| |
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above.
You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
| | Term 30: January - April 2012 Term Thirty: Bowtruckles, Acromantulas, and Blast-Ended Skrewts, Oh My! (Sept. 2076 - June 2077) | |
01-05-2012, 03:46 AM
| | |  Charms Introduction & Gripping Charm
The charms classroom was clean and bright and ready for the first lesson of the year and Professor Schirmer was waiting at the front of the class for the students to arrive.
Was she in a good mood? Well she was ALMOST smiling, at least.
The desks are set up in the usual way, no funny business today. Quote: ooc: sorry for the time conversion confusion O_O I do not know how I got it so messed up, I'm totally usually an expert. I blame posting the notice before I was awake.
As usual, please read the charms code of conduct before playing.
Don't worry if you can't join in from the beginning, this lesson will last through the weekend and this first post will be updated as the lesson progresses.
Revision for this lesson cam be found here Questions so far: What should firsties know about charms? What do we know about incantations? How do we make a spell and its effects cease? Why do you think we will want to use Finite and NOT Finite Incantatem as the counterspell today? What do you know about Gripping Charms and what do you think they'd be useful for? The gripping charm you will learn today has the incantation 'Prehenso'. Can anyone guess how the meaning of this incantation relates to its purpose? Can you think of any related English words?
ooc instructions for practising activity can be found here and here
Class is OVER but come and play CAPTURE THE FLAG! This will be your homework and the game is worth 20 points each! | |
01-05-2012, 06:55 AM
|
#76 (permalink)
| | Puffskein
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: GMT -8
Posts: 2,495
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Emma Rose Smith
Third Year | ♥ ♥Cutiepie ♥ ♥The Mouse & ♥ ♥ Peace.Love.Sponge♥ ♥
Jayden raised her hand slowly, "Professor, it's important for the new students to know that although they might think that charms is a 'soft' spells class, the use of some of the charms can help you a lot in duels; some of the spells can be quite the 'game changer' so to say." She answered cheerfully, a soft smile starting on her face.
| 
| | |
01-05-2012, 06:55 AM
|
#77 (permalink)
| | Kappa
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The Eyrie
Posts: 14,978
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Ashton P. Walker
First Year
  x11  x11
| Eagle Eye [⅓ Badger Trio] Felon & Kafka ♥ Gilderoy Lockhart <3 [TEAM 947!]
What do the first years need to know? Something he'd known but chose to ignore, resulting in him being right here in this classroom at this precise moment.
Hand raised in mid-air, the Head Boy spoke up, "About this subject...it's important to know that it's a mandatory one until your fifth year." Yeah, he was DEAD serious about this. He should've dropped it if he didn't feel inclined to enjoy it.
Granted, it was mostly thanks to Jared, and he'd never truly attended one of Schirmer's lessons...so....
OH! Wait!
"Also," eyes on Schirmer, "It's a very good thing to bring one's wand to the class." So, keep that in mind.
There. He leaned back on his seat.
| |
| | |
01-05-2012, 07:01 AM
|
#78 (permalink)
| | Moke
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Amongst Magic
Posts: 8,616
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Zara Gwendolyn Monroe
Sixth Year
x11
| Atypical Ravenclaw Bookworm // Hair Flipper Pro / / the edgy starbuckian // Hot Messie
Having already found a place in the middle of the classroom before the lesson begain, Lana continued to jot down everything she could about what she was hearing about Charms. She wasn't completely sure what it was all about, but she was still excited to know what was going on. She was just a clean slate and ready to learn. | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 07:15 AM
|
#79 (permalink)
| | Poltergeist
Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 38,050
x9
| Sassenach | RAVENPUFF | Sing me a song of a lass that is gone | bookDRAGON | #awkwardturtle<#
Zhenya had a quick think about the question before raising her hand.
"Professor, I think students need to know that a Charm is one of seven types of spells. Its focus is on changing and object's properties to alter what the object does," she said.
__________________ 
EVASIVE | RESTLESS | MISUNDERSTOOD
always on the move | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 07:21 AM
|
#80 (permalink)
| | Nogtail
Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Why don't you guess?
