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When you walk into the Charms classroom, you will find it much like the rest of the castle; dirty, dusty, shabby. You will find dust bunnies, spiderwebs, and maybe even some webs with inhabitants in them. The grimy desks are in 6 straight rows, divided into two columns, facing the front of the room. The windows are closed, but the light shines through the dirty, spotted glass.
Professor Knox is standing in front of her clean desk, watching the students file into the classroom. A closed box sits on the floor. Next to the professor is the chalkboard that says, in big, clean letters:
"Sit down and be quiet."
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The Gryffindor just stayed in his seat, watching the students file in the room leaving their own interesting impression on Zeke. He saw some get dirt pies on their faces once they attempted to clean their desks which made him silently thank himself for not doing that as much as he wanted to. Another one had ice cream on the side of her mouth. Ice cream....ICE CREAAAAAAAAM. Okay, this was not a normal behavior of a seventh year but he instantly gained some kind of energetic feeling. He craved for that ICE COLD YUMMY TREAT.
..........was this guy turning into a firstie again?
Anyway, before he could convince himself to storm out of the room and zoom off to the kitchen to eat ice cream, his attention was gotten when the Professor began to begin the lesson.
Cleaning spells....the seventh year just knew it. Hah. So they did need the students to clean the castle. Good job, Hogwarts. Good job. Next thing you know, the students would be morphing into house elves. Yayyyy. NOT.
He heard someone mumble. Hm. Someone's not too happy about entering Charms class today. Zeke smirked from his seat as he tried to get a look on whose mouth those words came out from. His head turned a little to see the boy just behind him. Eying his robes, 'Gryffindor.' Must be tough on the kid to be greeted with this unfortunate sight of Hogwarts. As he further observed the little guy, 'First year.' Definitely. He hasn't seen him anywhere yet. So it's either a first year or some tiny second or third year. It's a shame Zeke hasn't seen him around that much. This seventh year had to pay more attention to his fellow lions.
"Scourgify," he said after he raised his hand. Plain answer, he heard it from others as well. But why not? It was the simplest cleaning spell. He even shot Amara a grin from across the room. Zeke was pretty smug about showing her that spell just days ago when she fell into the mud puddle. Good Gryffindor girl. Very good.
Again, he just listened to others fire away with their own answers from who knows where they got them. They were pretty sensible though. Oh well. Scourgify's all the answer you'll get from this boy.
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Ahh.. so that's what happens when we try to charm them. Wade had witnessed.. quite a few times some of his classmates receive a facefull of dust. Some that flew by his face, making him wave it off. No need for the sneezes, heh.
Then they were asked about cleaning spells. Wade was familar with Tergeo and Scourgify, already.. But what else was there? He rose his hand and waited till he was called on to add, "Well, Aguamenti can also be used to help rinse off some substances." It was useful during laundry after all.
Sarah knew a few cleaning charms, yet one by one students said what she thought. She then began to think out of the box, "maybe Deletrius, to disintergrate the spiderwebs" Sarah said. She knew other spells could work yet that one was more out of the box.
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Cleaning charms, eh? They had mentioned most of the cleaning charms Elise knew and the organizing part of it was really not ringing any bells with her. Maybe it was the lack of sleep or the stress or whatever could be blamed for her being so incredibly unfocused. Scourgify, Tergeo, Excolo, Skurge...
That was all, wasn't it?
Not really having anything to add to the discussion, Elise proceeded to scribble notes onto a sheet of parchment before starting on a rather elaborate doodle.
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The second year beamed, she was right, cleaning charms. These would be very useful this term. Unfortunately Mack didn't know any cleaning spells other than scourgify but she didn't see where that would be odd, she was only a second year after all. Seeing as how scourgify had already been said, the blonde saw no reason to repeat it again. so instead pulling out parchment and a quill she began making a list in her notes of the ones others were saying.
She sighed as she sat down her quill, waiting on people to not repeat others, why couldn't they see it was annoying when they did it. Watching the professor, she knew that she probably found it just as annoying but of course had to put up with it now that she was a professor and all.
Ah, so her guess had been correct about the direction of the class today. The professor's slightly more gentle greeting to her personally did not go unnoticed. She was glad she had not tried to tamper with the classroom before the Professor Knox had given them the go-ahead. She felt a little sorry for the students who'd done so. Even though they should probably have waited for instructions, she figured they must've just thought they were helping.
