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Regardless of the chilly weather during the winter season and the cool stone colored tones of the room, the dueling arena was comfortably warm. The arena itself would perhaps look different to some of the older students if they were able to get a look at it in the past. The dueling platform, target dummies, and even the stands were moved around in different locations, pushed to the side mostly, leaving a nice big empty space in the middle of the room. In that space were the familiar deep purple colored mats from the previous lesson lined up accordingly, including the deep red colored mat up at the front in-between the stands where Professor Romanos was currently seated, and in front of each purple mat was something that looked like a miniature tray. There won't be any food during the lesson unfortunately, but these trays will be acting as your desks. Unlike the last lesson, the room is illuminated and practically glowing from the winter sunlight streaming through the windows, giving the area a warm and welcoming atmosphere. Perhaps even make a few sleepy, but never fear. There will be no time to sleep during this class. And do ignore the added doorway in the back of the room. As strange as it's placement is, no one is allowed back there.
OOC: Please come in and take a seat on one of the mats [and be familiar with the rules and expectations]. The lesson will begin in about 12 18 hours or so.
Class has officially begun! Please don't post arriving late. Jump in as if your character has been here the entire time.
Final Task
Use of the Disarming and Shield Charms ONLY.
1st - 4th Years = No sense of SOUND
5th - 7th Years = No sense of SIGHT. You are all blindfolded.
It is alright to be disoriented and not get things right on the first couple of tries. Perhaps your aim is off or you can't say the spell correctly because you can't hear yourself speak. No one is perfect. It is okay. The Professor will be keeping a close eye on things, so please, no fatal injuries. And perhaps no drastic damage to the arena either. It's rather sturdy.
I'll give you a few days to RP, and we'll come to a close on things around the 13th.
"I know right. We should continue though until she says-. Expelliarmus." Nate was trying to trick her into thinking he was going to finish the sentence, but instead did the spell.
"Protego." She said,"I'm not stupid enough to fall for that old trick."
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Originally Posted by Gabrielle
Glenn was going over the shield charm inside her head, she had learned that one in the Charms capture the flag game. She didn't know that you could make it larger though, that was cool. She thought about making her way to the front but instead hung back for a little bit, glancing around at the others who remained by themselves at the moment.
Nope. It seemed like everyone was paired up.
She walked up to the front of the class and by the professor, "Err- I need to be paired off." Glenn said, trying to get the teachers attention.
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Originally Posted by cheeseStrings
"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.
Oh! Well that worked out well enough then.
"Perfect." she smiled. "Miss Trewhella, you'll partner vith Miss Reyes." Perhaps they knew one another, considering they were both from the same house. Close enough in years.
Or not.
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Originally Posted by grangerfan8
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."
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Originally Posted by hpluvr037
He listened to Arya's plea for Ellie's inclusion. "Yes, we'd be more than happy to team up. A group of three would just let us practice against more than one person," he finished, nodding in affirmation.
As she began the 'd' movement with her wand, Keefer concentrated hard on the thought of a shield. Protego! he thought, just as her retaliation sped toward him. Even so, his shield was barely up in time to deflect the full force of the spell. He felt his wand give a feeble jerk and redoubled his grip, willing himself to hold on. To his immense relief, he maintained control.
"As nice as that vould be of both of you..." she started to say, glancing towards the fiery redheaded girl. "There are others that still need a partner. I'm sure she von't mind." Or she would very much mind.
After a moment of watching them though, Medea shook her head slightly. "Miss Lovegoods, Mister Marius. Just the disarming charm for now, please. Ve'll get to the shield charm in a moment." They'd just have to get past that feeling of being cast on without a shield.
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Originally Posted by sevensnared
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.
Speaking of needing a partner, Medea turned to the young Slytherin. "Ve'll just have to fix that then." With a smile, the Professor looked for that redheaded Ravenclaw, gesturing her on over. Yes, come join the class. "Miss Stone, Mister Vaughn here needs a partner."
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Originally Posted by Harry174
Laura looked at the Professor. "Or come on Professor, I promise I'll go easy on you." Laura really like the idea of taking on the Professor and of course she would win, the Professor just used books so of course she wouldn't actually be good at spells, and she had no idea who the other person was and well she didn't like being partnered with strangers, they were well strange.
