Charms Class #1
 

Alex strolled in the classroom, giving the Professor a small nod as she entered. She looked around and noticed a lot of things, including a cage with twittering birds in it. She frowned for a moment and then quickly and gracefully moved through that rows of seats, all the way at the back of the classroom. She placed her bag underneath her chair and took a seat.

She grabbed her bag, ince again, and took out a piece of parchment and her quill. She was tempted to doodle on it, but she decided not to. Her wand was already out on her desk. Staring up at the Professor, she waited for instructions. Giving a large, but quiet sigh, she watched intently and half-interested as more students started filing in the classroom. She was hoping that Nadia would get there soon. Out of habit, she started tapping her figher lightly on the desk.

Christy entered in the Charms classroom. She take a seat at the front of the class. She need to be very concentrated. She took out her parchment, quill, book and wand. Then she scanned the room, there were mosly random items: spare quills, bits of parchment, old chairs, books of varying sizes, even an old desk with only three legs. There was also a large cage with many twittering birds in it, and a large crate, which was covered but smelled very good.

Caleb walks in and falls into a chair. He is worn out from his fight with Adz. Charms should help that. He began to look around. This was an interesting classroom. So many things to occupy his thoughts.

Just to prove caleb wrong, Adz walked in and sat down. Adz was very good at charms, and had been called a 'model student' at many times. This should be easy.
"Good morning professor" Adz chanted politely.

Alex watched as a Slytherin entered the classroom and had also heard the Gryffindor's comment about sucking up. "And yet, Slytherin seems to be ahead of Gryffindor," she snapped and turned her gaze back on the Professor. There was really no need for rude comments, besides saying "hello" is not really sucking up, it's more about being polite. She shook her head and wondered why was there the need for fighting and rude comments, when there were more improtant things to worry about outside of Hogwarts. They needed to be strong and united on the inside.

Adz smiled at Alex, with a thankful glance.
"I don't need to suck up caleb. I'm already smarter than you...." Adz didn't mean to brag - but he deserved that....

Martha walks into the classroom and takes a seat towards the front. She pulls out a few pages of blank parchment, her quill, and some ink, and also her wand. She then waits patiently for class to start.

Sarah entered the classroom, her heavy bag almost dragging her right shoulder down....she wondered where to sit...she made her way towards that Ravenclaw girl ,whose name she dint know.
She asked,"would u mind if i sit here?" indicating to the seat next to her

Nadia walked in and looked for a spare seat, soon dropping her things by the side of her house mate Alex, only to have where to feel uncomfortable. Sadly, not even a second after she set her bottom on said seat, she already was picking part of a conversation going on which was not the friendest and not to mention provocative from one Gryffindor students.

Not even the start of the class, Nadia though and she raised her hand, meaning to catch the professor attention and ask of her that she would put at end to this before it went out of hand.

Lauren entered the class with a warm smile on her face. She wasvery exicted to start this lesson. She took a seat, and pulled out a piece of parchement and a quill, waiting for the class to begin.

Caleb answered "Because this is the best school in the world!" with a big grin.

Alex gave a small nod to Nadia and watched her as she sat down. When hearing the Professor talk, she turned her gaze back on her. Raising her hand, she said: "Well, one of the main reasons would be because they are extremley useful at times and you can protect yourself with them. Also, they are useful when duelling with someone, whether it is a friendly duel or an actual one," she added.

With that she put her hand down and watched the other people raise their hands and give answers. She jotted things down at the same time, after all, you could never have too many notes. They will all be useful in the end.

Sarah thought exasperatedly,that this Gryffindor-Slytherin hatred wud never come to an end.
she thought how gud it was taht she was a Ravenclaw...she dint want all this rivalry stuff

Lauren raised her hand slowly. She wasnt sure if her answer was correct, or even close to something like that, but she thought it was worth trying.

"It is important because in the wizarding world, we may come acorss a situation when we need to do something particular that requires a charm or spell to complete it. Also, I believe some charms may be used for security purposes."

She made an uneasy smile, thinking her answer was a bit off.

Nadia thought she would choke ast the first response. Wasn't that the guy accussing people of being suck-ups?

Nadia raised her hand, "The brand of magic known as Charms include many spells which are essential to every day life activities to a wizard, life-saving spells even. Because it includes the properties of the elements, produces behavior not natural or inner to the objects it enchants, helps in the elaboration of magical objects and because it maybe deals with the most extensive of the list of spells in the science of magic, Charms must be only one of the most important branches in magic."

