Neoma Tsylence
Hufflepuff
1st Year Student
Those who wander are not always lost...
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Post by Neoma Tsylence on Nov 23, 2007 14:52:59 GMT -5
Neoma gulped for what she thought could've been the third time since the beginnning of the lesson. She 'mounted' her broom, the bristled behind her and her hands held firm on the yoke. Her feet... still touching the ground.
Her instinct told her this was foolish. Science dictated that this was impossible. But after seeing Mr. Macleod perform his little stunt, she somehow doubted that Science had much of a say in the wizarding world.
She sat her rear down. And slowly lifted her feet off of the ground. Cue tuba.
Neoma found herself upside down, with her hair almost touching the ground as the broom remained in the air. She slowly opened her eye lids, looking out to the new angle of the world. Drat! She cursed herself. She sighed, as she unlatched her legs and stood up right again. Try, try again I suppose...
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Nov 23, 2007 23:18:10 GMT -5
Kel--after watching, awed, as the ginger-haired flying professor swooped about, whooping--swung herself onto the broom, the worn-out cushioning spells not really doing anything toward actually cushioning her.
She carefully pushed off, her feet slowly rising off the ground until she was hovering about knee height. She laughed, exhilarated, though she was only about two and a half feet off the ground. She pulled the yolk upwards, slowly wafting upwards until she was hovering about belly-height. She leveled out, clenching her knees so she didn't fall off, then pulled the yolk even higher, the broom rising again. The Hufflepuff grinned widely, then suddenly lurched as the broom stopped of it's own accord. Apparently it had gotten to it's maximum height. Kel glanced around again, thinking: 'Hey, whaddaya know! Professor McLeod was right! If I went forward a bit, the broom shaft would totally ram into his nose!'
Kel laughed at herself. That was quite an odd thought. She came down again, but still hovered at calf-height, so that her dangling toes were about three inches off the hard-packed dirt underneath the tatty school-broom. She faced forward again, waiting to see what would come next. 'This is turning out to be a pretty awesome class!' Kel registered happily. She was glad to see that this class wasn't boring or textbook-y. Though how you make flying textbook-y, she would hate to know. That would have been one really awful class if they had to learn the textbook terms for, say, flying, or maybe even wind or fun, even. That would have royally sucked, pardon my language.
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Post by Aesir MacLeod on Nov 25, 2007 14:40:47 GMT -5
Aesir observed the students trying to keep their balance, slowly letting some of the other students who got the hang of picking up their brooms magically to try hovering. He taught the rest of the class to learn how to properly balance themselves on their broom as soon as they managed to perform a standard take off.
A few students tried goofing off to which Aesir dealt with them easily enough; making the brooms float up above his shoulder height and having them hang off of their brooms till their arms were too sore to hold on any longer.
He explained to the students that he would expect no nonsense from any of them; young or not, he would not tolerate it lest they want to end up being scraped up off the ground with a spatula.
Those very few who managed to balance themselves, if not shakily, he offered a few more pointers and congratulated them on a decent job.
Class was summarily dismissed soon after to which he reminded Stevie to see him in his office.
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Nov 25, 2007 18:32:49 GMT -5
Kel quickly made a neat stack of the brooms, then carried them in armfuls into the shed that Professor Aesir showed her. Then she gathered up her bag and headed up toward the castle, eager to get to the Common Room to read a bit and to write a letter home.
((OOC: Sorry for the slight God-playing, but I needed to put the brooms somewhere, and Aesir ended the class. I also apologize for the length; but there really didn't seem to be anything else to say.))
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