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................oh boy.
Although the seventh year had better luck conjuring fire than she did manipulating the air and creating water. At least as far as Potions class was concerned. She hadn't accidentally set anything ablaze since about her third year, just soaking Slytherins who - in all honesty - had mountains of karmic debt piled up against them anyway.
Paige eyed the bow and arrows for a long while before deciding to go over and grab them just as a sort of back up should spell casting end up being a bloody disaster. Control and accuracy. Two things that she WOULD need as a Healer, particularly if she was to succeed in the particular branch of healing she was hoping to make her focus, so she really should not lean on things other than her wand as a crutch when it came to practicing. She knew she could ignite the tip of an arrow no problem...but hitting a target at that distance...well...
...they would just find out now, wouldn't they?
Rolling her shoulders and trying to relax, Paige's thoughts drifted to the night she first conjured her patronus. This, naturally, elicited a bit of a blush, but she forced herself to focus on the advice whispered in her ear and how she had been able to channel everything into her casting. Intent, focus, confidence...how everything had combined together into one seemingly effortless attempt...
The Hufflepuff lifted her wand and pointed it at the target, took a deep breath and... "InCENdiO!"
Flame burst forth from the Hufflepuff's wand, knocking her off balance a little which then directed her wand not at the target immediately in front of her but to the left. Intent was there, as was enthusiasm, and thus the flame was on point...and perhaps a little TOO much so as only half of the target her spell had struck remained standing.
The other half was a blazing smoldering pile on the floor.
"OHMYGOSHIAMSOSORRY!"
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