Was she asking or telling? Frown. Ella wasn't the most confident badger in the bunch so yeah, she could see why her answer might have been questionable. She just sort of blinked, unsure if that was a rhetorical question or not but assumed so since she'd been given a point. "Thank you, Professor." For the point part.

Since Dylish and Bliss had already touched on the winged horses and magical creatures aspect of using the charm, Ella decided to try and think of some other uses for it. "Professor, like Dylan and Bliss already said, owners of winged horses are required to put the charms on them daily. Perhaps this charm is also useful for ministry workers when dealing with magical objects in the muggle communities. For instance if an object was misplaced and needed to be recovered and transported back they could use the charm to hide it from view."

Alyssa was elated when she earned points for her first answer but was disappointed when she didn't get the chance to answer the next question first. But she figured that she could still earn points for attempting to answer it, and so she raised her hand.

"This charm would be mandatory to prevent muggles from seeing what they should not be seeing thus reducing the possibility of utter chaos and mass hysteria. Dylan and Bliss already mentioned the winged horses but I was thinking that it should also be mandatory for wizards and witches too especially when they are apparating into a muggle place. If they didn't cast the disillusionment charm on themselves, some muggle may accidentally see them appearing out of nowhere.

I mean if I was a muggle, and someone just popped up in front of me, out of nowhere, I'd think that I'd seen a ghost or there was an alien invasion and freak out." Alyssa hoped that was a good example.

Now for the scenario, Alyssa spent some time thinking about an example, before raising her hand.

Professor this charm can be used to provide protection and security for people who may have someone who would want to do them harm. Like uh...when Lord Botts was Minister of Magic, I'm sure that he had lots of people who disliked him and wanted to cause him harm. He could have used this charm to help him blend in with the rest of the people when he was out in the public and wanted to do some shopping or go grab something to eat, without having a bunch of Aurors and MLE staff trailing behind him."

'Although it must have been hard to for him to blend in since he was a large man, with a large mouth and would have been too arrogant to admit that he needed protection.' Alyssa silently thought to herself.

Jory raised his hand again. "We can use it to hide ourselves,'' he said. "I'm referring to a situation someone is under attack and is unable to defend his or her self. They would be able to blend in into their surroundings and can escape.''

Alex raised his hand. "Maybe if you're trying to sneak into something that's heavily guarded like, um--Lord Voldemort's chambers, it would be useful," he said. Even though Voldemort had been dead for centuries. It was the only example he could think of, however.

Violet's eyes widened a little bit when the Professor had moved on to her next question. Of course she had already know about using the Disillusionment Charm for legal purposes, especially on the Abraxans that her family had back at home. And of course she would have raised her hand instantly to tell her this, but several other students had already done so.

"I would also like everyone to give me scenarios as to when a charm like this could be helpful. You are free to be creative not crazy."

She felt her heart skip bit a beat like it had done at the beginning of the lesson. Did she really just ask them to say that? Violet could feel a lump in her throat almost making it impossible for her to breath for a slight moment. She really didn't want to answer. Especially when she had just been thinking about the use of that charm...assisting some terrible man to kidnap her little sister.

'Don't answer Violet. Please don't raise your ha-'

But her hand had been raised and the words just flowed out of her in a sort of angry tone,"The Disillusionment Charm would probably have been perfect to aid in the use of say an intruder of someone's home..Camouflaging them from being seen...to..to...take a sleeping child from her home..."

Not too long after Violet had said it, she lowered her hand and then looked down at her desk. She secretly wished she could just get up and leave, because she felt tears beginning to form behind her eyes. But no, she was NOT going to do that..She absolutely refused to do that. Violet then in desperation, shut her eyes to prevent these cursed tears from falling down. She knew Professor Bellaire was going to be cross with her, she knew she was either going to get thrown out of class, or get points deducted from her house for acting like this. Violet knew she had to pull herself together, yet the tears were still trying to fall from her eyes, which were still shut tight.

Wha? Sophie looked a bit puzzled at professor Bellaire's answer to her answer. She was pretty sure that was right, so she didn't understand why the professor had said that.

Whateeevs! She didn't want points, she wanted to PRACTISE! Beep!

Wut. See! That was her answer right there on the board now. o___O This all made Sophie even more confused. But wellllll, she had been right, so all was well.

Practise practise practiise!!

No practise..... awwww!

