Ella waved her hand in the air with a smile. "No problem!" She nodded then, focusing on the task she now had to do. "Okay, I'm ready!" she said, raising her wand in front of her. She watched as he made the d movement and as he began to speak she uttered the word, "Protego!" For a second she saw something appear in front of her and smiled but just as quickly it had disappeared, allowing Messer's disarming charm to hit her and make her wand go flying. "Oh merlin." she said with a sigh. She bent down to pick up her wand and looked at Messer with a shrug. "Must not have been concentrating enough! That was a nice shot though! Mind if I go again?"

Silvia waved her wand and said "Protego." A thin blue mist erupted from her wand, but didn't take any particular form. But at least something happened. She tried again. "Protego," moving her wand in an arch and imagining a shield forming. This time a blue transparent substance came out of her wand again and looked as if it began to form a shield, but then seemed to disappear quickly. For several more minutes she practiced until the result seemed to improve a little, even though it hadn't been perfected. "I think I'm almost ready," she said to Alex. "How about you?"

This time Alyssa was ready for the disarming charm. The moment she saw the stream of light shoot out from his wand, she simultaneously swished her wand in an upward arcing flick followed quickly by a horizontal slash and said,"Protego". Immediately, a blue beam of light shot out of her wand and formed a barrier in front of her. She saw Oakey's spell bounce off her invisible bluish shield, and her wand remained in her hand.

"Good job, Oakey. I could actually feel the vibrations when your spell bounced off mine." She called out to him. "Are you right handed? Because it looks like your spell casting is stronger when you use your right than your left."

EH?

What did she say before? Shield?
Since Zhenya didn't know the incantation, her wand flew away and fell to the ground. Okay, Raven need to tell her about the shield charm. She tried not to laugh.

"Hey." she said. "The incantation is 'Protego' not 'Shield'" said her and tried not to laugh. But she couldn't.

"That's okay." she continued. "Pick your wand and attack me, and I'll show you the shield charm."

Only after Alysaa had mentioned it, Oakey had never thought about it. His dominant hand was his left, but he used both hands when it came to his wand. I think my spells are equally powerful in both my hands. Harvey called me Ambi...ambi? Ambi something? It's kinda hard to pronounce.

I'll try one more time with my left hand this time. I'll show you what I mean. Oakey flipped his wand to his scarred left hand and pointed it towards Alyssa. Get ready! He shouted to Alyssa. Expelliarmus!

The stream of light shot out of his wand in a burst similar to his previous one he cast in his right hand. It headed right for Alyssa.

"Not sure", Alex said. "You look like you are closer than I am. Why don't I try to disarm you and you try your shield?". "Ready?", she asked. Alex raised her wand, waved it properly and said, "Expelliarmus".

Sierra stood there, facing her opponent and keeping her Shield Charm firmly in place. She watched with wide eyes as she waited to see what the girl would do. She'd blocked Sierra's charm, as well, so now the two of them stood facing one another, both with a Shield Charm up. Now what could they do? They were only allowed to do the two charms, and when they both had a shield up, there wasn't really much they could do.

Her only hope was to hope the girl's shield wasn't strong enough to hold. With a 'd' motion, she again cast, "Expelliarmus!"

"Tayla," she replied as soon as it was alright with Professor Romanos and the Hufflepuff she was almost partners with. "Third year. Gryffindor."

She took out her wand and readied herself when she noticed the fist Jacques was making. "Er..." she began, not sure what he was up to. "You can take out your wand now, if you're ready."

Justin stood laughing , but knew what she was capable of, " Protego!" he said as he put up the vertical shield deflecting her. " Expelliamus1" he said quickly trying to disarm her again.

He gulped, hoping that this Miss Stone wasn't a Hufflepuff. Why did Professor Romanos paired him with a girl anyway? Hades didn't want to ruin his gentleman image by going hard on a girl. When a voice behind him greeted 'Mr Vaughn', Hades turned around. He was surprised to see that it was none other than the Quidditch captain of Ravenclaw. She must be a tough one.