Sarah thought,she raised her hand
and finally said,"that Charms was important becuz withhout Charms Magical studies wud be incomplete"

Farina tried to slide into class as quietly as she could, she really didn't want to get Gryffindor into trouble for her tardiness but she had gotten lost on the way. Spotting Caleb, she quickly sat nearby him and tried to look attentive while resting her Quill on her parchment.

Since class had just begun, Martha looks up at the girl and nods her head 'Yes', and then turns her attention back to the professor.

Kate looked at the Gryffindor who answered first with a questioning look. "While I appreciate your sentiments toward our school, I was looking more for why it is necessary to study Charms in general."


Kate smiled at Lee's answer. "That's correct, Lee. 5 points to Hufflepuff. Charms is the foundation on which the rest of magic is built. Without a basic knowledge of Charms, all other study is essentially usless in the magical world. That is why almost every specialized profession requires a backround in Charms work, including aurors, healers and many more. Now, a question for the older students; who can tell me what we studied last term?


OOC: To the other people who answered: I'm not ignoring you, but Lee is the first one to answer correctly, so I am awarding him the points and responding to his answer.

Lee raised his hand again "I think we learned the unlocking charm Alohomora, but that might have beent he term before. My mind is really abandoning me at the moment," Lee said not so sure with his answer this time.

Alex raised her hand. "From what I remember, we learned something along the lines of Vanishing Charms, Unlocking Charms - Alohomora, Hovering Charms - Wingardium Leviosa, Reparo, Lumos & Nox. Oh and Summoning Charms as well," she added. Errr, there were probably more things, but her memory usually dies on her quite quickly. She blinked and stared up at the Professor, hoping that she listed the right ones. If not ... oh well, it was defintley worth a try.

Christy wrote Lee's definition in her note book, and waited for the older students response. "Interesting class, what will they say?" Christy thought...

"Professor," Arkee blurted out, her arm waving in the air, "Can't charms also be sort of like our tools for everyday life?"

Karen writes down some points that the students were making and then sat back in her chair, waiting for the Professor to move on.

"Yes, of course. I meant to imply that, but obviously didn't do a very good job. The difference between living as a muggle and living as a witch or wizard is our ability to accomplish tasks with charms instead of doing without. Thank you for helping to point that out."
Kate listened to the answers people were giving, a little disappointed that no one remembered whaat they had done last term. "I guess it's been a longer summer than I thought. Alex, you're right, we did study Wingardium Leviosa and Accio, levitation and summoning, but it must have been a different term when you did the others. Does anyone know the other two spells we learned last term?"

"Errr, didn't we learn Finite Incantatum and the Blasting Charm ... I forgot what it was called," she said, very unsure. Frowning, she looked around the room and her eyes finally rested on Nadia. She would surely know the answer to that question. Poking her in the shoulder, she pointed at the teacher. It looked like Nadia had actually drifted away from the class. That wasn't like her. After poking Nadia, Alex turned her gaze back on the Professor and blinked at her. She started biting her lip and that was never a good sign.

Farina was scribbling some notes when she saw Caleb wave from the corner of her eye. She waved back smiling shyly and then waited for the older students to respond.

Zekk looks around nervously before answering the teacher. "Didn't we also study a the silencing charm? I remember one angry canary." He smiles at the memory.

Cherry moved slightly in her seat. She was furious with herself, because it seemed like she couldn't remember a single thing from the lessons she had attended last year. And that made her mad with herself because Nadia and the other Slytherins whom she hadn't met before, Lee and all the others seemed like they all remembered everything, and she just sat there, as if she hadn't been at Hogwarts the previous term at all. She wanted to scream but thought better of it. The Professor wasn't harsh, she knew that from the previous term as well, but screaming in anger would definately not be allowed.

She put these thoughts to the back of her mind for now, as she strained her ears to hear better what was being said.

Quote:

Does anyone know the other two spells we learned last term?"

Nadia raised her hand, "We learned the oppossite to the Summoning Charm Accio, which is the Banishing Charm Afficio."

Farina looked up when the slytherin girl answered the question. She had been day dreaming again and was really tempted to ask Caleb if he wanted to go out to the lake. Ignoring her nerves, she wrote on a spare piece of parchment saying, 'I'll understand if you don't want to but I'm itching to go to the lake, want to join me?'
She then passed the note to him as quickly as she could before she changed her mind.

