Torin pulled out his wand when the Professor asked them if they had brought them. He was glad that he had actually remembered the thing.

Kay finished writing back everything that had been said. "oh, wands.' Kay pulled hers and put it on her lap. She couldn't wait to see what they were going to do.

Aschere had her wand, she was sure. But which pocket was it in? She rummaged around in her school robe which she had by now modified to contain a number of highly useful pockets. She pulled out marbles and string and what might have been a pygmy-puff except that it darted back into its pocket so fast that she hadn't had time to take a good look.
"You disgrace to witchkind, you!" she scolded herself, even looking down her boot. "Always keep your wand on hand, lesson #1, and you go and --Oh!" There it was. She'd forgotten about the special wand-pocket with a long cord attached to her wand meant to keep her from losing it, as she was often prone to do. It had been trailing on the ground behind her. Aschere went red.

"I have my wand, Professor," she mumbled, hoping nobody'd noticed.

Once she could see the majority of the students with their wands out and ready, Iliana stood from her chair and walked back over to the tank. Lifting off the lid, she reached in her hand veeeerrrryyy slowly and gently scooped up a lone billywig into it. Carefully extracting her hand, she set the lid back on and turned towards the class.

"This is a billywig," she whispered. She lifted her hand so that the tiny creature was standing in the middle of her palm and pointed her wand at it. "Immobulus," she whispered and the billywig stood motionless in her hand.

"Now class, I want each of you to take a couple of minutes to practice saying this incantation. It is pronounced, EEM-O-BUE-LES. For my older students... if you are already familiar with the immobulus spell, feel free to move around and help the younger ones that are having trouble." She was feeling far too tired to do much running around herself.

Woo he could do immobulus. He could take out a billiwig with immobulus. "I can help someone, Professor," he smiled. Even if she didn't give him house points. She was still Hot. With a capital H.

As discreetly as he could, and under cover of being an older student moving around to help people, Jake went over and slooooooowly moved over to Lawson... extreeeemely careful.

"P'fess'r?" he breathed, not getting too close.

He didn't want to be stung after all...

...

By the billywig, that was.

"Yuhh-you okay?"

Maybe he was just being stupid...

It had to be a gift, Kiri decided. Something Care of Magical Creatures teachers learned during their education. How else was Professor Lawson able to just... snag one of the billywigs and hold it up without it flying away?

Kiri twirled her wand through her fingers. She knew how to do the Immobulus spell, of course, but would she be able to aim it well enough to hit a billywig and get it to be stationary?

She sneezed again. She would have liked to just sit as close to the fire as possible until it was time to work with the little insects, but she made an effort and got up. "Anyone..." Kiri sniffled. She probably did not make a very attractive instructor at the moment. "... who needs help with the spell, I can show you how to do it." She fished around for another tissue, wondering briefly what would happen if she pointed her wand at her own nose and just cast the spell.

Barry was familliar but he still practiced it a few times "Immobulus. EEm-O-BUE-LES, Immobulus" he said slowly. Well that was easy. He walked over to Kay who was a younger student "Want some help?" he offered

Ivory listened intently as Professor Lawson, formerly Professor Morgan, explained what they were to do. Her eyes didn't miss the way every movement from the nice lady seemed to be accented by tiredness.

A little crease developed between her eyebrows in worry and she immediately vowed to ask her if she was alright after the class period.

But for now...

Mouthing the incantation a few times so her mouth would get used to it, she then proceeded to saying it aloud.
"Eem-o-bue-les?"
"Eem-o-bue-les."
"Eem-o-bue-les!"

She grasped her wand, trying to ignore the fiery tip, when she realized...she didn't know the wand movement. The professor had just pointed but what if there was more to it.

Raising her hand slightly, she directed her question to both the Professor and the older students, "Um...I'm sorry but is the wand movement just a simple point and aim or is there a...flourish... involved?"

Just practice saying the spell, right? That means Destiny couldn't point her wand at someone and say the spell.

Right?

She placed her wand on her lap, so if someone does do what she was just thinking she wouldn't be the one to be blamed. Nope. 'Immobulus.' That was easy enough. It was easier than calling Professor Morgan Professor Lawson, that's for sure.

'Immobulus.' she said one last time, just to make sure she got it right.

Bring on the billywigs.

What if they already knew the spell? Would she technically be considered a 'younger student'? Pfft...younger student. "Immobulus." she muttered quietly to herself, crossing her arms again. Stupid cold breeze. At least she was smart enough to wear a long sleeve shirt. Hmm, where was Destiny? Or Josh? Or...Marie?

Oh well. Staring at the billywig in the Professor's hands, she raised a brow at the...weirdness. It was just a weird little thing. How can that thing cause giddiness and levitation? Oh wait, there was Destiny! Smiling, she walked over and stood by her friend, debating whether or not to scare her. Nah, she wouldn't do that. She would wait for those quidditch games...

She wanted to be called Lawson? Pfffft!!! No way!. This professor seemed to be a sweet woman and it definitely did not go well with this air calling her Lawson. Whatever. She was still Professor Morgan for him no matter what as Destiny called her. Lately he was agreeing with Destiny a lot, smart girl, no wonder she was Rose's bestie.