Oh boy. It took all her strength not to sigh. "Perhaps after class, if there is time, ve can try a few spells, but for now, if you can join your partner." she said, nodding her head to the Slytherin girl.
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Originally Posted by natethegreat
Seeing the spell coming at him he quickly said "Protego." Then Nate thought to himself him saying that's right I got ninja like reflexes.
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Originally Posted by ShadowButterfly
"Protego." She said,"I'm not stupid enough to fall for that old trick."
Having started to walk around, the Professor paused by these two youngsters, noting their disarming spells as well as their...shield charms. "Mister Jones. Miss Penta. Just the disarming spell for now please. Ve'll get to the shield charms in a moment. Vell done vith your spells though."
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Sophie raised both of her eyebrows when Cardigan fell back. She didn't intend the spell to be that strong! "Sorry, Cardigan!" Then she noticed the Slytherin was laughing and smiled. Good! She was alright!
"Yeah, I'm ready!" She waited for the spell to hit her.
"Okay then.Exspelliarmus,"Cardigan said in a hushed voice,pointing her wand at Sophie while she did the d thingy with her wand as well.Hopefully her friend wouldn't land on her behind just like Cardigan had!Even though it was only minor,it still ached.By then,she'd figured out that there would be no magicing body parts off.That was a relief!
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He felt her tug it and he winced. He wanted it out.
OUT!
It was REALLY stuck? Kennedy slumped his shoulders. He should have accepted Selena's offer to cut his hair. Gaaah! "Oh gosh," he said, shutting his eyes. This was going to be so embarrassing. Like hide his face with a paper bag embarrassing.
"If there's no other choice," he said, opening his eyes and looking at her. "Go ahead." She wouldn't leave him bald, right?
RIGHT?
Kurumi winced a bit and grimaced. Oh Merlin...this wasn't going to end well, was it? No, she needed to think positive. It was all about intent, right? Kurumi tried one last time, tugging on the wand firmly, but found that it wasn't going to budge at all. "Okay, um...just hold really still..." she mumbled as she pulled up on his hair and swished her wand back and forth a few times. "Flipnsnipwitit...Flipnsnipwitit...."
It took a few swishes and some more tugs, but Kurumi eventually pulled the wand free...and with a rather large clump of curly hair attached to it. "Um...h-h-here..."
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"Perfect." she smiled. "Miss Trewhella, you'll partner vith Miss Reyes." Perhaps they knew one another, considering they were both from the same house. Close enough in years.
Or not.
"As nice as that vould be of both of you..." she started to say, glancing towards the fiery redheaded girl. "There are others that still need a partner. I'm sure she von't mind." Or she would very much mind.
After a moment of watching them though, Medea shook her head slightly. "Miss Lovegoods, Mister Marius. Just the disarming charm for now, please. Ve'll get to the shield charm in a moment." They'd just have to get past that feeling of being cast on without a shield.
Speaking of needing a partner, Medea turned to the young Slytherin. "Ve'll just have to fix that then." With a smile, the Professor looked for that redheaded Ravenclaw, gesturing her on over. Yes, come join the class. "Miss Stone, Mister Vaughn here needs a partner."
Oh boy. It took all her strength not to sigh. "Perhaps after class, if there is time, ve can try a few spells, but for now, if you can join your partner." she said, nodding her head to the Slytherin girl.
Having started to walk around, the Professor paused by these two youngsters, noting their disarming spells as well as their...shield charms. "Mister Jones. Miss Penta. Just the disarming spell for now please. Ve'll get to the shield charms in a moment. Vell done vith your spells though."
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Originally Posted by natethegreat
"Smart. Now it's just begun." Nate points his wand at hers and says "Expelliarmus."
"Sorry professor, we'll listen better next time." She turned and moved out of the way,"Expelliarmus." She said while pointing at his wand.
"Okay then.Exspelliarmus,"Cardigan said in a hushed voice,pointing her wand at Sophie while she did the d thingy with her wand as well.Hopefully her friend wouldn't land on her behind just like Cardigan had!Even though it was only minor,it still ached.By then,she'd figured out that there would be no magicing body parts off.That was a relief!
