Right, so now that they were a few steps away from the rest of the students, Vashti sort of stood there, looking uncertainly over at Amelia, and waited nervously for the professor to blindfold them. This was going to be...interesting.

Wait, remember where your partner stood? Vashti glanced over at Amelia once more before suddenly everything went dark. Oh Merlin! Things were so different when she couldn't see anything. Where was Amelia again?

"You ready, Amelia?" she asked, perhaps a little louder than was necessary. She wasn't sure how far away her partner was anymore though, and she thought she needed to talk over the spell casting the other students were already doing.

meep! serious catching up
 

Ok so now it was his turn to try the disarming spell. "Okay.... here we go!" he mumbled nervously. He raised his wand and with the disarming wand stroke uttered "Expelliarmus!"

Then again in his nervousness he may have been pointing a little far from Gideon's wand. Ooops.





He turned when the Professor spoke, and his knees nearly buckled on her next words-- he was going to lose his sense of sight?!??? But he was extremely dependent on his sight, more than most normal people. Before he can utter any sound of protest he felt the blindfold wrap around his head and plunge him in total darkness.

Forget about nerves, now he was totally defensive. He could not see, and the world around him has been reduced to some form of chattering and incoherent buzzing which he could hear mostly from the right side of his head. He was always shy about his partial deafness, but it was only now that he felt what a gross disadvantage it was for him in matters like these "Gideon?!?!" the Ravenclaw blurted out, maybe a little too loudly and a bit haughtily. He doesnt know where the Gryffindor was, or if the other boy was talking he had no idea if he just talked over him.

Minerva listened the professor and then she reached Minerva tapping her head near her ears. She couldn't hear anything, she didn't think it would freak her out this much. She looked around with her anxiety coming back. She saw everyone but couldn't hear a thing. She looked at Justin with a bit of fear in her eyes. "DID YOU WANT TO GO FIRST?" she screamed not even knowing she screamed. Why was she talking to him, he couldn't hear her. She took a few deep breaths trying to calm down..

Justin looked at a freaked out Minerva and could sense her uneasiness. He gave her a confident yet reassuring look as he traced the D motion and said " Expelliamus. " as he tried disarming her. this lack of hearing greatly affected his balance yet his sight was enhanced periphrially.

We're they supposed to start? Oakey was just as confused as any other deaf 3rd year in the class right now. He looked until he found Alyssa again.

There she was. He walked over to her and tapped her on the back. I think we need to duel? Oakey thought to her. Can you read minds? That was a real stupid question to think.

He pointed behind her hoping she'd understand that she'd need to back up so they could duel.

Once that was taken care of, Medea had moved on towards the other students, yet with the sound of feet hitting the ground reaching her ears, a rather unsteady tone to it, she glanced over her shoulder, expecting someone had to have retrieved their wand. The sight of one actually being pointed at her was quite the shock. "Miss Grein-" Oops! Her shield was put up with ease, but that wasn't the point. "Miss Greingoth. Wrong person!"

It took a few steps, but she was right in front of the Slytherin girl, turning her around to face her partner. Her SMILING partner. Yes, it was all very funny when someone tries to disarm their Professor. "There we go."

It wasn't hard to notice someone who didn't have a partner. What was hard about it though was momentarily putting her attention on them, and not on the rest of the class whom really needed it right now. Especially when half of them couldn't see where they were aiming. Tapping one side of the girl's head with her wand to release half the spell she'd used to make the younger years momentarily deaf, Medea raised an eyebrow. "No partner, Miss Reese?" What good a dummy would do during this activity, she didn't know.

Alyssa was first trying to figure out why Oakey was still wanting to duel with her until she realized that she had misunderstood the Professor's instructions. So after trying to figure out what Oakey was trying to mimic to her, she finally understood that they were to stick with the same partners.

She nodded her head and gave up a two thumbs sign to let him know that she understood and backed up. Raising her wand she got prepared to duel with him.

Amelia was looking closely at Vashti now so that she would hopefully remember where her partner was located right now. When it was her turn to hit a spell at her partner, she wanted to make sure that she was disarming the right person.

She sighed when everything suddenly went black. She hated not being able to see. D: She felt helpless and even though she understood the Professor's point in this lesson, she still didn't really like being blindfolded.

"I think I'm ready."

Vashti listened carefully for Amelia's reply, and when it came, she looked in that direction. So she was somewhere in that direction. She nodded to indicate she had heard her...but then realized she wouldn't be able to see that. "Okay."

The Ravenclaw carefully tried to point her wand in the direction Amelia's voice had come from, and she thought she had it right, but of course, since she couldn't see, she wasn't completely sure. She practiced the wand movement a couple times just to get the feel off it before finally speaking the incantation along with it. "Expelliarmus!"

