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Ronnie Thurkell
Gryffindor Seventh Year
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SPOILER!!: Professor Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoe  [COLOR="MediumVioletRed"][TEXTCUT="Individual Responses"]It was no surprise to her that Charlotte Kettleburn was one of the first to raise her hand. The Gryffindor was, after all, one of the few who was really into the subject and used her runic knowledge whenever applicable -- Regina remembered seeing the girl in action on numerous occasions. It made the headmistress proud needless to say.
As soon as the words came pouring out of the girl's mouth, the woman gave her wand a stiff flick toward the blackboard. A piece of white chalk levitated and started taking notes that, hopefully, everyone would start copying down. "Excellent, Miss Kettleburn," she responded with a genuine smile. "Algiz is for protection, making it the most powerful defence rune, and is, as you said, great for strengthening shield spells when corrected carved and invoked."
She refrained from going into more detail about carving the rune on ones wand. That was a more advanced topic, which they would of course be covering later in the term. Hopefully by then some of the girl's peers would be mature enough to handle that without things backfiring on them.
"You all did a great job in compiling that list of facts about Algiz," the woman said as she stopped her pacing in the middle of the group and returned to the suit of armour at the front of the classroom. "While there is much we can discuss about the rune, we'll save a lot of those details for future lessons. Today I would like for us to focus just on the physical power of the rune and how we can use it today."
Suddenly a loud BANG! sounded from the room in which the headmistress had came at the beginning of the lesson. The woman's blue eyes shot over to the door, but then returned her gaze to the students. A calm and collected smile appeared on her face, telling them all that there was nothing to worry about. Though they did need to move with haste...
"What I need all of you," -- yes, including you, Marilyn -- "to do right now is carve Algiz on the breastplate of your suit of armour like I have done," she instructed with a gesture at her suit. "The incantation, for those of you who haven't done the Carving Spell before, is Intaglio Algiz. Clearly think about how the rune looks in your mind and keep on saying the incantation until the rune is completely carved on the metal."
The chalk levitated once again and began writing:
Where they all with her so far? She had more instructions to give because time was passing by fast and ... well ... there was still the last half of the lesson to be had.
"Once the rune has been carved onto your suit of armour, I then want you to activate it by chanting the galdr for Algiz," Regina continued before modeling exactly what she wanted everyone to do. The woman placed a hand on her suit's breastplate, right on top of the rune she had carved beforehand, and chanted, "Elhaz elhaz elhaz, z z z z z z z z z, uz az iz ez uz, oz ez iz az uz, z z z z z z z z z, (m m m m m m m m m)."
Right after she had said the end of the galdr, the rune on the breastplate glowed a nice shade of purple. The rune had been activated with the protection of Algiz, which would be put to the test soon enough.
Once more the chalk did its thing before returning to its resting place:
"Depending on your familiarity with runic chanting, you may need to repeat the galdr for Algiz multiple times in order for it to work. The important thing here is to not be discouraged. Concentrate and allow the energies of the rune to fill you up. If you need any assistance, feel free to ask myself or anyone else that is able to successfully invoke their Algiz rune. ... Ready? ... GO!"
OOC: It is time for the mini-activity of our lesson! As Regina said, everyone needs to carve Algiz on the breastplate of their suit of armour and then chant the galdr to make the rune glow purple.
You are welcome to make as many posts as you would like at this stage in the lesson. Furthermore, keep in mind that not every student will be able to complete these steps in one go successfully. Feel free to have your characters struggle, ask for help, offer to help others, etc. The lesson will continue in roughly 48 hours. She smiled happily back at the professor, feeling a flood of warmth and pride at the approval. For some reason, and not just because she was the headmistress, Char had an urge to step up her game and really really try and show how much she was working when it came to runes. Sure she had an interest already (when it came to the fun parts) but there was something about Hawthorne's approval that seemed.... important. Weighted somehow.
Now wouldn't that be cool if they got a chance to engrave their wands? She was always looking for a chance to play with that sort of thing. Her wand already had a few bindrunes on it of course, but there was still plenty of space for more! The trouble was if you weren't knowledgeable then you could make your wand backfire or even kill it, which would be horrible if it happened to a lot of people at once. Maybe they would cancel exams though? Oh... no. No they'd make them all theoretical instead. THAT would be terrible. Char got all her best marks from the practical portions.
And they were already jumping into action! After a bit of teaching of course, which was nice, to feel like things were being explained. She turned to her own suit of armout and non-verbally cast Intaglio Algiz, tracing the straight lines that made up the rune as evenly as she could. Not that it had to be perfect, but it was always easier to carve straight than it was curved, because of the grain of whatever you were carving into. She examined it and was satisfied so began to invoke it, letting the sounds echo and shape in her mouth without any sort of self-consciousness.
"Elhaz elhaz elhaz, z z z z z z z z z, uz az iz ez uz, oz ez iz az uz, z z z z z z z z z, m m m m m m m m m. Elhaz elhaz elhaz, z z z z z z z z z, uz az iz ez uz, oz ez iz az uz, z z z z z z z z z, m m m m m m m m m."
She focused hard on the meaning of the rune, on what she wanted it to do, on its resonance of protection and defense. Twice should do it! And it looked like it was supposed to be there, carved on the breastplate, as if it hadn't just been done a moment ago. And glowing too, a deep purple that she thought was really fetching.
When the professor said they were to put their armour on, Char jumped at the chance, happily putting it on, piece by piece and marvelling as it changed to fit her tall but wirey form. How cool was that? She put the face guard up and answered the professor's question, metal-encased hand raising with a clatter.
"You could carve it on your door or like... around the door frame of an entryway, to help protect against entry from thieves. I think its maybe even one of the runes that makes up the runic charm protecting Platform 9 3/4 entryway?" She wouldn't know for SURE because it wasn't as if it was visible, but still!
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