Violet walked to a space in the middle of the classroom. She beckoned her new partner, Lily, to come join her so that they can start practising with the disarming spell. "Come on Lily. Let's get to work on this!"

As she looked over to the windows, she saw creepy dolls that seem to be moving on their own. Was it just her own imagination or did they have a mind of their own? Violet tore her eyes away from the dolls and tried to stay focus on the task even though the image was now imprinted in her brain.

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At least she smiled. It was always better to work with someone who was a bit polite. And who was also a bit formal, it seemed. Sure, João still understood her perfectly, but that language was formal in his book. Well, he figured it was the French way of it, their elegance and delicacy. He snorted to himself, though his face showed nothing of his thoughts.

"It's a pleasure to meet you too, Mademoiselle Gardiner," he replied, eyes sparkling. It felt different to say a word in French after so many years. Maybe he should meet her some time else to practice the language with her, if she could speak it fluently too. Then, she could be as formal as she wished.

"You know, you're one of the few people that can pronounce my name that well." He chuckled. Yes, that was a compliment to her. Yes, he was impressed. It was hard to impress him, but she got to that point in... one minute.

Congratulations to her.

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.

Kennedy nodded at Professor Romanos' instructions, then grinned at Kurumi's comment. Yep, round two it was...and he wasn't so bad at it, he wasn't great, but he wasn't a fail either.

He looked around and saw that there weren't many people around them, but he wasn't sure if Kurumi would like to practice with mats around. "You want to move somewhere else or is here fine?" he asked.

His wand hand was absentmindedly doing the a d in the air, beside to him. The times he's done the Disarming charm he's done the point wand movement, so this would be interesting, and hopefully have the same result as before.

Ariana took out her wand. Finally she could use it without getting in trouble. she gripped her wand and flicked it making the small 'd' shape and called out "Expelliarmus." Aiming right towards jordan.

"You can go first,"Cardigan said with a smile as she had been taught to let other people go first.And of course,she learned that the hard way.Anyways,it would sound extremely rude!So what was the disarming charm again?Oh yeah,Expelliarmus!She pulled out her wand,having it at the ready.Who knows when Sophie would decide to start!

"Okay then. " Jen said simply as she walked to where her partner was.

Sophie was surprised when Cardigan let her go first. She was expecting the girl to want to Disarm her as soon as she could! Heh. "Alright!" She smiled as she puller out her wand from her pocket. She had tried that spell a couple of times a few months ago and it didn't work. Maybe she needed to focus a bit more this time.

Blinking a couple of times, Sophie pointed her wand at her friend. Intention... she concentrated on the spell she was about to cast. "Expelliarmus!" She finally said, making a sharp 'd' movement with the tip of her wand.

Once Lily had successfully found a partner, she looked up to watch the teacher until they were able to practice something. After the professor gave them permission, Lily looked up to see Violet waving for Lily to catch up. Rushing to keep up, Lily smiled and looked around the room a bit. "I'm coming..." Lily caught up with Violet as they found a spot in the room. "Did you want to go first or did you want me to try it first?" Lily asked as she pulled her wand out of her holster.

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.

"I guess I'll go ahead and give it a try, if that's alright with you." It wasn't usual for Silvia to take the initiative like this but she was excited to practice this new spell. She practiced the wand movements a couple of times before readying herself.

"Are you ready?" she asked her partner.

"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.

Kurumi idly twirled her wand in fingers as she took a quick glance around the area. It seemed to be...alright. After all, this was only a Disarming Spell and two fifth years such as themselves shouldn't have too much difficult casting it - even with the different wand movement than they were both used to.

"Here is alright," she said, moving one of her mats directly behind her just in case. Not that a yoga mat was really going to do much if she did fall backwards. Rotating at the wrist a bit, Kurumi practiced the d movement and then look up at Kennedy as she took on a typical offensive position more for appearance than anything else. "Alright, give it a go," she smiled.

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.

Kennedy breathed in a nodded. He always got jitters before an activity like this, but he wasn't as nervous as he was last term in Dueling Club.

His body unconsciously took a offensive stance and in a quick motion he lifted his wand hand making a d movement, saying, "Expelliarmus!" A gold hue expelled from his wand, shooting toward the Gryffindor Prefect.

