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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Giselle Barrington
Slytherin Sixth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Teagan Kensington
Slytherin First Year  x5  x3
|  Shoe!Girl │ Rebel Ravie │ Confundus Queen │ RP Addict
After the last challenge, Brooklyn headed over to the practice room prepared for just about anything. As far as she was concerned, as long as spiders weren’t involved, she’d managed to take care of a baby so she could handle anything. Besides, there wasn’t much that she couldn’t find by looking through the books in the library and some borrowed notes. She’d likely have to give those back eventually, but she’d known better than to take them from anyone who wouldn’t be able to ask her for them if they really wanted them. Either way, she’d had her wand ready nearly before she’d reached the door. Locked. Of course. They couldn’t have made it easy for them. She took a moment to read the notice posted on the locked door, very possibly sneakily lifting her wand and casting a duplication charm under her breath to copy the directions. “Geminio.” The copy was then stowed way in her pocket for the time being. She wasn’t about to get inside and realize she’d forgotten what she was supposed to do. Having a backup plan was always the better idea.
After that, she turned her wand to the door. “Alohomora,” she stated, making a reverse S curve with her wand toward the lock, and withdrawing her wand when she heard the click indicating the door was unlocked. Time to face the maze. Thankfully, it wasn’t like it was the first maze she had ever had to deal with. This time she was much more prepared. Checking the first entrance she found, she stopped in the entryway and laid her wand on her hand. “Point me,” she said clearly, wtching as her wand started to spin. As it stopped, she reminded herself that it was pointing north, so she looked right. Looked to be a dead end, so she stepped back and went to another entrance. Repeating the Four-Point Spell, she set off to the right of the direction her wand had pointed. Now all she had to do was deal with the rest of the instructions, as well as the time limit. She didn’t think it had taken her too long to get where she was, so she wasn’t going to rush.
A few moments later, she noticed a shoe lying to the side of the path. It had to be one of the objects mentioned, so she pointed her wand at it. “Locomotor shoe,” she cast, raising her wand and watching the shoe rise to follow it. Now she just had to find the basket, which was irritatingly no anywhere to be found. However, she did find a small bonsai tree and a Quaffle while she kept walking, the shoe trailing along behind her in the air. She let the charm drop on the shoe when she came across the other items, figuring finding the basket was more important. If anything, she could let the basket follow her once that was found. “Accio basket,” she finally cast, a bit of exasperation in her voice. Half of her felt that it wouldn’t be that easy.
It wasn’t, either. The basket flew over one of the walls, only to collide with the opposite wall and crash to the floor. Luckily, it remained intact and also hadn’t collided with her head. Even so, she wasn’t about to try summoning it again. Instead, she applied her attention to the other objects. Summoning wasn’t going to work. She didn’t want them coming to her, and moving them was going to be tedious. Instead, she swept her wand toward the shoe, tree and Quaffle. “Depulso,” she cast, watching the three objects fly off toward the basket, the shoe and Quaffle landing inside easily. The tree wasn’t quite so lucky, having landed a few feet away. However, that would be easier to move than all three would have been. “Locomotor bonsai.” Raising her wand again, she floated it toward the basket and softly placed it inside.
That being done, she checked her copied directions, and then kept walking… Ew. Reading about ectoplasm was definitely nicer than actually seeing it. “Skurge,” she cast nearly without thinking, having stopped walking just clear of the goo and moving her wand in the familiar three leaf clover shape. She watched the green light stream from her wand, slowly cleaning away the ectoplasm and allowing her to move forward again. At least that spell hadn’t been taught too long ago. It made things easier. She’d just had to recast it a few times before all the ectoplasm was gone and she could safely turn the next corner.
Only to frown as she clearly recognized the entrance she’d come through. She knew she hadn’t gone in a circle, but then she also didn’t remember the heavy paperweight pinning down a sheet of parchment before. Maybe it wasn’t the same entrance, or maybe it was. She’d nearly given up, but she applied her attention to the trapped parchment instead. With a swish and flick of her wand, she focused on the paperweight. “Wingardium Leviosa.” As the paperweight rose, she darted forward to grab the parchment with her free hand, dropping the Hover Charm once she was clear again. Except the parchment was blank, annoyingly enough. She lifted it up to the light for a moment, not seeing any faint lettering, then laid it down and tapped it three times with her wand. “Aparecium.” As the words slowly appeared, she sighed. Challenge complete. At that, she took the copied directions out of her pocket and laid them on the ground with the other parchment, not needing either anymore as she headed back out of the maze and away from the annoyances.
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