Now racking her brain for ways to clean that hadn't already been mentioned, Eliza got a strange idea. Well they've already said, scourgify, evanesco, tergeo, aguamenti....What about fire? Fire sort of cleanses...but it's not the safest... It was worth a shot and she had a feeling like woman, judging by her response about her killer shoes, liked things to be a little bit more exciting than the typical answers. She raised her hand to give it a try. "Professor, I know those others are more common cleaning spells, but what about the fire spell Incendio? Only to be used in certain situations of course, but it could be used to burn up small piles of dust or burn non-toxic items in a bin." Had she known a spell to make things smell nicer or to provide a blast of air to blow bad smells out of the window, she'dve suggested that, but for now she hoped fire would do.
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She wasn't all that surprised they were gonna do cleaning charms. The fourth was hoping they would have some fun with it though, more than cleaning off her dusty desk, which wasn't all that much of a concern for her. Dora hadn't cleaned it, but she had scribbled a few runes through them.
Useless symbols at the moment.
Her eyes flickered from student to student while they gave responses, waiting to find out when they would doooooo stuff with these charms.
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"Now, tell me what kind of spells you might use to clean up or tidy this room or anywhere around the castle. Give me examples. We'll be focusing on cleaning today, but some of you think outside of the box here, just for the time being." Ivy looked around and waited for answers.
Jory raised his hand. "There's Skurge, Professor,'' Jory said. Of course, it was specifically used to clean up ectoplasm but it was still cleaning, didn't it?
Professor Ivy Knocks was her name. It was an interesting last name. He could have fun with it. *snickers and a giggle*
Anyways he heard the professor move on. They had to know cleaning spells. Well his mother back at home was the know it all for that subject. He remembered one spell that his mom used.
"Professor i know episkey could be used if you have an injury while cleaning. My mom used that spell when she accidentally dropped Gilderoy's Guide to households pests on my foot and she broke it. So she fixed my toe using the spell. She used Descendo to clean the shelves off the house as well." he nodded to show he was telling the truth.
The Hufflepuff closed her eyes as dust hit her face. This was NOT funny. NO NO NO. Dust and dirt on her face was NOT okay. NONE OF THIS WAS OKAY. Especially not today.Argh! The Hufflepuff slowly opened her eyes and examined herself, her robes weren't too dust-full but from her neck up it was difficult to find a dot of untouched skin.
Blaa Shmaaa blaaa. She was NOT listening and for one reason only, being that she was irritated beyond the point of keeping calm any longer. Her throat wanted to let out a screech and it was really hard for the frustrated red head not to. "I.will.not.screech.I.not.screech." She mumbled quietly then actually listened to what the Professor was going on about.
She raised her hand to one. Answer. two. She needed to screech, it was growing inside her throat. "Professor it may be transfiguration but would we be able to use Piertotum Locomotor on a mop and get it to clean for us?" Logical right...but enough of logic. SCREECHING WAS NEEDED "And may I please be excused for a moment?" Because she had the consideration not to break the whole entire classes ears.
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Tucker was NOT enjoying this lesson. First off, this lady had gotten off on the wrong foot with him and her sassy message on the board when he walked in. Now they were learning CLEANING charms? He knew it. They were turning them into house elves. This was such a travesty. Gabi had to do SOMETHING about this! She was already sending him extra money each month to pay for those ridiculous tolls but this? This was a disgrace. Tucker did NOT clean. That was what his grandmother was for.
Tucker raised his hand. "Professor, you could use the refilling charm if you are mopping and run out of water, and don't feel like waiting for Aguamenti to fill up the bucket," he explained. Everything else he thought of had already been mentioned.
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Raven was now glad that she hadn't been paying much attention to the dirtiness of the whole room. She couldn't help from snickering slightly as the dust exploded in a few of the students faces.
"Scourgify is a very basic one, but there is also Descendo and Reparo. Those are the three ones I myself watched being done that I can name, and I can do scourgify myself." She looked around at all the cobwebs and dust. "Professor, may I ask what spells you used to make this room dirty in the first place?"
