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The classroom looked like the magical version of a gymnasium, which is to say that it sort of resembled the dueling arena, except more brightly lit, with plenty of fresh air magically fanning through the space. Along one wall is a closed and locked wardrobe (hmmm what is THAT for???) and a table with water jugs and stacks of coloured cups, and sliced up oranges on a large plate . There is also a stack of nametags and some self-inking coloured quills on the table so you can write your name and wear a tag for the duration of the lesson. Along the opposite wall there are cubbies for students to put their things in --you don't need your textbooks or your bags for this class!
Right in the centre of the room, lit up just so by the sunlight coming in through the window is your guest teacher type person *blink*. The perky blonde doesn't seem much older than the eldest students and she's dressed in work out gear, and looks quite ready to get active. She smiles and greets each student as they come into the room.
"Hi! Welcome! Come in! You don't mind popping a nametag on do you? Just over there. Oh and you won't need your textbooks or your bags, you can put those in a cubby!" She herself is wearing a nametag, in the blue of Ravenclaw, her name written quite clearly: Celandine Kettleburn.
"Start warming up, everyone! Stretch those muscles!" She leads by example, stopping her stretching and jogging only to greet each new student as they come in, at which point she repeats her instructions cheerfully.
The seminar will begin shortly, in the meantime best settle in and follow instructions. After all, you don't want to upset the former Head Girl or make your very own Headmistress's favourite former student pout, do you?
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Also, please note, Cela here isn't likely to take points from you, but she will kick you out of the seminar and bar you from participating if you make her pout misbehave, which means your character won't be eligible for participation points at all, if it gets that far. Your character can be late, but there might be consequences all the same
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Hmmmm... What Cela said was kinda familiar. "Isn't that higitus figitus thingy from Sword in the Stone," Kat said. "It just sounds so familiar. It came from... MERLIN!" Hahaha. At least Kat had something in mind, right?
Wandless magic. "Don't House elves use wandless spells?" Kat shared. "I mean, yes, elves could have a wand at hand but most of the time they use wandless magic."
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Indiana really liked this Cela lady. She'd read about her. Of course she had. The girl was an ex-ravenclaw. Which was super awesome. Indy aspired to be like her one day. She was so pretty. Indy had a big beam on her face as she listened to the woman talk. Wow. She talked a lot. She must have been really confident that was so cool. Hmm. Wandless magic. Indy thought for a couple of minutes, wanting to think of a really awesome and cool answer. Although all of her answers would be awesome and cool, she was a ravenclaw after all. They only gave cool answers.
After a few more moments of thinking she raised her hand up. "Didn't Lily Potter perform some sort of wandless magic on her son when Voldermort attacked them? By dying for her son she gave him some protection which meant Harry didn't die. Would that be considered wandless magic?"
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Seeeeeeeeeeeeee, it was a great idea to attend the seminar Louisa was beaming and smiling and feeling the positive energy engulfing her all the while. Maybe it was because of Cela's excited clapping and beaming toward Louisa and her boyfriend from time to time, or maybe being next to Vicky Vick in a workout outfit you were meant to sweat in was just so ... uhh... pleasant. However, the Ravenclaw kept stretching, bending and jogging in place focusing on her warm-up as she listened to the discussion of FUNcantations.
As she stayed focus on her breaths, Louisa did notice a couple of things: 1) Cela giggles, claps and is a happy person in general. That wasn't what the current Head Girl expected form the former Head Girl, but it was definitely very reassuring. 2) She also talks and goes into details, which makes her someone who cares and wants to be understood. 3) She obviously knew Vivi, the fellow seventh year got a brief surprised look from Louisa. 4) She also knew Sierra but Louisa didn't dare give the Slytherin a surprised look. 5) It's incredibly challenging to warmup AND raise your hand to give a proper answer while you're panting like a pig. Louisa had to stop the jogging-in-place and wait for her breathing to slow down before she shot her hand up in the air.
"Wandless magic is usually connected to underage magic, like Accidental Wandless Magic." She didn't have to explain what THAT was, did she? Most of students here went through this type of magic - especially the muggleborn ones. "Personally, it was how I got to know I was a witch. I fell off my house's balcony and in that second of terror, I was able to slow down my fall." BEAM. Totally accidental and unexpected magic. If Cela wanted more "official" example, "There are several wizards and witches that history tells us excelled in wandless magic," Louisa's eyes sparkled then, she loved loved the idea of casting spells wandlessly. "Albus Dumbledore, for instance, was able to detect the presence of people who were invisible by using the Homenum Revelio spell wandlessly." Yes? The Ravenclaw ceased her warming up for a bit, smiling and panting in her spot.
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The glance from the Head Girl did not go unnoticed, and Vivi responded with a very bland look of her own. What was she looking at? They hadn't even started dancing and she was already being scrutinized. Where was Aspen when she was needed?
She turned her attention back to Cela, wrinkling her nose at the example given. Wasn't it a bit dangerous for a wizard to go handing out real spells, even to Muggles? It was surprising his Ministry let him get away with it.
"Things like portkeys, Floo powder, and brooms don't require wands to use because they are imbued with their own magic," Vivi began in a thoughtful tone. "But they also don't work for Muggles, in spite of their magic, so they must respond to our own magic wandlessly. Our magic resonates with theirs." And she had even used Cela's word. Resoooooonates.
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Where was she? Oh yeah. Cela stopped stretching and smiled around at the students.
"So some incantations that are nonsense seem to work anyways, and some don't at all. Isn't that funnnnnny? Like, why do you think some work? Do you suppose they have some kind of personal meaning or actual unknown meaning behind the nonsense words? Or do you think its just about finding the right way to focus? Think about it for a bit, if you have thoughts you totes can share." They could! If they wanted to! She was up for discussing stuff, but she wasn't going to force anyone into it either.
"What I'm going to share though, is my personal favourite nonsense incantation which is actually a rhyme and a really long one at that aaaand its the origin of a far more simple spell, the packing spell! Spells can be refined over time see? And some that we use today, were originally a whole bunch more words. Anyways, its featured by Disney TOO! How strange is that? Its because Walt Disney was a Wizard, obviously." Obviously. His brother wasn't though. Nope. Disney was muggleborn. "Anyways, it goes: 'higitus figitus migitus mum prestidigitonium!', which is definitely nonsense, but works all the same!" If you wanted to do the packing charm the long way.
She stood there with hands on hips. They looked pretty warmed up, didn't they? Good start!
"So some of the BEST FUNcantations are nonsense, and a lot of them are actually rhymes, or incantations in verse or song form. You'll see a lot of that in literature, both muggle and magical." And that was where it started getting FUN.
"One more boring bit and then we can get into the FUN stuff!" Yay. Happy clapping! "Can you guys think of any examples of wandless magic? You can be as specific or as general as you like! I just want to get an idea of what you all know or think you know! This is the chance for you to finish up with your warming up too! Because we're gonna get active in a minute!"
Cassia stood her hands on her waist while bending left and right. Perfect exercise for warming up, right?! The curious second-year couldn't help not glancing at all the stuff that were lined against the wall. What could those be for ,what were they going to do? And so many other questions were storming in her head.
Then she turned her attention back to Cela who was still talking. And that's the awesome thing about talkative people, like Cassia, they talk a lot so if you were distracted for a bit you could still catch up when regained your concentration. While that could never happen when it came to people who spoke only a couple of sentences. If the word was spoken it was lost forever!
So Cassia could easily tell that they were talking about fun incantations and nonsense looong spells. The twelve-years old listened to what other students said ,pretty cool stuff, huh? She mused a bit trying to think of what she has to tell on this topic.
An old memory was back to her, Cassia raised her hand while the other one stayed on her waist, "When my brother and I were young and couldn't do magic, we used to jump around our backyard and repeat random spells, "Though she doesn't remember the order or the spells. "And once, one of the plants my grandmother grows ,started to dance with us!"Eeeep!"Though that specific plant used to be a mean one." Cassia stated her eyebrows furrowed at the mention of plants. Of course All plants are evil and mean! But plants weren't the subject now. Anyway, if they had been the subject Cassia wouldn't have come in the first place.
Stretch..stretch…streeetcchh.
Now they were talking about wandless magic. And then they were getting to the fun part! As Cela promised. Cassia raised her hand again which really proved that this stretching was doing good stuff to her brain. "Um…Goblins and house-elves can do magic wandless-ly," Um..Without a wand, geddit? "Is that related to what we're talking about?" Because Cassia could have easily went off-topic. That was so like her.
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"Oh totally. There are all sorts of silly movements. But you know, to some people, silly things are perfectly ordinary, you know? Its all about what you are used to, and if you think about it," And Cela thought about things all the time, so she was totally an expert on such things, "Flapping your arm its sort of like a pumping motion right? Sometimes if you think of ways to make silly things make sense, it helps you accept it better and then you'll totally be more natural with it instead of really awkward!" She was sure of it!
Oh good. So wand movement could be a part of this, that was reassuring to a certain degree. Kurumi was feeling EXTREMELY out of her element right now and not because she wasn't wearing something orderly and structured like her school robes. Dance...unless it was traditional Japanese fan dancing or soran bushi...Kurumi had two left feet. Kurumi nodded her head in agreement. It did make sense, seeing as the spell meant to pump air into or something. Selina had muttered about it being nonsense Latin.
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"One more boring bit and then we can get into the FUN stuff!" Yay. Happy clapping! "Can you guys think of any examples of wandless magic? You can be as specific or as general as you like! I just want to get an idea of what you all know or think you know! This is the chance for you to finish up with your warming up too! Because we're gonna get active in a minute!"
