Jassmine, Michele and Ebony all walked out of the school's newest class,
Demonology, with smiles plastered to their faces. "God! Mich, your dad is
exactly as I remember him, only he's much more fun! I just know I'm going
to love his class." Ebony laughed.
"Well this class was definitely enjoyable." Michele replied.
"Oh come on! That rocked! He's way better than Snape!" Jassmine exclaimed. "I wish all teachers were that youthful. So who do we have next?" she added.
"Um," Ebony checked her schedule, "We've got DADA! With Ms. Tilt, she's supposed to be really good." Ebony answered. So the three headed towards the DADA class.
"Well my dad looked like he was going to have a heart attack when granddad told him that she would be teaching here!" Michele said.
"Really?" Eb inquired.
"That doesn't sound like ol' Remi! Maybe we should be careful 'round her, what do ya think?" Jass proposed. Suspision was one of her more dominant, but not so lovable, traits.
"Come down there! Why don't we wait until AFTER we actually meet her for ourselves before we go jumping to conclusions? Alright?" Michele reasoned.
"Fine! But if she stabs you to death in your sleep tonight, don't blame me!" Jass countered. They got to Ms. Tilt's class in no time at all, and sat themselves right in the middle of the room. The class quickly filled with other 6th year Griffindors, eager to meet the mysterious new, female, teacher. When she walked in their was a sigh of relief from everyone. She wasn't tall, but by no means short. She had dark purple eyes, that looked blue, and shoulder length multi coloured hair. "Awsome!" Jass exclaimed loudly.
"Pardon me?" Ms. Tilt asked politely.
"Your hair rocks! How'd you do it?" Jass asked excitedly, fascinated by the teachers unique hair type. And it truly was unique, it had strands of every colour; blond (regular, white, strawberry and dirty), brown (reddish, dark, med and light), black and red (of all shades).
"Oh, thank you Ms. Black. Actually, I was born with it. I've never much cared for it, I always felt it made me look awful." Tilt courteously replied.
"No way! It looks great!" Jass, still mesmerized, encouraged. She then frowned. "How'd you know my last name's Black?" She said cautiously, while thinking about how Mich's dad reacted when Dumbledore told him, Tilt would be coming here.
"What? Oh, I was recently talking with your father, he told me to look out for a tall, out spoken red head. And again, thank you, but we are not here to discuss hair, we are here to help prepare you on defending yourself from the dark arts" Tilt replied. "You may call me Kaitlyn, Prof Tilt or Prof T. I don't mind any of these and if any of you have nick names you would prefer to your real names just say so and I'll try and remember them, ok? Ok, role call..." She went though it without commentary like Snape. "So I have a couple questions for you all; One, What do you all remember from previous years? And two, what would you like to learn this year?" She asked diligently, and immediately almost every hand in the class went up. Tilt allowed a girl at the front to go first, "Yes Hermione."
"Why are you asking us what WE want to learn? Don't you already have it ALL planned out?" She pleaded with worry in her eyes.
"Well yes, but I like to know a bit about my students. If I know more about what interests them and what they'd like to learn, it helps me know how to teach them better. I'd like for all of you to be engaged and happy while in this class. 'A student who is having fun, is one who will learn better!' That's one of my favorite mottos. Of course you can't always have fun, but I would like you to have as much as you can. We all hate classes where the teacher is a tyrant, and is forcible! Making you feel stupid or dumb, loads on the homework and never makes you have an appreciation for what you're learning. In those type of classes it's just numbers and words you have to get straight to get through the class. And the funny part is, you forget everything, they've tried to make you learn, before you even get out of the school at the end of the year!" Tilt preached.
"That's Snape down to the bone!" One of the students whispered.
"Snape? Severus is still working here?" She asked the boy.
"Um, ya. He's the potions teacher, very mean to us Griffindors! He favors the Slytherins and never seems to give us a break." He explained.