Susan was quickly writing down all the different cleaning spells students were suggesting. Susan really only knew the scourgify spell, so all the others were new to her. Susan also didn't want to to repeat the fact that the scourgify spell could be used to help clean the classroom. Sue had a feeling the professor might not like that fact that she just repeated what everyone else said. So Susan sat patiently waiting to either write a new cleaning spell down or get instructions from the professor.
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And now Ethan was in a foul mood. Mostly because of the face-full of dirt and dust he had just gotten when he was simply trying clean off the disgustingly dirty seat before he sat down.. and really, what kind of "lesson" was that too teach students anyway? If he didn't want to sit in filth, he shouldn't have to.. regardless of following some strict instruction to the letter without room for thought.
The dust tickling his nose, he lifted his arm to cover the impending sneeze. Achoo! He only hoped he didn't have a sneezing attack all the way through class like in DADA.. but he heard that had been some sort of prank or whatever.. and this was just because of the dust, he was sure. Good.. he didn't feel another one coming on just now. And he used his raised arm to wipe at his face, trying to get some of the dirt off.
But his mood was also related to the fact that they were apparently learning cleaning spells today. And this is the exact reason Ethan thought that NEWT students should not be in the same class as first years. He knew how to perform cleaning spells.. quite well in fact. Not to mention nearly everything this term had something to do with cleaning.. and he was growing tired of it. Even homework was really cleaning in disguise.. and now there was some sort of cleaning "club." He really had no problem cleaning up after himself, but he did not want to be tricked into cleaning. It just felt patronizing or something.
Whatever. He supposed he could still answer the question or participate or something, even if he wasn't in the best of moods right now. He half-listened as his classmates rattled off some basic cleaning spells, others thinking a little more creatively, and he raised a hand. "Wingardium Leviosa could be useful for putting things away.. especially those on a high shelf." Was that one already mentioned, he wasn't sure.. he was far too distracted by the dust creeping up his nose. No more sneezing.. please.
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Penelope was immensely glad she hadn't been one of those who'd tried to clean her desk. She definitely wouldn't have been pleased to have a face full of dust and dirt and whatever else was on it.
And it seemed her assumption was right. They were learning cleaning charms and stuff like that. So hopefully this room would be clean and much better looking soon.
But first, to name some spells that would help with cleaning. Hmm... There were the obvious ones of course, but other random ones that could help too? She wracked her brain for a minute or two while other students offered their answers, and then her hand was raised. "Reducio could probably help. If you had a really big mess or something," and you could easily say this room was a big mess, "you could make it smaller and then it'd be easier to clean."
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Seriously?
Did she just?
What utter rudeness this woman was showing..
Nicola clenched her teeth together after she had heard the Professor promptly repeat when the redhead had said honestly? Then on top of that, went on to tell her to sit in such a rude manner? Alright, Nicola was definitely not very fond of the woman now. But she simply sat in her proper manner in her seat glaringwatching the Professor finally begin the lesson.
Honestly though? Cleaning?
She tried her absolute best not to mouth off or roll her eyes. So she simply began to run her fingers through her hair, like she did whenever she was in desperate need to calm down. Nicola continued to watch the woman as she went on to ask what other charms anyone might have known to clean? Of course Nicola knew that the house at her home were obviously fond of Scourgify..as well as Tergeo..But did she really want to answer this woman's question, after her utter harsh manner in telling someone to sit?
...Not really..
But force of habit would made Nicola speak in a sort of snippy tone, "Tergeo.."
UGHHHH! How she really wanted her hair brush right now!
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Lots of things had already been shared and Ella tried to come up with a different approach, even though she was having trouble thinking of anything remotely creative. Hmmm.
"Professor, you could use the summoning charm to help get the objects you'd need to clean a space. Like a bucket, broom, mop..things of that sort." Though just using magic to clean would be faster, obviously.
Mika just sat there quietly and watched people coughing. She just put her hand over her mouth and coughed into her sleeve. "Would vacavus be a cleaning charm when used along side a vacuum?" She asked very quietly as she glanced at the Professor.
After all it was obviously used for cleaning right? "We also have Scourgify and the Skurge charm as well" she offered the ectoplasm cleaning spell as a possible cleaning spell. Because obviously that worked. "And what about Waddiwassi? Or does that just shoot gum out of the wand..." she stopped after her outburst of giddy possible answers - more like questions.
