 Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
Brandon was disappointed that the charm didn't roll things, but it was okay. Some things were better to fold than roll, like thick sweaters. So it was still useful. He noted that there was a specific fabric folding charm. Was it better at folding fabric? Or was it just terrible at folding paper? He hoped it was the first one. Otherwise that spell would be pretty useless.
Brandon's first thought had been folding clothes, but he did have to fold paper occasionally. Multipurpose was good.
He was dying to learn nonverbals, but he was eleven and didn't even know the regular spell yet. He sighed, wishing he were older so he could do powerful magic without talking. He'd seen both his sister and Professor Khanna even use some wandless magic, which to him was the best thing ever. When could he learn to do that?
...probably when he'd already mastered verbal magic with his wand. At least he was patient. He actually knew diffindo already, having used it a few times- but not the other one. He had questions. Did the fold get all crooked if you moved your wand wrong, or did it correct itself? Which way did it fold? He had to experiment on it.
"Plico. Plico. Plico? Plico." Once he'd got it working, Brandon used "Plico" to fold the paper, intentionally drawing the line in a sloppy way. Interestingly, but maybe not surprisingly, the paper folded sloppily, with a bad crease and imperfectly lined up edges. Yes, that was what he'd been trying for, but he still hated it to look like that, so he smoothed the paper out and used "plico" again to fold it in half properly. Edges lining up. Nice, thin, neat crease. That made him happy enough to smile.
What exactly were they supposed to be using diffindo on? The fold? Or a separate piece of paper? He decided on trying both. "Diffindo," he said, cutting a fresh piece of paper into strips. "Diffindo," he said again, slicing his original paper neatly down the fold. This was a very useful spell to know.
Brandon spent the rest of the time fixing the paper with Reparo, because he didn't like having a bunch of random paper strips when he could have a normal piece of paper. Paper was useful. Plus, Brandon liked to fix things. |