"Kurumi Hollingberry, this is you, correct?" The 24-year old Apparition Practical Examiner asked whilst she skimmed through the paper that had been forwarded to her which withheld a few information about the young woman standing in front of her. A fresh one, new, and possibly inexperienced. The kind that needed watching over.

Fetching a clipboard from the table, Eliza walked around the desk and approached the examinee. "So, this is your first Apparition exam." That wasn't a question for it's what on the information provided. She gave the girl the once over before letting a brief smile pass her lips. Hopefully she won't have to use her basic knowledge on healing for this one. "If you would please follow me." She nodded towards the center of the room and gestured that this Ms. Hollingberry follow her.

Hoooooooooly kneazle's whiskers.

Kurumi swallowed hard and nodded her head in response. Was it just her or did this woman not seem the most friendly of sorts? Just her luck. Treyen would be hearing about this.

Oh, wait, she got a smile. Sort of. Kurumi wasn't sure what to make of that smile. Professor Scabior sometimes smiled at her in lessons and those were never good smiles.

Not sure if she should reply or not, Kurumi just nodded her head again at the mention of this being her first attempt at this exam. Yeah, it wouldn't have been needed if they had offered lessons at Hogwarts while she had been a student. Shaking her head to try and rid herself of these thoughts, she cleared her throat and took a deep breath as she followed the woman.

She didn't need to say anything yet....right?

Jade said goodbye to Gabi before leaving and entering the practical exam testing center. She saw that the young girl who had been with her was here. Jade walked up to the examiner and said, "Hello. I'm Jade Gemstone and I am here for my practical exam. What do I need to do?"

She was only getting nods in response? She was sure that the girl was capable of speech. Eliza couldn't help a brow from rising. One of the scaredy squirrels. Fairly amusing but she understood how the young ones felt. Not that she had problems when she first apparated. In fact, her examiner had described that she was 'exceptionally impressive'.

But all the same, she lead the way and pivoted to face the girl in a professional manner. She looked down at the clipboard once before speaking up. "Before we start, let me introduce myself Miss Hollingberry." She hugged the clipboard to her chest. "I am Eliza Tohsaka and I will be your examiner for the practical portion of your test." Introducing herself seemed to be an automatic move to her now, every time she had to test someone.

"I trust that your are familiar with the 3 D's of Apparition? Please do keep those in mind as we carry on." It was necessary that this girl not only know, but comprehend the said concepts...or she might end up being splinched. "If you have questions, you can ask me now."

Oh, there was another one.

Eliza promptly put a hand up to stop Miss Hollingberry from speaking just yet while she turned her attention to the new arrival. "Hello Miss Gemstone. If you can just wait for a short while and take a seat," she pointed the bench available for occupancy of those taking the exam. "..I'll finish with Miss Hollingberry here first and then I'll be up to accommodate you." The exam shouldn't take more than fifteen minutes if no problem arises. Gah..It was very tiring sometimes, being the only around for this. Apparently, their Department Head and her Senior were at Hogwarts right now, her other colleagues in the Apparition Team took leaves. So yes, just her.

Suppressing a sigh, she reverted her attention back to the Hogwarts graduate. Okay...now the girl can speak if she wishes to.

Stopping rather suddenly when the woman pivoted to face her, Kurumi bit down nervously on her lower lip as the woman introduced herself and bowed somewhat shyly. The Gryffindor sort of wished that the woman had introduced herself earlier because it sure would have made this brief walk a little less awkward. "Ms. Tohsaka," Kurumi said softly after a formal bow.

3 D's of Apparition? Yep. Familiar with those. She had had to write about them on her written exam after all and it DID seem rather foolish to show up for this exam not knowing anything about them. Only Kurumi didn't voice this out loud and instead just nodded her head in confirmation.

Questions? Oooooooooh just one perhaps. "Um...Ms. Tohsaka...how many attempts do I have to apparate properly before...before I am asked to come back and try again?"

See Treyen?! She didn't use the 'f' word.




Meaning the word failure

Jade nodded at the woman in charge, "Alright. Good luck!" She said to the young girl as she headed over to take her seat. She really hoped that it wouldn't take too long. She had to get back to work.

Good luck, hmm? Yes, these two would definitely be needing that.

There. The girl was talking, speaking like she's supposed to. Yes, people had to verbalize their thoughts especially in times like this.