The eager Ravenclaw was eager to clean.
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Mo's grin broadened at the professor's words, and he leaned over in his seat to watch those man-killer shoes in action. Also, man-killer shoes accentuated the professor's legs, which were nice, and okay, he was done looking at shoes and now paying attention to the class. Yup.
He took careful note of the spells mentioned, many of which they'd already learned. Or which he already used to keep his room and things tidy. He was a Branxton after all, and tidiness was deeply engrained. The professor had said they should think out of the box, though, so Mo raised his hand with a new suggestion. "Perhaps Piertotum Locomotor, professor. You could animate your belongings and have them put themselves away. You might even be able to animate dirt, but I feel like that would be very difficult to control."
Right after using the cleaning charm Peyton had turned toward Derry to send her a wave when she felt something on all her side. The desk...
...It just spit dust at her.
Well...
.....
She wasn't even mad.
The snake was in a far too happy of a mood to get mad. Instead she shook her head and mouthed a: you're welcome to Professor Knox. She did say thank you to those that participated in this experiment. And for an odd reason the redhead found herself not exploding and cursing the professor off in her head. Huh. Good mood was good.
At the question asked Peyton raised her hand eagerly. SHE KNEW AN ANSWER. AND SHE FELT TOO EXCITED TO HOLD IT IN. "PROFESSOR KNOX," she didn't shout, she was just excited. Then continued rapidly, her words coming out fast as someone who was on a sugar high. "There's the Dishwashing spell. We can use it in the kitchen so the dishes can clean themselves. Not that we have real plates and utensils or cups, but on like, pots and stuff Toddles uses to cook." Because it appeared he was the only elf left.
Finishing what she had to say, Peyton took a deep breath and lowered her arm and leaned back on her seat. She was ready for more questions.
Ivy's attention went back to the door as another male walked in and right up to her. She didn't like his smirk or his smile or his voice or his attitude, nor was she the least bit flattered that he thought she looked 'lovely in blue'. It was turquoise, anyway. Ivy blinked once at the boy and watched him for a few seconds...
.........
"Sit down."
After that, Ivy kept her eyes on the clock. Once the second hand had reached the twelve, Ivy stood up straight and scanned her eyes over the students in her class, including the dirty ones. "Some of you learned the hard way," she began, starting to walk down the middle isle between the rows of dirty desks, "that I don't want you doing magic before class - or, for that matter, before I tell you to." She looked at a few of the dirty faces before turning around and pausing. "Thank you for participating in that experiment. I hope the others learned just as well as you did."
With that, Ivy walked back up the isle to the front of the class and stood in front of the chalkboard and faced her class. "For those of you who are too ignorant to have noticed, my name is Professor Ivy Knox. I was recently elected to work on the Board of Governor's and I am now temporarily helping out your Headmistress in filling the Charms position. And for those of you wondering, yes, I am qualified to teach." Unlike some professors here, in her own, personal opinion, but she wasn't going to get into that.
"Now, let us begin. As many of you noticed, and tried to fix, this classroom is a disaster. No, I did not forget to clean, nor was I too lazy to. Today we will be talking and learning about Scouring Charms, or Cleaning Charms." As soon as she said it, Ivy flicked her wand towards the board and the chalk immediately wrote down the phrase. "Now, tell me what kind of spells you might use to clean up or tidy this room or anywhere around the castle. Give me examples. We'll be focusing on cleaning today, but some of you think outside of the box here, just for the time being." Ivy looked around and waited for answers.
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Jeez. Was she ANOTHER one who didn't like being told that she was nice looking? Ugh, that was just sad. EVERY woman deserved to be told that they looked nice and stuff. And he was just the extremely attractive bloke to hand out the compliments. Wink.
But she wasn't getting them anymore. Nope. Not even for her silky hair or her white smile. None of it. Pfft. Try him, he was done trying with her.
Although, she did gain some serious points for blowing up some dirt in offenders faces. Hah. Serves them right for using magic. Temperamental stuff, magic was and stuff. Yet, he couldn't help but admire how she had just used it.
