep sleeping laurence. "i'm fine alyssa, truly i am." he placed his hand on her shoulder, gave it a squeeze before removing it and turning to the desk. before he could even get his books out, the professor wanting the students in the room to move around and get into groups of three. already sitting in a trio, laurence didn't bother moving, until he realized it was an instruction to move into groups, and also stand up.

SWALLOWING hard, laurence, like the other students in the class moved to stand and awaited their professors instructions. "professor, doesn't the incantation lead to a patrnous being called on?" he spoke loudly. he thought of his favorite memory - the summer before his parent's divorce. it was pure, sleek and fresh in his mind, as if he were still on the scottish isles today. he remembers a photo being taken of him and his family, sitting quietly on a cliffs edge, their feet dangling over the side. the remembers the golden eagle that flew right when the picture was being taken. he remembered the look on his sisters young face when she saw the photo afterwards, a golden eagle flying across the face of the photo - a family memory to be remembered.

SNAPPING back to class, laurence already knew what memory he would call on if he was to use the incantation. he performed this one time at home, wowing his younger sister when she was just a first year.

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Julian winced, his face sympathetic as he continued to eat his pancakes. “I feel you. Nothing against potions, one of my best subjects actually, but damn is it a sucky start to a Monday.”

He gulped down his last bite of pancake and looked over at Eve with a grin, his eyebrow raising in amusement at the milk mustache, but he deigned not to inform her of its presence. He leaned his elbow on the table and watched her, his head cocked slightly to the side. “Thinking of entering the tournament?”

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Cecilia ● fourth year gryffindor ●
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Celia followed the teacher inside the Greenhouse as class started. She tried to pay attention, she really did, but a lecture on the proper handling of bubotuber pus really couldn't catch her fancy. She yawned, her gaze drifting idly around the room as she gazed at all the plants around the room.

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Saran bit down on her lip, her brow furrowed. “I haven’t decided yet, but there’s plenty of time to think about it before Halloween hits. Speaking of time…” She looked around the Great Hall, noticing how many students had cleared out. She stood up, hitching her bag on to her shoulder. “I think it’s high time both of us head to class before we’re both late. I’m off to the North Tower, see ya.”

She gave a small smile to Jake as she turned to leave, making her way through the hall and the corridors to her Divination classroom for her first lesson of the day, thankfully arriving just in time to not be considered late. She climbed the step ladder up to the classroom, taking a seat on one of the cushions and getting ready to learn about tarot cards.

[wolfi.]

Alyssa Denton / Slytherin head girl + Seeker + team captain / 6th year / Straight / 16 / location: the great hall / tags: Zach, Laurence, flo


Alyssa looked over at Zach who had a scowl on his face as they got up and moved into their group on the side of the class, she thought looked like an overprotective type scowl but decided to ignore it for now. She was way more excited that they would be trying to produce a patronus today, she thought they would be dealing with boggarts, she had no idea what her patronus might be so she was really giddy and ready to start. She was couldn’t stop fussing around as she was really antsy to get to work, but was amazed at what her teacher could do. ”I can’t wait to see my patronus! I wonder if it will be a rare one like a Professor Jackson said. And good job for earning us points Laurence.” she smiled at her fiends and moved the first open spot that she could find for them to practice, it was big enough so she spread out away from Laurence and Zach and held her wand up towards the middle of the circle. ”Expecto Patronum!” she thought of her happiest memory of when she first flew in her first quidditch match against Gryffindor, they had won that day because of her. This was in her second year, and the same year she met Zach she thinks. She looked up and saw nothing but a silver beam, she was kind of disappointed so she tried again. ”Expecto Patronum! She said as she thought of an even happier memory, a recent one too. When she finally spent time with Zach and learning about the tournament, she heard a small rumble and noise, the same she heard from her teacher’s wand and looked up and saw a big dragon flying above her. She was so in awe that she didn’t notice anything else in the room. It was the rarest patronus she could think of, ”Professor? Isn’t this a rare patronus, I thought patronuses would be regular animals?” she asked still in a shocked amazement at her full body dragon in front of her. She looked over and Zach and Laurence and smiled with her biggest smile, she couldn’t get over her excitement!

