Lucy was sitting and practicing her spell, "what kind of spell is this it doesn't work" she said and waved her wand and clearly said "Geminio" and waited for a second, but nothing worked for her even thing time after trying the spell at least ten times, now her temper was increasing, so she relaxed herself and concentrated on the spell and the object Professor Kade had given and said "Geminio" and there nothing worked for her again so she decided to just sit for a while and keep concentrating.

Patroclus held his wand in his sweaty palm, he was nervous. He concentrated hard he really wanted to perform, let alone perfect the charm.
He breathed in deeply, and with a look of strain upon his face pictured multiple Unicorns all over his desk. With this clearly imbedded in his brain, he uttered "Geminio". Opening his eyes Patroclus was dismayed to see only a copy of the horn his unicorn.
He looked around to see if anyone had seen his mistake, hoping not to be embrassed.

It seemed like every spell lately had some connection to colour, Raiden mused silently as he stared at the unicorn before him. Everything had a colour that was important to it, and while he was normally quite brilliant when it came to Transfiguration and Charms... well...

The butterflies had refused to be orange, hadn't they.

He saw no reason why this unicorn wouldn't pull the same offence.

"Geminio."

Well. Wasn't that just lovely.

...he was really beginning to loathe the colour orange. Staring at the newly conjuring unicorn, identical in all but colouring to the original, he couldn't help but feel the sudden, unerring urge to light the offending things on fire.

No, no. That would be bad.

"Geminio."

...maybe he could get away with it just a little, he thought. A red unicorn was now staring at him as well. Mocking him. Begging him to light it on fire so as to end its incorrect existence.

Bothersome.

Jillian eyed the pink, rather large, funny-looking Unicorn on her desk. It eyed her back.

"I'm on to ye, pinky" she whispered to it menacingly. "Don't try anything with me coz I got me a wand." Ugh. So much pink and fluff. It kinda looked like it had glitter on it's wings too, and the professor actually expected them to duplicate this thing? What for? It's not like the world, both wizarding and muggle, would need any more such ghastly creatures. Ick.

Scrunching her nose, Jillian pointed her wand at the unicorn. Now what was that spell? "Germino!" Jillian muttered, not daring to break her eye contact with the beast. "What the...?"

The unicorn wasn't duplicated; Instead, it looked filthy--even more disgusting. There were dirt on its hooves and wings. Specks of what looked like grass were stuck on its face and horn. Yuck.

Jillian looked around and realized she wasn't the only one having trouble. She also gathered that she had said the spell incorrectly. Oh, Geminio, not Germino. She pointed her wand once again at the...thing.

"Better clean you off, first. Don't want to duplicate you looking like that." Then again, I don't want to duplicate you at all. She pushed the thought to the back of her mind and said "Scourgify." This spell worked well. At least the Unicorn was clean...and by clean she meant all of the dirt and grass that the germino mistake did was erased. As for the pink and sparkly stuff...that was another story.

"Let's try this again. Geminio!" she said, almost stabbing the creature with her wand. At first, nothing happened. Jillian waited. Nothing.

"What? I said the spell right this time and--" there was a small puff of odd purple smoke. Then, when the smoke finally cleared, in front of her were two pink, rather large, funny-looking Unicorns. Great.

More like yuck.

Evan was trying to perfect his pronounciation with repeating it in his mind when he felt someone nudge him. A little bit surprised, he looked and saw Marie's unicorn. Wow, his unicorns didn't last that long. He smiled. Afraid to talk under the gaze of the new professor, he just smiled and turned back to his work.

So Marie shouted, maybe he should shout too. "GEMINIO!" Another one appeared and he waited. But instead of getting paler, it just stood there. He smiled as if he had just won a battle and hugged it when it disappeared again. Sigh.

Eh?

PINK UNICORNS!

How cute was that? Gold had to grin as she grabbed a pink unicorn, and swished her wand for effect. For effect only, of course! No incantation, as of yet. She needed to get her breath back.

All these pink unicorns were CUTE!

