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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Armand Beta-Erikson
Slytherin First Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Damien Beta-Erikson
Slytherin First Year |  No problem! Slytherin by heart
SPOILER!!: Hirsch
Hirsch had never thought he'd expect this young Slytherin to be wandering into his office and yet, here he was. There wasn't anything wrong with it, of course not, but it worried the man slightly, simply because he didn't know what it was he should expect from this little visit. Was the boy in trouble? Did he have questions? Was he having love troubles?
If it was the last one, he really wasn't getting paid enough to deal with that.
Regardless, the Defence Professor moved towards his desk and sat down on his seat while gesturing to the seat opposite his. "Take a seat, make yourself comfortable." Don't stand there for the duration of this conversation, no matter how short he intended it to be. And while he did, the man started clearing away some of the notes into a drawer and let the board zoom away into a corner again. Not that he cared about Mr Erikson seeing the plans, too much, but lessons should be a surprise, shouldn't they?
............... Wandless magic?
Hirsch, who'd been in the middle of stacking some pieces of parchment, stopped to look at the young boy. He was what? Eleven? Twelve? And he was thinking about wandless magic? This was very curious indeed. "See, when it comes to magic, there are four main areas of focus you need to make a spell work: wand movement, incantation, intent and control. Raw magic lacks most of these, especially control. Think back to when you were a kid: could you control your first instances of magic?" He knew that he couldn't. "So doing raw magic in the same sense that kids do would be very difficult, practically impossible even, because you need those elements to make it work. And if you don't have one of those elements, incantation for example, you need to up one of the other elements, especially intent. That, in itself, makes it much harder than casting a normal spell." Did that make sense?
"Wandless magic is possible but it's extremely difficult." Most people couldn't do it. "You need to use your arms as your wand. Have you ever tried casting a spell and you can feel the spell resonating inside of you? That's what you should feel with wandless magic as well but you need to try and drive that energy to your fingertips and then out. It takes a lot of practice and a lot of intent or determination. But it's been know to be possible." If he needed a bright side.
Pause.
"Are you looking to learn wandless magic?" Movement, incantation, intent, and control. And he needed to push magic out through his fingertips as he felt it inside of him. With a lot of intent. "So, with wandless magic, you have to make up for the wand with intent and determination, huh?" That sounded about right. "So, like when I was trying to call my broom into my hand during flying lesson, and I felt my magic, and reached out to it with it. That sort of thing?" It was the only thing he could compare it to.
He considered the Professor's question. Did he actually want to learn wandless magic, or just learn about it? To be honest, it was fascinating. But to actually learn to do it... "I think I would like to learn wandless magic. After all, what happens if I get stripped of my wand somehow, like during a battle or a duel? One expelleramus and if I don't stop it, I could otherwise be left defenseless." And to be honest, it would just be kinda cool to do wandless magic.
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Armand and Damien Beta-Erikson
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