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Gryffindor Fourth Year
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Slytherin Second Year
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Violet Fawley
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SPOILER!!: Individ replies Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising 
Taking the tree stump near Aria, he followed the ministry woman's gaze to the lake water where there were lily pads? Interesting. "Ready for this?" He asked Aria. But before she could answer, the woman was beginning.
"Flying on brooms." He said matter-of-factly. The only mode that mattered most, in his opinion.
Aurora had stolen a quick glance towards the lily pads on the lake to see that everything was still in order when the first student answered her question. Turning her full attention to the boy she nodded "Correct, flying is a popular mode of transportation in the wizarding world." It was one that she personally held over some other modes. Quote:
Originally Posted by Charely Potter
"Apparition lets you pop out of one area and appear in another area," It was about as simple as Caes could describe it. He would've said flying as another option of transportation but he was beaten to it. No hard feelings as he had a small smile from the thought.
Turning to the next boy Aurora said "Correct, but apparition isn't poping its transporting yourself instantly from one area to the next." To describe apparition as poping just made her think of poping corn and watching a movie not as a mode of transporting yourself. Quote:
Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline
Transportation Department Head…they sure brought out the big shot for this activity, not just some random department worker.
“Apparition is the quick movement of a witch or wizard from one point to another requiring much focus, especially when across long distances.” At least that was what Rajesh could come up with with what he knew of it and experienced sidelong. “Floo power would be another form of transportation.” One that wasn’t exactly clean or unlimited since you had to be connected to the network.
"Very good, Apparition does require great focus especially when you want to transport yourself further than say from one stool to the other in a room." Aurora praised. The mention of floo powder got her to think about the acute shortage problem. Nodding she agreed "Floo powder is a form of transportation that many wizards use when they need to travel fast from one place to another." Quote:
Originally Posted by astrocat Ash toyed with her bracelets and her sleeves as she spoke, her mind drifting to an entirely different location(which was concerning, seeing as apparition required great focus). "Apparition is very a very convenient mode of transportation, assuming you're focused enough not to splinch and going to a place you know well. You also have to make sure you're not going somewhere with anti-apparition enchantments... What happens if you try?"
She paused for a short while, then threw out an answer to the other question. "You could drive a car, like people without magic do. I can't drive or apparate very well." And Ash was back to silence. Turning to a girl that brought up a good question Aurora replied slowly "Yes, Apparition can be a convenient way of transportation if you know what you are doing. I shall get into splinching later."
Remembering a recent case where a young woman had tried to apparate into a restricted anti-apparition area and had suffered the consequences Aurora shuddered just a little as she answered "It is always recommend to always check that the place you want to apparate to isn't guarded by anti-apparition enchantments. If you apparate to such a place you will most likely get badly splinched or end up somewhere long ways away from where you intended to end up." It was a hard lesson that many had had to learn the hard way and that wasn't something Aurora wished upon anyone. "Yes driving a car is a popular muggle mode of transport." Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 There wasn’t more she could say - or ask - because the woman was getting started. Since the question about what Apparation is was already answered, the girl stuck her hand up to supply her response. “There are airplanes which let you travel via the air.”
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Jude grinned back at [B]Like… he REALLY needed and wanted to get his license as soon as he possibly could. “Uh… there are flying carpets,’’ the Hufflepuff said, hand in the air. Flying carpets stuck out to him because of Uncle Evan, his mother's brother. "Correct, airplanes are a popular muggle way of transport between both cities and countries." Aurora nodded over to the girl, being surrounded by a bunch of boys. Did she have a fan club?
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Seeing the hand in the air Aurora first didn't realize what the boy wanted until she understood that he did that to be polite. "Good, flying carpets is mode of transport, but its not a very safe one." She needed to have one of her employees hold a magical carpet safety seminar course soon, or maybe they should write a manual. Anything really to stop the incidents. SPOILER!!: Edric, Jasper & Leanne Quote:
Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl
"YoooooOOOOOOH, DUDE, CALM DOWN," Ed whisper-shouted, hopping up to try to reach his buddy's trouser leg. Maybe he could tug him down from his levitation problem. Bro liked to fly, but now was not! the! time!!!
Problem was, Edric, too, had been gifted, and his fingers were suddenly little flaming torches as bright as the sun. One finger or two may or may not have been shooting a beam of light directly into Jasper's eyes as he frantically tried to pull his friend down to earth.
His other hand, of course, sent a spotlight into the heavens as he raised a hand for the instructor. "Little help here, please, miss. Yes. He needs help. My friend might actually need a sticking charm applied to his bum. His favourite form of transportation is flying by broomstick." Or just levitating randomly.
Duh.
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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack Ironically, Edric, Jasper was very calm. Too calm, perhaps. Unlike his shaggy-haired blonde friend. Poor Ed was totally losing his cool. Jas would never. In fact, he was nothing but casual and sunny as he greeted his other friend from up in the sky. "Hey, Leeees!" He didn't say anything about the bubbles. He knew how she felt about them.
Anyway. Back to the in-air situation. It was a real good thing that he had chosen to wear a belt today with all of Ed's tugging. Though his hands still flew down to his belt loops for extra reinforcement, tugging them up, up, up so that Edric wouldn't pants him in the middle of the lesson.
... Except apparently potentially mooning his classmates would be the least of his problems. Because?? He could no longer see. "Dude! Cool it with the light!" His solution was to blink several million times to get the weird residual light spots out of his eyes, which he knew must've looked ridiculous, only worsened by the total scene that Edric was now causing by calling out to the instructor.
"Flying's fantastic." He quickly agreed before pivoting to calm everyone down. "I'm totally fine, by the way, it usuALLY--" But what it usually did, Jasper did not say. Because as soon as he began to speak, he spontaneously began zooming forward very, very quickly.
.... Was Edric still holding on ... Because uhh.
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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Having been notified of this special lesson ahead of time, Leanne shuffled around her schedule this afternoon so she could be in attendance. While she wasn't here as teacher - she had her healing hat on today - she also hoped she wouldn't need to use it. Yet was keenly aware of the high likelihood of splinching among youngsters/ first-timers (and even those who had been apparating for years). Was she supposed to introduce Aurora, as she herself was a familiar face to these students? Deciding against it, she stood near the back, and waited, which didn't appear to take too long. Oh for the love of brooms, why is that boy levitating in the air and the other boys hands were glowing. Pulling her wand out Aurora called over to the only other adult in attendance as she gestured to the Ed & Jasper. "Healer Mancini can i can get some assistance over here? These two boy's look like they need to be taken to the hospital wing for treatment of their 'powers'." Repocketing her wand again she called out "Edric, hold on to Jasper!". Aurora then sprinted over to latch on to the robes of the boy that was closest to the ground (Edric), and started to pull him down towards her as she called up "Try and slow yourself down Jasper and land on the ground safely, can you do that?" So that they could get back to a normal lesson.
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Retaking her position at the front of the stump group several minutes later she smiled at the assembled students. "Good answers everyone! You've listed most of the common magical and muggle modes of transportation like carpets, brooms, flooing, airplanes and cars. There are also portkeys and buses to not forget to add to the list." Here Aurora paused in case any of the students wanted to take notes before she continued to lecture "Apparition is when you harness your magical powers to transport yourself instantly to another destination. You can also side-along apparate which is when you transport yourself and another person(s) to another destination."
"Now then who can tell me what the three D's of Apparition are? And also what is splinching?" Aurora queried.
OOC: I like the creative answers, keep them coming! Just two more Q's and then we'll move to the mini practice portion. Lesson will continue on monday or tuesday at the latest.
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