Vitrumonia. Vitrumonia. Vee-truh-MOH-nee-uh. West mentally got his head around the new incantation, still seated at his desk while he did so. Glass cleaning was useful right? He also nodded at the professor respectfully, a small smile given for answering his question and taking it seriously. It sucked when teachers didn't and stuff, and he always had a million of them after all.

"Vee-truh-MOH-nee-uh." He tried out loud. Not too hard yeah? Yeah. The wand movement though... how line-y did the wand wave need to be? He tried it a few times, copying what the professor had done, until it sorta felt comfortable. He kept practicing this as she wrote stuff on the board and gave them their instructions.

Cleaning. Okay.

Of course it was.

Oh hey! He was sort of older. He sort of knew those other charms. In fact, even though she said to do them after, he went ahead and cast Impervius on himself. Common sense y'know? Keep the muck off. He liked to be well presented.

He decided to start with the underside of his desk. Because if the top was bad, surely the bottom needed help too? Or well, the floor first then the underside of the desk. Yeah.

He pushed his chair back and focused on the ground, pointing his wand as he said, "Scourgify!" Good start, yes? Scrubbadubbadub.

Raven was watching from the back as all the other students cleaned, waving her own wand and muttering whenever she thought Professor Knocks might be looking her way. It was not that she didn't know how to clean up, it was just that she thought that at the rate everyone else was going everything would be cleaned up. This was overkill!

Still, she waved her wand at her own desk "SCOURGIFY!" Shout that extra loud.

So the floor was clean enough to kneel on now, though West decided not to polish it where he'd be kneeling since he hardly wanted to slip over and make a fool out of himself...

... even if he would clown it off and be all cool about it.

He pushed his chair back and knelt down, sticking his head under the desk and inspecting the underside. It was dirty of course, but also there was gum stuck here and there. Would scourgify be enough to get at that?

"Scourgify!" West gave it a go, managing to clean the underside of the desk but not dislodge the gum. Well. Try again then. "Scourgify!" Focusing on the gum and getting rid of that... but it was no use. Fine. He'd come back to it with Deletrius a little later. At least, aside from the gum, it was clean under there.

West got to his feet and moseyed over to the door. Doors always needed cleaning, especially door handles since so many people touched them. It creeped him out thinking about it actually. So the door handle first.

"Scourgify!" Yep, he was doing quite a bit of scourgifying, but he was comfortable with that one and it was a good starting point, right?

Ethan, still filled with confidence and pride at making Impervius work and learning a new spell while doing it, walked over to some great mounds of dust in a corner of the room. Seeing spiders, he was immediately kindled to hatred. Deletrius seemed to be the correct spell for the occasion. Raising his wand, Ethan saw a great, big, hairy spider crawling amongst the others. "De- de- Deletrius!" he stammered to no effect. The spider seemed to have taken all the confidence of his previous victory away. Ethan started to back away, but he couldn't just leave them there for someone else to have to take care of. He was determined not to be a coward. Stepping back toward the mounds, he raised his wand, concentrated on the goal of a spider-free room and said firmly, "Deletrius!" He opened his eye just a crack, and couldn't have been happier. The spiders were gone along with the dust. He didn't care where they had gone, as long as it wasn't at Hogwarts. Hmm. Ethan vaguely remembered reading somewhere, probably in a library book, that Deletrius could also be used for the purpose of deleting the evidence of a wand's past spells. He decided to ask Professor Knox if this was true. Ethan raised his hand, and waited for a response.

Now that his window and the wooden frame it was set in had been well-cleaned and polished, Mo studied that warped window frame again. It was really beyond his skills to fix that wood itself now that it was damaged, but he sort of figured he could prevent it from getting any worse. Mo climbed up on the deep sill and struggled with the window until it was loose enough to open.

Sadly, opening the window released a flood of stagnant water all over the sill, floor, and Mo's shoes, and he made a disgruntled sound at the state of his once-shiny shoes. Well. Rude of you, window. "Tergeo," Mo siphoned up the gross water and examined the impacted areas.

Yup, it needed another scrubbing and the window needed polishing again. SIGH. Thankless task. "Scourgify," he cleaned up the scummy surface with a point of his wand.

The door handle LOOKED clean, West was pleased to note. He started on the door next. "Scourgify!" And made short work of that too, though now it did need a good polishing to look more awesome.