Caleb read the note, looked at Farina and nodded. He mouthed the words, "meet you there."

Kristal pulled out a piece of parchment and took notes. This was her first year and she wanted to remember all of it.

Kate nodded at the two students who answered, "That's correct. I thought we'd use this first class to mostly review the spells we learned last term. Older students, this will be a good chance for you to perfect you're abilities; younger students, this will give you a chance to learn some extra charms this term. The spells are simple enough to start out with, the hard part is controling them and knowing your limitations." Kate made a flicking motion with her wand toward the chalkboard and words appeared:

"Directions for each spell are on the board. If you need any help or further clarification, don't hesitate to ask me or an older student for help. You may begin practicing."

*Cari wonderd around a class until she found a perfect seat by herself, cari took out her wand, got parchment out... then she sat looking at the professor waiting for her to talk*

Quickly enters classroom, and finds the closest sit open and tries to sit in it with out beein noticed.


OOC: Sorry, just got home from school :worried:

Elizabeth sat next to Cari exicted for class and whispered "hey" too her.

Tao quickly wrote everything down. It's true that she had done all these spells last term, but she thought it best to just write everything down again for safe keeping. She then looked around nervously and watched as other students pulled out their wands and began practicing. Excited to do something for school she quickly got out her wand as well and began pracitcing each charm. She did quite well. The practice she did before the new term had really paid off.

Anila, who had taken a seat with Nadia and Alex - whom she remembered from the few meetings she had with the other Slytherins - whispered a "Hello", and pulled out her wand and began the Accio and Afficio charms, the few that she hadn't studied in depth last term.

She began practicing with a spare textbook from her bag. She banished it first to the opposite wall - where it hit with an echoing thunk, and then slid to the floor- and then summoned it to her, though it landed further than she was aiming for.

She winced slightly at her mistakes, but kept practicing.

Jenna made sure to write everything down quickly. Accio and Silencio she knew ver well, and only did them a few times. She drew her quill towards her, and raised her wand.

"Afficio quill!" The quill glided off the table smoothly and landed on the floor in front of her.

"Accio." She murmered, and the quill flew back to where it started from. She smiled despite herself, but immediately hid it with a face of concentration.

Christy wrote the directions for each spell in her note book and started practcing. She started with Accio and Levitation Charm. She had been successful in her Levitation Charm, but Accio was more conplicated. She made some mistakes but kept practcing.

Sunny wrote the new Charms down and then began practicing. Accio and Afficio were relatively easy for her, with small objects at least. She was able to perform the levitating charm on her feather as well. She frowned when she saw the silencing charm. How was she supposed to practice that one? She looked around and didn't see any animals in the class, so she continues to practice the summoning, banishing, and levitating charms instead.

Lauren quickly copies the charms down, while repeating them in her head. "Ok, Time to practice" She looked around the room and saw many students practicing the charms. She quietly took out her want and place her quill down in front of her. "Wingardium Leviosa!" She said, and as she did, her quill began to float. She gave a quick smile, and then moved on to the next charm.

Silvie looked around. She felt so confused! She read the instructions in the board and wrote them down in her parchment. After taking out her wand, she stared at a book sitting on top of a shelf. "Accio book", she said a bit unsure, but when the book came flying to her hands, she grinned and kept practicing.

Anna took a seat near the back of the class, taking out her quill and some parchment for note taking. Glancing around the room she looked for someone she knew reletivly well. No luck. She didn't know many people since it was her second year at school and was too shy to introduce herself. Sighing to herself she looked down at the blank peice of parchment on her desk and writting her name on it.

She tried to reach back into last year to recall some of the charms she had learned. "Accio, Affio..." but they had all been said before. "No need repeating them. She thought to herself listening to the professor.

Coping down the list of spells she reached into her bag and pulled out her wand. Smiling to herself she ran her finger down the list of spells once more. "I guess i'll start out with..." She paused to think of the one she wasn't very good at. "..Accio." She decided.

Gripping her wand she muttered the words with a flick towards her spell book. She sent it flying across the room, clattering to a stop on the other side of the room. The pages seemed to be a bit wrinkled.Going over to pick it up she thougt to herself, "that one will need a bit of work" She thought and attemped once more.

Summer takes out her wand and trys to use teh Accio spell to bring the quill forward. "Accio Quill!" she says as it lays there. "Ok Summer you can do this, try it again" She thinks to herself. "Accio Quill!" she repeats this time with the quill comming flying at her.