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Oh no. They were NOT learning cleaning charms. Ugh, no. Backtrack attractive Professor, suck it back in and pretend those words NEVER happened. No. He did NOT want to learn cleaning spells because he knew what his housemates were gonna do. Mr. High and Mighty prefect boy was gonna have them sing a campfire song and make macaroni pictures while they cleaned together and had some good, old fashioned bonding. Then the blonde captain person who he supposed was his captain too now was going to be all let's-clean-because-I-take-hygiene-super-seriously. And finally the LEGGY!blonde was... well... she was just going to keep being attractive. Good work.
Also, no he didn't know any of the names of the spells. So he was just going to sit here and listen. Bam.
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"You could just use the Locomotion Charm, Locomotor, professor, to move dirt and things." Alice already liked Professor Knox (mostly because of exploding dust, that was so incredibly cool), but the best thing was that she taught useful spells and charms in her class. Things that they could use around the castle to make it less awful. Were the Hufflepuffs listening? Seeing as Oakey had practically volunteered them for maid duty or whatever, yeah?
She lowered her raised hand and kept talking.
"I would suggest Piertotum Locomotor, too, but I thought that was a transfiguration spell and not a charm, so I thought I would use Locomotor in this case." Although both would be rather useful, right? She took mental notes on the other spells listed, just so that if any Hufflepuffs forgot to file this all, they could be informed.
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After seeing what had happened to those who dared do anything at all to the dust all around them, Lottie decided not to cast anything at her desk...except for eyeing it, intently. Hopefully the dust would disappear that way? No? FINE.
Sigh.
Surely, the desks were kept this way because of whatever was going to be taught, and WE expect that this is something EXTREMELY useful, Ivy Knox. Extremely useful.
Lottie was too busy eyeing the desk again, but still managed to raise her hand. "There's also that hot-air charm... and dry things quickly...," the one Alyssa had used on her clothes last term, what was it called again? It was a cleaning charm, OKAY? Okay. Also, "...I guess you could also cast something on someone who's walking inside with muddy shoes or something of the like, that'll probably teach them to clean themselves up a lot more," she said, nonchalantly, as she shrugged.
Was she suggesting jinxes, hexes and curses? Yes. But there were also charms, surely.
The professor woman said she wasn't lazy and Amara just had to disagree hadn't she? Well the woman was going to make them all use their spell casting talent..ahem..ability to clean up her classroom.
There were the usual spells..the one she heard recently from the hanging out guy. HEH. She raised her hand high. "There's Scourgify... we use it often..basic" Yeah, her mother did. And no, she did not. "Then, there is....uhm..." she paused. She wasn't very good at remembering funny names. YES, I can remember Knocks. "...Tergeo..?" she said, rather uncertain. Terge-aw? Terrabooo? NO NO. It was alright. "Yeah, tergeo..that one cleans up just anything" It did. Memories of Katya being victim to the spell flashed before her. Funny those, they always made her laugh.
But no laughing in this class. There was a special class for that in Hogwarts. Any guesses? Huh? "Well, we could always use Professor Airey's Vacavus one!" Now THAT was an exciting one. TAP. TAP and SWIIISH. Everything was sucked by the black hole. "It's a very useful one.." Maybe she didn't know.
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While the blonde had noticed how dirty the entire classroom was, and was fighting back the sneezes that were threatening to escape her she leaned her head to the side.
Cleaning charms?
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Well... Kahlan had absolutely no clue about any cleaning charms because at home she didn'tneed them! Because her family could actually afford house elves. However, thankfully the Slytherin had gone to Astronomy and currently that was the only spell that came to mind that could count as a cleaning charm, after all she had spent hours running around vacuuming up the dust and any other things around the castle.
"Well... Professor Airey taught us a spell in astronomy... um... vacavus" she finally managed to remember, reminiscing on how she'd had to give up Steve, and after all their hard work.
It was heart breaking really!
Oh, good these students had already learned something useful this year. Even from the nutcase that was the Astronomy professor. "Vacavus," she repeated with a nod and the piece of chalk wrote the word down on the board. "To suck up dirt, very good." She just hoped none of them tried to actually create a black hole.
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"Of course we are." Michael muttered under his breath. Every other class had something to do with cleaning why should Charms be any different?