Sophie was ready for a strong spell and firmed her feet on the ground. When the Slytherin's spell hit her, she felt her wand flying out of her hand and was pushed a couple of inches back, but didn't fall down like Cardigan had.
"Good one!" She said smiling and going to get her wand. "Should we keep practicing or what?" She looked around to see if they were supposed to be casting the same spell over and over again. It seemed some of her classmates were doing that several times. Right, then.
"Alright, Cardigan, get ready!" She finally said, pointing her wand at the Slytherin once more. She waited for her friend to be aware that she would be disarming her again. "Expelliarmus!" She cast, with the same 'd' shaped motion.
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Originally Posted by CassiopeiaAKTF
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.
Jory followed Daichi to the space by the windows. He noticed Daichi looked nervous. "You can stop being nervous,'' he told the Slytherin. "If you turn me into a bat or something, I'm sure the Professor will be able to change be back,'' he added trying to get rid of some of the nerves.
"Sure, I'll go first.'' The Huffie got his wand ready."Ok, let's do this,'' he said to himself. He raised his wand. "Expelliarmus!'' he exclaimed making the wand movement- Circular motion with an upwards snap of the wrist. He watched, suddenly a bit nervous, as a blast of light headed in Daichi's direction.
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?"
"Okay." Well, he's not particularly good with a new charm. Somehow he always got a bad result but he just hoped that this time it'd turn out okay, because he didn't want to hurt his partner. "Yes. I think we should." Messer made his way toward the empty space in the arena.
He took out his wand and practicing the wand movement first before he began to try the spell on Ella. Messer made a circular motion with an upwards snap of the wrist. "Okay. Are you ready?" he asked the other first year. Here goes nothing. He pointed his wand at Ella and then he made the wand movement before he said "Expelliarmus!'' The young badger saw that he's wand flew from his hand. Instead of disarming his partner, Messer disarming himself. Very good, Messer. He picked up his wand with a groan. "I think its your turn to try." he said to Ella. Maybe he girl has more luck than him.
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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.
"Erm..." Tayla wasn't sure what to do herself. She wouldn't mind practicing with both Selina and the Hufflepuff girl, but wondered if Professor Romanos would. "How about we take turns?" She suggested, and at the same time looked around for anyone else needing a partner, but everyone seemed to have partners already.
"Perfect." she smiled. "Miss Trewhella, you'll partner vith Miss Reyes." Perhaps they knew one another, considering they were both from the same house. Close enough in years.
Ohhhh look! Another person without a partner!
Glenn turned and smiled, looking at the girl that the professor had directed her to. "Hey." She said, walking over to stand by her. Glenn pulled her wand out of her pocket, "I'm Glenn by the way, unless you want to call me Miss Reyes." She laughed, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.
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Originally Posted by lazykitty
Well, okay then… Sky herself believed in just winging it, but she realized that not everyone believed that. "That's fine with me, not a burden at all." she said casually, twirling her wand between her fingers. It did irritate her a little because, well what if the teacher decided to move along without them? But whatever…
Fine with her. Fine with her! 'Okay, Beezus..get to it. She's giving you the favor of giving you time to practice,' she told herself mentally. "Okay. Here it goes." Beezus raised her wand and all the while repeating the incantation on her head, she uttered, "Expell.." Err--what was the incantation for the spell again? "Sorry.." she turned to face her partner. Another try. "Expalliyarmus. No..that was not it. Expelliarmus. Yes, that's the one. Expelliarmus..Expelliarmus.." She kept repeating the incantation until she was sure that got it right. The wand movement wasn't of a problem because it was quite simple.
And with that, she told Sky, "I think I'm good to go. I'll cast it first if you don't mind so get ready." Then the young eaglette pointed her wand towards the girl and using the proper wand movement for the Disarming Charm which was a circular motion with a snap at the end, much like a small d, "Expelliarmus!" she chirped.
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Originally Posted by SilverDragon
"Alright, here I go." Silvia waved her wand as had been demonstrated by the professor. "Expelliarmus!" Nothing seemed to happen. She tried again. "Expelliarmus!" she said. "Well, I didn't really expect it to work on the first time anyway. It'll probably take a few tries to get it right. Maybe you should give it a try now."
