g_g faced her pillow. "Okay...concentrate.." she breathed deeply, then, "Reducto!" the pillow suddenly exploded sending feathers to go everywhere, then slowly fall to the ground.

Julia wrinkles her nose as feathers cover herself and the Slytherin. Ooohhh you're totally asking for it, she thinks, eyeing the girl. She picks the feathers off her robes and throws them down on the floor just before the girl repairs her pillow.

Feeling a mischievous feeling build up inside of her, Julia points her wand at her pillow. Casually doing the wand motions, she says, "Reducto!" She watches with a grin as her pillow bursts and the white feathers shoot up into the air, then gently fall back to the ground.

Giggling quietly, she picks up a few feathers and sticks them in her pockets. I could use these later, she thinks with a smirk on her face, then pointing her wand at the pile of remaining feathers. "Reparo!" The pillow was now whole again, yet it looked smaller because some of the feathers were gone. How did I suddenly become so good at this? In my third year I did horrible at this class... now suddenly I'm brilliant at it. What's up with that?

Kay grabbed a pillow and moved to the right side of the room, far away from Rave. No one knows but him, she thought wistfully as she sat the pillow onto the ground. Two days ago, I would not have given the effects of this spell a second thought. She heard a loud voice and then soft blast from the opposite side of the room and saw feathers falling like snow.

She shook her head at the mess caused by Rave and turned back to the pillow she was about to practice on. Wand in her right hand, an intense look appeared on Kay's face for a split second while she made a sharp jab and outward motion from the center of her body outward on her right side. Reducto!

The pillow exploded on the stone floor and Kay couldn't help but smile because she managed to pull off the spell without speaking. To break the silence, she flicked her wand. "Reparo!" she cheerfully commanded and watched the pillow repair itself.

Mandi takes her pillow and finds a corner to practice.She had watched the Professor demonstrate the proper way and hoped that she could do it right. She held her wand in her wand hand and with an outward motion she said "Reducto". Her pillow burst and the feathers inside flew all over. She then said the incantation "Reparo" and the pillow was whole again. "Wow, that was incredible, I think I'll try that again."

Nik looked around lazily at the other students who were frantically exploding their own pillows. He caught sight of Harrison and smirked when she pulled off the spell non-verbally. Show off, he thought.

He took out his wand and jabbed it in the direction of his pillow, just the way the professor had shown them and said clearly, "Reducto!" The pillow exploded and scattered feathers all around him. He felt an odd kind of satisfaction as he watched the feathers fall. Reparo he thought clearly, using what they had learnt in the last charms class, and watched as the feathers and pillow reconstructed itself to shape a perfect pillow again.

Amber picked up her pillow. She took a deep breath and concentrated. Forcefully, she said: "REDUCTO!". Immediately her pillow blew up and feathers went flying everywhere. She scrambled about, muttering 'Sorry' to those who had her pillow's feathers on them. Amber muttered, "Reparo." At once her pillow was back to normal.

Francesca looked around and held in a giggle at all the people who were making their pillows explode. She noticed Nik looking towards the same older Ravenclaw girl that Professor Craft took points from in her class. She had performed the spell nonverbally. She's interesting. Hmm.

She took out her wand and looked at the pillow. The objective was to make it explode then put it back together again. She spoke very clearly the word "reducto" and watched in amusement as the feathers scattered everywhere. She cleared her thoughts and remembered something from Charms that the brilliant professor had taught them. She thought the spell reparo and got a good feeling when the pillow repared itself.

She watched the rest of the class attempt to do what she did so easily. She was not advanced, but she learned things like this quickly. Since she was standing near Nik, when she was placing her wand back where she had it in the first place, she 'accidentally' poked Nik in the ribs with it.

"Sorry." She said using her sickening sweet voice that she used when she had to apologize for breaking something at home.

"I think I'll do it again!" she thought smiling excitedly. "Reparo!" she said ponting to the destructed pillow. the feathers amazingly rose to te air, as did the cloth and the pillow was reconstructed. "Okay...once more..." she said to herself.

Brianna raised her wand and pointed it at her destroyed pillow, and said, "Reparo," the feathers started to go into what was left of the pillow, but the cloth didn't stich themselves together, "Close," she muttered to herself, "but it's kind've not good enough."

Crystal decided to move towards the back of the room to practice. She placed her pillow on the floor in front of her and stepped back a few paces. " Okay....Now it's re-DUC-to, not RE-duc-to..." She knew that if she didn't say it properly, nothing would happen. She took a breath , and with a quick jab outward from her body, said decisively
" Reducto!" and watched as the pillow ripped open, spilling its feathery contents.
" OOh...I like this spell. " she said, grinning. Somehow, it was very entertaining to blow up a pillow. She then remembered she was supposed to fix the pillow. " Oh...yes.. Reparo!" She watched as the pillow seamlessly sewed itself back together.

Phoebe walked up and took a pillow. She moved to a corner away from most people. After watching a few people blow up there pillows she thought hard about the spell in her head. Not daring to imagine if it was a real person she aimed her wand at the pillow and said "Reducto" Nothing happened she tried a few more times but still nothing hppened. "Reducto she said a gain. A tiny rip appeared in the pillow but that was all. Phoebe raised her hand waiting for the proffesors help.

Edaj grabbed her pillow, took out her wand, and went over to Phoebe. she set it down, said, "REducto!' and did the movement the proffessor had said, and her pillow ripped open.

