SPOILER!!: Prof. Kingsley
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Preston observed the class before ducking behind the curtain once more. Emerging, he levitated a pile of wooden boards and settled them down in the middle of the room.
"You're all doing quite well, even those of you who managed to sever your worms," he said, giving a pointed look. "If you haven't gotten it yet, you can still keep working, but I'd like to interuppt you for a moment so those who have been successful can continue."
Picking up a board, he placed it on his desk, before levitating a worm from the bucket. "Tacque," he said softly, turning the worm into a nail. "I'm going to teach you a spell now that utilizes your wand like a hammer. The incantation is malleus and the movement is just as you would tap with a hammer."
Picking up the nail, he held it against the wooden board before intoning, "Malleus," and repeating the motion several times, as if he were hammering the nail. Between his fingers, the metal slid into the wood smoothly, though the wand did not touch it.
"Please take care with this spell. I don't want to send anyone to the hospital with smushed fingers. Gesture lightly as if you were tapping lightly. The force you use with your wand would be like the force of the hammer."
Holstering his wand, he gestured to them. "When you think you have the nail right, come and get a board and see. If you focused too much on appearance but not on structure, your nail will smush when you try to hammer it."
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"As for the rest of you," he said, returning his attention to the class, "I want to see you hammering your nails in before we can get to the last spell."[/COLOR]
Freya eyed her worm
"Let's get this over with, worm." she said and grabbed a worm to retry the spell once again. She pictured a nail in her mind and then pointed her wand to the grossy worm
"Tacque!" and the worm changed into a nail she waited a moment hoping that the nail stayed as nail not returned to worm. It stayed still. Yaaayyyy..She did it. Okay next spell..! She grabbed the board and returned to her work desk. She placed her (now transfigured) nail on top the board.
"Malleus!" she tapped her wand like Professor Kingsley said. Unfortunately her nail was not strong enough or she was tapping her wand to hard the nail smashed into a couple of pieces. She had to try again from the beginning then.