... and, of course, they reminded her of Dylan Denver. Because he was sort of cute. Sort of only, of course.

When she was finally pretty sure she wasn't all warm and fuzzy inside, at least not to the point of forgetting her task, the Gryffindor pointed a wand at the unicorn, and ---

"Geminio!"

Okay, now Gold, she wasn't bad at charms. But the unicorn that materialized was ... not pink. Rather, it was blonde, the same shade as DYLAN DENVER'S hair. Eeep!

EEP!

Geminio. Geminio. Rachel mouthed the spell a few times before taking out her wand and taking an UGLEH pink unicorn from the nauseatingly HUGE pile that the Professor had.

Poor Professor Kade.

Shrugging, the seventh year opened her mouth to utter the spell but closed it immediately as she decided she would attempt this non-verbally. Concentrating REAL hard, Rachel tapped the unicorn sharply and thought "Gemino".

... Nothing.

EH?!

Trying again, she thought she saw flicker of something but it was gone too quickly for her to tell.

O_O

Again, and agin, and again she tried - each time more frustrated than the last. After countless attempts, she got so mad she almost ROARED out the spell, "GEMINIO!!"

Ooh, look at that - the hideous unicorn now had a playmate. Or a twin. Whatever.

Breathing hard to calm herself down, the seventh year tried it a few more times non-verbally until she finally perfected it without saying the spell.

... Stupid thing. Now she had SIX unicorns on her desk.

Right.

She was .... going to try this again.

Gold was sort of disturbed by how BLONDE duplicate number one was, but she guessed it had something to do with, well, Dylan. Maybe because she had been kind of thinking of him? UGGH! Dylan, he was certainly NOT allowed in her head.

Not ever.

The fifth year bit her lip, then frowned. No more freaky thoughts, she decided. Swishing her wand again, she pointed it at the oh-so-pink unicorn the professor had provided, and gave the charm another shot.

"Geminio."

Oh lookie, a duplicate! A pretty, PINK duplicate. The problem? Oh nothing, the new unicorn just had one-and-a-half horn.

Or would that be horns?

Why would anyone want a duplicate of this ugly pink unicorn? Exactly. There was absolutely no normal person who would want another one of those thingies. One was sufficient to make you want to put it head first into the next best loo. So, why duplicate it?! Couldn't they have practised the Diffindo charm on it?!

With an obviously disgusted frown plastered across her face Nancy eyed the unicorn sitting on her desk. Ew. Hey, maybe the hairy Butterfly!Monster would want one to play with. That would be just lovely. NOT. Actually, a combination of those two would probably make her voluntarily submit herself to St. Mungo's. Seriously.

Tap. "Geminio!"

Nothing.

Well, honestly, she didn't want to have another ugly pink unicorn staring at her. Guh. Still, she had to try. Tap. "Geminio!" This time there even was a small hint of determination in her voice. A small rosy thingy flickered a few times before disappearing fully again.

Siiiigh.

Couldn't they just duplicate something else?

This time Nancy more poked than tapped the ugly thingy before mouthing, "Geminio!" Aaaaand...there it was. Another ugly unicorn. Only this one wasn't pink...it was pink-brownish.

Ew.

Adrienne sat at her desk, staring at the extraordinarily ugly pink unicorn on her desk staring back at her with its little stuffed creature eyes. It wasn't that she had a problem with it being pink, even though her brain was having a field day reminding her that unicorns weren't pink. It just offended her with its very ugliness and practical deformity, and the fact anyone would actually feel the need to inflict that on someone else made it worse. part of her didn't even want to think about duplicating it.

