 NeeNee Omniscient Omnipotent Pie Maker
This was something Tobi had been putting off since he had discovered he had had to do it.
Time was ALMOST up, and.. well to tell you the truth, the thing that was scaring him the most, okay, second most, was Anna, she may seem sweet, but he had seen her tackle poor defenseless third years in Quidditch. No, she could be brutal and rutheless when she wanted things, and he was pretty sure she wanted to win the House Cup more than anything else. And Anna Greingoth, Tobi suspected, was not above violence and intimidation.
Also haunting him was the reputation of 3 prodigious older sisters to live up to. Why did he have to be the only one not sorted into Ravenclaw blast it all? He wasn't a scholar! He was a cook! Most of all, he was dangerous with spells and charms.
Tobi set up his lock in the empty classroom, looking a supply cupboard firmly shut. By means of extra precaution, he overturned a (relatively) empty desk, remains of old half eaten biscuts and bits of parchement tumbling to the floor as he laid it on its side.
He ducked behind it, using it for cover.
Okay, nothing to be afraid of, just that you usually cause minor burns and blasts when you use your wand. Why couldn't we be trying a blasting curse or a flame charm? Bet I'd be a natural at those.
Tobi didn't realy aim, he merely poked his arm and wand over the top of his barrier like a periscope and whimpered, "A-alehhomora?"
Zzap!
"Uh oh!" Tobi poked his head up to survey the damage. 4 feet wide of the cupboard a 3 inch burn had appeared on the blackboard.
"Maybe no one will notice?"
Tobi ducked down again and took the same form as before, not looking where he was pointing and not feeling very confident. "Alahomora!" he said very quicky and not troubling with his pronunciation.
Ziiiing! The charm must have somehow hit its mark, but it wasn't a good spell because it bounced right off and flew over inches Tobi's head. "Yikes!"
Sizzle! another burn mark appeared in the opposite wall.
"Oh this is getting ridiculous!" Tobi grumbled pulling his crumpled Charms notes out of the pocket of his robes. He re-read all he had taken down about pronounciation and wand motion, which wasn't much, but it was better than his "soldier in a foxhole" approach.
Tobi stood, a little tense, ready to drop quickly if it should all go wrong, and repeated the spell in his head several times. When he was quite sure he had it right he swished his wand wide, and pointed at the lock, and said the incantation aloud, in a strong clear (okay fine, not AS wavery) voice, "AL-o-ho-MOR-ah!"
It was horribly anti-climactic butthe lock simply fell open and clattered to floor.
Ofcourse, Tobi was so tense that the noise scared the living daylights out of him and he dropped to the floor and hid behind the desk for a good twenty seconds until he realized he was NOT in danger.
"Oh, right.." he muttered sheepishly and collected himself and the lock from the floor. He righted the desk and cleared out of the room in short order.
"We are the champions, my friends..." he sang (offkey) like a fool as he skipped down the hallway.
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