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Seminar One: FUNcantations and Dance Magic
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Awar thought it'd be cool to be involved in something. She saw the flyer for this seminar and thought why not! She walked over the cubbies and placed her bag and books in there. Then, she went over to the table and wrote Awarlesta Black on a Hufflepuff nametag. She walked over to a corner and waited for the next instructions, shifting back and forth on her heels. |
It was hard not to be a bit sour that a fascinating topic such as alternative spell-casting was being combined with dancing. Not that Vivi was necessarily opposed to dancing, but it just tended to make people into idiots. Girl people AND boy people were weird about dancing. Maybe this was dancing by yourself, which was less weirdness-inducing? Regardless, she waved at the peppy little professor-lady as she entered, taking note of the name as one she recognized before she created her own name tag. Genevieve Branxton. Yes, she was going to be a Genevieve today in order to maintain as much dignity as possible. "Good day, Mrs. Kettleburn. I hope your family is well." Her mother kept those Kettleburn baby photos and announcements on the mantle in her library with all the others, and Vivi was never so happy she'd actually spent some time reading over them on the odd occasion she wandered into the room. |
Arabella-Marie made her way into the seminar and made her way over to the table and took a nametag and wrote Arabella-Marie Kingston on it and stood and waited for Mrs Kettleburn to start |
Ari skipped into the class in some gym clothes she just threw on for the heck of it, attending this seminar was a spur the moment thing and well, she was bored so Why not "Hello!" ariana said to the Ariana ooc: the link was broken & i couldnt find the picture again so i took it out :D |
Nigel walked into the seminar in his most comfortable clothing. He did not have work out clothes because he did not work out. He was only twelve. But he did weat a plain white t shirt and basketball shorts. Nigel went over and filled out his name tag with Hello, My Name is Awesome. Then in tiny print underneath he wrote his real name. He then waited to see what they would be doing in this seminar today. |
Theo liked seminars. They were something different, though they did tend to be harder than actual lessons. Eh, it would still be fun. Coming to class kitted out in a tatty old tracksuit, Theo popped his stuffs in a cubby and then went straight to the name tags. He filled it out, and took a moment to appreciate the self-colouring ink. Wow. "Hiii..." He squinted his eyes to see the teacher's name tag, but she was excercising and stuff, so he couldn't see, "...lady." Hi, lady. Theo started by stretching his fingers until they clicked and then, he put his hands on his hips and twisted around. This was gonna be awesuuuum. |
Penelope was looking forward to this lesson seminar thing. Learning how to do wandless magic would be so helpful, especially since she seemed to fail when performing with a wand. hopefully not using one would make it easier. "Hey," she said in greeting to the teacher lady, before doing as instructed and used one of the cool self-inking colored quills to write her name Penelope Greenwell on a Gryffindor tag. She made a mental note to get herself one of those quills. Then she put the nametag on and went to place her bag in one of the empty cubbies. So now...stretching. This shouldn't be too hard. Sorta reminded her of DADA. Since the teacher lady was jogging, Penelope decided she'd start off with that. |
Gideon wasn't quite sure why he was here for this particular seminar. Well other than the curiousity brought forth by the mention of wandless magic. Sure he had managed a few spells with it himself, thankfully before last spring when he had needed them without his wand, but there was more to just what he knew wasn't there. But it was the mention of dance that brought him up short. Similar to what Groundskeeper Stryker had taught them his fourth year? Probably not...it didn't sound like something ballroom dancing worked with. More like the other sort. Still the prefect had dragged himself down to the room off the Great Hall, the seventh year dressed in sweats a tshirt and socks. Not quite his outfit of choice from practicing quidditch but it seemed to fit the bill of wizard activewear. Gideon looked around to take in the modified room as well as anyone gathered there already, spotting Vivi off to one side and debating moving closer. Would there be teasing? He was here, he might as well play along. Since he hadn't brought his bag figuring it was probably not necessary given the topic, the prefect didn't need to deposit it in the cubbies. He did need a name tag as directed, the seventh year boy making his way over and filling on out before attaching it to his shirt. One...Gideon Gert. |
Silvia was not going to miss this seminar. Though she wasn't entirely sure she would be comfortable dancing in front of everyone, it sounded like it would be very exciting. Especially the wandless magic part. Stepping into the room in a pair of comfortable shorts and shirt, she made her way over to the cubbies and placed her things inside at the instructor's bidding. Then she made her way over to the table and picked up a Ravenclaw nametag, which she filled out. Silvia Talbot. "Hello..." she wasn't sure what to call the instructor, since she couldn't really call her a professor, could she? Oh well, a simple hello would do. Silvia stood off to the side a bit and began performing a few basic stretches as they had been told to do. Now, just to wait for the exciting lesson to begin. |
