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AlwaysSnapesGirl 
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It was as she was making another right turn circle that she heard Kurumi speak again, and the first year stopped her circle and her pace, turning again only so that she could better look down at the prefect. "He said we could stay at ten feet to be safe," Penelope replied. See, she could remember some things. At least when she wanted to. "But safe is boring." So she was up here. And would continue to stay up here until they were told to land.[/color]
Kurumi bit down on her lip and sort of continued to try and steer her broom to finish off her last lap after hearing what Penelope said. Safe is boring...how very Gryffindor of her. Kurumi honestly wondered sometimes why she had been sorted into Gryffindor instead of another house
like Ravenclaw as Professor Vindictus had mentioned to her on several occasions.
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O-Okay..." Kurumi called back with a feeble wave of her hand. As long as Penelope was...happy? Or something like that.
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demented_death_eater He stepped out of the way. "Come get your buckets!"
No hands? Merlin Professor Vindictus really was trying to kill them. He should get on a broom and demonstrate all this instead of just guiding them from the ground, no? That seemed to be the way that every other professor seemed to do things. You know....
demonstrating.
Pushing down on the handle of her broom, Kurumi somehow managed to guide it down from ten feet to about 5 as she rounded the bend and her eyes focused on one of the buckets. It would probably take her a try or two to get this right, especially seeing as her depth perception was more than a little off without her reading glasses.
Approaching the bucket now, Kurumi pushed down a bit more and lowered herself further to the pitch, enough so that she could actually put her feet down and run should she so desire. Could they do that? He hadn't said specifically that they couldn't...just as long as they didn't use their hands to pick up the bucket. Right?!
Getting closer now, Kurumi pushed the handle right...only to find that her broom went left sluggishly and she tried to correct it by pushing it left and finding it rather difficult to return to the straight
ish flying she had had a moment ago.
She was close now...and Kurumi held her breath as the handle of her broom approached the handle....*CLANK* it collided with the bucket and sent it tumbling backwards a few inches, thankfully landing right side up so she could try again.
Once she doubled back and made another small circle that is.
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demented_death_eater Vindictus winced as Wisteria did a face-plant. So far, no one had managed to collect a bucket. He DID say that it was going to be tough!
"After you get your bucket, you are to pick 7 lollipops and place them into your bucket," he said and he used his wand to lift the disillusionment spell on the pitch. Stretching from goal hoops to goal hoops, the grass was speckled with lollipops of various shapes and colors.
"The seasoned Quidditch players might be thinking that this is easy - but it's not! These brooms do not have a hovering charm on them, so you'll have to approach picking a lollipop the same way you did collecting your buckets with the exception that you get to use your hands to pick the lolly."
As Kurumi was making another large circle to loop back around and make a second attempt at grabbing her bucket, she looked over her shoulder when she heard Professor Vindictus giving the next set of instructions.
LOLLIPOPS?!
Kurumi's eyes lit up when she saw the ground become covered in the sugary delights and she couldn't help but smile. Slow brooms. No real change of serious injury. Flying low. Lollipops! That was by far the best lesson ever.
Kurumi rather enjoyed lollipops, licking them slowly and enjoying their flavor. Especially strawberry ones. She could never get enough of licking those ones and it looked like there were plenty of them on the pitch. Yep, she would for sure try and collect those.
Eyes back on the bucket as she slowly approached it Kurumi's brows furrowed in determination with the promise of strawberry lollipops on the horizon. Holding her breath again, Kurumi gripped tightly on her broom and once again ignored all the splinters that were digging into her skin. Smiling triumphantly, Kurumi squeaked when the handle of her broom slide easily under that of the bucket.
Now...to collect strawberry lollipops!