Order Only: Juniors in Defence Class

[alt_justin]

Hullo, all,

Headmaster Dolohov didn't have much in the way of work for me this evening, so I asked and he allowed me to borrow his copy of the Kilwale text.

I say, if I'm reading it correctly, I think the spell Professor Desai assigned us for Friday is the one often referred to as "Junior Auror Blue," what. Be absolutely certain to read every footnote, all of you.

Does anyone want to meet tomorrow evening to practise?

-Justin

Comments

[alt_sally_anne]

Oh wow Desai must have been a lot crosser than she looked.

[alt_hermione]

Why would she need to be especially cross?

[alt_sally_anne]

Well -- in the lesson today we were trying out Cadwallader's shield spell, the one for outdoor use. A lot of people didn't read the whole chapter and didn't know to cast the little charm first that protects you from the protection spell and they all wound up shouting everything at the top of their lungs for two hours. Finnigan, Crabbe and Goyle, Millicent, Zach Smith... anyway Desai acted like she thought this was hilarious. It was really nice out today and I sort of wondered if she'd hoped this would happen, because it was a good reason to keep us all outside. Surely teachers like going outside, too?

But, now she's assigned a spell that will make people grow blue scales all over their bodies if they muck up and don't read the footnotes.

Maybe she's not cross, exactly, but she certainly seems to want to teach people a lesson. Especially if a lot of them get it wrong, it gets more uncomfortable the longer you wait and the last person in line will have a good long wait for the Healer.

[alt_harry]

Junior Auror Blue?

Should I know what you're talking about?

[alt_ron]

Looks like someone hasn't read all our footnotes, then!

[alt_harry]

I tried! You lot talk kind of a lot.

[alt_ron]

Yeah, all right, I suppose.

Well, Justin's right, mate. It's all in the footnotes, on this one.

[alt_ron]

Oh, yeah, Junior Auror Blue! We learned it in the summer programme, but actually, some of us (well, Pansy, really), ran afoul of it back in our third year. We were working on advanced duelling spells with Neville.

Er. Anywiz. So, yeah, it starts out like a pretty normal protection, but, the thing is that if you don't do a special step that the book only tells you about in the footnote, well, when someone hits you with any of a bunch of different spells--poof! You turn blue. And, there are some nastier complications, too, if you don't have it removed right away. (Right, Fisheye?)

I don't really think I need much practice and Desai knows I already know it, but if you like, mate, I can come and make sure everyone gets the knack of the countermeasure.

That's if LSP will let us out of the tower.

[alt_sally_anne]

Right.

So, anyone want to run a betting pool on who turns blue?

I think Milli again. (She shouted herself hoarse, I feel a little sorry for her.)

[alt_ron]

Her own fault. She should have shut her gob sooner.

[alt_pansy]

It got stiff really quickly, and it was really hard to breathe. And blink. And talk.

Merlin, the look on Madame P's face was something else.