Minerva quickly moved her wand "Protego!" has Justin said the disarming charm. The spell was blocked. "Expelliarmus" Minerva said doing the wand movement to see if she could catch him off guard.

Laura looked at Jen and smiled. "Maybe your wand is ill." Laura sighed before shouting for the Professor. "PROFESSOR we have an Ill wand here, what should we do, I was thinking maybe taking it's temperature."

Jen looked at Laura "Don't be silly Laura. How about Ill cast pratago again and you use expeliarmus to fdeflect it back at me."
Jen ppointed her wand at Laura.
"Pratago!" A light of magic erupted from the wand and headed straight taward Laura.

You can try and disarm me again Alyssa Oakey said. I'll try the Shield Charm. Oakey had done the Shield charm plenty of times already to have a good feeling with it. What he really wanted to try was the extra wand movement to see if he can improve it just a little. He walked a fair distance away from Alysaa and took what he thought was a pretty good defensive stance ready for Alyssa to cast her spell.

"Okay thanks. This will give me the chance to try the disarming charm again. Ready? EXPELLIARMUS!! Alyssa called out, waving her wand in a circular motion followed with a swift upward stroke. A beam of light immediately shot out and headed towards Oakey.

Alice waited for Maxwell to cast the spell, but surprisingly, when he did, she was a bit shocked. The ball of light came at her with blinding speed and she was barely able to dodge it, the light skimming against her stomach in its haste to crash into the wall. Sparks flew into the second year's long blonde hair as she coughed from the smoke billowing from the burnt plaster. "That was great, Maxwell!" She said in a raspy voice as she cleared her throat, beaming at the boy. She was sure as anything that if she hadn't moved in time, the spell would have hit her square on and she would have gone flying, her wand ripped from her hand.

Now, if only she could cast her charm that well.
The girl steadied her wand, holding it up and moving it in the upside-down interrogation mark, as the professor had instructed. The tip of her wand started to glow as light flew from her wand and toward Maxwell. "Expelliarmus!" she said, and hoped, for better or for worse, that it would work.

With the beam of light headed right for Oakey He quickly swished his wand in the upward arching motion and then added the extra horizontal motion and cast Protego! He watched as blue aura like shield quickly expanded itself and disappeared. The Disarming spell Alyssa had cast finally reached his area but bounced off the invisible (and larger) shield Oakey successfully caste. Nice Try Alyssa! He called across to her.

Glancing from girl to girl, and of course the young boy as well but her attention was mainly focused on who would be his partner, there was that slight pause in which could have gone down either road. Either one would step up, or no one would. "Oh! Perfect." she smiled. And already starting with names.

Hearing that unmistakable loud yell for her, the reason was more of the cause for her sigh than the...person. Although, she did become rather alarmed once she heard the spell leaving the girl's mouth. Throwing up a shield between the two girls, Medea frowned and walked the rest of the way to them. She didn't know what spell that was, but she was pretty sure it's affects wouldn't be that of a shield charm. "Miss Emery." she started, not quite sure where to start. "That was...good, but let's try it again. The incantation is protego. Pro-TAY-goh. And remember the upward arcing flick I showed you. Miss Hyde, if you can try disarm her again..."

ooc: Remember, protego is the incantation for the shield charm. Expelliarmus is the disarming charm.

Sierra grinned wickedly as she saw the girl's wand fly from her hand and scatter across the floor. It was good to see her little 'get them when they least expect it' tactic had worked. The girl was back on her toes right away, though, and her wand was back in her hand. Speaking of said wand, she'd cast the Disarming Charm just as quickly as she'd scooped the wand up. Sierra had been expecting that, though. Weren't they meant to be practicing the Shield Charm, too?

With an upward arc motion, she said, "Protego!" While the shield formed around her, she took the moment to try and disarm her opponent again. Waving her wand in the 'd' motion once again, she added, "Expelliarmus!"

Ariana was upset about her bracelet but didn't let it distract her from protecting herself she quickly shouted out "protego" in what she thought was enough time but didnt do the spell right and was hit, her wand leaping from her hand and her being knocked back just a few feet this time. "crap, why didnt that work!? she asked no one in particular

Justin knew what she was trying to do , but alas , he was too quick for her. " Protego1' he said as he made the vertical motion with his wand blocking her spell. He looked at her and just smiled wide as he could see she wanted so badly to beat him at this game.

Vashti returned the smile. "Nice to meet you," she replied. "I'm Vashti." And now that they knew who the other was, it was time to practice those spells, yeah?

It seemed they were allowed to practice the Shield Charm now as well, but Vashti wanted to practice a bit with the Disarming Spell. She was sure she was due for some practice with it, though practicing the Shield Charm, especially with expanding it, wouldn't be so bad either. So whichever one Amelia wanted to do would be fine with her. "Which one do you want to practice?" she asked.

"Thanks. Do you want me to try disarming you again or do you want to switch positions?" Alyssa was hoping that he'd switch so that she could practice the Shield Charm.

