fandomhigh | DADA for Muggles [Wednesday, October 21, 5th period]

"Hopefully your week off wasn't spent forgetting everything you learned in class," Sirius said with a slightly evil grin, "because today is your midterm."

"That's correct. Don't worry too much -- it's a practical exam," Remus said simply. "Today, we will be assigning pairs. Over the course of the week, the two of you will ~~play Spy vs Spy~~ attempt to disarm one another. Now -- " he added, looking around at the students, "there will be no injuries. Anyone caught hurting another student will be given immediate detention, and that will be the first of your worries. We are looking for disarming alone. Your opponent will declare a surrender to denote your successful disarming. Roughhousing is fine; anyone who uses their powers to give another student any kind of serious injury will be in trouble. And -- " he added quickly, "I do hope you all understand that attacking at the dance is absolutely not sportsmanlike. While a real attack in real life might take place in such an unexpected setting, this isn't a real attack, and I would be very sad if someone's dress was ripped or trousers torn."

"Or the punch bowl disturbed," Sirius added. "And we aren't going to be held accountable for what happens if you accidentally attack an alumni who looks like your target from the back. Today's lesson is for information gathering. Talk to the other students and learn your opponent's strengths and weaknesses. If you have powers, you are absolutely allowed to use them since fights in the real world are seldom even, but as Professor Lupin mentioned, use discretion. Listen carefully to the list as I read them," he said, reaching for a piece of parchment:

Alex Karev v. Francine Peters
Andy Gallagher v. Didi
Annja Creed v. Diana Hansen
Blysse Norwood v. Edmund Pevensie
Dinah Lance v. Alice Liddell
Elizabeth Stonem v. George Cooper
George Sands v. Jack Burton
Jenny Sparks v. Merlin
Jo Harvelle v. Priestly
Momoko Akatsutsumi v. Eleanor Robinson
Sam Winchester v. Griffin O'Conner

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Perhaps if she said it slower. "But it would be mean." Not that it had stopped her when she was nine and figured out how good her ballet shoes were for kicking annoying big brothers, but she wasn't nine anymore. Yes, that did mean her combat skills had actually regressed since her childhood.

Oh, Francine. Though, that was better than the 'trip, flail, kill' options that Merlin employed.

"But it's the point of the exercise."

"To disarm somebody of some weapon they don't actually have so the only way you know you did it is if they surrender? I gotta admit I'm not seeing how that teaches us to defend ourselves against dark magic."

Merlin opened his mouth as if to disagree, but... "Neither do I, really."

"Maybe I'll just bake him cookies and bribe him to say he surrenders."

"And that's you using your abilities to defeat him."

"It's hardly dark arts, though." Admittedly, if Merlin and Karla baked the cookies....

And a cough, as her ability to contain her curiosity wore thin, finally. "So, um. Radio said you went to talk to Katchoo last night?" Which couldn't be a squirrel misrepresentation since it was Katchoo who said it.

Those were excellent cookies!

"Oh. Um. Things." He gave her a look as it to signify what things and how it wasn't appropriate to talk about here.

"I kind of figured." Look, Francine Peters parsed a Look! On the first try, even! "If you're not bored of room 505 now, you could come by tonight..."

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