"Does he now? Very interesting. But this is a class of fun remember and since you say he's so awful, we'll not dwell on him. So what would you guys really like to look at?" She asked and again, all of the students raised their hands, Tilt just had laughed. "Ok, lets take another approach. Everyone will get to say something, and if anyone has a comment to add to the suggestion, voice it!" She looked over the class, "Ebony, will you please write down all the suggestions made." It was more of a statement than a question so Eb did as she was told. "We'll start here at the front" she said as she motioned for a freckled red headed boy, Ron Weasley, to begin...
The class went smoothly. There were a few big debates and discussions over some of the suggestion, but they were entertaining. Just before class ended Tilt raise her hands and asked for everyone's attention, "Everyone, I have a work sheet for you to fill out, it's not homework, but I'd like you to complete it just the same. It won't take long. It will help me learn more and see where the majority of the class wishes to take this years DADA class." Tilt did a charm and a sheet appeared in front of each of the students. "Oh and Jassmine, Ebony could you stay a moment?!" She requested.
Jass and Eb gave each other surprised looks. As everyone departed the class room, with smiles and happy talk, Ebony and Jass sat on the front desk waiting to see why Tilt wanted them to stay behind. "I understand you two are as new as I am to Hogwarts. Would you be up for comparing what the Hogwarts students have learned and what you've learned in previous years? What I mean is, could you put together a list of spells and such that you've learned over in America? The teachings are not too dis-similar, but I'm told there are distinct differences. I want to do a unit on cultural magic's, the information you gather for me, would be most useful" Tilt stated.
"Um, sure." They both answered. With that they both left Tilt's room. ***
"Dinner was great!" Jassmine said as she stretched, and plopped herself in the chair across from Ebony in Pennington Hall.
"Was it? I haven't eaten yet. I'm working on this assignment Binns gave us. Are you already done?!" She said not even looking up from her work.
"What?! God no! Of course I haven't done my work! And I can't believe that you've chosen to do homework that's not due for two days over eating! You're crazy!!! But if it means getting some food in that skinny body of yours I'm up for helping. Need any?" Jassmine asked.
Ebony lifted her head to look at Jass skeptically. "Um...ok. When was the Goblin War of Teckanichi?"
Jass waved her hand as if to dismiss the question, "Easy. 1573-1577."
As Jass sat back in her chair, Rae, who was listening, turned around, "Actually your WRONG!!! The war of Teckanichi, was from 1631-1654! It was a major war! The clan of Argren wanted more freedom in the Teckanichi region, which no longer exists by the way. But the leaders controlling this region, the Dopent-ay Hunters, wanted to remove the Argren's from the region, not realizing that the Argren's produce a certain aroma, that we human's can't smell. This aroma was appealing to the Ioquin Beast, which was the staple game in the area. So basically if the Dopent-ay's had succeeded in removing the Argren's, they would have starved to death. Anyways, the Argren got the Yetweller clan to join them, and through a very LONG war they over took the Dopent-ay's. But instead of making them leave the region, they put many of their own kind on the high council, and mixed themselves. This move brought about 230 years of peace. But the peace was eventually broken when...Well that's another time and another war. Did that help?" Rae asked with a smug look on her face.
Ebony stared at her blankly. "Ya, it most certainly did!" she said in aww. But she didn't get to go back to her work.
"That's a load of horse shit!" Jass exclaimed.
Oliver who had come in, and stood listening to Rae spoke up, "Actually, Rae is very much telling the truth, and is very much correct!" Oliver praised.
"Oh shut up pretty boy! Who asked you!?!" Jass fumed.
Hating that name, "Whatever! Nice work Rae!" He said before turning and leaving the three girls on their own.
"Thank you Oliver!" Rae called after him. He merely raise a hand in acknowledgment.
Jass, looking more and more upset by the second, "Wow, you're just so smart!" She snapped sarcastically.