Amaris managed to write several notes in her parchment in a rather untidy scrawl. She smiled at the Professor and nodded. Charms was one of her favorite classes. It was also one of the few things she was actually good at. Care of Magical Creatures was the other one. Amaris had always had a love for magical creatures and nonmagical as well. Well, all except mice. Making a mental note to visit the animal hospital Professor Dainsie was in charge of Amaris patted her robes as if looking for something.


A humming sound was coming from the top of the Gryffindor girl's head. Ama smiled and took off her hat, pulling from inside it a lilac pigmy puff. She placed it on her desk as the little fur ball made noises showing his content state at being touched and handled.


"All right, Booger," she whispered and pulled out her wand. "I'm not going to hurt you. Don't worry."


Deciding that she would start with the easiest of Charms, the girl cleared her throat.


"Wingardium Leviosa," she muttered and did the proper wand movement by swishing her wrist from left to right and flicking once quickly.


Booger the pigmy puff began to levitate first a little shaky but then quite smoothly. Amaris let it hover for about three feet from her desk before slowly letting the creature down. Amaris quickly picked up Booger and stroked it, to make sure he wasn't too frightened of his latest experience.

Heshasa copies down the spells on the board. Taking out her quill and wand she points and her quill and says Afficio quill. The quill just lays there staring inenly at it she says again Afficio quill this time the quill slides under the chair in front of her.

Excited at her success she quickly galnces at the board Accio she thinks. Ok she said quietly. Accio quill, the quill just sat there and did not move. After three more failed attempts the quill came flying back to her and gratefully she decided to try levitating it.

Wingardium Leviosa the said under her breath. Swishing and flicking her wand she was excited to see that at once in rose into the air. She let it down with a thump and moved on.

Silencio...hmmm. Heshasa took a mouse from a near by box and jabbed at it poking in in the eye.Opps blushing she tried again sliencio. She mouse squeaked louder than ever. Getting frustared she spoke clearly and strongly jabbing just right. The mouse fell slient and tried to bite her hand that was lying on the table.

Smiling to herself she replaced the mouse and continued to practice the rest of the charms some more.

Pacilla sat in her seat, carefully taking some neat notes on all that they had said. Unfortunately, she didn't remember much of what they had learned last term so she couldn't answer the question and was glad for a review. She wrote down the charms and wondered which she should practice using first. Since she didn't have much of a preference, she thought she'd practice "Wingardium Leviosa".

She pulled a quill out of her bag and placed it neatly on the desk. Raising her wand, she cleared her throat, and quietly muttered "Wingardium Levi -" She paused, turning red, she forgot how to say the last part of the charm. She reread the charm and made sure she had it all memorized and took a deep breath and started again. "Wingardium Leviosa!" She said, but forgot to do the 'swish-and-flick' motion, and only did a 'swish-and-poke'. Oh, goodness, I've got to work on that more... She tried a couple more times and finally had it near perfection, and then she started trying to summon her quill towards her...

Taking a leaf from Amaris Chaos' book (who would have thought? :huh: ), Nadia reached for her bag pocket to take a fluffy, pinkish-voilet ball of furr that was her new Pygmy Puff, of the name Pufflespuff but it was Puffles for short. As soon as her hand had reached for the creature, Nadia found the creature had its mouth already attatched to her hand. By the look of it, trying to eat Nadia.

"Aren't you a bit small to be a depredator?" Nadia asked, frowning at the creature and placing it on the desk. With a flick of her wand, Nadia had pushed the creature aside with Afficio, and as it reached the wall of the classroom, Nadia performed the Summoning charm with the same gesture to drag it back before it fell. She commented with some content, "What do you say, Puffles? Not bad, eh?"

The little creature looked somewhat winded to say the least. At some point, not as much as Nadia made Puffles hover over her but as she let the hairball fall back down and therefore watching the creature's expression of fear at said fall, Nadia started to get concerned if this would be considered animal cruely. Worried also because of the animal health ('Yeah, like you care...'), Nadia let it get away without any more of that experimenting and staying with Silencing Charms, at least with it.

Her Silencing Charms had improved since her first year, she must admit. At this point, even if the Pygmy Puff made little to no noise on its own (unless it ate), she was able to perform a whole-body silence charm. Even if Puffles made another type of noise, like, er, walk with rubber shoes Nadia could have performed for it, nothing would be heard.

