"Smart. Now it's just begun." Nate points his wand at hers and says "Expelliarmus."

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.

"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."

"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!

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..."

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.

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.

"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.

For Selina and Renesmee (and Professor Romanos) ^_^
 

"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.

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.

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.

"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?"

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.

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."

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.

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."

"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.

"So, we start disarming now?"

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.

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.

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.

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...

No time for being a gentleman, sadly.
 

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.