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Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy Gaston stood beside his desk, watching his students practice. For the most part, they seemed to be picking up on the spell very quickly... much more so than he'd expected. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Mr. Jarvis struggling to perform the Impervius Charm. He raised his wand to help him, but Miss Skeeter offered to help him first; he gave the girl a very appreciative smile Then he saw Miss Phillips humming and twirling under the light rain shower she'd produced, and he chuckled a little. Now there was a lively one!
The Frenchman glanced at his watch. Merlin's beard! Was that the time?! He'd completely lost track, and now they were running a bit behind. He cleared his throat to get the class's attention before addressing them, "Excellent work, everyone! But now it's time to move on to today's activity..." He paused to give the students time to find a stopping place in their charmwork before he went on, "Earlier Miss Snow mentioned the Weasley weather product line..." He cast a sidelong glance toward the girl. "Well, today we'll be creating a modified version of the Weather in a Bottle." Hence the plastic bottles on all the desks.
He pulled a bottle from the box of spares on his desk and unscrewed the cap. "Now this is a little different than just casting a weather charm into the air," he explained. "Once you've uncapped your bottle, you'll need to hold it with one hand, aim your wand into the opening and cast your spell.Be sure the top of the bottle is pointed away from you; we don't want any accidents! You may use either the sunlight or rain charm, but NOT BOTH! Two opposite spells cast into the same bottle could be catastrophic!" He waited a momet for the warning to sink in. Understood? Okay good, moving on...
He pointed his wand at the bottle in his other hand and cast a nonverbal sunlight charm. A beam of light shot into the bottle and he quickly capped it tight. "Once you've done that, screw the cap back on the bottle as tightly as you can - you'll have to do this fast otherwise the magic can escape. It may take you a few tries to get it right." Was there anything else they needed to know before he left them to it? "I've charmed these bottles to be shatterproof, but just in case, I have several spares on my desk..." He inclined his head toward the box next to him. "You may work alone or partner up, your choice. If you should finish early and want to try the other spell too, you may do so. You have the rest of the class to finish, starting... NOW!" OOC: You have approximately 48 HOURS to do this activity. There is no post count requirement, use as many or as few as you need to complete the activity. Gaston and I will be popping back in from time to time, so if you have questions, feel free to ask us!
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Paige wasn't going to lie, she was a tiny bit nervous about bottling up these charms in a bottle given how chaotic her experience with the Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes had gone in the past...but at least this way she could control the intent of the particular spell and, perhaps, contain nothing more than a small spring shower rather than a raging thunderstorm? Although bottling sunshine had it's appeal for hopeless romantic reasons and pure sap. Hmmm... Quote:
Originally Posted by Paintbrush Harvey was just about to attempt the raining spell, deciding he was unlikely to get help, when a much older student nudged him and offered to help.
He couldn't help but grin in relief. "Yes, please!" he nodded. "I know I should have gotten this by now, but I keep having trouble with it... any tips, by the way?" he asked hopefully. You never knew, sometimes someone had a different take on things and when you heard it stuff would just click into place.
He really hoped he'd have time to try the rain spell too before they finished with this exercise. He'd just have to make sure he'd master that spell quicker... Pondering this, tapping her lips with her wand, she turned her attention back to the Ravenclaw and offered him a small smile. "Putting that sort of pressure on yourself doesn't help to start," she said with a small smile as she flourished her wand and performed the Impervius Charm on him. "So taking some of the pressure off yourself, not thinking in terms of should but rather reminding yourself of your potential helps..." She was rambling a bit here, but also thinking aloud about her own struggles with spellwork. "I struggle with Transfiguration spells, particularly those involving conjuration, so I really have to buckle down and focus on the visualization aspect of spell casting, but even then not always successful." Sometimes magic just...resonated with you differently than other branches and it wasn't an indication of anything being wrong with you. "Try visualizing yourself performing a spell successfully before casting. It can help, even if not right away." SPOILER!!: professor again! Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy
Gaston kept a close eye on his class as they went about their activity. SO far, so good... there had been a few minor mishaps but nothing that required his intervention. No students getting hit with spells, no giant sunbeams or rainclouds taking over the classroom, no spells combining or counteracting each other. A voice suddenly jerked the professor out of his thoughts, and his eyes darted in the direction of the sound... to the Head Girl. "Very good questions, Miss Lynch!" he said. "Spells trapped in a confined space last much longer than those cast out in the open, so the charms will last as long as they remain in the bottle. If the bottle were to be opened or - Merlin forbid - break, the spell would be released, so yes, in that case you would wind up caught inside a storm."
After several more minutes, Gaston checked his watch again. It was almost time for class to end! "Alright, class! You have fifteen minutes left to finish!" OOC: You still have ABOUT 15 HOURS to complete this activity!
Sunshine. Paige was going to go with the option of bottling up sunshine. It reminded her a bit of old pictures she had seen of her step father bottling up fireflies and keeping them in a jar for their gentle glow. Seemed the sort of thing that would make for a nice decoration for her and Eureka's dorm room.
Clutching her bottle, Paige pulled her chair out and away from her desk towards the open area of the classroom and took a seat. Rolling her shoulders and making sure she had a desirable about of room, she tucked the bottle between her legs and held it firmly in place. Unscrewing the cap, Paige held it in her left hand while flexing her fingers around her wand. Repeating the incantation to herself, Paige went through the motions a few times - performing the wand movement and capping the bottle as quickly as possible - the seventh year felt she had the timing down well enough to give it a go.
"Solis lucidem," she said clearly, her wand pointed confidently into the jar. Counting three hippogriffs silently in her head, about the time that it took for the charm to pour itself out of her wand, Paige quickly switched out the tip of her wand for the cap and successfully trapped her enchanted sunshine in the bottle.
Glancing up, Paige tried to catch the professor's attention with a bit of well timed eye contact. "Professor? How do our creations today differ from products like those found in Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes'....Weasleys' Wet Weather and Sunny Spells, for example? Are our bottled charms a more purer form of magic?" Considering that Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes' were known joke products- powerful enchantments to be sure, but still joke products.
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