She was seemingly getting the hang of things with the wand movement for the Disarming Charm. It wasn't that hard. Just a simple rotation of the wrist and a quick snap to finish it off. Beezus then faced Sky when she asked who would cast the spell first. Now, wasn't that too fast? She gave the girl a forced smile. "Can I just practice the incantation first?" she inquired. Because well..she just wasn't that familiar with it. "I promise I won't be a burden," Beezus added as she put her hands together. If Sky knew how to do the spell properly, then the Ravenclaw would need to get a move on.

"I'm ready when you are." Nate said to the slytherin girl that was his partner. "Do you want to go first?" Nate was wondering if she did want to go first. Nate didn't like to go first. He just had to wait for a reply.

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"I'm ready when you are." Nate said to the slytherin girl that was his partner. "Do you want to go first?" Nate was wondering if she did want to go first. Nate didn't like to go first. He just had to wait for a reply.

"You can go first."

"Ok." Nate said with nervousness. He waited a few moments for her to get ready. Then he pulled out his wand. He thought in his head remember circle motion then flick. Nate raised his wand. Did the motion while saying "Expelliarmus." It would have to work. Because she just said to work on the disarming charm. Nate was hopeing he did it right.
Now it was her turn.

So far, only three of the students needed partners? Four if one counted Ellie, though her lack of participation from before had Medea wondering if she'd participate now.

One of them younger students though had Medea raising an eyebrow. As amusing as it would have been, she shook her head at Laura's request. "I'd prefer if you vere against someone your own age. Miss Emery (2111jen), you and Miss Hyde (Harry174) here can be partners." Was there an uneven number in the class? Or were there a few more that still needed a partner...

She was a person down unless Ellie wanted to practice with a second year, though somehow she thought that unlikely. "Miss Reyes, hold tight right now. Ve'll see who else needs a partner. Othervise, you can practice vith me or join someone's group if you vish."

Keefer looked around to make sure they had plenty of room. The others seemed to be giving the Captain/Prefect pairing a wide berth. He looked over at Arya, wondering who should go first. "I guess I can try first, since neither of us probably care."

He absentmindedly practiced the 'd' motion Romanos preferred. He had never used it with this spell, so he didn't want to mess up. I think I'll try a verbal spell first just to get the hang of this new wand movement. He was still somewhat struggling with nonverbal spells, so adding to new things into one incantation didn't seem like a good idea.

He got in a ready stance and checked to make sure Arya wasn't distracted. It just wasn't polite to shoot a spell at someone that wasn't looking. Clearing his throat, he executed a 'd' pattern and said, "Expelliarmus!" A jet of light shot at the Prefect.

"Me, professor," Janice said. "I haven't got a partner."

Was she late or something? Nah, she thought. I was kind of early. Or was it just my reactions that are slow? She came up to the front to the professor.

Ella looked down at Messer's robes and then at her own. Right, Hufflepuff robes. Duh! Once again her skills of perception had outdone themselves. She smiled at him, feeling like an idiot. "Nice to meet you, Messer."

When the Professor started speaking Ella turned to listen to directions. So they would be starting with the disarming charm, huh? Ella had never done it before and was excited but a little nervous. She looked at Messer and shrugged. "I'm not that confident with this charm, how about you go first?" She hoped he wouldn't mind taking the lead on this one. "Should we move towards the arena then?"

Why don't you go first? Oakey told Alyssa holding his wand out in front of him in a readying stance. Like Harvey always says "ladies first."

Justin followed Minerva to a clear spot in the arena and she quickly spun around as her wand was already out and at the ready. He pulled his from it's holster and traced the D motion with his wand a few times before says, " Expelliarmus. " as he tried to disarm her. But not on the first try was he able to disarm her. He smiled sheepishly at her. Then he tried to disarm her again. this time success and her wand was cast from her hand.

For the first time, Hades approached the professor with a disappointed face. He hadn't found any partner and had no choice but to tell the professor. "I've no partner, professor," said Hades mellowly, looking a bit down. Spruce wand firmly held in his right hand, prepared to disarm anyone who he was to be partnered with. Especially a Hufflepuff.

Ariana Stood up & went to a part of the room that was less crowded. She waited for her partner Jordan who she thought was right behind her.

Daisy giggled, deciding not to say that her brother had already helped her with the spell before. She wasn't perfect, obviously, but that little bit of practice did help. Grinning, she raised her wand and nodded at her partner, for her to prepare herself for the spell Daisy was going to attempt.
'Expelliarmus!' she said, waving her wand as a jet of light shot at her partner's wand in her hand.
'Well, that could've gone a bit better,' Daisy laughed, watching her partners wand make a rather feeble movement. 'D'you want a go?'

Maxwell Walked to the part of the class room they were supposed to practice spells, in and waited for Alice.

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"Ok." Nate said with nervousness. He waited a few moments for her to get ready. Then he pulled out his wand. He thought in his head remember circle motion then flick. Nate raised his wand. Did the motion while saying "Expelliarmus." It would have to work. Because she just said to work on the disarming charm. Nate was hopeing he did it right.
Now it was her turn.

"Protego." She muttered and had a blue shield in front of her.

