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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl  The ascension charm? Huh? Was this something religious? Bernadette scratched her elbow and tried to think of a guess, because she definitely had not done the reading for THIS charm.
"It makes balloons go up in the air," she guessed, after raising her hand of course. He'd SAID think about SPECIAL OCCASIONS, so of course she was thinking of a birthday party. Ah, first years. If nothing else, they were.... sometimes precious. This one seemed okay. ”It could, yes... but unless the balloon is filled with helium, it would, unfortunately, float back down. You would want to use the levitation charm for balloons.” But hey, at least she was thinking. And at least she could now have a successful birthday party. Quote:
Originally Posted by Fireheart The ascension charm....so did that mean they were going to be shooting stuff up at those targets today? That sounded like fun. Avalon usually enjoyed Charms class, and combining it with target practice made the lesson seem even more exciting. She raised her hand, fairly confident in what the charm did, but a bit unsure of some circumstances in which the charm would be useful.
"The ascension charm shoots an object into the air. It shoots it up pretty fast, which is what makes it different than the levitation charm, right?" And also the fact that you could really control the direction that you wanted something to hover when performing Wingardium Leviosa. Avalon didn't know if you could control the object precisely when using the ascension charm. "It might be useful if you needed to quickly get an object to someone who was flying overhead on a broom." That way you wouldn't have to take the time to mount and take off on your own broom first. "Perhaps when the referee releases all the balls at the start of a Quidditch match!" Piers nodded at the girl when she gave her answer, indicating that she was right. ”You’re right, it’s not like the levitation charm. Excellent example.” She was getting it just fine. Quote:
Originally Posted by LilFox06 Valencia thought for a moment before raising her hand. "Could you maybe use it to shoot off fireworks?" Of course, something would have to explode the fireworks, but this could get it up in the sky, probably. Piers considered the next girl’s answer and nodded a bit. ”Yes, I suppose, but you’d have to time it well with whatever is lighting said firework.” Because it would need to go off at the right time. Too bad there wasn’t a firework lighting charm. Or was there? Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir See? He was right. That was suspicious. Mildly suspicious, but suspicious all the same.
Kaiser stood waiting for the catch, but it never came. Fuller-Thompson simply moved the lesson on, just like that. Even mentioning his answer again, which was an odd sort of experience.
Anyway, moving on. And onto the ascension charm, apparently. Kaiser opted to answer the second part of the question, based on the information that other kids had already given about what the spell actually did.
"Maybe you can use it on yourself if you want to get to the roof," he suggested, hand halfway raised. That was a part of daily life, right? At least it was for Kaiser, although he would never use an ascension charm to get up there because most of the fun was in the climb. But still, it was the first idea that came to him, so it was the answer that Fuller-Thompson got. ”Well,” he said with a small shrug, ”This charm doesn’t work very well on humans. It’s hard to get the wand movement right on yourself. I think the charm Ascendio would work a bit better for that.” Not to mention the roof of a castle was quite high and if he didn’t shoot himself high enough.... Well, he’d have a long way down to fall. Quote:
Originally Posted by hjhm So today is all about the ascension charm. Pretty straight-forward but sometimes it takes time to get used to perfecting a charm. Like everyone has shared earlier accuracy in saying the incantation and wand movement are very important when it comes to spells. But she also thought that Alarte Acendare would be an easy spell to use. Perhaps.
Hmmmm but where does one use this spell? Jillian shot one hand up to give an answer "you can use it with like chores, let's say when you're cleaning and you need something to be hoisted up towards you. This would be a good spell for that"
Piers nodded again at the next answer. ”Right, okay, you could probably use it for chores.” It might also be too aggressive for chores, but he would let her figure that out on her own. Quote:
Originally Posted by love-for-HP It launches on object into the air" Blake nodded and smiled at himself!! Ha!!! He knew an answer to a question, not something he had right often, growing up in the muggle world and being a first year meant he was wrong .... and often.
As for the second part of the question, who knew... why would you want to launch something into the air rather than with controlled speed? "Well I guess it would depend on if you can control the speed of a launch ... I mean ... can you?" He asked ... he didn't really answer the question and posed his own all in the same sentence. "I guess in celebration you could use it ... launch balloons or something." He added as an after thought. Ah, a good question. ”It’s difficult to control the speed and momentum of a launch. We’re not going to worry too much about that today - it takes a lot of practice and control.” Today they were just focusing on getting stuff into the air. Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Carsyn was confused about the lack of desks. And the targets on the ceiling. Perhaps Professor Fuller-Thompson was salty about drawing the short straw for his slytherins??? But honestly, no need to punish the rest of them... If it wasn't for the fact that she LIKED charms and was generally pretty decent at it...
