 Step One
Jacques listened carefully with an intense sort of focus not bothering to smile when the professor smiled or laugh, in fact he wasn't even sure the man told a joke, he was sure though that is he had it flew right over his head. Jokes weren't Jacques thing, now facts about anything and Jacques could go on and on and on and on never ending really. He took his bucket from under the table as well as a sponge and the blue towel that Professor Vindictus had specified. Setting them aside and ready for his use, he opened his kit and got the concentrated cleaner looking at the bottle before uncapping it and taking a quick sniff of the solution then pouring a cap full into the bucket. Re-corking the bottle and replacing it, he pulled his wand from its holster and aimed it at the bucket trying to say the spell the way Professor Vindictus had. He didn't exactly do so and instead of bursting from his wand, it trickled a little with short gusts.
When he was satisfied with the water level -and fed up with waiting- he spoke the words to the canceling spell and the water stopped which made him pleased with himself. He dipped the sponge and squeezed it underwater before bringing it up and squeezing above water too. He held the broom up and made his mental plan to wipe the handle in small sections starting of course with the top. With the plan in pace he switched the device in his ear off and got to cleaning. He focused best when he couldn't hear what was going on around him, and he liked it like that, he felt like he was alone. As he cleaned he began reciting things he knew about brooms randomly "Wizards have been riding broomsticks since the 10th century. There is an annual broom race that spans over three hundred miles in Sweden." He turned the broom stick "Puddlemore United is the oldest Quidditch team and the Holyhead Harpies is an all girls team, the only all girls team." He moved down to the next section. "The Golden Snidget is an endangered and protected by the Ministry. They used to be used before the snitch was invented by Bowman Wright."
He was speaking quite loudly but he didn't know that of course since he couldn't hear himself, if he had known he wouldn't have felt embarrassed though which was what made him weird "The first World Cup was in 1473 and there are 700 ways to foul in Quidditch." He liked watching the game well enough but couldn't play, he had no sense of balance, his father was probably quite upset over that since he was a former recruiter and now a commentator for the World Cup and he wrote articles about Quidditch. He was finished with cleaning the handle by the time he finished his facts and was drying the handle gently as he was told. |