So that'd be the Poliotus one yeah? He paused to collect himself, practiced the S-shape wand movement, and then went for it. "Poliotus!" S-shape. He focused on the wood, waiting to see it come up with a shine to bring out the grain. And... there! He was getting better at this one already, the wand movement wasn't too complicated, and he liked when they were very exact like that, where he could sort of tell exactly how much precision or flare the motion needed.

West went ahead and polished the door-handle too. Should he do the outside? Nah, she said to clean the inside of the classroom. Time to be literal. He decided to go around the door frame and that part of the wall where people's hands ended up. "Scourgify!" He started on the stonework, getting grime and dust from in between the gaps.

"Scourgify!" Raven aimed her wand at a desk in front of her, which didn't really appear to be dirty in the first place. Okay, she hadn't seen that. "Scougify!" This to the ceiling, which no one else seemed to care about.

"Scourgify!" She shot this one to a desk way in the front very close to Ivy Knox.

West polished the door frame next, figuring that sometimes appearance DID matter, y'know? In fact, to be fair, he often thought it did. He WAS a Slytherin after all, and knew the value of first impressions.

"Poliotus!" He cast, S-shape again. His wand he directed around the door frame and a shine appeared in its wake.

Once West was satisfied with that, he figured he better work on that other one. The new one. The glass one. Which meant windows, obviously. He went over there and looked for a spot...

... he'd have to do the high ones wouldn't he? Because they were out of reach for some people, and he was kinda taller than most of the other kids. West went and grabbed his chair, not trusting the window sill or thinking that would be good to stand on. He braced it by the window, flush against the wall, and then stood on it. That gave him the reach to get to the very top windows.

Well they needed cleaning before he polished them, yes? "Scourgify!" West started with that, carefully working over each pane of glass.

The window sill was clean and safe for climbing again, and Mo scrambled back up to wiggle the window open a little bit further. Now he could properly see the sky and the grounds, although he probably wasn't supposed to hang out of the window like this. For a good cause, though, right?

Especially because the best way to keep the window frame from further weather damage was to make it completely impervious to the elements. With his head and arm still sticking out the window, Mo awkwardly pointed back at the frame with his wand, mostly casting in the right direction. "Impervius." And now to the other side of the frame. "Impervius."

And now to the inside... erm. Was his head stuck in the window? Was that really what was happening here? He wiggled again at the window until it opened far enough to jerk his head back through, although he nearly lost an ear in the process.

Ouch. "Impervius." He cast the inside of the frame too. Ouch ouch ouch.

Scrubbing glass wasn't even that hard, even standing on a chair and working high up. West figured it'd be smart to finish scrubbing the panes he was working on, and then do the glass-polishing on all of them. "Scourgify!" He continued on until he got to a crack in one of the bits of glass.

Well he could deal with that. "Reparo!" Thanks to Dylan, he knew that one. West watched as the crack mended itself so that the pane of glass was good as new. And that was how it was done.

A little more scrubbing and then West leaned back a bit to survey his work. Looked good to him. Time to polish?

So it was... Vitrumonia. He repeated the incantation a few times and the wand movement and then focused on the glass.

"Vitrumonia!" Wand wave. No... nothing. What had he done wrong? West frowned and tried again, being a little more line-y with his wand wave this time. "Vitrumonia!" Wand wave. And slowly... the glass began to shine, looking cleaner than ever without the dull edge it had had even a moment ago. Pleased with his success, West went on to the next pane and polished that one up too.

... what was Mo doing? West side-eyed his former best friend and then decided he was alright. Right. Back to polishing then.

skip. skip.skip.

It seemed like little by little the room was becoming beautiful once more. Finding a small figurine sitting near the window sill Mackenzie began to think about the transfiguration lesson and making their gargoyles move. Resisting temptation to make the statue dust itself she pointed her wand and spoke "Scourgify" She now could see in detail what the statue was, a dragon. Smiling she walked off to see what other interesting things she could find.

The windows looked good, West felt pretty good about it actually, and he carefully got down from his chair. He picked that up and took it back to his desk and then, because he'd stood on it, West went ahead and scrubbed it with Scourgify again.

Now, back to that gum. West got down on his knees and went under his desk,focusing on that. It was really stuck there huh? Maybe Tergeo would get it off, the siphoning might suction it away? Or... no. Deletrius! That'd work. It'd disintegrate the gum and solve the problem.