Boring bit? Kurumi had rather found the discussion to be fascinating really...it was the so called FUN bit that was terrifying. Really though, this was entirely going to depend on what sort of dance they were going to do. Were they going to need partners? Merlin Kurumi hoped not....
And no, that was not because Lewis was not present. It was because she did not want to hurt someone else because she had two left feet and the dance coordination of a troll.
But...right...there had been another question asked. Wandless magic. Again, several of her initial thoughts had been raised by people and Kurumi found her eyes wandering to her hair. To her hair that tended to turn into a blood mood ring.
Pausing her warm up for a moment, Kurumi caught her breath and raised her hand. "Metamorphs," she said simply. Cue a deep breath. "My hair changes color without the aid of a wand. It's more connected to my feelings..." And there. Kurumi Hollingberry had NOW officially outed herself to the school - those who did not know already that is. "With proper concentration my appearance can alter as well." Which right now was mostly cat ears and whiskers since she was too afraid to experiment.
Her first openly public confession...and it surprisingly didn't feel...that wrong.
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SPOILER!!: Cela
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Where was she? Oh yeah. Cela stopped stretching and smiled around at the students.
"So some incantations that are nonsense seem to work anyways, and some don't at all. Isn't that funnnnnny? Like, why do you think some work? Do you suppose they have some kind of personal meaning or actual unknown meaning behind the nonsense words? Or do you think its just about finding the right way to focus? Think about it for a bit, if you have thoughts you totes can share." They could! If they wanted to! She was up for discussing stuff, but she wasn't going to force anyone into it either.
"What I'm going to share though, is my personal favourite nonsense incantation which is actually a rhyme and a really long one at that aaaand its the origin of a far more simple spell, the packing spell! Spells can be refined over time see? And some that we use today, were originally a whole bunch more words. Anyways, its featured by Disney TOO! How strange is that? Its because Walt Disney was a Wizard, obviously." Obviously. His brother wasn't though. Nope. Disney was muggleborn. "Anyways, it goes: 'higitus figitus migitus mum prestidigitonium!', which is definitely nonsense, but works all the same!" If you wanted to do the packing charm the long way.
She stood there with hands on hips. They looked pretty warmed up, didn't they? Good start!
"So some of the BEST FUNcantations are nonsense, and a lot of them are actually rhymes, or incantations in verse or song form. You'll see a lot of that in literature, both muggle and magical." And that was where it started getting FUN.
"One more boring bit and then we can get into the FUN stuff!" Yay. Happy clapping! "Can you guys think of any examples of wandless magic? You can be as specific or as general as you like! I just want to get an idea of what you all know or think you know! This is the chance for you to finish up with your warming up too! Because we're gonna get active in a minute!"
"Okay, but aren't ALL spells nonsense? Because they are all sooooo hard to say." Weren't they all Latin related, and stuff? Theo didn't know Latin, so, he always had the trouble.
Theo did a final thrust type of warm up, then finished with a light jog on the spot. He was excited for the fun part.
He wasn't sure on any examples, buuuut, he raised his hand anyway. "Can any spell be done wandlessly, as long as you have the brains for it?" Because he did know that only powerful witches and wizards could do it. Theo certainly couldn't, even when he was young and without a wand, nothing particularly gave it away. He was just a regular muggle kid.
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"Ooooh another Disney one!" Happy clapping. And totally a fun to say nonsense word. "Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious isn't really an incantation, so much as a nonsense word, since it wasn't ever said to be a spell like some of them." She nodded when Abracadabra was brought up, but had to clarify there for the bunch of them. "Abracadabra loosely translates from Aramaic actually! Avda Kedavra, which is slightly different from the killing curse. And it pretty much means 'created by my words' which would suggest it comes from a conjuring spell of some sort but historically its use has been associated with healing magic. Quintus Sammonicus Serenus was a Wizard from the third century AD who wrote about it, but much of what he wrote was either lost or destroyed. One of the coolest theories --its in one of the books in the restricted section, if you're interested, Abracadabra and the Killing Curse-- is that muggles tried to use it to fight off the plague just before the statute was signed, having heard old stories about the use of it, so its always been known as a magical word, but the actual spell has been lost to us. avada kedavra is from Aramaic roots too, slightly different but totally related, even if the meanings are kind of opposite. One of the theories in the book is that the original Abracadabra, whatever it was before it got adopted by muggles, was actually a counterspell or a protective spell for the killing curse. Just like any spell, if you just say the incantation but don't have the intent and stuff, you can't cast anything. So that's what that is. Its almost just a word now. Maybe one day someone will discover what it did as a spell." Books were awesome. Lots of cool stuff was in books. And that there was her Ravenclaw totally showing through.
Wow that is a mouthful of explanation but this is new to Juliet, all the abracadabra stuff. She sort of thought it's some sort of opening spell but guess she's just wrong. Wait. Where in the world did she think that it's some kind of door opening spell? Snort. That's pretty crazy. She never really thought about it and besides, that spell is not really a spell.
So no arguments on that one. Juliet nodded, she learned a lot from this seminar. And the one explaining is very thorough with the details. She's like an expert on these things. Just wow. Amazing.
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"One more boring bit and then we can get into the FUN stuff!" Yay. Happy clapping! "Can you guys think of any examples of wandless magic? You can be as specific or as general as you like! I just want to get an idea of what you all know or think you know! This is the chance for you to finish up with your warming up too! Because we're gonna get active in a minute!"[/COLOR]
Juliet once again sat and stretched her right leg apart. They're still warming up. After this, she'll be definitely finish. She then bent over and stretched both her arms to the right as well, making the tips of her fingers touch her right toes. This is her usual exercise when she does her ballet practice, except for the strict teacher dictating stuffs to her.
Wandless magic?
Ugghhhh.... Nope, nothing comes to mind with a specific thing but there is that one thing... "well some excellent wizards and witches.... ones that are very confident with their magic skills can actually perform magic without a wand, right?" well she hasn't seen one up close but some people in history has done it "Like a snap of their fingers, or a wink." Juliet would like to be one of those but of course practicing these things is harder than it looks like.
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It was TOTALLY sweet and adorbs that there were was a cute Ravenclaw couple, and that one of them was the head girl. Obviously that meant they were the most adored and adorable couple in the WHOLE school. Cela knew this because by her logic, and her experience, it was TRUE that everyone totally loved Ravenclaw Head Girls and/or prefects and their cute boyfriends. Did Aparecium still exist? They were probably in it ALL THE TIME, just like Celandine had been. Totally legit. The boy got a bright smile which turned into somewhat of a puzzled look at his answer. Not at the story but at the possibility that a brother would make up such a lieeeeeeeeeeeeee. The scandal! Her brothers wouldn't do that to her ever! Poor Ron Weasley. Poor rat. "That's so SAD!" Also, why didn't he just use a spell FOR changing fur colour? Cela would never know how Gryffindor minds worked. Never ever, but her heart went out to Ron Weasley and his obviously misunderstood brothers, and kudos to this boy for knowing such a sad story
Yes it was so sad… mean… confusing. Lucky Vickers was an only child eh? Although there were innumerable occasions he wished he had siblings or even cousins his age. Oh the afflictions of an only child.
But never mind being sad. This former Ravenclaw was really HAPPY. Practically infectious. He found himself smiling even brighter with every happy beam she cast their way. Why does this feel famil--
Huh.... the Elijah Effect. Imagine that.
SPOILER!!: Cela
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Where was she? Oh yeah. Cela stopped stretching and smiled around at the students.
"So some incantations that are nonsense seem to work anyways, and some don't at all. Isn't that funnnnnny? Like, why do you think some work? Do you suppose they have some kind of personal meaning or actual unknown meaning behind the nonsense words? Or do you think its just about finding the right way to focus? Think about it for a bit, if you have thoughts you totes can share." They could! If they wanted to! She was up for discussing stuff, but she wasn't going to force anyone into it either.
"What I'm going to share though, is my personal favourite nonsense incantation which is actually a rhyme and a really long one at that aaaand its the origin of a far more simple spell, the packing spell! Spells can be refined over time see? And some that we use today, were originally a whole bunch more words. Anyways, its featured by Disney TOO! How strange is that? Its because Walt Disney was a Wizard, obviously." Obviously. His brother wasn't though. Nope. Disney was muggleborn. "Anyways, it goes: 'higitus figitus migitus mum prestidigitonium!', which is definitely nonsense, but works all the same!" If you wanted to do the packing charm the long way.
She stood there with hands on hips. They looked pretty warmed up, didn't they? Good start!
"So some of the BEST FUNcantations are nonsense, and a lot of them are actually rhymes, or incantations in verse or song form. You'll see a lot of that in literature, both muggle and magical." And that was where it started getting FUN.
"One more boring bit and then we can get into the FUN stuff!" Yay. Happy clapping! "Can you guys think of any examples of wandless magic? You can be as specific or as general as you like! I just want to get an idea of what you all know or think you know! This is the chance for you to finish up with your warming up too! Because we're gonna get active in a minute!"
ooc: *collapses* I'm sorry she talks soooo muuuuch. those of you that I missed I'll edit in at the top in a bit. If I skipped you entirely VM me! eep! Sorry if I did! This is your charrie's chance to give their opinions and thoughts on what has come up already, and talk a bit about what they know about wandless magic. Specific examples are all good, or general examples. Just whatever you think your character knows! Questions are welcome too, but soon we'll move on to the maiiiin event. OR if your charrie wants to stay silent, that is cool too, they can just warm up and stretch or whatever. I'll continue things properly tomorrow, probably in around 12ish hours from the time on this post. But I may post here and there answering individual questions, maybe. Possibly.
