Easy peasy, Theo scourgified things all the time. He pulled out his wand with a smug grin all over his face. "Scourgify." He said coolly as he pointed the wand at his desk. The mess cleared up with no problems at all, but as for the next spell, Theo had never heard of that one before.

He looked over at the board and it did actually help that the professor added the actual pronounciation at the bottom.

poh-lee-OH-tuss

Pohlee-OHtuss.

"Poleeeotus!" Theo tried, but nothing happened. Too much 'ee' maybe. Not to mention that he forgot to do the wand movement completely. Darn it. The boy practiced the S shape first, then had another go. "Poliotus!" Nope. "Poliotus." He did a perfect S shape aaaaand...

SHINY.