Class was probably almost over, and all Sophie had managed to do was make that purple rope just a little bit longer than it was when she first started. That would still get her credit, right? She looked around the room and tried to count how many dummies were left, but there were just too many people trying to cast at once.

She decided to move on to the next dummy in line, because the first one was obviously at fault for the first two attempts of the spell. It just REFUSED to be seized and pulled, so it was obviously broken.

She positioned herself in front of the next dummy and raised her wand. "Carpe Retractum!" she called out, and then she moved her wand in a whiplike motion.