Cris glanced over to Jasmine and watched as she cast the spell successfully over and over again. Not only was he happy for her, he was also proud of her. He watched how fluid and determined her movements were. Remembering how good at dueling she was, Cris didn't doubt that she would have any problems casting the Reductor Curse.

Turning his attention back to his own dummy, Cris focussed on casting the spell again. He positioned himself in his now familiar stance before turning his head to look at the dummy. He closed his eyes and brought up the image of the dummy being hit by the spell. He focussed on that image and that alone before opening his eyes again. Concentrating hard and pooling all his energy into that one blast of spell, Cris brought up his wand and pointed it at the dummy. He waved his wand, first slashing it to the right and then to the left, forming a sideways V with its pointed tip pointing straight at the middle of the dummy's chest, and said the incantation loud and clear, "Reductor!!"

A bright blue beam of light blasted from his wand and flew directly towards the dummy. BOOM!! another dummy bites the dust!

As he waited for the dummy to repair itself, Cris walked over to join Bay, Lux and Jasmine...and a friend of Bay's.

"How's it going? Bay great moves, dude. Lux you have a great teacher here. Jasmine, you're amazing," Cris' grin grew bigger when he addressed his girlfriend.

Then he turned to the young Gryffindor that Bay was helping. "Hello, I'm Cris. I don't think I've had the opportunity to say hi to you until now," Cris smiled at the younger boy.