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Hey everyone! I am so happy to have a chance to meet you all. I'm Naos, the groundskeeper. I see everyone coming in and out of the castle, chatting with friends or tickling the giant squid's tentacles and it makes me wonder about student experience at Hogwarts.

So, this week’s theme is Least Favourite Class

Portray your character's least favourite Class

Rules for this challenge: 1.) Please include a small paragraph explaining why this class is the least favourite 2.) Must use backgrounds, but choose with great care--if the class is an indoor class, you must use an indoor background. 2.) Bonus points may be awarded to particularly creative entries 3.) Make a new HA! No recycling allowed. 4.) House uniforms/Robes must be used--you're in class after all.

Each member may only submit one avatar, and each avatar to successfully adhere to the challenge rules and theme shall be awarded 10 House Points!

This challenge will end July 12th at 11:59pm subeta time.

Note: Please remember to include your house with your HA to receive points!

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Least favorite class is Flying and not because I don't like flying - I LOVE FLYING! I just prefer to do it on my own dragon wings and not on a cleaning device. Wizards should use cooler methods to fly in my opinion but hey I understand not everyone can fly my way, yet whoever decided a broom was a neat method to fly needed to check their head. No offense broom lovers but Naos asked. Flying carpets have more style, but I accept some cool things can be done on a broom - is the class done yet? I'll show em how flying is really done.

Merlin, Slytherin

My least favourite class is the only one which scares the daylights out of me. It's not just the fear of falling, the fear of injury, but the fear of everyone laughing at my inability to balance on a broomstick. Yes, you read that right, my least favourite class is flying (including Quidditch training). I'm keeping my feet firmly on the ground today!

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Niamh Doyle, Gryffindor

Outfit Not Found Chell always tries her best to hide behind her books during her least favorite class, Arithmancy, so she's very embarrassed when Professor Jäger calls on her to answer a question. She definitely fumbles with her words as she attempts to explain how to calculate a Life Path Number. Numbers have Chell seeing stars.

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I hate Muggle Studies.

And it's not because I'm a Slytherin, or a pureblood.

It's because my family travels a lot all over the world and I have actually spent a lot of time on the Muggle side of the world during various trips we have taken.

In Muggle Studies, we are always addressing the silliest topics. Yoga isn't even unique to Muggles. Wizards in India do it all the time. "Why Muggles Need Electricity"? Seriously? Our brains and hearts run on electrical impulses. We just can't use a lot of electronic devices in areas where there is a lot of magic being done because they short out if they're not enchanted, and a lot of people see no reason to enchant them. In third year, they taught us to play dominoes.

We need Muggle Studies, but we need a real Muggle Studies curriculum. We need to know about things like the Internet. We need to be on the Internet so that we can understand what's going on in that world. It's not enough to know how Muggles exercise or what games they play to amuse themselves. It's not even enough to know what kinds of music they listen to--although some of it is actually quite good--or get ideas for new fashion designs. We need to be informed about the problems of their world, because those problems are unlikely to stay contained.

We need to know about nuclear weapons and global warming, because those things are not going to just kill the Muggles if the Muggles don't get their acts together and fix their problems. We've talked about how different species are affected by the warmer weather trends in Care of Magical Creatures but we never talk about what's causing that or how the spells we use to counteract it in some places are difficult and draining and are not going to work forever if this doesn't stop.

Sometimes I feel like our Muggle Studies classes are meant to keep us feeling safe and superior and distant, and we're taught to look at them as funny and quaint people who do things in the most silly and inconvenient ways. But they're actually people. They're not so different from us. And some of the powerful ones have the ability to change our world as well as theirs. I mean, if they blow up our entire planet, are we just going to transport our cities to the Moon, where there's not any air to breathe? Even if we had plenty of warning, I don't really think so.

Callista Melina Zabini Slytherin House

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Apparition. It's not that I'm bad at it, It's just because I like to go from point A to B in my wolf form or up in the clouds on my broom. Besides, the class is right after the Christmas holidays and I rather spend my time outside in the snow!

Ylva Blackmane, Ravenclaw

My least favorite class is Defense Against the Dark Arts. I don't really handle scary things well, and it's really hard to keep from becoming a nervous wreck each week we learn something even more terrifying than the week before. It makes me want to curl up under a cloak and never come out! Of course with my luck, it'll be a Lethifold instead of a cloak (see page 226 of The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection). I understand why it's an important core class, but it still gives me the willies!

Toru Mizushima - Hufflepuff

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Mae's least favorite class is Potion. As she says: "It's not me who dislike Potion, it's Potion that hates me!" No really, it should be easy, just follow the book so why does it explode more than not? One mistake and it goes boom, she'd rather be reading. In another room, at the other side of the castle, far far away from any cauldron.

oopale, Ravenclaw

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If there's something I detest more than flying classes, it is Divination. The subject is pretty much just attempting to foresee the future on stuff some of our ancestors (and they might have been not that bright if they sought glory in such a field) made up. There is no evidence that things happen according to what wizards and witches saw through various rituals and tools - therefore it's very imprecise.