On to her question. Attempts? Eliza couldn't stop one side of her lip from curling upward. This was VERY amusing. It seemed as though she was already thinking that she was going to fail this test. "Just one, Miss Hollingberry." My, my, my. Was this scaring her off? It was best to explain how they will go through with this, yes? So they can get started and thus, finish quickly too. "Actually, the exam for new applicants is divided into three parts according to difficulty and distance." Easy, Average and of course, the best part, Difficult. Yes. "You will be graded correspondingly in each portion and it will later then be added to determine if you have reached the standards." If she does, she'd get her license. If not, then....NOT.

"Let us begin now, shall we? Just listen carefully to my instructions and you'll be good to go."

With a flick of her wand, Eliza conjured hoops out of thin air and it settled without sound on the floor. "Here's what you will do." She turned her attention back to the girl. "Step into the first hoop and then apparate into the third one." Just like that. As easy as one, two, three..

..................................oh

Kurumi swallowed and nodded, mostly just to show that she was listening and had heard what the woman had said. It was just taking some time to process and register what she had just been told. One try. One chance. Which meant less times messing up. Glass had to be half full, right?

Three parts. One attempt each. Three times apparating. Right. She could do this.

"Understood," Kurumi nodded again, her hands clenched in tight fists by her side as the three hoops appeared and settled on the floor. Slowly, Kurumi stepped into the first hoop and then looked back towards the woman for a brief moment before looking back at the third hoop and resting her violet gaze there for several moments. Tapping her feet against the ground within the hoop a few times, Kurumi closed her eyes and envisioned herself doing the same thing in the third hoop. Slowly, her feet ceased their movement and she once again visualized herself doing the same in the third hoop. Third hoop. Third hoop. Third hoop.

Taking one last slow deep breath, Kurumi moved one foot back and turned quickly, instantly feeling her body somewhat twist and swirl until it suddenly stopped. Afraid to open her eyes at first, Kurumi took a deep breath and willed herself to open her eyes and look down at the ground. She was just a TAD off center, but certainly IN the third hoop and without leaving any bits of her behind.

Smiling, mostly to herself, Kurumi ventured a gaze over towards the woman.

Eliza rapped her pen against the clipboard as she waited for the girl to move, taking note of the expressions on her young features. It was apparent that she was trying not to look nervous but Eliza could still see through it no matter how she hid it. There was a look of determination too, which greatly increased Eliza's amusement.

And then she was off, vanishing with a small POP! from the first hoop and reappearing in the third one just as she was instructed. Hmm. Good, good. Kurumi Holingberry was starting on the right foot. It had been a quick, non-splinch first portion. Without so much as a change in her expression, her eyes met the girl's before she wrote something down. Score and observations and whatnot.

Moving on.

"Let us proceed.." With a snap of her fingers, the hoops on the floor were gone and with her head she gestured the girl to follow her for the next surprise. "So," She lead her towards the white-painted wall that was free of anything. Pulling her wand out once more, she jabbed it towards the space and within a few seconds of wall contortion and modification, a staircase had appeared before them.

Eliza smirked. She hand-picked the carpet,well, she had authority to do so.

"Now, for the second part of your exam Miss Hollingberry, you have to stand here," Her index finger pointed the spot she was standing on which was at the foot of the stairs. "And then you would have to apparate from here to the topmost step, and back again." She got that, yes? Drawing the clipboard against her chest, she stepped out of the way. "You may begin."

So...that meant that she had passed the first part, right? If it hadn't been good enough then the rest of the exam would be called off, yeah?

She really needed to just stop panicking inside of her head and get the job done....which was sort of a cheating task if you asked her. She had to apparate TWICE in this portion of the exam as opposed to just once like she had just done. So, now she was having to apparate at least 4 times. More than she had anticipated. She would be grumbling about all this later...just not now where it could count against her. After a few moments, she took a small step back with one foot and performed a tight turn.

Next thing Kurumi knew her body felt unbalanced and as though she were going to fall backwards...down a flight of stairs! EEK!

Leaning forward, Kurumi took a few stumbling steps forward to catch her balance, but did so with some sort of grace. Phew. Part one accomplished. She took a quick glance down at herself to make sure that all her bits and pieces were still there - which they were, thankfully - and then turned around to look down the staircase and at the spot where she had just been and now needed to return to.

She didn't take too long visualizing this time and had spun around on spot and vanished again. Reappearing with a loud POP, she quickly gave herself a look over and was once again thankful to find that there was no blood. Good. No fainting.

Eliza watched, with sensitively observant eyes as the former Hogwarts student (yes, it was included in the information) began the second part of her exam. She apparated to the top of the stairs, got a little woozy there, lost her footing for a bit but managed to disapparate back to the spot the Practical Examiner had indicated earlier. The pop was louder, but body was still intact.

