 Catching up Fluttery Pegasi
Hadley was so completely focused on her clay that she missed the first question. What was the dark arts. Oops. At least she was having fun with the clay right? A lioness was initially made, naturally, but then she smooshed the clay back into a blob and started over, making a shoe.
The shoe was particularly tricky as Hads wanted it to be hollow inside like a normal shoe. And after several minutes of fighting it, Hadley gave up. Her shoe was looking more like a shark anyway. So that's what she decided to make instead: a shark. A big nasty one.
She was carving the gills on the right side with her plastic knife when she realized a second question had been asked. Though, this time she was able to piece the question together. "I would think you'd really have to want to hurt the person, not just idly, but really truly want to hurt them for the spell to work?" Magic was just as much about visualization and determination and believing it will happen as it was about the wand waving and words. If part of you didn't want the spell to work, it usually wouldn't. "You have to mean it."
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