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!

"Yes, that... happens," Vivi glanced at herself wryly. Big was sort of a relative thing, but she was bigger certainly than when Celandine had been a student and her mother Headmistress.

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.

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.

"Hi!" Cela greeted in return, approving of the skipping.

And you know, of the house. Big smile for the young Ravenclaw.

"Almost! CelaNdine. Maybe you best just stick to Cela." Poor Gryffindor. Did he call his house Gryffidor? Poor house. Maybe he had best just stick to Gryffie, too. And now he was stretching! Good boy! Approval.


And that was totes why Elliot Morganzo totally DID need to work out. Flexibility was important tooooo!

"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.

Oh! Head Girl! Oh RAVENCLAW Head Girl! Celandine happy clapped to preface her greeting.

"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.

"Hello!" Celandine greeted, watching the girl smartly take a spot not too clustered up with anyone. That was smart.

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Originally Posted by HaRoHeGiNeLu (Post 11211596) 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.

"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.

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Originally Posted by Meizzner (Post 11211598) 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.

What a sweetie! And so quiet and FOCUSED too! Celandine smiled again and went back to stretching.

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Originally Posted by THE Govoni (Post 11211599) 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!

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*

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Originally Posted by Cassirin (Post 11211607) "Yes, that... happens," Vivi glanced at herself wryly. Big was sort of a relative thing, but she was bigger certainly than when Celandine had been a student and her mother Headmistress. 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.

IT DID! It really did. Even her own babies were growing super fast. And WERE super fast. Nobody had ever really given her a heads up that toddlers could... well, toddle, so fast. But they did. Or maybe that was a Cela trait they'd inherited.

Celandine gave Vivi a theatrical wink. Yup. She KNEW. Carry on stretching. Carry on.

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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!

Arabella-Marie wasn't sure about either so she just stood and thought and waited until an answer came to mind

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.

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?"

Vivi followed Celandine's glance to Louisa. And to Vickers. And to hand-holding. She gave that hand-holding a rather hard look through lowered eyelids before turning her attention back to their instructor.

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?"

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.

Wooooah, Theo had never seen a professor with such positive energy! Was she a professor? Eh, she was to him. And he would call her Cela because of reasons. And she could even call him Theo, so he scribbled out the 'dore' on his name tag.

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?

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...

Normally, Aidan would feed off the happy the lady was radiating. Just not today, apparently. Her welcome only made him blush and take a half step back. ...He was going to look ridiculous in this lesson thing, wasn't he?

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*
 

At the clapping, Alec gladly stopped stretching and grinned at the blonde woman who was taking the class. It was going to be a bit... weird, actually. Calling someone who was an adult by their first name. It was always either Professor or Miss/Mr/Mrs/Ms. But then again... he was kind of glad that they could call her 'Cela' or 'Celandine'. Kettleburn wasn't hard to pronounce but... Toussaint? ... He wasn't even going to attempt to pronounce that.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Annabelle forgot she was in her final year of Hogwarts. "Oh right, how do you feel knowing it is your last year?" Belle asked because she knew next year would be her final year at Hogwarts.

It was shocking to know that she was a prefect too. At least she can go to someone for advice and has been in her shoes before. Annabelle was pondering Cela's questions. She did not know what funcantations but she had a theroy about the other topic. "Cela will we be learning new dance moves and use them in the muggle world?" Belle asked curiously.

"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!"

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.