"OK", Alex said. She tried to quickly visualize the wand movements in her mind and pictured the wand flying from Silvia's hand. "Focus, focus" she said to herself. Alex raised her wand, concentrated as hard as she could and said, "Expelliarmus". Silvia's wand fell weakly from her hand as if she had dropped it. Well it wasn't exactly the result she had envisioned, but at least she HAD disarmed her opponent. "I will definitely need to practice this a few hundred more times", Alex said. "Want to try it again Silvia or should we let Vlimia give it a try?"
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Originally Posted by alchemist_18
Eh? She wanted Raven to try first? Okay
Raven was ready with her wand, pointing to her partner, she casted the disarming charm.
"Expelliarmus!" She said the incantation loudly.
Zhenya hadn't really known what was to be expected, having never performed or been on the receiving end of the disarming spell. So she hadn't known to grasp her wand very tightly or brace herself, so of course, her wand flung out of her hand.
She laughed lightly at Raven, and said "good job!!"
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Zhenya hadn't really known what was to be expected, having never performed or been on the receiving end of the disarming spell. So she hadn't known to grasp her wand very tightly or brace herself, so of course, her wand flung out of her hand.
She laughed lightly at Raven, and said "good job!!"
Raven smirked to see her disarming ability was still good enough to beat her partner. Yeah, she admitted that her performance in duelling was better than Zhenya, maybe because Raven joined duelling club last year while Zhenya did not.
She waited for Zhenya's attack. "Now it's your turn, Burton." she smiled and shouted her defiantly.
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Alex turned around and saw that someone had accepted his offer to partner up...and he knew her! Well, he remembered her face...ohmigosh, WHAT was her name? He couldn't remember. "Hey thereeeee...you!" he said with an awkward chuckle. It started with a K. Or a C. GOSH why couldn't he remember this was so embarrassing!
"Sure, partners," he agreed with a grin. Now if only he could just remember her name...
Great! Now they could get started, "Cool, you wanna go first?" Already getting her stance ready for her wand to fly away.
"Sorry professor. The both of us will try not to make that mistake again." Then he saw that she casted it at him. Seeing that again his wand flew away he went to go pick it up. He went over to the spot that it was at, picked it up, and ran back to where he was standing. He got himself ready. He pointed his wand at her wand, and did the motion while saying "Expelliarmus."
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Originally Posted by Poolicious
"Okay." Well, he's not particularly good with a new charm. Somehow he always got a bad result but he just hoped that this time it'd turn out okay, because he didn't want to hurt his partner. "Yes. I think we should." Messer made his way toward the empty space in the arena.
He took out his wand and practicing the wand movement first before he began to try the spell on Ella. Messer made a circular motion with an upwards snap of the wrist. "Okay. Are you ready?" he asked the other first year. Here goes nothing. He pointed his wand at Ella and then he made the wand movement before he said "Expelliarmus!'' The young badger saw that he's wand flew from his hand. Instead of disarming his partner, Messer disarming himself. Very good, Messer. He picked up his wand with a groan. "I think its your turn to try." he said to Ella. Maybe he girl has more luck than him.
Ella followed Messer over to the empty area where they would have room to practice. She took her wand out, holding it down by her side so she'd be ready for her turn. She watched her partner as he practiced the movement of the charm, wondering if he was as nervous as she was. Was she ready to be a target? Not really but it was part of the class. She shrugged her shoulders. "Ready as I'll ever be." As he raised his wand towards her, Ella shut her own eyes, nervous about what might happen. What if something went wrong? She opened her eyes after a second, seeing that nothing had happened. Looked at Messer, she noted that his wand was on the floor. "Oh okay. That was a good try, Messer." She said, trying to be encouraging to her fellow first year. At least he had the guts to go first.
Ella took a deep breath and picked up her wand, practicing the d movement a couple of times. Then she looked up at Messer with wide eyes. "Okay, are you ready?" She wasn't, that was for sure. She raised her wand apprehensively and making the d movement said, "Expelliarmus." Perhaps it was the fact that she had practically whispered the spell or that she had her eyes closed, either way, nothing happened. She shrugged. "Erm-sorry Messer. Let me give it another go? Ready?" This time she raised her wand, concentrating on Messer's wand and imagining he was ready to attack her. With conviction Ella said, "Expelliarmus!" She watched as a jet of light shot from her own wand toward Messer's.