SPOILER!!: First question
”Let’s talk about what goes into making a spell work. One of the most important things about performing a charm correctly is accuracy - in the incantation, wand movement, and of course, aim.” Because aiming correctly could be the difference between animating a mop and animating your dog. ”So tell me - what’s so important about spell accuracy? Wand movements, incantation, aim... What happens if you get something wrong?” Then he gestured to the class to turn the discussion over to them.
Well if that wasn't the most OBVIOUS question in the world. If you for something wrong, the spell wouldn't work. Duh. An eleven year old could answer that one, for which Carsyn almost forgot that there were eleven year olds in the lesson. She also, vaguely wanted to answer with a sarcastic answer of 'you die', just to see the reaction, but decided against it. She wasn't quite sure of Fuller's humor yet, even though he'd been teaching her for a year now.
Ascension charm? Was that why there were targets on the ceiling? "Perhaps if there's something on the roof of the castle and no access to a broom, so you can use this to shoot yourself up into the air...." It wouldn't be a daily occurrence though. "Maybe you want a cool and unique view of the grounds or the quidditch pitch." UGH COULD YOU IMAGINE........ KISSING ON THE CASTLE ROOF??! Nevermind that she'd never been kissed yet, but that sounded amazing and ooh could she could she??? Have a first date on the castle roof?? It was creative, he would give her that. ”Like I mentioned before, the charm Ascendio would probably work better for that.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Kimothy Drewett was there all along, keeping to himself as always and scribbling down notes. He had not been able to join in the discussion for the first question, but had transcribed the important points on his parchment.
The charm wasn't also unfamiliar to him. Drewett had read a bit on it while studying for his OWLs last term too. Its incantation's etymology gave away its function as a charm too. Ascension. But the Ravenclaw hadn't ever really thought of using the charm or, at least, he had never faced a situation wherein he would have to use it. Kaiser's response was a bit interesting, though, and also not surprising because he'd seen the Slytherin climb up the Stemp House roof before.
Did it work on humans, actually? That wasn't something Drewett knew for sure.
He raised his hand. "Maybe it could work like th-the banishing charm, sir? It can remove obstacles.... or maybe serve as a distraction to b-buy you time to, y'know, run away." Drewett wouldn't actually use the ascension charm in any of the situations he'd mentioned, but they could be possibilities. Piers didn’t know who Drewett was running away from, but... whatever. ”Yeah, that’s true.” If he needed to make a quick escape and something was in his way. He briefly wondered if Drewett often ran from things chasing him. Hmm. Oh well. Quote:
Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow Cecelia wished Teddy knew how awesome he was 'cause she figured if he DID know, he'd be okay showing others how awesome he was, too. Then maybe he'd have the confidence to pepper in some of his smarts to the mix and he'd be UNstoppable as far as SHE was concerned. The small Gryffindor gave his hand a gentle squeeze of encouragement just cause and then focused for the most part on the NEW question being asked.
To be REALLY honest, Cecelia had NO idea what the ascension charm was, but it SOUNDED cool based off what her classmates were saying. As for how you might want to use it, the blonde was FULL of ideas, not all of which were safe ones, but you know....
"Bet it'd be REALLY cool to make a rocket go up in the air that way! You could still do the whole countdown thing and all, too. My little brother would LOVE that." Ah, another firstie. Very.... very precious. ”Yes, you’re probably right.” Even though most rockets had their own jets and blasters and things... but whatever. Quote:
Originally Posted by hermionesclone The Ascension Charm? Huh. That..... explained the targets up on the ceiling. While he still had no idea what they were for, he couldn't help but get the feeling that they were only going to be sending items up there. Which meant that nothing was coming down on them, which was a great sign. Y'know, unless he got the spell wrong......
....... yeaaaaah, not thinking about that.
Except, at Fuller-Thompson's question, he kind of was. Still. Lucas glanced off into the distance, trying to imagine a situation. The situation. The one he couldn't quite shake off. But it was still linked, wasn't it? It was answering the question and had something to do with what the man had asked before.
