 St Mungos Mod4 Privet Drive Mod
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Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Narnia
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Zephyr Amstern
Ravenclaw First Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Florence Schultz
Slytherin Fifth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Tristan Rivers
Hufflepuff Seventh Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Antony Vexmoor
Ravenclaw Sixth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Nathaniel Hensley
Slytherin Second Year
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|  Baguette | there is no D in my name | TRAITORclaw | Queenie of Narnia
Flipping over and reading her card, Vashti was fairly sure she knew what it was. Now the only problem was...how was she going to make it? She walked to one of the boxes, digging around to see what might be of use for her project. She found some play-doh/clay, which could be useful for the body, and although it wasn't the right color, she could fix that. She also discovered a few packages of white feathers, some pipe cleaners, little fuzzy balls, and a Chinese fan. That could probably help with making the tail. She also grabbed a couple bottles of glue to help with sticking things on. Clutching her materials, she read over her card again to make sure she'd gotten everything she needed.
There was one line she felt she hadn't gotten anything for, but upon rereading it, she got an idea on how to work it into her model, and so she began digging through the box again, searching until she found a little package of seeds. This would do nicely.
Vashti sat down in a spot where she had plenty of room to spread her materials out and started with the clay and the play-doh, carefully trying to mold it into a body, neck, and head for her creature. It wasn't working so well as one giant piece, so after several minutes, she decided to split it into three separate pieces, rounding the smallest piece out for the head, rolling the second in-between her hands to make the longish neck, and rounding out the third piece to make its body. She then took the next few minutes connecting the three pieces, head to neck, neck to body. The head and neck connected fine, as did the neck and body, but as she curved the neck upward, it kept looking like it might fall over, so she pulled out her wand and said, "Fixate." The neck stayed in its place.
Now for the color. Pointing her wand at her play-doh bird, she said, "Pingo Blue!" As she said it, deep blue bubbles popped out of her wand and splattered on her model, covering it in the blue paint. She did it a second time to make sure she covered every inch of it in blue.
Next Vashti took a little bit more clay in her hands and molded it into two open triangles for the beak. She then stuck it onto the front of the head and pulled her wand out once more to fixate it then gave it a grayish-brown color. Then, tearing open the packet of seeds, she took out a few and stuck them into the bird's open mouth, as if it was eating them.
Now for the head decoration thing. She took the pipe cleaners, little fuzz balls, and a bottle of glue and begin working on sticking the fuzz balls to one end of each of the pipe cleaners. Once that was done, she began sticking the pipe cleaners to the back of her bird-model's head so that they stuck up to make that head decoration as described on the card. Thankfully, the pipe cleaners were stiff enough to stay up without forcing her to use fixate on them, but flexible enough to let her bend them slightly and adjust them to form a sort of "crown." She once again used the color spell to give the little fuzz balls a dark bluish-black color.
And now - feather time! A.k.a. the potentially very messy part. Vashti grabbed a package of feather and tried to open it as carefully as possible so as to prevent the feathers from spewing all over the place. A few managed to fly out but got caught in her hair before they could float away. Taking a small handful, she placed them carefully over the Chinese fan, making sure they all faced the same way. She worked on one side first, using a combination of glue and fixate to keep the feathers in their place, and stopped that only once the fan could no longer be seen. She then repeated this process with the other side until the entire fan looked nothing like itself any longer - it was just a bunch of long white feather all stuck closely together.
Vashti blew a few strands of hair and feathers out of her face as she pointed her wand at the feather!fan. She gave them a pale green color, adding a large-ish spot of light brown and deep blue. Then, once satisfied with te color, she glued it to the hindquarters of her model, giving it its fanned tail feathers.
Now, letting out a long, deep breath, she took a few steps back to look at her handiwork, checking for anything she might've forgotten. Instantly she realized she hadn't given the poor bird any legs or eyes. She amended this by searching - and fortunately, finding - two black marbles; she stuck these one either side of the head to represent the bird's eyes. Then she picked up to sticks lying on the ground, broke off any parts of it that didn't help it look like legs/feet/toes, and carefully picked up the body of the bird to stick the twig-legs into its underbelly. She fixated it to ensure it wouldn't fall.
There. That kind of looked like a peacock, didn't it?
"I think I'll call you Lucius," she told it before raising her hand. "Professor, I think I'm done.
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