But it was only a charm, and she could always reverse it later. Besides, she liked charms class, and wasn't about to make herself look bad. Eyeing the hideous fuzzy pink creature again, she pointed her wand at it. "Geminio!," she intoned, before blinking as another fuzzy unicorn appeared, yet a rainbow one that was oddly less painful to look at. Not the point of the lesson, she reminded herself mentally, as she nudged the prettier unicorn to one end of her desk with the tip of her wand. I need to make a duplicate ugly unicorn. I can do this. Focusing on an image of ugly unicorn in her head, she pointed her wand back at the actual stuffed animal, before casting the charm a second time. "Geminio!" A second hideous pink unicorn appeared next to the original, and in her surprise she jerked her wand and poked it directly off her desk to land with a soft thud on the floor. Widening her blue eyes, she glanced around to see if any of the other students had noticed, then leaned over quickly and picked it up to put it back on her desk. She was just going to wait until they hopefully could duplicate other things now.

Why was the majority of the students eying the unicorns, as if they were spooky Martians? Honestly ... pink things, they were good! Because pink was ... all pink, right?

Even though she did prefer black.

Gold tapped her original unicorn, then grinned at it. "I'll name you Origink," she told it, in a low voice -- she didn't want to disturb anyone else! "Original pink ... Origink. Get it, Origink, get it?"

Hehe.

She petted the other two copies, then positioned her wand out, once more. "Geminio!" A third pink unicorn, this one exactly what she wanted, materialized out of thin air. Gold grinned at it, glad that she finally had the hang of the spell.

Even if it DID mean that she had a total of four unicorns on her desk, now. Which was kind of weird, no?

Kind of pink, too.

Hehe.

Marie was sitting there staring at her unicorn happy that it was still there. Noticing that Evan was looking she turned to show him the little critter but when she tried to pick it up it disappeared. 'Oh Merlin, and I thought this one was going to last,' she thought as she picked up her wand to try again.
Looking back at Evan she seen that he had done it, he had a second one now. "Good Job" she whispered as she turned back to her own desk not noticing that his had disappeared too.
Clearing her head of all thoughts she concentrated really hard on her unicorn. This time she was determined it would last longer than five minutes. "GEMINIO" she shouted as she tapped her wand while thinking of a second pink unicorn sitting on her desk. Seeing the second one sitting there she reached out to pick it up to make sure it was real but it disappeared just as she touched it. "Professor, why does it disappear whenever I try to pick it up?" she asked as she raised her hand.

A blue unicorn, this one with a blue flaming mane and tail with a holographic looking horn, something her brothers would've loved at their young age.
Oh it was hopeless.

Ivory dropped her head down in defeat.

.....a purpose.

Ivory lifted her head out of her arms, as she heard someone say to concentrate on a purpose.

Almost hatefully, she looked down at the pink monstrosity and it's possibly male counterpart. She was reminded of when her mother had been thrown a muggle 'baby shower.' (although why on earth they called it that, since babies were not a weather condition and most people only expected one much less a 'shower') She had been expecting twins but of course since it had been technically 'too early to tell' at least to muggles she had feigned not knowing. The result had been a room filled halfway with pink and the other with blue. After the guests had left, her mother had almost immediately charmed all the pink eyesores into tolerable blue ones. If only she could ask her mother what she had thought about then, that had had the 'purpose' to sustain the charm for even now years later.

Trying to imagine a good reason, Ivory stared at the unicorns on her desk, and promptly glared at her wand as she realized it was it's fault.

Speaking softly yet menacingly, she scolded it.
"Look what you did. Are you happy with yourself now?" she continued to glare. "You know just 'cause you're all old and stuff and have a Gubraithian fire core does not mean you have a right to change my..."She gave it a little shake just for extra measure, the stopped.

The small blue flame had started spitting sparks and seemed to be growing in size. Ivory stared down at her wand, thinking this was impossible. But then again, nothing was impossible in the wizarding world.

Her mind reeled as she tried to come up with a solution. Well, it seemed her tone and shaking maybe even her anger had 'angered' it so maybe she should reason with it. Nodding her head, along with her thoughts she began to speak nicely but firmly.

Almost immediately, as if it sensed her tone the flame started shrinking again although tiny sparks were still flying.
"Now don't you go getting mad at me. You are a great wand and sometimes feel like an extension of my arm okay? I adore you." She continued hesitantly. "But....we need to work together. I can't have you changing all my spell results just because you can."

