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Still peering into the bowl, Daxton gave a vague nod of his head, but did not move straight away. The contents of the bowl, though nothing too telling at face value, were intriguing, and he had been listening to that other student who had guessed correctly that this was a pensieve. He had read about those, and the knowledge that this was one of them made him quite unwilling to step away again, even though he had no desire to actually use one.
But he did step away, once he had had a couple more moments to appreciate the bowl and its contents. Daxton glanced again at Dakest, then at the door, then up at the snitches above all their heads, and once more at the bowl before he did go and find himself a place to sit cross-legged on the floor that was far enough from anyone else that his level of discomfort was minimised.
Resting his elbow on his knee and propping up his head with his hand, Daxton remained as silent as he invariably was as the last of the students arrived, and listened to Dakest's introduction to the lesson. He wrote none of it down in the notebook he had, of course, brought along, as it was all easy enough to remember. Even when the question was asked, Daxton made to move to put pen to paper, either for himself or to provide an answer to the professor.
He did think about it though, of course he did. A lot of people had mentioned spells to cast directly at someone, but was the point of the question not addressing the difficulty of casting at your target in the first place? Daxton thought that perhaps it was not so much about directly affecting the target, not at first, but their environment. Distractions, obstructions, things like that.
At some point, Daxton's attentions had been captured by the snitches up above, and he lowered his gaze again to the floor beneath Dakest's feet. That seemed like a reasonable technique. Get the floor, maybe make it slippery, so the target fell. Or sticky, so they could not move. The floor was a much bigger target, and it did not tend to move, at least in the way that a human target would. Depending on the power behind the spell, you could get a sizeable section of floor too.
But he did not supply his answer. Only gave the floor that calculating stare, before redirecting it to Dakest, all the while tuned in to everyone else's answers, their chosen techniques, what they would do in that situation, committing it all to memory.
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