Laura decided that it was time to get to work, there was no point in letting everyone else have all the fun if she was just going to stand there and do nothing, she smiled as she looked around the room, it seemed like everyone had gotten the spell so surely it couldn't be that hard right.

"Scourgify!" Laura smiled as she pointed her wand at the desk and cleaned it, seriously that spell was perfect because they used it all the time, now though it was time to learn the new spell and this was going to be interesting, how did she pronounce it again.

"Protection!" Laura giggled, she was sure that was right, she practiced the wand movement and then she took a deep breath and closed her eyes, this was going to get interesting very fast wasn't it. "Poliotus!" Laura slowly opened her eyes, was her desk still standing, had it shrunk or worse?

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Laura beamed, it was the first time that a spell had worked on her first attempt, surely that had to be a new record for her and she smiled, so focusing the mind made sure the spell actually worked, she wanted to do a little jig but decided against it in the end.