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He repeated the spell a few more times, sometimes getting it so perfect-- but then forgetting to do the super simple wandstroke, in other times he just completely washes out. He leans back, tired and a bit dejected into his seat and looked at the leafy bug, now looking at him and seemingly questioning his demeanor "Got a bit tired Scorpion Queen.......this stuff aint easy, and I cant really get this wrongly because...." because you could end up dead or mutilated. Yeah no he's not gonna say that out loud lest his bug starts crawling away.
He looked around the classroom, some are having no better luck than he was, others are progressing quite well. He looked at his wand. Now is the time that it just do its thing correctly because his mouth aint helping much. He wants to turn his bug into the proper dead leaf. That’s what he WANTS. That is his INTENTION. Ya get that wand?
So here he goes with another attempt "Fo-leo An-more-tum....Follio-anmortum......Follio-anmortum." swish left with the wand--
-- and the tip of his wand started to churn out the spell into the air.
Tenacius suddenly sat up straighter, alerted by the seeming success of his spell casting. Even Scorpion Queen noticed it. Noticed it so much that she started to crawl slightly farther from him now. Yeah her transformation is drawing nearer.
"No wait... Scorpy stop." he blocked her path with his arm. Should he do it now? Maybe one more test run eh? He made another left swish with his wand while uttering the spell "Follio-anmortum!" Again the air quivered at the end of his wand. The spell is happening. Now to see if it has any effect on his little Bug Queen.
"Alright Scorpy, here we go. Just relax.... Follio-anmortum!" he swished his wand decidedly towards the left.
.....and his Spindly Leaf bug stood still. Huh.
He peered lower. Did it have any effect? He can still see her bug eyes, and she already looked leafy. Was this it? Did he succeed? Is this how a dead leaf is supposed to look like? Because he wasn’t thoroughly convinced.
"Sorry Scorpy, one more...." oh boy his little bug Queen must be so annoyed now "Follio-anmortum!" he said, swishing his wand towards the left, fully intending, fully willing the Spindly Bug to be as dead leafy as a dead leaf is supposed to be--
-- and suddenly his frozen bug sparkled and flattened and swirled in place, looking very much like a run of the mill dead leaf from a tree.
Hobbling Hinkypunks it worked!
He fist pumped in joy. But almost immediately after he got so sad. So very sad indeed. "Scorpion Queen?" he poked the dead leaf with his finger, partly expecting it to still move or flip or something. But nothing, it stayed perfectly still, absolutely silent. His pretty, leafy, nutty Scorpion Queen now looks like any old fallen leaf around Hogwarts Grounds. Successful transforming something so naturally remarkable into something so mundane didn’t feel as good as he thought it would. |