Professor Pye
January 23, 2016 7:24 AM
Adv. Defense (Years VI & VII) by Professor Pye
Alfie’s winter break had passed by in a blur and before he knew it, he was back at Sonora sporting a fresh scrape across his right knuckles and what was left of a fresh scar running diagonally from the middle of his forehead across his left temple to just above his left ear that would fade soon with aid from a balm he had purchased while in Morocco. He had slumped back into the school about an hour before the Returning Feast which had given him little to no time to arrange his things and change into a fresh pair of clothes. Alfie had then been able to slip into a seat next to Tallec but with his left side away from the girls, wanting to eat quickly and leave without too many questions—he wouldn’t have been able to answer them anyway even if he wanted to.By the time his first Defense class rolled around, the balm had worked so exceedingly quickly that only a faint, silvery line could be seen and so, with the aid of slightly dimmed lights, Professor Pye appeared just as healthy as he had always been before he’d left for the ridiculous expedition. “Alright, class,” he said as he walked into his fifth Advanced class of the semester. “Today we will be working with curse breakers. As asked, I hope you all remembered to bring your dragon hide gloves, because we will be handling some semi-dangerous objects. Not to worry, though, as I will be here to monitor everything.”
“As I mentioned, my winter break consisted of me going to some very far away places, with me, I brought back some curious items,” he gestured to the desk in front of him where there were just as many items as there were students in the class. These ranged from archaic looking books to glittering scarabs, all lined up into two rows. “These have all been cursed with one of the various curses we learned to protect ourselves from previous defense classes. Your job today is to break these curses. Do it successfully and you can keep your little souvenir as a token of appreciation from me for having paid attention to your studies.”
Though Alfie disliked incentives, he found that they sometimes worked and besides that, he didn’t really have much use for clutter around his apartment either her or in London. He had even really wanted to take these objects back either but some had been pressed upon him with some manner of insistence from his hosts and the others he had bought himself in order to make sure there were enough objects for each student in his advanced class. “You can work in partners if you like,” Alfie said as he walked around his desk to pull out a bin of curse-breaking tools he had discovered in an unused classroom the past semester. “But everyone must have their own object.
“You may use these, if you like, or simply your gloves and your wand, it is completely up to you. When you’re done, please bring your object up to me to be inspected and write your name, your object, and the curse on the board. Tomorrow we’re going to have a discussion day to talk about what worked and what didn’t. Sixth years, if you could come up first, please, and choose an object from the front row. Seventh years, the objects in the back row have harder curses on them since you’ve been studying Advanced Defense for a year and a half now and should be more skilled. That being said, if you’re not up to a challenge, you can see if a sixth year is willing to trade objects with you but know that will result in a slightly lowering of your final grade for this project.”
Alfie dusted off his hands and stepped back to let the students choose their items. He was starting to get a hang of this teacher thing, he could balance it. Teaching during the semester, a nice hideaway, a nice break from the hectic nature of his so-called “breaks.”
OOC: As Harry Potter’s final two years were a bit hectic, there’s not a very good list on what he learned in his seventh year. So, I’m keeping things a bit open. Feel free to use “nameless” curses/spells but nothing too extravagant. Alfie’s tough, not insane so while he has no problem with an object that erupts into flames for five seconds before self-extinguishing or an object that lets out a series of small, harmless shocks, he’s not going to give them anything that merits a hospital visit. Unless, of course, a student decided to stick their face into the flames. Remember the posting rules and have fun!
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