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Originally Posted by littledhampir  Woah, class was already almost over? But it wasn't over yet, not when they had just gotten to the fun part. The practical portion. Hayden was excited to put what she'd learned into practice, and see if she could actually perform the spell. She made her way to an empty portion of the wall and held her wand in front of her. She could do this. "Caelum Saepio." She drew a figure eight over a portion of the wall as she said the incantation. Nothing happened.
Wait, what was supposed to happen? All they were doing was insulating the wall, there weren't any physical affects to observe. Hayden raised her hand. "How do we know if it worked?" She couldn't just move on without knowing if her spell was working. "Yes, a very good question," he said before taking out his wand. He had failed to mention what the students would see from the charm so they knew they were doing it right. He HAD seen the students perform it successfully so far. "Everyone, listen up for a moment."
Once he had their attention, he began to demonstrate. "You will know when your charm works when you see a slight fog cover the area you just charmed. For example," he paused and then moved his wand in the shape of a sideways figure-eight while saying, "Caelum Saepio," and a little cloud of fog just settled over the area for a brief moment before fading away.
Fuller tucked his wand away. "From what I've seen, most of you have got it down. Keep up the good work." And he would go back to walking around the room to check on students.
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Originally Posted by Felixir A section of the wall, huh? Toby looked around the classroom for a moment, trying to decide just where he would work. Of course, he was right by a window, and so it made sense to cast on one of the walls between the windows. Still, what made sense was not necessarily always what Toby did.
He had that thought in his mind, the one about how heat rises. He glanced from the wall of windows to the ceiling, and then at Professor Fuller. Surely he'd be okay with casting on the ceiling, seeing as everyone else was going to be doing the walls. Because once the walls stopped letting heat out, the heat would rise and escape that way. And the ceiling could kind of be considered a wall, after all. Toby decided that that had been a Very Good Idea.
Pausing only to scribbled down the homework assignment, Toby got up out of his seat and out of the way of the desks a little, so he was leaning against the cold cold window. He pointed his wand up at the space of ceiling over his desk.
"Caelum Saepio!" the Hufflepuff cast, and accompanied this with the swooshy infinity sign style wand movement. He had no way of knowing if it had worked or not, but he had another two goes after all.
Okay, no, the window was too cold to be leaning against, so Tobias ceased that at once.
"Professor," he piped up, glancing behind him and to the window. "Can this spell be used on windows, too? Just out of curiosity." Seemed logical, no? Fuller began to tour around the classroom again, after putting the homework up on the board. As he did, his ears perked up when Toby called for him and asked a question. Ah, and a good question it was. "Yes, windows especially. Of course, if you open the window, the heat will seep out, but as long as the window is closed, it can be insulated from the inside." He gave the boy a supportive smile.
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Originally Posted by feeheeheeny Sophie thought it was interesting that Fuller wanted the whole class to work on his classroom right now - there were plenty of them there, they could certainly make quick work of it. What about his office? Had he already done that or would he want the help over there, too? And if he HAD already done that... well, golly, why hadn't he shared the charm with the class earlier on so they could have insulated the school better long ago?!
She wasn't going to argue with him, though, and packed her notes away before moving over to the nearest vacant spot at the wall and waved her wand fluidly in that infinity-sign motion with great intent near the floor, "Caelum Saepio." She gradually raised the motion and moved up the wall, "Caelum Saepio. Caelum Saepio." On the last one, she had her wand waving in the sideways-eight motion up toward where the wall met the ceiling.
Sophie didn't know if it was super effective or not, but she'd felt confident enough, so she had high hopes that it had worked. She had a thought, though, and raised her hand to get Fuller's attention, "Professor? You said whatever heat we produce inside the castle will stay in here. If you - and I'm not saying I will - but if you were to use this charm on a person, would it make the person retain their body heat better so they wouldn't get cold as fast?" Just curious about what it'd do. As he made his rounds he heard Sophie ask for his attention, too. And she had a rather interesting question. "Charms and the human body are an interesting study. When you want to improve the workings of your body, your best bet would be to lean more towards potions and healing techniques. The insulation charms works more efficiently from the inside, and I don't suggest trying that one out." ... Ow?
"However, insulating your clothing or your blankets would work wonderfully." And would be easier, too. |