Seminar classes!!! Addie always enjoyed these and the current one looked fun and interesting. Plus she got to wear interesting clothes she would never wear normally. She smiled as she bounded towards the Great Hall in her purple, lime green, and magenta outfit decked out with her tennis shoes and leg warmers. Her hair was up tight in a high bun with a hot pink bow! Addie walked into the classroom and found that the teacher was dressed just as crazily as she was. Smiling Addie picked up a name tag and wrote carefully and neatly Adelaide Coral. She made sure all of her belongings were tucked away in the cubbies then addressed the teacher. "Hello Mrs. Kettleburn," she smiled and started to jog in place to warm up. "How are you today?" |
Annabelle was excited to go to this seminar. She already had on her work out outfit. She was also excited she didn't need her books and she put them in the cubby. She felt so comfortable, she was stretching her muscles and getting prepared. She had her wand at her side. As she was stretching she saw the professor in the front of the room. "Hello Mrs. Kettleburn!" Belle said kindly. She was jogging in place to keep her heart rate up. "I am excited for this lesson." |
Robbing her hands together and trying not to squeak, Cassia entered the classroom excitedly. She was wearing her workout clothes and that was a new outfit she had bought specifically for Hogwarts usage. She looked around and grinned at the stuff she saw. She didn't know what they were going to do but it sounded fun, no? Skipping further in she stepped by one of the tables with name tags and other students were writing their names on them so she should too. After scribbling down her name , She spotted a blond whom Cassia thought was the guest teacher. Cassia walked towards the not-so-old woman and waved enthusiastically, "Hello…" Cassia tried to focus on the name tag but found a bit of a trouble as the woman was herself moving actively and so, "..Mrs. Kettleburn." Cassia finally managed to say. Then the twelve-years old turned on her heels and joined the other students. The atmosphere was so energetic. Cassia glanced at the surroundings and tried to guess what will they do. Meanwhile the second-year was rocking on the balls of her feet while drawing circles with her arms absent-mindedly. |
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"Welcome! That's not warming up!" Cela chided with a cheerful, almost sing-song voice. She herself began twisting and doing toe touches. You know, setting an example and the like. Quote:
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Twisttwiststretchtwist. "Hiiiiiii..... boy!" Yeah and he was doing good already with the exercising and all. Cela happy clapped as she bent forward at the waist. "Just call me Cela, or Celandine." Wink. Stretch. Twiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiist. Quote:
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"Time to get moving, sweetie! Stretch and warm up!" She said, waving enthusiastically at the Gryffindor prefect. Quote:
Oh another Ravenclaw! Eeee! Cela beamed and shimmied a bit, showing off her own Ravenclaw nametag. "Hello! Welcome! Glad you're here, I'm Celandine.". Quote:
"And you can just call me Celandine or Cela. Its totally easier to say." Quote:
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----------- "We'll get started soon everyone!" She said enthusiastically. It wasn't quite 2pm yet, and there were probably stragglers. There were totally always stragglers. Twist! Reach! Stretch! |
Arabella-Marie smiled at what Mrs Kettleburn said and started to warm up like the rest of the students who were in attendance |
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Dora wasn't a strangler. She was still technically early which was good for her cause she didn't plan on rushing all those floors. Why when she was gonna get her exercise in this lesson? The second year did skip into the class, and on a spur decided to pick a spot beside Penelope after getting a Ravenclaw nametag and writing Isidora Miroslava on it. "Hi..." Professor Kettleburn? She didn't know if this woman was a real professor or not, so a simple hello and smile would have to do for now. Penelope got a smile to only it was a bit more genuine and then distracted as she went on to do stretchy stuff beside the lion. |
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"Aye M--Celadine," he said letting her know he understood and using the name she had mentioned using. Gideon bending over and starting to stretch both his arms and legs, figuring both would probably be useful for whatever they would be doing when they began. |
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Elliot should have known that since the clothes they had to wear were...work out clothes, she wasn't going to like this seminar. Firstly, Elliot DIDN'T work out. Heck, she didn't need to. Everyone be jealous because Elliot Morganzo can be skinny without having to get all sweaty. This is probably only because she doesn't like many foods...and is vegetarian...but still. Secondly...her sunglasses were not helpful. She didn't know how muggles wore them. A shading spell would be soooo much more helpful. Sunglasses SUCKED. Sigh. She placed her things in a blue cubby, grabbed a Ravenclaw nametage and scribbled her name on it quickly before placing it on her shirt...hmm. "Er, Hello....not professor..." she said awkwardly...since the lady wasn't a professor...Merlin. She saw some people stretching...so...she tried to reach down and touch her toes..well...FAIL. Because Elliot wasn't flexible. At all. |
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*dragging Vicky with us* It was a needed, exciting and very interesting change in their usual class schedule and there was no way was Louisa going to miss it or let Vickers think about missing it. Holding his Ignoring any huffs, complaints, sighs and whatnot from Vick, Louisa continued toward the cubbies where she dumped her pink backpack and flashed him yet another beaming smile. Upon seeing the name tags she maneuvered the two of them, because the boy might sneak out of here maybe?, toward the table and scribbled down, 'Louisa Carter, Head Girl'. She kept staring at the place and who had arrived yet and who hadn't as Vickers was supposed to write his own nametag. Over to the teacher, who looked almost as excited as everyone else, "Hello...uhh.. Ms. Kettleburn." Mrs? Madame? Professor? Celandine? Whatever her title was, she got a Louisa smile and nod. |