Kelli coppied down the notes up on the board and started practicing them. "Wingardium Leviosa" she said pointing her wand toward a feather she had. Nothing happened. She tried again, "Wingardium Leviosa" the feather raised off the table about an inch. "Finally", she thought. She practiced it a little more before trying Accio.

Christy pulled out some books from her bag and started practcing Accio Charm. She flicked her wand towards the book;

'Accio Book' nothing happened. She tried again but the effect was the same. She tried doing it with her quill. Still nothing...She returned again to her book..'Accio Book!' This is not working... Christy thought. She re-read her notes again and tried again.

'Accio book!' the book started moving but it stoped before it could reach Christy's hands. She tried a a few more time until she reached perfection. The Accio and Levitation Charm were good, so she went to the next ones.

Banishing: Afficio, wand motion: flick towards desired object
Silencing: Silencio, wand motion: jab at desired object...

'Hummm...I think I'll start with the Silencing one' she said to herself. The Silencing Charm was harder, but she used to see her mother using it in their old Fwooper, so it couldn't be soo difficult. As she scanned the room, she saw a little mouse..."Petrificus Totalus!" and the mouse froze like a rock. Christy saw a couple of cages near the door..."Accio cage!" nothing happened...she tried again and the cage came flying slowly to her. She grabbed it with a smile and put the mouse inside it. 'Finite Incantatem' and the mouse started screeching inside the cage. "Silencio" but the lil' one didn't stop...

Ozzy took out his quill, some ink and his Charms book. He scribbled down some notes before deciding to practace the spells on the black board. "Wingardium Leviosa". He said out load once to make sure he had pronounced it right. he placed his quill on the desk and pulled out his wand. "Wingardium leviosa!" He said as he gave his wand a swish and flick and directed his wand towards his quill. The object floated 5 feet in the air before he let it fall neatly on his desk. He smiled and took some more notes before trying out the other spells listed on the board.

Christy kept trying the silencing charm on the mouse. But it always went wrong. She wrote her mistakes and review her notes and books.

jab at desired object...jab at desired object...jab at desired object she repeated to herself. Concentrate Christy.... she did the right wand move and said "Silencio!" the mouse stoped screeching, but after a few secondes he started screaming again.' I was almost there!' she said to herself. She kept trying...sometimes she grabbed the wand too firmly or too softly. She needed balance. The charm was getting quite perfect, but she decided to advance to the next one.

Banishing: Afficio, wand motion: flick towards desired object...

'Finally...' she muttered to herself. She re-read the note a couple of times and practised the wand moving. Then she turned to her book..."Afficio!" the book moved a few milimetres away. Well..that's a start...

"Afficio!"

"Afficio"...

"Afficio"...

It was going very well. But the distance was always the same. flick towards... 'Ok, Flick towards the object. You will move you lil' book!! '

"Afficio!" the book stood in the same place. 'You must be joking...' she said to the book. 'Let's try again'

"Afficio"..."Afficio!" "AFFICIO!" the book didn't move. It looked like a rock. 'Well...scream with the book won't help' Christy said to herself. concentration..

"Afficio!" YAY! finally she reppeled the book, he flew mettres away from her. Christy was smiling at her accomplishment.

Ginny bit her lip softly, fiddled with her wand a bit, and then decided to try the spells. She copied them down from the board quickly, and then started to try them. She sighed in despair, with them not working.

Ginny frowned slightly, and then tried again, I will Not give up! She thought to herself as she picked up her wand once more to try again.

Noel copied down the information on all the charms and then she drew her wand. She managed to banish a piece of old parchment completely, but her quill ended up in tearing itself in half when she tried to summon it. Charms had never been her strong suit but she was rather impressed with her own banishing charm. She continued to practice summoning.

Kate had written down the instructions on the board and with learning the swish and flick movement in Transfiguration she decided to start out with the Levitation Charm. Kate placed her book in front of her and practiced her wand movement, then on the last one she called out "Wingardium Leviosa" and the book hovered quite nicely above her desk. She brought the book down and then decided she might try the Summoning Charm. She walked to the end of the room and pointed her wand at her book. She flicked her wand and called "Accio Book". The book hovered at the desk and then flew at her at blinding speed. Kate ducked from the book before it hit her at high speed. The book hit the wall behind her and fell to the floor. Kate felt embarrassed at the noise. She smiled and quickly grabbed her book. She decided to try again. She knew she needed to try and control it.

roxana was looking all around this was her first time in charms class.She put her quill down and decided to try to the Banishing spell. She saw Christy do the spell. she tried it
"Afficio!"

