SPOILER!!: Arya and Little Professor<3
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Originally Posted by
grangerfan8
"Trust me, you don't wanna go back." Arya commented offhandedly. Her eyes moved from the dark forest she was mildly surprised to be out of to the tall professor. At least he was there, and wouldn't let anything happen to them.
Tugging her large gray hoodie closer around her, she decided to take a seat beside Ellie, who seemed a bit put off with us exiting. She wouldn't be acting that way if she'd been around the terms before her first.
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Originally Posted by
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."
Blink. Blink.
But whyyyy?
Since she was sitting, and Little Professor was not, Ellie tugged on his robes to make him bend down to her level before whispering,
"Whyy?" in a 'you can tell me and Arya if she wants to listen without scaring the ickle and faint at heart ones' way. She just wanted to KNOW.
Once again, Ellie listened to what he was saying about the charm... Which still wasn't what he was going to say the
first time. At first, he'd definitely said 'in', and now he hadn't. But that was unimportant.
Disillusiona. Got it. Simple. Easy. And the wand movement she already knew. It was just one of those things.
Ellie had just opened her mouth to try the charm out, when Little Professor warned them not to disappear and leave. Who would want to do that? This was definitely a most epic lesson. Leaving was unfathomable to her. And leaving right when they'd gotten to learn the most wicked charm ever created? Psshh. Unlikely. Threats of points loss and detention were unnecessary.
Whatever. Back to making her lantern invisible. She...was still holding hers...so she set it on the ground FIRST. Seemed smartest. Then she tapped it twice while saying,
"Dissillusiona!" just like Little Professor told them to, while concentrating SUPER hard to make it disappear. More effort went into this spell than she'd put to the knocker to get into the common room.
And what happened?
The lantern went invisible...ish. It was that weird invisible-but-you-can-still-see-it thinggy.
Regardless, Ellie was UBER proud of herself. She'd always thought this was equally uber advanced magic. And LOOK, Ma! She did itttt.
She picked up her camera, and took a picture of it. Of the kinda-there-but-not lantern.
Now her Ma really COULD see it. If she remembered to send it home later...