Post by Morgan Pendragon on Dec 7, 2010 16:35:01 GMT -5
"Well," said Morgan, glad that her class seemed enthusiastic, if a bit hot-tempered. "I'm certainly glad to see we have quite a few bright minds in here. Miss Watson, Miss Fairchild, Mr. Charadus, and Miss Robinson, you have all earned five points each for sharing your opinions. The homework due before next class is going to be a short definition of what you believe Charms to be." On the word 'short', she looked pointedly at Felix. No doubt he could go on for pages, if she didn't stop him.
"For the next part of the lesson," Morgan said, as she flicked her wand and caused the indigo curtain to move, revealing a large practice space, empty except for a few dozen cushions. "We are going to be practicing some basic movement charms. Accio, the Summoning Charm; Expello, the Banishing Charm; Wingardium Leviosa, the Levitation Charm; and finally the Mobili- Charm. In particular, Mobilitomentum, since we will be working with pillows today. Feel free to practice whichever ones you feel you need the most work on. Wandwork is not going to be a big part of your grade, because today, I just want to see where we should start."
She gestured that they should begin.
((Homework assignments should be posted here sometime before the next class.))
Post by Niobe Wattson on Dec 9, 2010 17:06:58 GMT -5
As soon as the Gryffindor girl shot back Niobe felt an unnatural welling of anger in her chest. This child was being impossibly rude and then trying to play it off as if she wasn’t. She could feel some color coming to her normally fair skin though some might misinterpret it as embarrassment it was more from frustration. Luckily Niobe didn’t have to speak up to berate the girl because her wonderful Phugsius did it for her before she even had to open her mouth. A small smile crept onto her face when he snapped at Nadia and she mouthed a thank you to him when he was finished. It was nice to have a friend in the classroom who wouldn’t just let her get beaten on by someone else
It astounded Niobe however that the Professor didn’t do anything to try and end the snapping going on around the room. Instead she rewarded them all for their input? While it was nice to get points when they came it didn’t make any sense to her.
Luckily she didn’t have time to brood on this phenomenon very long because all color drained from her face as Morgan told them the Charms to be working on. Basically anything that involved her wandwork was going to cause trouble, even if it was simple banishment charms. Granted, she hadn’t used her new wand since procuring it but she still thought that it might rebel against her. Echoes of her mother’s stern voice were coming back to Niobe and making her feel ill again. It was time to divide up and work on the Charms and Niobe just wanted to lay her head on her arms rather than embarrass herself in front of her peers.
It took great effort to push her seat away from her desk and head over to the practice area. The hand that grabbed one of the cushions was shaking and she immediately went to an isolated area off to the side. Sure, pillows were cushy. Until some charm backfired and turned things into shrapnel. Putting it on the ground she drew out her wand for the first time since she had bought it. That whole ordeal had been a mess. Niobe didn’t even want to get a new wand after losing the last one but after receiving a Howler from her mother she was forced to. So the Hufflepuff had bought the apple wand and put it away without a thought.
The only spell that didn’t involve the pillow zooming across the room seemed to be the levitation spell so Niobe chose to work on that. Nervously pointing her wand at the cushion she muttered the charm. Except it came out totally garbled and nothing happened. Well, that was usually the best situation when she moved her wand. But the Professor wasn’t going to be okay with one attempt at a spell probably. So she spoke a little louder and clearer a few more times, “Wingardium Leviosa”, but nothing happened. Each time her face got a little redder and her wand movements got more erratic. There were sounds of others practicing around her but she tried to block it out.
Jabbing her wand at this purple cushion she couldn’t get it off her mind how much she hated Charms. Without warning her cushion exploded with a loud bang. Feathers rushed into the air, several of them coating Niobe. If there was an inch of her face that wasn’t red before there wasn’t after that explosion. Her shoulders were slumped and all the reasons that she shouldn’t be going to that class were rushing back to her head. She brushed feathers out of her hair and off her shoulders and onto the ground.
5 points for completing the practical portion of the lesson.
Whites had been paying attention, but he couldn't say he was exactly involved in the discussion. He hated arguing, he hated debates. He just wanted everyone to shut up and let the professor teach, though Leon was making good points. It seemed like Phugsius' Girlfriend had some sort of problem with everyone's definition, and it didn't help that Phugsius was supporting her all the way by being a dick. At least he couldn't take points in class, or whatever, that would suck.
He looked over as Leon started writing his assignment--wasn't it homework?--and quickly turned it in. He really didn't understand just what the assignment was supposed to be, but Leon was so sure of himself...