It was with this thought in mind that he tentatively raised his hand in the air. "What about if something was falling on you?" he asked, turning his green eyes on the Charms professor, "You could use it if something was falling on you, or on someone else. Something heavy or likely to cause a lot of harm. Gives you enough time to get out of harm's way." This suggestion was interesting, and important. ”Potentially. However, the wand movement, as you’ll soon see, would be difficult to work if you are under the object you want to move. In this case, Arresto Momentum would probably work much better.” Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Of course.
In addition to the possibility that something going wrong, nothing at all could happen. Claudine would need to remember that one. The spell that was their focus was one she knew about. Not that she had ever used it. A lot of students beat her to answering what the spell did so she refrained from repeating what was sadi. Instead, she would provide an idea for what the spell could be used for. Her hand went up. “To give annoying family members a good scare by using the spell on them.’’ Or anyone else for that matter. But since she came from a huge family, and some of them annoyed her, Claudine thought the spell would be quite useful on them. ............... Well. Piers nodded slowly. ”Feel free to try that one at home.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassirin Phoebe was glad to have such very good friends, since she'd nearly embarrassed herself with all the crashing into people. And she was glad to have her Teddy there, since he was this solid anchor of her whole life. She bumped him with her hip while they waited for the professor to move on.
That charm the professor mentioned, though... everyone seemed to know that it made things zooooooom, even if she'd never heard of it before. Phoebe raised her hand hesitantly, not with an idea... just a question. "Professor? Since you can't Wingardium Leviosa to float a person, can you use A...this spell to zoom a person? Does it work on persons?" Piers sighed.
These children and their desire to shoot humans into the air. Piers paused. ”I’m not going to answer that. But anyone who tries it on a person will suffer at least five detentions. With me.” And he wasn’t fun to be around when he was grumpy. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Why yes, thank you for noticing, professor. Eiji always did have a lot to say, very opinionated, but selective in what he shared and with whom.
Which was quickly applied to the first question. No thanks. He would let the first years handle speculation there and save his breath for something more thought provoking. Maybe. Or maybe he would just coast through the theoretical portion of the lesson and bank on better participation when they got to the practical. Which was sounding very, VERY, promising when the spell of the day was revealed.
So they WOULD be launching things upward at the target. If he were superstitious he would cross his fingers and make a wish that some overly zealous Gryffindor attempted to launch themselves or someone else.
Or Phoebe, since apparently she was curious about its uses on people. He...may have to step in and make sure she didn't do that.
But bottom line? The spell hoisted and shot things into the air and had always felt like more of a defensive spell than something meant for accuracy. A thought that seemed in line with what Drewidiot was saying and thus shut Eiji's mouth up tight.
Attention, sort of, listening it was again. And there he was again. Silent and brooding. It’s okay, Rasting. He understood.
Once he was satisfied with the quantity and quality of the answers he got, Piers stood up from leaning against his desk, ready to move onto the practical portion of the lesson. ”That’s right,” he said, slowly pacing in front of the classroom. ”Alarte Ascendare - it shoots things upward. I’ll add that this charm is quick and temporary. It’s not a levitation charm - your object won’t stay in the air with just this charm itself. Once gravity kicks in, it’ll come right back down.” Oddly enough, the laws of physics worked pretty well with this one spell.
”The incantation is simple, and we’ve heard it a thousand times. Alarte Ascendare. The wand movement,” Piers said, holding out his own wand to demonstrate, ”is simple and straightforward. You point at the object, and then flick your wand upwards quickly.” And while he spoke, he demonstrated just that. It was fairly easy.
And now it was time for some action. ”Alright everyone, go ahead and set your things down on the ground against the wall. Pick a partner or two or four and stand under one of the targets I’ve got painted on the ceilings.” They were large targets, large enough for four people to stand underneath comfortably, and well spaced out so that there was room enough for all of them to stand around without bumping into each other.
With a wave of his wand, small boxes containing bean bags levitated off of a nearby table and landed on the ground underneath each target. ”I’m sending each group a box of beanbags. Don’t worry about the target too much right now, but just focus on getting a couple bean bags to shoot up in the air.” They would focus more on preciseness and aim in a little while. OOC: Thanks to everyone who has participated this far! We are now moving onto our mini activity! You'll have about three days to complete this! If you need the professor, be sure to write "professor" in your post title. |