Rae smiled and lifted her chin a bit in triumph, "As a matter of fact, I am! Unlike your father! Who was probably sent to Azkaban because he was too stupid to be in the wizarding society!"
Rae had just pushed the last button, Jassmine quickly stood up an shoved the table over, "Fuck you!!!"
"Jassmine!" Ebony screamed as her papers and books went flying.
"What!?!" She replied, then seeing what she'd done, "Oh Eb I'm sorry, I wasn't..." Bending down to help Eb, who was already on the floor, collect her things.
"Forget it!" Ebony said annoyed.
Rae looked down at Jass, "On the floor where you belong Black?! Stay there!"
"What did you just say?" Jass quickly dropped the papers she's collected and rose to meet Rae.
"Oh, don't worry! It's alright to be a bastard!"
Totally pissed off, Jass grabbed the chair behind her and flung it at Rae. But it shattered into a bunch of pieces before it hit Rae. And Draco was suddenly standing next to Rae, with wand in hand, to embrace her. "God Jassmine! What the fuck is wrong with you!?! You're such a freak!!!" He shouted.
"Freak?! Me?!" Jass threw her head back and cackled. "Look who's talking rich boy! You'd have to be a freak to let that thing..." she nodded at Rae, "touch you! But than again, you always did have poor taste!" She finished.
"Excuse me!?!!" Rae, having been insulted, asked as Ebony quickly rose with all of her things.
"Oh my god!! How fucking old are you guys?!!! Grow up! All of you! Rae, why the hell do you have to aggravate Jassmine?! Jassmine, don't go look for trouble! Rae was just trying to help! And Draco!...Don't get in the middle of a cat fight! You'll find yourself in more pain then the cats fighting!" Ebony yelled and stomped off, leaving Draco and the two cats to quarrel.
"Whatever! You're not worth my time!" Jassmine scowled before turning to leave.
"You mean I'm too good for your time, freaky bitch of a Griffindor murderer!" Rae snickered. But Jassmine whipped around and punched Rae right in the face making her fall within Draco's grasp.
"Go to hell!" She spat and left to find a punching bag.
***
"Well this class was definitely enjoyable." Michele replied.
"Oh come on! That rocked! He's way better than Snape!" Jassmine exclaimed. "I wish all teachers were that youthful. So who do we have next?" she added.
"Um," Ebony checked her schedule, "We've got DADA! With Ms. Tilt, she's supposed to be really good." Ebony answered. So the three headed towards the DADA class.
"Well my dad looked like he was going to have a heart attack when granddad told him that she would be teaching here!" Michele said.
"Really?" Eb inquired.
"That doesn't sound like ol' Remi! Maybe we should be careful 'round her, what do ya think?" Jass proposed. Suspision was one of her more dominant, but not so lovable, traits.
"Come down there! Why don't we wait until AFTER we actually meet her for ourselves before we go jumping to conclusions? Alright?" Michele reasoned.
"Fine! But if she stabs you to death in your sleep tonight, don't blame me!" Jass countered. They got to Ms. Tilt's class in no time at all, and sat themselves right in the middle of the room. The class quickly filled with other 6th year Griffindors, eager to meet the mysterious new, female, teacher. When she walked in their was a sigh of relief from everyone. She wasn't tall, but by no means short. She had dark purple eyes, that looked blue, and shoulder length multi coloured hair. "Awsome!" Jass exclaimed loudly.
"Pardon me?" Ms. Tilt asked politely.
"Your hair rocks! How'd you do it?" Jass asked excitedly, fascinated by the teachers unique hair type. And it truly was unique, it had strands of every colour; blond (regular, white, strawberry and dirty), brown (reddish, dark, med and light), black and red (of all shades).
"Oh, thank you Ms. Black. Actually, I was born with it. I've never much cared for it, I always felt it made me look awful." Tilt courteously replied.
