Joanne that been sitting there waiting for an opponent to show answered " Sure. I do" and she got up and approached the Hufflepuff boy.

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Celandine let out a little exclamation as Tobi's shield came up between them and pushed her backward. She landed on her butt and stared at her hands. She'd actually managed to touch him but... well she'd felt a zap... but had he? Cela stared at her hands some more, "Tohee?" She looked up at him just as he cast at her. Hit by the spell, Cela stiffened and fell backward, unable to move.

The shield...

Had he felt the zap?

Cela took a breath when he took away the body bind and the tongue tying curse too, yay. Se slowly sat up and looked up at Tobi in absolute awe. That had been a pretty awesome shield. "I've never seen anyone except my brother use a shield to knock someone back like that." Cela told him, taking the gloves and putting them on, a thoughtful expression on her face. She took Tobi's offered hand and pulled herself to her feet, taking a moment to get her balance.

"The targeted shielding... it... works against hexes, jinxes and curses right?" Cela was looking speculatively at her hands as she said this.

"All kinds of curses, you think?" Cela pointed at her exposed skin... her face actually. "Even, a tazer shock curse?"

How neat would it be to apply the lessons learned from Kazimeriz to actually avoid the shocky punishment given by Kazimeriz?

"We should go log the duel. And I think I'll go to the library and do some research." Cela told Tobi, a distracted little smile on her face as she put aside the willow research in favour of zap shielding research... for now.

She had more time for the willow thing anyhow since Professor Ashby had totally taught exactly what she needed in class.

"Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm." Celandine smiled happily, research was win. She was good at it. She'd figure out if this would work in no time.

"Thank you for showing me your shielding technique! I think I learned alot!" Cela waved cheerfully and skipped out of the arena.

"Hey Cela! Wait!" Tobi chase after the spirited girl, he wasn't going to the library, but there were still a few floors he could walk up with her; he dashed out of the dueling arena, limping only slightly.

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Melanie stepped nervously into the dueling area, looking around for Ana. She clutched her wand with a hard grip just in case someone decided to pop out of thin air and hex her. That was a scary thought leaving Melanie to look around wide eyed... just in case.

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Ana spotted Melanie "Hi Lanie!" she called "here".. Ana ran to her "So we should start, we need to bow and all these things i think".
Ana climbed again to the arena when Melanie arrived she bow and walk to the other side and stayed in a attack position "So who start?" she smiled

Lightly covering ayawn with one hand, Mariel casually stepped into the dueling arena and dropped onto one of the seats. She had been up so late the past few nights, studying and finishing homework to help keep Ravenclaw in the lead for House points, and her sleep had been suffering. Hopefully her fatigue wouldn't affect her dueling performance.

Glancing around quickly from her place against the wall, the second year didn't see anyone she knew. Well, Nancy was in her class, so maybe the Slytherin girl would show up sometime soon and they could both finish their assignment. In the meantime, the thirteen year old girl decided to watch the other pairs of duelers to catch a few tips, oh and for entertainment purposes as well.

Nancy quickly walked into the Dueling Arena a rather hectic expression on her face due to the fact that first she'd never ever been in the Dueling Arena before, and second because this whole thing was probably going to be quite time-consuming. The latter reason was even more irritating than the first one since there was a huge pile of unfinished homework waiting for her in the Common Room. Help!

Her blue eyes immediately darted around the arena in search for her friend with whom she was going to finish this DADA assignment and quickly spotted her some place to her left and cheerfully waved at her while striding over to where Mariel was standing. Upon arriving there Nancy gave her friend a small grin and clutching her wand tightly in her hand asked, "Hey! You ready?" Okay, this was going to be interesting...

"You totally were ready, if you had time to do karate stances," Jake smiled, eyeing Cameron as he prepared to duel on his knees. Jake was tempted to make it fair and go on his knees too, but technically, Cameron was down as a result of the duel.

Jake was prepared for Cameron's first attempt at getting him, and it was an added bonus that he reeeeeeeally didn't want the bat bogey hex on him. "Protego!" he yelled, focusing the sheild to where the hex was headed, just about managing to stop it.

Concentrating, Jake sent Cameron's old favourite, the finger removing jinx, straight at the boy, hoping he'd block it this time.

UGH. Staring blankly at Jake, he quickly hardened his grip on his wand after witnessing that his Bat-Bogey Hex totally failed. People these days, just didn't want their bogies to attack them. So mean, maybe Jake could have at least gone easy on him and been affected by the hex. "Well, I was distracted by my awesome karate moves, sooo yeaaah." He chuckled under his breath and pointed his wand at his friend again.

No more times for excuses though, since all of the random duels he faced for the homework and the assignments, he lost them all. Would he lose with Jake again? Well, hopefully not.

And then his worst nightmare. It was the Finger-Removing Jinx, it was the worst jinx for Cam. He was NOT going to lose his poking finger so bringing out his wand, he snapped his wrist and then cast the shield charm. "Protego!" he yelled. It wasn't that focused, he was in panic but at least he didn't get hit by the horrible jinx. Ugh.

