Kat smiled. At least she got a smile on Cela's face, right? Hahaha. Yay Kat. This girl seemed to be so hyped of almost everything. She's so happy... unlike Kat though. But, yeah.

Kat huddled in the middle of the room with the other people in the seminar. Hoping she had warmed up enough, she stood their with her hyper feet listening to Cela. "Well, if there's a rain dance, there must be a sun dance" Good luck.

The point was, Theo would appreciate an English variant to all of the spells, as opposed to Latin. He enjoyed learning parts of other languages but Latin was a whole new level of nonsense. He just nodded at Cela's explanation, as he gathered that there was no way round it, he just needed to study the incantations. Yawn. Booooring.

"Really? Does that mean that... I could do wandless magic? Me?" Theodore's little face lit up a bit. He nodded some more as Cela talked and talked and talked, and he did kind of understand. "So, you'd use your wand for more powerful spells, and wandless for the little stuff, right?" Like the Bat-Bogey Hex, maybe. Man, he really needed to learn that one.

And if he did it wandlessly, no one would even suspect a thing. Oh, the perks.

Back to the Dance Magic. The second year really had never heard of it before in his life, so he appreciated the opportunity to make up their own example. He stroked his imaginary beard for a moment, to think of his favourite dance move. Yea, he really wasn't the dancer type, so this was difficult.

But, ooooooooh, creative brain wave. Theodore raised his hand.

"Kinsley's Karate Krump." He said thoughtfully, "... which, I have decided, will be used as a defensive spell... putting your opponent into an imaginary head lock." And once they were in a muddle with the headlock, it made it very easy to KAYAHHHHHHHHHH. (Knock them over with your mad skills).

And win.

Is that what Cela meant by Dance Magic?

:mellow:

YES. FINALLY.

Abby stopped doing her stretches and listened carefully as Cela went on to ask a few more questions. Make up a dance magic spell? Hm. Interesting. Abby could be creative. Sometimes. At least, she hoped so.

The girl raised a hand. "If I had to make one up, it would be Abby's Amazing Moves." Yeah, not very creative. "And, that spell would make everyone around me admire my beauty. Like, they'd think I'm the only beautiful person on the planet." Abby said, with a dreamy sigh. If that were only possible. Not that THAT wasn't already happening but what if every single person in class threw compliments at her every second of every day? Wouldn't that be ah-ma-zing?

Jory listened to all the responses before him. They all sounded like fun. He now put in some thought about his own.

He raised a hand. "Jory's Jetliner Jig,'' he said, amused at what he had come up with. "That would make a jet appear for those who want to travel very long distances quickly. Could be most suitable for family with young kids who dislike Portkeys or cannot apparate and disapparate.''

Well , Nigel liked being creative. He was just going to have to come up with his own awesomely awesome dance. Which of course was going to be awesome.

Hmm. "Barrington's Batman Boogie". Nigel liked how it had three b;s in it. "It will suit me up in an awesome real batman suit and scare villains away."

Yes now that is an awesome dance. But the only problem is Nigel is terrible at dancing.

Off the walls? Well...good thing Kurumi hadn't actually been ON a wall...but now that she thought about it...she sort of wanted to. Especially when Cela told them that their entire body acted like a wand. Although, now that she got to think about the other responses she had given to others...that made sense.

What was it that Cela had literally JUST told Kurumi about strange wand movements? Yeah...she needed to think more that way and now how ridiculous she was going to look with her two left feet once they got to dancing.

Wandless magic...remember...you are here because of the wandless magic...

Pausing for a moment to think before raising her hand. "There is the Nobunaga Odori. I am not entirely sure what it does...but I've read that its movements mimic farmings working their fields. It might be related to Earth Magic."

*eyeing Richard lol*
 

Harlow started to panic. She didn't know she was going to have to actually dance. She thought this was going to be more of a spectator sport so to speak, but she did push herself off the wall to line up with everyone else.

She had actually took her time with her appearance today. Something she hadn't had the peace of mind to do in a long time. She had managed to wrestle her hair into a afro puff on the top of her head. It gave her at least 4 inches in height. Which still wasn't five feet tall, but she was getting there. Her green leggings and silver ribbed tee were clean and wrinkle free. She felt like a newly scrubbed galleon.