Eh. He mentally shrugged and tore off a piece of Micha's Parchment to write on.
EB&S Whites, Gryffindor, 5th
What are Charms?
Charms are any kind of magic that makes things do stuff, but isn't transfiguration.
That was probably a little too close to Leon's paper, but hey. He was the smart one. He nibbled the tip of his quill for a second, and scratched some more on there.
Also, potions are liquid charms, or something. Anyway as long as the magic charm does not change what ever it is e/affection it is a charm. If it changes what it is made of then it is transfiguration, and if it's liquid it is a charm potion.
...That didn't seem quite right. Something about that discussion was really just throwing him off. Why couldn't she just lecture them or something? Anyway, he'd turn that in later so she wouldn't see that half of it was based on Leon's answer. It was due next class, anyway, right? He walked over, grabbed a pillow. He glanced at Micha, but decided not to push his luck for once. She'd probably want to practice with her house. Besides, he sucked at summoning, and though she'd seen him at it before, he wasn't eager to repeat the experience.
He walked over to where Leon was and chucked his pillow a ways away from him, he wasn't too sure with his Banishing, either.
"Accio Cushion thing."
Slowly, lazily, the cushion rose up off the ground by a couple centimeters, then wobbled slowly over to him. Its end was dragging on the ground, and no matter how hard he pointed his wand at the thing, it wouldn't go faster. Eventually it reached him, and looking around, figured he might as well just repeat it. Maybe he'd learn something from practice.
He chucked the cushion again and started over.
5 points for completing the practical portion of the lesson.
The lovely lady professor who still had yet to introduce herself formally, insisted there was no "shininess charm" on her leg. A group of students lowered the discussion into some uncomfortable winner-take-all type of angry argument. Blegh. One of the gryffindor girls up front attacked the girl sitting behind Phugs, and Phugs did not appreciate this the least. As much as he wanted to support Phugs in the let's-take-a-really-simple-topic-and-make-it-extraordinarily-complicated debate, he remained silent and let them duke it out. That gryffindor Lion guy tried to keep the peace. Another chick spoke up even less violently.
By this point, it was obvious why the room was so segregated. Phugs was going to defend his gang and protect them from the rude mockery that was gryffindor. He hadn't expected the gryffindors to be that kind of people, but whatever.
Oh, and apparently that professor knew all of their names even though she hadn't even given her own. How creepy was that? She looked too young to have taught for so long, but maybe she used an anti-aging potion to look younger. Yeah. That was it. So, even after teaching for years and years and getting to memorize all of these students personally, she still looked like a totally hot college-age babe. Hell, he wasn't complaining!
Or maybe, you know, she was one of those anal types who memorized everyone's names before class. Hey, it was possible.
Pulling out a quill, parchment, and ink, Cyan quickly scratched out his answer for Professor Penderdragon or whatever. If he remembered his schedule correctly, then her name started with a P and was kind of famous.
He handed it in at her desk, taking a quick second to look over her quite comely figure, and wandered over to the curtained area.
He carelessly brushed his brown curls out of his eyes. These charms were all easy enough, so he wasn't too worried. After he tried them all out, he supposed he'd go check on Phugs.
Oh, yeah, that Phugs guy... Oh, yeah, he'd be fun.
Cyan gave a swish and a flick. "Accio hot pink pillow." A pillow from the pile, one hot pink thing with cute ruffles trimming its edges, shot at him and he wrapped an arm around it. Why the specific summoning? Because a vague summoning, as he knew from experience, could call forth all the pillows in the room and send them at his wand, which he really would not appreciate.
Now, what was the next one?
"Um," he muttered, biting his lip. Oh. That one.. The first charm he'd ever learned, as a matter of fact. He dropped the plushy cushion to the cold stone. He flicked and swished his wand. Speaking carefully, he said, "Wingardium leviosa." He pointed his wood at the eye-burning pink sensation and easily lifted it to chest-height. Then, above his head. Finally, he tapped it against the ceiling and brought it back to the ground.
He wanted to save the Banishing Charm for last since he'd have to summon his pillow all over again.
As for the -mentum part of the mobili spell... Didn't that mean "chin" or something? Maybe "face"? Mobilicorpus was used to move people to stretchers after an injury, but was this supposed to yank on their mouths or something? That didn't sound right.
Cyan watched the other students.
The dame who'd sat behind Phugs had some seriously crazy wand-swinging action going on. What'd she think this class was, fencing? With some maniac swishing and one Windardium leviosa later, Cyan suddenly found his face attacked by a flurry of fluffy down.
