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Defense Against the Dark Arts for Muggles [Wednesday]

Sirius was in a positively brilliant mood today as the students gathered in the Danger Shop for their final examination. He'd tell you it was because it'd finally gotten the cursed thing to work right for once, but that wasn't entirely it.

"Welcome to your final," he said, smiling and gesturing his hand out to encompass the scene that surrounded them: a beautiful Scottish castle in the background, rolling hills surrounding them, strange sentient tree over to the right...Hogwarts as Sirius remembered it from his school days.

Remus was also in a somewhat eerily good mood. He would say it was because he had replaced his beloved paper-making documentary, but that wasn't it, either. "This is a comprehensive, practical exam that should demonstrate how prepared you are to face the Dark Arts in everyday life. If needed, Professor Black and I can step in, but I'm confident it won't be necessary. Best of luck, and it's been a pleasure teaching all of you."

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Find a real cabbage! Keep your hands!

Jonas almost got nipped a few times but managed to spot and snag a real cabbage without any real damage to his digits. He considered that a good start and went onto the next station.

Jack gingerly used a few fingertips to handle the cabbages, moving quickly and lightly to sort through them. He escaped with a real cabbage and without any real injury.

Being a fan of keeping her hands, thank you very much, Kennedy took a rather... offensive-minded tactic when it came to picking through the box. More than one cabbage ended up a little bruised before she emerged with an innocuous real one, slightly scratched but otherwise feeling disproportionately accomplished.

Not that she ever did her own grocery shopping to begin with, but now she had justification.

She used her right hand - turned into steel just in case she misjudged, but managed to get a real cabbage with no problem.

Okay, there had to be a trick to this, right? Even if Warren was a ridiculously fast healer, he wasn't in any mood to get bitten, and so he was going to use the end of his pencil to prod at the cabbages before making his selection.

The whole experience left him with half a pencil, a real cabbage, and a lingering distaste for leafy vegetables.

Was it bad that Leda bashed a chomping cabbage with one of the real ones?

You have your choice of duct, Scotch, and electrical tape.

If there was one thing Jonas had learned during his time on the island, it was that duct tape solved everything. So, he grabbed that and, looking disgusted with the whole thing, started taping the zombie back together.

He had to stop a few times to catch his breath and control his gag reflex but he managed.

Jack used duct tape. It was the obvious choice, really, and it worked even if a few small bits of zombie skin ooze ended up stuck to his clothes.

He was going to need a very long, very hot shower after this class. He might just burn the pants.

Oh, gross; Kennedy was pretty grateful for the fact that she kept a couple of spare sets of clean clothes in her gym locker, because no way was she heading straight for her other class smelling like zombie. It was more a sense of pragmatism rather than the grossness that made her opt for the duct tape; electrical tape was cool and shiny and all but narrow enough that it'd take multiple wrappings, and she didn't trust the rest of the zombie to fall apart in the meantime.

She'd also be keeping an eye on Dru during this part of the final, if she was around.

She sighed and began the process with duct tape, finishing it handily if not happily.

The general consensus today seemed to favor the duct tape, and who was Warren to go against the grain?

The going was slow. After all, he was attempting to do this while holding his breath, and had to flee for a moment in order to actually breathe every now and then, and in the meantime, the zombies would go and do something silly like knock off more body bits.

"Mummies would be easier," he sighed, when it was all said and done.

THE HARDEST ONE OF ALL!!!!!!!!!!!1

Jonas got a candy bar from the vending machine and then sort of waited for the vending machine to do something. When it didn't, he shrugged and moved on.

This, Jack had confidence with. He was halfway expecting a trick, but everything seemed to be in working order. He took his candy bar and moved on.

...a candy bar, really? Picking one might have been the hardest part for Kennedy, but in the end she opted for a jumbo-size mint Aero and prodded the vending machine door open with her boot.

It didn't try to eat her foot, so she snagged the candy bar and kept going.

Vending machines? No problem at all. Though she was a bit afraid to eat what she had chosen so left it there.

Okay, so the machine ate Warren's money twice before he sighed, gave up on the candy bar of choice, and then selected one that he didn't particularly care for.

The machine gave him two of that one. At least he didn't really care all that much about the money it had eaten.

Well the candy was just hanging on by a little bit of the wrapper. So Leda attempted to shake the machine. Of course she wasn't the most muscular girl so it wasn't going so well.

Or MAYBE THIS ONE IS, DUN DUN DUN. The vampire, you see, is the one with fangs, but that's basically the only difference.

Jonas (and his candy bar) felt a little more uneasy about this one. Vampires weren't something he was overly familiar with but all he'd read about them labeled them as dangerous.

Still, he found himself slowly perusing the club, checking teeth while trying to appear unassuming. Unluckily, he couldn't seem to find the vampire on the first go around. So, he walked again, this time offering the candy bar up. Maybe that would work.

They all looked like they could be of the blood to Jack, so he waited in a corner to see if anyone seemed especially hungry when he or she looked at his fellow patrons.

Unfortunately, they were all trying for that, too. Jack decided to walk through the club to see if anyone didn't seem to be breathing. Flashing their fangs in public would just be declassé.

Okay, yeah, this would be the tricky one; even if they were the kind of vampires that went bumpyface and yellow-eyed like they did in her world, they'd be pretty dumb to vamp out in the middle of a club. Her brilliant idea was to go around subtly flicking holy water at people, which again assumed they'd be susceptible to it (could she just go back to her world's rules? This was so confusing) and that she had any on her, which she didn't.

That pretty much left her with the standby of scanning the crowd while she ran through her Watcher's list of Behavior To Keep An Eye Out For in her head, paying particular attention to people heading for the exits.

It was a goth club. The behavior thing was going to be a little bit hard to pick out.

Vampires. She wandered about cautiously, trying to look for anyone with fangs. If only she was better about getting people to smile...

Huh. What Warren wouldn't give for a cross or something to wave around, here.

... Nevermind that he already felt like he stuck out like a sore thumb in this place. A guy with big, fluffy angel wings on his back? Was getting the same looks from pretty much everybody, vampire or not, and those looks were the sort that wondered if maybe he'd walked into the wrong club by mistake.

Alas, he didn't find the vampire.

*Fwoosh* Suddenly there was a tall dark and sexy boy standing beside her.

"Woah, how'd you do that?"

"I am a Vampire."

"Are those smoke bombs?"

"...Yes."

Leda encouraged everyone to smile. The really Goth kids refused. Then several who did turned out to have fangs. Great, which ones were real?

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Defense Against the Dark Arts for Muggles [Wednesday]

Obstacle Course!

Avoid the Chinese chomping cabbages in the box of cabbages

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Taping a zombie together

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Get a candy bar from a vending machine!

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Pick out the vampire in the goth club

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