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DaniDiNardo 
Blaise stared at the Professor, really stared at him for several long minutes. He couldn't understand the man's frustration. This was what he'd done in class, this was how he'd gone through the lesson and made the few shapes that he did. Now he'd get detention for doing the same?
The wand in his holster?
Ah yes, he'd taken it with him, hadn't he? Brown eyes glanced down at it, before rising to the Professor again. What he'd learned in class. Do the charms. Of course. Yes. Right. SuuuuuuuuUUuuUUuure.
Blaise pulled his wand, pausing only to flip back a few pages to find the days notes in his notebook before turning to the easel again.
"Figura triangle." The boy said the incantation and drew the shape of a triangle but that was about it. The indifference in his voice and the obvious lack of effort were perhaps the most notable features when he cast. Not surprisingly, nothing happened. Nothing ever happened and especially not when he didn't intend anything to. "It didn't work. I can't cast it."
He watched Blaise as he finally took his wand out and got started. Yes it was time for the boy to actually use his wand. He leaned back in his chair and watched as it didn't happen the first time.
"Is this why you don't like to bring your wand, because you get frustrated that it doesn't happen right away?" He sat contemplating this.
"The most successful wizards in the world still make mistakes from time to time and started exactly where you are now. You have to have mistakes to learn. If we always got things right the first try it would not have us learn new ways and new things."
He gestured for him to try again.
"You practice and it will come, but you have to allow yourself the time to learn and have the confidence that you can do this." He was more then willing to help the boy succeed if the boy wanted to succeed and would accept the help.