Has somebody ever looked at the known methods? There's ovomancy - it involves cracking open eggs and observing which way the yolks fall. I refuse to accredit something as simple as an egg the ability to show the future. Looking into a crystal ball for the whole lessons is pretty dull as well. Don't get me started on Ornithomancy, where your life path is described by the actions of birds. Then there is cartomancy, which means reading Tarot cards, which is probably the most trivial of them all as it's pretty common around Muggles as well. Please don't think I have any prejudice against Muggles. It's just that if they're able to read Tarot cards like we do, this is fundamental proof that there's no magic associated with Divination at all. (The absence of magic is probably the main reason why I don't like Divination)

To save something personal until last - does anyone enjoy Divination class at all? It's often too hot in the classroom, especially in the summer. Or when candles/flames are involved. The heat makes my eyes runny and then ruins my makeup - so I end up looking like an overworked, pale and sick raccoon! It's annoying that I always have to go to the bathroom after Divination class to fix my appearance. Then there's a lot of different fragrances 'to get our inner eye working' (some of the dumbest words my ears ever had to endure) but they smell awful and give me headaches.

Elizabeth Amalia Covington ~ Slytherin

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Private Outfit My least liked class is Divination. The classroom is unbearably hot, especially during the summer term. There have been times I have had to go to the hospital wing due to being overheated from the class. The heavy smell of incense gives me a terrible headache.

I also don't understand how any of the topics covered are supposed to predicted the future. I don't have the patience to try to read tea leaves, stare into a crystal ball, or any of that other none sense in the slight possibility I may see something in the future. There's no evidence that shows any of it is real.

Amelia Tudor, Hufflepuff

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Nicola Stromwing, Hufflepuff

Mallowsweet, Gryffindor

My least favorite class is Care of Magical Creatures. It upsets me that people think they can cage magical beings to keep them as toys or servants. The thought of mutilating a crup's tail, just to have a fierce guard dog, is obscene. (points to the bored looking kneasle draped across her shoulders) I found Kieran in a cage barely big enough for him to turn around in. They were selling him like groceries!!!! How would you like it if someone captured you, locked you in a magic cage, and had to take a class on how to care for you? Outfit Not Found "Oy" came a voice from the shrubbery "The stupid Buggers can care for me all they flippin' want!" A weaselish looking jarvy poked its head into the open. "Mind yer own bloody business horse butt, I got a good thing here!"

I really dislike History of Magic. Don't misunderstand me, I know we need to know where we've been to better know where we're going, but do we have to learn about it in the most boring way possible? Tell us stories, maybe. Not just go on and on and on.. there's got to be a better way to help us remember what happened than to drone on like you've said that same lecture 50 times or more in the past. Make it feel new, maybe? I can barely stay awake in that class.

Outfit Not Found As fascinating as magic is - especially to someone like me who was only introduce to this world like a year ago, history has never been my strong suit. Therefore, it's definitely History of Magic that I dread going to. That's the class I study and study for, but when it's time to actually go to class I'm like, "Maybe I should take a mental health day?" I'm always trying to psych myself up before the class, thinking things like, "Oh yeah! Today's the day we learn about the formation of the MACUSA and how they maintained secret assimilation among the nomaj community!" And yet, every time and without fail, class start and I end up using all of my notes to make little flying paper people. I call them my paper pilots! But, that's not important. Point is I try! I think. It doesn't help either that I have this class right before lunch, so most of the time when I'm not tooling around, I'm daydreaming about the upcoming meal. And seriously?? What's with all the books?!

Sauvage / Hufflepuff

((Sidenote: I totally love your rendition of Toru in DADA))

In general, I like all the classes and love to collect facts and knowledge. However, if I have to choose a subject, my least favorite one would be Study of Ancient Runes. It is such a theoretical lesson and I can´t see why we should learn a form of writing used by wizards hundreds or thousands of years ago.

Most of the runes look dusty and gloomy and I can´t remember any of them after closing the Rune Dictionary. In my opinion, Ancient Runes should be a discipline to specialize in when interested, preferrably at a school well-known for their oustanding knowledge in Runes like the Euro-Glyph School of Extraordinary Languages.

Another idea would be that the subject could be offered together with mandala coloring. Giving the runes some colors would make them look much more beautiful and appealing and coloring mandalas is always relaxing. Yes, that would be a good combination!

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Lysandra, Ravenclaw - making all the runes colorful!

My least favorite class is history. I love reading books about history, but Professor Binns is sooo boring, and his essay assignments are always sooo long! I spend hours in the library trying to write them, and my brain ends up feeling like mush and I start turning my rolls of parchment into animated cats from stress. I actually hate researching, despite my love of studying (two completely different things) because in study you just STUDY but in research you have to go after certain facts and the evidence to back them up and it's just so hard to find exactly what I'm looking for.

Of course it doesn't help that I'm a perfectionist and a professional procrastinator and so put everything off till the last minute because I'm agonizing over not being able to do it right.

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Herbology is a particularly dreaded class for Charlie. Not only does she get dirty every lesson, but she has to look around at everyone happily growing their plants while hers tend to wither and die despite her best intentions. There was a reason her parents never let her help in the garden - somehow their two green thumbs had produced a black thumb in her.

-Charlotte Rose, Ravenclaw

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My least favorite class is Arithmancy. No problem with the Professor, actually like the guy. But numbers were never my favorite, and even if there is minimal math involved, it just isn't fun for me. I would so rather be drawing or even doing geometry because it involves shapes. Not writing down personal information where anyone can just like, come over and read it. I burn all my returned assignments so they don't fall into the wrong hands! No lie, it is hard not to stare out the window the entire class period...

Fade, Ravenclaw.