D.A.D.A., Class 2

[Isabella Rothschild]

Isabella arrived early for the second class of the year. She was in a particularly good mood this morning, because today she was going to introduce Bella as her new teaching assistant. They were to finish up their review from last year and continue learning about counter curses. Knowing that Conor was safe with Voltaire, she didn't have a worry on her mind as she began to set up the classroom for the lesson.



(NOTE: Don't post in here yet; please wait for Bella to post first. She should get here before any students.)

[Bellatrix Black]

Though it pained her to do so, Bellatrix arrived fifteen minutes before she was supposed to, to keep up appearances. It was to be her first day actually working in the class, and though she was probably just going to be sitting in the back and observing most of the time, she was glad to not have to sit in on any more meeting with the professor detailing how dull this was going to be. Dressed in a simple black robe, Bellatrix appeared just outside the Hogwarts property line and began the walk up to the castle.

Once inside she headed up the stairs to the first floor, and then turned in the familiar direction of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. The door was left slightly ajar and Professor Rothschild could be seen preparing her lesson for the day. "Good morning Professor! I'm so excited to finally be starting work. Do you need me to prepare anything?" She hoped that if she could busy herself with something, Rothschild wouldn't bother her with questions about her day and so on.

[Isabella Rothschild]

Isabella looked up to see Bellatrix entering the room. "Good morning Bella," she greeted the girl cheerfully. "I trust your morning is going well? If you'd like, you could clear out a bit of space in the back of the room for the practical portion of the lesson. Also, I have some papers to hand out."

[Bellatrix Black]

She nodded with a smile on her face, but didn't actually answer the professor. Who knew what sorts of conversations could be thought up from a simple 'my day's been great'... Bellatrix agreed and moved to the back of the classroom to make space.

There were a few desks that didn't seem to fit with the rest of the layout of the class. They weren't in neat rows, or even parallel with the rest of the room. And they were covered with old copies of text books, clearly not well taken care of by their previous users. One's pages were practically wiggling out as she looked at it. She sighed silently to herself and banished the books to a bookcase against the nearest wall. Dust flew up as the books settled in on the shelf, and Bellatrix coughed a bit. Next she levitated the tables, sending them to the far side of the room, and turning a few upside down to rest evenly on the others. There was now a large enough area for about half the class' practicum lesson. Looking around, Bellatrix figured that was about as good as she was going to get.

Next, Bellatrix headed up through the rows of desks to Professor Rothschild's desk where a stack of papers awaited her. She thumbed through the papers to see how many made up a package before sending them floating gracefully through the air to land on the students' desks. To top it all off, she forced each chair snugly into it's space so that the aisles were clear for walking.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius was, uncharacteristically, the first student to arrive for class that morning. He was trying to avoid the others, especially Kris and Amy, and thought it might be best to just arrive to class early and pretend to be busy. But he was in for a shock as the first face he saw was his cousin Bellatrix. He made a face. "Ewww, Bellatrix? What are you doing here? Did they decide to make you repeat or something?"

[Bellatrix Black]

Her first reaction at hearing her cousin's voice was to say something smart back, but she stopped herself and found self control. "I take it Narcissa didn't tell you about my little position here. I'm Roths- Professor Rothschild's assistant. That mean I get to keep tabs on you and report back to your mum on your behavior in school." She leaned forward in a faux-sinister fashion. "I've got my eye on you..." Then, to keep herself from giving her act away, she walked to the back of the room once more and fussed about with the books on the back shelf. If Sirius mentioned anything bad about her, she could always play it off as a family thing. That would subdue the situation, wouldn't it?

[Sirius Black]

Sirius frowned. What was Professor Rothschild thinking, hiring Bella as an assistant? And what was she doing taking the job? This made no sense. He felt like everything was backwards and strange. The last thing he needed was Bellatrix spying on him. She'd probably fix the grades on his tests just to make him fail all the time.

Annoyed, he chose a seat as far away from her as possible.

[Remus Lupin]

Remus was still yawning by the time DADA was about to start. But he knew he had to go to class. He'd already missed a day of classes, and he couldn't miss another. So he trudged sleepily up to Defense Against the Dark Arts class and spotted Sirius already sitting there. It was unusual for Sirius to be so early for class, but he was too tired to comment on it. "Hey, Sirius," he murmured as he settled into the seat next to his friend. Setting his books down, he leaned his head against his folded arms and tried to sleep.

[Bellatrix Black]

Bellatrix glimpsed back over her shoulder to see how Sirius would react. He seemed too perplexed to do or say anything. Bellatrix sighed, relieved. Of course just then his little mate dragged himself into class. What was his name? Remus? She didn't care too much to check if she were right or not. She glanced at the Professor, who seemed to be completely unaware of the exchanges between Bellatrix and her cousin. Or else, she was doing a very good job at pretending she hadn't noticed anything.

Bellatrix turned back to the books and read the titles that were printed in fine lettering on the bindings. Some of the books were so old that the letters were barely visible. And others were so new that the binding hadn't even been creased, meaning the book had never been opened before. Bellatrix wondered if Rothschild did this to make her classroom look more respectable. She chuckled at the thought of the woman rummaging through the bookstore discount bins for the thickest books she could find.

[Rabastan Lestrange]

Rabastan stepped into class with that ever confident, regal air about him, disappointed to discover that the only girl in the class room was his brother's girl. His shoulders fell slightly.

He set his books on a desk somewhere in the middle of the room, but walked towards Bella.

"Decided you loved Hogwarts so much, you couldn't say away?" he asked, smiling easily as he greeted her.

