Basic Level - Lesson 8

''Oh come on, Manson. They have banished the Giant Squid from the lake year ago. Do not worry. If you want, as I have said, someone can go with you down there so that, if you faint, you won't be eaten by those nasty merpeople.'', he replied. ''Diamond, good. Twenty points for my House. And yes, Krum, next time you bring anything into class, cigarettes, snakes, elephants... not even McCoy will know where they are. I of course know, where your serpent is, but.... simple as that, I won't tell you.'', he replied.

Miseria shook her head, refusing to even look at Wilson. If he didn't understood that she was afraid of water, the deeps, etc., it wasn't her problem. But really, there was no way for her to step any closer to the water. “They could even walk away from there, but I am not going in,“ she said quietly, and in a slow voice but also making sure that he would hear her. She clenched her fingers around her school uniform, trying to hold herself back. Yes, quite a big thing to panic, though.

''Manson, it is bloody water. It won't hurt you, nor will it suck you into Wonderland where you will meet Tweedledee and Tweedledum. It is completely harmless... and remember, something valuable to you is inside that lake.'', he said.

Miseria scowled and Wilson:“I have no intentions to meet your friends,sir,“ she said about Tweedledee and Tweedledum or whoever they were. And she shook her head.
“And I won't go into the water as well,“ she repeated her thoughts loudly. Seriously, that was quite odd, why couldn't professor understand that she was afraid of it?

''They are quite friendly once you get to know them, actually.'', he said and pulled his wand out. He pointed it at Miseria's head and cast the bubble-head charm on her. As the bubble appeared, he flicked his hand and pushed her into the water. ''I do hope she does not die down there.'', Wilson said.

OT: Right now I stopped playing my guitar and laughed so hard about this part.

It took her few seconds to realize what Wilson was about to do. But when she did, it was too late. At first, she realized that there was a strange bubble around her head and the second thing was ice cold water when he pushed her into the lake. It was quite childish picture as the professor did that, not other students. She made a little scream before landing into the water, but then she started panicing. She didn't even know how to swim! Gasping the air underwater, though, the bubble protected her, and she could breathe, but that wasn't enough. As she could feel the ground under the legs, that was enough for her. For the last time looking up, she pushed herself away from the ground, but not strongly enough. And then, for the first time in her life, she fainted underwater.

''Good, she is in. If she dies down there... you all saw her trip, I hope. If not, we shall have problems.'', Wilson said. ''Abbey, would you be so kind as to go and check on her? If she dies down there, the Merpeople might think that I have begun to throw some not needed stuff down there.'', he said.

Lily gazed around a little dazed. Swimming in the lake for a class? Wow that was a new one. It didn't help her dazed feeling that she'd been dozing. She stood up, knowing that a majority of her classmates would have forgotten about her already. 'Where is Lysander?' She wondered again and made a mental note to whack him for ditching without her. She shrieked in suprise when the Professor seemingly pushed a student into the water.

Now, Lily could swim, to a certain extent, but when one had hair like hers and hadn't learnt how to use a drying charm, well you could see why she'd be hesitant to. But she didn't want to look like one of those prissy girls who only cared for there looks so she gazed around for a moment before saying, "I can go check if you want, I need to get mine to." She said with a small blush. In all honesty, she'd wished she'd ditched this class. Swimming and frizzy red hair didn't go well.

"To bad i cant....."She sat there and nodded to her leg. it wasnt in a cast but it was broken. She was able to swim and such but her leg was throbing with pain as she spoke. She yawned and wrapped the blanket tighter around her shivering.

''Ha? Yes... go, of course. Just, do not get killed yourself.'', Wilson said, bemused. He was reading a paper he had on his desk, which automatically meant that he had not payed much attention to what the kids were saying.