Sky beamed when she managed to disarm Beezus. "Thank you," she said, making sure she had a good hold on her wand. Then she heard Professor Romanos' cue to start practicing the sheild charm. Okay then.

"Sounds good to me." She moved her wand in the required upward arc while reciting the spell. "Protego!" She watched, slightly transfixed as the sheild appeared in front of her.

Maxwell braced for impact, ready for the spell to hit and then last second he remembered 'Wait, we're allowed to use shield charms now' "Protego!" He shouted as quickly as possible and the spell was blocked but the impact knocked Maxwell on his butt. He laughed and got to his feet. "Nice one, Alice!"

Minerva shrugged disappointed that she didn't beat him. "Oh well I guess your to fa...Expelliarmus" she said quickly making the wand movement.

"Right sorry professor." Jen said
she took her wand again
"Protego!" She said as she moved her wand in a flick up.

Holy hufflepuff! she'd beaten him! Justin's wand flew from his hand and the look on his face said it all. He stood there for a moment bewildered about how she had bested him. then he walked over to pick up his wand and he just looked at her still astonished that she had disarmed him. as he stood there he said " Expelliamus. " though his spirit was bruised a bit.

Minerva laughed at his surprise then he went and picked up his wand, but she was ready for any tricks and when he tried to disarm her she jumped doing the wand movement "Protego Sorry Hun., but your going to have to be faster then that."

"Okay, ready?" she said. Silvia pointed her wand one more time at her friend, focused on the spell as much as she could, and said "Expelliarmus." The wand seemed to yank out of the girl's hand and fell clattering to the floor just a few inches in front of Alex's feet. "This may not be as hard as it seems like at first."

"Maybe we should start trying the shield charm as well," she said, when the professor had given the go-ahead to practice it. Silvia followed Alex's lead in practicing the wand movements for the protego spell. "Should we try casting the shield charm by itself first, and then add in expelliarmus once we feel we've got it down?" she asked.

OOC: GinevraWeasley/Vlimia, if you're still working with us feel free to just jump in and practice.

"That's okay. I'm okay." He said while getting himself up from the floor. "Okay. That's sound good to me." But this time he need to react faster or he might ended up in the floor again and that would be embarrassing. Nope. He won't late that happen. One was enough.

When the young badger saw his partner started to back away, he gripped his wand in his right hand. "I'm ready!" he said. He did an upward arching flick with his wand then added the extra horizontal motion "Protego!" he said clearly. Suddenly the shield formed in front of him and he saw it blocked Ella' disarming charm. HE DID IT! He managed to cast the Shield Charm! YAY! Go Him!

Alyssa decided that while she waited for Oakey to decide, that she would practice casting the Shield Charm. Swishing her wand in an arcing flick ending with a quick horizontal slash, she said,"Pro-TAY-goh". A bluish shield appeared before her, expanding sideways as she watched. 'Is it supposed to look this way?,'Alyssa thought to herself. 'Well I guess I'll know when I get the chance to try it out for real.'

Sophie held her wand and made a upward arcing movemente while casting "Protego!" She saw a shade of blue light coming out of her wand on its way up. "Cool!" She had done that spell a couple of times before (Capture the Flag anyone? Heh) and wasn't having any trouble with it now. Hmmm... maybe she could try to make it stronger, as Professor Romanos had demonstrated.

Letting her shield drop, she tried it again. "Protego!" She flicked her wand upwards, then added an horizontal movement, like in a plus symbol ( + ).

A blue lighted shield floated in front of her and she blinked a couple of times, smiling widely. "Wicked!" Her eyes sparkled as she looked at it.

Vickers knew the shield charm. It was probably the one "fighting" spell he knew, and it was mostly learned out of survival from the awesome fun times that is the American wizarding high school. But given his awkward positioning and general nerves he totally failed to flick his wand--

-- which was sent flying out of his hand from Gideon's spell.

It took him a moment to realize it was rolling on the floor before he scampered after it. "G-Good one!" he chuckled awkwardly, wand in hand and returning to the spot where he stood. He knew how pathetic that was, and deep down he was kicking himself for failing to raise a shield when that was the one move from the entire lesson that he knew well enough. "You... you want to try that again? Or.... or maybe I should try the disarming spell...." he can pronounce it well enough, its just that he's never found himself in a situation where he had to actually cast it against anyone or anything.

Kennedy nodded and waited until Kurumi was ready to resume practice. He eyed the distance and felt comfortable with it. He took his dueling stance, prepared for the disarming spell. It kind of helped that Kurumi counted down to three.

"Protego!" he countered. Kurumi's spell rebounded off his shield and off into the air. He grinned, mostly to himself. For a minute there he had considered trying to perform the wider shield Professor Romanos had told them about, but then decided to go with what he was most comfortable with at the moment.

Without much of a warning, except for a small smiled, he did a firm d movement with his wand and said, "Expelliarmus!" She did see that coming, right?