"Hades," corrected the Slytherin. He didn't like it when fellow students addressed him using his last name. It made him felt old. Since everyone else had started, "Shall we start?" the boy beamed as the grip on his wand tightened.

Shield Charm it was then! Though, now that Vashti thought about it, they'd still be practicing both spells anyway, they just wouldn't actually disarm each other. If they did the shield right, of course. So this would be interesting. "Alright," Vashti said, drawing her wand as she spoke. "Do you want to defend first then, or should I?"

After taking another sweep around the room, Medea paused up at the front where she had been previously standing during most of the theoretical portion of the lesson. Most, if not all, were doing a splendid job with their spells, and even if a few were a bit shaky, they seemed to be doing better after each time they tried. That's what she liked to see.

"Alright. Everyone." Attention over here! She waited until they did so before continuing on. "Ve don't have that much time left in the class and I do vont to get to the portion where ve discussed taking away one sense. You all are doing very vell vith your spells, so I have no doubt that you'll be able to pull this off. I vos initially going to go through each separately, but for now since the lack of time, I'll be dividing you all up. First through fourth years, you'll have your sense of sound taken away, while fifth through seventh years, you'll be blindfolded to take away your sense of sight."

Fun, wasn't it? "Don't vorry. If you don't vont to do this, just raise your hand and tell me. Or if your preference is the other vay around, let me know. As for now, I'd advise you and your partner to take a few more steps away from everyone just for safety. I'll be keeping a lookout in case any spells go off course. So, spread out some more. There is enough room in here."


OOC: I'll give you guys a few hours to spread out, and then we'll get to the dueling portion.

"Oh you mean ambidextrous? You are? I wish I was..." before Alyssa could finish her sentence, she realized that Oakey had sent another spell her way. Without thinking she raised her wand and in and arcing flick followed quickly by a horizontal slash, she said, " Protego" hoping that she was fast enough to shield herself before his spell hit her. Immediately a bluish light shot out from her wand and formed a barrier in front of her, just as she saw his spell hit it. She could still feel it reverberate as it bounced off her shield charm, and sent vibrations up her wand hand.

"Yeah I see what you mean" she called out to him, shaking her wand hand to get back normal feeling to it.

Then she heard the Professor call them over, and stopped to hear what she had to say.

So third years were to lose their hearing? Alyssa would have much preferred to have lost her sight because her sense of hearing was a lot better than her eyesight and she had been known to hear things which others couldn't. But for the sake of the lesson at hand she was prepared to do what the Professor had wanted them to do. So she joined the rest of the first to fourth years and made sure that she had enough space around to move freely.

She spread out her arms and turned on all sides to make sure that she had enough room to move, hopped over whenever someone got close and waited for the Professor to give further instructions.

Ariana took his hand and pulled herself up. "yeah, im fine thanks jordie. yeah let's try that again.. that was dumb.." Ariana brushed off her robes. boy that was embarrassing.
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Ariana listened to the professor.. no sence of hearing.. COOL! Ariana Loved a nice challenge! she spear out a little bit more.

Amelia drew her wand when Vashti did and then thought about her question "I can start out." She didn't mind doing it first because she was pretty good with this spell. But then the Professor started talking about blindfolding them and.... oh, great. She wouldn't be able to see what she was doing. Why couldn't they have started sooner? Then they would have had some more time to practise. D:

Alright, so Amelia wanted to defend first. Vashti nodded and was preparing to cast the Disarming Spell but...

...Professor Romanos was now telling them to spread out because they were going to temporarily "lose" one of their senses. And the one she and Amelia would have to lose was their sight.

Oh Merlin. This was going to be hard...

She looked over at Amelia, who didn't seem too pleased by this either. "I guess...we should start spreading out a bit," she said, frowning as she took a few steps away from the rest of the students. Was this a good enough distance?

Lookign at Vashti, Amelia saw that she too didn't look forward to the prospect of having to cast spells without any vision. But she would do it because it was for school and she supposed it was also good practise even though she wasn't really one for duelling unless she had to. And so far she hadn't ever really had to do any.

"Yes, I suppose we should." Sighing, she also went back a few steps. "Okay, that's better."

