Olly was a little bit nervous for this challenge. He was only a third year, so his knowledge of charms was not super extensive. But he did feel a little bit better because he was sure that the judges would take it into account. He was sure the challenge would be set up so that someone his age would be able to solve it. They wouldn't get the same challenge as, say, a seventh year, would they? No he thought probably not. Olly opened the door and stepped into the room.

The practice room did not smell so pleasant. He wrinkled his nose and looked around at the sight before him. What had happened? It looked like someone had trashed the place and left without even considering cleaning it up. Was that his job? To clean it up? That seemed like something he could easily do by hand, the muggle way, but of course that probably wasn't the point of the charms challenge. He spotted the directions and went over to quickly read over them. He had to charm the cleaning supplies to get them to work. That seemed easy enough.

First things first, he wanted to clean the stuff off the table. If he brushed all the dust and stuff off and onto the floor, he could sweep it all up at once. He studied the dust rag first. He knew this spell, he knew he did. He just had to take a second to remember the incantation and the wand movement. He knew he had to say the name of the object he was charming after the incantation. And the wand movement was a swish and then a wand twirl. What was the incantation again? Oh yeah, it was Liberum Arbitrium. He held his wand up toward the dust rag.

"Liberum arbitrium rag." He swished his wand and then twirled it clockwise. The rag gave a little twitch, and it seemed to him like it was ready at his command. Okay, he pointed with his wand over to the table and it followed. He was concentrating on what he wanted it to do, and it obeyed. It took care of dusting the surface of the table, knocking anything more solid to the ground as it did so. He watched for a few more moments to make sure it was continuing to do its job, and turned his attention to the broom.

"Liberum arbitrium broom." He swished his wand and twirled it clockwise again. This spell was not too difficult. He just had to make sure he was really concentrating on what exactly he wanted the broom to do. It snapped to attention and began sweeping. Good. He looked back at the rag and saw that it had finished his job. So he grabbed it and put it back where it went. That was acceptable to do without magic, right? Oh well, he'd already done it.

The broom was doing it's work, but all that could do was make a pile of dirt on the ground. He needed the dust pan to get the dirt and stuff into the garbage. He wasn't sure if he needed to do the same charm for a third time. He supposed he could but there was another way to do it too that he thought might be a little easier. He pointed at the dust pan. "Locomotor." He directed the dust pan over to where the broom had been piling up the dirt. It brushed the garbage into the dust pan. Olly moved his wand, directing the dust pan over to the garbage and dumping it in. That was a pretty easy spell too.

What was left? There was a half dried puddle of spilled milk on the ground over there. He needed the broom for that. There was a bucket too, which needed some water in it so he could mop up the milk. "Aguamenti." The only problem was that there was no soap, but that couldn't be helped. The water should be enough to clean up the spill. Olly looked at the mop and held up his wand. "Liberum arbitrium mop." Another swish and another clockwise twirl. The mop snapped to it, using the bucket of water to mop up the milk. It worked as well as he'd hoped.

The floor was looking pretty good to him, but there was still a big issue. That litterbox. It was a big source of what was left of that bad smell he'd noticed when he first walked in. He had to think about the best way to take care of it. It would be easiest if he could just vanish it. But while he knew the incantation, he had never been able to pull it off. It was too complicated for him yet. So he would have to do something different. Would the liberum arbitrium charm work on that litter box scoop? Maybe he should just to locomotor again. Yeah, he was going to do that.

"Locomotor." He lifted his wand, lifting the scoop off the hook. He motioned it down to the box and scooped up a piece of poop, and then lifted it back up to dump it in the garbage. He repeated the action until he had fully emptied the litter box.

On to folding clothes! He had no idea why, if someone had trashed the place like this, they would have done a load of laundry and then left the clean clothes there but not folded. Obviously it wasn't meant to make sense, it was just a challenge. He had been thinking of the folding charm since he first saw the laundry, since that was obviously what he was supposed to do. He took each of the pieces of clothing on the table he had cleaned. He tapped each piece of clothing in turn, saying "Plic Vestimenta" each time he did so. And as he did, each piece of clothing folded itself. To be honest, the job got neater as he went along, as he performed it more. He went back and redid the first couple, where the arms of the shirts had folded over a bit but the rest remained mainly unchanged. When he was satisfied with how folded the clothes were, he stacked them in a pile on top of each other. He did it by hand because he was afraid trying to use magic to lift them would mess up the fold.

That was it, right? Except before Olly left, he had an idea. He found an empty glass and set it on the clean table. "Scourgify," he said for good measure, even though it was pretty clean already. Then he said, "Orchideous." And left the flowers in the glass on the table. For aesthetic purposes. He was pretty proud of his work as he left the room.