The flame had shrunk now to below it's usual size and was flickering almost accusingly it seemed. And she could almost imagine it saying 'but you didn't even like the pink unicorn I only did what your subconscious wanted me to.'

Deciding to take her gut feeling seriously, she pretended that's what it had said.

"Alright you might be right, but how about we make a deal. If it's something that does not call for precision and calls for a bit of creativity feel free to act on my subconscious and be creative, but if it's something like this..." She trailed off and looked at it pleadingly. "Please, I know you can help me concentrate if you really wanted to." Rolling her eyes, she went for the ego boost. "Because you're THAT first-rate."

At that, her wand seemed to have returned to it's usual state.

"Alright", she said to the pink atrocity as she placed the blue one that had yet to disappear on the floor beside her. "Now let's get started making you a twin."

Tapping her wand on what she choose to call You-Hated-Thing-That-Belongs-Back-In-the-Drawer, she spoke the incantation as confidently as she could, thinking only of blessing the world with even more of these ... things.

Geminio.

Nothing.

Geminio.

Nothing, but a small poof of pink smoke.

GEMINIO.

Aha. There it was an exact....nothing. It had disappeared.

Geminio.....

Geminio?...

Geminio!....

..............................

Some time later, Ivory was surrounded by a small cloud of pink smoke and no second pink unicorn. She mentally screamed in frustration.

Her wand grew warm and she looked down at her wand. "Sorry ol' pal that's it for me. I'm all wrung out."

The flame flickered almost reassuringly this time and Ivory took just one more deep breath. "Alright, alright once more but if that doesn't work that's it."

She closed her eyes firmly and thought about the unicorn that by now she could probably draw in her sleep with how much she'd stared at it.
Alright, she thought to herself, think about you're 5 senses.

An obnoxious pink fur, a mop like mane, ruffly hooves, shiny twisted horn.

It felt...well soft for the most part except for the plastic-y horn.

It sounded....well it was inanimate so no sound.

It tasted...well it wasn't food so no need.

It smelled...

Well what do you know. There 'was' room for creativity. As if thinking the same thing her wand grew warmer in her hand and the flame moved excitedly.

Now clenching her eyes shut in concentration. She imagined a duplicate of the Hated-Thing-That-Belongs-Back-In-the-Drawer looking exactly like it was supposed to, as near to the original as possible, only different. Because the one she imagined smelled like home.

A fire burning in the fireplace, the smell of her father's imported coffee, the flowers her mother kept fresh around the house, the smell of fresh laundry, of a homecooked meal, the funky animal smell of her little crup, the metallic one of Simbad her dragonich, the baby smell the twins still had, the outdoor scent that followed her younger brother Artemis around who loved to play outside...

Home. And with that, she pored all of her homesickness in her tap on the Hated-Thing-That-Belongs-Back-In-the-Drawer and with all the hope that she had for having something that smelled of home she pronounced the incantation.

"Geminio."

Ivory opened first one eye then the other. There before her were now not one but two Hated-Things-That-Belonged-Back-In-the-Drawer. Except one didn't.

Grabbing the rightmost one that had appeared, she hugged it to herself and took a big whiff.

As all the smells of home flooded into her, she was almost overcome with tears, and started counting the time. Praying this one didn't disappear.

Once more, Raiden decided silently, his eyes focused on the original pink monster lounging on his desk. Fingers absently reached out and touched it, the feeling of the soft plush completely out of sync with its otherwise disdainable existence.

Why was something so terribly unattractive... so terribly soft and nice-feeling?

It really wasn't right.

Closing his eyes, he focused on the feel of the thing beneath his hand. Soft. Squishy. Would be cuddly if it weren't so pink.

Well this was much better. Now his eyes weren't straying to other desks, and his brain was focusing on the unicorn and not the other people in the room. A took a deep, even breath and withdrew his hand ever-so-slightly.

"Geminio."

