Sixth Years, Lesson

James was reaching the point where the older students he taught were all familiar having been in his younger classes, he felt much more relaxed teaching students he had already taught and over a couple of years that would become a much more regular occurrence. Hopefully they found him less rambley then he had been when he took their first fifth year class the previous year. The door to the classroom stood open inviting the students in and once they had all done so and taken their seats James waved his wand to close it.

"Welcome back to Defence Against the Dark Arts," James began. "For those that don't know me, my name is Professor James Cade, James is fine or sir if you must," It would be a hard year as all years were from fifth onward so James would attempt to make it as enjoyable for them as he could. "This year we will be covering more advanced spells, both offensive, defensive and we will be attempting to perform spells non-verbally, that will be a nice new challenge for you," He knew from teaching seventh years the previous semester that not everyone would make it through the year having mastered non-verbal spells. "Non-verbal spells are difficult, it is completely different to how you have been taught magic so far so don't be too down if you can't do it right off the bat, it will take time, patience, and practice but if successful you'll find them particularly useful in a duel if you find yourself unable to speak," James rattled off the words as if it was a well practiced speech rather than something he had thought of on the spot. "If throughout the year you find yourself struggling to keep up my door is open and I will be able to help you, but for now class dismissed," James wordless waved his wand to open the classroom door and allowed the students to leave.

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Assignment: RP the lesson. Attendance post for full marks.

 

[Aurora Chase]

Aura headed into the defence classroom and quickly found her spot near the front. She suspected that the class would be more introductory than anything and she sighed when her assumption was proved correct. She took a couple of notes, though she didn’t really think they were necessary as Professor Cade mentioned that non verbal spells would be good for duelling. She agreed, imagine if she’s able to cast a spell when she can’t talk. That would be handy. She made notes to look more into it, she was pretty good with spells already for the most part, she thought it would be pretty good to get involved with wordless magic too.​

 

[Teddy Pirrip]

Teddy had forgotten that Professor Cade preferred to go by James, and who was Teddy to refuse this preference. He listened to what they would be learning and was particularly interested in non-verbal magic for dueling and general convenience of not having to say the spell each time. He took some notes then at the end of the lesson he packed up and left the classroom.