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SPOILER!!: Layla! Quote:
Originally Posted by Lottiepot  The lesson was going quicker than she had expected. The Professor hadn’t particularly made a comment on her idea but she did hear someone else almost replicate her master plan which received an annoyed frown from the Ravenclaw. Couldn’t people be original and come up with their own ideas? Obviously not.
They were asked to perform a spell and the fifteen year old sunk a little in her seat at the prospect. She was new to this magic business, she’d been a muggle for her whole life and she still wasn’t completely acquainted with how to concentrate her magical skills into one place. She was going to give it a go though and not ask for help in case people judged her as being stupid. She wasn’t stupid, she was just late.
Layla got up off her seat and grabbed a blue bag of sand as required in the first step of the activity. She brought it back to her desk and glanced at it for a short while. How was she going to go about this then?
She'd managed to perform some sort of magic earlier in the lesson with her name tag but that seemed extremely easy, all she needed to say was her name. Her attempts to get a message in the crystal ball hadn't worked but quite frankly she hadn't even tried with that. She didn't even believe that it was possible anyway.
After about 5 minutes of procrastination, she finally pointed her wand at the bag. “Fingere Elementi” she muttered and watched hopefully. Until absolutely nothing happened. Why didn’t it work? Why did her spells never work on the first try? She sighed audibly and slumped down on her seat. She supposed she should probably try again until it worked but quite frankly she didn’t want to bother.
And she definitely wasn’t going to ask for help either. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lottiepot She was going to try this again.
The first attempt at this bizarre and brand new spell had not gone exactly smoothly for the Ravenclaw but she wasn’t going to give up just yet. Nor was she going to enthusiastically spring her hand up and ask for help. That was embarrassing, she was fifteen not five. She didn’t need help, at least that was what she was telling herself.
The first years on the other hand had no worries about dragging the prefects over to do their spells for her. It was quite reassuring to see that other students were having problems too though, she didn’t want to be stuck out like a sore thumb.
Layla was clever at her old school. She didn’t tell anyone that but the teachers knew, at least the ones where she bothered to complete assignments did. School wasn’t about grades back in Clapham, it was about being popular and hanging about with your mates around the school gates. This private school business did nothing for her. Residential school kids where she was from were criticised and mocked for being ‘posh’, now she was one of them. Except everyone knew that she didn’t speak posh. No, city girl still retained her ‘Sauff Laaandon’ accent.
She picked up her wand and jabbed it towards the blue bag of sand with a determined huff. “Fingere Elementi!” she called simultaneously. To her surprise this attempt actually wcorked and the plastic melted away and the sand clumped together to form a slightly wonky but that didn’t matter, sphere. Or a planet as the Professor had described it as.
Walking around the classroom a bit more, the astronomer noticed a Ravenclaw (AGAIN, the Ravenclaw females today!) being a real stick in the mud. Or perhaps she had eaten a particularly bad lunch and that was making her a bit lethargic? Whatever the case was, he slowly began to make his way towards her to offer some feeble words of encouragement when she got back into spellwork herself and had produced a planet.
"Well done," he nodded with a quick wink. Wonky or not, it would do for the purpose of the exercise. "Pity we don't have gravity to work in our favor for these holding their shape," he continued as he leaned forward a bit to poke her planet with his wand, causing it to spin a bit more. "Not nearly enough mass for it to pull itself into the most efficient shape on its own. You'll get it next time."
Just had to thiiiiiiink like gravity. Be the force of gravity.
And now he had a certain song mentioning gravity...and defying it...stuck in his head.
Ahem.
SPOILER!!: Ophelia! Quote:
Originally Posted by carpediem
So she COULDN'T blow up the planet? Darn, there went Ophelia's plan for world domination. Back to the drawing board, kid. Also, no black holes, or destroying the atmosphere, but asteroids. Lots of asteroids apparently. So that was something. Although, the chance that the kid would actually do something like taking over the world was slim to none. Ophelia didn't like to be stuck doing something for too long, and when you're president of the world, that's kind of a full time job.
Also, should the firstie be afraid of asteroids now? Because the Professor was making them sound scary. But it also made you think, how fragile everything was and how they needed to cherish it all and this and that and the other thing about Earth conservation. Yeah, Newton went through a whole Earth phase, one that would've resulted in some consequences if she didn't shut up about it three months later.
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This class? She liked it. They got to make their own planet! How cool was that? Sooo cool! This was something that the kid was writing home to her parents. Excitedly, the blonde clapped her hands twice and flipped her wavy blonde hair behind her shoulder before getting up and grabbing the blue bag of sand. Blue. For Ravenclaw. Cuuutte! Anyway. The spell? Writing the name of the spell --trying twice to spell it correctly and having to mouth each letter to herself to do it-- in her notebook and then getting the bag of sand into her right hand. Okay, the movement. Jab. Jabby jab jab. Simple. Okay, this would be easy. Right?
"Fingere Elementi!" Oh Merlin! The bag exploded, both on the floor and then on her. Panic ran through her, and the shorter girl's tanned skin turned beet red with humiliation. Why did everything happen to HER? This wasn't fair! Maybe she should've practiced a little more? Maybe have asked what exactly to do?
"I'm so sorry!" A stuttering yell. Her brown eyes were silver dollar sized with nervousness. Was she going to lose Houspoints for this?
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"Just you and IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII defying graaaaavit--------------"
Airey's head snapped around - his stellar singing interrupted - and blue eyes fell on the Ravenclaw (AGAIN!) who was now...covered in blue sand as well as the floor around her. Well, actually, she was looking a bit purple with the way her skin was blushing like that - but no need to point out the specifics out loud.
"Not to worry noooooot to worry," Airey replied with one hand up in the air in a stop position. No, seriously. Don't panic. "Simply grab another bag and give it another go." With a swift swish of his wand, the professor banished away the mess - save for her robes because students should know how to keep those clean and presentable. Couldn't do ALL the work for her now, could he? "These things happen."
He had seen that too, Miss Cambridge. The green. Eyebrow raises for you.
Checking his sundial watch once again, he looked up and addressed the class. "About 5 more minutes of practice and we'll begin the activity. For those who have already completed your planet, you may want to practice the Locomotion Charm charm on it. It will come in handy in just a bit. Simply point your wand at your planet and say Locomotor planet, then use your wand to guide it where you want it to go."
OOC: Instructions for the next activity will be posted in approximately 4 - 5 hours.
Practicing the Locomotion Charm is NOT a requirement given the short amount of time between now and the time the activity will begin.
As always, any questions you may have can be directed at me via VM or PM or asked of Professor Flamsteed IC.
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