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BEAM. Sophie ate up all of Mo's words of encouragement normally, but this was even better - the RAVENCLAW in her. Ha! She wished Mo would tell that to her parents, who were still a little baffled that she was in Ravenclaw when there was so much Gryffindor in her. But MO saw her for who she really was - an eagle at heart, absolutely, and there was no house in the world she'd rather be in.
She thought her blast had been only a mild success since there weren't a million pieces of the dummy all over, but upon seeing Mo's attempts to not look proud of her, her expression turned smug. Apparently he was impressed, wasn't he? He didn't have to hide it. She knew.
"You did what?" For real? "When? And why?" She was laughing, then, and even moreso when he charmed the newly-repared dummy to come to life. And move toward her. "You're gonna have to teach me this one." She grinned, backing away quickly and flicking her wand at it again, "Reducto!" Blue light shot from the tip of her wand and grazed the dummy's shoulder, much to her dismay, but she tried again without hesitation with more force behind her words, "Reducto!" BOOOOOM. Pieces of the dummy flew off in all directions, and Soph turned to smile proudly at Mo after lazily reparing her own dummy. "Your turn."
"Dunno. Ni and Ben and I overheard him and Dima on about trying out spells that weren't really spells, and so we just... made all those spells real. Magically appearing donuts and pajamas that moved on their own. It was cool. Those two little Claws are cool." And it was gonna be Sophie's responsibility to take care of them. Did she know that already?
He watched her decimate the dummy, again, and then put it back together. Clever girl. She probably
could handle some harder spells. "I'll teach it to you later, ok? It's not hard, although it takes a lot of effort to keep up spell at first. I'm getting better at casting it and then letting them manage themselves." But it was hard. They'd have to work at it.
"
Piertotum Locomotor," Mo cast on his dummy, and watched it lumber to its feet and progress on him. Not as good as the one who came after Sophie, since Mo had to switch from controlling the dummy to casting against it. He swished his wand back and forth as he said, "
Reducto." The blue light burst from his wand and clipped the top of the dummy's head. He cast again. "
Reducto." This time, the spell hit the dummy square in the torso, blowing it backwards and disintegrating it until it was little more than a pile of limbs.