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Old 10-19-2015, 11:45 PM   #89 (permalink)
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SPOILER!!: Angel and Maggie
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Angel suddenly saw Zeke sneaking a glance at Maggie. Someone was in love but she wasn't going to say anything and in fact she was going to pretend that she hadn't seen him looking because it wasn't polite to embarrass people. So for now she had to continue with the question.

"Yeah if it's a very powerful dark wizard, or witch then I might fight it hard to concentrate, it depends on deep down how I felt about the cause I was fight for, though in that situation you might not have time to think about anything so it might be hard to concentrate." Angel thought it might be easier just to hide if they were real dark in their magic.
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Maggie was perfectly fine working by herself on this exercise. Yup. Going through her notes from the last few classes she copied some of them on her new piece of parchment. About the two charms they were going to cover today. Would they FINALLY be casting them too? Like, not that she hadn't done that but maybe they could improve their techniques a little and stuff.

Now, onto those other questions the professor had asked.

Well aware of Zeke nearby – also excuse you for not choosing her as a partner – Maggie stretched out her legs, pretending not to see him. Right. Now. Intent. Intent was definitely important. She scribbled down everything that came to her mind while trying to put herself in this Flitwick's person's shoes. Hmm.

Meanwhile she continued to do little things like play with her hair or shift around on her mat to catch Zeke's attention. Without looking over to him of course. Nope. She didn't even know he was there. Like. She was busy working on this assignment, she didn't have time for distractions.

Would lying down on the mat be too much?


Text Cut: Maggie's Notes

Disarming Charm:
  • Incantation: Expelliarmus
  • Wand Movement: Slightly sloped downward movement, ends in a swirl.

Shield Charm:
  • Incantation: Protego
  • Wand Movement: Straight line downwards.



Intent is essential to successfully casting a spell. However, having to consider other factors at the same time (e.g. protecting others, defending yourself) might lessen the "intensity" of your intent, and hence make your spell less powerful or maybe even causing it to fail altogether. Even if you're trying to do an "easy" spell you know by heart and have used many times before, you might not be able to cast it when you're too distracted by other things. Even if you yourself know the spell, you still need to tell your wand what to do.

It's not human, it doesn't just 'know'.


Mmmhhmm.... powerful dark wizard stuff... yep. Zeke craned his neck a little to get a clearer view of the blonde before realising he was rude, and returned his gaze to Angel. GRINS. Hi.

Though... what Angel said next didn't really correlate to what he had been thinking at all. Simple charms, basic charms, as useful as they were, would do little to save them from a mob of professionally trained or psychologically unstable killers. BOOOOOOOM! Dead. Still, he nod shrugged. Concentration would be the least of his problems in a context such as that.

"So you know how to cast them, right?" Incantations and wand movements, they had to discuss those too... no? It wasn't even a matter of ACTUALLY discussing them for him, but more a point of confirming that they both weren't stupid and knew this stuff. Lessons had happened, and Circe knows he's been using them for years now.

And Maggie... MAGGIE. Had she even noticed he was there? She seemed so lost in work, work, the work was boring, she should pay attention to HIM.
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