OK, time to practice. Alex stood up slowly and carefully trying to give her aching joints time to wake up. She decided to practice her incantation and wand movements separately at first. "Hen-shu, Hen-shu", she repeated slowly. At least the incantation part was pretty easy this time. Next she tried the wand movements giving the wand a candy cane-like twist and horizontal flick.

Now it was time to combine the two. Alex took a moment to gather her thoughts. Then she directed her wand toward her shoe. Repeating her twist and horizontal fick, she added the incantation. Saying"Henshu", Alex looked down at her feet preparing to test her work. She tried to slide her foot a bit and found that she indeed did have some extra traction.

Happy with her partial success, Alex prepared her wand, pointing it at her other shoe. She then repeated the spell, duplicating her wand movements and incantation. Having addressed both feet, Alex attempted to take several gliding steps. She was unable to skate, as both feet did more skidding than gliding. Satisfied with her result, Alex said, "Finite", ending the spell. She paused before attempting to practice the spell a second time.