Emmanuelle, a straggler? Pfffft! Not unless straggler suddenly meant two minutes early. And if it did, she hadn't gotten the memo. Anyway, as she walked into the class, the first thing she noticed was the cubby bins. Thank Merlin! She hurried over to stuff her duffle bag in one, before hurrying over to the table with the name tags. She hurriedly scribbled Emmanuelle Moreau on a Slytherin one (making sure it was legible still, of course). Having done that, she found herself a spot a good distance from anyone else. Wouldn't want to hit anyone, after all. "Hello, Ms. Kettleburn," she greeted before starting to stretch. |
The 'wandless magic' was what appealed Aidan in this lesson. Not that dance nonsense. That was for girls. He was only a little apprehensive, though, because he'd been most epic-ly failing at magic ever since he got here. But maybe wandless would actually be easier for him? He did have powers before he got a wand, after all. Maybe it was the wand that was throwing him off. He was too good for wands. The boy walked into the seminar with much less energy than any other class. Because he was most nervous. Hopefully, it would be more magic, less dance. And definitely magic on his part. He gave the lady a shy smile, wrote his name on a Ravenclaw nametag, and started stretching, half-heartedly mirroring the lady's movements. |
Nigel was taken back by this woman's happiness. He agreed that she was awesome too. For not taking points way for his name tag. He started to warm up thinking that they would be doing a lot of exercise. Cela seemed to have a infinite amount of energy. He tried to get a loose as he could before Cela asked them to do anymore. |
Making his way through the Great Hall and into the side room, Dylan took his surroundings in. The noticeboard had instructed to dress comfortably for dancing magic. Personally, the Slytherin was stoked. New types of casting and such. And seeing the gymnasium-style classroom...he was sorely reminded of home. Sports!! FOOTBALL! *misses* Anyhow, depositing his bag in a cubby, he moved further into the room, throwing random grins, smirks, and glares at different people. Mostly because he could. Who was stopping him? Exactly. To be safe, however...he would greet the Professor properly. She didn't look much older than them...and she was quite attractive. Dylan always had a hard being unpleasant to pretty people. "Hello, ma'am." Yes, ma'am. The Slytherin was totally polite. ...And while he was waiting, what not jog in place and do jumping jacks? Limber up, yo! |
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Probably wouldn't get much bigger in the future, though. Sad but true. "I'll call you Celandine, but... you know." Don't tell her mother. That was not appropriate behavior when a child converses with an adult. Big not allowed thing. But stretching, yes. She could do stretching. Vivi took up a spot near Gert and bumped him lightly with her hip in a friendly nonverbal hello before she went about reaching for her toes and all that. |
SPOILER!!: chatters gonna chat, and Cellybear don't mind Teehee. Multitaskers! Cela didn't mind chatting as long as they were still doing stuff. That was good by her and she left them be. Quote:
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"Hello! Just call me Celandine, and don't worry if you aren't as flexible as meeeeeeee, you just have to work really hard and one day you'll be okay, I'm totally sure!" Encouragement! She was SO good at encouragement. Quote:
"Hi! Welcome!" Louisa got a CELA smile and nod. And happy clap. It was a happy clap sort of afternoon. And she had a RAVENCLAW BOYFRIEND! ZOMG THOSE WERE THE BEST AMD MADE THE BEST HUSBANDS EVAHHH! Cela waved at the pair of them. Quote:
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"Welcomewelcome!" Celandine greeted with an encouraging smile. Nawww! A little ickle!claw! ONEDAY her babies would be 'claws. They would. And they would hopefully get to have fun classes like this one obviously was going to be. Quote:
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Ma'am! She was a Ma'am! It made her giggle. "Hello!" And Cela certainly wasn't stopping the boy with all those expressions. Or nervous ticks. Best not to draw attention to it in case he was sensitive. *sympathy* Quote:
Celandine gave Vivi a theatrical wink. Yup. She KNEW. Carry on stretching. Carry on. ---------------- 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! |
Arabella-Marie wasn't sure about either so she just stood and thought and waited until an answer came to mind |
SPOILER!!: really cheerful lady... EErrrrrgh...streeeetch...Elliot was already out of Breath. This wasn't good! Not at all! and then...the Celandine...weird but cool name, hmmm? Yeah. She managed a small smirk to her...but annoyance was underlying here...she was too cheerful for Elliot... Aaaaand she was a Ravenclaw. Okay, some more brownie points from Elliot. Maybe Elliot could get past the cheerfulness. Dance magic? did that exist? Elliot sure didn't know. This was weird. She wished Hannah were here...even Lottie..EVEN SOAPY! because then she could be all glareful and mean and not have to actually feel intimidated by this seminar.... |
Well Nigel had the perfect answer for her first question. "Miss Awesome, I think a FUNcantation might be a fun and awesome way to cast a charm or spell. And Dance Magic is magic you do while dancing. Which is just as awesome! Nigel had heard her say her name. But she said she was awesome too and she was in Ravenclaw. That made her more awesome So he decided to call her Miss Awesome. Nigel did not think she would be mad with that nickname. It was an awesome name after all. |