Jenny Resoro / Gryffindor Prefect + team captain + chaser / 6th year / Straight / 15 / location: Class / tags: Open


Jenny focused more on Quidditch then she did anything else in class, she thought about technique skills and practice lessons she had been planning. She decided to write everything down so she wouldn’t forget to talk tactics to Cartia during lunch, she also couldn’t forget to tell her and Demetrius about what happened over the summer.

Caroline Hadlock / Ravenclaw head girl + soon to be beater / 6th year / bisexual / 15-16 / location: great hall to class / tags: open


She completely zoned out thinking of tryouts and Alexander that she forgot that she was in class, she was about to pick up her stuff and leave before she realized where she was! She leaned back in her seat and just tried to focus on her class work but it was pretty hard considering her class was pretty boring, kind of. She decided to doodle some things on her parchment as she listened to instruction.

Kennedy Safret / Head of Slytherin + Flying professor / bisexual / 28 / location: his class / tags: open


Kennedy looked at his students and focused on the technique he was about to teach, it was a kind of difficult one for starters but he knew they could handle it. ”Now when you kick off from your broom on my whistle I want you to fly up to the goal posts and when I get there you will try to block me from getting this ball,” He held up the red quaffed in his hand, ”into the goals. Got it?” he asked scanning the students for any confused expressions so he could help them. He noticed none so he blew his whistle and off they flew to the goalposts.

Alexandra Jackson / Head of Hufflepuff + Defence Against the Dark Arts professor / Straight / 26 / location: her class / Tags: open

Alex smiled at Laurence, ”Yes it does, five points to Slytherin!” She was proud to be teaching her favorite subject right now. ”Expecto Patronum!” She said loud enough for everyone to hear, a silver bunny flew from the end of her wand and hopped around her until she waved her wand to get rid of it. She looked back at her students noticing only a few who were amused, ”Now that you know the incantation for it, I want all of you to try it. But remember, it may be hard to produce a full body patronus, it may take a while but we will be going over this tomorrow also so we all have a chance to try again.” she stepped back to the front of the room and scanned the room. ”Now I would like all of you to bring your group to an open area somewhere around the room and form a little circle, then think of your happiest memory and try to produce a patronus. You never know if you will have a rare patronus so give it a try!” she exclaimed happily as she returned to walking around the room and watched as people tried to produce patronuses left and right. ”I happened to use this spell a lot when I was an Auror, when I brought in people to Azkaban, it was very helpful ha.” She slightly laughed as she continued to walk around the room.

^omg I made a big dumb, for some reason I thought that Kennedy was potions professor and was writing potion stuff till I saw his tittle. Gah I feel embarrassed now lol XD

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"Ah right I see, still, surely it'll be down to the whole team to decide who gets the spots. You're one of the best players that Gryffindor has!" She offered a smile with her response as Cartia mentioned that Jenny had wanted to talk to her about something. The blonde figured it was something Quidditch related but as she had found before, she didn't have enough knowledge about the game to really hold a conversation about it.

She turned back to the front as the Professor started talking and almost grimaced. Of course prepping for the N.E.W.Ts was super important, but she would rather ignore the impending sense of doom that was associated with exams. The girl could never help but panic when under time pressure, and it was a bad habit that she couldn't help but view as a flaw. She had tried so many things that would force her to get over it, but for whatever reason she just couldn't get out of her own head. This year was pretty much her final chance at getting over it, and if she couldn't she could certainly kiss any good grades goodbye.

Listening to Professor Woods started to speak, Flo couldn't help but smile. Though she felt that she had had plenty of practice with conjuring over the Summer, it was an aspect of Transfiguration she had come to really enjoy. Conjuring living things had taken some intense work, but she remembered the moment when she had finally managed to conjure up a flock of birds and how rewarding it had been. The girl hoped that they would be practicing something a little easier today, as truthfully she hadn't tried anything quite as tricky since.

