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Tina was worried she might’ve gone too far off topic by explaining how the “magic” cabinet worked, but Professor Barlow’s beam put her mind at ease. She nodded in reply, even smiling a little - one of the only times she’d smiled at all this term. She blinked confusedly at the next set of instructions. So wands were banned for now? Okay, now she was really curious how this was going to tie back to transfiguration! Were they going to be learning some spell that would achieve the same effect as these non-magic methods? If so, which one? She could already think of a couple off the top of her head.
Tina walked to the front of the room, closely examining the props on the table. She was looking for something simple that she could do by herself. Sorry, people, but Tina Dantes did not do group work! She eventually decided on a coin, There were a lot of things she could do with it, aside from a rehash of the coin-behind-the-ear trick, of course. Nope, she was going to try something different. As she went back to her desk, an idea came to her. She was going to try to make the coin disappear. The real question was how to do it. She’d seen a disappearing coin trick that used a scarf before, but she didn’t have a scarf. Besides, she didn’t know exactly how the scarf trick was done.
She thought for a few minutes, looking down at the coin in her hand. What if…? What if there was a way to hide the coin in her sleeve? That would sort of make it disappear, right? She decided to give it a try, though it might be hard to get her sleeve in the right position. Tina was tall and gangly with disproportionately long limbs, so her sleeves usually sat a good couple of inches above her wrists. Hmm… maybe that could work to her advantage? She was always tugging at her sleeves anyway, so it probably wouldn’t be too much of a giveaway. So how should she go about this?
Tina tugged her sleeves down so that they covered part of her hands. She had to sort of scrunch her arms up to get them to stay, but she managed. Moving carefully, she transferred the coin from her right palm to her left. S far so good… now she just had to think of a subtle way to flick the coin up her sleeve. With her dominant hand, she snapped her fingers a couple of times, inching closer to the coin each time until… she flicked it on the third snap. Did that work? She looked around and found the coin on the floor beside her desk. She must've misjudged the angle of her snap. Oh well, no big deal, she supposed. She could always try it again.
She repeated the process, this time changing the angle of her snap slightly, and she felt the coin drop into her sleeve. She did it! Now all that was left was the part about thinking how transfiguration could make the trick easier. Well, that was obvious. Just use a vanishing spell on the coin… or she supposed if you wanted to get fancy with it, you could always turn the coin into something instead of vanishing it.
__________________ Old voices I had thought long since dead whisper of another life I might have led
If I could take that second chance, If I could make my life anew, If only dreams came true... |