She sighed slightly, never went down well when you knew it was gonna happen ... she felt the sudden urge to use the shield charm but as the yoga maniac stated it was only the disarming spell that was to be used! LuLu closed her eyes tight and opened one before it was cast! She felt her grip go weak and watched it fling out of her hands very lightly though she wouldn't say it went far ''No, no you did well, considering neither of us did it before,'' she smiled back at her and bent down for her wand ''Umm.. sure,'' Oh? This would be fun! ''Expelliarmus!'' she said pointed at Daisy's hand and making the 'D' wand movement! She whistled slightly ''Ummm go ahead,'' she frowned

Minerva looked surprised when her wand went from her hand, but then smiled knowing it would happen. She walked over and picked her wand up "Ok, ok lucky shot. Try again mister."

At least she smiled. It was always better to work with someone who was a bit polite. And who was also a bit formal, it seemed. Sure, João still understood her perfectly, but that language was formal in his book. Well, he figured it was the French way of it, their elegance and delicacy. He snorted to himself, though his face showed nothing of his thoughts.

"It's a pleasure to meet you too, Mademoiselle Gardiner," he replied, eyes sparkling. It felt different to say a word in French after so many years. Maybe he should meet her some time else to practice the language with her, if she could speak it fluently too. Then, she could be as formal as she wished.

"You know, you're one of the few people that can pronounce my name that well." He chuckled. Yes, that was a compliment to her. Yes, he was impressed. It was hard to impress him, but she got to that point in... one minute.

Congratulations to her.

Arya totally didn't forget about her crazy 'Claw friend. Her main purpose for being in this lesson, this term at least, was to make sure SHE learned how to duel better! That silly Quidditch bat would only do her so good for so long after all.

"Professor," She started to take a few steps away from Keefer after instructions were given. "If there are no other partners close in age for Ellie, she can join us." Because she was sooo helpful and wanted to make sure her friend was doing the basics right. Hehe. While she waited for a response, she focused her attention on the other Quidditch Captain. Arya gave her wand a little twirl while he prepared himself, and when the spell was sent off, she flicked her wristed in an practiced upward arch with ease, casting noverbally.

The spell bounced off her shield and dissolved against the nearby wall. "Good shot." She set him a smile as her shield dropped and then waited for him to be focused before drawing a small 'd' and flicking her wrist. "Expelliarmus."

"Lets go somewhere away from the dummies" Olivia suggested,to Gwen, looking at one over her sholder and shuddering, manequins, dummies, all that stuff creeped her out. "Want to cast the spell or defend?"Olivia asked

"Okay I'll go first, Oakey. It's the disarming charm right? So Expelliarmus is the incantation. I do hope I do this right. I've only done this a couple of times when we were playing the Flag Game in Charms Lesson, and it didn't work all the time,"Alyssa told Oakey."But here goes. Wands up!!"

She bowed to him, like what she heard people were supposed to do when they were formally duelling. Then concentrating on what she wanted to do and on the spell itself, Alyssa took out her wand and executing the wand movements like she was drawing an invisible small 'd' in the air, she aimed for Oakey's wand. "Expelliarmus" she called out and immediately saw a beam of bright light shoot out headed for Oakey.

Someone seemed to be talking, and it was when Nessie turned around that she realised a girl was talking to her, asking to be partners. Which made her just a little excited, because she'd get to do whatever sort of stuff they we're doing with someone instead of having to be alone. "Err..yeah..I am.." but before she could answer the question about being partners, somone else seemed to be talking to her.

Turning around for the second time, Nessie saw the familiar red head. What was her name again? She honestly couldn't remember. Either way, the red head also wanted to partner up. Ness looked from the red head to the other girl and then back to the red head. Umm..how was she supposed to choose one out of two of them? She didn't like the idea of having to say no to one of them at all.

Then an idea popped in her head, but she wasn't sure it be allowed. "Um..maybe we can all work together." That seemed the only fair way. "Or even better, how about you two work together..I'm kinda tired anyway." she honestly didn't mind sitting and watching everyone or more sleeping whilst everyone did their work.

Jordan followed Ariana to the less crowded part of the room, "Want to go first?" he asked her, taking out his wand. "Bring it on!" he grinned.

After hearing the instructions, Daichi looked at Jory and nodded towards an open space close by the windows where the dummies where. "Let's go there" he said and walked towards it, hoping that Jory would follow him. He had to though , since they were partners and all....

The Slytherin felt nervous as he walked to the spot. He was scared that it didn't work but then again, they were here to learn right? Daichi flicked his wrist as his phoenix feather wand fell out of his wristholster and in to his hand. He turned around as he faced Jory. "You want to begin first?" he asked, not sure on what to do.

Gideon's gaze moved to the professor as she spoke up telling them they could begin, the boy nodding and turning back to his partner. "Alright," he replied catching Vickers' motion to the one side of the room, the Gryffindor leading them there so they could work on their spell work. If he noticed the still-close proximity to the professor, he didn't make any reaction to it but he couldn't avoid noticing the remaining nerves of his companion.

Was there a way he could help?

"If you want me to," he answered willing to do whatever it was that they both wanted and he was pretty open-minded about their order himself. "Then ye should probably take a sort of offensive stance," he suggested briefly demonstrating. And then he returned to a straight stance so he could be ready for his own part to play. His hand reaching into his pocket for his wand once more.

"And relax...its just a class not a real duel and neither of us is going to do anything that will get us hurt," he added to try and get him to calm down.