[Bellatrix Black]

Thankfully the next to waltz into class was Rabastan. Bellatrix had never been so pleased to see Rodolphus' baby brother in all her time of knowing him. He broke the chilly ice of the room perfectly, a stark opposite to the two Gryffindors who were moping at their desks. Perhaps this wouldn't be so bad. Rabastan was here. And perhaps Narcissa as well. She had forgotten if her sister had elected to take Defense in last year. She would find out by the end of the day at least.

"You know me. I'm all about education," she said, quietly sarcastic so the professor wouldn't over hear. She stopped pretending to be busy and turned to face him. She had an effortlessly pleased smile on her face. She didn't even need to pretend. She was much more comfortable with her post now that she wasn't completely surrounded by do-gooders and blood traitors. "I'm sure you feel the same way. Perhaps next term you'll be taking my place as the professor's assistant," she teased. She knew how badly Rabastan wished he were the elder of the Lestrange brothers, if only to be done with school.

[Rabastan Lestrange]

He raised an eyebrow at her sarcasm. "Oh, no. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to come back here, after seven years as a student, and stand in front of a room full of disrespectful, awkward children. My life's dream. Though I do hear women dig teachers," he said, finally easing up with a smile.

"I have to tell you, Bellatrix... my expectations for this class just rose exponentially. And you, my dear friend, can be creditted with that feat."

[Severus Snape]

Severus walked into class catching Rabastan in a chat with Bella, he stopped and looked perplexed a moment "Bellatrix? You're still here?" He thought she would of gone on already, with her boyfriend, what ever his name was Lestrange. He took his seat on what seemed to be deemed the "Slytherin" side of the room and took out his book and looked over the sheet of paper he had on his desk.

[Rori Logan]

Rori entered the classroom with her book in her hand as she usually carried it. Looking around, she felt strangely outnumbered, meaning no other Ravenclaws where there yet. Bella was back? Bella always sort of gave Rori the creeps. Something wasn't right about her and why did Isa have to hire Bella of all people as an assistant of all people!?

Her eyes laid on Sirius and Remus and she pondered for a second about sitting with them, but decided against it. Rori took her normal seat in the second row, after giving a small smile and wave to Severus as she took her seat.

[Regulus Black]

Regulus thought about giving a dramatic entrance into class, but he decided against it. If Andrea was in there, maybe so, but he knew that she wasn't there yet so he walked in with his hands in his pockets. As he passed the only Ravenclaw, he gave her a flirty grin. Hey, she was female and that was all that mattered. Regulus passed her and walked over to where the other Slytherins were. "Severus, glad you joined us," he said smirking in Severus' direction. "And hello Rabastian." Regulus looked in his brother's direction and sneered, but smiled again as his eyes laid on his cousin. "Ah Bella! Dear! Come to repeat a year?"

[Narcissa Black]

Narcissa smiled to herself upon entering class. She wasn't going to be the first Slytherin here. Passing by the other students, not bothering to look at them, she headed straight to where the other Slytherins were. "Severus, Reggie, Rabastan," she said as she slid into a seat behind Regulus. Her eyes laid on a very familiar face. "Bella," she gasped excitedly. "You're here."

[Rabastan Lestrange]

Rabastan watched over his shoulder as the room started to fill with Slytherins. "That's better," he commented, greeting each of them as they came in, giving Narcissa an especially warm smile.

He looked back at Bellatrix. "Well look at how much you were missed, Bella. Make you feel all warm and fuzzy?"

[Bellatrix Black]

Bellatrix looked past Rabastan as more and more students came into the classroom. Severus was next, with a short greeting and then sat himself quietly down. "Nice to see you too, Sev," she said playfully. "Don't look too excited about it or anything." Rori Logan was next in and Bellatrix had to bite her tongue to keep from saying something nasty as she waved to Severus. Bellatrix didn't know who to curse more. Rori, for the nerve. Or Severus, for being so sweet to everyone from any house but his own. He was such an outcast. Narcissa really had her work cur out for her.

Her cousin Regulus was next as the students filed in. He greeted the group before he had realized that she was even there. She had eluded to her post here the last time she had met with her cousin, but as he was still too young to know the full truth of the real world, her reasons why were kept a mystery to him. So of course he needed to be smart with her. "You know very well Regulus Arcturus Black, that I'm working here now. And I'll take none of your lip. Are we understood?" She couldn't help but grin at him. At all of them. She suddenly realized she needed more friends her own age.

Narcissa was next in class. This settled her earlier wondering about Narcissa's seventh year schedule. She gave her sister a short hug before remarking sarcastically, "I've missed you all so much I simply couldn't stay away. I gave back my diploma and demanded to be allowed to stay until the youngest of you have graduated." She was in a much better mood now. The friendly faces, the ones whom she didn't have to put on an act for, were comforting.

[Severus Snape]

Severus noticed the dirty look Bella shot Rori, he shot it right back and said "Oh well of course I'm thrilled to see you Bella, I thought you'd be bare foot and pregnant with Rodolphus's child by now. " if he remembered how they would coo at one another when they thought no one was looking. Maybe it had been rude, but Severus was young and didn't know that honesty wasn't always the best policy, especially dealing with women and their relationships.

[Leo Agathon]

Leo was in a good mood as he headed into Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Not only was it one of his favorite classes, but he also knew that Rori would be in this class. He'd been looking forward to seeing her all day. So when he entered the room, he immediately began scanning the students' faces in search of her.

His eyes went right to her, and he broke into a grin. With a slight spring in his step, he walked up to the desk next to her. "Hey, Rori," he said cheerfully. "Mind if I sit with you?"