Jen looked at who was going to be her partner.
"Well, guess you're gonna be my partner huh? What's you're name? I'm Jen. Plus..." Jen lowered her voice slightly
"What spell are we saposed to be doing again? I kind of dosed off I think.
Laura looked at the Professor and smiled, seriously the Professor knew she couldn't beat Laura in a duel and that was why she didn't want to duel her. "I'll speak to you later Professor."
Laura then walked to her Partner and smiled. "Hi Jen, I'm Laura." Laura smiled and then she sighed and whispered, "I think it was some sort of defence spell or was it the protection charm, I can't remember."
"Perfect." she smiled. "Miss Trewhella, you'll partner vith Miss Reyes." Perhaps they knew one another, considering they were both from the same house. Close enough in years.
Or not.
"Thanks, professor," Janice said after Professor partnered her.
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Originally Posted by Gabrielle
Ohhhh look! Another person without a partner!
Glenn turned and smiled, looking at the girl that the professor had directed her to. "Hey." She said, walking over to stand by her. Glenn pulled her wand out of her pocket, "I'm Glenn by the way, unless you want to call me Miss Reyes." She laughed, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.
"Hi!" she replied. "I'm Janice, remember? We met last year, I guess, in the treehouse.."
Janice could remember Glenn because she repaired her battered book into something nicer. Something that starts with the letter T, and it's quite hard to pronounce.
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Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88
"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.
What? They were supossed to bow, they weren't actually dueling (Not yet anyways) I don't think you need to bowOakey called across to Alyssa. It was real nice of you though.
Oakey lifted his wand up in and pointed it towards Alyssa. He held onto it lightly and without much grip. Almost as if he were sacrificing it. Yeah I'm ready. Go for it Alys...
Before Oakey could finish saying her name though a bright stream of light shot from the her wand and hit him right in his forearm. His wand went flying through the air and landed a couple of feet right in front of Alyssa.
Ella followed Messer over to the empty area where they would have room to practice. She took her wand out, holding it down by her side so she'd be ready for her turn. She watched her partner as he practiced the movement of the charm, wondering if he was as nervous as she was. Was she ready to be a target? Not really but it was part of the class. She shrugged her shoulders. "Ready as I'll ever be." As he raised his wand towards her, Ella shut her own eyes, nervous about what might happen. What if something went wrong? She opened her eyes after a second, seeing that nothing had happened. Looked at Messer, she noted that his wand was on the floor. "Oh okay. That was a good try, Messer." She said, trying to be encouraging to her fellow first year. At least he had the guts to go first.
Ella took a deep breath and picked up her wand, practicing the d movement a couple of times. Then she looked up at Messer with wide eyes. "Okay, are you ready?" She wasn't, that was for sure. She raised her wand apprehensively and making the d movement said, "Expelliarmus." Perhaps it was the fact that she had practically whispered the spell or that she had her eyes closed, either way, nothing happened. She shrugged. "Erm-sorry Messer. Let me give it another go? Ready?" This time she raised her wand, concentrating on Messer's wand and imagining he was ready to attack her. With conviction Ella said, "Expelliarmus!" She watched as a jet of light shot from her own wand toward Messer's.
Good? Yeah if you want to disarm yourself. But at least he didn't hurt Ella that was a good thing, right? "Thanks." he mumbled. He wondered what when wrong, maybe he wasn't spoke the incantation clear enough or he was too nervous. Hmm.. He should be more relax in his second attempt.
"Yes. Give me your best shoot." Messer said nodding his head. He didn't realize that he was holding his breath when Ella said the incantation. He didn't afraid. No. He was just nervous. Yes nervous. But nothing happened, his wand still in his grip, Messer looked at himself hoping that all his body parts were still in their right place. Yes they still there. "No problem. Yeah. Sure." he said while preparing himself for the upcoming charm. This time he saw a jet of light shot from Ella's wand toward him, it flew his wand from the grip of his arm. "Good job, Ella." he said while walking to get his wand back for the second time. At least one of them succeed with that disarming charm.