SPOILER!!: Vivi and Cela Woops...he was batting a thousand today. First, not doing what he was supposed to and then not calling the instructor by the correct name. Could he get away with blaming it on his accent? "Sorry," Gideon appologized, nodding as he was corrected, trying not to feel embarished. Celandine...he mused in his head as he stretched in an effort to remember it if he needed to use it later on in the seminar. Distracted and with his arms blocking his view as he stretched, the prefect hadn't noticed Vivi move closer or more correctly, right beside him. That was until he felt the bump and looked over to spot her. "Um...hi," Gideon greeted as he straightened up to avoid an awkward position, Celandine beginning the lesson anyway as she called for their attention. "Is dance magic related with what some cultures use...like rain dancing to call upon rain?" |
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It wasn't like she cared what stupid things he did anyway. Her hand shot up at the question, fingers waving a little bit. MEMEMEME. "The wand is an effective way to focus our own magic in order to cast spells, but it isn't like it's the only way. The magic doesn't come from the wand, it comes from us, so it stands to reason we should be able to figure out other ways to focus our own magic. Through... dancing. And stuff." |
*eyebrow raise* Really, that was the only response Emmanuelle could come up with as Cela started the lesson. The woman was unlike any other professor she had had. And she wasn't much older than Em herself. Which was really weird, because her professors had always been, well, old. Anyway, the first question was up. Which she had no clue about. So, time to take a flying guess. "Is it some kind of spell using a made up word instead of the Latin spells are usually made of? And Dance magic is magic used while dancing?" |
Text Cut: Celaaa Oh like Cassia needed someone to make her more excited. The second-year mirrored Cela's excitement without even meaning too. Why weren't all their professors like this? Actually ,it probably was a good thing or else Cassia would've spent the lessons jumping and squeaking. It was fortunate that Cassia didn't have that fourth piece of candy because she didn't need any more sugar! So they were starting! Shifting her weight from foot to foot ,Cassia's hand shot up in the air, "I think it might have an emotional meaning to it more than a practical one." She was just assuming as she wasn't a Ravenclaw so Eh…don't expect smart answers. "You know magic doesn't have to be restricted to casting spells in the boring famous and familiar way . It's also about having fun while doing the magic." Or so she hoped . "Maybe you should feel magical from the inside." Excuse the hyper second-year who just had Candy before coming here. |
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He wasn't sure hooooow wandless stuff could be easy, but he'd go along with it. "I know there is a Dancing Feet spell. That makes your feet dance." Duh. And there was the Jelly Legs Charm. Or was that a curse? Maybe it wasn't relevant but oh well. ... But the more he thought about it, the more confused he got. Dance magic? Theodore made a face at Cela. He was pretty sure that she was just making up fun words to describe it all. Like, you couldn't perform some crazy jazz hands at someone, with magic shooting from your fingertips... Right? |
SPOILER!!: Cela, yo! The blonde was giving him an exuberant look and all the Slytherin could do was grin in return. How could you scowl at that face? She was just so pretty... ...And upon further notice, he'd totally forgotten to do his name tag. Darting back to correct this error, he quickly scrawled out Dylan Montmorency and stuck it to the front of his white shirt. His jacket was sure to come off at some point...Might as well plan ahead. Oh, nice. They were getting started. Well, from the way she'd asked, Dylan could gather something obvious about this lesson. Common sense, ftw! "Magic that can be performed from having fun and dancing?" Seems legit. Oh, an example..."American Indians were known to do dances for healing and such." He was an Amercan...He knew these things... |
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And Merlin, could she TALK. On and on and...Oh? She was a Ravenclaw?! Aidan grinned at that information. Cela the Ravenclaw. He liked that. That they could call her by her name. And that she was in HIS house a long, long time ago. Funcantations. "Are they spells that are fun to say? ...Or make fun things happen? OR BOTH?!" Like saying 'Mallowopolis' made marshmallows fall out of the sky. They were probably like that, right?! MHM. ...........He wasn't commenting on the 'dance' thing, though, okay? He didn't want to....dance. Cringe. |
Arabella-Marie raised her hand and guessed "Was there dances that had to do with any sort of weather" Arabella-Marie wasn't sure but it was worth the guess |
Lamest post ever, BAH. *pulls Nathaniel Aspen with us* It was by some lucky chance, a miracle even, that Delphi had remembered to change clothes for her next lesson before heading down to lunch and to meet Nathan. If not, even with the running down the hall with the Hufflepuff boy by the hand, coming to an abrupt heels-into-stone-floor stop (that could have put them BOTH in danger of tumbling straight over in an instant) right before the classroom door wouldn't have saved her. Or them, because surely he would have followed her up every all seven flights of moving stairs and waited on her. Upon greeting the teacher of the day, or of this lesson rather, Delphinia had went about grabbing the appropriate name tags for each her and Nathan, filling his out for him purely out of some habit she had come by during their shared classes that every now and again required name tags, and found a Ravenclaw blue cubby to drop her book bag into. Then there was stretching.. but Delphi sort of failed that part a bit, lamely. In her defense, running to class after losing track of time during lunch SHOULD count toward stretching, right? The lesson had officially begun, questions being asked, and Delphinia sort of just stayed quiet beside Nathan, listening rather than providing any answers of her own. |
