 be curious, not judgmental
The Banishing Charm, eh? Cool enough of a spell, and Baxter's first class wasn't terrible so far. She seemed to teach well and interact with the kids, even the ones who offered up weird answers, and Soph thought the woman was a lot more patient with them than Piers or Quiggles ever were. Both of those men had a lot of 'tude, sass, and sarcasm, but Baxter here was sweet and humored them.
It was a weird change, honestly.
"De-puhl-so," Soph repeated with the rest of the class, taking some brief notes on both spells at hand before instructions were given. And-- wait-- they were being told not to TALK? NON-VERBAL SPELLS?
Finally a professor who encouraged them to test their abilities right off the bat. Expand their horizons. They'd never be able to do non-verbal spells if they weren't actively and regularly encouraged to do so, and Soph welcomed the challenge. She'd done her very first non-verbal spell successfully last term, so she was feeling not entirely discouraged by the task, but she still wasn't sure that she'd be able to do it right away, and that frustrated her already.
A sweep of the wand was easy enough, and Soph did it a few times just to ensure it, then she thought through the incantation in her head. Depulso. De-puhl-so. De-PUHL-so. It'd probably be fine, and just as she went to stand up and push her chair in, she caught sight of Zander, who looked like a deer in headlights.
...Oh. This... oh. He'd definitely never attempted a non-verbal spell, had he? Merlin. Could she go over and stand by him? Baxter hadn't SAID to stay sitting by the person they didn't know... but she also hadn't said they could move about the classroom. Guh. She just wanted to go over there and feed him some encouragement, okay?
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