"Phoebe, you need any help?" she asked.

Hermy chose a pillow and placed it a few feet away. She picked up her wand in her left hand and practised the arm action. After getting as close as she was going to get to the movement at this stage, she repeated the spell in her mind, watching the pronounciation. Her eyes focusing, she said "Reducto" and watched as her pillow split. So it didn't blast apart she thought to herself, at least I managed something. She said "Reparo" to fix the pillow and tried once more.

Luna smiled as she whipped out her wand... 'this should be fairly easy' she thaught, remembering the times during the holidays she had smashed her fathers possessions and trashed the house. After placing the cushion at a reasonalble distance from her she forcefully jabbed her wand in the direction of the pillow "reducto!". The pillow burst into a flurry of white feathers... surpisingly they didnt spread around the room but landed in a fairly neat pile after floating to the ground... "meh, I guess I must have been angry when I blew appart that piano" she said to herself

Nik had not noticed anybody standing near him, and he was just about to try the spell again when he felt something sharp jab him in the side. "Oof!" He exclaimed, and turned angrily to the person who had poked him, but broke into a smile when he realized who it was.

Rubbing his ribs he poked her in the side as retribution, "You're lucky I don't kick."

He pulled his repaired pillow back towards him and tried the spell again, "Reducto" the pillow burst violently once more and he watched in amusement as the feathers landed in Franchesca's hair.

Then he lazily waved his wand towards the mess and said the incantation for the repairing spell. Deliberately missing the feathers in Fran's hair he repaired the pillow while leaving the feathers on her.

Brittny timidly raised her wand and casually flicked it, "Reducto!" she said, hoping for the best- but unfortunatly, the pillow remained still as whole and plump as when she got it. Brittany raised her wand again and said more powerfully, "Reducto!" and she raised her wand and flicked it once again.

This time the pillow exploded into a thousand pieces and Brittany watched in amuesment as they floated through the room. She flicked her wand again and muttered, "Reparo!"

Francesca raised a brow at Nik' reaction to poking him by 'accident'. When she got her wand out again, she was poked in the ribs by Nik. She giggled when he said something about kicking and retribution.

"I do kick though. Of course you knew that already."

She winked at him as she tried the spell again. "Reducto" The pillow then exploded and feathers flied everywhere. She ran her hair through her fingers (not that she had much to run through them) and ended up holding a giant wad of feathers. She looked over at Nik and back at the feathers in her hand.

She repaired her own pillow again, leaving the feathers from Nik's in her hand. She had an idea as to what she could do with those. She took one of the longer feathers and started tickling Nik in the neck with it. She had nothing else to do at the moment so this was amusement and she always craved it.

lizzy pointed her wand at her pillow and shouted "reducto" very clearly. the pillow burst and white feathers shot into the air. lizzy smiled and gave her wand a casual flick whilst saying "reparo". she watched as the pillow pulled its self together quickly. lizzy repeated the incantation until her pillow responded to a small whisper and she no longer needed to shout the incantation.

srimathi pointed her wand at the pillow and with a sharp jab just as the professor has shown yelled reducto!!!!!and the pillow suddenly burst sending feathers in the air.wow said srimathi

fuj got her pillow, stood at the back of the class, and remembered all the times her brother had annoyed her. when she felt really annoyed, she jabbed her wand at the pillow and said reducto. the pillow exploded, and fuj could not wait intil she could show her brother this. she tried doing reparo nonverbally, and to her surprise, it worked.

Rae wandered among the students. "Okay... does anyone have any questions or need any pointers?"

Sylvia carefully listened to Professor Rae. Then she attempted the spell. "Reducto," Sylvia said in a regular tone. The pillow than blew up and feathers landed in neat clumps near her desk. A mischeivious smile crept upon Sylvia's face. She had an idea. What if I made the pillow burst with so much pressure that it exploded out of the classroom? Sylvia then tried the spell again after she repaired the pillow. "Reducto!" Sylvia stated with much more feeling. The pillow's feathers exploded across the room, but there were no fluffy white feathers in the hall. Sylvia repaired the pillow and prepared to try again.

Elijah recalled the use of the Reductor spell Rae was talking about, and felt confident with carrying this one out. He strutted up to get a pillow of his own and then proceeded to an area of the classroom that would allow room for feathers to be blown about.

With his pillow infront of him, and want in hand, Elijah took his stance as always practiced in class, jabbed his wand in the direction of his pillow, "Reducto!" and with a slight pop, feathers were blown in every direction. He smiled to himsel and gave a satisfied nod. With another swish and flick of his wrist, "Reparo!" the air made a soft sucking sound as the pillow brought itself back together to it's original state. Elijah smiled once more and twirlled his wand around in his hand surveying the rest of the classroom.

His eyes fell on Kay as he watched her non-verbally use the spell, and made a slight face. At this age, he still hadn't mastered non-verbal spells and he really needed to. There appeared to also be some commotion going on between a Slytherin student, Kay and Julia, now that Elijah paid closser attention.

He made no move to attempt at interfering and went back to his own spell casting.

srimathi burst the pillow again and again
she was having such fun

Luna raised her hand over the commotion of flying feathers and the tension. "professor, can this spell only be used on objects?" she asked, "what if someone tried to cast it on a person... would it, ya know... like blow you up?" she asked slightly worriedly.