He raised his hand in the air and had to refrain from rolling his eyes when he gave his answer. "Tergeo." Sigh. "Why can't we just hire new house elves?"
His mother had a house elf that she rarely used. Why couldn't he just bring him to school and the elf could do all his cleaning for him.
This boy was lucky Ivy didn't hear what he chose to mutter under his breath. "Tergeo," she repeated, and it was written down on the chalkboard. But, sigh, he had to ask questions. "If we hired new house elves, you wouldn't learn anything. Focus on charms, please."
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She tried her absolute best not to mouth off or roll her eyes. So she simply began to run her fingers through her hair, like she did whenever she was in desperate need to calm down. Nicola continued to watch the woman as she went on to ask what other charms anyone might have known to clean? Of course Nicola knew that the house at her home were obviously fond of Scourgify..as well as Tergeo..But did she really want to answer this woman's question, after her utter harsh manner in telling someone to sit?
...Not really..
But force of habit would made Nicola speak in a sort of snippy tone, "Tergeo.."
UGHHHH! How she really wanted her hair brush right now!
Ivy was waiting for her to mouth off to her or something, but was pleased when she did not. Good for her. Although she would have loved taking house points.”I’m choosing to ignore your tone of voice. Tergeo is correct.” She silently dared her to keep it up.
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Cleaning charms?!
Ooh, this was right up Theo's street. He raised his hand eagerly, "I've used Scourgify before." Actually, he used it quite a lot. That would obviously be one his main spells on the learning agenda. The Slytherin dropped his hands down to his lap, because he refused to touch that dirty desk.
He saw a few of the dust explosions that were happening around him, and he sat backwards immediately, bracing himself. That was kinda uncalled for.
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CLEANING?!
ugh , can he leave now?
Daichi didn't like cleaning, nor did he want to learn any cleaning spells because he already knew a few of them. The smile that was usually on the Prefect's face was replaced with a scowl as he looked around. Seriously? they were going to clean again?
Seriously?!
"Scourgify" he said with a dead-pan look. He didn't even want to give a *out of the box* answer. Sorry new Professor.
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Well it least his desk is clean now and did not feel the effects of the spell because he did not use magic. Lucky him.
On onto cleaning charms. Nigel raisded his hand and answered.
"Well, There is The Cleaning Charm. I don't know the incantation though."
Cleaning charms were very useful.
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The Gryffindor just stayed in his seat, watching the students file in the room leaving their own interesting impression on Zeke. He saw some get dirt pies on their faces once they attempted to clean their desks which made him silently thank himself for not doing that as much as he wanted to. Another one had ice cream on the side of her mouth. Ice cream....ICE CREAAAAAAAAM. Okay, this was not a normal behavior of a seventh year but he instantly gained some kind of energetic feeling. He craved for that ICE COLD YUMMY TREAT.
..........was this guy turning into a firstie again?
Anyway, before he could convince himself to storm out of the room and zoom off to the kitchen to eat ice cream, his attention was gotten when the Professor began to begin the lesson.
Cleaning spells....the seventh year just knew it. Hah. So they did need the students to clean the castle. Good job, Hogwarts. Good job. Next thing you know, the students would be morphing into house elves. Yayyyy. NOT.
He heard someone mumble. Hm. Someone's not too happy about entering Charms class today. Zeke smirked from his seat as he tried to get a look on whose mouth those words came out from. His head turned a little to see the boy just behind him. Eying his robes, 'Gryffindor.' Must be tough on the kid to be greeted with this unfortunate sight of Hogwarts. As he further observed the little guy, 'First year.' Definitely. He hasn't seen him anywhere yet. So it's either a first year or some tiny second or third year. It's a shame Zeke hasn't seen him around that much. This seventh year had to pay more attention to his fellow lions.
"Scourgify," he said after he raised his hand. Plain answer, he heard it from others as well. But why not? It was the simplest cleaning spell. He even shot Amara a grin from across the room. Zeke was pretty smug about showing her that spell just days ago when she fell into the mud puddle. Good Gryffindor girl. Very good.
Again, he just listened to others fire away with their own answers from who knows where they got them. They were pretty sensible though. Oh well. Scourgify's all the answer you'll get from this boy.