[Skyhawk]

Z A C H A R Y (𝐳𝐚𝐜𝐡) K N I G H T

[ male / 17 / seventh year / slytherin / + / tags; alyssa, laurence / mentioned; ]

Zach swallowed nervously. He had been practising throughout the summer with his brother and father to produce a full body patronus and he hadn't managed it, merely produced blue wisps. Along with Alyssa and Laurence, he formed a circle, enclosing the three of them with their wands out in front. Zach grinned when with a flick of her wand, a gigantic dragon was produced from the tip of Alyssa's wand. He gazed, in awe, as it flew elegantly around the room. He glanced at Laurence, his dominant hand holding the wand already beginning to shake. In the summer, the memory he had chosen had been one of him and his brother flying alongside each other, racing against the wind. But the memory had only reminded him of how his brother had changed. This time, Zach conjured up an image of his mother in his mind. He pictured her beaming from ear to ear as he stood in front of her, holding his Hogwarts acceptance letter. Zachary focused on the fondness in her face, blocking out thoughts of his father and brother. He took a deep breath, straightening his arm and narrowing his eyes. "Expecto Patronum," he said distinctly and audibly. Zach heard a deep growling sound, growing louder and out of nowhere appeared a lone wolf. Steel gray claws extended from the wolf’s large black paws. The wolf’s forehead, neck hair and hackles were raised. Ivory teeth appeared between the jaws, its tongue moved around its mouth. The wolf snapped stepping closer to him but he wasn't afraid. Surprisingly, quite the opposite.


C A S I R N I R (𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐞) H A I N E S

[ female / 12 / first year / ravenclaw / + / tags; / mentioned; ]

Casirnir made her way to her lesson, nerves building up inside her as she grew nearer and nearer to the classroom. She was running slightly late and this had never happened before. She entered the Charms class, nodding an apology to the professor before quietly taking a seat at the back and taking out her quill, ink and parchment, ready for the lesson.


T E S S A (𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐬) J O N E S

[ female / 16 / sixth year / slytherin / + / tags; / mentioned; ]

Tess observed the new transfiguration professor from the back of the class. He appeared much more proactive than the last professor so perhaps at the end of this year she might get a decent grade to finish off. It wasn't her favourite lesson but when she heard the words 'human transfiguration' exit the professors mouth, she suddenly wanted to concentrate a lot more than before.


E V E L Y N (𝐞𝐯𝐞) H A I N E S

[ female / 15 / fifth year / ravenclaw -> slytherin / + / tags; julian / mentioned; ]

Evelyn, oblivious to the obvious milk moustache sitting atop her upper lip, nodded at Julian sitting next to her. "Hmm," she mused, her face turning serious, "I think i'm too much of a wimp to compete," she confessed, smiling softly. Eve let her head rest on her arm leaning on the table. She noticed there was barely anyone left in the Great Hall but she would rather finish the conversation properly and arrive late to lessons than interrupt the flow of the conversation. "What about you?" she asked shyly, "think you could handle to tournament?" she teased.


J A C O B (𝐣𝐚𝐤𝐞) S A N D E R S

[ male / 16 / fifth year / hufflepuff / + / tags; / mentioned; Saran]

A few moments after Saran left, Jacob decided it was about time he made his way to his first period. He casually entered the potions class, slipping in at the back so the professor wouldn't notice arrival and think he had been there all along.


J A S P E R W O O D S

[ male / 24 / transfiguration professor / gryffindor / + / tags; cartia / mentioned; ]

Jasper's eyebrows raised when a gryffindor girl answered his question. Her unexpected boldness had surprised him but she had answered the question correctly. "Quite right, Miss Leonette," he paused, a soft smile appearing on his face. "Conjurations are distinguished from the other branches of Transfiguration, by their ability to transfigure the desired object from 'thin air'." Jasper admired the girl, she was clearly one to keep an eye on. He wasn't sure that at her age he could recite the definition by heart. "Ten points to gryffindor," he murmured before gesturing to the book on his desk. Jasper briefly went over what he was about to teach the class in his head one more time before deciding that, yes, they were prepared for it. "So, Human Transfiguration," he began, eyes sparkling.

