Try as he might, Jake could NOT find somewhere that he could sit and do his Transfiguration homework, which was a problem, seeing that it was due in very VERY soon. So, the young man had headed to the sixth floor in the hopes that Magnus would help him with finding a place, but he'd got no further than the classroom when he heard the very spell he needed to practice being cast.

Logic dictated that SOMEONE had found a place, so he followed the voice.

Once inside, Jake didn't have a clue who had spoken, but what he DID know was that this was somewhere he could finally do his homework.

Pulling his notes from his pocket and adjusting his normal seeing glasses on his face, Jake thumbed through the parchment and nodded. The spell was fairly simple for someone of his age and newly acquired skillage. Reaching into his shirt pocket, Jake got out the pocket watch which had the other end of its chain tucking into one of the buttonholes on his shirt. It was really nifty and he definitely planned to keep it.

Okay... so... what was it? Cross, circle, jab.

Evil.

Jake flicked his left to get his wand from its holster and held it over the watch in his right hand. He did the complicated wand motion and finished it off with a non-verbal 'Comletia'.

It looked exactly the same.

But no! Jake say the hands of the watch spinning like crazy. He looked closer and realised he DID have a compass... one that looked a LOT like the watch and appeared very confused about where true north lay. Jake looked around to see if anybody saw and cast a quick 'finite'.

Okay, so... he needed to focus more, clearly, on the mechanics of a compass rather than just the image of one. Once he had that nailed, he could make it look good. One step at a time would do.

And... maybe he'd try non-verbal last, when it was nailed.

Shaking out his wand hand, Jake pointed it at the pocket watch and prepared himself to try again.