SPOILER!!: Cela! ^_^ At the clapping, Alec Now... for her question... what exactly was FUNcantations? "It reminds me of incantations... but it says 'Fun' so... a fun way of doing magic?" That really was all he could think of. Or, well, the first thing that entered his head when he heard the word 'FUNcantations'. ... This was probably why he wasn't a Ravenclaw. Oh! Oh! "Erm..." he said, as another thought entered his head, "And... it has something to do with dancing? Magic from dancing... without using a wand..." And now that was all he had. ... Wait, did this mean they would produce sparks from inside of them? Like... like a superhero would? THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. CUE MAJOR GRIN FACE. |
Irina stood toward the back since she was a bit on the tall side and smiled at her teacher who seemed really fun. Speaking of fun....funcantation? That was something she never heard of and definitely wanted to know more about. Not to mention to Dance magic. She really wanted to try that. She was always exposed to magic with the use of a wand and potions. |
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Nathan stood quitely by Delphi's side. The sixteen yea old was still not sure what he was doing here .. but he was. Because Delphi had asked him to. And she had been excited. Nathan really wouldn't have said no even if for some reason he couldn't go with her. When the Cela lady started speaking - he stayed quite .. not really sure of the answers. But then again, that happened to him in every class. He was hoping Delphi would do the talking and explain to him what was going on. And what exactly he had to do .. yep. |
Text Cut: Cela Having stopped her jogging, Penelope began stretching her arms as the lady explained who she was. A Ravenclaw prefect and Head Girl? Sounded like her cousin Vashti. And Louisa. Although neither of them were as...hyper? as this one. Not that there was anything wrong with that. Penelope thought it was cool how different people who had the same position could be. As for what FUNcantations and dance magic were... Pausing her stretching, Penelope raised a hand. "I guess FUNcantation means some kind of fun incantation?" Since that was what she assumed that word was a combination of. "And dance magic is some kind of magic you can perform by dancing?" Seemed kind of obvious, but it was the best guesses she had right now. |
SPOILER!!: Ze Instructor Ella liked this Celandine person. She seemed nice and she had lots of energy, something the third year could definitely relate to. Plus she was BEAMing at people a lot. Nice people did that sort of thing so Ella was instantly relaxed and ready to learn from this lady. She was a bit surprised that the woman wanted them to call her by her first name, though. That was kind of unusual at Hogwarts. Oh well...just something new, is all. New was good. FUNcantation...hmmm. Well that sounded a lot like the word incantation, which Alec had already pointed out. Heh. He was totally Ella's brain twin. As for Dance magic...well that sounded pretty self-explanatory. Could one create magic with dance, though? Ella had never seen it done but she didn't doubt it. Dancing was used in lots of ceremonies and stuff, though. Maybe that's why it was considered magical? Ella wasn't sure. Instead of answering, she continued to stretch, listening as her classmates shared their ideas. |
Anya stood up after stretching a bit. What was a FUNcantations? Her hand shot up. "A FUN incantation." she giggled. Obviously. And dance magic?! She honestly didn't care, because she loved all dance. And really... she loved anything that wasn't typical boring school stuff. Like dancing. She didn't even care that it used the word magic. Although, she totally would have appreciated dance magic in the romantic sense. |
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"Yes! FUN! Very fun. You got it!" And clearly he was totally on the right track with this AWESOME thing. Clearly. Quote:
"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!" Quote:
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"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. Quote:
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"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. -------------------------- "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!" |
Addie smiled at the lady Mrs, no Cela. Addie liked the lady she seemed very nice and energetic and such. So therefore she had to be awesome. Plus she liked Addie's bow!f Nonsense incantations? Addie went through all of the things that she had learned in previous years then came across one name. Gilderoy Lockhart. He was all nonsense. Smiling she remembered one particularly nonsenseful incantation and Addie raised her hand. "Didn't Gilderoy Lockhart makeup a bunch of random spells to pretend to be an amazing wizard that he was not?" Addie began then she brought up one spell she remembered. "Wasn't one of these spells that he taught to Harry Potter and his friends when they were young was Peskipiksi Pesternomi. It was supposed to round up pixies but didn't." Addie smiled, proud of her answer and began to do some stretching after her jogging. |
"What about Double, Double, Toil and trouble?" Wasn't it from Shakespeare? Seemed like it. What was it even for?? Seemed pretty useless. Muggies had a lot of fake wizard spells, it seemed. Like Hocus Pocus, Abra Cadabra, Alakazam... That one sounded a lot like Azkaban, strangely... Muggles and their "spells"..... As for stretching, Cardigan decided to do some more stretches that they had done in DADA. She would start off with the boat pose. It gave her a real good stretch! Going into the pose, she could feel the strain in her legs. That was good! What did this Kettleburn lady mean by "dance magic"? She still didn't get it. Was it spells that made you do dances?o.O That would be quite helpful, in some ways:shifty:... |
Ella returned the smile she received from Cela, continuing to stretch as she listened about...wait! Some dude conjured a buffalo? That was...BRILLIANT. It made the third year wonder if she could conjure an elephant to appear. BEAM. Imagine? Ella couldn't help but grin at the thought of being at dinner with her family and accidentally conjuring an elephant into their dining room. Hehehe. Gran would FREAK. Hmm...nonsense incantations? Ella wasn't too sure but she recalled several Disney movies that used magical words. "What about Bibbity Bobbity Boo? The fairy godmother says those words in Cinderella and they're meant to be magical." And besides, they were quite fun to say! |
