Maddie hadn't volunteered to demonstrate pitching a tent, because she had no idea how to pitch a tent. She'd never had to do that before. When the professor asked everyone to get their tents out of their bags, the third year fumbled around until she had hers out. Once she did, she kind of awkwardly stood there with it until further instructions were given.

She looked around until she found the part called the ground cloth. The spot directly behind her was debris-free, so Maddie decided to claim that spot as her own. She unrolled the ground cloth and smoothed it out before her. When the talk turned to all these different types of poles and frames, Maddie paused and just watched the professor work on hers. Was there not a spell for this kind of thing or something? She knew Stewart taught Muggle Studies, but come on!

She finally managed to get the poles through the correct loopholes. Or, at least, she thought she had. If the whole tent collapsed on her later on, she'd know then that she'd messed up. If it didn't, well, she'd done it correctly! Thank Merlin the poles were already in place for the body of the tent! At least something about this whole process seemed simple! Maddie pulled the tent upwards by its poles.

She was mostly finished at this point. Driving the spikes into the ground with a rock didn't seem too easy, but she'd never know unless she tried. So without saying a word, she set about wrapping the ropes around the spikes and then driving the spikes into the ground. Was there a spell to help her if she accidentally pounded her hand with the rock?