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━━ CARTIA-LEONETTE sat up straight as her name was called and complimented, a rush of adrenaline when the ten points were awarded, but then quickly turned to flora to continue their conversation. "thanks for calling me 'one of the best players.'" she managed a smile. "i've never asked, why don't you play for hufflepuff?" she was keeping her tone hushed as the professor asked another question.

HUMAN transfiguration? she hoped that wasn't part of the course (in practical work at least.) the idea of transforming one's self and the possibility of not being able to change back into human form gave the young witch goosebumps. she could easily learn about it all day, but putting the theory into practice? not so much.

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( seventeen ) ( slytherin seventh year ) ( chaser ) ( location ━ dada classroom ) ( tags ━ prof jackson, alyssa, zach )

━━ AS soon as the points were given to his house, laurence let a smug smirk play out on his face. glancing over to zach and alyssa, they looked to be on different sides of the spectrum. alyssa was starry-eyed as the professor produced her patrnous like a muggle-born first year drooling over the castle for the first time, but zach seemed to look at everything within the room with sharp, angered eyes. turning to properly face him, he questioned if he was alright. it seemed as soon as they entered class he'd gotten progressively more and more silent. he wondered if he should ask about his wellbeing, but those thought's were cut short as alyssa summoned a full-bodied dragon.

STEPPING back from the wispy beast, half in shock, half with a wide grin on his face laurence also saw zach produce a lone gray wolf, snapping and growling. "guess it's my turn then." he huffed, readying his wand and speaking openly. "expecto patronum." a streak of blue and white light appeared from the tip of his wand, among the swirls came the eagle he thought of with his memory. it hovered lightly, it's wings keeping it afloat. it was calm and serene, and before long it extended it's wings fully to make circles around the wizard. he stared up in awe. "sometimes i forget that being a wizard is this cool." he murmured to himself. the rest of the class, some of which had trouble producing their patroni and others had full-bodied animals in front of them. the year was already going to go smoothly.

WITH tryouts a few hours away, the tournament coming up and then the yule ball? the year was only just about to kick off. for what seemed like hours, laurence was infatuated with the wispy being above his head. it had returned to what seemed like it's stationary placement, hovering with it's wings flapping slowly. he was now eager for the lesson to continue.

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Smiling as Cartia answered Professor Woods’ question without hesitation, Flo listened as he affirmed that she was correct and awarded her house points. Her friend then turned to her, thanking her and asking why she didn’t choose to play for the Hufflepuff Quidditch team. “I’m not skilled enough, there’s more chance of me falling off of my broom than doing anything good for the team.” She shook her head as she whispered her response.

The brunette was about to continue when the professor peaked her interest. Human transfiguration? She couldn’t help but allow a wry smile to form on her lips. She had tried her hand at human transfiguration before - her hair had been pink for weeks! Since then she had worked on it the best she could and felt that she had become pretty skilled. As long as they were working on themselves and not transfiguring other people she figured everything would be alright. Fun even.

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Alyssa Denton / Slytherin head girl + Seeker + team captain / 6th year / Straight / 16 / location: the great hall / tags: Zach, Laurence, flo

Alyssa still staring in awe at her dragon heard the same sound her wand made as Zach produced his patronus, a wolf. It was a beautiful patronus and he looked quite excited by it, she was a little scared but knew that it could not hurt her. She listened as her professor claimed that her and Laurence's patronuses were very rare, and her's meant that she was fierce and ambitious. She was happy that her's was a rare patronus but even more excited for Laurence, who's patronus even the professor didn't think was possible. 'A golden eagle, what's that?' She thought just as she noticed that her dragon and Zach's wolf started moving towards each other, the wolf started nudging/snuggling her dragon's snout and her dragon started to curl it's tail almost around the wolf. It was weird, did Zach know what this mean? Because she had no clue...



