DADA - Lesson 3 (Years 3, 4 & 5)

Cassidy always enjoyed DADA, even if at times she couldn't get the hang of the spells. But Jake was a good teacher, and always helpful and nice when she had trouble, so she wasn't hesitant to ask questions or to show up to the class. She walked through the door "Hey Jake," she smiled, leaving her bag at the door. She noted the Hufflepuff already there "Hey... Georgina isn't it?" she wasn't familiar with the girl.

Lucy was happy to get back into the swing of classes. She preferred being occupied with things rather than idle, so naturally, she had a skip in her step as she made her way to one of her favourite classes, DADA. She walked in through the door, dropping her bag to the floor and grinned "Hello Jake," she said in her naturally optimistic tone.

Alyson liked attending Jake's classes, she remembers attending his flying lessons before he took on the role of DADA Professor. She still didn't know why but she didn't mind it really. The Gryffindor made her way inside and looked around to see familiar faces, she took a seat and waited for Jake to start his class.

She listened as Jake posed the question of 'Diminuendo'. Of course, she had read the book, she'd begun to study quite extensively "Diminuendo is a spell used to shrink the target you cast it at," she answered. She could have rattled on about it, she had the tendency to remember large chunks of information as her sister did, but saved the rest for others to answer, as Jake had instructed.

Cassidy listened as Jake asked the question about Dimuendo, and listened as Lucy, the Slytherin prefect, explained its function. She thought back to what she remembered the spell was, and it's effects, and raised her hand "It produces a white light," she said. It was all she could think of adding, really. She wasn't sure of anything else.

Merlin's baggy Y fronts was she going to be late for every class today? Bugger it, at least she showed up, it wasn't like Louise skipped lessons. She slid in through the door seeing a Hufflepuff she didn't recognize explaining a wand movement. Louise inwardly groaned at her own tardiness but kept quiet to one side till the girl and Jake had finished talking before apologizing for being late.

She listened to what their lesson was going to be about and was glad for the challenge. Not a lot of Professors will challenge their students that much because they didn't know what the students can handle which is why she loved coming here, for the experience of the challenge. Alyson walked over to a dummy and spoke the words. "Diminuendo" it missed. She was shocked, she never missed once in her life. Alyson cleared her throat and steadied her wand. "Diminuendo" she spoke again and this time the dummy shrinked. "Finally" she mumbled.

Skye entered the class nervously, he was late, but he had a note! The boy just hoped the note from the Hospital Wing would count. He had to get a small... injury healed.
Skye walked immediately to Jake,
"Professor? Uh, I'm sorry I'm late, but I was in the Hospital Wing, I have a note!" He handed the prof a sealed roll of parchment, and waited for Jake's instructions. As he waited, the boy observed all the other students, and gave a small wave to Louise.

Skye smiled; Jake was always so nice to him. If only Skye was better at DADA and more of a "guy". Whatever, Skye thought, I'll just try my best
Taking a moment to see what everyone else was doing, Skye approached a dummy.
"Diminuendo!" Skye tried to put power behind it, but not too much power... The result, was a half shrunk dummy. It fell over. With one leg, both its arms, and half its head shrunk, Skye couldn't help but giggle at least a little bit.
"Oops," he whispered. He tried again on another dummy, and this time got the entire thing to shrink, but then it didn't stay shrunk. He was smiling at his success when the dummy shook a tiny bit and grew again! Skye growled a little bit, and wondered what he was doing wrong.

Louise nodded at the instruction and took her spot near a dummy to practice on. It took a while to remember what the spell did and how to pronounce it,it took quite a few tries to pronounce it just right and she only managed to shrink the head of her dummy. Well it would give her an opening for another spell in a dual she supposed. She tried again only managing to shrink parts not the whole. Getting frustrated she jabbed her wand at the dummy and called out the spell again and watched it drop on the floor about the size of a small toy running about the floor in a panic. She picked it up by the head amused watching it give up and just wave it's arms.

Skye smiled at his fellow house mate. When her spell bounced around the room he dropped to the ground trying to dodge it. Skye looked up an saw the girls worried expression. He followed her eyes to the Prof's much smaller desk. Imagining what Jake would look like sitting at it made Skye giggle. Then he reassured the girl.
"I'm sure the Prof won't be too mad, he's pretty cool!" Jake had always been nice to Skye.

After trying the spell again, and failing, again, Skye looked around the room. He saw Louise holding her shrink dummy by the head, and it's little arms waving all over and broke down laughing. He gave Louise a thumbs up, and debated going back to trying the spell. It just wasn't working for him.

Tristan was beginning to make being late a habit. She walked into her 3rd late class of the day. She heard the topic was Diminuendo and giggled. She took out her wand, pointed it at a dummy across the room and said the spell. She watched as the dummy got smaller and smiled victoriously.

Cassidy watched as the others began to attempt the spell and drew her wand to try her hand at it. She walked over to a dummy, aiming her wand at it "Diminuendo" she cast. The dummy gradually began to shrink, and she was a little surprised it had worked the first time. She smiled at her achievement, waiting for the dummy to regrow before she tried again, successfully.

Lucy listened to the instructions given and when given the okay, instantly went to her dummy to give the spell a go. She aimed her wand, confidently pronouncing the spell "Dimminuendo". It was shot straight at the dummy's chest, and unsurprisingly, she got the spell correct on the first go. She always was prideful in her talent when it came to spell casting. The dummy began to re-grow, and she repeated it again, and again, successful with each hit.

Tristan was not amused with the fact of losing house points. She had done the spell right! Wasnt that supposed to earn points? She kept shooting the spell at the target dummies across the room. Causing each one to become miniscule. "Professor? Am I doing this corectly?" She asked wanting to earn her points back.