Introduction

[Damien laSalle]

Damien was in the classroom long before the first students had arrived, making and checking lists. If he was uncomfortable being back at Hogwarts after his brief stint here in sixth year, he wasn't consciously aware of it. That had been nearly a decade ago, and Headmistress Rose was long gone.

He paused only minutes before class was to begin and pulled a miniature out of his pocket, a small wizarding portrait of a witch with pale skin and dark hair, and vivid, spring-green eyes. His own shifted from violet to deep-ocean blue, and after a moment, he snapped the miniature closed and tucked it away again to write on the board.

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[li]Fairy
[/li][li]Giant
[/li][li]Gobbledegook (Goblin)
[/li][li]Mermish
[/li][li]Parseltongue
[/li][li]Troll[/li][/ul]
Note: Parseltongue is a gift, not a learned language.[/blockquote]

When the class was seated, Damien turned his full attention to them, expecting the same in return. "I am Professor laSalle," he began. "Much of my life has been spent moving from one place to another, and so I have a firm grasp of different cultures and languages, both magical and nonmagical. In this class, we will cover only the former. If you wish to learn Spanish, French, Italian, or Swedish, you may leave the classroom."

After a pause, Damien resumed his lecture. "Over the course of the year, we will be studying six languages, though there will not be time for you to learn all of them. Today, I want to know only which languages you are most interested in being able to speak by end of term. Please choose two or three. Do not choose Parseltongue. When you have handed in your choices, you may leave."

[Quinn Ashwinder]

Quinn thought really hard about this, she wanted to be able to represent groups that could not represent themselves, she wasn't sure how easy it would be for her to learn either. The teacher was the same as one from earlier, and even though she still tucked her hair behind her head as she handed him her papers, there was a big luminescent smile on her face as she did it.

*Mermish
*Gobbledegook

[Madison Foster]

Madison was more than happy to mark Mermish and Fairy on her paper, as a child of muggles sometimes, even with reality stark in your face, it was hard to overlook the romanticized tales of creatures. Even if both Mermaids and Fairies here were less than beautiful, but tended to be vicious and mischievous, she wanted to learn them for what had been a romantic fairy tale as a child.

[Layne Razz]

Layne thought about it for a while before writing anything down. Mermish, of course, would be very cool to learn, as would fairy. But, it just seemed too girly for her taste. She rapped her fingers on the table before choosing. On her paper she ended up writing Troll and Giant, two languages that were actually quite fascinating to her!

[Albert Glasgow]

Albert conciously thought over his choices, there weren't many choices. He looked over at Nastasia..she was disappointed like he was. He made sure the professor wasn't looking as he scribbled on his boomark with his blue ink Fairy and mermish??[i/]. He recieved his answer right away as the border on his bookmark changed to green Fairy and mermish it said simply. So Albert wrote down his choices and handed them in.

Fairy
Mermish

[Markise Sterling]

Markise hadn't expected that they'd be able to learn Spanish or French, but it was still a disappointment hearing it spelled out like that. He hoped that learning magical languages would count toward being cultured, though he did wonder how speaking Troll could possibly do that. So he didn't write Troll. Goblins were pretty powerful, considering their hold on the banks, so he wrote Gobbledegook, and he thought he'd be more likely to run into a fairy than a giant or mermaid, so he wrote Fairy.

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Nastasia was a little disappointed at the so few choices, but still she made her choices anyway. No way would she bother talking to a giant, learning the language of faries could prove more vital with dark inchantments and spells. Nastasia had long ago heard about the ritual of attaining immortality because of the Fairies. Learning Mermish had it's benefits as well, but before could scribble down her choices the background of snakes onthe bookmark(The bookmarks that she and Albert created together)turned blue Fairy and mermish??. Albert was questioning her inquiring about her choices more liking wanting to know what she was choosing so he could choose the same thing, Albert looked up to her to make all the choices. To answer his question she scribbled Fairy and mermish and wrote her choices down on her parchment which she turned in.

[Tori Dunlevy]

Tori walked into the classroom and sat down, looked up at the board and wrote down: Mermish and Fairy.