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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl  No?! No house elves?! But didn't they live in the kitchen....? Bernie nearly raised her hand to ask that, but then she realized they were starting and so she'd have to just... put all her house elf questions aside.
For now.
"Um," her hand shot up before she really knew the answer, but drawing on her personal experience, Bernie quickly came up with something, "My mum doesn't know charms, cos she's a Muggle and all that, but my charming Charms professor did a spell on a scrub brush one time, so that soap kept continuously coming out of it, and I used the brush to clean some school boats." True story!
And Curtis' dad definitely knew what she was referencing. Well, her hand went up rather quick. Quicker than her brain, it almost seemed for a moment, but - ah, there it was. Her mother was a muggle, which was fine, but he hadn’t meant for the question to be taken so literally.
It was funny, though, that she seemed so chipper about her answer about the charm he had placed on that scrubber brush when he remembered her whining about it so much at the time. ”Yes, that was quite good, wasn’t it?” Bet she loved that.
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Originally Posted by 2111jen Charms his mum used...Austin raised his hand silently. Yeah, this would not apply to him, at least not like the others.
"My dad would send stuff flying where they go," he said.
"My mum always cleaned by hand," he nodded.
She was a muggle. She wasn't able to use magic anyway... Piers nodded at the next response. ”Nothing like good team work,” he responded.
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Originally Posted by Fireheart Oh, how Avalon hoped that today's lesson wouldn't be about cleaning the kitchens. Dishes were her least favorite chore. Although with a bit of magic, maybe it wouldn't be too bad. The young Ravenclaw wasn't allowed to use cleaning charms when she did her chores. Her mum and dad valued manual labor. But she had seen them use a few on occasion. She raised her hand. "My mum uses Tergeo when she cleans. Usually when she's dusting or trying to get something nasty off the table." Yes, Mrs. Sinclair had definitely used it when Avalon's sister spilled her entire case of quill ink on the brand new dining table. She had also used some other spells to tidy up in a hurry when guests dropped by unexpectedly, but Avalon couldn't remember the incantations. ”Tergeo is always a good option,” he replied to the next student. It was one of those classic, can’t-go-wrong cleaning spells.
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Originally Posted by Nordic Witch Cole was still very much not a morning person so he had dragged himself out of bed earlier. Eating breakfast had as usual woken him up and raised his mood somewhat. Now he stood near Naya and the other Gryffindor's outside the tapestry, that guarded the entrance to the kitchens wishing class was over. Resisting the urge to yawn loudly Cole raised his hand to answer Professor Fullers question. "My mum likes to use the washing up spell, to quickly clear away the dirty dishes every day. I don't know if the spells has a fancier name than that." And so was this one - a classic cleaning spell, that is. ”Yes, that’s quite a good one too.” That one was good for just setting up and walking away. But today he wanted the students to work a little harder, so they wouldn’t be doing that one.
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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack Nina was not his biggest fan, did he know? Professor Fuller-Thompson was SO weird. He ate the WEIRDEST things and always looked like he needed to take a shower. There was also that one lesson where he literally just had them BREATHE for an entire class period and Nina Castillo hadn't been a fan ever since.
And quite frankly? She found this question to be insulting! He could have left it the way he had first phrased it, but when he added that bit about 'mums', Nina found herself giving him a look. Maybe some of her peers never had to do their share of chores around the house, but Nina had been doing her own laundry since she was nine. And as such, she chose not to answer the question. In protest. And not because she didn't typically speak in lessons. It was the protest thing this time. ................... At this point, he just never expected a response from her. Oh well.
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Originally Posted by Waterloo Cora pulled a face and groaned out loud. Was it clear that she was less than impressed? Had she seriously gotten out of bed for this? No way was she cleaning, that's what they had house-elves for. She'd rather lose a thousand points than clean.
As for the question, she'd seen the careworkers around Stemp House do their fair share of cleaning charms of course, but that hadn't been what Professor Whatshisname had asked, was it? "Haven't seen my mum do any," she piped up, hoping to make him squirm a little for what he was no doubt about to make them all suffer through. "I ain't got one." A mum, that is.
Well, he should have seen that coming.
Honestly.
Didn’t prepare for that.
Piers grimaced. ”Ah.”
And..... that was it. Moving on.
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Originally Posted by Charely Potter Just hearing a few answers, Curtis couldn't help finding it funny that some of his classmates were taking the Professor's joke literally on what spells their mum uses. Maybe it was because he didn't have a mum in the traditional sense that he could spot the irony right away. If anything his daddy was more like his mum compared to his papa back at home. He should've laughed at this, but nothing was tickling enough to do so. Also, he didn't want to think about them much right now so he decided to pubicly recall something else.
