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Dhruv Vihaan Khanna
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Sarika Aarohi Curious
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Idris Ace Grunt
Gryffindor Sixth Year
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Levi Nayan Singh-Phora
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Harvey Thunder Forsfelle
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SPOILER!!: Norman! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy  The slightest hint of a smile showed on Norman’s usually stoic face. He had to admit participating alongside the students sounded pretty fun. “I might have to take you up on that, Dhruv,” he replied. “I’ll try to leave your dummies intact.” That sentence may have been meant as a joke. He’d hold off for now, at least until he heard what the activity entailed. Those instructions seemed pretty straightforward.
Bluish-green eyes scanned the room, and seeing that there were more than enough to go around, he stepped up to the nearest dummy. Normally he would quietly observe his colleagues’ activities from the sidelines, so as not to take the focus off the host. Not his circus, not his monkeys. But given Hogwarts’s track record for dangerous situations, he thought the students could benefit from seeing him in action.
He was already formulating a strategy as the dummy sprang to life. It was the same strategy he used in every duel: maximum non-lethal damage. In a real duel, his first instinct would be to take his opponent’s wand, but the dummy had none. He’d have to take out its right hand instead!
If there was one thing Norman had learned about dueling, it was never give the opponent a chance to gain the upper hand. As such, he hit the dummy with everything he had straight out of the gate. He aimed a Jelly Fingers Jinx at the dummy, and that was only the first spell. “Pertificus Totalus! Flipendo!” If this was a real duel, he would’ve cast the spells nonverbally so as not to let the opponent know what was coming, but he thought hearing him might help the students.
While his first spell missed its mark, his second did not. The dummy froze in place, leaving it in the line of fire for the knockback jinx. Norman watched with satisfaction as the dummy toppled over, but there wasn’t time to dwell on it. About a moment later, the dummy turned silver and came back to life.
One round down, more to go!
A slight smile was all that they got out of Norman but they would take it. “Do your worst,’’ they remarked, quite aiming to challenge the Transfiguration professor. Dhruv was thrilled that their colleague was actually taking part in the activity; it had not gone unnoticed that Norman usually chose to observe the students. It was also nice to observe a colleague in a duel. Norman seemed to be handling the challenge quite well. Would he handle the silver round just as well?
SPOILER!!: Desiree! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy Desiree smiled. Was it really that obvious that she was trying not to yawn? And here she thought she was being subtle about it! Turning her head to one side, she let out a biiiig yawn. There, much better! Now that she had that out of her system, she was ready to listen to Professor Khanna’s instructions.
Ooh, the dummies were modified to shoot spells? So cool! Could they please learn which spells were used to do that? Desiree was much more interested in that than dueling, but she’d give the dueling a go too! As she glanced at her dummy, she wondered what color it would turn when she defeated it. Ooh, she hoped it would be pink!
Drawing her wand, she watched the dummy come to life. Which spell should she use? How about Risctusempra? Could the dummy even feel tickling? It would be funny if it could! She giggled to herself, imagining the dummy doubled over with laughter. Only one way to find out… “Rictusempra!” she cast. Did it work?
Apparently not. The dummy dodged her spell and sent one at her. She moved just in time to avoid being hit with the Curse of the Bogies.
Their eyes slid lazily over to Desiree. When she had arrived, it was quite clear that she could have used a few extra moments to snooze but they were now pleased to see that she seemed alert now as her dummy made its move. They were disappointed that her first spell did not work. Maybe next time? Very agile she was though, in getting out of the way.
Dhruv, upon catching sight of some of the dummies being frozen at their silver level defeat. This was the signal that the activity must progress. The remaining dummies were frozen so that they could address the students and professors. “The final stage is, you guessed it, the gold stage! Dummies of this colour will fire fifth, sixth and seventh year spells at you every five seconds.” Such a challenge, wasn’t it?
“If you haven’t finished one or both of the previous levels, no need to worry. Continue at your own pace. Gold dummies will revert to there original white appearance once defeated. I’m around if you need assistance. The dummies will unfreeze again in three… two… one!’’ OOC: Howdy, my peoples! We’re onto the last round now! Gold dummies will only send fifth, sixth and seventh year spells ONLY! The activity will wind up on Friday evening! {10th March!} |