Dueling 1

[Voltaire Rothschild]

Voltaire prepared for his first class back. It was still a little uneasy, but it wasn't impossible to get things going. He set up the platform as he did the first time last year and was saddened by the memory of how Sabrina had helped the class along. If only she hadn't of been there, If that damned woman hadn't of done what she did. He shook his head and pushed the memory away for the time being and went about waiting for his students to show up.

[Rori Logan]

Rori walked down the corridors with her head high. Not in the snobbish way, but in the way of she was going to continue on through with whatever she had to do, and attempt to not let anything stop her. So many things happened last term, and then Landon never showed back up to school. However, Rori just continued to think that he had good reason as to why he never owled and said why he wasn't here. Maybe there was something going on at home. Who knew?

There were several good things going on. Voltaire was back to his normal self and he and Isabella were back together. A grin started to spread itself on her face as she entered Voltaire's class. "Voltaire," she said happily.

[Voltaire Rothschild]

Voltaire turned and saw Rori come through the door and smiled. Of course she wouldn't be late to his class.
"Rori!" he said with his grin spread wide. He looked slyly left and right then swooped in and hugged her tightly. "Sorry, I haven't been there for you kiddo...Not much of a new dad am I?" he asked as he released her.

[Rori Logan]

Rori let out a laugh once Voltaire hugged her. "Ugh. Can't, breathe," she said as his hug was tightened. A grin was still on her face once he released her. Rori looked up at him. "Aw, Voltaire, you're just fine. You don't have to apologize. There's no reason to apologize. You're a great dad. Things just have, er, happened. Every thing's pretty much back to normal, well as normal as it can get." Glancing around, she realized that she was the only one in there, but it didn't really matter. "So, dad," she said putting a small emphasis on the word dad with another grin, "what are we supposed to be doing today?"

[Voltaire Rothschild]

Voltaire smiled and stood up and said "Well, I think we'll do a quick review, then if everyone is behaving We'll learn a new spell!" He said straightening his coat. "I could also cover why Transfiguration isn't technically considered good form in a proper duel." he said turning to go back toward the front of the class.

[Rori Logan]

Rori reached out and grabbed his arm before he started towards the front of the room. She dusted off his coat sleeve. "There! Now you look better. You had a little dust like stuff on your sleeve, so now you look all clean and non-dusty like!" She gave a small laugh. "Well, today's lesson should be interesting all the same. Although, with you, everything is always interesting. I don't mean that in a bad way either! I mean, you keep the attention and well, you know what I mean!"

[Voltaire Rothschild]

Voltaire laughed. "Yes, Of course I know what you mean! Thanks for the dusting! I must of missed it this morning!" he caught Rori and spun her around. "Ah you little thing, Anything else we should do in class today? Shall we play "What's your name?" he asked as he released her from the short spin.

[Rori Logan]

She gave a squeal of laughter as Voltaire spun her around. "Hm. We could, if you wanted to. That could be fun. The good thing about this term is that the Malfoy guy isn't here. He sort of gave me the heebie jeebies, thinking he was better than everyone else." Rori gave a shake of her head. "Although, we still have that Lockhart guy. He's sort of funny I think, if you know what I mean. Other than that, I think the class is going to go smoothly, no matter what we do, well, as long as you don't go mad and start going after students." She gave him a playful grin. "I would say that would be a funny sight however."

[Voltaire Rothschild]

Voltaire paused and pretended to consider tearing after the students with his sword. "To tell the truth, I probably would of a few years ago when I was on the dueling career. Nothings worse than a bunch of kids who won't listen to you during a fight." he said shrugging his shoulders and laughing.

[Rori Logan]

A small giggle escaped from her mouth. "That would have been a scary sight though, although, I'm glad that you're not like you were then. If you were, you wouldn't be a dad I don't think." Rori took a seat in one of the chairs. "Well, I don't understand why they wouldn't want to listen while a fight was going on. I mean after all, two people have wands, shooting stuff at each other, and you could just accidentally slip and the wand point towards them while telling them to pay attention."

[Leo Agathon]

Leo walked into dueling class, feeling quite confident. He had always done well in defense, so he was pretty sure he'd do well in this class as well. As he entered the room, he saw that there were only a few people in the room. One of them was Rori, and she was talking to the professor.

He wanted to go over and talk to her, but he also didn't want to interrupt her conversation, so he waved at her, then slipped into a seat in the front of the room, stretching his legs out casually in front of him.

[Voltaire Rothschild]

Voltaire laughed and saw another student walk in, he saw the wave of his hand and as the boy sat down, Voltaire made the motion of 'welcome to class' the kind of gestural greeting. "Ah the second student arrives! I think I'll start expecting students now, Rori, you always tend to be early, at least for this class!" he said with a smile.

[Rori Logan]

"Hey Leo," she said smiling and waving as he sat down. "Of course I have to be early to this class! After all, you are family, and I wouldn't want you to come after me just because I was late," Rori said turning back to Voltaire. "I'm never late for Isa's class either. I'm tend to be early for both classes, and well, the others, I get there on time."

[Natalie St. Clare]

Natalie walked slowly into her dueling class. She was looking forward to seeing Voltaire again. After the time when he had been her temporary guardian, he was still one of her favorite people.

As she entered the room, however, she didn't approach Voltaire at all. She just quietly slid into a seat at the front of the room, and gave a slight smile in his direction.

[Severus Snape]

Severus tromped into class and felt happier seeing Rori and Natalie already there. He smiled slightly and sat next to Natalie, but turned in his seat to wave to Rori.
"Hullo Rori!" he said feeling good about starting this class up again. Professor Rothschild did give him some rather excellent spell ideas.

[Natalie St. Clare]

Natalie looked at Severus shyly, her face partially hidden behind a curtain of shiny brown hair. They looked almost like a matched set of bookends at that moment, but she was unaware of this. "Hello, Severus," she said in her quiet voice. "I've never dueled before... is it hard? Do we actually fight duels in class?" She bit her lower lip at the thought, not wanting to actually hurt anyone.

[Severus Snape]

Severus shook his head and smiled at Natalie, " Only if your stupid enough to challenge the professor." the corners of his mouth picked up some more "Like Lucius Malfoy, he was insulting the professor here and got knocked across the room." Severus chuckled at the memory of the ineffable Malfoy in a tizzy over the loss.

[Natalie St. Clare]

"Oh, I wouldn't challenge Voltaire," she said loyally. "He's brilliant. He saved my life, you know. He did a really hard spell that killed an Inferious. It left him drained, but he was really amazing." She smiled slightly. "He kind of reminds me of an older version of you... smart and strong, and knows what he's doing, and he's not afraid to be his own person, even if it's not what other people want him to be."

She meant it completely. She admired Voltaire very much, and she hoped that Severus would one day be like him.

[Severus Snape]

Severus flushed, smart yes he was, but the other stuff she said didn't sound like him at all. but it felt really good to heard it. He pushed the feeling down a bit and asked "He killed an Inferi? How is that even possible? I thought they were the walking undead!" the thought of such a spell was a bit terrifying.

[Voltaire Rothschild]

Voltaire over heard Severus Question and laughed. "Oh it's not so hard, See Inferi are dead, but they are merely puppets, light and fire is enough to cut the strings of control, I may of over did it with the strength of the spell I used, using bluebell flame charm is enough to distract them as you flee, stronger flames however, must be used if you're going to destroy them." he paused as some of the faces in class looked disgusted " You can't be squeamish when dealing with the dark arts. You have to be tougher than a few dead bodies!" he said smiling and chuckling.