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PattyH. 
Feeling some blood rush backing into his hand, Patroclus knew it meant that Kurumi had let go, "We are all safe now, little cub!" Nothing to worry about.
Kurumi looked up at Patroclus and had the urge to hug him tightly around the waist - mainly because that was about as high as she could reach on the Prefect. Yet, just when she moved to do so, she caught the eye of scary she-snake-cookie!hater number two and decided she better not and instead looked as though she were trying to do a Gryffindor's version of the moonwalk as she took a few steps back.
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Thanks, um, for letting me walk with you," she blushed. She would need to bake some cookies for him later.
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Maxilocks 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 does so -" And he would know if someone did - "That's fifty points from their house and a week's worth of detention."
Kurumi felt like she was going to burst at the prospect of being taught such sophisticated magic. The Disillusionment Charm was extremely powerful. She had read that it was a spell required to be casted on Hippogriffs and all breeds of Winged horses every day to prevent Muggles from seeing them. She had often wondered if this made it hard to take care of the creatures since it would be rather hard to see them.
Talk about a major breach of the Statute! Hippogriff gets away from a witch or wizard one day, spell wears off, all of a sudden there is a Hippogriff walking around London browsing for a new bonnet.
The image was enough for Kurumi to giggle at out, which woke up the kitty that had been asleep in her robes for the entirety of their journey through the forest. "
Oh, sorry," she said still giggling as she set the kitten back down on one of the hay stacks nearest the Professor.
Returning to her spot, Kurumi set her lantern down on the ground and took out her wand.
Looking around, her confidence went down as she saw first years seeming to be able to perform the spell without any problems. Perhaps she was struggling more this term because the spells had become much more intricate, but she also had the sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach that it was coming much more from her losing confidence.
She remembered a story, an animated film, she had watched as a child. In it, a young witch loses her magical ability to fly. This was due partly due to a lack of confidence...which is what Kurumi had begun feeling very strongly recently.
Magic was a talent that she had thought about much, but not so much in regards to why she could use it. She never really considered the importance of her magic, she never gave it a second thought and simply used it a given. What was it here father used to always say to her? Oh, yes.
Talent is something that you are given, and you have to go through a process to consciously make such a talent truely yours.
Taking a deep breath, Kurumi tapped on her lantern twice and then froze, hesitant to continue on with the next step. She remained frozen for a few moments before she found her breath again. "
Disillusiona," she whispered focusing everything on the lantern.
The lantern rippled as if it had turned to liquid and someone had dropped a single drop of water onto it. It wasn't going to explode, was it? Kurumi watched, not daring to blink and, although it took a little, eventually the lantern vanished.