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Garreth nodded at Rylee's question. It was a bit silly that two spells with such vastly different safety classifications had such similar incantations. The slightest mispronunciation, and you might have an accident on your hands. "Flagrante is a dangerous curse that makes ordinary objects feel red hot to the touch, like they're on fire." the older boy explained with a serious look on his face. Rylee seemed mature enough for her age to understand not to play with dangerous magic, but Garreth had to make sure his demeanour didn't give the girl the slightest hint that this was a spell to be trifled with. "But the objects don't look any different. You won't know an object's been cursed until you touch it, and then it burns you. So when you learn Flagrate, be very careful not to add that extra 'N' when you cast it."
The boy smiled encouragingly at the girl as she made her first attempts at casting Reparo. "You can do it." he patted her shoulder. "I believe in you." It seemed she wasn't having much luck, but that was fine. Nobody was an expert on their first try! Maybe Rylee just needed a different material to work with. Garreth often forgot how hard it was to get started with new spells and a change of pace could be helpful. "Hmm, you need to visualize the branch returning to it's proper place. Maybe living wood is a bit of a hard place to start. Let me find you something else." The boy pointed his wand at the branch and cast a silent Reparo, causing it to rise into the air and gently float back to its original position on the tree. A creaking sound shuddered from the branch as it fused with the tree once again and the spell was complete.
Spotting a boulder jutting out from the hill below them, Garreth had an idea. "Here, try this. You see that boulder over there?" He pointed at the stone with his wand and waited for Rylee to spot the stone in question. "Reducto." He flicked his wand in a chevron shape and spoke firmly, causing a red spark to bolt from the tip of his wand towards the rock, smashing it into five large chunks.
"That should be easier. Just focus on the pieces and try to imagine them coming together. Imagine the stone becoming whole again."
Rylee listened very closely as Garreth explained the difference in the two spells. While Flagrante sounded pretty cool it wasn't something she would be messing with anytime soon. Maybe when she was much older and way more experienced in performing charms.
"I won't make that mistake. Promise." He need not worry about her messing around with spells that could really hurt her or someone else.
"Why would anyone use that, anyhow? For protection or something?" Thoughtful.
"I like Flagrate much better."
His encouragement was really nice but it wasn't doing her much good. She still wasn't able to get it right. Maybe it was just to tough for her.
"I was trying to do that...." Visualizing it is a must. Rylee knew that. Tilting her ginger head back she watched with a smile as the branch returned to it's original spot attached to the tree.
They were going to try something else. Nodding her head she turned to look at where Garreth was pointing his wand.
"I see it." A rather decent sized boulder. What was he going t-
"Whoa!" she giggled grinning at him.
"I got to learn that one too!" There was loads and loads of spells she wanted to learn! Could she hangout with him all the time and learn them all?
"Okay, I'll try it." Sitting up super straight she pointed her wand as the broken boulder. Think about what she wanted. The boulder to mold back together again. Visualize. She closed her eyes picturing it happen. Make it happen.
"Reparo!" she cast firmly while preforming the movement with her wand, the pieces of boulder shuddering before lifting up and meeting again to mend back to its original state in the hill side.
A wide grin formed on her face and she wiggled in excitement turning to him,
"I did it Garry! I did it!"