"Afficio"

she feelt that she wasn't getting it she tried again...
"Afficio!"

"Afficio" ...
she looked around to see if any of her fellow students that mastered the bashing spell were willing to help her on the bashing spell.

Lily raised her wand anfter copyin down the directions on each spell.
"Accio"
Lily pointed at her bag that she had placed a few seats up.Her bag flew to her at an alarmin speed smakin her in the face."Ouch"she muttered as she rubbed the spot.Replacin the bag Lily tried again and did it right this time.With a nod to herself she moved on to the other spells.
"Afficio"Lily pointed at her bag once again this time to send it a few seats up.This time it worked great.Movin on she tried levitaion"Wingardium Leviosa"
Lily this time pointed at her kitten Artemis.Whom in turn levitated about a foot off the desk where she had been layin and watchin.
Lily smiled and lowered the cat whom in turn proceeded to meow at her in anger."Silencio"
Lily laughed at her kitten whom havin not herd it's voice any more curled up.
"Oh! I'm sorry Artemis,Ok I'll fix you up."Lily undid the spell and picked up her mad kitten."Sorry.I'll be nice and warn you first next time,"

"Accio spell book." Her spellbook came towards her.

"Okay." Jenna concentrated hard on the book, and the destination where she wanted it to go.

"Afficio book!" The book wiggled towards the end of the table.

"Okay, not bad, but I can make it smoother." Jenna murmered to herself and tried again.

james wrote down all the charms and their wand movement. Before he started to practice with them. The summoning and bannishing charms were very easy for james. The Levitation and silencing charms were a bit harder for james, since he has not performed them since the last school term.

Rosa quickly wrote down everything that was on the blackboard and then grabbed her wand. she put the parchment and ink back in her bag and put her quill un the table. she'd practiced this before, so she should be able to do it.. she raised her wand, swished it and flicked it and said 'wingardium leviosa!' one corner of the quill came up, but then it fell down again and all that happened was that it rolled over. 'wingardium leviosa!' rosa said again. this time the quill went up a few inches before it fell down again. this was going ok... she decided to continue with accio. she put her quill at the end of her desk and said 'afficcio!' but nothing happened. hadn't she practiced this before. she should be able to now... 'afficio!' she repeated. 'afficio!' the third time she tried, her quill flew up and landed on the floor in front of her desk. 'accio!' she said. her quill stroke the top of her desk and fell to the floor again. 'wingardium leviosa!' rosa said, and she reached for the quill as soon as it raised over her desk. maybe she was really getting the hang of this...

Kate watched the boy enter her class extremely late. "That'll be 5 points. Don't let it happen again or it will be 10." She turned from him and continued to patrol the class, watching as people practiced the charms she'd set before them.


OOC: I've made it very clear that you should not announce your lateness. Next time just RP as if you'd been in class the whole time.

Caleb continued to work on his spells. He eally enjoyed the Accio charm. He kept having his book come from his bag, and then back in. "What a great spell for a lazy boy!" he remarked out loud to himself.

After a few more times of trying that, he tried to figure out what he needed to use to try the Silencio charm. His mind and eye immediately went to Adz. Knowing that probably would be frowned upon, he tried to figure something else.

Marnie sat there staring around the class she was really bad at these she had made her birds voice squeak louder than before
''Someone help please'' Marnie shouted

luna stiffled a chuckle as the late comer sat down,
"wingardium leviosa" she said confidently and her quill floated up and up then fell back down on to the desk
"yes! and ive only tried a few times!"

Ginny writes everything from the board, and attempts the charm. After a while she accomplishes it and smiles proudly.

Christy was quite proud of herself. She had done perfect charms a few time. She was getting professional with the Levitating Charm. Summoning and Banishing charms were turning very easy depending on the size of the object in need of summoning or banishing. She levitated the book onto the desk many times and the quill too. This last one was very easy. Concentrating her thoughts on allowing the book to come towards him, she flicked her wand towards the object and followed this with the "Accio Book!" charm. the book came flying to her.

The Silencing Charm was more difficult. "Silencio" she said as she jab her wand at the little mouse. The mouse become stutterer 'Oh ...I was almost there' After a few more times the incantation became perfect.