He didn't look at the thing, merely prodded it with his wand. His close-lingering fingertips became aware of something new in their vicinity. Eyes still closed, he touched it.

Soft. At least he knew he was decent at making plush, if nothing else. Now... colour?

Eyes opened.

...oh good. It was that same terrible shade of pink.

He wasn't sure how he felt about being pleased over it. The good probably outweighed the pink; it was the first time in over a week that he'd gotten the colour he'd meant for in something, within the first few tries.

This was embarresing! He was a Ravenclaw! A boastfull know-it-all Ravenclaw! Well he wanted to be anyway. But this just wasn`t possible. This was Barrys BEST subject and he hadn`t managed to keep the Unicorn there for more then 10 or 20 seconds.

He raised his wand and pointed it and the Unicorn as if he was going to blow it up, then he said in a nice clear voice "Gemino!"

He waited...waited... and nothing. No this couldn`t be true! What was wrong with him! Barry hid his head in has hands all but sobbing.

Hopton was going to have to slap Dakest and get punished for it.

If she didn't want to keep the lovely Professor stress free. As it was, Daphne, in her BIG heart, forgave Dakest for his shortcomings and lack of grace. Butt-head, that he was and all needed some kind of understanding from superior females.

Yes, something of the sort.

Staring at the unicorn, Daphne tap tap tapped it with her wand. Did she truly want another one of these? It wasn't exactly hideous but now she was holding some kind of resentment towards the innocent stuffed animal.

It was all Sabel Dakest' fault.

Stella tried to imagine how was best way to succeed this charm.

"Gem-ini-o." She shouted confident, waving her wand to the pink unicorn, hoping it would make another one at the side, but no luck.

"Ge-mini-o" She shouted with the same confident as the last time and waved her wand to the pink unicorn.

In a flash another one appeared right next to it.

"Maybe I could change it's colors?" She asked herself.

Celandine wondered two things. The first was how long she could make a duplicate unicorn last and the second was whether or not her casting the spell non-verbally would make that length of time less or not.

Her expression was musing as she collected a....

"Professor there sure are a lot of Unicorns to start with." Cela noted, her voice quietly cheerful as she took one back to her seat.

A quick tap and non-verbal Geminio later and Celandine had two of these unicorns on her desk. She non-verbally vanished it and then pretended to be all surprised and disappointed like the copy hadn't lasted very long. She entertained herself this way for a while, her 'surprise' and 'disappointment' growing more and more theatrical and silly until she finally got the giggles, cheerfully made another copy and let it be. If it wanted to disappear it would.

She'd just make another.

Belle looked at her pink unicorn thoughtfully. She loved Charms class but she was nervous. She didn't want to totally mess this up. She tapped her pink unicorn whom she had now deemed "Jerry" and said, "Geminio!" Then, she quickly closed her eyes and hoped for the best. She knew she had to open her eyes eventually. She opened one scrunched eye and saw a pink unicorn, she opened the other eye and to her delight saw another pink unicorn. "I did it!" she squealed happily. She sounded like a first year but she didn't care. She was happy she had gotten it right on the first try. And that was most certainly not something that would have happened in her first year, or even her fifth year.

She got a little excited and decided to make another copy. For a moment she couldn't quite remember which was the original until she thought for a moment. At last she remembered the one on the left was original and the one on the right was a copy. Annabelle moved the one on the right to the floor by her feet then decided to try again to make sure she could do it correctly again. She concentrated on the pink unicorn on the desk, "Geminio!" A duplicate was there once again. "Geminio!" And once again another duplicate.

This was fun, she thought to herself, a smile gracing her lips. "Geminio!"

-A FEW MOMENTS LATER-

"Geminio!" A duplicate pink unicorn popped in front of her. Her area was quickly becoming cluttered with unicorns.

"Uh-oh," she muttered aloud.

It took Evie a while to actually do the spell, she sat and watched others for a while. Then once she was ready she gripped her wand and gave a wave saying "Geminio" closing her eyes and focusing really hard. She opened them and relized nothing had happend.