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If she was. Vivi grabbed her foot up behind her and balanced on one leg as she thought. All these teachers were trying to get her to be better on her feet by making her DO THINGS while she answered. It was an interesting approach. "What about 'abracadabra'? I know it's primarily used by Muggles pretending to be wizards, but it comes from the same root as the Killing Curse and so has its basis in an actual magical incantation. It seems to have become a sort of catch-all term - they use it for pulling things out of hats or finding the right card or whatever. It has no pinned down anticipated outcome." |
SPOILER!!: Louisa; before the discussion So yes Wandless Magic Seminar. Plus its being taught by the former Ravenclaw Prefect and Head Girl who he has read in the yearbook archives and was quite impressed with. So big incentives for this Ravenvclaw to attend right? But its also about DANCE. Biiiig deterrent. No matter now you cut it, Dancing and Vickers just arent good bedfellows. So it was on Louisa-- the current Head Girl's-- insistence that Vickers actually show up, being dragged along to the Unless they're all related to Gene Kelly then he's in biiig trouble. Right. Scribble the name down. Stick on on the shirt. Wave hello to the former Hogwartian. Aaand smile! SPOILER!!: its CELA omgerd!! X3 Alright stretching and bending he can do, it would be very much like his morning calisthenics on his DADA class days. Although theres still a part of him that a little jumpy whenever anyone would bring up the subject of dancing. Although seriously if there was any dancing involved he should quit worrying about that and start focusing on how not to break every toe on Louisa's feet. Questiion about funny spells. Streeeetch while raising his hand "Wasnt there an incantation or poem told to Ron Weasley by his prankster brothers about a color changing charm for his pet rat? Because its fake it didnt really do anything other than make a fool of him." So yeah dont always believe what your sibs tell you. Not that he has to worry about that anyway. |
Arabella-Marie thought and raised her hand and said "Isn't Hocus Pocus something that is used in the muggle world" |
Irina smiled before she bent to the side and began stretching. She leaned to the next side and stretched before squatting to the floor. Stretching out one long lean leg, she deepened her squat and did the same with the other leg. She began stretching her arms and back and neck so that she could be as limber as possible for the activities to come. She raised her hand and asked, "What about 'bipty, bopty, boo?" |
Sierra sat there, eyeing this young woman for more than one reason. On one hand, she knew her from somewhere--but where? Toussaint... Toussaint... Then on the other hand, MERLIN she was PERKY. She was a Ravenclaw? Weren't they supposed to be...studious or something? Ehh... It wasn't like the lady would study her entire life. Although, here she was teaching during her free time. Sierra gave an inward shrug. Oh. Oops. She missed the first question. She blamed the distracting thoughts. Raising her hand, she said, "Mrs. Kettleburn? Err...Cela? You know what really bothers me? Flipnsnipwitit," she said. "We use it all the time, and it really does trim plants properly, but...it just sounds like something somebody made up, and it just randomly did the job they hoped it would do." She lowered her hand. "Oh, and...I know you from somewhere," she randomly said. |
ughh, Ariana didn't want to stretch but she didn't want to seem like she was doing nothing. So she threw her body forward and just touched her toes her hair flying down over and in front of her she let out a sigh and just hung there... and hung until they moved on to something else.. Anything else.. She wanted to do the seminar but just didnt want to strech. |
FUNcantations. What? Kat remembered something. She raised her hand, "I remember Professor Dumbledore's quote, but I didn't mean to offend anyone," Kat said. "“Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! I just find it kinda funny. No offense, though." |
Nigel knew about a couple words. He felt that he stretch as much as he could. He did not want to pull anything stretching. Nigel stopped and started to answer this awesome professor's question. "You mean awesome words like alakazam, Presto chango, and my favorite SHAZAM!!" Using magic words were a lot of fun. Mostly because they were really fun to say. |
Super catching up to do >.< ................ This seminar is making Juliet fleeing with joy. Wandless magic but it's about dance magic. Take her wand with her or not she'll sure be enjoying the entire time with this seminar. Still stretching those legs and well, all the parts of her body. She listened to the former head girl and prefect. She's really pretty and Juliet cannot believe she's a mother or two. Wow. That's a big accomplishment in life. They moved to talking about funcantation, fun plus incantations. Juliet giggled at that. It's fun making your own words you know. As for her questions, YES, to pronouncing some spells wrong. Quite frankly, she may have grew up in France and may have been educated in the english language but her Korean tongue will always get in the way. So yeah, she had to be more careful and be more specific with her pronunciation with spells. She doesn't want anything exploding nor caught on fire because of a mispronounced spell. Standing up, Juliet stretched her arm. nonsense incantations? There's a lot if you think about it like 'Ridikkulus'. It only works on boggarts and it's not like you encounter a boggart on a daily basis. incantations that don't actually mean anything? Hmmmm... Juliet thought about this too. She then raised her hand "Well, muggles have this 'abracadabra' spell" which is not a spell because it doesn't really open doors. There is an actual spell for opening doors. |
