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amdreams 
Anna looked down, " . . . duro . . ." She blushed deeply as she put her new objects and cat on the table. "Western magic is hard!"
Noticing the way the girl looked really down and upset, LouAnn perked up and gave her a reassuring smile. "Well, the good news is that you have the incantation correct. That's a really good start," LouAnn assured her. She could still remember when she'd been eleven-years-old and just starting to learn magic. It'd been tough at times, and there'd been a lot of frustrating moments, too. "Okay, here's what we'll do. Go and grab another object to work on. When you come back, I'll help you try and cast correctly this time. Maybe you're not concentrating enough," she suggested. "You have to try and focus only on the object you are casting on and block out everything else."
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unicornkeeper07
"It's no problem, I've been practicing a lot of the basic spells in between classes, this one's a bit harder," Rafe poked the stone feather, "Flexi!" And the feather went back to a regular feather. "I wonder if we're going to try this on each other!" Rafe said excitedly. "I think it would be awesome to be cast in stone, like after I died of course...I would be remembered forever in statue!" Rafe sighed. He was such a daydreamer. He always wanted to be better and leave his mark on the world. He had been all over Europe and met some of the most fascinating wizards and people would by them drinks and tell legendary stories of them. That's what he wanted, to be known throughout the wizarding world.
"I suppose I should lighten up on the mischief a bit, well...at least in class, I wouldn't want to lose points for Gryffindor," Rafe bit his lower lip. Something he did when he got nervous. "So, you're pretty much a newbie too right?" Rafe asked leaning in a little. Rafe thought it was cool to "transfer" in, whatever that meant? Maybe he could transfer to other schools to expand his knowledge...but who would want to leave Hogwarts?
While she waited on the first year girl (whose name she still hadn't asked about) to go and get another object, LouAnn turned her attention back to Rafe. "Thanks," she said, noticing how he'd turned her feather back to its original state. "Now, let me see if I can do that, too." Once again, LouAnn focused all her attention on the feather laying just before her. In her thoughts, it was just her and the feather. Everything else had been blocked out. She jabbed her wand towards it and called out, "Duro!"
She turned back to Rafe and gave him a pleased smile. "Now, time to reverse this, hmm?" She glanced to the side to see if the Gryffindor girl had returned and then, not seeing any sight of her, jabbed her wand towards the stone feather. "Flexi!" she said, jabbing forward with her wand. When it turned back to its original state, LouAnn held it up in the air and smiled again. "I did it," she said to Rafe. "Kinda cool...for me, at least. I thought it'd be much harder."
"So why is it you like creating mischief so much?" she asked. She was honestly curious as to why he enjoyed it so much, but then again, he
was a first year boy. He was a year older than Lucas, and LouAnn could imagine her younger brother acting pretty much the same way. "...and yeah, I'm new here. I just moved about three weeks before you and I met in Diagon Alley. It's been sort of a hard transition, too." Making friends was always easy for LouAnn, but it was the 'fitting in' part that was hard. Everyone seemed to always congregate in little cliques, and LouAnn didn't exactly belong to any of them.