He spat a feather out of his mouth.
"Hey, you alright over there?" he asked Phugs's lady friend and walked closer, lifting a soft strip of white from his chocolate hair. She looked older than him, a pretty ginger. With all of those feathers coating her, she could've been an angel. He'd have to draw something like that sometime.
He smiled, partly to be gentle and partly out of inspiration.
"You should really just relax. If you're anxious, your wand'll respond to that, and it'll show up in your magic." Cyan plucked a feather from his sleeve and held out his hand. "What do you say? Wanna try again?"
Her face was as red as a tomato, and she looked like she might just plop to the ground at any second.
"Come on--a cute girl like you shouldn't worry so much."
5 points for completing the practical portion of the lesson.
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Post by Ryoko Kanagawa on Dec 12, 2010 18:38:17 GMT -5
Well, the time for arguing had finally passed it seemed. The students had risen from their seats to move to the practical part of the lesson. He felt a small tinge in excitement. Hands on was the most useful learning to him.
Ryo moved over to another corner of the room. "Accio pillow!" A group of about 6 pillows began floating toward him at increasing speed. Shit! "Expello pillow! Expello pillow!" Two of the pillows flew away as if being kicked aside in midair but that left 4 more pillows hurtling toward him. Pointing his wand at the closest one, he cast with a swish and flick the only spell he figured would help. "Wingardium Leviosa!" It stopped moving and hung in the air. Using his wand, Ryo quickly deflected the other three pillows by colliding his hovering pillow into them. It looked as though Cyan had made a good decision in his specificity after all.
He let out a breath that bordered on a sigh. Even pillows hurt if they were moving fast enough. He had used accio before was the worst part. How did it become aerial dodge ball? Specify the object. He took mental note.
What was the next spell? Oh, right, mobili charms. These shouldn't be nearly as bad. Hmm, famous last words to be sure. He pointed his wand to one of the fallen pillows that had landed to his side. "Mobiliarbus!" The pillow made an odd bounce that looked suspiciously like a jump and landed in front of him. He did a cartwheel to get some distance and practiced again. He wasn't sure he was up to practicing the accio charm at the moment.
5 points for completing the practical portion of the lesson.
Post by Niobe Wattson on Dec 12, 2010 22:47:39 GMT -5
Just as Niobe was considering packing up and leaving the class for the afternoon someone came up and was actually talking to her. And for once it wasn’t Phugius. Her tomato red face betrayed more embarrassment when someone actually acknowledged her total failure at the levitating spell. She cringed when she saw that he had feathers in his hair. Well, at least they weren’t on fire or something!
“Uh…” She hedged and her eyes darted back to her bag at her desk when he asked if she wanted to try again. The real answer was a ‘fuck no’ but she wasn’t about to say that to a boy who was smiling at her. Niobe hadn’t met a lot of people at the school willing to be nice and so it would be a bad idea to rebuke one of the first to approach her. The only thing she didn’t like was that he was calling her cute, but it wasn’t like he knew she was taken. Niobe nervously ran her hands over her apple wand trying to find a polite way to say no.
“There’s not much use trying again.” She said quietly, obviously embarrassed. “6th year and I still can’t get the hang of these simple charms. It’s like my wand is out to get me.” With a hopeful look on her face she flicked it at a feather on Cyan’s shoulder hoping it would flitter off to the ground. Instead in incinerated with loud popping noises and left a burn on his clothes. “Oh no, I’m sorry!” Her heart rate sped up for a second and she swished her wand again and it stopped. The Hufflepuff didn’t know what had come over her, flicking her wand at something so close to another human being.
She ran a hand over her face. “I’m sorry. This just really isn’t my thing.” Her wand went into her pocket this time where the only person it could harm would be her. Honestly Cyan was probably right about having to calm down and not being anxious when doing wandwork but Niobe had a really hard time controlling her nerves. Her mother’s angry voice or the harm she caused people usually popped back into her head. And this was just another one of those situations to add to her repertoire.
She was a sixth year, huh? It was never too late to learn--Wasn't that a famous motto his tutors would prattle about when he came up with excuses to procrastinate?
Oh, um, by the way, Cyan's shoulder was on fire.
"Whoa!" he stammered, quickly brushing off whatever weak flames were left. Oh, and some little black bits that would appear to be his clothing. Hm. He began to laugh, but cut himself off, only smirking silently.
This gal had magic. She just couldn't work it properly.