(T___________T) so much....*pokes sleep* catch up here Next to the fashion seminar, this was probably one of those that Kurumi should probably not be in here. Granted, it wasn't the dance part that had caught her attention. She really could do without another dance based lesson. The Groundskeeper's lesson and Muggle Studies had been more than enough and the Gryffindor wanted to graduate without having broken an ankle from falling...thank you very much. The other aspect...the whole wandLESS aspect of the lesson...that was why Kurumi was now in the classroom doing various stretches and rolling her ankles and pulling her arm across her body to stretch. That...and only that. Dancing was probabyl going to freak her out. Somehow. And then the lesson began...and Kurumi sort of just stared at the former Hogwartian. What did she THINK it was? Well, um...wasn't that why she was here? To learn what the subject was? Kurumi chewed on her lip and glanced at those she was near, namely Vivi, and sort of wiggled her finger at her in greeting. That was how Vivi tended to greet people, right? Quote:
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Other nonsense incantations though? Hm. The second year had to think for a bit, trying to remember anything else useful she'd read about when she'd been bored at her grandparents' house. After a minute or so, she thought she had an answer. "I think I read about a spell called 'Expellimellius,'" she said, raising her hand. "The person-" she couldn't remember the name "-who cast it was supposed to be casting Expelliarmus." But they got the incantation wrong, obviously. Sounded like something she herself would do. Maybe that was why she remembered it, even if the person's name slipped her mind. |
Jory was continuing his stretches. He was enjoying it very much dressed in his Puff coloured clothing and sneakers. "Can alacazam work?'' he asked. It was one of those silly things Muggles said to kids when entertaining them with ''magic'' tricks. |
Catching up! Dancing. Um. No. And FUNcantions? What were those? Alice was a bit skeptical about the seminar. But wandless magic DID sound pretty cool. And she wanted to come see, because, usually, they were interesting. She walked into the room, wearing comfortable clothing per instructions, and stuffed her things inside of a cubby. She grabbed herself a nametag, on which she quickly scribbled, 'Queen Alice Fischer', and then proceeded to stretch. Kind of. She saluted the lady once she introduced herself. Cela. Giggle. It sounded like Cela-ry. Heh. The Gryffindor raised her hand hesitantly, her mind still on celery. "Is a FUNcantation.. an incantation.. that's fun? Or.. wandless?" Huh. Bad answer. "And.. is dance magic.. dancing with your hands? Such as making wand movements with body parts to make up for the missing wand?" Maybe? Hopefully? Probably not? Seminars were HARD. |
Er...Elliot stretched a little more...listening to this Celandine girl talk....streeeetch....she even thought about jogging. Whatever. Her workout clothes were useless and tight...and uncomfortable...why did people think this was comfy?! BECAUSE IT WASN'T! Hmm..."Hey! Isn't 'Abera Cadabra one?" She had heard this one...before. Muggles said it a lot. It sounded a lot like Aveda Kedavra...were they related? Hmm. Open Seasame was also one...but she didn't want to say that one. |
Catching up!! Her stupid sign. It didn't even appear in her mind without the word 'stupid' attached before it. Her stupid sign was stupid enough with people just READING it. But now, it had somehow decided to hate her even more and swing around while she walked into the classroom. It was her second day with it. She took a name tag and scribbled 'Glenn Reyes' onto it quickly. Heh. Same handwriting Streeeeeeeetching down to touch her toes, Glenn held that position for a couple of seconds before sitting down and starting another. She could stretch... dance? Eh. Okay... Cela. FUNcantations? Sounded.. cheesy. But whatever. Pausing her stretch, she held up a hand, "Uh - is Hocus Pocus one?" Muggle children |
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She was doing one if those yoga stretches as she glanced over at Penelope. "I read that. She set someone on fire with Expellimellius." Which Dora had some thoughts on, but that wasn't her response so she didn't go further into it and instead briefly raised her hand to speak... again. "Harmonia Nectere Passus can be a mouthful," Though it clearly wasn't for her. "It's used on vanishing cabinets, ones that are broken or ones that need a bit perfecting." |
Catching uppp! Sorta. Sorry, she's really excited xD ZOMG THIS SEMINAR!! Sophie just couldn't! EVEN! EEP! She was so ecstatic, joyful and delighted and OMGTHATWASSOCOOL! They'd be doing magic without wands! Just like she did when she was little! Yay! YAY! YAYAYAY!!! That's why she didn't aswer the first question. It was TOO MUCH for a happy third year to handle. This was just too awesome. TOO. AWESOME. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Okay, okay, Sophie, beee coooooool. This would be just like another Charms class, right? But WANDLESS! AND SPELLS! OMGSOCOOL! Right. Breeeeathe in. Breathe ooouuut. The excitment did help her warm up, though. It was easy enough when you were all hyper and stuff. The badger was really struggling to keep it together. She blinked cheerfully and eeeyed the happy teacher as the older girl asked another question. She'd at least tryyy to answer this one. HAND UP! WOOP WOOP!! WaitNO!! She couldn't!! Sophie giggled stupidly at some of her classmates' answers. She bounced up and down and refrained herself from clapping her handssss in excitement. HEEEEEEH! Could they just move on to the spells bit? Could they? COULD THEY?? PLEEASEE??? |
