DADA: Contest#1

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Aim: To find the best way out of the situation.
Deadline: 17th August (~three weeks, guys!)
Judging: All entries are going to be placed into a poll, you guys will vote for the best.
Points: 1st/2nd/3rd/Participation Only -- 50/40/30/10 points
Entries: One entry per member. You may not work with any other student on this scenario. Well thought out and detailed answers would be nice. Remember it's being opened to a vote.

Yes, the information could be laid out clearer, but where would the fun be in that?

Below is not every piece of information you have, it should lead you to information that can be gathered from various places and references. Locations, dates, weather, etc has not been randomly chosen.

You're a third year student. Gender and house the same as your own. Muggle-born. You may already know what your wand is, or if not it is of your choosing.

It's an exceptionally baking Friday afternoon in the middle of May. Apparently it's hottest temperature to be reached in this area this century. The year is 1992. It's sunny and bright outside; not a cloud in the sky. It's lunch time and most students are out in the grounds, soaking up the sun.

School is the same as ever. Professor Kettleburn keeps muttering about retiring any year now. Snape is as...temperamental as ever and sometimes you wonder if anyone would give you extra credit for exorcising Binns.

You've got a midnight Astronomy lesson tonight and really don't want to miss it. It's one of your better subjects and at least it might be cooler up on top of the Astronomy tower at that hour.

You and you friends spent most of the morning Charms lesson practising Cheering Charms on each other. You're a bit worried about the exam and think the Cheering Charms might not have worked because you're still worried and not feeling at all full of cheer.

Next up was History of Magic, Professor Binns asked you to stay behind to talk about one of your recent essays. What was half an inch when you really thought about it?! Just over a centimetre, that's what. Luckily you got away from any more of a lecture from Binns by the fortuitous arrival of Peeves.

Walking out of the classroom you fish about in your bag. You just know you snagged an apple at breakfast and dropped it in there! You run into your normal amount of junk in there; letters from your mother; quills; ink; three very heavy text books; small globe of the moon; left over stink pellet; pear drops; scales left over from their last lesson with Kettleburn; and some quite large twigs left over from Herbology.

You're heading up towards the library, to meet your friends to continue studying, when you hear a scream. It's so piercing and other-worldly you first you think it's a banshee, but you're still alive so maybe not.

Curiosity gets the better of you and you head towards the direction the scream came from. Another scream leads you to the currently empty DADA classroom. You open the door to find a terrified first-year there. Maybe one of those Weasley twins pranks?

...The snarling to your left says differently. On the other side of the room is a creature that looks...purple. Grey-ey purple. And big. Very big...

Trelawney didn't see this coming in Divination. What are you facing? What are you going to do?

I would like you to keep in mind any charms/spells/etc that a muggle-born third year would know. I would also like you to keep in mind the information presented in the scenario about this student. And the subjects they appear to be taking, and subjects every third year student should be taking.

The Lexicon is your friend.

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Note: As of the 26th of July I'm away for three weeks. Just so you know why the members list isn't being updated.