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Danara Jones was more than just tired, after having five lesions (Transfigurations, Care of Magical Creatures, Potions, Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts) she was way more than ready to return to her Ravenclaw common room and retreat to that special way comfortable bed and fall into sleep, knowing she'd not have to wake up for another three hours. By then, she'd be hungry and when she woke, she wouldn't be cranky, as she knew she would be feeding herself quite soon. But now she wasn't on her way to the library, which was the place to access the Ravenclaw common room, instead she was trudging her book bag up the long and windy stairs of the first north tower were Astronomy lesson was being held. Truthfully, Danara honestly enjoyed the subject as she had always found Astronomy to be a fascinating subject, but today, having to be the first day of lessons, she was just ready to plop down on anything that was worth plopping down on. And what was worst is that she was having Astronomy with other seventh years not from her house, and by other seventh years from other houses meant particularly the Slytherins (as she couldn't really care less about Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs.) If anything were to go wrong this day (as today had been quite chaos free) it was going to happen in Astronomy, the Slytherins always have to find some way of stirring up trouble. And to put quite frankly, Danara was just not in the mood to settle with them. She was already tired as it was. She sighed heavily as she began to climb the steep and long road of stairs towards the Astronomy room. The stones of the tower surrounded her completely as she climbed towards the top and she began to grow nervous, clutching her book bag tightly to her chest. None of her friends wanted to take Astronomy in Ravenclaw and they were all now either resting in the common room or taking another elective that they each liked. It was odd to find that Danara would be the only seventh year Ravenclaw in the room as friends always surrounded her, talking and chattering happily with her, but Danara knew that this would happen last year and learned to take it in and accept it. She had her fellow Ravenclaws in her other classes and that should be enough for her to stand on. But she failed to mention to her friends (to mention to anyone) that she was just a tiny bit claustrophobic, especially in situations such as this were it was steep and closed in. She sighed heavily again, before she always had her friends to keep her company and make her forget where she was, but that wasn't the case here, here she was alone.

She huffed and she puffed as she trudged up the stairs. The road up there took for to long to take (she failed to realize that she'd always get there faster whenever she was with her friends) and she even began to wonder if perhaps she was taking the right course. Of course, it was possible that the castle was playing tricks on her to make her late, as the castle always did to her and other students, but she finally came upon the wooden door that led to the room. She took a glance at the watch that was attached to her book bag and saw that she was on time, early by few minutes in fact. She smiled; it would be nice to speak to Professor Sinistra out of class as she always did in her earlier years. She found that Professor Sinistra was a likable woman who really did know what she was talking about when she taught Astronomy. She could remember the many conversations that she and Professor Sinistra had about astronomy after classes or before. Sometimes, Danara could remember, that she would arrive early ten minutes purposefully so that she could speak with the Astronomy professor on terms she wanted to talk about. She took hold of the brass handle and pulled it open to reveal the vast and open room. Danara smiled brightly, her eagerness to learning something new stirring in her again as it always did when Danara was about to get a new lesson. Her tiredness at that moment seemed to vanish as she waved happily towards the Professor and took her seat in the near middle of the classroom. She hadn't noticed the other Slytherin behind her until other students filed inside the classroom for the Astronomy lesson of the day. She took a glance at the blackboard before Professor Sinistra began to teach and she smiled happily at what they were going to learn today. She found that extraterrestrial subjects could be very interesting, as she and her cousin found the question of them existing quite interesting. Danara could remember that her cousin believed strongly that there was such intelligent life on other planets and with the way that her cousin rather listed the ideas, that Danara wasn't the one to object her on her beliefs, but instead actually believe her. When she found that there was going to be a debate, she found that even more interesting and she began to go over her cousins ideas in her head, mentally noting to herself that she would bring these topics into discussion at the debate.

Danara always enjoyed debates, as she always liked to listen to both sides of the story. She could remember that her most favorable debate was on many different things that involved laws of the government. She could remember that she often won those debates with the arguments that she presented and remembered that it was always a nice feeling to have whenever you won something you worked hard on (as she spent several weeks researching her subject to back up her statement with evidence.) She often was one of the ruling sides and other people who believed and supported her followed her example and often found their own ideas that they shouted out. Debates like that, where they debated for over one hour was always fun and even though most of the time Danara always stuck to her own opinion, she found that she couldn't blame the other side for their views either, as they too had very good ideas that contradicted her own beliefs. She had hopes that perhaps this lesson would become like one of those debating lessons that she had early, because if she did, she knew that she'd be enjoying this first Astronomy lesson of the first years quite happily. She took a moment to wonder how she would start this debate and how she would go on about it. She would, as always, start with the fact that point towards extraterrestrial life existing, which was true. There was facts that pointed all signs to yes, for instance there was Jupiter's moon, Europea. Even though the moon was solid ice and rock, there was undoubtable evidence that there was water on that moon (which was honestly big enough to be a planet as it was slightly bigger than Pluto.) And as everyone knows, water is the most essential key to the beginning of life. Yes, she nodded to herself silently, I will start with that statement. She had a strong feeling that she was seriously going to enjoy this lesson and she completely forgot about her objections to her taking Astronomy class this year, the ones she thought off when she was walking up the stairs. She was so enveloped in her own thoughts and pleasures with this lesson that she was quite late in this speech that Professor Sinistra was giving. When she listened to the last part of her sayings, she was relieved to hear that she hadn't missed any of the lesson at all, but rather Professor Sinistra was directing her lecture towards the back of the class and when Danara turned to look around the room, she noticed that most of the faces and attention was focused on Sinistra and this student that she was speaking to. Danara turned to cringe her neck to see whom Professor Sinistra was speaking too and rolled her eyes the moment she saw who it was. Go figure.

