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Elizabeth Nyx Woods
Third Year | 
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Originally Posted by Maxilocks  Text Cut: Responses Go back?
"What Arya said," Jared replied. "There should have been one more stop," Jared said, tones and expression both neutral. He could perceive Benjamin's thoughts, but the lesson being a lesson, its purpose was to impart knowledge, not make a display of heroics. It'd have been foolish of him to stay inside, just because he felt he could hold off, say, a group of small but vicious creatures. He had no plan to take risks that involved his students, now or later.
It seemed the boy had other things on his mind, now. "Things aren't always what they seem," Jared, smiling the usual faint smile. And that was all he had to say on the subject. "There are, Kyle." Maya had taken a group of students into the Forbidden Forest to show them those last term, if he wasn't mistaken. It seemed the Baron's short-cuts had caused doubt to spring in the mind of some of the students. Jared nodded. "We've left the forest," he confirmed, as he plucked his lantern out of mid-air and set it down, next to the hay bale he had occupied earlier. "Benjamin -" Jared's voice was calm but firm. "The purpose of that visit was not to learn defense against dark creatures." It had been to see some of the magic in the forest, and learn from it. "You're all outside at this hour because I'm holding a class; and that means that until all of you are back in the castle, you are my responsibility." There is a difference between courage and folly. He couldn't endanger the students just because he believed they could defend themselves. That would have been recklessness, not bravery.
"Courage doesn't mean fighting," he said, frowning as the Slytherin said he had been told to fight. "Courage means not running from a necessary fight." Emphasis on the necessary, and even then the fight could always mean a literal fight. Him placing the students in danger - when the Baron could have led them all out of it in a matter of minutes - just because he felt they could defend themselves, seemed nothing like courage to Jared. And then the Slytherin had dragged houses into his remarks.
"This has nothing to do with Gryffindor or Slytherin, Benjamin,"Jared said, voice still calm, face still deadpan. "The forest part is," Jared said, giving the Gryffindor a faint smile. Once the students had all settled down, Jared picked up the explanation where it had been left off. "Now, the most common Disillusionment Charm is Disillusiona, and this is the charm we're going to practice before heading back to the castle. The wand movement is to the tap the top or surface of the target, with your wand, twice. So." He rapped the top of the lantern he had set down earlier, said the incantation out loud, and the lantern seemed to disappear. Jared cast Finite - verbally, for the benefit of the students - and the lantern re-appeared.
"Concentration and focus are more essential to this charm, than many others. The more you concentrate, the better your results. If your mind isn't on the charm, it's likely that half the target is going to disappear, and half remain in plain sight." No good, that.
"Go ahead and try it out on your lanterns. And," he added, before any of the students could start getting ideas. "No one is going to cast the Disillusionment Charm on themselves and then move away from their hay bale." They could cast it on themselves. If they remained on their hay bales until they nullified its effects. He wouldn't put it past some of the students to sneak off. "If anyone dies so -" And he would know if someone did - "That's fifty points from their house and a week's worth of detention."
Elle's emerald eyes widened as she listened to what Professor had just said. Fifty points? A week in detention? That's a lot...
She then regained focused and tried casting the spell. First of all, the First Year practiced waving her wand before actually doing it. Some time later, she knew she was ready because instincts told her so.
Elle breathed deeply to clear her thoughts, pointed her wand at a nearby bush, shut her eyes tightly, tapped it twice while muttering, "Disillusiona."
A second later, she could not find any trace of the berry bush. It had disappeared! She grinned widely and returned it back to normal with a Finite.
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