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Jezz smiled at Kurumi and took a deep cleansing breath and felt her shoulders release some, but not all of the tension. "I'm trying but this is all still so new to me and I really don't want to let anyone down." Especially herself. She decided it would be best if she just practiced the incantation. "Stat-UA HAB-itum. Stat-UA HAB-itum. Stat-UA HAB-itum," she said to herself almost as a chant.
She closed her eyes, probably not the wisest thing she could do while picking up her wand. She took a deep calming breath drew opened her eyes, drew a square over the paper with her wand and said, "Stat-UA HAB-itum." The paper below her changed, not into a picture frame but small bouncy rubber balls going all over the place. "Reverto."
Kurumi smiled. "
If you put too much pressure on yourself you won't be able to concentrate as well." Speaking from experience here, for sure. Kurumi was always so afraid of failure that it almost always got in the way of her spellwork. It had certainly been the case last term in Professor Schirmer's Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson when they were learning how to conjure a patronus. She still wasn't able to produce much more than a wisp, but things had certainly improved once she allowed herself to let go a bit. "
The only way you would let anyone down is by not trying, so you are already over that hurtle," she added with a small wink.
Okay, now back to her piece of paper and NOT making it melt.
Kurumi twirled her wand in her hand a few times before she held it firmly and pointed it at her piece of paper. Slowly, she traced a square hopefully making the corners 90 degrees and not something less and trace a lopsided diamond in the air. Holding her breath, Kurumi cast the spell. "
Stat-UA HAB-itum!" The paper contorted and morphed until it took the shape of a
glass photo frame. Thank Merlin! Her paper hadn't melted this time!
Kurumi didn't notice the bouncing ball Jezz had transfigured until it was too late and the ball came bouncing on to her table, smacked into her frame, and sent it crashing to the ground where it shattered into several pieces.
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