Flying Lesson 1 Year 1 : Welcome to Flying

Professor Williams is seeing the sky back behind. It seems like a fresh day for him, as he awaits his flying students in the vast flying pitch of Hogwarts. Noah immediately sees his students and greets them "Hello guys! Today we're gonna start our first flying lesson! "

I - Introduction and Plans

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Hello everyone! I guess you are all over excited to learn Flying! My name is Noah Tristan Williams Kettleburn, but please call me nothing other than Professor or Professor Noah Williams. I'd now like to leave my backstory and other details on the Meet the Staff page, and begin with the class which includes the class rules, syllabus and other basic plans for the course.

I will give you some assignments per lesson, which you must complete, with no time limit, but before the end of the year. Most of the time, you'll get a quiz or/and an essay. Essays are mostly extra credit, but if they are mandatory, I'll mention it next to the assignment. There are no prerequisites for the course, but you must have sufficient supply of paper, your quills, and of course, the school broomsticks, provided by me. Taking notes ; like all your classes here is optional, but highly recommended.

Now, I'd introduce you to the basic class rules, which you must follow under any circumstances.

Cheating/Plagiarizing in lessons will not be tolerated in any course. It includes searching up in the muggle net, referring to your notes and lessons while you take the assignment. Plagiarizing, for those who don't know what it means, is copying and pasting the text, or writing as exactly as it is written in the lesson. Write answers in your own words.

Respect is one of the most important rules of the class. If you don't show respect to your fellow pupils, you'll make no friends, and if you don't show respect to me and my prefects, you'd be punished accordingly. Don't disrespect people on their cast, gender, race, culture, religion or house.

While flying, girls please tie your hair, as they might be an obstacle for you while you fly on your broomsticks. Avoid wearing long skirts or clothes, a simple shirt and pants would be best for everyone.

II - Introduction to Flying

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I'll now be telling you the story of how the very first broomstick developed.

Ancient history records have proved that wizards in Europe were using the broomsticks since AD 962. The broomsticks which were first released into the leisured world of magical people were not as comfortable, as leisured or as soft as current brooms. They were made with hard twigs, wood out of trees which had large prickly thorns. The distressed look on peoples' faces showed how the brooms were in the past eras.

The brooms' movement and features were limited too, as the charms applied were basic. Wizarding families usually made their own brooms. Then, in the 18th Century, Elliot Smethwyeck invented the Cushioning Charm, which made the broomstick comfortable.

In 1926, the brothers Bob, Bill, and Barnaby Ollerton formed the Cleansweep Broom Company, and the racing broom was born. Their first model, the Cleansweep One, was produced in large quantities and was an instant hit. After three years, in 1929, The Comet Trading Company was formed by Randolph Keitch and Basil Hornton.

Then, in 1997, the Nimbus Company was produced, beating the two previous companies. They could be used very easily, and the speed was very fast, and it could be modified on the user's wish, thus being the wizarding world's favorite.

Then, Firebolt was produced in 1993, being the best broom so far, but costly. The thunderbolt VII was produced in 2014, and is the latest broom so far.

Asian magical people did not use broomsticks much often, as they thought that they were unreliable European sources, and used magical carpets. The only exception to this was Japan. As of now, every single European magical household owns their own broomstick.

Now, oh, I would like to dismiss today's class, as we ran out of time, and we learnt a lot today, did we not? I'll let you off with a mandatory quiz! Class dismissed!