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Criminal Justice [first period, Tuesday]

"Good morning," V said smoothly. "As we have been studying, our current judicial systems are rather rigorous in most cultures. However, they are, in many ways, an improvement. There are, for instance, governments that employ secret police, or have employed them in the past. These organizations rely heavily on fear - and people should not fear their governments. Governments, rather, should be afraid of their people."

"And one reason why," he said, pacing slightly as he picked up some papers to pass out, "is because of what is commonly known as the mob mentality. Years ago, it was the way justice was carried out, and even to this day, public outcry can sway an entire nation. Sometimes not for the best."

He started to pass out a pair of handouts, as well as a small card on each desk. "Today we are going to study one of the less productive, yet nonetheless historical, means of exacting justice. Three of you are 'witches' - your cards have a 'W.' The rest, you have a blank card. Your jobs are to accuse one another until you locate what you believe to be a witch, and bring him or her before me, as I am the acting judge. If you have enough evidence and have located one of the actual 'witches,' you will be awarded with one of these." V held up a box of cookies.

"And witches," he added, scanning the room. "You must do your best to blend in and deflect attention away from yourselves."

[Okay, so basically, this is a game of he-said, she-said. You say, "So and so is a witch for this reason!" And people can hop on your bandwagon, or the accused can reply. When you've gone through a reasonable amount of that, ping in the "Trials" thread and V will listen to the reasoning and give out cookies if you have one of the three "witches."

There are three people who have OOCly been contacted and asked to be "witches":

x5_alec,

once_a_king, and

bridge_carson. Naturally, your characters have no way of knowing this, so accuse whoever. And your logic for why they're a witch can be anything. I expect crack and silliness, not meanness, please. And work together, of course! I'll be around most of the day, with small patches of AFKness in the middle of the day.]

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"Perfect way to throw someone off the trail, if you ask me," Alec said, narrowing his eyes.

"An unprovoked attack against me?" Seely asked. "Seems to me to be a clear case of blaming the victim, or maybe he's placed you under a spell."

"What evidence do we have that his attacks against you were unprovoked?" Z asked. "Your obsession with him might just be enough annoyance to warrant it."

"He attacked me the very first time we met, I hadn't had time to provoke him," Seely replied. "You will notice that he has failed to address any of my points of evidence."

"Because you're not giving points of evidence," Peter replied. "You're merely going through the same tired routine. And for the record the first time we met, the 'attack' was well-provoked by the fact you assaulted and greatly upset a lady. That's not exactly the way to avoid duels."

"No points of evidence, he says," Seely chuckled. "Point of evidence one, the accused, Peter Pevensie, is dating one Willow Rosenberg, who has stated on more than one occasion, in public I might add, that she is a witch, this is a matter of public record. Point of evidence two, also a matter of public record, the accused has spent time in the form of a beast, a pony, to be exact. While in this form he has assaulted other members of the student body, risking the transmission of the curse of wereponyism to other students."

"As for my avoiding duels...Leaving aside the fact that I have never, in my entire life, assaulted a lady, coming up behind someone and biting them on the leg without warning whilst wearing the form of an animal is not a duel, nor is it the act of an honourable man, no, my friends, that is the act of a witch."

"For the first, until you plan to bring guilt by association back out of the Middle Ages, the question of Willow's status is out of the purview of this court," Peter replied. "For the second, if you consider the normal Fandom habit of randomly turning into an animal proof of witchery, then ought you not be accusing Pip, Greg, Logan, Bridge, and Zero as well?" Peter shook his head sadly. "Instead you're letting your personal feelings influence you by trying to pin the blame on someone you already have some sort of vendetta against."

"I have never attacked someone from behind in my life. From a low angle perhaps as it my only option when I was a horse, but never from behind. Insulting my honour is merely a cheap trick and not worthy of any type of man."

"You know what they say about birds of a feather, Petey, besides this whole class is out of the dark ages," Seely replied, before going back to mimicking the many proscuters he'd seen when Dad had dragged him to and Jared along when giving evidence in court. "Considering the closeness of your association, Miss Rosenberg's status as a witch is very relevant to the case at hand, after all, all witches must learn somewhere. Speaking of associations, I expect that next you'll claim never to have held converse with beasts of the field, or creatures such as satyrs."

"You bring up the other animal transformations, I might add that there is no record of the aforementioned viciously attacking their classmates whilst in animal form," Seely said. "As for your claim of never attacking from behind, considering all the bite marks were on the backs of my legs, which I have witnesses for, you might be hard pressed to back that up."

"Y'know," Dean said slowly, "with all the animal transformations that happen around here, it's probably someone who doesn't change when there's a good reason they should've that's the witch. Like, say, getting bit by a werepony?"

"True enough," Seely said. "However you will note that after the attck upon my person, I sought advice and help from an expert in this field. One Mr John Winchester."

"An attempt to cover your tracks," Dean replied immediately.

"Arguably, it could be seen that way," Seely replied in turn. "However if you wish to bring in Mr Winchester to give his expert opinion on wereponies and the liklihood of the curse being transmitted, by all means do so, I have nothing to hide."

"Certainly, bring him in," Peter said immediately. "We can also ask his opinion on if random transformations are proof of witchery."

"But was it really so random as you claim?"

"Obviously...otherwise I wouldn't claim it," Peter replied. "And again, if transformations are proof. Why aren't you accusing others who have?"

"As I pointed out before, none of the others used their transformations to attack someone else while escaping punishment."

Peter rolled his eyes. "Are you ever going to stop whining about that?"

"Pointing out a simpe fact is not whining."

"Oh, it certainly is when a month has gone by and you continue to talk about it every other day."

"I already know his opinion, considering he's the one who taught me everything I know about how to catch a witch," Dean pointed out. "Generally witches are the transformers, not the transformees." He grinned at Seely. "Which brings us back to you."

"Yes, because it makes sense to turn someone I never met before into a pony specifically for the purposes of getting bitten," Seely said, rolling his eyes. "Check my records, I come from a magicless dimension, and I was an altar boy until I was sixteen, I think in all that time spent in a church someone might have noticed if I was a witch."

"You'd be surprised. And we've only your word that there's no magic in your dimension. As for the biting," Dean grinned, "if you turned me into a werepony, I'd bite the hell out of you too."

Seely shrugged. "You can check with the school office, or in the library, all the information's there."

"Besides it's obvious to me that this entire exercise has been set up for the express purpose of deflecting attention from the real witch in this class room," Seely said, pausing for dramatic effect. "PROFESSOR V!"

"It's just V," he replied. "And Mr. Booth, I assure you I am not a witch, and perhaps one might focus on how you and Mr. Winchester are accusing everyone in sight, as that's a very obvious sign of denial."

"I'm just seeing who squeals the loudest when accused." Dean shrugged. "I know I'm not a witch and I'm secure enough in my non-witchiness to not flail if accused."

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