Silvie approached the girl shouting for help. "Hi, I'm Silvie" she handed out her hand. "I see that your having a little trouble with the Silencio spell, right? I suppose you are a first year then? But don't worry! I'll help you" "Well, I don't mean to brag, but I'm actually pretty good at this one!". Silvie took out her wand. "Look! Just do this and then this" she said while moving her wand around. "Say the spell loud and clear, and aim at the target holding your wand firmly." Silvie looked at the girl and smiled kindly. "Go ahead! Try!"

Emily was writing the last things in her notebook, When she was finished she decided to give it all a try. She reached in ehr bag for something light she found her spare quill and set it on the desk as took a step backwards and tried the incatation. The book made a feble struggle to move but in the end did not at all. She tried again this time the quill got off the desk an inch and fell abck down.
"Ohh i cant do this"
Even after she said that she tried one more time, this time the quill made it up into the air and a few inches towards her but it fell shortly afterwards. She kept trying and by the time she had done it over a dozen times she was about ready to give up.
'one more try then ill be done' she thought
She tried once more and this time the quill made it all the way to her hand. She was sooo happy she couldnt believe it happwened she had really done it. She smilied around at everyone. She had done the charm and even if it took her forever she was still happy.

Then Emily figured out she was doing the wrong spellshe felt embarassed adn alone but she now new why the animal was sitting in front of her. She tried this charm. It seemed even more difficult than the first now she had to keep her spirits up long enough to get the caharm right. Everytime she tried to make to bird quiet it seemed as though it kept on sqawking even louder. She kept trying although difficult ashe knew she would eventually get it. By her fourth try she had done it. the bird kept opening its mouth but no sound came ut. Again she was so happy she had finally done it. But she hoped no one noticed she was doing to wrong charm. She had finally gotten two charms correct all in one classs period she hwas soo happy.

"Accio." This time, Jenna called the book towards her. She stacked the book with her sketchbook on top.

"Concentrate. Concentrate." Jenna gritted her teeth, muttering to herself.

"Afficio!" The books flew towards the end of the table so fast that they flew off the end and onto the floor. The cover of her already-beat-up sketchbook fell off, and left a few pages askew.

"Accio." The books, cover, and pages flew towards her.

"Reparo." She murmered, blushing at her stupid mistake. The pages reassembled themselves and the cover flew back into place. Ugh, I'm an idiot." She thought angrily to herself. I need to practice more with just the spellbook.

Hastily, she placed her spellbook, alone, into position, and tried banishing it. It worked much smoother than when she first tried it, and could easily reach the end of the table without falling off.

After swiftly noting down the necessary wand motions and incantations and taking a few practice runs (not all of which were too successful), Iphigeneia held out her wand once more, took a ready stance and pointed at a pair of spectacles.

"Accio Spectacles!" she cried out, with a wand flick towards the spectacles. The spectacles zoomed across the table towards her--

Afficio Spectacles!

The spectacles came to a sudden stop and took off in direction it had come from. It launched itself off the table - it was going to shatter on the stone floor...

Wingardium Leviosa!

The spectacles paused in mid-air, and slowly, following the motion of Iphigeneia's wand, it began to sway upwards until it was back on the table were it had been in the beginning...

"Excellent," Iphigeneia murmured. She looked around, then pointed her wand at an unopened ink bottle...

Lacie sat straight to say her spells correct and do them right. She open her notebook to copied the notes that seem important. She was writing as fast as she could.

She cleared her throat, "Wingardium Leviosa" waves her wand at her book, her wand moves like the swish and flick motion, it flies up and then drops on the floor.

"Accio Spellbook" She calls her spellbook from the floor, then, it appears on the desk then flies toward her and it hits her in the stomach. She whispered "Ouch!" with the sharp pain from her stomach.

"Silencio Spellbook" She says the spell and her book flies off the table and hits the floor. She saids "Afficio Spellbook" and easily comes up from the floor but doesn't hit her stomach. "Silencio" She says the spell and gives a blue sparkle around the book.

Amaris placed Booger on the desk and smiled at the lilac pigmy puff. Deciding it was best to use an inanimate object for this charm, Ama decided to use her own hat. She placed that besides Booger and stepped about three feet away from the desk.

"Accio hat," said Amaris eloquently and watched the hat zoom towards her smoothly.

Catching it with her free hand, Amaris opted for the Banishing Charm to get it back to the desk.

"Afficio hat."

The hat landed on top of the desk and skidded almost falling over the other side of it. Amaris tried this combination of Charms before taking a seat. It was time for a little break. Then she would work on the silencing charm.

