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Goblinfrog · 07-19-2017, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by emjay

It was slightly disappointing to Henry to know that stunning spells would not work against trolls. He thought of it as an instinctive kind of spell to get out of serious danger, and it worked for him in that sort of situation before, even if it wasn't against any trolls and it didn't work perfectly. What was important was that he escaped safely.

He had thought if he was ever in that situation that he'd use some sort of spell like that and then get the heck out of there, but this new spell that Hirsch was teaching them sounded awfully cool. Henry wasn't sure there would be any reason to use anything so destructive in dueling or in his everyday life that he'd find a whole lot of use for it, but he was eager to learn this spell. Maybe there would be some sort of situation one day where he'd have to break up large rocks - because he wasn't exactly eager to face a troll.

And today he would do just that as he practiced and learned this spell. He was a NEWT student, of course, so he would try it non-verbally too like Professor Hirsch suggested, though he was still working on those and had some measure of difficulty. But before he did anything else, Henry practiced the wand movement a few times and also repeated the incantation in his head before speaking it aloud. Once he figured he had a pretty good handle on both, he wandered over to the rock pile and selected several fist-sized rocks, carrying them in his arm as he found an empty part of the room to begin practicing.

Verbally, Henry had little trouble making cracks in the rocks. It was definitely a cool spell and it seemed to work better the more he tried it. But then to try it non-verbally as well. Henry had just started to focus when Hirsch's voice brought him out of his concentration. Oh, moving on already? He dropped his rocks back into the pile and headed over to the far wall.

But what he said next had the prefect really excited. Rock climbing? "Oh sweet!" Oops, he hadn't meant to blurt that out quite so loudly, but he was excited, okay? He had actually hoped that when he walked in and saw the larger rocks, but he wasn't even sure that was a possibility.

Okay.. groups? Henry felt like he could work well with almost anyone so it didn't matter too much who he worked with. But when he heard Kitty's words, he thought that might be a good choice because he really wanted to be the one who climbed. "Do you want to work together?" he asked his fellow prefect, looking in her direction. "I really want to be the climber," he added with a grin. So that would work out well since she didn't.

Then Henry joined her team as the rock climber, which was great. "Welcome aboard," she said with a smile to the Hufflepuff prefect as he joined her. "Sure, you can be the rock climber." Seeing as he was the first one to join her team and she most certainly wasn't a rock climber.

She looked around at the other teams. "Would you like to pick a name for our team? The others are naming themselves after house mascots, so..." Lion and Sneak team already existed; that left Badger and Raven (if they were going to do this) which were their two houses. "I don't mind if you want to call us Team Badger."

As she talked she looked around to see if anyone else would their team.

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Goblinfrog DIMC & MO Billywig Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Riley's Brain Posts: 3,262 Hogwarts RPG Name: Lola A. Second Year	undecided on name Team :x3 Mischievous Niffler Quote: Originally Posted by emjay It was slightly disappointing to Henry to know that stunning spells would not work against trolls. He thought of it as an instinctive kind of spell to get out of serious danger, and it worked for him in that sort of situation before, even if it wasn't against any trolls and it didn't work perfectly. What was important was that he escaped safely. He had thought if he was ever in that situation that he'd use some sort of spell like that and then get the heck out of there, but this new spell that Hirsch was teaching them sounded awfully cool. Henry wasn't sure there would be any reason to use anything so destructive in dueling or in his everyday life that he'd find a whole lot of use for it, but he was eager to learn this spell. Maybe there would be some sort of situation one day where he'd have to break up large rocks - because he wasn't exactly eager to face a troll. And today he would do just that as he practiced and learned this spell. He was a NEWT student, of course, so he would try it non-verbally too like Professor Hirsch suggested, though he was still working on those and had some measure of difficulty. But before he did anything else, Henry practiced the wand movement a few times and also repeated the incantation in his head before speaking it aloud. Once he figured he had a pretty good handle on both, he wandered over to the rock pile and selected several fist-sized rocks, carrying them in his arm as he found an empty part of the room to begin practicing. Verbally, Henry had little trouble making cracks in the rocks. It was definitely a cool spell and it seemed to work better the more he tried it. But then to try it non-verbally as well. Henry had just started to focus when Hirsch's voice brought him out of his concentration. Oh, moving on already? He dropped his rocks back into the pile and headed over to the far wall. But what he said next had the prefect really excited. Rock climbing? "Oh sweet!" Oops, he hadn't meant to blurt that out quite so loudly, but he was excited, okay? He had actually hoped that when he walked in and saw the larger rocks, but he wasn't even sure that was a possibility. Okay.. groups? Henry felt like he could work well with almost anyone so it didn't matter too much who he worked with. But when he heard Kitty's words, he thought that might be a good choice because he really wanted to be the one who climbed. "Do you want to work together?" he asked his fellow prefect, looking in her direction. "I really want to be the climber," he added with a grin. So that would work out well since she didn't. Then Henry joined her team as the rock climber, which was great. "Welcome aboard," she said with a smile to the Hufflepuff prefect as he joined her. "Sure, you can be the rock climber." Seeing as he was the first one to join her team and she most certainly wasn't a rock climber. She looked around at the other teams. "Would you like to pick a name for our team? The others are naming themselves after house mascots, so..." Lion and Sneak team already existed; that left Badger and Raven (if they were going to do this) which were their two houses. "I don't mind if you want to call us Team Badger." As she talked she looked around to see if anyone else would their team.