SPOILER!!: Jasmine
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Daydreamer11 Jasmine smiled at Cris' greeting and walked over to meet him. "Why yes I did come to practice my dueling skills. You can never be too prepared in that department, you know. I am happy to see you here.". She was happy to see him, but a little nervous about putting her dueling skills on display.
When Cris stepped back to let her have a try, Jasmine was a little reluctant. She went ahead anyway and started with a little stretching to get the muscles warmed up. Then she approached one of the dummies. Deciding to make this sort of realistic, Jasmine tuned and took five steps. Turning back around quickly, Jasmine raised her wand and said, "Stupefy". As the dummy fell backward, she moved on to the next one. "Ligatenous", Jasmine said and watched as chains wrapped around the second dummy. Pointing her wand and saying, "Finite", Jasmine turned back to Cris. "Your turn", she said to him with a smile.
Cris was in awe. The fluidity of Jasmine's movements as she cast spell after spell was an indication that she was well versed in her spell work. He clapped his hands in admiration when she ended her practice. "
Wow! you're amazing. Your moves are so smooth and fluid. It must be that dancer in you," he complimented her.
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I don't think I'll be able to look as confident as you did, but I'll give it a try," Cris smiled and bowed before turning towards the dummies. He did a couple of stretches to limber up, and then unholstered his wand. Taking a couple of deep breaths, he rolled his neck to loosen up his neck muscles and then he began.
Jabbing his wand at the first dummy in front of him, he called out, "
Petrificus Totalus," casting the Full Body Binding curse, quickly followed by "
Incarcerous" with two flicks of his wand. Stepping to the side, he performed a quick 360 rotation before pointing his wand at the next dummy and sayiing, "
Incendio," setting the dummy on fire.
Cris didn't even notice the fire extinguishing on its own, as he waved his wand in a squiggly line, called out "
Flipendo" sending another dummy flying backwards. Even as the dummy landed on the floor, Cris ran to the next dummy, performing a quick tuck and roll. As he sprang back up into a running stance, he turned sideways, pointed his wand at the dummy and said, "
Confringo". He watched as a orange stream of light shot out of his wand and hit the dummy causing it explode into pieces.
Eyes wide open, Cris immediately ended the spell, before turning to look at Jasmine, a look of dismay on his face. He had just destroyed Professor Romanos' dummy!! He quickly ran towards to the dummy, hoping that he would be able to find enough of its pieces to glue it back together again. But to his surprise, there stood the dummy, with not a mark on it.
He smiled when he realized that the dummies had been charmed to repair themselves, which made lots of sense. With all the dueling practice that was done here, the school would go bankrupt if they had to keep replacing the damaged dummies.
Cris walked over to join Jasmine with a smile of relief on his face. "
And that's all folks," he grinned at her.