| Doxy
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: [GMT]
Posts: 6,186
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Dalia Turay
Fourth Year |  Zing
Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie  "Finite," Kurumi said, giving her wand another flick and ending the spell. The recorder fell out of the air, and Kurumi's Seeker reflexes kicked it to allow her to catch it before it hit the table's top. Okay...so...that certainly had both worked and not worked. At least it hadn't played a single loud note or anything.
Still...the prefect was curious and used her handkerchief to clean the the recorder a bit before bringing the instrument to her lips. Probably should have test this FIRST to see if it would play at all before trying to do it with magic, yeah. Kurumi blew...but no sound came out. At all. Now THAT was odd.
Kurumi peered into the instrument now, trying to see what the problem was, but seeing how small the holes were and how dark they were...well...there was no easy way to see into it. So, back to blowing she went. She blew until she was red in the face, but still no sound came out. Erm...ok...this one was broken.
So...back to the box she went and picked up another one. "Sir, I'm afraid this recorder has something wrong with it," she said as she set it to the side. You know, just in case someone else tried to use it.
With a new recorder now, Kurumi returned to her seat and tried for a second time. The recorder rose into the air as it had done before and this time produced sound, but it was disjointed and off tune...way off tune. Well, at least she knew that this one was capable of producing sound, yeah.
With a small sigh, Kurumi cast Finite again and caught the recorder with her hand. Time to refocus, or something. Xavier frowned; had someone hurt one of his instruments?! Oh, it was the Gryffindor Prefect... she didn't seem the sort to break things on purpose so he stopped frowning. "Thank you, Miss Hollingberry." he said, picking up the recorder. He held it up to the light and squinted slightly. Hmmm... He detached the two pieces and used a flute mop to clean it out gently, rubbing a cloth over the outside - he preferred to do this manually, it just seemed nicer than using magic. When he slotted the pieces back together he lifted the recorder to his lips and blew experimentally. Just as he thought - it must have evaded the cleaning before he left the house. He placed it back into it's case and returned it to the chest.
Standing at the front of the classroom, Xavier observed the class finishing practicing the spell. "Marvelous!" he said, motioning for quietness. "You are all doing magnificently! Sadly, we are out of time. It has been a pleasure to teach you all." From behind the piano Xavier retried a wooden box, about the size of a shoebox. "Unfortunately, we didn't get to talk about how magical plants can influence music, however, I have a gift for each of you." He lifted the lid off the box and held up a phial. "This is Glossa Florem Sap, diluted with a thinning potion. When you use it as a varnish it will anything from scrapes and dents. I use is a lot on my instruments. It only needs to be applied every four or five years." he explained, swilling the yellow-ish liquid around in its phial. "You don't have to use it for an instrument - it can protect anything made of wood." He left the box open on an empty desk at the front of the classroom.
Straightening up again he addressed the class. "I also have some homework for you - not compulsory, but you should know that I am allowed to award points." he added with a grin before writing it on the blackboard.
"When you have finished practicing the spell you may take a phial and leave. Thank you for being such a wonderful class! If you have any questions I will be happy to answer them." he said as he sat back down behind the piano. "And if you think of them after I have left you can owl me." Quote:
Originally Posted by Homework Six inches [2-3 paragraphs] on the definition of Magical music theory, for full marks compare to muggle theory and describe one aspect of Magical theory in depth. To be Owled to me in one week.
[Send by EMAIL to dr.xavier.macnally@gmail.com include, username, character name, link to your user profile and your user ID. Deadline is the 9th of March. Alternatively - five, good length, RP posts of your character practicing one or both of the spells.] The lesson will close tomorrow at some point, you can RP your character finishing the practical and leaving/asking Xavier questions until then. But if you/your character do have any questions after it's finished you can PM me - I have a lot more stuff about MMT that I didn't use in the lesson  |