Deciding to cast a new shield and try the jinx once more on that, Alice got rid of the current one with a Finite and began to perform the incantation for a second time. "Contego dummy!" She traced her wand in the same distinct upward zig zag motion as she had before, hoping that this shield was just as successful as the first. And if not.. well. Dummy was going to explode into colorful party balloons, would Romanos mind?

"Inflatus!" She pointed again, and the jet of blue light went flying towards the stationary dummy. Rebounding off her shield again, it came toward Alice next, but she ducked just in time and avoided the spell again. Brilliant. Did that mean she was good for the shield now and didn't need to practice it anymore? She wanted it to be perfected for when she and Dylan did their challenge.

After all, she definitely didn't want to do a spell wrong in front of him, and definitely wasn't going to.

.. maybe one more shield try, then?