Harlow saw Richard and her face burned. 'Stop it', she commanded herself. 'He is so not into you,' she told herself. Obviously by the way he was eyeing the instructor he liked real woman. And Harlow was still eating at the kiddie table. She pulled herself out of her daydream and tried to pay attention to the class.

Well this was a question she could answer. She raised her hand, "My cousin Paris has this dance she calls the Mancatcher Mamba. She says that 90 percent of the time it works every time." Harlow shrugged. She was sure there was something wrong with that math, but judging from the parade of men Paris went through Harlow needed to work on her Arithmancy.

Elliot nodded...listening intently to...this Celandine character..."Thanks. Some food for thought, eh?" she replied with a small smirk, "So...instead of thinking of wands as a clutch or a handicap, we should think of them as something that makes us...better able to channel magic?" Right? Elliot understood now.

And she officially liked the lady...she could get over the cheerfulness..heehee...

If Elliot had to invent...a dance magical spell...she thought...and thought...and thought...smiiiirk. She had just the one! "Elliot's Stupidity Draining Jig..." Jig. Heehee. Sounded like a word Elliot would NEVER use...but she just did! She took a deep breath, then continued, "SO you see, you do some dance moves and then point your hand at the said...'stupid' person...and all the stupidity drains out of them!" If only it really worked. Then she could perhaps make Soapy a passable person to converse with...hmppphhh!

A tree hugger? Cassia wished that she hadn't found out that piece of info. She liked that Cela lady and hated to categorize her in the group of people who LIKE PLANTS. And well, Cassia wanted to know if Cela would still think that way if a plant tried to EAT her when she was young.

What? Plants are like Slytherins?!!? No they are NOT! Cassia wanted to correct the former Ravvie. And if this proves anything ,it proves that Ravenclaws ,even in the past years , were fooled by facts and things while Slytherins always figured out right away what to trust and what not to. Cassia wondered how many Ravvies died inspecting plants not knowing that they are deadly and dangerous and MEAN. Though it's usually the huffies job to die but eagles die too, no?

Anywayzz, pushing aside the difference in opinions Cassia listened to what was said next. Dance magic spell? That's fun to think of. The second-year stopped the stretching her hand fixed under her chin. She was thinking now.

After a while of concentrating and after many students spoke up, Cassia finally raised her hand excitedly, "Cassia casty crunchy candy!" long huh? Well it will require many dancing moves. "That'll be my dance spell and it'll conjure candy!" Though that part was kinda clear.

"Ya, How come Batman doesn't dance anymore" Olivia exclaimed excitedly. It was a bit of a rehtorical question. But she remembered that batman used to dance in the early episodes of the series. So she had heard.

Dance magic and wandless magic sounded like the most useful magic Olivia could use. It would be so much funner and sneakier. She imagined herself sneaking up on her opponents, without uttering a word, and casting magic spells.

"Mine is a dance spell that causes the person to loose all their memories. I would call it, Olivia's Obliviation Dance". This would be awesome, because even if she looked stuipd while doing it, the person's memory would be erased, so they wouldn't even know she was there.

It waaaass cool and Sophie loved it! "Oh yes, miss, I know that." She had learned it the hard way, heh. Poker face. There were times when her mother would loooose her mind and yell at Sophie for having ruined her flowers. Her plants were like... her other babies. It was almost like they were Sophie's siblings! Eep!

But ooonto the next question! Sophie BEAMED and started thinking about it. She really had never heard of anything alike, so she would just have to make one up. "I like the sound of 'Colours And All That Jazz'!" EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Sounded cool! And Colourful! And dancy!

Hmm. Dance magic sounded wicked, that was for sure. Ella loved to dance, mostly in the privacy of her room at home but still...dance was awesome. The third year smiled as she remembered Max catching her dancing during her first term, that was quite funny. She was glad he hadn't teased her or anything. Grin.

Because Ella had never heard of any Dance Magic spells, the badger decided to think of a dance she'd like to use. "I think Ella's Ice Cream Krump has a nice ring to it..." She announced thoughtfully, her head tilted to the side a bit. And when you did the dance perfectly you could make ice cream appear! BEAM. Besides, wasn't krumping like...flailing your body around all over the place? Ella was a PRO at flailing so she could totally do this dance.

Awar tapped her chin, "I've heard of the Lembie's Lambada." She danced slightly as the dance came to her mind.