Heshasa was so excited being a first year she had done her charms nearly perfectly she thought to herself maybe I'll be good at THIS subject.

Ozzy looked up to the black board and sighed. "Accio". He said to himself quietly before grabbing his wand and placing his quill at the far end of his desk. He jabbed his wand at the quill. "Accio quill!" He said a bit too loud for his liking, the quill zoomed towards him and landed neatly in his left hand. He grinned and took some notes before he tried the others.

Pacilla continued to work on getting better at the spells. She had done quite good at leviating her quill, and she was getting close to mastering the summoning charm. "Accio!" She chanted, flicking her her wand towards a book that she had placed on the edge of the desk, she was standing about a foot away from her desk. When she said the words, the book slid across the table and started to fly towards her, but then Pacilla noticed that the book was a bit wobbly and she held her hands out to catch it if it fell, though it didn't and flew right into her arms instead. Hugging the book as she stood back up, she placed it on the desk and tried again.

After she had gotten the charm to work on the book very well, she started to practice the banishing charm. She put a piece of paper on her desk and flicked her wand towards it as she said "Affio-" NO!! It's Affi-CI-o, bad me, bad! She flicked her wand again after clearly saying "Afficio!" The paper slid all the way to the end of the desk and even went a bit over but not all the way. Scratching her head, Pacilla tried a couple more times to get the spell good.

Pacilla looked around the room for something to silence so she could practice the silencing charm. She noticed some birds in a cage up front where some other students had gotten a bird from and took one out and brought it to her table. The little critter was cute but also very loud for such a small little feathery birdy. After looking at the bird for a few seconds, she cleared her throat and said "Silencio." As she said the incantation, she made to jab the bird with her wand but of course did not actually hit it. The bird was still yapping. Pacilla tried practicing with it a few more time until she got it again. Then she put the bird back and practiced the leviation charm again while she was waiting for furthur instruction.

since everyone was beening so "concentrated" on there charms Roxana had to work on her own charm. She finallly did get the hang of it tough.

Martha sighs and picks up her wand. She had learned all of these charms last year. She had been hoping to move on...the Professor had said it was just a review. She pulls out her Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2 and places it on the floor a few feet away from her. She flicks her wand at it and says, "Accio Book!" The book floats smoothely and lands back on her desk. Then Martha tried the banishing charm. Flicking her wand once more at the book, she says, "Afficio Book!" The book moved across the room and landed against the wall, exactly where she had wanted it to land.

Then, Martha decides to practice the levitating charm on her book since it was already across the room. She smiles and confidently swishes and flicks her wand as she says, "Wingardium Leviosa!" The book rose in the air and hovers, as if waiting for her next command. She waves her wand towards her while thinking, "Accio Book!" The book then floats back in her direction and lands on her desk.

Happy that she hadn't forgottten the charms she had learned last year, Martha continues to practice, using a variety of things in the classroom.

Rachel walks into the Charms classroom a little uneasy and says "Hello" to the Charms teacher. She enrolls telling him that she is a 1st year Ravenclaw and hopes to excel well in the class. Rachel smiles and takes her seat.

Spotting Nadia working with her new pygmy puff, Laurasia thought that this was a wonderful idea as well. She pulled a small bundle out of her bag & unwrapped her new tiny lilac colored pygmy puff. Not having a name for it yet, she just called it baby.

"Okay baby, we're going to do a bit a magic now." She set the small creature on a desk & walked a bit away from it. Pulling out her wand, she flicked it towards the animal. "Accio pygmy!" The small creature automatically began to come towards her. Quickly she flicked her wand at the on-coming pygmy & called out "Afficio!" Suddenly the pygmy reversed directions & landed back on top of the desk that it had started from.

Smiling Laurasia walked back to the small creature. "Okay, heres another one baby..." She did the appropriate wand motion & called out "Wingardium Leviosa!" the pygmy immediately started to rise. "Woah!" Laurasia called out, as the animal began to climb too high. "Finitae Incantatum!" When the animals dropped, she caught him deftly in her hand.

Okay, one more sweety. Mum needs you to hum a bit. Can you hum for mum?" She gently stroked the pygmy's soft fur & it began to hum softly. "Good." She jabbed her wand towards the pygmy. "Silencio!" Suddenly there was no longer any noise coming from the small animal. Laurasia smiled. "Finitae Incantatum." Just as quickly the humming returned. Laurasia picked up the baby pygmy & stroked him for a few minutes before returning him to his wrappings & her bag.