Posts: 4,889
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Nora Penelope Reed
Graduated | I'm just one of those pretty little liars... | | I'm held down in this starless city...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tegz  "Alright everyone. We'll start with a brief introduction into charms." The basic stuff, but she'd skip through it quickly.
"First years, what do you know about Charms? All other students, what do you think new students should know about this subject?" Nervously biting her lower lip, but not shifting an inch in her seat, Nora thought of an answer as others started offering theirs... quite quickly. " When a charm goes wrong, there is always a counter spell to fix things," she spoke with her hand in the air, and then lowered it. " Isn't there?"
Let's just hope so.
__________________  | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 07:36 AM
|
#81 (permalink)
| | Forest Troll
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: oh, canada...
Posts: 27,667
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Blake Rouyn
Second Year | you live your life just once, so don't forget about a thing called love.
Julien looked around the room, his attention darting to and from each person that responded. Where on earth was his sister? She would usually take the seat beside his. This was just strange.
Oh well. Julien propped his head up in his hand and absentmindedly doodled in his notebook, occasionally jotting a note down here and there.
__________________
Guess who just got back today. Them wild-eyed boys that had been away.
Haven't changed that much to say. But man, I still think them cats are crazy.
They were askin' if you were around. How you was, where you could be found....
Tailz is back in town, Tailz is back in town. =) | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 07:46 AM
|
#82 (permalink)
| | Puffskein
Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Posts: 2,222
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Natalie O'Hara
First Year |
Hmmm, Janice thought. What should you know about Charms, the subject?
"I think what they should really know about the subject is that it isn't that hard if you practice," she said after raising her hand. "A lot," she added as an afterthought.
Well, Schirmer's asking about the subject, right, not about the charm?
__________________  | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 07:51 AM
|
#83 (permalink)
| | Dementor
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 92
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Kendra Holmes
First Year |
Kendra concentrated earnestly on what the professor was saying, have slipped into her seat a few minutes before the lesson had begun. She noted down anything and everything as this was her first lesson, and her being strived to learn. She had everything she needed in her bag, the contents of which was on her desk. Too what charms was about, she had no idea so didn't speak up, but she was used to having to catch up to people, and this would be no different.. hopefully.
Suddenly she remembered one small fact from one of her text books she had flicked through briefly on the train and rose her hand slowly. 'Isn't the way you pronounce the charm important for full effect?' She asked, as if asking for confirmation.
| |
| | |
01-05-2012, 07:55 AM
|
#84 (permalink)
| | Knarl
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Pigfarts. Mars.
Posts: 9,510
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Harland Chadwick Lewin
Sixth Year | Did you just lose something? The GAME? Sorry... 'Justin Bieber, he is the man!' U mad, Felton!?
Rose looked at the professor and blinked. Um. What should she know... 'I've been doing it for two years? You need a wand? You need to be able to speak?' she guessed. Hey, she wasn't any good at this sort of thing, she had to at least try... And all of those things were true. Maybe the professor would laugh. That'd be cool. Making a teacher laugh...
__________________  | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 07:59 AM
|
#85 (permalink)
| | Crumple-Horned Snorkack
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SoCal *sighs*(GMT-8)
Posts: 111,215
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Giselle Barrington
Slytherin Seventh Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Teagan Kensington
Slytherin Second Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Arienne Morgenstern
Hufflepuff Fifth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Simone Wild
Slytherin Third Year x5 x3
| Shoe!Girl │ Rebel Ravie │ Confundus Queen │ RP Addict
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tegz
"Alright everyone. We'll start with a brief introduction into charms." The basic stuff, but she'd skip through it quickly.
"First years, what do you know about Charms? All other students, what do you think new students should know about this subject?"
After taking a seat in the Charms lesson, Stella had thought about taking Oberon out of her pocket again. Even as she'd only greeted Professor Schirmer with a bright smile. The professors know how we'd done on their exams, right?, she thought, hoping the professor was proud of how she'd done on her OWL. She was, at least, and therefore she'd not thought twice about coming back to the subject. But letting her little tiger stretch out during the lesson might be something else entirely, so she'd decided to leave it in her pocket for now. Even though Kurumi had gotten permission to have her own creature from last term out on her desk.