She tried again "Geminio" but with more force and authority in her voice. It didn't work she tried several more times. After her sixth attempt a fluffy pink second unicorn appeared, smiling and very proud she sat down, she had a good feeling that hers would last a while or she hoped it would.

...Unicorns?

Jack had expected this kind of behavior from Professor Pilliwickle, but certainly not from this new charms professor. He was a DUDE. How many guys walked around with fluffy pink unicorns in their pockets?

...He'd give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it was borrowed from a daughter or niece.

Walking up and grabbing one of the horrid fluffy things, Jack set it on his desk so that it was facing him. For a few moments, he couldn't help but stare at it as the plush toy stared back at him--what loony had decided unicorns were pink? Pushing his silly wonderings to the back of his mind, he remembered that he had practicing to do, and staring at the unicorn wondering why such a thing existed was not going to help him get a good grade in this class.

He grabbed his wand and tapped the nose of the unicorn. "Geminio!" he muttered, watching as a duplicate of the fluffy animal appeared on his desk right next to him. To his surprise, it stayed there for a whole two minutes before finally vanishing--maybe it was because he had chosen the easy route and said the spell out loud? As a seventh year, he was probably to the point where he should be doing all of this non-verbally.

He tapped the unicorn again, this time thinking the spell to himself rather than saying it out loud. Geminio, he thought to himself, watching as the animal duplicated itself again. As he suspected, the clone vanished after a minute this time, and that was just the way he wanted it to be.

As everyone cloned their animals around them, he got the strange feeling that he had just stepped into a toy shop that only sold one type of toy.

As Emily watched her thre unicorns the purple one disappeared.

"Oh no," she said quietly to herself.

At least the one that disappeared had been the one that wasn't the right color. She sat back and nervously watched the pink one, hoping it wouldn't disappear.

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Daniel was smiling as he practice tapping on the table. It is like playing drums.

He then took a unicorn and tapped it slightly and muttered Geminio. A duplicate unicorn appeared and it isn't vanishing. It looks exactly like the original one. Well that is the objective, right? He then did another one and it was the same and it is not disappearing.

He then looked around and heard something.



He raised his hand and said, "Professor, can I help her?" well helping does not need to be asked permission on but he dont want to pry on official business.

Always the Gallant Gryffindors.

"Certainly you can. If you're sure you know what you're doing." Hmmm. He needed to work on his encouraging professor bit.

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Evelyn lost her concentration for a moment and turned her gaze to someone who said the spell in a particularly loud voice. Oh, it was Kay. Ugh. Raising a brow at the two pink unicorns on the Hufflepuffs desk, she shook her head and turned back to her own pink unicorn. Which was gone! AGAIN!

"Stupid unicorn." she mumbled while twirling her wand, resisting the urge to blow it up. What else in the room could she duplicate without getting caught? A quill maybe...Or...

"Professor?" she said, raising her hand. "Is it possible to duplicate people with this spell?"

JD was impressed with the question, though it creeped him out a little.

"In theory, probably," he admitted. "But I've never heard of anyone doing it, and you'd probably only get a physical person with no personality or magical ability, not an exact duplicate. Also, there are some serious ethical issues around duplicating people, which I won't get into."

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Marie was sitting there staring at her unicorn happy that it was still there. Noticing that Evan was looking she turned to show him the little critter but when she tried to pick it up it disappeared. 'Oh Merlin, and I thought this one was going to last,' she thought as she picked up her wand to try again.
Looking back at Evan she seen that he had done it, he had a second one now. "Good Job" she whispered as she turned back to her own desk not noticing that his had disappeared too.
Clearing her head of all thoughts she concentrated really hard on her unicorn. This time she was determined it would last longer than five minutes. "GEMINIO" she shouted as she tapped her wand while thinking of a second pink unicorn sitting on her desk. Seeing the second one sitting there she reached out to pick it up to make sure it was real but it disappeared just as she touched it. "Professor, why does it disappear whenever I try to pick it up?" she asked as she raised her hand.