Hmm. Eliza noted all of her observations before simpering at the girl. "So far, so good Miss Hollingberry." She wasn't going to lie. The girl deserved the license....IF she was going to survive the last portion. Eliza nodded and paced a bit. "As for the third and final segment of this exam, you would have to apparate.." Apparate, apparate, and apparate. That was all there is to it. "...somewhere at the Ministry except on this Floor and quite similar to the second portion, you will then have to disapparate back to this room." Where she'd still be waiting.

"Three Ds, all right? Don't get lost and do not take no more than five minutes to come back."

OOC: You would need to post here first, leaving. Followed by another post with your charrie reappearing in a different location at the Ministry and post here again for the closure. Good luck!

....And while Kurumi Hollingberry was into her task, Eliza flicked her wand at the staircase and the wall swallowed it, then called on the waiting examinee who was at the bench.

"Miss Gemstone? If you could follow me." Testing simultaneously. Kind of. Ugh. Tiring. Was it lunch yet? She wanted to try that arroz caldo her colleagues had for lunch at the Cafeteria yesterday. Sigh. Hopefully they'd have new placements. She'd been going on overtime a lot these past months.

Well, anyway. Leading the examinee to one corner of the room, Eliza conjured what looked like a color wheel mat. Her exam was going to be different from the younger girl since she wasn't a new applicant. She needed only a renewal, therefore, she was already experienced with apparating. "If you could just step on the yellow...triangle." Or whatever it was. She did know colors, yes? "Apparate to the blue-violet to the red back to the yellow." Yellow, blue-violet, red, then yellow. Just as easy as that. "You may begin."

Jade looked up as the young girl had finished her exam. She hoped that she had passed with flying colors. But now it was Jade's turn. She got up and followed Eliza to a giant color wheel that was embedded in the floor. After stepping on the yellow triangle, Eliza told her to apparate to the blue-violent then red and back to yellow. That was easy enough.

Jade closed her eyes picturing herself appear on the blue-violent triangle. She focused all her energy on it and a millisecond later she felt her body turn and warp through the apparition. When she opened them and looked down she was on the blue-violent triangle. Not wanting to waste anymore time (she had no idea how Eliza was tracking her), she quickly focused on the red triangle in her minds eye and slightly turned her body into the turn-warp of the apparition. Not even a second later, she saw that she was standing on the red. And now for the grand finish--she focused on the yellow triangle and a turn-warp apparition second later she was back on the yellow.

When she was done she glanced over at Eliza and asked, "Is that it?"

So far so good....good, Kurumi liked the sound of that and her shoulders relaxed a bit more as well. She could SO do this. After all, if she was able to take care of dragons a little apparition shouldn't be any trouble.

Once one put things in perspective or something.

"Understood," she said, giving the woman a firm nod and then taking a few steps to the side to give herself some room. The problem for her right now was that she was rather unfamiliar with the Ministry. She didn't know what any of the other floors looked like and therefore it was going to be very VERY difficult to actually use the 3 D's this time around. Which is why a momentary look of panic overtook her pale features as she tried to reason this portion out.

Okay, so she had received a tour of the Ministry before...but that had all gone by so quickly that she hardly remembered it. So going to a different department was out of the question. She needed somewhere she had been to recently, today. Somewhere she had spent enough time to have a semi decent picture in her mind.

AHA!

Closing her eyes, Kurumi focused all her energy on a specific location, spun around on the spot and with a loud CRACK was gone.

Understood, she said. Hmm. Eliza watched as the girl went away with another Pop! before turning to her watch, taking note of the time and jotting it down on Miss Hollingberry's practical results on the clipboard. She hoped the girl remembered that there was a five-minute limit and that no splinching of any kind would take place.

Next examinee.

Merlin, she was so hungry. Can these people hurry up? Tilting her head, she watched closely how the woman had apparated from and to the colors she indicated. Hmm. Average speed. She wrote that down on the remarks portion too, along with the observation that the woman needed to close her eyes before going off. As their new Department Head had emphasized, several factors have to be considered during grading and there were a lot of them. With that, Eliza straightened up and cleared her throat.

Is that it?, she heard the woman say which made an eyebrow rise automatically. Too eager to finish, wasn't she? Well, Eliza would love for this session to be over likewise, had it not been for the fact that it wasn't yet.

"No. There's one more task you have to perform." This woman better hurry at it, too. "You will have to apparate to somewhere in the Ministry, except on this floor and disapparate back here again. Take no more than five minutes to do this. And please avoid splinching yourself." Reminders and such. She would always have to tell every examinee the same thing that sometimes she felt like a broken tape. "You may begin."