Fudgecicle.

Despite knowing that she wouldn't be able to see in a few moments, it didn't make Kurumi any more calm about the situation. Had the professor randomly taken a sense away without telling them then, well.then she would have really been panicked to the point of her hair changing colors. Kurumi looked straight ahead, focusing on where Kennedy was standing in front of her. This was all going to go downhill the moment he moved so much as an inch though...
Kurumi was so focused on trying to remember where Kennedy was standing that she didn't notice the professor come up behind her and cast Obscuro on her. And that was it. Now Kurumi's world was nothing but pitch black. She could hear people shouting, most likely the younger students who could no longer hear, and that made it even harder to try and figure out where Kennedy was. He hadn't moved yet, right?

Kurumi raised her wand in the direction of where Kennedy had last been standing. "Kennedy? You go ahead and cast first," she said. She could throw up a shield...hopefully. Probably would go with the wider range Shield Charm if she could manage. What had that wand movement been again?

After Professor Romanos passed by Kurumi, Kennedy kept his eyes on her. He wanted to engrave her location in his head, but he doubted that would be much help. What if she moved? Well, then...he would have to...yeah. This, though, would hopefully teach him to use all of his senses to his advantage.

Kennedy winced when everything was suddenly pitch black. He had the urge of extending his arms and swatting the air to check what was in front of him, but he kept still. "Kurumi," he answered. She still sounded like if she was in the same spot. Kennedy nodded, but then remembered that she wouldn't be able to see his gesture. "Alright," he said.

"Expelliarmus!" he said, extra loud. Yeah, he knew Kurumi didn't lose her sense of hearing, but it was so that she'll get an idea of his direction...which he probably shouldn't be doing because this was a duel. Meh.

Bending at the knees, Kurumi reached her non-wand hand out for the wall and found it surprisingly quickly, her palms tracing its uneven surface. At least now she sort of knew where she was...or something.

Wand still out and pointing at where she hoped Kennedy was, not that it really mattered because she needed worry about herself for right now, Kurumi stumbled a bit when she heard Kennedy SHOUT the spell. Had he forgotten that she had lost her sight and not her hearing. She could hear him perfectly fine. In fact, Kurumi's hearing was sort of going into overdrive right now due to her not being able to see, so he could have kept his voice neutral and it probably still would have felt booming.

Arching her wand upwards, Kurumi added a horizontal movement to her wand to increase the size of her shield. "Protego!" Hopefully it had worked, because she couldn't see if it had or not. Bracing for impact, Kurumi heard a soft zapping sound. Hey, she had never heard that before. It was sort like a small bug flying into a bug zapper. Had that been his spell hitting her shield? Kurumi was just going to pretend that it was.

Countering quickly, Kurumi decided to mimic Kennedy and shout the spell at him as well. "Expelliarmus!"

As Alyssa faced Oakey, she decided to go for the Disarming Charm. Swishing her wand to form an invisible d, Alyssa said the Disarming Charm, "Expelleamoose" and aimed it at Oakey. Nothing happened. Alyssa was startled, the spell had worked for her in the past but it wasn't working now. She performed the wand movement again and aiming it at Oakey said the incantation again."Expellamoose." Again nothing happened.

Then Alyssa realized what was wrong. She thought that she was saying the spell but because she couldn't hear what she was saying, she was actually mispronuncing it and that was why the disarming spell wasn't working. She put down her wand and tried to figure out how she was going to cast the spell properly. She wasn't sure whether she was old or experienced enough to do a non-verbal spell, but she was try that if all her other attempts failed. That would be her last resort. Alyssa decided to say the spell slowly. Maybe if she pronounced each syllable carefully, she might actually cast the spell.

So she faced Oakey again and performed the wand movements forming an invisible d in the air and aiming her wand at Oakey, said the words of the spell slowly. "EX-PEL-LI-AR-MUS." Sure enough a beam shot out of her wand and headed for Oakey. She suspected that he would see the spell coming since she had said it slow enough that he could probably read her lips if he wanted to.

catching up as well (she says "You can always back out, you know." btw)
 

Everyone around herself and João had moved on to practicing the Shield Charm, but Stella was left surprised that the Slytherin had actually let himself be hit by her Disarming Charm from earlier. It was a good thing that she'd been fairly certain of her ability with both spells, although she silently practiced the wand movement that Professor Romanos had suggested they use for the second charm anyhow. At least it gave her something to do while he was searching for his wand. Honestly, even amongst the chaos in the room, she didn't understand why it was taking so long. Plus, she sensed a bit of irritation coming from him as well. There went any points she'd gotten earlier for being nice, but then, if he was going to get so irritated by letting his own wand fly away from him, she could deal with that. It just meant he was more of a stereotypical Slytherin.

