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"If I could have everyone's attention for a moment? We're going to talk about some more spells." Preston paused, waiting for the class to settle down.
Unholstering his wand, he flicked it at the board, adding the words, escarpa and manus under vestis and the words letrom and cotone under vellus.
"Vestis was the part of the spell that dictated what you were making. The same can be said for escarpa and manus. Scarf and gloves or mittens, respectively. If you find yourself without those items when the weather turns chill, you can conjure them."
He paused, before continuing.
"As I mentioned before, vellus helps focus on what type of blanket you're going to create. It modifies the vestis spell. Once you are proficient and focused enough, you may be able to simply concentrate and use vestis. However, using the modifier is helpful. Letrom and cotone are similar. Letrom designates leather, and likely would only modify manus. Cotone is for cotten. So, vestis cotone would give you a light cotton throw, much like a light picnic blanket. Manus vellus would give you woolen gloves or mittens. And so forth."
He flicked his wand at the board once more, rearranging the words into their likely pairs:
Vestis vellus - wool blanket or throw
Vestis cotone - cotton blanket
Manus vellus - wool gloves/mittens
Manus letrom - leather gloves
Escarpa vellus - wool scarf
Escarpa cotone - cotton scarf
"The wand movement for escarpa is simple. You just draw a line in the air, top to bottom, as you say the incantation. Manus is also simple, being a small circular flick." He demonstrated each movement.
"Your homework will be, in part, to practice these spells, so don't worry about that now. Give your blanket spell another shot if you'd like and then revert your blankets back into scarfs and let's discuss what other things could be useful in the theme of today's lesson." He paused, a eyebrow raising, "Which, if you haven't guessed, is focused around staying warm. Any thoughts?"
Once the Professor indicated that they could turn their blankets back into their scarfs, Alice did so. She picked up her scarf, wrapping it around her neck, and headed back to her seat.
Alice picked up her pen and underneath where she had written the Vestis Vellus spell, she wrote down what the Professor had put on the board.
"Perhaps learning how to transform something into a jacket?" Alice suggested, figuring jackets were always useful when it came to keeping one warm.
"Or perhaps learning how to transform something into earmuffs?"