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.

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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.