Catching upppp! One of the reasons why Abby decided to attend this seminar because she loved dancing. Loved. It was pleasant change to finally attend a class that didn't seem to be boring on the face of it. So, here she was, stretching and jogging on the same spot, listening to the Cela person talk about dance magic. Dance magic was.. magic that involved dancing? Obviously. But, maybe Cela was looking for something more profound? Not likely. She seemed to be giggling and saying the word 'FUN' a lot. Heh. Quote:
Oh c'mon! Why was this Cela person talking about nonsense incantations? What was the point really? Yeah, no. She didn't feel like answering. Besides, people had already come up with some really weird incantations so the girl remained quiet and continued to do her stretches. Can we just get to the dancing part ALREADY!? |
It had taken a while to find her stupid sports clothes to say the least. So yeah, it meant she to um...run to the seminar. Her bag bouncing on her back as she did. She slipped through the doors and yeah...pretty much everyone was there already. ...."Uh...sorry, Missus?" Grimace. So she ran (again) over to the box thingies and put her bag in one and scribbled her name on a RAVENCLAW tag. Those things were awesome. And she hurried over to stand beside Sophie, flashing her an awkward!BEAM. SPOILER!!: Cela Messing up spells? Blue NEVER messed up spells. She just, couldn't cast them. Well, she was only twelve so.... WAIT a second. She could completely understand the fire thing and all but conjuring a buffalo?! Um..O__e "He conjured up a buffalo? Like in his living room? What did he do with it?" She probably really shouldn't be worrying about that and more the question but she was curious. WHAT DID ONE DO WITH A GIANT COW IN THE ROOM?! Oh and streeeetttttcccccch. |
Text Cut: Celandine Cassia listened to what the lady said,Cela and the snake was glad that it didn't require smartness to understand. Because she wasn't in any condition to process anything on her mind. So could we please get to the dancing part? Pretty please. The second-year was swinging her arms back and forth ,drawing wide circles in the air and that kinda stuff. And yeah she was sure not to pluck someone's eye out….no worries. And actually she had never heard of that man Celandine mentioned. But Cassia wasn't gonna admit that….so uncool! And she was glad that Blue asked about it…when Ravenclaws ask it sounds smart but when Slytherins do or at least her, it sounds The twelve-years old couldn't remember any funny incantation…..and she wasn't in the mood to recall info. It required so much mental effort and that wasn't available now. So, back to stretching. Stretch…stretch..sreeeeetch. |
SPOILER!!: Celaaa Tarantallegra! That was the one he was thinking of! The one that sounded like Tarantula. Theo nodded along to the explanation that Cela gave. He could relate. He ALWAYS said incantations wrong. He was lucky that he hadn't seriously injured himself. Like when he thought the reversing spell was pronounced 'Roberto'. That was a fine example. "Well..." Theodore began. As for someone that didn't know many spells at the top of his head, he thought he'd use a muggle world example. "When I was growing up, I alwaaaaays heard 'Abracadabra'." And when he got to Hogwarts, he actually tried it, but nothing happened. So he guessed it was made up. "I don't think it's real..." |
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"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. Quote:
"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." ---------- 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. 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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." |
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?" |
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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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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. |
SPOILER!!: Cela "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. |
SPOILER!!: Long explanation 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. Quote:
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. |
SPOILER!!: Cela 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 But yes back to 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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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. |
Catch up! 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 SPOILER!!: Tegz 1 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. SPOILER!!: Tegz2 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 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 |
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. |
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? |
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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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. (OOC: Continued below quote) Text Cut: Tegz 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." |
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! 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!!!! |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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"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. Quote:
"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. Quote:
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." Quote:
"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. Quote:
"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. Quote:
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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." Quote:
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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." Quote:
"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? Quote:
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! Quote:
"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. Quote:
----------- 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. |
oh mr. sun, mr. golden sun, please shine down on me! SPOILER!!: tegz 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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