Sierra was positively fuming by this point. Why? Well, there was really no reason. She was sick and tired of taking final exams and wanted to get them over and done with as quickly as possible. As soon as she inked in the last few answers of her theoretical exam, Sierra turned over her parchment and headed through the door and toward the practical part of the exam.

She eyed Professor What's-his-name as she noticed how laid paid he seemed to be. Right--they were stressing over finals, and he was leisurely reading a book. She inwardly rolled her eyes before heading toward the first station. Reaching it, she picked up the sheet of instructions and carefully read them over. Once she was sure of what she had to do and how to go about doing it, she withdrew her wand to begin the task.

Sierra's eyes traveled from the plastic teacup to the small bucket three feet in the air. She mentally recapped what she was meant to be doing. Change the teacup into a ball, levitate it, and then drop it into the bucket. With her wand now pointed toward the plastic teacup, Sierra traced two circles in the air--one clockwise and one anti-clockwise. "Mizurus Boru!" she called out. Her face looked hopeful as she mentally pleaded with the plastic teacup to cooperate with her. The last thing she needed at this point was to get all the way to the final exam only to have some idiotic teacup decide it wanted to have as lazy of a day as the professor seemed to be having.

The teacup made a slight noise as it rattled back and forth, torn between wanting to cooperate and wanting to stay still. Sierra narrowed her eyes in concentration as she focused solely on what she wished for the teacup to do. "Form a ball, form a ball, form a blasted ball!" she silently pleaded. Almost as if it was reacting to her thoughts, the teacup stopped rattling and began to shift its shape. The corners curled in, and before long, a round ball lie directly before Sierra.

Not wanting to wait any longer and chance the transformation reverting, Sierra made a quick swish and flick with her wand and said, "Globo Leviosa!" Her efforts didn't take as long to produce results this time. The round ball rose into the air, and she directed it to the bucket with her wand. Once it was hovering directly above the bucket, Sierra guided the ball downward until it was able to drop into the bucket.

Well, one down, two to go...

Sierra walked to the next station and picked up the second sheet of instructions. Bouncing balls--great. Again? Sierra shrugged, realizing that it may be a good thing she was now facing the same exact objects she'd used to complete her last homework assignment. She'd used bouncing balls for that, too, and Merlin were they evermore as difficult to manage as the chocolate frogs had been! At least they seemed to be...somewhat...staying in the same little area. Maybe they'd been charmed that way? Who knew.

Sierra's eyes flickered toward the cardboard box, and she sort of mapped out a plan of action in her head before attempting any actual wandwork. So all she had to do was freeze one of the bouncing balls and then banish the other into the cardboard box? That seemed easy enough--hopefully. She raised her wand and flicked twice toward the ball. "Immobulus!" she called out. Her eyebrows furrowed as she saw that the ball was still bouncing and hadn't frozen in place as it should have. She must have missed somehow. Her wand was still raised, and so she flicked twice and called out the incantation once again. "Immobulus!"

This time, the ball froze in place, and Sierra did an inward cheer before turning to the second ball. Her wand pointed outward and aimed in the right direction, she called out, "Depulso!" The ball darted across the station and into the box. Perfect! At least the second part of task two had gone smoothly.

Two down, one to go...

Sierra could have just skipped to the last station. Could have--but didn't, of course. Sierra and skipping went together about as great as ice cream and barbecued sausage did. Nevertheless, she was in a sudden good mood as she approached the last station of the exam. With the theoretical portion out of the way, Sierra was--hopefully--over and done with Charms class for the school year once task three was out of the way. Approaching the station, she picked up the sheet of instructions and carefully read them over.

...lovely. She should have been expecting this. This charm came from the class she'd paid next to no attention in, so she wasn't actually sure she could even perform the charms needed. As she laid the sheet of instructions back down on the table, she mentally reviewed what she remembered about the charms she'd need to cast. In the end, she was hesitant, but there was really only one way for this exam to come to an end--and that was to get started and complete this task.

She stared at the charmed lantern, wishing she could just expand it with her eyes. No such luck, though. She raised her wand and traced a circle in the air, ...and then brought her hand back down by her side. There was no way she could do this without confidence. She drew in a deep breath and released it slowly, and then she started the charm again. Wand raised, she traced a circle in the air, and then she brought her wand down twice to form the letter X. "Luxra Magnifica!" she exclaimed.

She stared at the lantern, waiting anxiously to see what it would do. She focused her attention on the light growing and filling the room with an even brighter display of light. She held her breath until the light began to expand, and to her surprise, she'd done it correctly! As the corners of her mouth lifted into a small smile, she returned things back to normal by pointing her wand and saying, "Finite!" The light diminished little by little, quickly reversing what she'd done before.

Reaching forward, Sierra tapped the lantern twice with her wand. "Disillusiona!" she said. Lucky for Sierra, because she was tired and restless by now, her efforts were successful. She smiled at the lamp, or the place where it had once been, and then returned her wand to its holster.

Three down, zero to go...