Mandatory? What a weird question. But suddenly Sophie was reminded of their CoMC class about winged horses and all that. BUT. Other people were faster than her and had already answered those Magical Creatures. The professor had also asked for scenarios... eehhh??

Sophie stopped to think... not exactly what she wanted to do at the moment - she wanted to PRACTISE - but oh well, she'd do what the professor told. "When something really dangerous takes place and you have to run away... from... certain people." She had no idea where she was getting that from. "If you have the Disillusionment Charm on you, it's safer."

....Right. Well, it was an answer. Not the best one ever, but yeah. There you go!

Sarah thought the spell was like an invisiblilty cloak for objects
Sarah raised her hand," when on is auror the charm is often required. Sometimes one is required to literally go under cover and spy on people and so on. Who knows, there might be a member of the MLE watching us now using this spell" Sarah said eying the room dramatically.

Awesome, she had gotten it right. That was nice. And she got points, which was even nicer. BUT what would have been the nicest would have been if Bellaire gave them some food and let Selina loosen her tie. She was too tired to deal with the restraining tie, but she really didn't want to be kicked out of the room again, so she swallowed her yawn and rose her hand, "Well, a few people have already said it, ma'am, but we can't have muggles seeing wizard things. It would break the law and make them all mad. Also, pranks, ma'am. This charm could be used to prank someone. Make a wall or a charm invisible or something?"

...What? She didn't say WHAT kind of use. If she wanted a more practical use for the charm she would have to verbalize that.

Lookit, 2 points. She'd never earned any in charms before. It was actually a bit curious, the Professor handing out points to everyone like that but she wouldn't question it. Nah. That was someone else's job.

She listened to the next question but didn't feel like bouncing out of her seat to answer. Since the start of the day she'd only had one chocolate frog and that wasn't doing much for her mood. This meant she would let everyone else answer first. It was no big deal. Not like anyone would fish around in her brain and take her answer or anything.

After letting a few people answer she raised her hand.

"You would need to use it when you need to not be somewhere real quick and don't really have the opportunity to zap out because it'd be too obvious. Like, if you snuck into the Headmistress' Office and you suddenly heard her at the door, the best thing to do would be to use the charm and hope she doesn't bump into you or something." Other than that, "You could also have a case where you want to hide something from someone." That was a legit reason to use it too. "I don't like people touching my candy without my say so and well you have people in this world who can't take a hint so if I put a disillusionment charm on my candy bag, said people won't be able to find it so they'll have to get their own candy." Basically it was like extra special security too.

Five points? Alice didn't understand why some people didn't like Bellaire, honestly. She adored her so far in this lesson. "There's the winged horses and other magical creatures like others have said, Professor," she began, raising her hand. "Other things could include, like, the second tail of a crup, for instance. 'Cause they aren't the exact same as a Muggle dogs, and they have to hide those in public." Were they supposed to give other scenarios, too?

But everyone had mostly covered other area of the charm, so she didn't add anything else.

Since everyone else had already offered up their answer for the mandatory usage, Dustin decided to skip the question altogether.

He thought in silence for a bit. What would he use the Disillusionment charm for? Plenty of things. He could use it for keeping his most prized possessions away from prying eyes, or even on his dad for a practical joke on his mom.

When he had finally decided what he wanted to say, he raised his hand. "I would definitely use it for a game of Extreme Hide-And-Go-Seek. I'm already a great hider, so the addition of the Disillusionment Charm would make me unbeatable!"

Dustin was itching to find a good hiding spot. It didn't really work if no one was looking for you, though.

"Professor, I have a question too, actually," he added, raising his hand again. "Does this charm only work on things that aren't moving or that are moving slowly? Or can you use it to hide an entire quidditch game?"

Wow.

The professor was giving out points left and right around here. AWESOME! Sierra sat up a little more, determined to earn some of those points, too. Then that little bubble was burst when the professor announced only the first to answer would get points. WHAAA?!

All that time thinking, and Sierra missed out. TOTALLY not fair! She'd answer it anyway, though. She really should have answered that first question... "You could also use the charm on an object you don't want to be seen by others," she said, raising her hand. "Let's just say you've got this really valuable heirloom. It'd be good to cast this charm on it, so that it can be better guarded against a theft."

So Dustin liked hide and seek. Maybe that wasn't the real takeaway from class today, but it was what Mo was noting. They'd have to try a round of Epic Hide and Seek and see who won... maybe they could get the entire common room to play.