But yes back to MsMrsTouissantKettleburnCelandine (which he just remembered was a name of a flower; Herbology assignment FTW!) ”Some incantations work despite the words because a big part of casting Magic is intent-- to focus on what you want to happen. A lot of our challenge as students is that we say the incantation but end up with something completely different… ” cue Louisa making a pillow instead of a wooden plank. Not to worry he’s not about to verbalize that example ”Those who have developed such mental discipline are able to cast spells non-verbally.“ Something he’s striving for.
He stood agape for a moment when the former Head Girl shared the spell for her packing charm “Uhm… will that just randomly fold and arrange things when you pack or will it actually arrange things the way you want them… like days of the week, occasions, by color and material?” Not revealing too much about how he packs isnt? And now he wants parchment and quill. He likes to write things down yo!
Hmm examples of wandless magic "Uhm... Elves and Goblins use wandless magic-- which I find incredible since they're able to achieve the outcome of many of the same spells we do that requires a wand." And a big reason why he's here.
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"One more boring bit and then we can get into the FUN stuff!"[/B] Yay. Happy clapping! "Can you guys think of any examples of wandless magic? You can be as specific or as general as you like! I just want to get an idea of what you all know or think you know! This is the chance for you to finish up with your warming up too! Because we're gonna get active in a minute!"
Abby rolled her eyes. Did Cela just clap? She really didn't like this professor.. but she might as well put up with it since there was going to be dancing later. YAY.
Wandless magic? She stopped stretching for a moment and raised her hand. "Um. Well, any spell can be performed without a wand if the wizard or the witch is highly disciplined in the use of magic." Short and sweet, eh? Abby pulled her hair back and continued with her warm-up. Yeah, she was doing way lot of stretching but she enjoyed doing it. Besides, it was better than watching Cela jump around in excitement. She really was weird.
As Sarah warmed up her mind was elsewhere, on the quill she had used to write her name. First she stood up straight and touched her feet with her hands, wihthout bending her knees. She was flexible! Yet not fit, as she later learned. After sitting almost cross legged to stretch her legs and a variety pof other streched, she did some joggin on the spot and then she did FIFTY jumping jacks. She was so tired, that the last ten were meek. She difintely needed to do more excersise, the walks on the hogwarts grounds were not enough
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She straightened up and clapped a few times enthusiastically to get everyone's attention.
"Okay everyone! Lets get started! I hope you're all warmed up but if you're not we'll keep stretching while we chat about a few things to begin with. My name is Celandine Kettleburn! I went here once -- I was Celandine Toussaint back then though!--and Iiiiiii was in Ravenclaw," Of course! "And,"
She beamed around at the students, pausing and meeting each of their their eyes as she spoke, "I was a prefect and Head Girl," And here she paused and gave Louisa a full beam, approving smile. OBVIOUSLY she was totes deserving of her badge too. Obviously because there was a precedent. Instant approval from the blonde. Ravenclaw Head Girls were the BEST, clearly. AND they had the best boyfriends. Truth. "and I graduated... oh well I suppose it was about seven terms ago now! You can all call me Celandine, or Cela." Since that was her name and she wasn't a professor and she was likely to start giggling if people started calling her Mrs Kettleburn. And besides! She liked her name! She pointed at her name tag as she spoke. Where was she? Oh yeah, teaching stuff!
"This seminar is all about easy and fun wandless magic, and I call it FUNcantations and Dance Magic. What do you think a FUNcantation might be? And what about Daaaance magic?" Teehee! She was asking questions!
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Sarah thought hard about it. FUNcantaion might be fun magic. Dance magic? Well to Sarah dance was magic. She was musical and when the music started her feet started to tap and her body sway. It was a great way to destress herself. Rarely one could find Sarah dancing without a smile on her face.
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"You're so right." So totes right, good thing she was a 'claw like her momma right? ANDCELASBABIESWOULDBECLAWSLIKETHEIRMOMMATOOOOO. "Its all about finding a conduit, and wands are awesome conduits, but wizards haven't always used wands, and not exclusively even since we have been!"
No answer from the Ravenclaw? That was a shame. but maybe she was THINKING of answers! Yes that was probably it! After all, Ravenclaw. You know how it is.
Miss Awesome? Teehee! Wait until she told Copernicus! Nigel earned a great big smile and another happy clap.
"Yes! FUN! Very fun. You got it!" And clearly he was totally on the right track with this AWESOME thing. Clearly.
"That's okay." She said comfortingly. It was! He knew better now! "Yup rain dancing is totally a kind of dance magic! But we won't make it rain in here today. We are indoors! That would be silly and a waste of perfectly good rain!"
"Ooooh made up words! YESSSS! We are totally going to chat about made up words!" GOOD guess it was. She gave the Slytherin a thumbs up. "And right about the dancing toooo."
"Yeah! Its totally about what it MEANS to you! And intent and all of that stuff, and DEFINITELY about having fun! That is the main part for sure!" These Slytherins were pretty on to it huh? Wait until she told her brother. He'd probably just smirk at her and say 'of course, what did you expect?' but she'd tell him anyways.
"There totally is! Tarantallegra! And you know what? If you are a bad dancer its a great way to practice! And if you can't be bothered exercising you can cast it on your own feet and make yourself dance and soon enough you'll be energised and ready to go!" See? It was all about how you LOOKED at things. She made a face back and then giggled.
She'd happily hex someone's feet to get them all dance-y when the time came. If they couldn't do get inspired to get moving on their own.
"That's right! Fun and dance and all those great things, and you're totally right! Magic dances for healing!" Good stuff! And another Slytherin to boot. Maybe that mean Lafay woman had turned out to be an okay Head of House after all? Had she stopped setting them on fire then?
"They are TOTALLY fun to say. Ever noticed how certain words just SOUND better? Yummier? Cooler? Funnier? Its the same with spells!" Totally is.
"Sometimes! But there are way easier and more fun things to do with dance magic than mess with the weather! But rain dances are totally legit magic!"
Cela simply waved enthusiastically in greeting. Welcomeeeeeeeee and all that!
"You are SO exactly right! Fun-Incantations is what it is!" Way to go, Hufflepuff! She did an air high five, since she wasn't close enough to the kid to make it a real one. "And dance magic totally is dancing." Like, without a wand even.
A quiet one? That was okay, as long as she got into it. Celandine didn't mind letting people have thinking time, but no wallflowers here! And had she stretched yet?
This one got a little wave too, even if he was being all quiet and sticking with his little girlfriend. Aww.
"You are SO right. On both counts!" See? Not so hard, right? This one got another virtual high five in the sense that Celandine high fived the air, but not the girl.
And another stretcher! Good! Totally doing as instructed and she looked like she was paying attention, which Cela approved of. Cela smiled at the Hufflepuff, all enthusiasm and encouragement. We see you!
"ZOMG it so is. Totally fun." Celandine giggled TOO. Magic COULD be fun, see? It didn't need to just be boring stuff out of textbooks, or things with meanypants teachers that never really explained anything to the poor non-claws that couldn't quite get it the first go around. She gave the Gryffindor an enthused thumbs up. YEAH! They'd be DANCING!
Oh question!
"Sure if you want to, but you don't want to be casting stuff in front of muggles." Teehee. "But its sure more discrete than a wand sometimes!" Not that you could simply dance INSTEAD of using a wand, but they'd get into that in a bit.
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"Okay so, FUNcantations are totally FUN incantations. Some of them are nonsense even, and might not have an actual semantic meaning, but they still," And here she paused and made a wow-this-is-awesome-and-I'm-being-serious-because-you-gots-to-learn-this-stuff face, "Resonate magically." She looked around at them and started reaching over her head, stretching still.
"Kind of like, have any of you," not her because Celandine wasn't a mistake maker in HER spell casting, but she understood that sometimes, non-Ravenclaws messed things up while they were learning and all, "ever pronounced a spell wrong and still had something happen? Like, set something on fire, made something explode or whatnot? I'm sure you've all heard about Baruffio? He mispronounced a spell, but managed to conjure a buffalo all the same. Magical resonance causes that sort of thing, if the intent and the magical movement is still right!" And the guy had to have been thinking about Buffalos at the same time, but that wasn't the point: what he'd said instead of the incantation had been relative nonsense. And when she said magical movement... that was because it didn't necessarily mean with a wand. Feet could move! Bodies could make magic!
"Can anyone think of any other examples of nonsense incantations? Or spells that have incantations that don't actually mean anything? What about super long mouthful incantations that are more than just a word or two? Oh and its okay if you don't feel like answering, but keep stretching and warming up!"
Sarah was no stranger to mispronuncing spells, but thankfully it only happened in practice. It was because of hr speech that she did it. Until just before Hogwarts she had had a stutter due to the fact that she was so clever that her brain worked fater then her mouth. Even now she spoke extremely fast. She thought of some non-sensical spells, like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, adabra cadabra... Then there were silly strings of words put together as spell that did nothing.
SPOILER!!: Tegz3
Cela was NOT refraining from happy clapping. Nope. She giggled too. At least this little girl was getting warmed up from giggling and being excited, right?
Stretching was good! What a GOOD Hufflepuff! Paying attention and listening so carefully and following instructions! Oh Cela DID like Huffies! When they weren't going off and dying and all that.
"Oh that's okay!" Cela didn't mind as long as the little 'claw caught up alright. "Some say he conjured it on his chest, some say he conjured it on his wife's shoulders when he was trying to make her a mink." And well, buffalo were big, right? So, not good!
Listening and stretching? Cela approved of that. That was how you got to be super smart like her. By listening and stretching. And listening to her. And stuff.
