Class would start soon, he could tell by the buzz of the students outside who showing off their wands and talking about the quidich try outs and the like. Arkum had an uncanny sense for magic, his stormy grey eyes shifted to  the corner of his book and glanced over at the girl coming in earlyâ€¦ he didn't know whyâ€¦ or what she was, but right away he decided he didn't like her. The rim of his sage hoody lowered back down hiding his face completely in the book.<br/><br/>There was a loud hooting on an of large white owl and the students began funneling in door way as class was about to begin.<br/>It was then somebody crashed into his desk! Arkum glanced up from the heavy text book and looked at the Brunetteâ€¦  it was Her again.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF40">"Sorry!" Rozolin said</span><br/><br/>Arkum quickly glanced down at his book and said absolutely nothing.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FFBF"> "Umm...is this seat taken?" she asked </span><br/><br/>Arkum stiffened, he closed the book and glanced down at the seat next to him and slowly rose up out of his chair allowing her to pass by and sit downâ€¦.<br/><br/>Then Arkum promptly swept his books into his warn out leather satchel, effectively clearing out his entire wooden desk in one clean sweep of his arm and pivoted around moving the to take another seat in  the very front of the classâ€¦ it was his second baseâ€¦ Nobody sat at the frontâ€¦He of course couldn't have chosen the worst possible moment to do so, the moment he did this he plowed into the group of slitherens. Arkum was not a huge, but the wasn't skinny eitherâ€¦ needless to say it was a train wreck. What was worse it was the Captain of the quiditch team leading the pack of his cronies. The tall blonde cold blue eyed boy glared down Arkum.<br/><br/>"Pick it up!" he snapped, pointing down toward his wand the had fallen to the floor.<br/><br/>Arkum glanced down at the wand at the floor and turned and sat down at the next closet desk, just in time as Professor Snape came out of his Office!<br/><br/>"Take your seats! You may waste your time, but do not waste mine!" he snapped, and the remaining students hurried to hop into the few open seats.<br/><br/>"Soâ€¦" Snape began as he glanced around the class, "I am the Dark Arts and Self Defence Professor. We will study in the books but we will also be using your wands in this class and also how to use magic when you do not have your wand availableâ€¦ when and when not to use magic, and if you must how to use magic discreetly when you need to, and most importantly to stay alive, you will be graded on all these aspectsâ€¦ separately! and the only passing grade is an A 90 percent on each testâ€¦fail one and you fail them all," he declared somberly, "Like in the real world, you either pass or failâ€¦" he declared and then his eyes scanned the room, "Like some of the seniors still stuck hereâ€¦ unlike some seniors in the classâ€¦ on their fourth examâ€¦ the real world doesn't offer second chances, so I advise you to careful and special attention,"  he announced grimly.<br/><br/>"Before I would like to get started, I would like to introduce Arkum," He announced, "Arkum is a foreign student from a long way off, he is a Prodigy in the Dark Arts recommended by Dumbledor himself to come to Hogwarts to study abroad with us. He is also my acting teachers aid," he announced. "Arkum would you like to tell the class anything about yourself?" he asked.<br/><br/>Arkum blinked and shook his head silently, and so Snape went on with his introduction.<br/><br/>"Today we will be taking a trip to the courtyard out back, this where we will be conducting mock duels. Only certain spells will be allowed, nothing lethal or any sort of banned spells are permitted. There will also a safety ring put around your wandsâ€¦to prevent mishaps or the use of illegal spells. The whole purpose to merely to learn casting, blocking, and  parrying properly spells in a realistic time under stress," he announced.<br/><br/>He then grinned putting his hands together, "Just so you know, you must be able to last one round with me to graduate," he announced, "We wIll Break for fifteen minutes and the class will be meeting the in the courtyard, Arkum will be demonstrating the skills of subtle magic with out a wand against the an aggressive opponent with a wand, are there any volunteers who might like try their wand casting skills in the courtyard for extra credits?" he asked.