They were moving on to actually practicing the charm now? No big, long, drawn out question and answer session? Cool! Sky hurried over and grabbed a cup and a cushion, taking them back to her spot in front of her tent. Once she was settled back on her sitting cushion, she placed the cup on the ground in front of her, cushion beside it, and concentrated on the charm and what she wanted it to do. When she had a good picture in her mind of being able to fit the cushion in the cup, she picked up her wand, tapped it and cast. "Magnus Centrum!" Had it worked? Well, there was only one way to see. Sky picked up her cushion and started trying to stuff it in her cup. It was hard work at first to get the cushion stuffed through the top, but once it got past that, bingo!

Ready to cast on the tent now.

A cushion in a cup? The first thing West did was wonder how dense the cushion was since you could theoretically just squish it in there if it wasn't too dense. But he went and got a cushion and cup anyways and tentatively smiled at the professor at the points thing. Cool, every bit counted.

He returned to his spot and made a superhuman effort at trying to get the pillow in the cup without the spell. Maybe if he vacuum-packed it? Was there a vacuum packing spell? There probably was. You could maybe use a suction spell for it if you did it on the right angle.

But in the meantime, the pillow was the fist. The cup was the okay sign. It did help a lot to picture it like that. He was ready to start.

Dylan sat in front of his tent and listened to all the stuff others were saying. Charms lessons were being BAWSS this term. First with the Disillusionment Charm...and now with this Extension one...Both extremely useful, in his opinion. Especially that first one...

Moving to stand up, the Slytherin made his way over to select a cup and cushion...and after doing so, went to sat back down in front of his tent. All that had been instructed was to enlarge the cup's capacity...Yes? He'd heard that right...?

Setting both items out in front of him, Dylan removed his wand and went through the process of practicing the motion and sounding out the incantation. It was a simple tap to whatever was being charmed...and saying Magnus Centrum.

Mag-NUS Cen-trum. Four syllables. Nothing too complicated...

Tap. tap. tap. tap. Simple enough motion.

HE WAS READY TO TRY IT!

"Magnus Centrum." West just examined the cup as he practiced saying the incantation. Not a hard one. And besides if anything it was always the easiest part for him.

And actually he wanted to learn how to do that flaming writing, that was AWESOME. Not that he had anything to use it for but whatever, it'd be cool to know. Where was he? Oh yeah.

"Magnus Centrum. Magnus Centrum." It rolled off the tongue nicely and everything. And the wand movement was a tap? A tap on the cup? What the heck, he could practice a tap, why not? He did it. Tap. There cup, you have been tapped.

A cushion in a cup? Mo was much more interested in seeing if he would fit in the cup. In fact, he had a theory that he could just turn it over, hold it over his head, drop it, and he would get trapped inside in the dark. Of course. Then no one would know where he was, and he'd live the rest of his very short life trapped in a cup...

Maybe the cushion in the cup was a good alternative. "Magnus Centrum," Mo tapped the cup with his wand. Was there any way to tell if he was successful, other than just going ahead and stuffing something in there?

Mo picked up the cushion and dropped it. The cushion bounced off the glass, knocking it over. So... that didn't work. Even picking up the cushion and trying to shove it into the glass proved unsuccessful. Still, no big deal.... he could just try, try again, right? "Magnus Centrum," he tried again with another TAP.

Positioning his wand, Dylan prepared to perform the spell. All he needed to do was focus on it expanding...stretching out and getting deeper. Really, the cushion wasn't THAT big. Nice sized...but not as big as a couch cushion would be...So, yes. FOCUSING on it getting bigger...but not outwardly so.

Taking some deep breaths, the Slytherin began mutter!practicing the incantation. "Magnus Centrum...Magnus Centrum...Magnus Centrum..."...allowing his mouth and lips to get familiar with saying it. Usually when trying new spells out, they always felt so foreign that he just couldn't perform 'em with success...So, this technique helped.

Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.

AHEM. NOW, Dylan was ready.

...Deep breaths, focusing, VISUALIZE AND ATTACK..."Magnus Centrum!" Tap.

...How was he supposed to know if it worked again?

Now to put it together, that was the usual way of doing it. West held the cup in one hand and his wand in the other and focused. He wanted the cup to be dimensionally trancendental. He could do that. Easy to focus on. A concept he could grasp.

He didn't think about the pillow, since that'd distract him from the point of the exercise. And actually focusing was REALLY

"Magnus Centrum!" He tapped the cup and focused.

Not knowing any other way but just to stick his fingers in, Dylan carefully picked the cup up, holding it's base with one hand and using the other to test it out. It had deepened SOME...but not nearly enough for the cushion to be stuffed down into it.

Erm...