And again... he needed to bring it back in to focus on the question, which was challenging because Mo was so excited to learn this spell. UMMM. "Sometimes a disillusionment charm is really useful if you're trying to convince your younger sibling that he's been sold to the circus, because you hide all his bedroom furniture with the spell and he thinks that you've sold that too. Just hypothetically, of course." And he never really liked circuses since then.

INVISIBLE HIDE AND SEEK?! Was there a sign up sheet for this? Because Anya wanted in. Badly. Like... she'd have to remember who said that to catch up with them later. She smiled a little at Mo's answer. That boy was seriously adorable. She'd thought it before, and she agreed still, she just wanted to keep him and his cute self forever.

She raised her hand. "Professor, it's also useful if you need to be the one sneaking around. Like... to follow someone maybe." The suggestions before were more so for people that needed to hide for their own protection. That wasn't Anya. She liked things from the causing trouble end. And she liked being sneaky.

Carter casually glanced around the room. Yeah. It seemed like a charms class. And... for the most part the students seemed to have good and thoughtful answers. Especially the hide-and-seek kid. He liked that idea. He'd have to try it sometime. Oh! Or laser tag? OR PAINT BALL!

Or... wait. He was supposed to be observing. He gave a few random approving nods. Well played Phillips. So far so good.

For a moment there, Kendall worried that Professor Bellaire was going to actually get mad at her, with the beginning part of the response her answer had gotten. She could have, especially given the questionable demeanor, but she’d gotten more points than some of the others had gotten in the end. Maybe it hadn’t been a bad thing, and besides, as far as she was concerned, if she’d managed to get ahead of the discussion and was correct, that only proved that she’d actually said something smart and not just been babbling her thoughts and being ridiculous. She probably would have definitely gotten in trouble if she had, but instead she sat even straighter at the idea of having been correct. She liked that thought.

Most people had already stated the only mandatory reason she could think of for using a Disillusionment charm, namely the hippogriff/winged horse ownership, although she was tempted to point out that Thestrals didn’t need Disillusionment charms cast upon them since most wizards couldn’t even see them. Either way, she bypassed that part of the question, as there was no way she would have gotten the points for that, but she still raised her hand. “Professor, wizards could use the Disillusionment charm if they’re transporting a person they particularly don’t want to be seen, too. Wasn’t Harry Potter supposedly put under a Disillusionment charm at one point or another when he was taken away from his aunt and uncle’s house?,” she said. It wasn’t the same as other people’s suggestions, not exactly. People weren’t objects or crup tails.

Elise blinked at Professor Bellaire and her giving out points left right and center and wondered again WHY she hadn't been paying attention. She was just so tired and distracted lately with all sorts of things running through her head that she almost answered with a potion when the professor asked for uses of the disillusionment charm.

Raising her hand, Elise shifted around in her seat uncomfortably. She didn't like her answer, but all the others she could think of had already been mentioned and she didn't want to repeat any answers. "If for example someone wanted to steal an object of considerable worth, they could use this charm to get past people who might be watching or guarding it," she said quietly. "Like how Lord Voldermort used it on himself to steal the Elder Wand from the grave of Albus Dumbledore."

It was probably one of its uses, but it might get Elise thrown out of class as well. Shaking her head, she simply copied everyone else's answers into her notebook. Yeah, she'd just do that.

Oakey stayed quiet and took notes for the most part of the class, he however raised his hand at the mention of using the spell on certain magical creatures to blend them into muggle society. "Professor, I agree with everyone who says it could be used to hide magical creatures, and even parts of them. Could this spell be a substitute to hide the second tail of a Crup, rather than severing it off?"
Magical Animal Rights Activist Oakey Gunter, that sounded weird. He'll stick with his self-proclaimed Ancient Runes title for now.

Wade gazed lazily from his notes, he had been quiet throughout the class jotting answers previously given.. Yeah, that was proving difficult with the rate of hands raising. Taking a little 'break' Wade rose his to answer, "Well.. even though it's illegal to do, it would be useful, yet tricky in a game of Quidditch to temporarily hide the snitch from the oher team."

Belle heard they were learning the Disillusionment charm. It sounded like a lot of fun. Then she heard the professor ask a question....when would someone use this charm? Belle had to think. She heard her other classmates mention that they would use it on creatures. That is true. Belle wanted to be unique.

Then Belle had an idea. She heard about this from a source. "Professor i think someone would use this charm for protection. I know Harry Potter was put under this charm to protect himself while flying from the death eaters." Belle remembered her grandma telling the story. Belle hoped her answer was right.