"Yup, Queen," That was her name right? Its what her nametag said, "Totally exactly what we're doing! Fun incantations and pretty much using our bodies instead of wands!" A bit of both once they got all the talky stuff out of the way. Classes always had talky stuff, and Cela actually liked the talky stuff. It was EXCITING to discuss things, and even sometimes debate about them, and just share all the things that you could possibly think about and get all enlightened and stuff! Eeee! So fun.
Once upon a time, Cela and her best friend Daphne Hopton, as third years, had bought every single ribbon in Gladrags because they'd been so obsessed with hair bows. Especially pretty pink ones. Teehee bows were awesome!
Oh an answer!
"Every Lockhart that I have ever met," Two. She'd met two. Two was an every. "Was at least a bit okay at magic." Better at Quidditch, really. "I think that his problem was that he was trying too hard to impress and didn't let his natural awesomeness shine through. The story goes that he made it up on the spot, and the incantation at least sort of sounds like what he wanted it to do, but its not as simple as that at all -the magical resonance was wrong!- and that's totally a great example of a nonsense incantation! Good stuff!"
"Ooooh yeah! Thats a good one. And you know it was written like, before the Statute of Secrecy? Just think about that for a second! Makes you wonder a bit exactly what Muggles knew and what they thought they knew and --zomg I'm sorry, I'm getting distracted!--That one though, its more of a recipe than an incantation! Hopefully I can explain the difference so that you'll see!" You know, so that the differences made sense. She gave a thumbs up at the stretching though. Yeah!
It was TOTALLY sweet and adorbs that there were was a cute Ravenclaw couple, and that one of them was the head girl. Obviously that meant they were the most adored and adorable couple in the WHOLE school. Cela knew this because by her logic, and her experience, it was TRUE that everyone totally loved Ravenclaw Head Girls and/or prefects and their cute boyfriends. Did Aparecium still exist? They were probably in it ALL THE TIME, just like Celandine had been. Totally legit. The boy got a bright smile which turned into somewhat of a puzzled look at his answer. Not at the story but at the possibility that a brother would make up such a lieeeeeeeeeeeeee. The scandal! Her brothers wouldn't do that to her ever! Poor Ron Weasley. Poor rat. "That's so SAD!" Also, why didn't he just use a spell FOR changing fur colour? Cela would never know how Gryffindor minds worked. Never ever, but her heart went out to Ron Weasley and his obviously misunderstood brothers, and kudos to this boy for knowing such a sad story
OHZOMG!
CELA KNEW THAT ONE! Bunz had taught it to her in Herbology, in like, third year or something! Teehee! "Flipnsnipwitit is also REALLY good for giving haircuts." Just fyi. "It does sound pretty funny though!" And was a good example of a nonsense incantation that actually did something.
Oh and she knew her. Well totally. "Myyyy big brother works with your big sister." Celandine provided helpfully, adding a great big smile.
Was the Slytherin sad? Oh! That was sad. Cela felt a bit bad. Poor Slytherin.They were always so angsty all the time! Probably that was the problem. Probably she had the angst. Well, Cela decided that she would be SUPER nice to her. Poor angsty snakey. Exercise would TOTALLY help her work it out of her system! Yeah!
"Well those are strange words for sure." She giggled. "But not really incantations. And it was sort of a jab at the different houses I think." Maybe. She'd read something about that somewhere, in a book that analyzed all the headmistress and headmaster speeches. Cela wondered for a moment if Tate's 'don't die' speeches would ever make it into a volume of those books, and made a mental note to look into it.
"Oh totally. There are all sorts of silly movements. But you know, to some people, silly things are perfectly ordinary, you know? Its all about what you are used to, and if you think about it," And Cela thought about things all the time, so she was totally an expert on such things, "Flapping your arm its sort of like a pumping motion right? Sometimes if you think of ways to make silly things make sense, it helps you accept it better and then you'll totally be more natural with it instead of really awkward!" She was sure of it!
SPOILER!!: Bibbidi Bobbidi Boooooooo!
She beamed at first one girl and then the other. "Ooooh yes! Thats totally exactly the thing! Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo!" Yeah! "Sometimes muggles that imagine magic, or have heard stories, imagine that one incantation might work for every sort of spell. But Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi bobbidi boo is definitely nonsense! It means nothing and doesn't make sense that it could do so many different kinds of spells with the same incantation. But that Disney guy, he did get some things right." Big wink.
SPOILER!!: abracaaadaaaabraaaa! and supercalifragi...*morelettershere*
"Ooooh another Disney one!" Happy clapping. And totally a fun to say nonsense word. "Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious isn't really an incantation, so much as a nonsense word, since it wasn't ever said to be a spell like some of them." She nodded when Abracadabra was brought up, but had to clarify there for the bunch of them. "Abracadabra loosely translates from Aramaic actually! Avda Kedavra, which is slightly different from the killing curse. And it pretty much means 'created by my words' which would suggest it comes from a conjuring spell of some sort but historically its use has been associated with healing magic. Quintus Sammonicus Serenus was a Wizard from the third century AD who wrote about it, but much of what he wrote was either lost or destroyed. One of the coolest theories --its in one of the books in the restricted section, if you're interested, Abracadabra and the Killing Curse-- is that muggles tried to use it to fight off the plague just before the statute was signed, having heard old stories about the use of it, so its always been known as a magical word, but the actual spell has been lost to us. avada kedavra is from Aramaic roots too, slightly different but totally related, even if the meanings are kind of opposite. One of the theories in the book is that the original Abracadabra, whatever it was before it got adopted by muggles, was actually a counterspell or a protective spell for the killing curse. Just like any spell, if you just say the incantation but don't have the intent and stuff, you can't cast anything. So that's what that is. Its almost just a word now. Maybe one day someone will discover what it did as a spell." Books were awesome. Lots of cool stuff was in books. And that there was her Ravenclaw totally showing through.
SPOILER!!: Hocus Pocus!
"Oh that's another totally interesting one." Celandine answered with great enthusiasm. "Hax Pax Max Deus Adimax! One of the suggested origins of Hocus Pocus! There are a bunch of interesting theories, but I think the most interesting source of 'Hocus Pocus' comes from Thomas Ady's Candle in the Dark: Or, A Treatise Concerning the Nature of Witches & Witchcraft where he said that witches say nonsense latin incantations like 'Hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade celeriter jubeo' not to actually make magic but to distract muggles while the witches cast horrible hexes and stuff, sort of like a verbal slight of hand."
So yayyyy. "Good answer!"
SPOILER!!: Alakazam, Presto Chango, SHAZAM!
"Totally awesome ones! Alakazam sounds like it should do something impressive, but its definitely nonsense. Same with those other ones. Muggles magicians definitely use them!" but nothing would happen. Poor muggles.
SPOILER!!: Expellimellius!
"Its why you have to pay attention in class see? I feel bad for people that mess up so badly." Expelliarmus wasn't exactly HARD. "Oohhh yeah thats quite a mouthful! It does have some meaning behind it though."
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Where was she? Oh yeah. Cela stopped stretching and smiled around at the students.
"So some incantations that are nonsense seem to work anyways, and some don't at all. Isn't that funnnnnny? Like, why do you think some work? Do you suppose they have some kind of personal meaning or actual unknown meaning behind the nonsense words? Or do you think its just about finding the right way to focus? Think about it for a bit, if you have thoughts you totes can share." They could! If they wanted to! She was up for discussing stuff, but she wasn't going to force anyone into it either.
"What I'm going to share though, is my personal favourite nonsense incantation which is actually a rhyme and a really long one at that aaaand its the origin of a far more simple spell, the packing spell! Spells can be refined over time see? And some that we use today, were originally a whole bunch more words. Anyways, its featured by Disney TOO! How strange is that? Its because Walt Disney was a Wizard, obviously." Obviously. His brother wasn't though. Nope. Disney was muggleborn. "Anyways, it goes: 'higitus figitus migitus mum prestidigitonium!', which is definitely nonsense, but works all the same!" If you wanted to do the packing charm the long way.
She stood there with hands on hips. They looked pretty warmed up, didn't they? Good start!
"So some of the BEST FUNcantations are nonsense, and a lot of them are actually rhymes, or incantations in verse or song form. You'll see a lot of that in literature, both muggle and magical." And that was where it started getting FUN.
"One more boring bit and then we can get into the FUN stuff!" Yay. Happy clapping! "Can you guys think of any examples of wandless magic? You can be as specific or as general as you like! I just want to get an idea of what you all know or think you know! This is the chance for you to finish up with your warming up too! Because we're gonna get active in a minute!"
ooc: *collapses* I'm sorry she talks soooo muuuuch. those of you that I missed I'll edit in at the top in a bit. If I skipped you entirely VM me! eep! Sorry if I did! This is your charrie's chance to give their opinions and thoughts on what has come up already, and talk a bit about what they know about wandless magic. Specific examples are all good, or general examples. Just whatever you think your character knows! Questions are welcome too, but soon we'll move on to the maiiiin event. OR if your charrie wants to stay silent, that is cool too, they can just warm up and stretch or whatever. I'll continue things properly tomorrow, probably in around 12ish hours from the time on this post. But I may post here and there answering individual questions, maybe. Possibly.
Then the answers came, from her place in the corner where she was doing arm stretches Sarah lapped up eagerly. This woman sure knew a lot about magic and the different spells. Sarah wish ed she had a writing implement and a paper or partchment to write all this down about spells. Yet thankfully, being born on teh 20th February meant she had a phenomenal memory, so she remembered it all.