"So I guess its my turn now?" Because she already had her and now its his again, yeah? "Umm..Are you ready?" He hoped she is ready. Messer pointed her wand towards his partner and made the D movement with it "Expelliarmus!" The young badger saw a jet of light shot from his wand toward Ella but it disappeared before it reached Ella. "Err..Sorry. Let me try that again." He pointed his wand again and did proper the wand movement "Expelliarmus!" he said clearly. Like before a jet of light shot from his wand toward Ella.
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Originally Posted by Roselyn
"As nice as that vould be of both of you..." she started to say, glancing towards the fiery redheaded girl. "There are others that still need a partner. I'm sure she von't mind." Or she would very much mind.
After a moment of watching them though, Medea shook her head slightly. "Miss Lovegoods, Mister Marius. Just the disarming charm for now, please. Ve'll get to the shield charm in a moment." They'd just have to get past that feeling of being cast on without a shield.
He turned as Professor Romanos walked toward them. "Okay, we'll just keep going with the two of us." He turned back to Arya, but Romanos wasn't done. "Oh shoot, sorry! We'll stick to just Disarming for now," he said apologetically. As Romanos walked away, he gave Arya a worried look. If they lost points for this, it was her fault.
"Okay, I guess we just let ourselves be hit, then. I think you're up next." He braced himself for impact, unconsciously tightening his grip on his wand.
½ of Lauralie | Koala | The being in Ern's pocket | Baby Smurf | Prouf member of The Flock
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Originally Posted by HazelStone101
"Nice to meet you!" Jayden smiled, turning on her heel and leading the girl to an open space away from the other students.
"I suppose we should start then, wanna go first?" She asked, her blue eyes flickering nervously as she bit her lip.
Nodding, she followed Jayden to a slightly emptier area away from the other students. This would be good for practicing... Yes...
"Sure," she nodded, checking her pocket for her wand. "Expelli-YAR-mus, Expelliarmus, Expelliarmus. Okay, got it." she mumbled, as she tried the incantation.
"Hopefully, I'll get this one right," she beamed, pulling out her wand and twirling it around her left hand. Okay. Here goes. Making a 'd', with a counter clockwise turn and a small flick at the end, she focused. "Expelliarmus!" A small jet of light found its way halfway across the distance but disappeared seconds before reaching Jayden.
"Sorry," she mumbled, trying the motion again. "Expelliarmus!" she cried, watching the jet of light work its way towards Jayden and...
Stella eyed João slightly as she heard the faint snort in response to her words. Either it was amusement at how she'd said them, or at the very fact she'd said that to begin with. It was beginning to makeher wonder if he was actually as polite as he'd tried to come across at first, but she chose nto to say anything as he'd spoken again. He'd surprised her by inserting the French title into his response anyhow, and then by the fact he seemed to think she'd pronounced his name well. "I am?," she asked, curious. Does everyone stumble over his name, then? Worse than I did?, she wondered. She didn't quite get the chance to ask, though, as Professor Romanos had spoken and instructed everyone to start practicing the Disarming charm. Curiosity needed to take a back seat to safety.
Moving to a clear spot in the room as charms started flying, she glanced at the Slytherin again. "I guess we should start practicing," she said, gesturing with the wand in her hand. She didn't want the professor thinking she wasn't willing to participate, after all, and she wasn't particularly worried about the spell. She just wanted to make sure he was ready, as it definitely wasn't right to try and Disarm anyone when they weren't paying attention. Not in lessons, at least.
João nodded with a little smile, right before he turned towards the professor to hear her finally let them start. Yeah, that 'd' movement... he nodded to himself. After all, it was only disarming, it was such an easy spell for someone with his knowledge... He turned back to Stella, or as she probably would prefer, Mademoiselle Gardier. With a small movement of his left hand, the wand was already out of its holster and in his hand.
"So..." he said, letting that hang in the air for a moment. So, who should go first? After one more second, he figured it was enough time to caution her too that he was shooting. She should be grateful just for that--in a real duel, the opponent would savour every moment of distraction. Raising his wand, he made the 'd' movement as he spoke the spell clearly: "Expelliarmus!" The red jet of flash left his wand. Yeah. It was easy.
DADA Lesson Two 
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For Selina and Renesmee (and Professor Romanos) ^_^ 