"Ready", Alex said. She wasn't really ready, but she guessed that she was as ready as she'd ever be. "Give it a go."

It took a lot of effort to not cast a Shield Charm on herself, especially knowing that the attack was coming, but Kurumi held fast and allowed the Kennedy's spell to hit her. Her entire body was pushed back only about an inch, but her wand shot out of her hand, twirled in the air backwards, and landed a few feet behind her.

Before going to retrieve it, she flashed Kennedy a quick smile. "Well, I think you've got a handle on that one." Now...to go get her wand...

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.



Oh, so that's how she's going to play? he thought, watching his spell ricochet off her shield. Well, two can play that game. The competitive side in him had been roused.



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.

Keefer looked to see if Ellie was going to join in. Not seeing her, he swiftly turned back to Arya and sent a nonverbal Disarming spell straight her way, attempting to catch her off guard. Even so, he prepared himself to cast a shield should his spell be deflected.

Alice stepped into the arena and spotted Maxwell in between the dueling pairs. She weaved in between some spell-casters and their partners, finally reaching her own, and held her wand at the ready. "Which spell would you like to practice first?" She inquired, glancing at her partner. She decided to try the Disarming Charm, and turned her arm in the upside-down interrogation mark as her Professor instructed. "Expelliarmus!"

Kennedy held his breath as his spell got nearer to Kurumi. He was used to people retaliating to his spells like in the flag game, but seeing the girl not move made the snake feel like if he did something bad.

He slightly flinched when his charm hit the Gryffindor. He almost had the urge to ask if she was okay, but she seemed like she was. Plus, it wasn't a dangerous spell or anything of the sort.

His cheeks tinted red and he smiled. "I think I do," he replied with a soft chuckle. "Your turn," he said, letting his arms fall to his sides. He was ready...kind of.

Justin chuckled as he saw the surprise on her face and then she collected her wand and challenged him again. " Alright, but you're asking for it. " And with that he took his wand and traced a D shape with his wand , " Expelliamus. "
He saw Minnie grasping her wand tghtly trying to hold it from his spell, but no matter how hard she tried to hold on to it it was not to be and out cam eher wand from her hand. Justin stood there smiling and giggling at Minerva's pretty little face.

Cardigan allowed the spell to hit her,causing her to land on her behind as her wand to fly out of her hand and land a few feet away.She laughed a little bit at how fun it was.The Slytherin was expecting it to hurt!Anyways,she stood up,rubbing her slightly bruised bottom as she picked up her wand,holding it at the ready once she got back to Sophie."You ready?"Cardigan asked as she went over the steps in her head:Exspelliarmus;sharp d wand motion. Exspelliarmus; sharp d wand motion.Good.She was ready.

Picking up her wand and dusting it off with her robes, Kurumi walked back over to Kennedy when she noticed one of her lions was not following instructions and she gave a mental sigh.
"Alice, we are not working on that spell right now," she said, casting a quick Finite in the girl's direction. "Professor Romanos specifically said Disarming Spell only." She pointed her wand around the room at others performing the spell.

She glanced at the pair of lions once more before she continued on her way back to Kennedy.
Having returned, Kurumi idly twirled her wand again and practiced the new wand movement a few more times. Pointing was so much easier... Kurumi looked up at Kennedy and furrowed her brow a bit when she saw that his arms were at his sides. Now THAT made her feel like a terrible person...casting a spell on someone who was completely defenseless.

"K-Kennedy, do you mind at just pretending like you are going to attack me? Like...stand in a dueling position or something?" she asked with a small sway. "I feel...terrible casting a Disarming Spell on you with you just standing there like that." You know, create the illusion and all that?

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.

"Why don't we try disarming?" Maxwell said trying to avoid too much of Kurumi's attention, not that he didn't like her but he figured he must look like a trouble maker to her considering almost every time she saw him she was telling someone he was with to behave. "would you like to go first? or should I?"

Kennedy pursed his lips together trying to hide a smile. He had done that on purpose, placing his hands at his sides like a defenseless victim. He was just curious too see if she would "attack" him if he was a sitting duck...not that he wanted to be a duck. Ducks weren't cool.

"Alright," he nodded. The snake took an offensive stance, pointing his wand at her and frowned...trying to act like the big bad wolf. Was that good enough?

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