As the lesson moved on, however, her attention went back to the professor. So now they were going to have to duel blindfolded. Interesting, she thought, stepping over to one side again to create more space between herself and the people standing nearest to her. She glanced at João again as he'd returned and spoken, nodding slightly at the act. He could act like it hadn't mattered, but she could see through that by now. At least, she could whiel she was waiting for the professor to get over to them to obscure their vision. "I'm not bad at it," she said with a shrug, " and it certainly does seem that way." She was fine with being blindfolded if she had to. "Vous pouvez toujours revenir en arrière, vous savez." Yes, now she was close to taunting him, but his demeanor deserved it. Besides, shortly afterward she'd ended up blindfolded, so she just had to wait to hear his reaction, keeping her wand at the ready just in case.

Did Tayla's disarming spell work? =)
 

Tayla looked around and realized Jacques wasn't with her anymore. Maybe she had backed off to much. But after a moment, she found him lurking in one spot. "Jacques, we're still partners aren't we?" she asked kindly. "I'm sorry we weren't able to practice yet, but Professor Romanos will be taking our sense of hearing soon. Then we can start." That made the duel a little more complicated though.



A moment later, Tayla felt the professor tap each side of her head and felt a strange sensation when she started to no longer hear anything. "Odd..." she thought. She wasn't sure she could talk, but decided to try. "Expelliarmus," she said in her head, moving her mouth the way she thought it should. She wasn't sure if she was saying it aloud correctly, but decided what she was thinking was more important right now.

She motioned to Jacques that they begin. Making sure Jacques understood or at least saw her, she took her stance and pointed her wand to Jacques' wand hand. "Expelliarmus!"

She saw a red light appeared from Zhenya's wand. Quickly she casted the shield charm

"Protego!" She waved her hand. A transparent-blue light appeared from her wand, repulsed Zhenya's disarming charm.

"Wow..." she could do the shield charm very good. "Okay, now it's your turn!"



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What did the Professor say? She couldn't hear her voice. OHMYGOD!!

She was DEAF!! She couldn't hear anything!

Okay, Raven. Just relax.. relax... Use your sight.. She was ready with her duel position and she casted the disarming charm.

"EXPELLIARMUS!"

Laura looked at Jen and decided to ask her something. "Vho is Voing first?" Laura then realised what she was doing, the Professor's accent was cool and Laura liked it but maybe Jen wouldn't understand it. "I meant to say who is going first?" Because Laura seriously didn't want to try this, then she remember Jen probably couldn't hear her this was going to be cool, how was they going to do this?

Umm..So did they still work with their partner? Because Messer saw everyone still working with their partner. And the Professor said first years through fourth lose their hearing. How he's suppose to send a message to Ella that they still working together? "Are you ready?" Even though Messer know that Ella can't hear him but he asked it anyway.

He pointed his wand toward his partner and did the d movement "Expelliarmus!" he didn't realized that he said the incantation a little too loud.

He saw that she did the shield charm correct. He started to wonder how she could do this so well without messing up. Huh. Anyways he casted another "Expelliarmus." at her wand.

Minerva was still off balance from no sounds when her wand jumped from her hand. She looked at her hand then around until her eyes fell on Justin. Did he really just disarm her when she was freaking out. Oh he was not getting away with this one. She went over and picked up her wand and headed back to her safe spot away from other spells as she walked she moved her wand "Expelliarmus" she said this carefully not knowing if she was saying it to loud or to soft, but she watched out the corner of her eye towards Justin.

Daisy nodded, not saying much as it would be no use; the charm to stop her hearing had also been used on LuLu, which would make using the spells a little more interesting. She gestured to herself and then to her wand, hoping LuLu would get the hint she would use the disarming spell, but her partner could use a shield charm if she liked. It was up to her; that was what the lesson was all about, after all.
She raised her wand at LuLu, that would be the hint, if anything.
'Expelliarmus!' she said, not knowing how loud she had said it, as she moved her wand in the 'D' shape and waited to see how her 'opponent' would react, with a disadvantage of no hearing.

I'm guessing you do the d thing for Protego too...
 

"Proteego!"Cardigan said,doing the 'd' shaped movement.She either said it wrong or she did the wrong movement because the shield charm didn't work and she was quickly knocked back,her wand flying back a few less inches than before.She must've said it wrong."Exspelliarmus!"She said,making the same 'd' shape motion with her wand.Wow.Magic just wasn't the same without hearing...

Justin gave her a naughty little grin as he saw her reaction to him disarming her. Then she picked up her wand and was ready for her spell to take his wand from his hand , but instinctively brought his wand up in a vertical motion as he said , " Protego." and sheilded himself from her incantation. He stood waiting to see her face redden with irration that he had again bested her. He loved how competitive she was. Always made things interesting.....