"Well Jake, you should know by now that I LOVE my poking finger and losing it... I'd be sad!" But he was still angry at Jakey Wakey at the Lakey since like, he WANTED to make him lose his poking finger. "Ya like birds, Jacob Bakers Jail Upstead?!"

Quickly, he cast the canary-transfiguration hex against him.

As she sat watching the duelers with vague disinterest, Mariel's green eyes landed on the figure who had just walked into the room. Grinning back and returning Nancy's wave, her eyes fell on the wand in her hand. Oh, right, she'd need that. Nodding as she pulled her own wand out of her robe pocket, the second year said as she stood, "Sure, I'm ready." And it could be fun, right? At any rate it was getting the assignment done and out of the way.

Glancing around the room for an empty spot, Mariel walked over to the far side of the arena where no one would get hit by any stray spells, gesturing for her friend to follow. She turned around to face Nancy and thought about what spells to use, nothing too painful of course, and, oh yeah, they were supposed to be working on their focused shields. That too.

Nancy was twirling her wand between her fingers while waiting for her friend to show some reaction to her question. This whole thing was sort of weird since she was going to duel one of her best friends after all, which was just...well, weird. Maybe she should have asked Jack if he wanted to do that part of the DADA assignment with her, it would have been loads easier to duel him than Mariel. She was probably going to be anxious the whole time, always hoping that she would hurt her friend or anything. Eep!

The 14 year old quickly followed the Ravenclaw with a small nod as she walked over to an empty spot in the arena. Turning her full attention to Mariel and the space between them Nancy inhaled deeply before gripping her wand tightly in her right hand. Now, who was going to start? Ready to cast a shielding charm if Mariel should decide that she was going to start Nancy remained standing exactly where she was with her wand raised and a concentrated expression on her face.

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Mariel watched as Nancy followed her and stood in front of her, waiting for them to begin. Hopefully she wouldn't be too hard on her, the Slytherin was a year older after all, but they were somewhat evenly matched, weren't they? She wasn't completely sure as the other girl had a year of schooling on her, but hopefully it wouldn't be a bad experience for either of them.

She had been in here once before, with Sarah, so she knew something of what to expect, but hopefully it wouldn't end the same way as that duel did. Shedidn't fancy being petrified again. "Ok, we're supposed to bow first," the Ravenclaw announced as she did so, then turned and walked a few spaces before turning back to face Nancy.

The Slytherin looked like she was ready for Mariel to begin, so she held out her wand and said, "Alright, ready?" Taking a deep breath, the brunette waved her wand and said, "Velico Auris," as she sent a twitchy ears hex Nancy's way.

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Melanie stepped up onto the arena, circling the other girl after she bowed. "Hey Ana!" she called, pulling her willow wand from her dark robes. "I'll start." Melanie replied and before Ana got a chance to reply she shouted: "Perfectus Toltalus" She aimed it at Ana's left arm, uncertain wheter she had even preformed the spell right.

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"Ok!" she smiled. Ana held her wand preparing to defend Melanie spell "Protego" she shouted with a twisting making a concentrated shield and the shield blocked the spell. The second after she pointed the wand "Rictusempra" directing it to the center of her body.

Although when being jinxed, hexed, whatever, Melanie's first reaction was to duck. Get down and stay there. However she knew what she had to do to deflect Ana's spell and she was supposed to use magic, right?

Melanie did a swift motion with her wand, saying while she did it "Finite Incantatem." However Melanie was rather unpracticed with that particular spell and she erupted into an incredibly loud fit of laughter.

"Tarantallegra." Melanie retaliated with a charm designed to make the victims legs do a dance...

Ana was watching Melanie laughing uncontrollably which was really funny, so when Lanie sent a spell she was not expecting and her legs start moving into a crazy dance. Ah stop. That was funny Melanie couldn't stop laughing and her legs just didn't stop. "Fiiiiiniteeee Incatatemmm!" After a few tries it stopped. Then Ana sent a Canary Hex to Lanie. That would be cool.

"Finite Incatatem. Finite Incatatem!" It wasn't working and Melanie continued to laugh like a lunatic. So she decided to try something different...

"FINITE INCATEM!!!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. Melanie grinned, self satisfied. What Jake had said was right. If you said it like you meant it it did work. Melanie's roar of laughter slowly faded off to giggles and as Melanie looked up to flaunt what she had done she realized that Ana had just sent a Hex at her.

"AHHH" Melanie yelled dramatically. She couldn't quite remember what xshe was supposed to do and she had a splits second choice so the girl dove to the floor and rolled out of the way, thankfully not getting hit.

Melanie finally stood up and started circling Ana... for fun. Just to make her a bit nervous. However she stumbled a bit ruining the entire ordeal, so, on with the duel!

Melanie cast the twitchy ears hex at Ana, mentally preparing herself for a retaliation.