But as the lesson had started, she'd listened to what everyone had said before raising her own hand. "Charms can be useful for all sorts of everyday tasks, but we shouldn't always depend on them. Knowing how to actually do things without them can help us understand how the charms themselves work. At least sometimes," she said once she was free to speak. Everyone else seemed to be talking about charms themselves, or how easy they were. They weren't really easy, not really. Even if she generally didn't struggle too much with learning them.
__________________ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me, at tea time, everybody agrees
...It must be exhausting, always rooting for the anti-hero ♥ ♥ ♥ | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 08:03 AM
|
#86 (permalink)
| | Dugbog
Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Neverland
Posts: 103
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Guinevere "Gwen" Hallows
First Year |
Gwen had slipped quietly in to the class at the beginning, going unnoticed by most. She'd taken her seat and laid out books, quills and parchment before her.
Gwen looked left and right, trying to catch everything the older students were saying and making notes. She managed to scribble down "bring wand", "mandatory until year five", "counter spells" and "practice".
It wasn't much and she was sure to forget the meaning of her notes by tomorrow, but it was better than nothing.
She wanted to do well at Charms, but Professor Schirmer scared her a little.
| |
| | |
01-05-2012, 08:04 AM
|
#87 (permalink)
| | Billywig
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: The equator
Posts: 3,534
x3
| Hala Madrid | What's up? | Live F♥rever | Nade ♥
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tegz
"Mr. Agger." Her eyes zeroed in on the Slytherin boy. "We should have a word or two, you and I. Perhaps after class."
That Mr. Agger didn't sound quite good, he was dreading this. " Uhh yeah, sure..." he said not excited about it. Quote:
Originally Posted by Tegz
"Alright everyone. We'll start with a brief introduction into charms." The basic stuff, but she'd skip through it quickly.
"First years, what do you know about Charms? All other students, what do you think new students should know about this subject?"
Well, well, well...let's hope the professor was going to forget to talk to him after class, but of course that was not gonna happen. Nikolas listened to the first question and raised his hand " You need to know the specific wand movement and incantation also charms are useful when changing the property of an object."
__________________ 
SHREWD | DUTIFUL | UNYIELDING
watching you, always watching | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 08:11 AM
|
#88 (permalink)
| | Imp
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: wherever YOU are ;)
Posts: 455
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Tahnee Dixon
First Year | What's that? A Hat! ~*SBNW*~ // Lazers. <3
Pushing her reading glasses back up her nose, Tahnee continued frantically writing down all the information people were spewing out. She didn't know anything about Charms! Wasn't that why she was here? How did these people know so much already?! A knot formed in her stomach and more and more people called out very intelligent sounding answers.
__________________  | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 08:14 AM
|
#89 (permalink)
| | Demiguise
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Hobbiton
Posts: 24,242
Hogwarts RPG Name:
???
Ravenclaw
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Ronnie Thurkell
Gryffindor Seventh Year
x12 x12
| lives in a hobbit hole || Ern and Touz's Nuzzle || roflysst || looking at a seed packet
OOC: I'm encouraging more answers to the posed questions. Feel free to answer again if your character wants to add more. Outside of the box is welcome too  I'll resume tomorrow when the ESTers have a chance to join in too.
__________________
love is like a letter wrote :: and life is like an envelope
be careful who you give it to :: they might not give it back to you | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 08:41 AM
|
#90 (permalink)
| | Giant
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: England
Posts: 55,850
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Sophie Smith
Gryffindor First Year Hufflepuff x8
| The Idea Man Kori-Kins
Laura was sat near her sister, she watched as her sister was just jotting down notes, well she was going to answer the question if she could though if it was wrong then she would have to think about another answer. "Professor we have to learn charms so that we know our how to behave." Laura wasn't sure what sort of charm that was but well it was just a guess.
