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Hummmmm. They were talking about figuring out the right incantations for created spells based on Latin here right? Char WAS following that much... only... she stuck her hand up.
"What about the part with the wand movement? Because an incantation on its own won't do anything, how do you know what kind of wand movement you need? To you have to like.... calculate it somehow? And is it the same through all the branches of magic? I think a lot of the time charms have easier wand movements than say, conjurations right? So do you come up with the incantation, and then try like... a jab or a point or a tap or a swish and hope for the best? How do you know if there's something missing from the movement? And how do you find the balance between the two?"
It was sort of interesting to Char because she knew her mum had started inventing spells at the age Charlotte was now. But then again her mother was a Ravenclaw and had the patience for that sort of stuff.... Charlotte, not so much.
Also interesting to her though, thanks to her dad's background in magical languages and stuff:
"And what about spell roots that come from other languages? How does an inventor know whether it might be stronger or more suitable or something like that if they use like... Sanskrit or Ancient Greek or Phoenician or.... ummm..... Etruscan?"
Was it bad that she had a ton of questions? Char tilted her head expectantly, hoping for some kind of enlightenment.
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