He focused on the gum and held his wand at the ready, pointing it at that pesky bit of chewed and solidified candy. That was gonna come OFF. He was DETERMINED. Because now that he knew it was there it was gonna bother him see? So he couldn't give up on it.

Deletrius, he reminded himself, would get rid of it, but there'd be residue behind probably. So he'd have to clean the spot where it was afterward. Okay. He was ready!

"Deletrius!" West pointed his wand with the sort of seriousness that was usually reserved for a Bellaire lesson. Sure enough, with that sort of focus, the bit of gum DID disintegrate. Into nothingness. Yesssssssssss.

West pointed his wand again. "Scourgify!" Just to clean up any residue mind you.

Another new spell. Merlin.

But fine, she could do this. These cleaning spells weren't TOO hard. She could totally do this.

And Penelope was gonna start with that new spell. Get the practicing over with first and all that. It seemed the best plan.

"Vee-truh-moh-nee-uh," she said slowly, trying out the pronunciation. "Vee-truh-MOH-nee-uh. Vitru-mo-nia. Vitrumonia. VitruMOnia. Vitrumonia." She continued muttering it under her breath for another minute or two and then figured she had it. The wand movement wasn't hard either, so she practiced waving her wand twice, and then decided practice was over.

Now to actually try it out.

The Gryffindor headed over to one of the still dirty windows. She took a deep breath to focus - careful not to breath in any grime or dust - and then raised her wand. "Vitrumonia," she said with a wave of her wand. A small - reallyyyy small - part of the window was suddenly clean, but that was not good enough.

So try, try again.

Another careful breath and then a wave of her wand over the window and- "Vitrumonia!" The clean area spread over a bit more of the window, but it still wasn't entirely clean just yet.

Merlin's beard, it was like it was purposely trying to be difficult.

West got out from under his desk and sat in his chair again. He still had two more spells to do but after climbing and crawling around the classroom, he needed a moment to collect himself. Where was he gonna do Tergeo? On dust? Where did dust appear? In corners! He got up and went right to one of the corners. There WAS dust there, just little trace bits though since people had already been cleaning a whole lot. West crouched down and pointed his wand. This spell he had no trouble with. He'd known it for forever.

"Tergeo!" He traced his wand along the line of dust, siphoning it up with a lot more delicacy than the vacuuming charm they learned in Astronomy would have provided. Tergeo was sort of more... for troublesome spots wasn't it? The bits that were stubborn or ingrained somehow. West followed the line of the wall. "Tergeo!"

... there. He eyed it up then stood up. There was only one more charm to do now, and he'd technically done it already on himself... but he supposed he had to do it on something in the classroom to count as cleaning right? Well... He moseyed over to the bookcase.

His ears were still burning, and he had something in his hair. What... was it? Mo fished the mysterious substance from his fabulous locks... a spider web. Kinda gross. Was there a spider in there too? He fished around for a while before deciding there was NO spider in his hair.

Too bad. Might make a great pet.

But it did suggest that there was a mess of cobwebs around his now impervious windowsill, and Mo quickly climbed back onto the sill in search of them. There... up in the corner, he spotted an entire spider ecosystem. It felt unfriendly to clear them out, but for the next kid sticking his head out the window... it had to be done.

Mo pointed his wand at the spider webs and removed them one by one. "Deletrius. Deletrius. Deletrius." And NOW his little corner of the world was clean.

So the question of what to Impervius aside from himself had been answered. He was in front of a book case and, recalling the flooding in the library a couple terms back, West picked up the first book on the shelf.

The books weren't dusty or dirty at all, he noted. Obviously they were being looked after. Still. He was gonna use it.

"Impervius." He cast on the first book. West was confident it worked because he knew it already. Didn't need to test it by dunking the book in water or anything, nope. Instead he put the book back and worked on the next book.

He imperviused the whole shelf of books, one at a time, focusing as best he could. It was important to take care of books and stuff after all.

Finished with that, West stepped back and admired the classroom. Looking good. Having done his share he returned to his desk and sat down. He'd just wait now, politely until they were dismissed or whatever.

Except... a thought came to him and he put his hand up. A question of course.