"Elves and goblins can preform wandless magic..."Sarah loved watching them at work.. it was simply so magical. "Some very powerful wizards and witches can do it nicely, yet it is better not for an amuter to try as it can be very volitile." Sarah had used wandless magic when she was younger by mistake however. She thought to mention that too, "many underage wizard ans witches use wandless magic unintentionally before coming to Hogwarts.This could be puzzling for muggleborns, who are unable to recognize it as maic and the strangest things happen to them" Like her mother for example
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Annabelle heard the professor's question. She heard everyone else's answers and thought they were right. She didn't really wanna repeat it but she felt that a wizard who is very confident in the spell can do it without magic. She remembered a great wizard of the age back in the day, Albus Dumbledore. He would be capable of doing magic without uttering an incantation. She also felt house elves can preform wandless magic too.
So....this Celandince character was confusing Elliot. On one hand, she was super cheerful, which irked the Ravenclaw a bit. But on the other hand...she knew LOTS OF STUUUUFFFS. SO Elliot could admire that...like, she was totally a Ravenclaw. Elliot decided..SHE LIKED HER. Hmm.
Wandless magic? Huh? Was that POSSIBLE?! Why did they even need wands, then? Wands BREAK! Without a wand, a wizard is like...a bird without wings! Can't do its job! So why were wands necessary?! Had they already gone over this? Hmm...instead of answering the question..she raised her hand to ask another one, "Profes-" Oops. She's NOT a professor..."Er, Miss Celandine...if wandless magic exists, why do wizards need wands? I know it takes a lot of magic...but wouldn't wizards want to train over the years how to do magic without wands...like if we wanted to, couldn't we adapt that? Evolve?" Right. Evolve..."Because if you think about it, wands can be a bit of a handicap....if we lose it or break it, our magic is done. That is, until we get another one....but..." she just wanted to know WHY?!
And had St. Kurumi just told the class she was a METAMORPHMAGUS?! Whaaaat? Elliot didn't know that! So currently, the Gryffindor's standing in Elliot's mind went a little like this. Cool points: + 1, Uncool totally not cool points: 34793759380368 .
So there. Kurumi had a cool point.
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Ella listened as her classmates discussed types of wandless magic they knew about, or questions they had on the subject. The third year was also going to say something about underage magic, recalling how she'd made loads happen before she found out about Hogwarts. With a small smile on her face, she raised her hand. "When I was younger and before I knew about Hogwarts, I used to get upset and cause things to happen without a wand." And it had been frightening but also kind of funny, too. "It wasn't on purpose or anything, it just kind of happened." But she was little then, and that was pretty normal for kids with magical abilities, yeah?
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Wait, what? Disney was a wizard. Total 'the more you know' moment. Though, come to think about it, it made sense. What, with all the talking animals that popped up in those movies. Maybe they were actually animagi? But, wait. She thought animagi couldn't talk? Hmm....
No time to dwell on that too much, though, because class was moving on. "Um, the accidental magic we do as young kids could count, since we're not allowed wands at that age. Also, a lot of the magic that Albus Dumbledore did."
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OHZOMG!
CELA KNEW THAT ONE! Bunz had taught it to her in Herbology, in like, third year or something! Teehee! "Flipnsnipwitit is also REALLY good for giving haircuts." Just fyi. "It does sound pretty funny though!" And was a good example of a nonsense incantation that actually did something.
Oh and she knew her. Well totally. "Myyyy big brother works with your big sister." Celandine provided helpfully, adding a great big smile.
"It is?" Sierra asked, and idea after idea poured into her head. You just don't tell a girl like Sierra that this spell--this spell she's only ever used on plants--would also be useful in cutting someone else's, err...her own, hair. "You know, I hadn't thought of that yet..."
Now she wished she knew non-verbal, wandless magic. Heh.
Then she turned her focus back to her sister's business, the one she shared with Cela's brother. "Oh, Nico, right?" she asked, recognition dawning on her. Yeah. That's where she knew this lady from.
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Where was she? Oh yeah. Cela stopped stretching and smiled around at the students.
"So some incantations that are nonsense seem to work anyways, and some don't at all. Isn't that funnnnnny? Like, why do you think some work? Do you suppose they have some kind of personal meaning or actual unknown meaning behind the nonsense words? Or do you think its just about finding the right way to focus? Think about it for a bit, if you have thoughts you totes can share." They could! If they wanted to! She was up for discussing stuff, but she wasn't going to force anyone into it either.
"What I'm going to share though, is my personal favourite nonsense incantation which is actually a rhyme and a really long one at that aaaand its the origin of a far more simple spell, the packing spell! Spells can be refined over time see? And some that we use today, were originally a whole bunch more words. Anyways, its featured by Disney TOO! How strange is that? Its because Walt Disney was a Wizard, obviously." Obviously. His brother wasn't though. Nope. Disney was muggleborn. "Anyways, it goes: 'higitus figitus migitus mum prestidigitonium!', which is definitely nonsense, but works all the same!" If you wanted to do the packing charm the long way.
She stood there with hands on hips. They looked pretty warmed up, didn't they? Good start!
"So some of the BEST FUNcantations are nonsense, and a lot of them are actually rhymes, or incantations in verse or song form. You'll see a lot of that in literature, both muggle and magical." And that was where it started getting FUN.
"One more boring bit and then we can get into the FUN stuff!" Yay. Happy clapping! "Can you guys think of any examples of wandless magic? You can be as specific or as general as you like! I just want to get an idea of what you all know or think you know! This is the chance for you to finish up with your warming up too! Because we're gonna get active in a minute!"
Sierra stared at Cela as she continued talking. She said her words a million times faster than the average person, and she spoke with the same excitement she would if the building caught on fire. This confused Sierra, what with the lady being so positive and upbeat. Had she been a Hufflepuff in Ravenclaw robes or something?
"Maybe you can say any combination of weird words and cause it to work the way you want it to," she said. "How else would you explain wandless, non-verbal magic? Maybe you can just say whatever comes to mind, and as long as your intent is right and you've got magic in you, it'll work." She thought a little longer and added, "You'd have to be really powerful to be able to do that, too."
...and then--"What about timeturners?" she asked. Had anybody mentioned those yet? "They're full of magic, but we don't exactly use wands to get them to work."
Sophie was warming uupppp and bouncing up and down still. This seminar was going to be even better than the magical portrait from last term! And that was SOMETHING! For many reasons. Ahem.
But anyway, she could answer that one!! YEs, she could!! HAND UP AGAIN! "Professor! I mean, miss!!"Bounce! Bounce!"I can still do magic without my wand!!" SHE SO COULD!!! "My very first magic ever was to make mum's flowers bloom faster when I was two or three." She said looking at Cela with sparkly eyes. "And I can actually still do it!!" Because she had PRACTICED it TONS when she was little! She loved that, so yeah!
Though she knew she would get in trouble if she did it back at home now that she attended Hogwarts... but WELL! She could still do it around the Hogwarts grounds whenever she pleased! It was flipping awesooommmeeeeeee!!!!
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The more he looked at the the young woman, Celandine, as she spoke and moved; Richard started to realise that he was in this seminar because of more things than only the attraction of wandless magic. It was the instructor of the seminar, obviously, because she was hot.
As he stretched and did his moves without stopping even for a moment, he never moved his gaze away from the young woman, watching her with utmost interest. Yes, she was talking about incantations and...such things but obviously this Slytherin boy was not into them at all. He just stared at her, Celandine, and wandered in an imaginary world. That was...until she mentioned wandless magic. If there was something that attracted Rich like hot girls did it was developing his skills of magic.
''All i know is that it requires great skill to use it at will.''
No?
He did not care if it did not anyway while he could stare at this Celandine.
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Awarlesta stretched from one side to the other. She remembers being around 7 and her father had taken them to go camping. While Manolo was setting up the tent, she wandered off into a patch of yellow flowers. Somehow she had managed to turn some of them purple. She remembers her father finding her and having a wide, proud smile on his face. She bent forward, blinking back tears.
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Was Anya allowed to be cheesy and say that love was a wandless form of magic? Because... it was. She was pretty sure Cela would appreciate that actually. She looked the type to appreciate it anyway.
Accidental magic seemed to be a big one. She couldn't remember if she ever had that happen to her growing up. Probably not. Yeah. And then house elves had their own type of magic. And she also figured wandless magic was possible for those super advanced.
But she had no idea how fun incantations and dancing and wandless magic had in common. And so she continued to stretch a little and just listened to her schoolmate's ideas.
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Glenn staaaaared at the young professorish woman. Didn't she run out of breath, talking and laughing so much? Watching her was exhausting. She averted her eyes from Cela and stood up to do some jogging on the spot. Focusing on her breathing, she vaguely listened to what everyone else was saying about wandless magic. Under-age magic... accidental magic.. Metamorphs.. wait. WHAT?
She stopped jogging abruptly and looked over at Kurumi. SHE was a Metamorphmagus? Glenn'd seen her with orange hair once, but she thought it was just hair dye gone from or- or a spell that had backfired. But she could change her appearance at will? That was weird... and creepy. She could probably take on the appearance of anyone in the room if she wanted.
Dragging her eyes away, Glenn pondered her own first wandless magic. She'd been little and her mother's cat had scratched her... she'd turned it pink. It made her wonder where her own cat had gone, Amata. She'd run off after the port key incident - she hadn't seen her since.
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Jory raised his hand. "I know it takes time to master,'' he said. "It can be a lot more difficult than learning with a wand.'' He was about to say it was like House elf magic but someone else said it just before. Oh well.
XD bahah Anya should have said looooove. Cela totally WOULD have loved it XD
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Hmmmm... What Cela said was kinda familiar. "Isn't that higitus figitus thingy from Sword in the Stone," Kat said. "It just sounds so familiar. It came from... MERLIN!" Hahaha. At least Kat had something in mind, right?
