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AmbiguouslyMe 
Preston walked, watching the students make good progress.
"Many of you have been successful, so I will introduce the second spell for this class. Another option when creating shelter is to use poles to support fabric, or even to just provide better framing for boards."
Levitating a branch over to his desk, he set it down. "You can use this spell on branches, drumsticks, lengths of vine, even fabric if you needed to, to create poles. It's simplest with branches, however, and those would be the most likely supplies you'd have if you were stranded in the wood."
He levitated the branch for everyone to see. "Start with wooden poles, but as you improve, you may also be able to vary the material, which could be useful in any number of cases."
Casting a quick fixate on the branch to suspend it in mid-air, he continued. "A simple flick and Palus is all you need. Just make sure to focus on smooth, even poles."
Demonstrating, the branch, suspended in air, became a long wooden pole, not unlike one that could be used, with others, to make a tee-pee.
"Practice both spells and after some time, we'll move onto the final."
Alice listened and watched carefully as Professor Kingsley demonstrated the next spell of the lesson. She moved aside her newly formed board, setting it down on the ground next to her feet and replaced the space with her branch.
"Wingardium leviosa," Alice said, levitating the branch in to the air high enough and far enough away from her that there was plenty of room in case the spell didn't work quite as planned.
"Fixate," Alice said as soon as it was a good height.
"Alright...here goes nothing," she mumbled to herself. Alice visioned the smoothest wooden pole that she could think of.
"Palus," Alice said with a gentle flick.
Alice smiled, somewhat pleased with herself as she watched the branch starting to become a smooth pole. Things definitely seemed to be going quicker and smoother with this than with trying to turn the scarf into a blanket!