Okay, focus on the little insects... ''Were not those used in a kind of sweet?'' he murmured more to himself rather than aiming to answer the question that many students jumped at. He remembered something like that. Never mind.

As told, he took his wand out and started to practice the spell murmuring again with the same tone. ''Immobulus, immobulus, immobulus, immobulus...and so on. Immobulus. I'll dream about immobulus tonight''

Nymphy had read about this spell last week. The problem was that he needed to be sure that it was working for him. He saw a fly in the corner of the grate and yelled, "Immobulus!". The fly froze momenarily and then kept buzzing around. He tried again. He tried again. "IMMOBULIS!" he almost screamed. This time the fly froze and fell to the floor. "Haza!!" he said.

Cela didn't bother offering to help the younger students. Surely they all knew that she'd do that without the teacher having said so? Especially the Ravenclaws.

Or maybe they were all too scared about what she might do if they had vouchers.

Celandine bit her lip and stroked wand. She knew the spell of course. Also, Billywigs were awesome. She'd been to see the Australian Billywig Ballet before and had wondered about whether the dancers ended up with a Billywig addiction.

Nicoletta pulled out her wand and took a deep breath. "I-immobulus." she said carefully. I'm gonna have to work on that one. she thought.

Torin started practicing the spell with his wand. "Immobulus, Immobulus, Immobulus, Immobulus." hehe. This was rather fun and easy. He liked being pretty good with spells.

Ivory looked around shyly as she recognized an older Ravenclaw. Although she hadn't yet introduced herself, she had heard about 'Cela' and had developed a very high opinion of her.

Slightly self-conscious, she walked up to her and asked the question she'd been wondering, "Excuse me." she began nervously but with a big friendly smile nevertheless,"Hi we haven't really met but I'm Ivory. I'm in Ravenclaw too and I was wondering if you could explain the wand movement. Is it just a basic point and aim or is there more to it?"

Emily got out her wand and looked back at the professor. When she told them what to say she began practicing.

"Immobulus. Immobulus. Immobulus." She had no idea if she was saying it right. "Immobulus." Emily pointed her wand at a bug on the ground below her, it stopped moving. Emily looked at it with a panicked expression on her face.

Oh no what did I do? She thought. Then the bug shook out its wings and flew away. Emily breathed a sigh of relief. She was careful not to point her wand at anyone or anything as she said the spell again. She said the spell cautiously and slowly this time. She didn't want to accidentaly do an ything, even though her wand wasn't pointed at anything.

Ooooh, that was a cute creature! Miranda grinned as she watched the thing in the palm of the professors hand.

And then, suddenly, it froze! Miranda grinned even wider at this and her eyes grew wide aswell. Awesome! The Huffie had never heard that incantation before. Maybe it was something that the Professor had made up herself?

Anywho, Miranda repeated the words over and over again, making sure to pronounce it well. And then she waited to see just what they were going to do with this spell.

Marie placed her wand on her lap so she could practice the incantation, she would hate to accidently hit [Kay} someone with the spell if she was holding her wand. She of course knew it very well since she did use it on those crazy cornish pixies in DADA last term but it wouldn't hurt to practice.

Immobulus

Immobulus

Immobulus

Yes, she could still say it, now to wait for the professor to let them actually use it.

Moving or not, Jack was STILL not very fond of holding a billywig in his bare hand. He had no need to practice the spell, since he had learned it years ago, and luckily no one seemed to be having any issues with the spell.

"If anyone needs help, I can lend a hand," he said to anyone who was listening (which was, most likely, no one). He didn't want anyone to do the spell wrong and get stung by the billywigs!

Ehh. At least he had offered!

...He had totally been paying attention.

Totally.

The fact that Raiden's wand was in his hand surely meant that, right? It had nothing to do with the fact that he'd been absently flicking it in and out of the holster all day. Nope.

Billywigs and Immobulus... right. See, attention! He had it.

Well he already knew the spell, so practising it wasn't really necessary. Instead, Raiden watched his classmates, eyes intently searching for anyone who did need help. While still carefully avoiding looking at two very specific people in the mass of students.

Flick. Flick. Flick.

After watching the other students practive for a bit, Annie attempted to practice saying it herself. "Immobulus." She giggled. It began not to sound like a proper word. ""Eem-o-bue-les."Eem-o-bue-les" She repeated.

Setting her wand in her lap, Mina practised the incantation. Repeating it clearly first in her head over and over, she sounded out the word slowly. She was familiar with it and all but she did want to get it perfect before she tried it on anything.

Moving on she practised the actually wand movement with out saying the incantation. That wasn't that hard. So now to putting the movement to the incantation.

Picking up, her wand she started to practice them together, just saying the incantation in her head. Immobulus

"Sure Ivory." Celandine smiled slightly and demonstrated with her wand. "It is more of a jab than a point." She jabbed and her wrist flicked just the tiniest bit. "Make sure you practice it seperately from the incantation for now though." Cela offered a friendly smile in return and turned her head to look at Professor MorganLawsonIlianaPerson. She blinked once as if her vision was blurred or something and then shrugged it off and looked at Ivory again.