Asher listened to all of the others answers. Yes some were pretty cool. Very cool. Most everyone was saying things that he had thought of before he could get his hand up. At this point he had no idea if someone had already said this one or not but Anyway.

His hand shot straight up. "Professor I don't remember if anyone said this already or not but... I'd use it if I wanted to be left alone, if no one could see me no one would bother me."

Yeah Even Asher Romalotti wanted to be left alone. Alone time was good. No one around to bother his in fact he wished he had done this charm before this class.

Class was starting but Kat wasn't in the mood right now. Crossing her arms and lying her head on the table, the Slytherin still listened. What was the disillusionment charm? Easy. Kat didn't bother answering because it was too easy as counting the first few numbers. Make the ickles think and the older ones (seventh years, for your information) correct and provide information. That's how things worked. She wasn't lazy for not answering, just conserving energy.

And why use the disillusionment charm? The Slytherin wasn't sure why such easy questions were being asked in classes recently. It didn't require that much thinking and stuff, you know. It was partly a relief for Kat... but at the same time it wasn't because obviously OWLs are not going to be asking much easy questions. Brain-racking would be necessary once in a while to improve her reasoning skills. Anyway, Kat had her hand up this time. "I guess it would be nice to blend in with the surroundings sometimes. They're also nice for being undercover, spying, and safety reasons." the girl shared. "You know, like how the chameleon uses camouflage to protect themselves." It was impressive how chameleon could do that WITHOUT magic.

But then again, they're animals. Boo.

West had been sitting quietly so far, but listening for sure. So far everyone was saying about creatures and all so when he put his hand up, "Aside from creatures, where Flying Carpets are legal, they have to have a disillusionment charm on them too. Basically its one of the primary charms for protecting the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy."

As for scenarios.... "If you wanted to make someone think that you'd cracked an egg on their head, you could cast it on them?"

Y'know, since that was how it felt when it got cast on you and all?

"Correct. There is a long standing magical law that the charm is to be cast on magical creatures, especially winged one when their is a possibility of coming in contact or being seen by muggles in order to maintain the magical statute of secrecy. That will be five points."

She nodded at his example and moved on.



Sophia listened quietly as her students proceeded to give examples of scenarios where the disillusionment charm could be used. She was proud to say the students seemed to have a fairly good understanding of the charm based on their examples...even if some of the examples were indeed questionable....

No matter, they were learning and that was important.

"Very good class. You may all take 2 points each for those very....umm..creative and informative (for lack of a better word) answers. From hiding in a game of hide and go seek, to running for your lives and even preventing the breach of the secrecy statute...it makes it clear that the disillusionment charm is an integral part of wizarding society."

She stood once again and made her way to the board and wrote:

"Now their are two ways to cast this charm. If you are casting it on yourself you simple clearly say the incantation and twirl the wand around your body, as though you are using the wand to wrap rope around yourself. If you are casting it on someone else, the wand movement is a simple tap on the head of the person or thing. If it is a person they should feel as if someone has cracked an egg on their head..as Mr.Odessa mentioned earlier."

She stood up and demonstrated the spell on herself then on her desk then undid when she felt everyone had a good enough look.

"I'm going to need everyone to step outside of their desk and practice casting this spell on your desk. Once I'm satisfied with your progression you'll move on to you casting the spell on yourselves."

Alyssa breathed a sigh of relief when the Professor didn't smack down her answer. 'Cool practice time.' Alyssa thought to herself as she stood up from her desk and took a step away from it.

She watched Professor Bellaire demonstrated the spell and its wand movements before she took out her wand and attempted casting the spell on her own desk.

Concentrating as hard as she could, she said,"Disillusiona" and tapped the desk. A stream of blue light sputtered out of her wand and hit the desk...and the desk flickered for a second and disappeared...but then appeared again. She could still see it!! Was that supposed to be a mini flash camouflage?

Alyssa knew that she would have to try again, until the spell lasted longer than a second.

Belle was happy that the professor liked her answer. She blew out a sigh of relief. Then she heard the professor instruct them to use the charm on the desk. Belle was glad...she thought they would have to do partners with this spell. Belle was not ready yet.

Belle stood up and faced her desk. The wand movement was fairly simple. Just a little tap was all she needed to do. Belle took a deep breath and said, "Disllusiona." and tapped the desk. Belle felt the blue light come out of her wand, it flickered and then died out. Belle needed more confidence. It always happened when she tried a new spell.