"Professor, do these charms work with a -Maxima or -Duo suffix added on it? Like to be stronger or longer lasting or anything?"

...

He was so not late in starting the activity. No.

It was weird because he had taken a moment to just look around the classroom, sort of wide eyed. Everyone was so... busy. And they were bustling around getting things done. And what was he doing? Sitting around half-amazed and half-... he didn't really know.

But he had to start cleaning, yeah? And not start acting like dripping ice cream on a hot summer's day. (ICE CREAM! GRIN.) ... And... they needed to work on the windows and such with that Vee-truh-MOH-nee-uh spell, yeah? Nodding to himself, Alec finally got up from his seat and headed over towards a window that wasn't currently being cleaned by anyone else. And it was dirty too! Awesome. Window... you'll be clean after this. Nodnod.

Reaching the window, he pulled out his wand and took a moment to look at the window first. Properly. Yeah, the window was the first place he needed to start. Then he'd make a start on the actual window sill itself. "Vee-truh-MOH-nee-uh... vee-truh-MOH-nee-uh..." he mumbled to himself before saying a little louder and with a tiny hint of confidence, "Vitrumonia!" His wand moved to draw a small line over a tiny glass section of the window and...

... GRIN. ... Now he just had to rest of the window to clean.

“Vee-truh-MOH-nee-uh.” Alice murmured the new charm to herself as she stood and looked around for dirty glass to clean. Vitrumonia. Vitrumonia. Vee-truh-MOH-nee-uh. How many was this Knox lady going to teach them? If they got two new ones in one class only, one could only imagine how many they'd learn term long, and the thought of so much spell knowledge almost excited her. Except, well, y'know, the fact that all the spells that they were getting taught were.. cleaning. Had they considered the fact that maybe some of them had house elves and didn't need them, even if Hogwarts did? Even if the school was dirty?

Cleaning wasn't her job, nope. They'd gone over this.

She gave significant looks to any Hufflepuffs around.

"VitruMOnia." She located a dirty window soon enough, and attempted to cast the spell on it, but her line must not have been line-y enough, because nothing seemed to happen. Was that movement she'd done more like a jab? Or was there, like, too much Mo in her Vitrumonia?

Difficult window. Would the professor notice if she just scrubbed it clean with her robe sleeve?

The new professor eyed a lot, Peyton noticed. The girl figured the woman probably had an eye problem...maybe even lost her glasses? She shook her head in thought and then shrugged. It was time to get started on this activity if she wanted to earn house points.

Standing up she took her wand out and stared at her desk. If she tried cleaning it it wouldn't spit dust back at her again, would it? Maybe not. She was polishing it technically. Or maybe she'd clean it and then polish it.

Yeah. That'd work, right?

First, she practiced the spell to get a real grip of it. "Pooooh-leeeee-oohh-tuuuss." She said it with exaggerated mouth movements. She NEEDED to get it right. That or risk dust all over her face. Though, now that she thought about it, she'd just jump out of the way.

Feeling she was ready, Peyton stood in front of the desk, almost in her dueling stance. She. Was. Ready. INNER EXCITED GIGGLE.

"Scourgify!" she chirped, pointing her wand on the surface of the desk. Then: "Poliotus!" and she traced a slow S over the desk.

Peyton took a fast step away from the desk, expecting dust to be blown everywhere, but she was only greeted with a shiny desk. "Eeeep!" Peyton did an air fist bump.

She totally had this. :3

Vitrumonia... Vitrumonia... la la lalala...

Alec slid over towards the left to work on the second section of glass that was right next to the one he had just cleaned. It was weird, seeing that clean glass there amongst the rest of the dirty window. And the light that hit the clean part of the window didn't seem to be struggling through grime anymore. It was just... shining through. While the light that hit the grimy parts of the window only seemed to be illuminating the grime. As if mocking him.

Mean.

Vee-truh-MOH-nee-uh! Vee-truh-MOH-nee-uh! VITRUMONIA. YEAH. "Vitrumonia!" he called with the same amount of confidence as before. He drew a line over the grimy window and watched as the grimy window cleaned itself. But it was as if the window was sad and the sparkle had gone. Or just wasn't there, even if the window was more or less clean. You know, when someone was happy, there was a sparkle in their eyes, right? But then when they were sad, the sparkle was gone and... and... frown.

Do you need super!hugs, window?