She had forgotten that Slytherins were present in this class when she thought of her memorable debates in previous years. She also had forgotten how ignorant and conceited that Slytherins were, which was amazing because Slytherins always made sure that they had their reputation upon their face, no matter how different they were from other Slytherins. She sighed heavily, if this were to keep going on, they would listen to a debate indeed, but they'd listen to a debate between Professor Sinistra and a Slytherin. And not just a Slytherin, Danara told herself, disgust clearly tasted on her tongue, the Slytherin slut as everyone in Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw liked to call her (Danara had to be honest and she wouldn't be surprised if someone of the teachers had even called her that.) Normally, Danara thought good of other people if she hadn't spoken to them before, she'd take them in open arms, even some Slytherins that she hadn't meant. To Danara, they were good until they did something wrong in Danara's eyes, then they'd be bad. She always gave people the benefit of the doubt. But no, this Slytherin was a Slytherin that Danara had a personal problem with. Annalina Anderson, the Slytherin Slut. Merlin's beard, did she hate that name. She hadn't even known Hogwarts for a year when she became enemies with the Slytherin and Danara was quite happy to see that she had made many enemies from her first year in Hogwarts. They had gotten into several fights over their six years of attending Hogwarts and Annalina had always managed to escape Danara's wrath (or vise versa.) They hadn't actually thrown spells at each other, but they had gotten into plenty of fist and verbal fights...enough to send Danara into Professor Dumbledore's office (which was really rare as Danara rarely got into any trouble.) But for some reason, Annalina Anderson had always gotten under Danara's skin and she had a feeling that they'd take that final step and enter into a fight that would include wands. Danara sighed impatiently, that girl just never stops. She's always complaining, always trying to make herself look good and/or she's trying to get out of something. But Danara's temper hadn't flared just yet and she smiled happily when Professor Sinistra gave her homework and detention, but was kind of disappointed when she found that the Astronomy professor hadn't taken the liberty to take points from Slytherin. Honestly, Danara didn't want to cause trouble, but if that girl said anything more, she would have to get into the fight. After Professor Sinistra spoke to the arrogant Slytherin, she raised her hand and said, "May we start the debate, Professor?" she paused a moment and then continued, "I'd just like to say that I do believe in alien life forms on other planets. We all know that water is the most essential part to the beginning of life, right?" she took a glance around to room to survey those who nodded and those who ignored her. "Because even though there may not be any water on the planets know, we do know or guess that perhaps there may have been. Like take Europea, the Jupiter moon. Europea is practically iced and just because we can't stand that temperature of cold, that doesn't mean that someone else can't. Then take Mars, there are canals in Mars that suggest water rivers were shaped into the red planet."

She took a deep breath, finishing her statement and her views. She didn't say anything more until someone else replied to her message agreeing or disagreeing with her. She took to her own silence and waited. She didn't want this lesson to be ruined by the stupid Slytherin and she didn't want to start debating on something other than alien life on other planets. But she knew that would happen, because Slytherins always have to show their stupidity and if the inevitable was to happen, then Danara might as well get the show on the road before anything got out of hand and they wouldn't begin to start the lesson. Danara had to take matters into her own hands before poor Professor Sinistra begin to become too overwhelm with the Slytherin pride. She took a glance towards Annalina, glaring at her for starting something. She didn't mean to glare, honestly, but she knew that her look came out that way and she wasn't the least bit sorry for it either. She knew that if things kept going this way too, Annalina would single her out later and challenge Danara again, something that Danara would take with pleasure and honor. She always welcomed the challenges that Annalina and brought to her and sometimes she won, sometimes Annalina won and sometimes it was tie. Though if anyone asked Annalina, she's probably say that she'd won every time, and if you were an idiot, you'd believe her. Danara always spoke the truth and if she didn't win, then she'd say it. That's why most people (except for Slytherins) chose to go to Danara for details. If something went amiss, most people would back her up, not only from Ravenclaw, but also some students from Hufflepuff and some students from Gryffindor, though mostly only her own friends would join in the fight. Sometimes they'd do it just to kick a Slytherin's butt and even though Danara found that reason a little...untrustworthy, she had to admit that she wasn't about to stop them from joining in the arse kicking. She sniggered at this thought, her attention already back to the debate. Annalina wasn't the only Slytherin who challenged her. It wasn't unknown to have Pansy Parkinson or Millicent Bustrode take a swing at her, but they are certainly foolish to take on a Ravenclaw who soaks up information and knowledge like a sponge. It's not that Danara was more intelligent (except that it seems to be, since Slytherins are to put quite frankly...stupid) she just knows what to say at the right moment and that was always something that Danara prided herself in. If these ladies wanted to take her on wand style, Danara would say to bring it. That mischievous gaze entered Danara's eyes, she was just waiting for someone, especially a Slytherin, to challenge her as she silently fingered her wand inside her pocket...just waiting for the right time.

((ooc: Whhheeeee! My first class thread! I think only Danara is going to enter this thread, I'll bring Harry and Edana another time.))