Awarlesta thought long and hard before coming up with, "AWAR'S AMAZING CONGA!" Maybe that was a little too loud...

That... was a hard one, and Vivi rubbed her bottom lip thoughtfully as she wracked her brain for instances of dance magic. Like Wakefield's Sambata, hmm? Her mother danced in the garden with her plants and in the library with her father, but ew, and Alena danced in the kitchen, but it wasn't magic-making.

Oh, oh! "What about the Flamma-Flamenco, Cel-an-dine?" She stomped her right foot forward and did a little arm flourish over her head with a grin. "My father knew a Potions Master who insisted on lighting his cauldron with it."

Hmm...

Sierra couldn't decide whether or not she wanted to go and talk with the headmistress abou this. On one hand, it'd be cool to know how to just chop somebody's hair off. On the other hand, though, Sierra wasn't sure if she was tops on the woman's favorites list right now.

Wait...

"Did you say Professor Bun?" she asked. That sounded awfully similar to another last name she knew.



Sierra smirked. She really wanted to make up something called the Smush-a-Puffer, where...well, you know. Those Puffers just wouldn't stand a chance. She also didn't want to share that information with this Cela lady. She had a feeling that with the woman's enthusiasm and love for all of mankind, Sierra would be forced to hug a Puffer by the end of class.

NOPE.

So she sat back and started thinking about a dance that she would actually appreciate. Hmm... "What about Sierra's Phoenix Flames?" she suggested. "It just sounds cool." She shrugged "...but also, I think it'd be neat to dance yourself into some fake flames and then reappear somewhere else." It might be impossible, but it sounded impressive to her.

Aaaand there came the FUN part, and the very reason Louisa insisted on dragging Vickers along. The Ravenclaw girl wasn't that good at dancing but she sure liked to feel graceful and let some energy out, and Merlin knows she had a lot of that.

Vickers stayed silent all the while as the students suggested slash madeup different kinds of magic dancing. Some were funny, some were boring but NONE were about couples. Her mind drifted that way. "Maybe something like Cloud Nine Afloat. Two dancers, special waltzing and poof! They can hover over the ground. Like a powerful anti-gravity charm." Not like, flying. Nope. Louisa doesn't fly. But you know, something magical, not useful like conjuring stuff but magical all the same.

Wandless, non-verbal magic. The stuff Wizard dreams are made of. Yeah he hasnt even thought that far BUT having the former Ravenclaw Head Girl mention it out loud...

Heck why not, another goal to shoot for eh?

And he nodded his head at the Goblin-magic clarification. He didnt know the finer deets, mostly due to his limited exposures to goblins. Something to work on right?

And here comes the part he was kinda dreading. There was a part of him that kinda wanted to back into the wall when Cela called out the wallflowers and bade them to fall in line. Their whole body was a wand? So that means he's free to be all stiff and just let the magic course through him yeah?

Oh if only he could be so lucky.

But now she's started to speak about Wakefield's Sambata-- which he had never heard of-- and now he has started to break into a nervous sweat. Are they gonna dance now? Wait she was asking them what kind of dance they were likely to invent.

Gosh. He couldnt even do most regular dances much less invent one....

But it is a question and the gears in his head was spinning to come up with an answer "Uhm... the Sebastien's Sway of Solidarity?..." gosh who's Sebastien? He doesnt know but its certainly not him, and S just sounds better than V "... We lock arms and sway to the left and to the right and we bring World Peace. " He is soooo not making any sense.

Gotta find someone who makes sense...




....Ah yes saved by the awesome girlfriend!

And what she said had captured his interest. It was flying! Well its the closest to flying anyhow. Floating--he'd take that. He's staring all dumb and dreamy at Louisa now. Can they try that out? Will it work?

..............
.........
...

What are they talking about again?

weeee sorry for the delay XD I was neglecting other places, so had to post *excuses*
 

"Oh that sounds lovely! And just think how much good it could do for plants and things and people's moods too!" Then everyone would be cheerful like Celandine, yup.

Cela laughed. "That is great logic." Really it was. She'd guess that it would be more of a no-rain dance than a sun dance though, since sun was more like an absence of bad juju weather than the presence of sun.


"You sure could, if you want to learn you could do anything!" And wasn't he just an adorable ambitious little snake? N'aww.

