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Mell 
Seeing the slightly stressed look on her face, Michael gave her an encouraging smile. "Hey, don't worry too much about it. You almost had it. Just gotta practice is all."
Just like him apparently. He had done managed this spell before, well okay not this spell exactly but he had conjured ropes before and chains weren't really that different so this should have been a piece of cake.
Except that his mind had been elsewhere. He hadn't been lying when he had said that to her. "Well it's certainly not a bad thing." He flashed her another smile before turning towards the dummy to see how she went this time.
He probably should concentrate more on the spell they were supposed to be doing than how pretty he thought she was. There were far too many girls at Hogwarts. No wonder he couldn't pay attention properly.
Seeing the chains hit the dummy and then knock it over, Michael gave her a slightly surprised look before applauding her efforts. "Remind me to never get on your bad side."
Merlin!
Michael turned back to the dummies and raised his wand, took a deep breath and focused on his intentions. "Ligatenous." Just like before, chains flew out of his wand and flew straight at the dummy.
This time they managed to wrap themselves around the dummy AND stay there. He turned back to Little Bunny and grinned. "Of course it's easy to hit something that is stationary."
Practice was really all she needed. Maybe a bit more, but definitely getting better. If she couldn't capture someone with chains the least she wanted to do was knock them over real good. Beverly grinned at him, letting him know that he was right. Practice, practice.
Not a bad thing? How can having your mind elsewhere not be a bad thing? It meant loss of focus. If he'd meant it that way, she didn't know, but that's how she saw it. So she simply narrowed her eyes at him then grinned.
Merlin. Such a smiley guy, wasn't he?
She couldn't help it, she laughed at his reaction to her knocking over the dummy. "I doubt that could ever happen," she mumbled. He was always happy and stuff, how could someone like that get on her bad side? Or anyone's at that.
He did it!!
"Take a bit more credit, that was a good one." She grinned. The chains were STILL there, definitely the best shot between the two so far.
Taking a step forward to give it another go, the professor spoke up. Oh. Right. She'd forgotten about the house competition. Looking over at Train Boy she raised her eyebrows, conveying something close to:
We'll have to face each other. She wanted him to be on her team.
"Want to keep practicing?" she asked after Romanos was done. Or he could take a break while she practiced.