"My big brother uses some sort of motor charm on the sheets from the bed to fold and clean themselves off." Curtis said.
Oh, good he was participating. He half expected Curtis to say something about his OTHER dad doing all the dishes because Javy was an angel and cleaned up a lot. Thankfully he just stuck to a different example. ”Perfect. Thank you, Curtis.” He appreciated the effort he was putting in.
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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 Before she knew it, it was time for class to begin. The professor did not waste any time and went straight into question mode. And.......oh.......if Naya didn’t know what the class was going to be about before, she did now. Clue received. They were going to be cleaning the kitchens. Naya was slightly less enthusiastic about the lesson than she had been a few minutes ago.
Raising her hand, she went about providing her answer. “My mother is a muggle too, so she didn’t use any spells. But I do know that Scourgify is a good spell for cleaning.” Cleaning was not exactly Naya’s favorite thing to do, by magic or otherwise. He should have known that he would get a few of these responses too, but you know he really hadn’t meant for them to take the “mum” example so seriously. ”Yes, Scourgify is a great option.”
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Originally Posted by love-for-HP Blake thought about it .. had he ever really seen his dad clean. And it appeared that like him several of his classmates also had muggles mums. "I'd second the Scourgify answer, my dad uses that to clean his cauldrons and stuff." Gave it a good scrub, that was one of the many reasons Blake was glad to be a wizard, watching him mum scrub stuff by hand just seemed boring ... and took so much longer. ”Yeah, that’s a great spell too,” Piers said to the next student. It was one of the more common ones, though, which was why he was teaching a different one today.
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Originally Posted by hjhm Jillian didn't really grow up with a mother that she can watch clean but her dad could be an example to this since he is technically both her mother and her father. "my father uses Scourgify as a cleaning spell" quite often too. She doesn't live in a muggle household but muggles have awesome ways to clean. Her aunt and uncle came into mind when it comes to this.
She was aware that she had the same answer with Naya so she wanted to added another answer... "My aunt has this hom-bot robot vacuum cleaner. It's a device that you leave lying around the floor and it just automatically cleans your floor. It's pretty awesome" yeah, it was just like magic. She kind of wants one too.
Another answer for scourgify. Piers nodded and then Jillian said something about a... vaccuum robot? ”Errr.. That sounds cool.” That sounded even easier than doing it with magic.
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Originally Posted by FebruaryLover19 Maybe her Head of House wasn’t too fond of her that morning? Was that why he seemingly didn’t pay attention to her and her greeting enough to return one? Whatever. Claudine didn’t care. Instead, she chose to observe her classmates as usual. There were so many that were cheerful, some that were sleepy. And then there was Curtis who was now back. Claudine secretly hoped his suspension hadn’t mellowed him; she thought his rebellious nature was a hoot.
Did so many of the others have to take the question so seriously? The part about their mother, at least. Surely they had seen family members friends use Cleaning spells? Claudine raised a hand from her position towards the back of the gathering. Did Fuller-Thompson see her hand or was some tall student blocking her?
“The Skurge Charm.’’ Technically it was a cleaning spell… Also, no. She hadn't seen that used by her mom as she too did not have one anymore. Piers saw a hand and pointed at it. ”Yes, you’re right, that’s a handy spell as well.” Excellent job.
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Originally Posted by Anna Banana Isla made neither a comment nor a facial expression one when the professor mentioned something about getting out of bed. What was it with classes and being so early anyway? She was usually up late doing homework, and she wouldn't exactly use the words 'glad' and 'out of bed' in the sentence. Anyway...
Isla parents were both magical, so she'd grown up with plenty of cleaning spells going on around the house. She was sure that once she was of age and could do magic at home, her parents would have her doing those very same spells, too. She nodded along as her classmates mentioned the spells she'd already thought of. Trying to come up with something different, she raised her hand. "There's the Vacuum Cleaner Spell," she said. "It pretty much makes your wand operate like a vacuum cleaner." ”Yes, very good Isla.” One had to use that charm a LOT when they had a dog. Or five.
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Originally Posted by siriusblackliveson Charlie had found the kitchen only weeks before, thanks to some help from her friend Alex, but that was a task in of itself. She wasn’t so sure she was going to like todays class since it was taking place in the kitchen. Things could go terribly wrong when professors made you meat in places that weren’t the classroom you were supposed to be in.
Sighing and listening to the first question she was ready to walk away right then and there. She absolutely didn’t want to clean. Well maybe she would if they were charming things to clean themselves. At home her mother made her do it by hand so she would understand just how to do things in the event that she wasn’t magical. Psht like that was going to be a thing with her parents. But here she was.... completely clueless on what to tell their professor. Man she needed to write her mom a letter letting her know that she failed her on being prepared for Hogwarts and should really get to helping her younger sister out. See, he could tell that this kid really didn’t want to clean, but that was TOO bad because he would probably (maybe) notice if she left early.
