| Chimaera
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Marcus Briody Cole
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Nadia Atreyu-Rehman
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Originally Posted by MeredithRodneyMckay  Flipping the thimble over in her hand, Isabelle turned her grin to the rest of the class. "Those of you who said this is a thimble are quite correct. But we won't be using it for sewing today - we'll be transfiguring vases for these flowers to go in later on," she gestured to coloured blooms in the buckets.
"The spell itself is formed from two Latin words..." Picking up the chalk, Issy decided to write it on the board herself rather than use magic. "Flora, meaning flowers, or plants. And Teneo, meaning 'to hold'."
"To hold flowers. A vase. Any kind that your imagination can come up with. And the flowers themselves will be for later, so you can all have some fun arranging them. Now, before I show you the wand movements, could you all come up and collect a handful of thimbles - you'll need some more for homework, so feel free to store them in your bags." Isabelle used her foot to shift the box to the front of the room. It was a little heavy, as there were hundreds of the things in there. So it was a thimble.
Gideon wrote it down within his notes aloneside the spell from earlier as he listened to the professor further explain what they would be doing for the class. Transfigurating something into a vase certainly made sense when involving flowers. When the breakdown of the spell was added to the board, the 5th year added it to his parchment wanting to be fully prepared for their task and anything later on they might need the information for...like homework. As instructed, once he finished the last of his notes for now, he got up from his seat to the box, grabbing a bunch of thimbles for himself before returning to his desk to await them moving on.
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Originally Posted by MeredithRodneyMckay "Now you all have your thimbles, I'd like you to pay close attention to the wand movement I am about to show you." Rolling her sleeves up, Issy took her wand back out of it's holster and placed her thimble on the front of her desk so they could all see. Although it was more her wand they needed to be keeping an eye on. "You need to point your wand directly downwards, vertical, right near your object. Then do three clockwise circles, moving your wand further away, and upwards, from your thimble with each one, like so..."
Isabelle did just as she had told them, swirling her wand clockwise and inching it away with every circle, almost as if she was flourishing something from the end of it. "Floreneo!" Almost as if it was growing out of the thimble, a red vase spread upwards and stood, complete, when Issy finished moving her wand.
Beaming at them all, she pocketed her wand again and picked up the vase. It was made of rubber, but they didn't know that - so she bounced it on the ground to prove it had worked properly. It came rebounding back up towards her face, and she caught it just before it hit her nose. "There we go. Mine is rubberised, just to show you the sort of thing you can do. Now, those of you with questions, please ask - the rest of you can begin with practice." And move on they did, Professor Magnus grabbing their attention once more and speaking of the wand movement needed for the spell. Gideon watched with close and apt attention to make sure he could get it right and be able to mimic it. It was probably well that he was so focused seeing as it certainly seemed one of the more complicated spells at least movementwise. Point down at object---three clockwise circles gradually pulling upward.
Eventually the woman had a nice red vase. A nice...bouncy vase as she demonstrated as she threw it on the floor. That had been a surprise! One that was never to be expected. Gideon wrote down what they were taught, debating with himself if he had any questions but simply staying quiet for now.
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