This was not a problem. He could perform the spell again.

Setting it back down, Dylan went about getting into the mindset. He took a few centering breaths, turning his thoughts towards EXPANSION...but the outside remaining the same.

Not losing that focus, he lifted his wand..."Magnus Centrum!" TAP.

Surely, it had worked this time...

... Did it work? West examined his cup and then prodded the inside with his wand to see how much of it went in there, but he soon got resistance when his wand tapped the bottom of the cup. Another attempt then.

He focused and tapped the cup. "Magnus Centrum!" THIS TIME? West again used his wand to test, poking it in there and this time there was no resistance --his wand didn't touch the bottom of the cup! YUSSSS.

NOW FOR THE ULTIMATE TEST. He holstered his wand and grabbed up his cushion and began trying to smoosh it into the cup.

NOW...for the cushion! Picking it up, Dylan eyed it's porportion and decided he'd be starting from a corner...That was what was next, right? Testing the charm by stuffing the cup...

In ways of testing, the Slytherin got down to business...Starting at a random corner, he began meticulously inching it into the cup, surprised when he didn't meet any inward resistance. That was a good sign...

The smile on his face grew as more and more of the cushion disappeared from plain sight...filling the bottom of the cup. THIS WAS SUCCESS!

OH. YEAH.

Once the last bit was stuffed away, Dylan fistpumped in front of his tent.

He was ready to try the tent now....

It was hard squishing a cushion into a cup, even if there was space inside it now, and that was down to the actual opening being wayyy smaller. Woulda been easier to try fill the cup with extra liquid or sand or something and it woulda illustrated the point perfectly well without West having to wrestle a pillow into a opening smaller than his fist.

But he managed it, leaving a small corner poking out just so that if they had to pull the things out he'd be able to actually get hold of it.

Okay. DONE. He smiled to himself and waited for more instructions.

Cushion in a cup, eh? Well that was interesting. Not that she could ever think of an actual occasion where she might need to hide a cushion in a cup but you never know, yeah? ...O_________O Pillow fights. Merlin, that was a perfect way to hide pillows. Just casually stuff cushions/pillows into cups and place them strategically around your pillow fighting battle ground. No one would be the wiser.

Heh.

The blonde was totally trying this out.

...

After getting her very own cup and cushion, Ella settled down in front of her tent and eyed the cup curiously. Hmmm. This definitely wasn't going to be easy. Best to practice the incantation first.

Magnus Centrum, right? That wasn't so bad.

"Magnus Centrum....Magnus Centrum...Magnus Centrum...Magnus Centrum!"

And the wand movement, well that wasn't so hard either. Just a tap on the object you were meant to enlarge.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

She could do that. And she was totally ready to try.

Oh. So it was time to do the charm now? That was fast. Maybe Kat was half-not paying attention the whole time and it was weird plus a first in years. She's never felt that weird about not paying attention. Daydreaming helped her a lot and hopefully Bellaire didn't notice. Hehe. Well you can't possibly not daydream when you're outside for class and the weather is pretty chill and stuff right?

Kat went to get a cup and a cushion so she can practice the charm on them. After returning to her place, she focused on her cup. BLINK. Even if Kat knew stuff about charms and word derivations that were useful for the subject, she wasn't perfect so she made mistakes and stuff. She hated making them though, because well... she had her mummy issues that she didn't want to talk about.

Anyway... Time to practice stuff. Magnus Centrum. Magnus Centrum. Magnus Centrum. Alright that was enough practice to suffice. "Magnus Centrum!" Kat tapped her cup, waiting for something to happen. So... will that suffice? The Slytherin fifth year squeezed her cushion in the cup. But nope. It wouldn't get in. Kat took the cushion out again and sighed.

Something this simple was actually complicated.

Okay. Time to test this out.

Ella picked up her wand and with a tap on the cup said, "Mangnus Centrum!"

Blink. Blink. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

Picking up her cushion, the blonde furrowed her brow and began trying to stuff the thing inside the cup. "Come on you cushion, go in." She mumbled, frowning at the thing. But no matter how hard Ella pushed, the cushion was not going in the cup. Nope. The NO VACANCY sign was totally lit, apparently.

...

Oh Merlin, that's why! She'd said the incantation wrong! It wasn't Mangnus Centrum, it was Magnus Centrum!

DUH.

>.<

Ohhhh! Pwetty!!

The Hufflepuff stared in amazement as she watched the Professor write the incantation in flaming letters. She was more fascinated by the letters of flame rather than what they actually read out. It was only when the professor finished with her instructions that Nessie came out of her fixed gaze and focused on what the class had been assigned to do instead.

Cup and cushion. Right.

