Professor Styx had a feeling that today would end up loud. He honestly dreaded it, but it must be done. The room was dark, as per usual. He preferred it that way. He waved his hand to allow the students in that were early. He kept leaning against the desk, with his onyx eyes looming over each student that came in. He had no qualms if it bothered them. It should since often, it was said his stare could look into someone's very soul. He once heard that some others thought that a dementor would starve to death around him. Styx doubted that was the case, but he was not about to test that theory. He made sure it was time to start, and gestured toward the door again, where it shut. Anyone late would just be faced with a door that would not open.
"There will be another conjuring spell today. One moment," Professor Styx took out his wand and waved it to conjure each student a bird cage. At least he didn't drop them - or else he would have a migraine from the metal clangs. "The cages will house the bird that you will be conjuring today." He tapped the blackboard behind him with his wand, and the word 'Avis' appeared. "That is the incantation for conjuring birds. It is pronounced just like it looks. I will demonstrate." He conjured a cage behind him, and stepped around so that he was behind it, but still facing the students. He tapped the cage three times, and intoned the spell clearly. A flock of small canaries appeared inside the cage, and started chirping. He fixed that with a quick silencing spell.
"The lesson will become loud, so I will ask you to silence your birds when you have correctly conjured them, after you make sure they are chirping. If they start barking like a dog, or making other animal sounds, vanish them and try again. And, absolutely do not let them out to fly around the room." Styx would not tolerate that since birds often got on his nerves anyway. He vanished the canaries that he conjured. He motioned toward the shelf on the wall in the classroom. "If you need inspiration or images, there are books over there with birds you may use. Once you conjure what you want, you can take the cage and release them into the wild. I cannot guarantee if they will survive long, but that depends on how well you can conjure them with their survival instincts." Styx made sure that they all understood the concept.
"Remember, three tap method, visualize your bird, and make sure to give it the intelligence of a bird, or it will fall prey to a predator in the wild. No pressure," Styx subtly smirked. "You may begin. Once you are done, you may leave with the bird and the cage. Set it free, vanish it, let your cat have some fun with it, it does not matter." Styx sent them off to do as he said, and opened the door once the first student was done. So long as the room did not become unnecessarily loud, he didn't care what they did with the conjured animal. One might argue that it was alive, but another might say conjured animals did not have souls. Styx didn't have an opinion on that.
Assignment: RP the lesson.
"There will be another conjuring spell today. One moment," Professor Styx took out his wand and waved it to conjure each student a bird cage. At least he didn't drop them - or else he would have a migraine from the metal clangs. "The cages will house the bird that you will be conjuring today." He tapped the blackboard behind him with his wand, and the word 'Avis' appeared. "That is the incantation for conjuring birds. It is pronounced just like it looks. I will demonstrate." He conjured a cage behind him, and stepped around so that he was behind it, but still facing the students. He tapped the cage three times, and intoned the spell clearly. A flock of small canaries appeared inside the cage, and started chirping. He fixed that with a quick silencing spell.
"The lesson will become loud, so I will ask you to silence your birds when you have correctly conjured them, after you make sure they are chirping. If they start barking like a dog, or making other animal sounds, vanish them and try again. And, absolutely do not let them out to fly around the room." Styx would not tolerate that since birds often got on his nerves anyway. He vanished the canaries that he conjured. He motioned toward the shelf on the wall in the classroom. "If you need inspiration or images, there are books over there with birds you may use. Once you conjure what you want, you can take the cage and release them into the wild. I cannot guarantee if they will survive long, but that depends on how well you can conjure them with their survival instincts." Styx made sure that they all understood the concept.
"Remember, three tap method, visualize your bird, and make sure to give it the intelligence of a bird, or it will fall prey to a predator in the wild. No pressure," Styx subtly smirked. "You may begin. Once you are done, you may leave with the bird and the cage. Set it free, vanish it, let your cat have some fun with it, it does not matter." Styx sent them off to do as he said, and opened the door once the first student was done. So long as the room did not become unnecessarily loud, he didn't care what they did with the conjured animal. One might argue that it was alive, but another might say conjured animals did not have souls. Styx didn't have an opinion on that.
Assignment: RP the lesson.