Wandless magic. "Don't House elves use wandless spells?" Kat shared. "I mean, yes, elves could have a wand at hand but most of the time they use wandless magic."
"That's exactly the one! Its funny watching that, to see how much magic stuff is actually right. Muggles just thought Disney was creative, and he did take some creative license obviously, but there you go!" Muggleborn kids were always super surprised to find this stuff out. Cela had been more surprised about movies in the first place. Even the word Mooooooooovie. How funny!
"Yup elves totally don't need wands, and they can do some pretty amazing stuff!"
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Indiana really liked this Cela lady. She'd read about her. Of course she had. The girl was an ex-ravenclaw. Which was super awesome. Indy aspired to be like her one day. She was so pretty. Indy had a big beam on her face as she listened to the woman talk. Wow. She talked a lot. She must have been really confident that was so cool. Hmm. Wandless magic. Indy thought for a couple of minutes, wanting to think of a really awesome and cool answer. Although all of her answers would be awesome and cool, she was a ravenclaw after all. They only gave cool answers.
After a few more moments of thinking she raised her hand up. "Didn't Lily Potter perform some sort of wandless magic on her son when Voldermort attacked them? By dying for her son she gave him some protection which meant Harry didn't die. Would that be considered wandless magic?"
"Yes!" Looooooove! Happy clapping and an excited little squee came from the 'professor'. She was a firm believer in love and totally loved-up. "That's the greatest wandless magic of all!" But more instinct than something that could be replicated in a classroom.
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Seeeeeeeeeeeeee, it was a great idea to attend the seminar Louisa was beaming and smiling and feeling the positive energy engulfing her all the while. Maybe it was because of Cela's excited clapping and beaming toward Louisa and her boyfriend from time to time, or maybe being next to Vicky Vick in a workout outfit you were meant to sweat in was just so ... uhh... pleasant. However, the Ravenclaw kept stretching, bending and jogging in place focusing on her warm-up as she listened to the discussion of FUNcantations.
As she stayed focus on her breaths, Louisa did notice a couple of things: 1) Cela giggles, claps and is a happy person in general. That wasn't what the current Head Girl expected form the former Head Girl, but it was definitely very reassuring. 2) She also talks and goes into details, which makes her someone who cares and wants to be understood. 3) She obviously knew Vivi, the fellow seventh year got a brief surprised look from Louisa. 4) She also knew Sierra but Louisa didn't dare give the Slytherin a surprised look. 5) It's incredibly challenging to warmup AND raise your hand to give a proper answer while you're panting like a pig. Louisa had to stop the jogging-in-place and wait for her breathing to slow down before she shot her hand up in the air.
"Wandless magic is usually connected to underage magic, like Accidental Wandless Magic." She didn't have to explain what THAT was, did she? Most of students here went through this type of magic - especially the muggleborn ones. "Personally, it was how I got to know I was a witch. I fell off my house's balcony and in that second of terror, I was able to slow down my fall." BEAM. Totally accidental and unexpected magic. If Cela wanted more "official" example, "There are several wizards and witches that history tells us excelled in wandless magic," Louisa's eyes sparkled then, she loved loved the idea of casting spells wandlessly. "Albus Dumbledore, for instance, was able to detect the presence of people who were invisible by using the Homenum Revelio spell wandlessly." Yes? The Ravenclaw ceased her warming up for a bit, smiling and panting in her spot.
"So totally true!" Underage maaagic was wandless. She nodded enthusiastically and listened, entirely intrigued by the story. "Wow! That's so lucky that you're magical!" She was muggleborn? That would be so confusing, Cela rather thought, suddenly finding out about magic. It was much better to grow up and find out about muggles. She was nodding along at the example of Dumbledore. "Dumbledore was renowned for his wandless magic skills." Cela wondered idly what it'd be like to know amazing Gryffindors like Dumbledore. She couldn't think of any, which was totally a shame.
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[COL[/COLOR]OR="DarkSlateBlue"]The glance from the Head Girl did not go unnoticed, and Vivi responded with a very bland look of her own. What was she looking at? They hadn't even started dancing and she was already being scrutinized. Where was Aspen when she was needed?
She turned her attention back to Cela, wrinkling her nose at the example given. Wasn't it a bit dangerous for a wizard to go handing out real spells, even to Muggles? It was surprising his Ministry let him get away with it.
"Things like portkeys, Floo powder, and brooms don't require wands to use because they are imbued with their own magic," Vivi began in a thoughtful tone. "But they also don't work for Muggles, in spite of their magic, so they must respond to our own magic wandlessly. Our magic resonates with theirs." And she had even used Cela's word. Resoooooonates.[/COLOR]
"Yup you're totally right! Lots of awesome enchanted and bewitched things are used all the time wandlessly." Thumbs up for Vivi! And more nodding at Resonating. Good word that one. Very good.
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Text Cut: Cela!
Cassia stood her hands on her waist while bending left and right. Perfect exercise for warming up, right?! The curious second-year couldn't help not glancing at all the stuff that were lined against the wall. What could those be for ,what were they going to do? And so many other questions were storming in her head.
Then she turned her attention back to Cela who was still talking. And that's the awesome thing about talkative people, like Cassia, they talk a lot so if you were distracted for a bit you could still catch up when regained your concentration. While that could never happen when it came to people who spoke only a couple of sentences. If the word was spoken it was lost forever!
So Cassia could easily tell that they were talking about fun incantations and nonsense looong spells. The twelve-years old listened to what other students said ,pretty cool stuff, huh? She mused a bit trying to think of what she has to tell on this topic.
An old memory was back to her, Cassia raised her hand while the other one stayed on her waist, "When my brother and I were young and couldn't do magic, we used to jump around our backyard and repeat random spells, "Though she doesn't remember the order or the spells. "And once, one of the plants my grandmother grows ,started to dance with us!"Eeeep!"Though that specific plant used to be a mean one." Cassia stated her eyebrows furrowed at the mention of plants. Of course All plants are evil and mean! But plants weren't the subject now. Anyway, if they had been the subject Cassia wouldn't have come in the first place.
Stretch..stretch…streeetcchh.
Now they were talking about wandless magic. And then they were getting to the fun part! As Cela promised. Cassia raised her hand again which really proved that this stretching was doing good stuff to her brain. "Um…Goblins and house-elves can do magic wandless-ly," Um..Without a wand, geddit? "Is that related to what we're talking about?" Because Cassia could have easily went off-topic. That was so like her.
"Oh that is SO cool! I love plants! And there isn't such a thing as a mean one I don't think. Plants are like Slytherins, sometimes they're just misunderstood and sometimes, they just need a hug." Wisdom from Celandine Kettleburn.
"Yes Goblins and House Elves totally do. They're amazing. But Goblins, they would be able to do more with wands, if we let them have wands." Nod. Just imagine if wizards were the oppressed ones! And Goblins got to be at Hogwarts! With wands! These sorts of thoughts made the blonde woman wonder exactly how good wizardkind would be at wandless magic if there was no other choice. But she was distracting herself. And going off topic in her own mind.
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Oh good. So wand movement could be a part of this, that was reassuring to a certain degree. Kurumi was feeling EXTREMELY out of her element right now and not because she wasn't wearing something orderly and structured like her school robes. Dance...unless it was traditional Japanese fan dancing or soran bushi...Kurumi had two left feet. Kurumi nodded her head in agreement. It did make sense, seeing as the spell meant to pump air into or something. Selina had muttered about it being nonsense Latin.
Boring bit? Kurumi had rather found the discussion to be fascinating really...it was the so called FUN bit that was terrifying. Really though, this was entirely going to depend on what sort of dance they were going to do. Were they going to need partners? Merlin Kurumi hoped not....
And no, that was not because Lewis was not present. It was because she did not want to hurt someone else because she had two left feet and the dance coordination of a troll.
But...right...there had been another question asked. Wandless magic. Again, several of her initial thoughts had been raised by people and Kurumi found her eyes wandering to her hair. To her hair that tended to turn into a blood mood ring.
Pausing her warm up for a moment, Kurumi caught her breath and raised her hand. "Metamorphs," she said simply. Cue a deep breath. "My hair changes color without the aid of a wand. It's more connected to my feelings..." And there. Kurumi Hollingberry had NOW officially outed herself to the school - those who did not know already that is. "With proper concentration my appearance can alter as well." Which right now was mostly cat ears and whiskers since she was too afraid to experiment.
Her first openly public confession...and it surprisingly didn't feel...that wrong.
"Totally true! Metamorphmagi aaaand Animagi, aaaaand Seers," Like herself, "Don't need wands to use that magic." Celandine didn't even bat an eyelash at that little confession.
She'd actually already taken note of the girl's strange eyes and shrugged it off as ho-hum another day at Hogwarts sort of deal.
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"Okay, but aren't ALL spells nonsense? Because they are all sooooo hard to say." Weren't they all Latin related, and stuff? Theo didn't know Latin, so, he always had the trouble.
Theo did a final thrust type of warm up, then finished with a light jog on the spot. He was excited for the fun part.
He wasn't sure on any examples, buuuut, he raised his hand anyway. "Can any spell be done wandlessly, as long as you have the brains for it?" Because he did know that only powerful witches and wizards could do it. Theo certainly couldn't, even when he was young and without a wand, nothing particularly gave it away. He was just a regular muggle kid.
"Sometimes they seem like it," If you hadn't had to learn Latin stuff, which apparently lots of kids that grew up muggle didn't? Cela thought it was a shame, "but most of them have some sort of meaning, even if you don't know what it is without looking it up, and the ones that don't totally usually have some kind of relationship with what they're supposed to do, or a personal sort of meaning to the spell inventor." So they only sounded like nonsense if you didn't bother learning about them. Cela totally suggested the learning. Totally. Or just knowing things, like she totally always did.