"It's fine, it's fine!" he replied, stifling a giggle. "You just need to relax. Relax big time." He paused, wondering how to phrase the next bit of his advice. He was pretty good at subtle magics. "When you use a charm, you should say it like... like you're singing a lullaby to a younger sibling. Think of something really peaceful and serene."
He stopped again, looking around for his hot pink pillow. Why was it by Ryo? He quirked an eyebrow at this, fairly certain he'd left it in a different spot.
"Wingardium," he said gently, a look of complete calm on his face as he swish-and-flicked his wand like an artist might a paintbrush, "leviosa." The ruffled pillow levitated from the ground. He directed it toward him and sat it lightly on the ground by his feet.
He was sure there was some technical thought process about technique or whatever, but Cyan cared more about touch and sensation of magic. When he used magic, he typically thought of the feel of a pencil in his hands, smoothly lining graphite on a paper and bringing an image from the world of dreams into reality. For him, it was complete peace and satisfaction.
Despite being an older brother (by seventeen minutes), he'd never gotten into the habit of singing to his bro. Singing to babies was easy to picture, though. Would it work for her?
"See?" Cyan said, blue eyes flickering up to the chick as he grinned. "If that doesn't work, then maybe try picturing your most precious person?"
«Call a friend, call Cyan.» «Cyan - play it!» «Things go better with Cyan.» «Food or Cyan? I'll have Cyan.» «Cyan is a female force. «I want Cyan and I want it now.» «Oh my gods, it's a Cyan.» - Courtesy of www.sloganizer.net/en/ -
Post by Felix I. Genero on Dec 16, 2010 17:41:56 GMT -5
The second that Felix answered the question he 'felt' a wave of negative feeling emanating from his classmates, directed at him. It was like the feeling you feel when you're standing in a metro/subway/tube station and the train passes you by and you feel an unnatural gust of air. Felix couldn’t understand it. All he had done was answer the question! Wasn't the point to memorize what the textbooks say? Why did people not like that he knew too much? Were they jealous? Shouldn't they be happy that at least someone was learning something in this school?
Thinking for a second, Felix came to a realization. Maybe this was the reason he had no really good friends any more? Because he had gotten too smart. Perhaps he had to dumb it down?
Leon, who Felix had found to be a pretty good guy to bare the name of Gryffindor, gave an answer that Felix agreed with. It wasn't magical theory, yet more magical social studies, yet it still counted as an answer.
Morgan replied to each of them. Did she seriously just give the Lucky Charm's answer points? ‘Professor Momo’ was destroying the value of magical education. If no matter how silly an answer you give, you get rewarded, purely based on participation. What credit is it to actually learn and get the right answers? Next she moved on to Felix's answers. Entirely avoiding the validity of the time based answer, Morgan challenge his answer about the good and evil charms. He couldn't disagree more. Firstly, he was merely quoting the same chapter she was as a friendly reminder, and secondly, his point was that something like the Unforgivable is, technically, a 'charm' by definition, however the word 'Charm' is generally reserved for more positively oriented magic, while curses deal with more negative forms. His answer was still perfectly valid.
He was about to disagree with her analysis of his question and of the other ones, yet a little mental spark stopped him. He was trying to act less brilliant, right? 'Dumb it down'? Realizing that a response did further his objective, the Head Boy kept quiet.
Niobe Wattson (who Felix knew through questionable means to be Phugs girlfriend) decided to disagree with Morgan on some interesting points. The weren't entirely correct, yet still valid. Miss Fairchild, a typical Gryffindor, was quick to insult the Hufflepuff's opinion. Phugs replied to 'defend' his 'girlfriend'. Leon got back into the debate and finally Miss Robinson chimed in with an opinion. This was definitely one of the most intellectual debate Felix had heard among students, and he had barred himself from joining it. How tragic.
Morgan, again, gave all four of them the same amount of points, which really bugged Felix. Why was she doing this? The least she could do was to give the correct answers a few extra points?
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They got to the practically part of the lesson so Felix set his notes aside and prepared to do a little ‘swishing’ and ‘flicking’.
Walking over to the pillows, Felix held Willow’s wand firm in his hand. Despite the fact that it wasn’t his wand and it was suppose to be temporary, her wand had served him well. Their personalities were both pretty solidly Gryffindor, and back when Willow was a witch, their magical interest overlapped a little. He really did need a new wand though.
“Accio Pillow.” Remembering his commitment not to show off, Felix decided to case the spells verbally, speak full incantations and even use wand movement. It was no fun, but he didn't mind. The pillow immediately shot across the room towards Felix and into his outstretched left hand. It was delightfully squishy... and purple.