"No way! It looks great!" Jass, still mesmerized, encouraged. She then frowned. "How'd you know my last name's Black?" She said cautiously, while thinking about how Mich's dad reacted when Dumbledore told him, Tilt would be coming here.
"What? Oh, I was recently talking with your father, he told me to look out for a tall, out spoken red head. And again, thank you, but we are not here to discuss hair, we are here to help prepare you on defending yourself from the dark arts" Tilt replied. "You may call me Kaitlyn, Prof Tilt or Prof T. I don't mind any of these and if any of you have nick names you would prefer to your real names just say so and I'll try and remember them, ok? Ok, role call..." She went though it without commentary like Snape. "So I have a couple questions for you all; One, What do you all remember from previous years? And two, what would you like to learn this year?" She asked diligently, and immediately almost every hand in the class went up. Tilt allowed a girl at the front to go first, "Yes Hermione."
"Why are you asking us what WE want to learn? Don't you already have it ALL planned out?" She pleaded with worry in her eyes.
"Well yes, but I like to know a bit about my students. If I know more about what interests them and what they'd like to learn, it helps me know how to teach them better. I'd like for all of you to be engaged and happy while in this class. 'A student who is having fun, is one who will learn better!' That's one of my favorite mottos. Of course you can't always have fun, but I would like you to have as much as you can. We all hate classes where the teacher is a tyrant, and is forcible! Making you feel stupid or dumb, loads on the homework and never makes you have an appreciation for what you're learning. In those type of classes it's just numbers and words you have to get straight to get through the class. And the funny part is, you forget everything, they've tried to make you learn, before you even get out of the school at the end of the year!" Tilt preached.
"That's Snape down to the bone!" One of the students whispered.
"Snape? Severus is still working here?" She asked the boy.
"Um, ya. He's the potions teacher, very mean to us Griffindors! He favors the Slytherins and never seems to give us a break." He explained.
"Does he now? Very interesting. But this is a class of fun remember and since you say he's so awful, we'll not dwell on him. So what would you guys really like to look at?" She asked and again, all of the students raised their hands, Tilt just had laughed. "Ok, lets take another approach. Everyone will get to say something, and if anyone has a comment to add to the suggestion, voice it!" She looked over the class, "Ebony, will you please write down all the suggestions made." It was more of a statement than a question so Eb did as she was told. "We'll start here at the front" she said as she motioned for a freckled red headed boy, Ron Weasley, to begin...
The class went smoothly. There were a few big debates and discussions over some of the suggestion, but they were entertaining. Just before class ended Tilt raise her hands and asked for everyone's attention, "Everyone, I have a work sheet for you to fill out, it's not homework, but I'd like you to complete it just the same. It won't take long. It will help me learn more and see where the majority of the class wishes to take this years DADA class." Tilt did a charm and a sheet appeared in front of each of the students. "Oh and Jassmine, Ebony could you stay a moment?!" She requested.
Jass and Eb gave each other surprised looks. As everyone departed the class room, with smiles and happy talk, Ebony and Jass sat on the front desk waiting to see why Tilt wanted them to stay behind. "I understand you two are as new as I am to Hogwarts. Would you be up for comparing what the Hogwarts students have learned and what you've learned in previous years? What I mean is, could you put together a list of spells and such that you've learned over in America? The teachings are not too dis-similar, but I'm told there are distinct differences. I want to do a unit on cultural magic's, the information you gather for me, would be most useful" Tilt stated.
"Um, sure." They both answered. With that they both left Tilt's room. ***
"Dinner was great!" Jassmine said as she stretched, and plopped herself in the chair across from Ebony in Pennington Hall.
"Was it? I haven't eaten yet. I'm working on this assignment Binns gave us. Are you already done?!" She said not even looking up from her work.
"What?! God no! Of course I haven't done my work! And I can't believe that you've chosen to do homework that's not due for two days over eating! You're crazy!!! But if it means getting some food in that skinny body of yours I'm up for helping. Need any?" Jassmine asked.