Oh a good questionnnn! Hmmm. She started a few jumping jacks while she considered.
"Well its not about brains. I know plenty of not-so-smart witches and wizards that can do wandless magic." They weren't even Ravenclaws or anything! "Its magical power, and practice is what helps there. Aaaand every spell in theory totally could but, the power of the spell is often weaker without a wand. Your wand sort of channels and amplifies what you do. Its like magic is a frequency in the air and your wand is the wireless that tunes you into the right airwaves." Totally. "And sometimes if your wireless doesn't work, you can still hear a little bit, by standing in the right place or on one leg or with a coat hanger above your head or something, and that's what wandless magic is like: finding those little ways to tune in, but it just might not be as clear and you'll have to strain harder to make all the words out."
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Wow that is a mouthful of explanation but this is new to Juliet, all the abracadabra stuff. She sort of thought it's some sort of opening spell but guess she's just wrong. Wait. Where in the world did she think that it's some kind of door opening spell? Snort. That's pretty crazy. She never really thought about it and besides, that spell is not really a spell.
So no arguments on that one. Juliet nodded, she learned a lot from this seminar. And the one explaining is very thorough with the details. She's like an expert on these things. Just wow. Amazing.
Juliet once again sat and stretched her right leg apart. They're still warming up. After this, she'll be definitely finish. She then bent over and stretched both her arms to the right as well, making the tips of her fingers touch her right toes. This is her usual exercise when she does her ballet practice, except for the strict teacher dictating stuffs to her.
Wandless magic?
Ugghhhh.... Nope, nothing comes to mind with a specific thing but there is that one thing... "well some excellent wizards and witches.... ones that are very confident with their magic skills can actually perform magic without a wand, right?" well she hasn't seen one up close but some people in history has done it "Like a snap of their fingers, or a wink." Juliet would like to be one of those but of course practicing these things is harder than it looks like.
"Yup thats right." Cela nodded. "But I was always told that relying on a wink or snapping your fingers is a crutch that should be avoided, because its not about flair, its about getting it right, and what if you're tied up or blindfolded? Can't be flair-y then." Nod. Nico had been so right about everything always. A good brother, he was. "Any wandless magic you can do with a finger snap or jazz hands you can totally do without it -unless its part of a step in dance magic of course!" Which was going to happen. Yup.
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Yes it was so sad… mean… confusing. Lucky Vickers was an only child eh? Although there were innumerable occasions he wished he had siblings or even cousins his age. Oh the afflictions of an only child.
But never mind being sad. This former Ravenclaw was really HAPPY. Practically infectious. He found himself smiling even brighter with every happy beam she cast their way. Why does this feel famil--
Huh.... the Elijah Effect. Imagine that.
But yes back to MsMrsTouissantKettleburnCelandine (which he just remembered was a name of a flower; Herbology assignment FTW!) ”Some incantations work despite the words because a big part of casting Magic is intent-- to focus on what you want to happen. A lot of our challenge as students is that we say the incantation but end up with something completely different… ” cue Louisa making a pillow instead of a wooden plank. Not to worry he’s not about to verbalize that example ”Those who have developed such mental discipline are able to cast spells non-verbally.“ Something he’s striving for.
He stood agape for a moment when the former Head Girl shared the spell for her packing charm “Uhm… will that just randomly fold and arrange things when you pack or will it actually arrange things the way you want them… like days of the week, occasions, by color and material?” Not revealing too much about how he packs isnt? And now he wants parchment and quill. He likes to write things down yo!
Hmm examples of wandless magic "Uhm... Elves and Goblins use wandless magic-- which I find incredible since they're able to achieve the outcome of many of the same spells we do that requires a wand." And a big reason why he's here.
Cela was a really goooood listener. Nodding. Active listening. AND jumping jacks.
"Working on non-verbal stuff is totally a good way to develop your skills wandlessly too, but just because someone can do one, it doesn't mean they can manage the other, and both at the same time is really REALLY hard." She could do some, of course, but it was just EASIER to not? Like, why would you unless you had to? And if she'd been able to do it when she was their age, maybe she'd not have been kidnapped by that horrible Hogs Head man.
"Well, Goblins less so than Elves, but you're totally right." Nod. Goblins totally needed wands to do what Wizards did, but they didn't to do what THEY did, which was totally different. And made perfect sense. In Celandine's brain.
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Abby rolled her eyes. Did Cela just clap? She really didn't like this professor.. but she might as well put up with it since there was going to be dancing later. YAY.
Wandless magic? She stopped stretching for a moment and raised her hand. "Um. Well, any spell can be performed without a wand if the wizard or the witch is highly disciplined in the use of magic." Short and sweet, eh? Abby pulled her hair back and continued with her warm-up. Yeah, she was doing way lot of stretching but she enjoyed doing it. Besides, it was better than watching Cela jump around in excitement. She really was weird.
"Oh that sums it up totally nicely. You've got to work hard and learn." She gave the Hufflepuff an air!five while she was in the middle of a jumping jack.
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Then the answers came, from her place in the corner where she was doing arm stretches Sarah lapped up eagerly. This woman sure knew a lot about magic and the different spells. Sarah wish ed she had a writing implement and a paper or partchment to write all this down about spells. Yet thankfully, being born on teh 20th February meant she had a phenomenal memory, so she remembered it all.
"Elves and goblins can preform wandless magic..."Sarah loved watching them at work.. it was simply so magical. "Some very powerful wizards and witches can do it nicely, yet it is better not for an amuter to try as it can be very volitile." Sarah had used wandless magic when she was younger by mistake however. She thought to mention that too, "many underage wizard ans witches use wandless magic unintentionally before coming to Hogwarts.This could be puzzling for muggleborns, who are unable to recognize it as maic and the strangest things happen to them" Like her mother for example
"You're totally right on all counts." Nodnod. Celandine gave the Gryffindor a thumbs up and a big smile. There were so many smart ones at Hogwarts at the moment! Strange! Maybe they were getting all the overflow from Ravenclaw.
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So....this Celandine character was confusing Elliot. On one hand, she was super cheerful, which irked the Ravenclaw a bit. But on the other hand...she knew LOTS OF STUUUUFFFS. SO Elliot could admire that...like, she was totally a Ravenclaw. Elliot decided..SHE LIKED HER. Hmm.
Wandless magic? Huh? Was that POSSIBLE?! Why did they even need wands, then? Wands BREAK! Without a wand, a wizard is like...a bird without wings! Can't do its job! So why were wands necessary?! Had they already gone over this? Hmm...instead of answering the question..she raised her hand to ask another one, "Profes-" Oops. She's NOT a professor..."Er, Miss Celandine...if wandless magic exists, why do wizards need wands? I know it takes a lot of magic...but wouldn't wizards want to train over the years how to do magic without wands...like if we wanted to, couldn't we adapt that? Evolve?" Right. Evolve..."Because if you think about it, wands can be a bit of a handicap....if we lose it or break it, our magic is done. That is, until we get another one....but..." she just wanted to know WHY?!
Oh Cel LOOOOOVED the questions. She made a mental note to show Copernicus the memory of this lesson later so that they could talk about aaall the things that came up and debate and discuss and then after she'd won all the debating, she'd smooch him and that was how Ravenclaws stayed Ravenclaw after graduation. Oh she was distracted again.
She smiled encouragingly and liiiistened.
"Well see, you DO train to not use wands to some degree right? Over the time you're a student and everything. But it wouldn't be much fun if you couldn't do magic at all while you're learning, and what about the," Gryffindors. Poor Gryffindors,"The students that aren't quite as good? They might not even be able to do magic without a wand. And too, think about underage magic, like the stuff when little kids do spells without wands. Its uncontrollable, and usually related to emotional outbursts or danger." Not always, but often. "Your wand helps you be exact, and controlled, and a lot of wandless magic can be exhausting, either physically or mentally depending what form it takes. Our use of wands IS our evolution. Wizardkind didn't always use wands." Paaause. "And that is why you have to take good care of your wand and not leave it lying around. You should get a good holster if you don't have one. Don't keep it in a sleeve or pocket, because you're risking sitting on it or bending it funny. A holster keeps it safe."
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Ella listened as her classmates discussed types of wandless magic they knew about, or questions they had on the subject. The third year was also going to say something about underage magic, recalling how she'd made loads happen before she found out about Hogwarts. With a small smile on her face, she raised her hand. "When I was younger and before I knew about Hogwarts, I used to get upset and cause things to happen without a wand." And it had been frightening but also kind of funny, too. "It wasn't on purpose or anything, it just kind of happened." But she was little then, and that was pretty normal for kids with magical abilities, yeah?
Celandine nodded. "Emotions effect magic in lots of ways. It can make wandless magic unstable, depending on the spell too. That's totally an example of wandless magic, where the power of it is driven by you being upset."
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Wait, what? Disney was a wizard. Total 'the more you know' moment. Though, come to think about it, it made sense. What, with all the talking animals that popped up in those movies. Maybe they were actually animagi? But, wait. She thought animagi couldn't talk? Hmm....
No time to dwell on that too much, though, because class was moving on. "Um, the accidental magic we do as young kids could count, since we're not allowed wands at that age. Also, a lot of the magic that Albus Dumbledore did."
"Yup! Both right. It takes a while to get to Dumbledore's level of skill without a wand, and not everyone will get there, which is sad but they're probably really nice people, at least." So they were still good for things.
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"It is?" Sierra asked, and idea after idea poured into her head. You just don't tell a girl like Sierra that this spell--this spell she's only ever used on plants--would also be useful in cutting someone else's, err...her own, hair. "You know, I hadn't thought of that yet..."
