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The Gripping Charm was such a funny spell, funny in that it made her fingers and palms all tingly. It may just be her imagination because the spell really wasn't meant to have such side effects - or maybe she just performed it poorly. Either was possible knowing Anna. In any case, it was a very handy spell for people like Anna who had a hard time holding on to things. A shame you couldn't use the spell to hold on to memories though...
Shaking her head, mostly, free from distractions...the Hufflepuffle had sort of expected the other girl to cast the next spell since she had just performed her on preparatory spell. Maybe that didn't count? Anna was obviously not very fluent in dueling etiquette. Unless you were just counting good sportsmanship! She didn't mind long silences when she was in listening mode - sometimes friends just needed you to sit with them and be present and not talk or break the silence - but this was not listening mode and therefore the long silence (of all of 10 seconds) felt like forever. SO ... she needed to cast a proper spell. An offensive spell? Probably offensive since she had already performed a defensive one...but what did she choose? She didn't want to do anything that might actually hurt the older girl...maybe she was allergic to flowers by any chance? Anna could maybe just conjure (poorly) a whooooooooole bunch of flowers. But that was also pretty mean and she could possibly be sending her dueling partner to the hospital wing because of an allergic reaction.
Why was dueling SO hard?
Maybe she could find a happy medium? Like...something kind of offensive but also a little defensive...Anna was mostly thinking about what would make dueling even harder for herself at this point, moral compass not withstanding.
"...um....um...um...um..." she muttered under her breath as she prepared her wand and gave is a meek little flourish. "Obscuro?"
It really ought to have been more commanding and less questioning. Oh well.
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