Ebony lifted her head to look at Jass skeptically. "Um...ok. When was the Goblin War of Teckanichi?"
Jass waved her hand as if to dismiss the question, "Easy. 1573-1577."
As Jass sat back in her chair, Rae, who was listening, turned around, "Actually your WRONG!!! The war of Teckanichi, was from 1631-1654! It was a major war! The clan of Argren wanted more freedom in the Teckanichi region, which no longer exists by the way. But the leaders controlling this region, the Dopent-ay Hunters, wanted to remove the Argren's from the region, not realizing that the Argren's produce a certain aroma, that we human's can't smell. This aroma was appealing to the Ioquin Beast, which was the staple game in the area. So basically if the Dopent-ay's had succeeded in removing the Argren's, they would have starved to death. Anyways, the Argren got the Yetweller clan to join them, and through a very LONG war they over took the Dopent-ay's. But instead of making them leave the region, they put many of their own kind on the high council, and mixed themselves. This move brought about 230 years of peace. But the peace was eventually broken when...Well that's another time and another war. Did that help?" Rae asked with a smug look on her face.
Ebony stared at her blankly. "Ya, it most certainly did!" she said in aww. But she didn't get to go back to her work.
"That's a load of horse shit!" Jass exclaimed.
Oliver who had come in, and stood listening to Rae spoke up, "Actually, Rae is very much telling the truth, and is very much correct!" Oliver praised.
"Oh shut up pretty boy! Who asked you!?!" Jass fumed.
Hating that name, "Whatever! Nice work Rae!" He said before turning and leaving the three girls on their own.
"Thank you Oliver!" Rae called after him. He merely raise a hand in acknowledgment.
Jass, looking more and more upset by the second, "Wow, you're just so smart!" She snapped sarcastically.
Rae smiled and lifted her chin a bit in triumph, "As a matter of fact, I am! Unlike your father! Who was probably sent to Azkaban because he was too stupid to be in the wizarding society!"
Rae had just pushed the last button, Jassmine quickly stood up an shoved the table over, "Fuck you!!!"
"Jassmine!" Ebony screamed as her papers and books went flying.
"What!?!" She replied, then seeing what she'd done, "Oh Eb I'm sorry, I wasn't..." Bending down to help Eb, who was already on the floor, collect her things.
"Forget it!" Ebony said annoyed.
Rae looked down at Jass, "On the floor where you belong Black?! Stay there!"
"What did you just say?" Jass quickly dropped the papers she's collected and rose to meet Rae.
"Oh, don't worry! It's alright to be a bastard!"
Totally pissed off, Jass grabbed the chair behind her and flung it at Rae. But it shattered into a bunch of pieces before it hit Rae. And Draco was suddenly standing next to Rae, with wand in hand, to embrace her. "God Jassmine! What the fuck is wrong with you!?! You're such a freak!!!" He shouted.
"Freak?! Me?!" Jass threw her head back and cackled. "Look who's talking rich boy! You'd have to be a freak to let that thing..." she nodded at Rae, "touch you! But than again, you always did have poor taste!" She finished.
"Excuse me!?!!" Rae, having been insulted, asked as Ebony quickly rose with all of her things.
"Oh my god!! How fucking old are you guys?!!! Grow up! All of you! Rae, why the hell do you have to aggravate Jassmine?! Jassmine, don't go look for trouble! Rae was just trying to help! And Draco!...Don't get in the middle of a cat fight! You'll find yourself in more pain then the cats fighting!" Ebony yelled and stomped off, leaving Draco and the two cats to quarrel.
"Whatever! You're not worth my time!" Jassmine scowled before turning to leave.
"You mean I'm too good for your time, freaky bitch of a Griffindor murderer!" Rae snickered. But Jassmine whipped around and punched Rae right in the face making her fall within Draco's grasp.
"Go to hell!" She spat and left to find a punching bag.
***