Kennedy's stance resembled one of dueling, but the smile on his face took its seriousness away. The boy was having WAY too much fun. He had even forgotten that they were in DADA and a bunch of students around.

"Protego!" he said, blocking Kurumi's spell. He flicked his wand, but stopped mid-air when he heard Professor Romanos' voice...



He lowered his wand, but kept his awareness up. It wasn't like he was expecting Kurumi to send a spell his way, but he never knew.

The snake smirked at the idea of having the younger students having there sense of sound taken away, but his smirk quickly fell when Professor Romanos explained that fifth years and up were going to lose their sense of SIGHT. That was his favorite sense...besides tasting. He likes tasting foods.

Oh well, it was for an activity and he could do that...yeah.

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He turned his attention back to Kurumi and shrugged. He was up to this, now it was time to exercise his sense of hearing since he didn't do that much. He looked around and took several steps closer to a wall and away from the crowd. "Is this spot good or no?"

Wand at the ready and waiting for Jacques to respond, Tayla heard Professor Romanos giving a next set of instructions.

"Interesting," Tayla said with a grin. In a moment, she wouldn't be able to hear a thing. She spread out as the other students did so and quickly reviewed the disarming and shield charms in her head, flicking her wand a bit as she did so. She wondered if they were allowed to use any other spell, and also wondered how her younger partner was doing.

Just casting these two spells back and forth was becoming a little too predictable. If these spells were really going to hit, Kurumi was going to have to do something to distract him.

Seeing Kennedy move, Kurumi instinctively put up another magical shield and waited for his counter...only nothing came.
Oh, that would be why.

Kurumi lowered her wand when the professor began to speak. Wait...they were going to lose their ability to see? Kurumi supposed that that wouldn't be too bad. Neither her nor Kennedy were able to perform nonverbals, so they would have to say the actual spells. Truth be told...Kurumi was more concerned about her aim and not hitting someone else...

Sure, the professor said that she would be looking out for stray spells and what not...but with an entire classroom full of students...it seemed quite the task to make sure that everyone's spells stayed on track.

This was going to be chaotic...

Turning her attention back to Kennedy now, Kurumi nodded. "Seems alright to me," Kurum replied. When in doubt, they could use the wall to get their bearings, right?

Beezus smiled at the girl's direction. Well.. that wasn't too difficult. Maybe they'll manage practicing with both now since the others were already doing so. She was about to tell Sky that they practice the two spells now when she heard Professor Romanos speak up.

Granted that she was a second year student, that meant she'd lose her sense of sound right? Like she was gonna be deaf for a while. That didn't sound too good, to her at least. She did say the most important sense for her was the sense of hearing and now it was the one that's gonna be taken away so the eaglette really didn't know how to cope up with that.

She thought about telling the Professor that she'd like to transfer to the other group but decided against it after a few minutes of thorough thinking. She'll stick with her own group and maybe that could help her overcome her fear of losing hearing.

"I guess we should spread a bit more.." she told her she-snake partner as she herself moved a bit backwards.

Laura looked at the Professor, she was glad she had been practicing the spells, she looked at Jen and then moved a few paces back, seriously though if she got hurt she was going to go and complain to Professor Hadley, "Jen this could be Vun..fun." Laura corrected herself.

Eep! They were going to be loosing their hearing? Sky wasn't so sure about that. What if something happened during the rest of the lesson? They wouldn't be able to hear any safety instructions! Yikes!

Sky gulped and moved back a little herself. "I think that's far enough…" Oh boy, she could hear the nervousness in her voice…

That was enough? Beezus looked around and cocked her head to the side as she shrugged. "I guess so." There was so much tension in the air already. "We should just wait for further instructions right?" Because well..they were going to start any minute now and losing some of their prized senses would be the worst part. The young eaglette gripped her wand firmly.

"Right." Sky still wasn't quite so happy about loosing her hearing, but worrying about it wasn't going to solve a thing. And she definitely wasn't going to cop out now. Especially since Slytherin needed the points. She took a couple of deep breaths to calm herself down.