Getting up from her seat, she went forward towards where the cups and cushions were and got one of each. She then went back to the front of her tent sat down and practiced saying the incantation in her head.

Magnus Centrum! Magnus Centrum! She repeated it in her mind over and over till she got it more or less then she eyed the cup and took her wand out, holding it in her right hand.

"Magnus Centrum!" She said as she tapped the cup lightly.

To test the cup then? Yep.

The red head took the pillow and attempted to fit the whole thing into her cup. So far it was fitting in quite well...that was till she reached the last bit of the pillow. That's when she couldn't get it to fit anymore. Frowning just a little she took the whole pillow out and decided to reattempt it.

She eyed the cup, imagined it expanding in the inside and just like before performed the spell. "Magnus Centrum!" she tapped the cup once more and grabbed the pillow to check her second attempt. This time it was perfect!

This time she was going to get it. Ella was determined and not giving up and plus, she had a good feeling. Good feelings were important, weren't they? That cushion was going in that cup, it didn't have a choice but to.

Concentrating on what she wanted to happen, the badger tapped the cup and, "Magnus Centrum!"

Pleaseeeeeeeeee let this work.

Slowly but surely, the fifteen year old started to stuff the cushion into the cup. It wasn't easy but hey, it was actually going in! Little by little more of the cushion seemed to disappear until only a little corner was peeking out. Ella gave that a little tuck too and Voilà, the cushion was in the cup!

BEAM!

Okay, she could still do it. Kat inhaled and then exhaled. She can still get it right so that Bellaire wouldn't think she wasn't paying attention to the class prior to this activity time. She can do it. BELIEVE.

"Magnus Centrum!" Kat said while simultaneously tapping on her cup. Did it work? Kat took the cup and examined it. No difference there because only the capacity of the cup would make the change. To check it out, Kat pushed the cushion in. Squashed it even so that it would get inside. Yet it didn't. The cushion HATED her.

Reluctantly taking the cushion out, Kat tapped her wand on her cup a few times. Her tapping wasn't wrong. Probably only her concentration and focus. PSSH. That was stupid. If Kat could focus well during a Quidditch match (which was waaaaaaaay more different than trying to focus on charming a bloody cup) then she could do this too right? Self-confidence, where art thou?

Anyway. One last time? Kat focused hard. Her head wouldn't pop right? She was doing her best anyway, exerting effort. That added the points, didn't it? There was one and only one to find out. "Magnus Centrum!" Tap. Did it work? Inhale. Exhale. Kat took the cushion and then squished it inside the cup. But this time, it was easier.

Holy Merlin, it FINALLY worked. Her charm worked. YEAH! So... after this was the tents right? This was going to be fun. Like... a hundred and one times more fun. Squishing a tent inside a cup? No biggy.

YO TENTS. Come at me, bro.

Penelope pulled the corner of the cushion that she had squished into the cup out and set it down beside her as she readied herself to try again. Focus seemed to be the main thing with this spell, considering the lack of fancy excessive wand movement and stuff. So that was what she would do. Focus.

She stared at the cup, trying not to blink, as she imagined it getting bigger on the inside while remaining the same on the outside. Then, once again, she tapped it and said, "Magnus Centrum." She gave it a few seconds...then grabbed the cushion and tried shoving it in.

But still it wouldn't fit. Meh.

Penelope set the cushion aside a second time and tried focusing again. Still staring at the cup, she tried to actually picture the inside getting bigger...the bottom going down, the sides stretching out, providing more than enough room for a cushion like this to fit into it neatly... Then, still concentrating on this image, she tapped the cup and again said, "Magnus Centrum."

Concentrate...concentrate...

Okay. Time to see if it worked.

Grabbing the cushion again, she bit her lip a little nervously...then pushed it in.

...All the way in.

...That meant it fit! Yes! Finally!

Penelope smiled.

Leo sat on his cushion outside his tent as the night grew darker and the lesson started. Sophia was in what could only be described as a good mood even if she made the Ravenclaw Quidditch captain, Milton stand on one leg for what seemed to be a small offense. But Leo knew her and to Sophia it wasn't.

Making no attempt to aid the boy Leo listened as Sophia got the kids thinking and discussing before it suddenly was practice time. Had he dozed off? Shaking his head Leo stood up and figured that he might as well make himself useful. "Does anyone need any help?" he called out in the dark.

It was good that the student's got to practice on cups before they moved onto the tents. Who knew what disaster could struck if they practiced on tents straight away.

A small smile became visible on his lips when he had earn three points and his dark brown eyes went to West for a second when he got extra points for Slytherin. Awesome! However his smile faded away just as quickly as it came when he saw something happen to the fire.