OOC: You will need three posts for this. First, leaving this room. Second is somewhere in the Ministry, please indicate where and lastly, back here for closure. Good luck!

Jade wryly smiled at Eliza, she had to do more? Well, she should have expected it since the new regulations came into force.

"So just apparate to another place in the Ministry and then back again?" She repeated the instructions just to make sure that she got it. It seemed too easy. Oh well she had better just get it over with.

Wanting to go to a place where she frequently went to outside her own department, she didn't even have to think hard before she could see the MLE Reception and Waiting area in her mind's eye. She could see the reception desk and waiting chairs quite clearly.

Jade focused on herself reappearing there and focused her magic into doing the apparition. She leaned into the turn-wrap of the apparition and unlike beforehand--this time she completely disappeared from the room with a loud CRACK!

POP!

Kurumi reappeared in the room in precisely the same spot she had vanished from only a few minutes earlier - and most certainly under 5 minutes. She was probably closer to being under 3 and a half minutes actually, but she hadn't been checking the time.

Nervously, Kurumi glanced down at herself and fidgeted slightly as she did. To her relief her body was completely unharmed and not a hair was out of place. She pulled down on her skirt and took a quick peek down at her shoes before glancing back at her examiner.

So...did she pass? *fidget fidget*

"Yes." Eliza replied, shooting the young woman a look. What did she want? More? She only fought the urge not to roll her eyes and instead, transferred her weight from her left foot to the right.

As with every other examinee, she watched how the woman went about, and noted down her observations. She disapparated quick this time, Elize noticed. Maybe she was just a bit nervous earlier that it took her a while to get around the first part of the exam? Or were the colors a bit too confusing? Hmm.

Either way, when the woman was gone. Eliza sighed and walked over to the couch and sat down as she waited for the return of her examinees. And then she could have lunch!

As before when she apparated to the MLE Reception and Waiting area, Jade find herself on solid ground after coming out of the turn-warp of the apparition with an slightly audible POP. She looked down and saw that she had landed on exactly the same spot (standing next to the yellow triangle of the color circle) and facing the instructor/examiner.

She gave Eliza a little smile and asked, "Is that is all you need?"

Her stomach was grumbling. Gah! It was almost an hour over for her lunch time. This was too much. Eliza sighed freely, momentarily not caring if she was still appeared full of authority just as the image she wanted to project. Her last two examinees for the morning were still out.......okay, maybe crush that part out because there was Miss Hollingberry, popping back again.

Pursing her lips together, Eliza stood up to meet the young girl. Her limbs were intact and notably, her expression was more relaxed now than the last two portions of her exam although she slightly did notice the fidget fidget. Guess she was getting the hang of things now, hmm. Results now, yes? "Kurumi Hollingberry," She eyed the former Hogwartian intensely. "......you passed." And then she gave her an approving nod followed by a smile.

That was when the other examinee came back too, reappearing on the same spot she left. Impressive. Not to mention that she was gone and back again fast. Eliza wasn't amused with how her questions were coming at her though, but keeping her right conduct in place, she gave her a nod too and returned her smile with a brief one. "Miss Jade Gemstone, you have passed too."

"Both of you, please follow me." She walked to the table, sat down on the chair behind it and opened the first drawer. This wasn't her job, really but since they were still waiting on the new hired hands, she had to take charge. She handed each of them a piece of paper. "Fill up the form and then come back to me to get your license and your license back, respectively." She knew they were eager so they better get to filling out the needed information asap. As for her, more writing down and such, noting two more people who passed today. Thank Merlin there wasn't any splinching!

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Originally Posted by The Form

Name:
DOB:
Age:
Date Tested:
Place of employement and position:
Wand:
Address:
Number of Attempts:
Number of Fails:

Forgetting that she was holding her breath, Kurumi let out an audible squeak when the woman announced that she had passed. OHTHANKMERLIN. A wide smile spread across her face as she followed the woman and accepted one of the forms and promptly began filling it out.



Still with a bright smile on her face, Kurumi approached the scary woman and handed over the form. "Here you are."

Smiling at the young girl beside her as she let out an audible squeak *Jade remembered about being in awe that you passed at something first shot when you are young* Jade thanked Eliza and took the form from her.



Jade quickly filled it out and handed back to Eliza. "Here you go, thanks for being such a great examiner. It wasn't so bad as I thought-- back in South Africa, we had to also prove that we could side-along apparate with the examiner and it was really difficult to get an apparition license."