__________________
It's time for a party.
| |
| | |
01-05-2012, 08:42 AM
|
#91 (permalink)
| | Doxy
Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: GMT+3
Posts: 6,021
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Hunter Carter
First Year
x5 x4
| 9 3/4 ticket holder / The SS Mentalist / Sherlock / The Master Of Everything / Josh + <3 = Ev
Wow...
Wow...
This classroom was really crowded, it was almost overwhelming yet Lea liked the place. The teacher seemed to be a nice woman too. Everything was good. The only problem was that, having come from a completely muggle style of life, the little girl had no idea what Charms was. She listened to the other's answers carefully and try to understand them. Perhaps it had started to make some sense to her yet being the Lea Carter, she hated just sitting there in silence. She wanted to express her idea too.
''Teacher...ummm'' so she raised her hand ''...i don't know exactly what Charms involve in magical means but i think i have an idea of my own. When we call a person 'charming', it means we find something unusual with him or her which interests us. Then maybe this 'Charms' are used to add some unusual thing to...um...things and make them more interesting then before?''
__________________ Auror • YATIL_.________The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy...  ...but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him. | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 09:22 AM
|
#92 (permalink)
|  
X-treme Horcrux Slayer!Nogtail
Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Johto {GMT +10}
Posts: 4,809
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Katelyn Hermione Star
Fifth Year | she dreamed of para-para-pardise ♥ ily MY Sara x Sams twinny x Kake/Anastopher/Chalie
Katie smiled looking at all the other students around her, Katie was seated in the middle on the left, this was the first class of the year, and she was excited, very.
She then wondered, what should newbies know about charms? "All students should know what charms are, charms are spells, such as Wingardium Leviosa, accio and other spells like that" Katie said, she felt as if that was an okay explanation of what charms were right? Katie was just going to stay a little quiet so she can bring in info that other said about charms, she needed to learn as much as she could.
Last edited by PureBlood64; 01-05-2012 at 10:09 AM.
| |
| | |
01-05-2012, 09:27 AM
|
#93 (permalink)
|  MO & DMCMoke
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Oregon, USA
Posts: 8,355
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Niomi Kelly
Sixth Year | ♥ Belive ♥ Slytherin ♥ 08/01/14 ♥
Angelina sighed a little, but not loud to everyone cod hear, only just her. She dred te charm questions. She tried to keep her head high and not show disrespect towards the subject of professor, she just didn't like charms much. Angelina raised her hand and said, "Isn't charms one of the seven known spell types?" She really didn't know if this was right or not.
| |
| | |
01-05-2012, 09:32 AM
|
#94 (permalink)
| | Billywig
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: (GMT -6/CST) Home.
Posts: 3,355
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Amethyst Kai Geleto
Second Year | Wolfy | 1 of 4 Amigos! | ♥ Badger! | Slytherpuff | S. Snape Lover ♥ | Lil' Pup
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tegz
"Alright everyone. We'll start with a brief introduction into charms." The basic stuff, but she'd skip through it quickly.
"First years, what do you know about Charms? All other students, what do you think new students should know about this subject?"
Amethyst pondered on the question a bit before she raised her hand. She slightly cleared her throat before answering. "Charms are used on. I magical things most of the time..." That's what she thought they should know, anyway.
__________________ I'll miss my breath; there's no more left.
⚓.⚓.⚓______________________________I'll miss the sound of the wind up my back.  ⚓.⚓.⚓___________The Depths have a number, they call you by name; fall asleep.
