Hooper grinned wide as the Professor agreed with his questioning! Like, he’d actually agreed with him! This was unprecedented. Well, maybe not that unprecedented but still pretty rare. With a wide small plastered across his face, the third year sat up a little straighter and listened that little bit more intently to the rest of the answers of the other children. Another even followed suit and questioned the cutting of the tress too!
Not letting his smile drop too much when it became clear that the lesson had very little to do with the actual stumps they were sitting on, Hopper sat and listened as the professor explained what the lesson was actually about. It didn’t take too much explaining for his enthusiasm to return however when he learned that they were actually going to be shooting arrows? How cool was that! With his wand already in his hand, Hooper clutched it tighter as he continued to listen, only putting it away when they were told the spell so as not to accidentally impale someone with an arrow. Instead, he chose to repeat the words under his breath so that he’d have it mastered by the time they needed to use it. “Ah-roon-doe,” he chanted, again and again until it almost became a tongue twister.
“Ah-roon-doe.”
“Ah-roooooon-doooe…ooops. No. That’s not it. Ah-roon-doe.”
After nailing the wording of the spell, pulled his wand out and turned back to Yukie. “Do you mind checking to see if my wand movement is okay?” Aiming his wand at the ground, Hooper tried his best to replicate the wand movement that the professor had shown them. “Cuuuuurved….cuuuurved…curve….,” he repeated out loud, as if willing the wand movement to be correct. His checkmark however seemed to resemble more of a weird question mark. Oops. |