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Amelia "Mia" Adair
Slytherin Sixth Year
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Leigh Upstead
Hufflepuff Fifth Year  x11
|  Post #1 be curious, not judgmental
Text Cut: Professuhhh Quote:
Originally Posted by sarahlooo  As the students began to list of (mostly) magical ideas that would help keep the castle warm, Piers put his chalkboard to work and charmed his piece of chalk to write down the ideas they had.
Most of the ideas were fairly decent. Some were a little far fetched, but that was to be expected. The problem with most of the large-scale ideas that SEEMED really good was that... Well, they just weren’t that effective anymore. Not as much as they used to be when it wasn’t negative FIVE THOUSAND degrees.
Fuller set the chalk down for the moment. ”Good ideas, guys. Now, let’s go over something important, as I am sure most of you are wondering... if there’s all these possibilities for charms, why are we still freezing our butts off? Well, the wonderful thing about this unnatural weather is that it is SO bad and SO cold, our normal charms aren’t even making a difference anymore.”
Whoop-dee-do. Wasn’t that great?
Okay, onto the positive side.
”A few of you mentioned an insulation charm. A charm that would keep our heat inside the castle and not let it seep out. There is such a charm, and yes, we can apply it to the castle, but we’re going to need your help to enforce it. So today, we will be learning how to perform the insulation charm, and for your homework, you will be performing it all over the castle to hopefully better retain what little heat we have.”
After that somewhat bitter explanation of what they would be doing today, Fuller turned back towards the board and began to write out the incantation for the students.
Caelum Saepio
CAY-lum - SAY-pee-oh
”Caelum Saepio,” he said out loud, so they could hear him pronounce it. ”In latin, Caelum roughly translates to Climate and Saepio means to close, seal off, or shut in. What we’ll be doing with this charm is sealing off the castle’s climate from the outside, so whatever heat we produce in here, will stay in here. But, as with all charms, the stronger the opposing force, the harder concentration and greater strength from the caster is needed..” That’s why EVERYONE had to do their homework, so they could insulate this castle and stay warm.
Fuller set the chalk down again. ”The wand movement for this charm is very simple.” He got out his wand to demonstrate and traced a sideways figure eight in front of him. ”You will trace a sideways figure eight, also known as the infinity sign, over the area you would like to insulate while saying the incantation. You may have to do that more than once, or even more than a few times, depending on how large the area you wish to insulate is.
“For now, I want you all to first practice speaking the incantation and then practice the wand movement, separately.” Talking about a charm for insulation and all variations of heating was sufficiently warming Sophie up from the inside out, so much so that she removed the Hufflepuff scarf she was wearing and set it off to the side. The power of thought.
The spell looked funny in writing, but it seemed simple enough to have a go at. "Cay-lum Say-pee...uh? Oh. Say-pee-oh," she spoke softly to herself - no need to give her funny looks, she had this - and repeated the correct one, "Cay-lum Say-pee-oh. SAY-pee-oh, CAY-lum SAY-pee-oh. Caelum Saepio." Fluid. Rolled from the tongue. She jotted the spell down in her notes, then, and wrote it out phonetically for future reference. Seemed like a pretty useful spell for all sorts of occasions.
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