Davy Jones calls you, so fall asleep and dream. | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 09:46 AM
|
#95 (permalink)
| | Puffskein
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Pigfarts, Mars (GMT)
Posts: 1,669
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Sinead O'Dowd
First Year | To PIGFARTS and beyond! ♥ Where the sky is blue ♥
Lilly thought about it. She could be so stupid. The second-year raised her hand. "A charm is one of the seven known spell types. Charms can be some of the most powerful and game-changing spells in existence," Lilly answered. It might be right, might be wrong. Hopefully she was right. Then there was the really obvious stuff like, YOU WILL NEED A WAND>
| |
| | |
01-05-2012, 10:02 AM
|
#96 (permalink)
| | Kappa
Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: GMT +3
Posts: 14,517
x6
| Dalliesa | Ab-Bot | Hogwarts Trojan War |
Tapping her quill on her cheek amusingly, because Louisa liked the subject and was amused already, she heard what her classmates had to say about it. Few firsties were right on the track as well. Good. Raising her arm as high as she could, Louisa answered, "I think young students should learn the very first rule of casting a spell. About incantation, wand movement and intention. That those three are the general conditions of any charm, spells and hexes alike." If she was a teacher, she'd teach this to the youngsters. Uh-huh.
| |
| | |
01-05-2012, 10:17 AM
|
#97 (permalink)
| Formerly: Dan and Emma<3   Puffskein
Join Date: May 2011 Location: Narnia♥
Posts: 1,308
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Tiffany Pevensie
Sixth Year | Pinkaholic | Teddy | S♥NE | Twinkle! | Baekhyun's wifey l K-pop lover | Dancing Queen l
Tiffany raised her hand high up in the air.
"Well I guessed firstly of all they should know what charms are and to know all their functions so as to use them in suitable situations. But the most important of all is to use the right spells at the right time and also to understand how to cast a spell," she answered.
__________________ Sweet lollipop, you're my lollipop. If I call you, you must not go away.
You are the potion of my life, you are the sweetness that I have.♥♥♥♥♥
| |
| | |
01-05-2012, 10:22 AM
|
#98 (permalink)
|  MO & DMLEJobberknoll
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: bottomoftheCOFFEEpot
Posts: 4,089
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Eron Rutherford
Seventh Year x4 x2
| ♣ Heejin here | Did somebody say coffee & cakes? | cat lover ♣
What should one know about Charms?
Jonathan raised his hand to answer "Professor, I think what students should know about Charms is that it's very important because half of the spells one wizard remembers usually falls under the Charms category." he replied. It's true right? "Such as the accio" known as the summoning charm "another is Expelliarmus" which is a disarming charm "and a whole lot more" he added. They're all bound to learn it in the proceeding lectures. "There are a lot of charms used on a daily basis, even to students like us" Charms are very helpful... VERY helpful.
__________________  | |
| | |
01-05-2012, 10:34 AM
|
#99 (permalink)
| | Dugbog
Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Neverland
Posts: 103
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Guinevere "Gwen" Hallows
First Year |
Gwen continued scribbling down notes.
She wasn't quite sure what Charms were. All Gwen knew about them was that they were spells one could use to alter and change something about the intended object or person which could be used with a verbal or non-verbal incantation.
She knew this because her father had made a point of lecturing her all summer long. A few days ago he was still going on about the differences between trolls and giants when she'd stepped on to the Hogwarts Express at King's Cross Station.
Gwen decided to give Professor Schirmer's question a shot and raised her hand, a little nervous.
"Professor, I know very little about Charms, but I'm quite sure that the incantations can both verbal and non-verbal."
Last edited by KayKay; 01-05-2012 at 11:48 AM.
| |
| | |
01-05-2012, 10:39 AM
|
#100 (permalink)
| | Ashwinder
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Jamaica
Posts: 13,701
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Belle Bellaire-Moore
Fifth Year
x1 x3
| Frangelina || twitter addict || Music of the Sun || The Fresh Princess of Bellaire
Tyler had mumbled good morning to the charms professor and groggily made his way to a seat between two first year boys. Yeah he was staying away from all the crazy girls..even in class. First thing to note, Hogwarts was nothing like wizard prep. There was lots more work to be done and less sleep to be had..he didn't like this.
Worse his mummy wasn't there at the end of the day to pick him up. Hogwarts was a rip off.
At the professor's question Tye thought for a moment...hmmm..they were only taught how to control their powers at prep school..not details about charms and what not..but he would try. He raised his hand.
" I know that a charm is like a spell you put on stuff to make it do magical things."
__________________ 
...Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack... | |
| | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
| | | All times are GMT. The time now is 06:08 AM. |
