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Text Cut: Emmeline Quote:
Originally Posted by NifflerFan 
Emmeline shot Stasya a grateful smile as the other girl came over to her desk. "Yeah! Should be fun! She hoped so anyway. She knew Stasya liked to work with older kids, so she was doubly happy that her friend had picked her as a partner instead. She definitely wouldn't let Stasya down! Hopefully...
Grabbing the recipe card, Emmeline dumped the two cups of popcorn into one of their bowls. Now time for the first new spell. She took her wand out of her holster kind of hesitantly, because she usually didn't get new spells right on the first try. On the other hand, the wand shop lady had said her wand was really good at fire spells, and a heating spell was similar, maybe.
She decided to practice the wand movement by itself a couple of times first, to make doubly sure that she could do it properly. Once she felt better about it, she aimed her wand at the popcorn, repeated the flame sign, and muttered: "Calefacio!" Annnd, absolutely nothing happened.
Okay then. Time for a second try. Emmeline drew a flame with her wand once again, and said: "Calefacio!" A few of the kernels popped, but that still wasn't the result they needed. She was determined to cast this spell properly; she wasn't going to make Stasya do more than half of the work.
For some reason, Mr. B's advice in flying lessons came back to her: "Show it who's boss." Surely that could be applied to stubborn popcorn as well as brooms? Fixing the popcorn with a determined look, Emmeline drew another flame with her wand and said more loudly: "Calefacio!" This time the popcorn cooperated better and began popping right away, until the whole bowl had transformed into white, fluffy goodness.
Maybe that was too loud, though. Oops. "Sorry, Stasya!", she muttered in a MUCH softer tone of voice. She didn't always have to yell to get spells to work. Really.
That was the first step done, though. Emmeline's eyes widened as she read the next step in the instructions, because that silly spell had to work for 5 whole minutes! Maybe she should've let Stasya pop the corn, because that sounded better than this step. Glancing at her friend, she pointed down at the second step: "Maybe we can trade places or something?" So that neither of them was holding the spell for the whole time. It was up to Stasya, really.
Another glance back had made Stasya pause in her steps, as she noticed how much Derf looked like a lost little puppy waiting for a partner and she wondered if she should have just stayed over by him. Or if she should have asked an older student, having seen the little smile Liv had sent in her direction before ending up working with Rooney anyway. Maybe it would have been easier, but she still felt like she’d get to work with everyone at some point or another. And Emmeline had asked, even if it hadn’t been specifically to her. And Etta had gone over to Derf, so things were all good and she turned back to Emmeline in time to catch her friend’s smile and her agreeing to work with her. “It will be,” she replied with a nod. She knew it was going to be fun. They were making popcorn balls after all.
She had watched as Emmeline had cast the heating charm on the popcorn in the bowl, trying to will the spell to work for her. Plus, it gave her another chance to watch it being cast, although she had taken her wand out and started quietly practicing the movements while she waited for her turn. She had jumped a little as she had cast it the third time really loud, her own wand sort of stutter-stopping halfway through the little flame shape, but she gave her a grin anyway. “‘Sokay.”
They had their popcorn now, which was exciting, but there was still a lot left to go. “But someone has to add the other stuff,” she pointed out. “We can both make the balls later and do the freezing,” she added with another nod. She was okay with trying to keep the charm up for a while, as long as she actually managed to cast the charm. She’d been practicing the fire charm, so she thought a heating charm should be easier.
Putting the butter into the empty bowl, she kept her eyes on it as she pointed her wand again. Making sure she wasn’t going to cast the charm anywhere else, she made the little flame shape again with the tip of her wand. “Calefacio!” It looked like the butter sort of started to melt, but not really so she focused on it even more. “Calefacio!!!,” she repeated, a little bit stronger, and let out a little giggle when the butter melted more. Now she just had to make sure it all melted evenly, or at least that’s what the instructions said. Plus she had to let Emmeline add the other stuff.
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