Alexandra Jackson / Head of Hufflepuff + Defence Against the Dark Arts professor / Straight / 26 / location: her class / Tags: open

Alex walked around the room amazed at most of the students who could produce a full body patroni, she helped those who had a little trouble. She was in the middle of helping a small student when she a loud rumble, she turned around and saw a full body dragon patronus coming from Alyssa's wand. "Well done Alyssa! That's a rare patronus, only those who are fierce and ambitious fighters, congrats." She turned to then see Zach's patronus take the form of a lone wolf. She smiled as wolves are very adorable and loyal, "Well done Zach, a wolf patronus sees it's caster as a member of the pack and are fierce and loyal protectors," She looked over at Laurence, with a golden eagle soaring above him. "and that Laurence is a patronus I have never seen before, do you mind me asking what your memory was, it must have been a very powerful one?" She smiled at him to make him seem a bit more comfortable in her class as he and Zach looked a little annoyed when they came in with Alyssa.

^I'm not gonna write for my other three as they aren't active or interacting with anybody lol

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Julian gave an exaggerated gasp, his eyebrows rising almost into his hairline. “You’re telling me that you don’t think you can do it? I think you’ve got to. Wanna know why?” he leaned forward towards her, his voice hushed as he motioned towards his lip. “You’ve got some ferocious warpaint already prepared. Unique style, but I like it.”

He laughed and leaned back, running his hand through his hair, his gaze flitting around. He was aware of the minutes ticking by and the fact he was certainly late to class by now, but the thought was fleeting. He couldn’t bring himself to care too much- it was only transfiguration. “Me? I think I’m gonna enter.”

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Celia followed the teacher inside the Greenhouse as class started. She tried to pay attention, she really did, but a lecture on the proper handling of bubotuber pus really couldn't catch her fancy. She yawned, her gaze drifting idly around the room as she gazed at all the plants around the room.

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Saran bit down on her lip, her brow furrowed. “I haven’t decided yet, but there’s plenty of time to think about it before Halloween hits. Speaking of time…” She looked around the Great Hall, noticing how many students had cleared out. She stood up, hitching her bag on to her shoulder. “I think it’s high time both of us head to class before we’re both late. I’m off to the North Tower, see ya.”

She gave a small smile to Jake as she turned to leave, making her way through the hall and the corridors to her Divination classroom for her first lesson of the day, thankfully arriving just in time to not be considered late. She climbed the step ladder up to the classroom, taking a seat on one of the cushions and getting ready to learn about tarot cards.

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( seventeen ) ( gryffindor sixth year ) ( keeper ) ( location ━ transfig ) ( tags ━ prof woods, flora )

━━ CARTIA-LEONETTE nodded and silently agreed. "so you stick to watching other's play?" she asked, pretending to write down notes. cartia made it look like she was heavily engrossed in the textbook given, granted she was also struggling to find anything about human transfiguration, the only sub-section of transfiguration she hadn't been bothered to study over the holidays.

"PROFESSOR woods, what page is human transfiguration on?" she asked wearily. a proud gryffindor lion one minute, turned to a newborn cub the next, with her question that was seemingly stupid.

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( seventeen ) ( slytherin seventh year ) ( chaser ) ( location ━ dada ) ( tags ━ zach, alyssa, prof jackson )

━━ HAVING casted the incantation previously, laurence wasn't overly surprised to have seen the eagle hover above him. though he had never considered it a rare patrnous. by far, alyssa's seemed to be the most extravagant, his was a simple golden eagle. "i've casted once before, professor, but the memory is from a family photo. as we got the picture ready the eagle flew right through. it was the summer before my parent's split." he said the last part quietly than the rest of his sentence.

"I don't think the memory was overly powerful, just that it was at the right time to have a lot of meaning for me." laurence spoke softly, still admiring the wispy figure above him. if this class was going to mostly be practical work, then the slytherin was going to easily breeze this class.

GLANCING over, laurence saw the powerful wolf that was zachary's patrnous quite close to alyssa's dragon. two beasts, that were large and powerful and domineering in their own right seemed calm and content in this moment. not something you see everyday, laurence was sure of that. "alyssa?" he chuckled slightly. "what are your's and zach's patrnous' doing?"