At first, he thought something was terrible wrong and that the flames were getting dangerous. Well, actually they were. Why did the professor's NEVER see that FIRE IS DANGEROUS! He gripped his blanket tighter as the sixth year trembled while watching the flames.

He was NOT going to cry though. No, he refused to cry in front of everyone. The only person who had seen him cry in front of fire was Kurumi during her private lessons. Though his eyes did get wet from memories flooding back, he held the tears in. He could do this! Getting up from his cushion like instructed, Daichi was a bit reluctant to grab a cup and another cushion to practise on.

With a HUGE bow around the crackling fire, the Slytherin walked behind the tents until he was at the Professor's tent. He then came closer from behind and swiftly grabbed a cup and cushion before quickly walking away again, away from the fire and sitting in the cold.

Now that he was a safe distance away from everyone else and almost hidden out of the light, Daichi grabbed his wand and pointed it at the cup first. "Magnus Centrum" he said and tapped the cup but he already knew it wasn't going to work. His voice was trembling and he couldn't concentrate. Daichi closed his eyes and tried to focus only on the spell.

Opening his eyes, he said the same incantation again and tapped the cup. This time something did happen but just as he got excited that it worked it turned normal again.

Oh, lookit! Flaming letters! *inner!bounce* Where was Daichi? Where was Daichi? Hehe. That guy might be her friend but it was always amusing to see how he reacts to things, especially fire which probably to everybody's knowledge is the Slytherin Prefect's greatest fear.

She didn't get to see how his reaction though because Beezus then got on to practicing the incantation and wand movement for the charm which was a bit unnecessary in her case for she had used that spell many times this term. But still, just to make sure that she didn't mess up because apparently, she was was good at messing up things too, the brunette decided to reacquaint herself with the basics of the Undetectable Extension Charm.

Magnus Centrum.Magnus Centrum.Magnus Centrum.

It was easy enough to memorize, yea? And just a light tap. Beezus did a little tapping motion of her wand here and there just for good measure.

Shortly, she fell in line with her other classmates to get a cup and cushion before returning to her place earlier. One last review of what to say and what to do with her wand and she was ready to try.

Squish a Pillow into a cup? That didn't seem to difficult, and the spell that Bellaire spelled out for them in midair didn't look so hard either. Inf fact the first part of the incantation was their very own Transfiguration Professor's name. The wand movement was really simple too. Sitting up from the ground Oakey grabbed a cushion and cup and brought it back to his spot on the ground. Magnus Centrum, He repeated to himself once, and a simple tap of the wand. Taking out his wand he did a few simple taps to the rim of the cup then finally spoke the incantation, "Magnus Centrum". At the very same time he felt a mosquito bite on the side of his neck and swatted it with his free hand bringing his wand down slightly harder than a tap. His cup began to shake some before finally it snapped in two. "Oops" Oakey said looking down at his cup in disbelief. He should have brought bug repelant down to the class.
Maybe tapping the cup harder than it should have been made it unable to hold all the extra space being forced inside of it?
So did he need to get a new one, or did Bellaire expect him to just repair this one and try again?

Help?

.... from Kitridge?

West inwardly lol'd, but otherwise stayed silent. No, he didn't need help from the dude that was partially responsible for the library almost burning down. All good over here.

Alyssa pulled out the cushion from her cup and peered inside. It was really hard to tell that the cup had grown inside and of course looking from the outside, the size of the cup hadn't changed at all. Alyssa slowly stuffed the cushion back into the cup, first the tip of the cushion and when that went in easily, she continued to squeeze the rest in.

She shook her head in disbelief. This spell really was a good one to have. But how long did it last? Was there a warranty period on it? Alyssa slowly raised her hand and posed her question to Professor Bellaire.

"Professor, how long does the spell last? Does it work on the same principle as the harder you concentrate on casting and making the spell work, the longer it lasts? Or does one need to re-cast the spell over a certain period of time?"

Hah. Oakey.

Yep, she saw him snapping his cup into two and that is why she was wiggling a finger at him now accompanied by a mocking grin. Oh, Professor Bellaire....

She didn't have that much time to tease her fellow Prefect though so she wasn't going to stick around for too long. Moving over, she whispered, "Just tell Professor Bellaire what you've done so you won't get into any trouble." See? She was helping him out. With a wink, Beezus straightened up and returned to her place.

Now, it was time to put her charming to the test.

Incantation. She repeated it mentally. Wand movement. Tap tap tap.

Settling the cushion on her lap, she held the cup with her other hand first, pointed her wand towards it and, "Magnus Centrum." TAP. It worked, yeah? It should. After pocketing her wand away, Beezus then pushed the cushion inside. Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuush. It went in. She pulled it out and grinned to herself before ramming it back into the cup. Now, can they start with the tents?