Placing the pillow on a table (after giving it a quick hug to ‘test’ its lightness) Felix pointed his wand at it again.
“Expello Pillow.” The pillow shot back across the room with a smooth fluid movement as if being dropped and as if gravity was horizontal instead of vertical. It ‘landed’ in the same spot where it started.
“Mobilitomentum.” ‘Tomentum’ was actually the Latin word for the stuffing inside the pillow, yet it achieved the same purpose. The correct spell really would have been ‘Mobilipulvillos’. Felix was still the student, and everyone still thought he knew way too much, so he kept his mouth shut. The pillow levitated a few inches off where it lay, and moved where Felix pointed his wand.
5 points for completing the practical portion of the lesson.
Post by Micha Volkov on Dec 19, 2010 3:49:34 GMT -5
People argued; Professor Pendragon gave points.
I don't Micha didn't want to deal with any of it. They were assigned a basically easy practice, and Micha got to work right away, joining the others in the practice area and quickly summoning a plain white pillow from the mass. A twitch of her hand sent the pillow accidentally knocking into Whites' dragging mess, but she kept her face smooth, and did not even look his way.
Once the pillow was in her slim arms, she tossed it to the floor, then flicked her wand lightly at it, the way she had been taught.
"Wingardium Leviosa." It obeyed, of course, drifting carefully up to hover midair like some sort of oversized hummingbird. Without any change of expression, Micha performed the mobili charm and the banishing charm, then went through the routine again.
She understood the Professor's intentions for needing to see where her first class was at, in terms of magic proficiency, but still the girl wished for something a bit more challenging. Well, it was as the saying went, practice makes perfect. Even if you were already there, a refresher couldn't hurt now and then.
Bored already, Micha continued to put her pillow through its paces. They would not have to do this for very long, right?
5 points for completing the practical portion of the lesson.
Figuring Niobe could do things on her own for now (?), Cyan focused on practicing the other charms they did. On the bright side, they all seemed pretty basic, and they all dealt with moving stuff.
He brushed a curl behind his shoulder as his blue eyes watched some older brunette gryffindor guy perform all the spells with ease.
"Mobilitomentum," copied Cyan, flicking his wand as his lovely hot pink cushion.
He levitated it upward, wondering what exactly the difference between this spell and the Levitation Charm exactly were. He swung it to the left, to the right, up, and down, watching bemused as its frilly ruffles swam through the air like some underwater sea creature.
Then, he dropped it.
"Expello," he said, flicking his stick at the pink thing once again. The pillow shot a couple of meters away.
Seeing as that was all four spells and he had plenty of time to wait, Cyan continued practicing, doing his best not to bean anybody in the face with his sexy hot pink ruffled pillow. It seemed like everybody else was having a pretty easy go of it too.
«Call a friend, call Cyan.» «Cyan - play it!» «Things go better with Cyan.» «Food or Cyan? I'll have Cyan.» «Cyan is a female force. «I want Cyan and I want it now.» «Oh my gods, it's a Cyan.» - Courtesy of www.sloganizer.net/en/ -
Post by Nadia Fairchild on Dec 20, 2010 0:27:12 GMT -5
Nadia practiced her spells, glad to have a wand in her hands. She didn't pay much attention to the theory part after she'd said what she wanted to say, but she really hoped nobody besides that scary Slytherin guy thought she was being mean or rude on purpose. Nadia just had a little trouble keeping her thoughts to herself was all.
"Sorry," she said to the Hufflepuff girl, "Didn't really mean it like that, ya know. Sometimes, I think this big mouth of mine is gonna get me in trouble one day. Please don't take anything I said seriously; I just get really fed up with the theory and desk work stuff, cause I totally hate sitting still. It's just like, what's the point? I know the professor thinks she's helping, but theory doesn't mean a thing once you've got a wand in your hand. And yeah, I'm babbling again, aren't I? Sorry."
Nadia clamped a hand over her mouth to keep any more words from popping out. Then she waved good bye with her free hand before choosing a fairly empty space to work in. She got distracted pretty easily, and didn't want to end up accidentally levitating another student rather than her pillow. She focused on a small, white pillow with a rose embroidered on it. She summoned it, levitated it, moved it around a bit and then banished it. Easy cheesy. This was kid stuff.
Sure, the professor could break out the big guns when it came to boring things like theory, but these practical charms were hardly any kind of challenge.
5 points for completing the practical portion of the lesson.
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