Text Cut: Mr. Charms
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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."
Er, what?
He'd been following them all along that...they were out of the Forest already?
Yeah, Treyen didn't expect that...but he assumed that they had to walk away from whatever had been in that water, right? He saw nothing, he'd rather have those Acromantulas back, just because of how awesome it could be to watch Saylen leaving them all in the Forest.
But...oooooh. The spell!
Mmmmhmmm. Good thing Descoteaux was teaching them, or Treyen will be complaining about it for a while.
"Disillusiona," he said, tapping twice the lantern he was still holding, and eying it with narrowed eyes as it did nothing. Focused, he was. So, maybe there was something wrong with his lantern, yes, that was it.
He tried one more time, and whilst the lantern became somewhat invisible...it became visible soon after that. The same thing happened the third time he decided to try it on, and he was almost on the verge of shaking his wand to see if there was something wrong with it. The core was Demiguise hair, it shouldn't have so many issues with this spell. Perhaps it was
his fault. Fourth and fifth time resulted in nothing. Sigh.
Clear mind. Check. Focus. Check.
"Disillusiona!" Tap, tap. Invisibility achieved. Grin.
Everybody knows sixth time's a charm.