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Originally Posted by FeelsLikeLove Now, see, Kaiser knew full well what Fuller-Thompson was getting at, that all he was looking for was an example of cleaning or tidying charms, even if wasn't necessarily a mother they'd seen cast them, but any sort of guardian, or really anyone at all. Or just a spell they knew themselves already, and he knew a few. But it actually worked out great that he had specifically asked what spells they'd seen their mother's perform, because Kaiser had neither the energy nor the motivation to make any contribution to anything at all ever, for reasons that were not relevant to anything or anyone here today. The point was, he had the opportunity to pretend to take the question literally, to just quietly skulk stand well back, hands shoved deep into his pockets, and say nothing at all. Nope, no mothers here.
He had no desire to make a remark about it either, though part of him was oddly tempted to do so, to just be kind of awkward. Co-resident Cora had that part covered, at least, and Kaiser glanced her way briefly, then looked instead at the tapestry, and maintained his silence. And, um... yeah, he never really expected a response from Kaiser, either. Sometimes he hoped, but he never held his breath. It was alright. He understood. Class sucked sometimes. Whatever.
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Originally Posted by Casanova_ "Oh, dear, Professor, that was a bit sexist. Like you think only girls should do cleaning?" Phoebe clucked her tongue at him, but she was much more interested in why they hadn't gone into the kitchen yet. Wait. Were they gonna clean the kitchen?
And not eat FOOD in the kitchen?????
Phoebe's perky little smile faded and she glared at the pear that would let them into the kitchen. What if it smelled like food in there but no one let them HAVE ANY?
Time to focus. "My dad uses the Locomotor Mortis spell to sweep the floor. And my mum blows up cauldrons, so she basically just replaces them and never cleans them." Wait, no --
”That’s not, no, that’s not what I was implying,” Piers said with a little defeated sigh. He really should have planned that better. Could they move on now?
”Err, great, thank you.” Okay, they were moving on.
Yes, yes, yes, those were all (for the most part) very good responses. At least these kids knew what cleaning charms were. There was some hope for them yet. Which they would need, because they were about to be faced with a lot of dishes that needed some good cleaning.
”Alright, good responses everyone. I’m glad you know spells to help your mum AND your dad around the house.” Because not only mums cleaned. He KNEW that, okay? And he was ready to move onto their first activity. ”We’re going to take a step into the kitchen now.” So yes, it was now time to confirm everyone’s fears that this lesson would be about cleaning dishes.
Piers took a step back toward the tapestry and reached over to tickle the pear. And once the kitchen doors opened, Piers stepped inside and gestured for the students to follow him in. Once they were inside, they would all see the dishes from breakfast stacked in the sink and next to the sink and on the counter and on the floor. Piers had given the elves the morning off (forced them away from the kitchen, more like it), so there were plenty of dishes to go around.
”Okay, everyone. There are plenty of dirty dishes here for everyone. I’m sure most of you older students know a good cleaning charm or two, but I’m going to teach you all another one today that maybe you haven’t practiced before, or that maybe that maybe some of you younger students haven’t learned yet.” Since Piers didn’t have a whiteboard handy in the kitchen, he pulled a large, rolled piece of parchment from his pocket and plastered it on the wall with a wordless sticking charm. It wrote:
Quote: Dish Cleaning Charm
Incantation: “lava patina”
Wand Movement: swirl ”The charm I’ll be teaching today is is a dish cleaning charm. This charm is different from some other cleaning charms as it has been specifically created to wash dishes and sanitize them for future use. Not just to get the food off.” Because if a spell just got the food off, and not the germs, there would be a LOT more kids sick with the flu in this place.
”The charm is fairly easy,” Piers said, taking out his wand and pointing it at a stray dirty plate that was laying on the counter. ”Lava Patina,” he said, swirling his wand around the area of the plate. As he moved his wand, the spell took effect and the food residue from the plate disappeared, leaving the plate nice and shiny. ”As you say the incantation, you’ll move your wand in a swirling motion around the item and it will get it clean.” Easy as that.
”I want you all to practice this charm first. Take a few minutes and practice the incantation and match it with the wand movement. If you’d like to try it on a dish, feel free, but we’ll move on to cleaning the dishes in a moment.” No need to worry, there was MUCH cleaning to be done.
And with that... ”Go ahead,” Piers said, gesturing for them to practice. Weren’t they excited? OOC: Welcome to our mini activity! Feel free to have your characters moan and groan practice the incantation for this spell. You can have them work with a friend or alone. If you have a question for the professor, please put "Professor" in your post title. Class will move on in approximately three days. |