Cleaning sucked. That's all there was to it. She couldn't understand all these kids that were all smiling happy and even SKIPING about it. Seriously, they had to be a few crayons short of a 64 count box. Few nuggets short of a Happy Meal. Dim bulbs. Dumb, in other words. And if one of them asked Sky why she seemed so unhappy about cleaning, she would tell them as much. She continued to clean, though. Because, she didn't want to lose more points for Slytherin. "Vitrumonia." Grr. The glass thingy was now clean, but her mood wasn't getting any brighter.

Okay, window grime and whatever else was on it, work with us here.

Penelope glared at it for a moment as if that might encourage it to let her clean it with the spell. Then she straightened her expression and took another deep breath...which kinda turned into a huff when she exhaled. Meh. Okay. This was gonna WORK this time. She was gonna make sure of it.

Imagining the window looking perfectly clean, she waved her wand over the window again and said confidently, "Vitrumonia!"

And...success! All clean! Not quite as shiny as she wanted it to be, but MUCH better than before. She could see through it clearly. Thank MERLIN.

But she DID want it nice and shiny so she gave another wave and a "Vitrumonia." And there it was, perfectly clean and shiny and practically brand new. Excellent!

Dylan didn't have any questions. Professor Knox had been rather straight-forward and he personally enjoyed that. So, the gist...he was to perform all three cleaning spells they'd discussed thus far, one after the next. Totally easy and doable, in the Slytherin's opinion.

So, first up would be Scourgify...

Since Dylan considered himself a bit of a pro with this one, he went the nonverbal route and focused. Aiming his wand at the floor beneath his feet, he stood and released magic as an extension...up his body, through his arm, and out his wand tip. He only really could perform TWO spells nonverbally...The cleaning charm and Aguamenti...So, it was always a big deal and proud moment for him...

Dust, dirt, and grime slowly began clearing itself away with the power of the spell...Sucking into his wand, was more like it. He continued on with his solid focus, turning his wand on a few other spots in his immediate vicinity. Sometimes he went the nonverbal way...and other things he just whispered it...Dylan liked to mix it up sometimes, anyway. You know, as a rule...

Okay, he was ready to move onto the next.

OMG Ethan was getting tired of cleaning and just plain bored. He knew the lesson was winding down, but it wasn't over yet and he figured he'd better think of some way to make things interesting until it was. Feeling a sneeze come on as some dust crept up and tickled his nose, he remembered the face full of dirt he had gotten at the beginning of the class.. and was most likely still there. He pointed his wand to his face and muttered, "Tergeo." Hopefully the dirt was suctioned off his face now..

Oh right.. wasn't that one of the extra spells he was supposed to be doing as well? He glanced around the room a bit for something to suction up. Most of the dirt and dust were easily cleaned up by Scourgify.. Then he saw an ink spill on a desk nearby. Was it a fresh enough spill for the spell to work?

"Tergeo!" the boy commanded as he pointed his wand at the spill. Most of it came off the desk, but there was still some remaining.. perhaps it had sat there too long and got all dried up and caked on. The rest would easily be cleaned up by Scourgify.. The boy started to point his wand then had a thought. Maybe he could make this more interesting. This was an easy charm that he had mastered, right? Perhaps this would be a good one to practice non-verbal magic with.. especially since he had to do it right now.

He pointed his wand and concentrated on the charm without verbalizing it. Staring at the spot, he did not see any change. He kept at it, still pointing his wand and continuing to concentrate on the spell when he finally saw it slowly begin to fade. And then the magic seemed to stop as only a very faint mark remained but wouldn't completely disappear. "Scourgify," he finally muttered and it erased completely. He'd have to keep practicing.

Dragging a finger across the newly polished desk, Peyton let out a small giggle as it made a squeaky sound. Sure was clean. Woot!

Heading toward the closes window set to her, Peyton examined it. It was dusty and grimy and...just plain dirty. Seriously, what happened. Hogwarts was like an old person letting themselves go. It wasn't even funny.

It was a good thing she's been in a great mood. Also, that there was ice cream or else...well...she didn't know. In serious thought, Peyton didn't think she'd be able to survive without ice cream.

Shaking her head and bringing herself back to the activity, she raised her wand and with a wave of it, she said, "Vitrumonia!" Green-gray eyes watched at the window cleared...

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