"Ooooh a defensive one! You could use a spell like that to get away from bad people, or in the dueling arena!"



"That would be hard but useful! You'd have to mess with their minds to make them think you're the only beautiful person." Not that Cela was implying otherwise. At least not intentionally. And besides, what use would she have for a spell like that? Still it was... "Creative!"

A jet? One of those muggle things? Cela had a moment of looking a bit puzzled but then she nodded in realisation. "Like an air-up-plane!" Its what it was right? "That's how innovations happen! Creative idea!"

A bat man suit? More puzzlement from Celandine. She was, of course, picturing a giant BAT.

"It would have to be a pretty scary bat!" She said enthusiastically all the same.

"That sounds interesting!" Celandine was enthusiastic with her nods. "Earth Magic is exciting! Don't you just love growing things?" Of course! Who didn't?


Cela perked up.

Somehow it WAS possible for Celandine Kettleburn to perk up even more.

"Paris Greenwood?" Paris caught men? Celandine wondered why one would want to --they were always underfoot after all-- but nodded all the same. Dancing totally WAS a way to rope them in. Didn't even need to be magic. "Thanks for sharing!" It had a ring to it right? Mancatcher Mamba? She wondered if it would work on a man that had already been caught? As in, her Copernicus of course. Teehee.

"Yup! Exactly right!" Could she give points for figuring stuff out? Teehee. Cela would count that in the totalling after all the fun stuff was over.

"Oh that would be lovely!" Just think of how many Gryffindors they could help pass their OWLs! Elliot here would do the whole WORLD a favour!
"Oh that's my FAVOURITE so far." Celandine winked theatrically. "I used to eat an awful lot of candy." There might even have still been stashes around the castle, if Clifford Carden hadn't found and eaten them all.

"There are flying monkeys at the Cryptozoo in Minsk!" Had he seen them? Was that where he got the idea from? She'd taken her children there recently actually. A day at the zoo was always a lot of fun!

"I've never met a Bat Man." Cela said gravely. "But if I ever do, I'll be sure to ask!" Y U NO dance no mo, man who is bat?

The suggested dance perked her up again of course. "It'd be a lot more fun to do than Obliviate, that's for sure!"

"Oh good!" Good! Had to be nice to the plants! Only good things came of being nice to plants!

"It sounds festive!" Celandine gave some jazz hands for emphasis.


"Any flavour at all?" MEAT! Barbeque Sausage was Cela's absolute favourite Florean's flavour. She giggled. "Yeah, that one would be fun!"


"See there are plenty once you start thinking about it!" And Cela gave a thumbs up at the idea for a name. She liked that it had 'amazing' in it.



"Potions Masters can be such characters, can't they?" Cela giggled slightly. She sure knew a few.


"Headmistress Truebridge was Professor Bunbury when I was a student." Celandine said with a smile.

She listened to the idea and thought about it. "It DOES sound... cool. Or HOT!" Teehee.


"Oh that sounds lovely! And so romantic!" And FUN! Celandine approved. And actually, it sounded doable too, with a bit of work.


"Well if you could get enough people to lock arms like that, then it would be peaceful wouldn't it?" She answered rhetorically, a bright smile on her face at the suggestion.



------


"Okay! I'm going to show you the steps for a spell first, then we'll work on the incantation, and then we'll put it all together and try it out." She tapped her nose. Teehee. "And you'll find out what it does once we get to that point. SO if you're all ready, lets go!" Cela turned around so that her back was to the students, easier to follow that way.

She hopped on her left foot to the left and at the same time clapped her hands in the air above her head, then wiggled her behind and kicked her right leg out in front of her.

"That's the first part. Lets try it together, try to get your hops and kicks as high as possible and clap like you mean it!" Enthusiasm, she had it. Little wonder she'd once been a one girl cheerleading squad for the entire Ravenclaw Quidditch team.

HOP!CLAP. WIGGLE. KICK.

Aaaand agaiiiin!

HOP!CLAP. WIGGLE. KICK.

*anybody is welcome*
 

Harlow blinked at the instructor. How was it possible she could have turned her smile up another watt? She was going to need sunblock of Ms. Cela's smile burned any brighter. "Yes ma'am. Paris Greenwood. Do you know my cousin?" She asked. She shouldn't be surprised. Paris knew a lot of people and was always the eye of the storm.