Kade chuckled. "That's just cause you haven't got the knack of it yet. Give it a few more tries and you'll get it."

It was at this point that he jumped up onto his desk and hollered to the class, "Alright, when you've managed to make yourself a reasonable facsimile of your unicorn, please place the original back in the chest and copy down your homework for this week and you can be on your way with your unicorn to finish all those conversations and arguments you started before I made you all pipe down. Please note my rules for homework submission and the fact that it will be due exactly a week from today." And it was with this that Kade flicked his wand so that new words appeared on the Blackboard.

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1 a) What is the BASIC difference between charms and transfiguaration?

b) Give an example of a charm that might be considered transfiguration by this definition.
c) Give an example of transfiguration that might be considered a charm by this definition.

2 a) What is a Quantitative Charm?

b) Give two examples of a Quantitative Charm.

Practical:
RP using Geminio to duplicate any object (that will not get you into trouble) that you think you might like another one of. DO NOT Attempt to Duplicate Living Things, Or Currency.
Include a link to your RP in your PM to me.

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OOC: I'm leaving this open another 12 hours, so you can finish what you need to finish. Can't send you out into the world not knowing your charms!!

Ema finished practicing her crazy TAPPITY TAP TAP TAPPING motions and walked up to get a pink unicorn. They were starting to be...EVERYWHERE!! She went back to her desk, glancing down at the...pink...non-orange...ugly...plush...thinger, and sat back down. Oooh, it was SOFT! She was busy stroking it a few times, feeling the soft plushy-ness for a moment, before deciding she must look weird doing that.

She looked around nervously then focused back on the weird little stuffed creature. Easy, right? Gem. Inny. Oh. That was all!

She focused her gaze and her mind on the thing and pointed her wand at it. She flicked her wand and said clearly "Geminio!" BOOP! a white unicorn. Well, at least that looked more...natural? Desirable? Not so stupid? Yes yes and yes. Luckily the white unicorn (or unfortunately?) disappeared quickly. She tried it again, this time not thinking critically of the stupid unicorn. She focused mostly on it's vibrant color and said "Ge-mini-oh!" again. This time the unicorn was a light red, but still not the right shade. It took a little while to vanish.

She tried a third time, focusing just the same. "Geeeeminiio," she said, pointing her wand at it and doing her little tapping motion.

TA-DAH! It had worked. The same vibrant shade of pink. She prodded it with her wand to see if it was going to stay. She tried it again (why not have two, if she thought one was going to fade?) and got a second one.

"Professor," she piped up, raising an eyebrow. "Err - should I take two? Or just...take my chances with this one?" she prodded the first duplicate again, floating the original back to the table. Meh...she should probably just chance it.

She looked back at the two in front of her. The second one had disappeared. "Oh." she muttered. "Neverrrmind." ...Ha. She'd just...stick with that one. She continued to stroke the thing (even though it wasn't ORANGE!!! like she wanted it to be) and glanced around at the rest of the class.

Sapphyre twitched in her seat. She liked learning - to a point, anyway - and was very intent on knowing all that she could about magic, but she just couldn't sit still for this long. It wasn't like she was impatient, either. She just had to be moving at all times. So, she started tapping her fingers on the desk quietly, her quill laying on its side from where she had dropped it in intensive note-taking to experiment with the hideous unicorn she had picked up. Merlin...

"Geminio...?" she said, waving her wand as nothing happened. Well, she didn't expect it to. That had been a question, if nothing else. "Geminio." A second unicorn appeared, on the second try, and it looked rather decent. What was wrong with- oh. One leg missing. Her poor hideous unicorn was a cripple! Like Tiny Tim. Teehee.

"Geminio!" ... That looked a bit better. Four legs, the correct colour, two eyes, ears, and all the necessary parts for a unicorn to have. At least, a fully-functioning unicorn, anyway. It looked good... But somehow, it just seemed... off. Stupid awkward unicorn...