Now she wished she knew non-verbal, wandless magic. Heh.
Then she turned her focus back to her sister's business, the one she shared with Cela's brother. "Oh, Nico, right?" she asked, recognition dawning on her. Yeah. That's where she knew this lady from.
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Sierra stared at Cela as she continued talking. She said her words a million times faster than the average person, and she spoke with the same excitement she would if the building caught on fire. This confused Sierra, what with the lady being so positive and upbeat. Had she been a Hufflepuff in Ravenclaw robes or something?
"Maybe you can say any combination of weird words and cause it to work the way you want it to," she said. "How else would you explain wandless, non-verbal magic? Maybe you can just say whatever comes to mind, and as long as your intent is right and you've got magic in you, it'll work." She thought a little longer and added, "You'd have to be really powerful to be able to do that, too."
...and then--"What about timeturners?" she asked. Had anybody mentioned those yet? "They're full of magic, but we don't exactly use wands to get them to work."
"Mmmhmm! I got to cut someone's hair in class when I learned it. Professor Bun... Anni.. Headmistress Truebridge taught it, she's an expert with that one. You could ask her about it, if you wanted to know more about its origins and stuff."
And yessss. Enthusiastic nods. Nico. Her brother. Nicholai Toussaint. Co-founder of GothSaint Enterprises, the potions company that had that big St Mungos contract. Nod nod. And worked with Sierra's big sister. Nod nod. And now she knew and now she was practically family!
They were like ALL ONE BIG FAMILY HERE!
"Totally got to be powerful for all that." Nod. "The thing about meaning is that once you and a bunch of people decide that a word or collection of sounds actually means something, it gives that new word power, and that is one of the ways that incantations come about." And "Yes! Timeturners are a good example toooo. Lots of bewitched items are used without a wand."
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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
Sophie was warming uupppp and bouncing up and down still. This seminar was going to be even better than the magical portrait from last term! And that was SOMETHING! For many reasons. Ahem.
But anyway, she could answer that one!! YEs, she could!! HAND UP AGAIN! "Professor! I mean, miss!!"Bounce! Bounce!"I can still do magic without my wand!!" SHE SO COULD!!! "My very first magic ever was to make mum's flowers bloom faster when I was two or three." She said looking at Cela with sparkly eyes. "And I can actually still do it!!" Because she had PRACTICED it TONS when she was little! She loved that, so yeah!
Though she knew she would get in trouble if she did it back at home now that she attended Hogwarts... but WELL! She could still do it around the Hogwarts grounds whenever she pleased! It was flipping awesooommmeeeeeee!!!!
"Oh that is so cool!" Celandine liked the sound of that and immediately her mind went off with the fairies and the flutterby bushes thinking of the possibilities. One thought brought her back. "But do be careful not to make a plant bloom out of season! Like what if you make one bloom at Christmas when it is supposed to bloom in June! It might wither and die." Sage nod. Even a gift like that could be used for bad things, see?
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The more he looked at the the young woman, Celandine, as she spoke and moved; Richard started to realise that he was in this seminar because of more things than only the attraction of wandless magic. It was the instructor of the seminar, obviously, because she was hot.
As he stretched and did his moves without stopping even for a moment, he never moved his gaze away from the young woman, watching her with utmost interest. Yes, she was talking about incantations and...such things but obviously this Slytherin boy was not into them at all. He just stared at her, Celandine, and wandered in an imaginary world. That was...until she mentioned wandless magic. If there was something that attracted Rich like hot girls did it was developing his skills of magic.
''All i know is that it requires great skill to use it at will.''
No?
He did not care if it did not anyway while he could stare at this Celandine.
Well and this one was paying a LOT of attention! That was good! She did so like it when people listened to her and learned things and wasn't that great? She was sure that she could ask him anything about the seminar so far and he'd know because he was just paying soooo muuuuuch attention! She smiiiiiled and kept on with the jumping jacks.
"It totally does. In most cases. Wandless magic in the traditional sense is noooot easy." And that was a good thing to know! She approved!
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Nigel now knew for certain this lady was awesome. Maybe a little to hyper, But still awesome. He was a little sad that the muggle words were useless.
He was done streching So he started to jog in place. But maybe he did know about some wandless magic.
"Is that like the magic house elves use. Because they don't have wands?"
He wondered when he could start wandless magic. It sounded amazing.
"Yuuup it totally is!" Celandine happily clapped her hands. She liked that people were making the house elf connection. She loved house elves! House elves were amazing at magic and their magic was not even entirely understood by wizardkind. If they hadn't been so about having masters, they'd totally be ruling the magical world.
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Jory raised his hand. "I know it takes time to master,'' he said. "It can be a lot more difficult than learning with a wand.'' He was about to say it was like House elf magic but someone else said it just before. Oh well.
He continued with his stretches.
"Sooo much more difficult." She agreed. It had taken her a long time even and anyone that knew Celandine knew that she was the ultimate overachieving Ravenclaw. 12 Outstanding NEWTs indicated that nicely. But she was only just starting to get her head around wandless things. Starting with the parts that she enjoyed most..... like daaance magic!
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But oh! Weren't they just SOOOO good? There really weren't enough points in the worrrrld for good students like these ones! Celandine was still inwardly gushing over the baby!ravies too. Adorbs! Clap clap!
"Lets all line up now! Off the wall, wallflowers! Out of the corners! Come stand out here in front of meeee with a bit of space around you so you don't stand on anyone's toes once we get started. I hope you're all warmed up!" Yeah! Enthusiasm!
"Okay SO one of the COOLEST kinds of wandless magic is.... dance magic! A lot of Dance Magic also has some really crazy incantations or rhymes that go along with it. That's the FUNcantations part. Basically what Dance Magic is, is a series of steps, sometimes really complicated, sometimes easier, that are in essence instead of the wand movement. So its like your whooooooole body is the wand." Shaaaake it out. She did jazz hands and a shimmy with great enthusiasm.
"Rain dances, are examples of this! And some of you might have heard of Wakefield's Sambata. That is an example of Dance Magic. And there are a BUNCH more. Can anyone think of any? Has anyone heard of any other particular dances that bring the magic? And if you haven't, what would you like to call a dance magic spell, if you got to make one up? And what would you like it to do?"
ooc: This is where you get to be CREATIVE. Two options here:
1) Make up something like 'Wakefield's Sambata' that supposedly already exists in the Magical World that your charrie has heard of. They don't have to know what it does, or you can make that up too. They definitely shouldn't be able to actually DO it we're just talking about hearing about something in passing. Creative license is fun.
2) Have your charrie think up a name for a dance magic spell. For example, if West was in class he might decide that it'd be cool if there was a spell called 'West's Wombat Hustle' which allows the caster/dancer to conjure up a Wombat.
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"You're totally right on all counts." Nodnod. Celandine gave the Gryffindor a thumbs up and a big smile. There were so many smart ones at Hogwarts at the moment! Strange! Maybe they were getting all the overflow from Ravenclaw. -----------
But oh! Weren't they just SOOOO good? There really weren't enough points in the worrrrld for good students like these ones! Celandine was still inwardly gushing over the baby!ravies too. Adorbs! Clap clap!
"Lets all line up now! Off the wall, wallflowers! Out of the corners! Come stand out here in front of meeee with a bit of space around you so you don't stand on anyone's toes once we get started. I hope you're all warmed up!" Yeah! Enthusiasm!
"Okay SO one of the COOLEST kinds of wandless magic is.... dance magic! A lot of Dance Magic also has some really crazy incantations or rhymes that go along with it. That's the FUNcantations part. Basically what Dance Magic is, is a series of steps, sometimes really complicated, sometimes easier, that are in essence instead of the wand movement. So its like your whooooooole body is the wand." Shaaaake it out. She did jazz hands and a shimmy with great enthusiasm.
"Rain dances, are examples of this! And some of you might have heard of Wakefield's Sambata. That is an example of Dance Magic. And there are a BUNCH more. Can anyone think of any? Has anyone heard of any other particular dances that bring the magic? And if you haven't, what would you like to call a dance magic spell, if you got to make one up? And what would you like it to do?"
ooc: This is where you get to be CREATIVE. Two options here:
1) Make up something like 'Wakefield's Sambata' that supposedly already exists in the Magical World that your charrie has heard of. They don't have to know what it does, or you can make that up too. They definitely shouldn't be able to actually DO it we're just talking about hearing about something in passing. Creative license is fun.
2) Have your charrie think up a name for a dance magic spell. For example, if West was in class he might decide that it'd be cool if there was a spell called 'West's Wombat Hustle' which allows the caster/dancer to conjure up a Wombat.
Sarah grinned at the lady who had given her the thumbs up.
She listened to what the others and the insructor had to say... She lapped it all up.
As the teacher had instructed her, she moved away from the corner and made space for herself.
Sarah had known about a dance. Her grandmother told her about the witchdoctors in Africa and the Shaman of the Khoi-san people who did things that were supossedly magic. Sarah doubted it though. So instead she made up her own dance magic, even though she did know of a real one. "I would make up a dance magic called Sarah's Sunshine Shuffle, it brings out the sunshine... we need it here in Britain". Her mother told her stories of growing up in Sunny South Africa and her grandmother echoed them. In South Africa the weather gives them like a six month summer, two month winter, two month spring and two month autumn! That is so cool! And it only rained in the summer... and it did not just rain... it stormed. But it least it was not cold when it rained. Sarah was sure that the reason why South Africans were so warm, was because of their warm weather, some British people, or most were so cold.. that was probably because they let the coldness of the weather get into their hearts.
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Seminar One: FUNcantations and Dance Magic 
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