Before she could ask Ms. Cela what sort of toothpaste she used the woman was hopping and wiggling around like she was showing them the potty dance that her little sisters did so well. Harlow couldn't help the giggle that escaped her lips. Nor could she hid the blush on her cheeks at the behind wiggle.

Harlow hopped on her left foot. She wobbled and face planted into the person in front of her as she did so. She pushed herself off the person and fell back onto her own behind "Oh I'm sorry." she said her face burning.

Harlow was not the graceful swan that her ballerina cousin Willow was. She was more of a writer than a dancer, and this class was going to show it.

Well, at least she likes Candy. That had to make up for the tree-huger impression. And she liked her dance spell, too . The lady has a taste and a good mind for sure. Probably that was for being a Ravenclaw too. The claws were good at thinking. Though they think a lot...anyway.

It was dancing time!

Cassia doesn't like dancing just because it is dancing! She likes it because it involves being careless and hyper. And when you're dancing you shut your brain down and stop thinking. Which actually what Cassia does most of the time, dancing or not.

So squaring her shoulders and getting ready to DANCE. Cassia watched Cela's movements closely. It seemed easy and cool. Cassia hopped on her left foot and clapped above her head. She fought the urge not to giggle because it was so fun. But giggling isn't so appropriate during classes, right? And Cassia knew about manners and politeness.

Then just like Celandine ,Cassia wiggled her back and kicked out her right leg in front of her. Eeeeeep! That was so fun! But what will happen After they repeat them?

Um...well, Elliot watched the woman dancing...and...

She knew...this class was going to be difficult for her. She had NO groove, no dancing skills, and she couldn;t shake her...behind. No. That was NOT happening. There was a reason she was the Morganzo child that played the piano and didn't dance. That was Sam's job! She, however, tried to pay close attention to the moves...Merlin...this was going to be epicly HARD.

She hopped to the right, but clapped her hands a little late...then she wiggled her behind...and kicked out? IT all looked very awkward on Elliot. And her timing was horrendous. Merlin. The spell was going to go all wrong...she just knew it. She would set fire to the castle...maybe she should move closer to the puffs? Set some of them on fire instead...she inched a little closer to Soapy...hmm...this could be fun...

Smiiiirk!

*claimsss Harlow* x)
 

Sophie smiled and clapped as Ms Cela did the jazz hands to her dance thing name. Heh! This woman was coool! She was so hyper and nice! Sophie liked her!

When the older witch turned around, Sophie knew they would get started! YAAAAAAY! The brunette was bouncing while she watched Celandine demonstrating the daance mooves. She was so excited! And now it was their turn!!

Sophie hopped as hiigh as possible on her left foot and clapped, but before she could do anything else, someone bumped into her and actually pushed her fowards! "Gaahhh!!" The badger fell down on her knees and hands and quickly looked back. She didn't know the girl that was apologizing. "It's okay, really!" Sophie said cheerfully as she jumped up and held her hand out to help the girl up. "I'm Sophie!" They didn't know each other yet, did they?

Ella nodded enthusiastically, bouncing a bit. "Yes! Any flavour at all!" BEAM. There were just TOO many delicious ice cream flavours out there to limit it to one. ...Though if she had to, it would definitely be Oreo!

...

Oh! So they were going to actually dance now? Brilliant. Ella shook out her arms and legs, loosening up before turning her attention to Cela. The steps wouldn't be too hard, yeah?

Blink.Blink. Ummm...

Ella could do this. She totally could. The third year hopped on her left foot to the left, though when she lifted her hands above her head to clap, she wobbled and fell forwards a bit. UGH. Not cool. Shaking it off, the badger tried again. Standing on her left foot, she hopped to the left and managed to clap above her head. BEAM. Then came the behind wiggling...which Ella was a bit uncomfortable with. She wasn't exactly one to wiggle her behind, especially not in class. She decided to give it a go anyway, though. For educational purposes and all that. So...Ella wiggled her bottom and then kicked her right leg out in front of her, trying to make it go high as Cela had instructed. Hm...now to put it all together.

Hop!Clap...erm.

Hop!Clap.Wiggle...wobble. EPP.

Hop!Clap.Wiggle.Kick.

Hop!Clap.Wiggle.Kick.

...BEAM!