At all the students who gave the simple and standard answer of Scourgify, Ivy nodded. "Scourgify, also known as the cleaning charm, very good." Again, standard, and not very impressive coming from the older students, but she would take it.
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Originally Posted by JustAlice
Cleaning charms, right... Derry had thought she was quite good at those, she knew scourgify, and now she knew vacavus... but people had said these already. She brushed a bit of dust out of the way and put her parchment down, scribbling her name at the top and starting to take notes. Oh! "Would the Skurge charm work..? For other things than ectoplasm I mean..." No harm in wondering, right?
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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19
Jory raised his hand. "There's Skurge, Professor,'' Jory said. Of course, it was specifically used to clean up ectoplasm but it was still cleaning, didn't it?
These two were thinking somewhat out of the box, and Ivy nodded in approval. "Yes, good. The Skurge charm is particularly good for cleaning up ectoplasm left behind from ghosts. Sometimes specific spells for specific problems work the best."
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Originally Posted by Harry174
Laura looked at the Professor and raised her hand. "Well Professor we could always use wingardium leviosa." Laura was sure that it would help with picking rubbish off the floor, she had thought of another spell as well but she wasn't sure the Professor would have like her saying it, so in the end she had chose this one. "We can put rubbish in the bin then."
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Originally Posted by emjay
Whatever. He supposed he could still answer the question or participate or something, even if he wasn't in the best of moods right now. He half-listened as his classmates rattled off some basic cleaning spells, others thinking a little more creatively, and he raised a hand. "Wingardium Leviosa could be useful for putting things away.. especially those on a high shelf." Was that one already mentioned, he wasn't sure.. he was far too distracted by the dust creeping up his nose. No more sneezing.. please.
"Yes, I suppose if you were lazy. Or if the garbage had toxins of some sort. Good." Ivy waved her wand and had the piece of chalk start a new list of charms on the chalkboard.
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Originally Posted by Tegz
West immeeeeeeeediately at Theo to see if his mate had got dirt to the face (because he was pretty sure that'd be a disaster) but was relieved to see he was dust free. That was good. Okay. Now to answer the question.
There was Tergeo and Scourgify which had both been mentioned, he put his hand up, "Excolo for polishing metal stuff." One answer was enough right?
Ah, this one was good. "Escolo, yes, very good." He was a sharp one.
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Originally Posted by Deniiz
Forrest stared in shock at the dirt exploding in people's faces. It was a hard call between laughing and sympathy, but a suppressed giggle left his mouth in the end, only for him to hear. The woman was scary, but he liked him somehow.
And the lesson started... he wanted to GROAN at 'cleaning' spells. He thought he'd be learning magic in here, not bloody house-work. Looking out of the window for a moment to think, he raised his hand.
"House elves' cleaning spells--" which he didn't know any, because he had YET to see one. Hopefully, professor wouldn't notice his incomplete sentence.
More about house elves, of course. Ivy waited as the boy paused... and then never finished her sentence. "Yes..?" Was he going to continue?
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Originally Posted by THE Govoni
Not wanting to appear rude, however, the Slytherin raised his hand and answered her question in a forced!cheerful voice. "Evanesco, ma'am. It's the Vanishing Charm."
Merlin...his skin was craaaaaaaaaawling.
Ivy watched the dusty boy as he raised his hand and answered. "Yes, very good." At least he was useful.
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Originally Posted by DJ ExpelliarMOOSE
"There's Depulso, the Banishing charm." Cause if you had unwanted stuff in the room you were cleaning that would simply get rid of it.
"Yes, there is. Excellent for getting rid of unwanted clutter or garbage.." Ivy nodded to him and his suggestion was written under the second column on the board.
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Originally Posted by Bazinga
As she listened to all the spells, one came to her. It wasn't completely a cleaning spell, but it could help a place look brighter or better. Putting her hand up and waiting her turn, "Professor, you could use Colovaria, to help brighten walls, if they look like they need a fresh coat of paint, but you don't have any paint." It wasn't exactly a cleaning charm, but it was a charm that made something look better in a room that needed it. So it could go along with cleaning. Well Minerva felt so anyway.
Hmmmm... "I suppose... It's a bit of a stretch, since painting isn't cleaning, but good effort." She tried and thought out of the box, though, so she couldn't disagree.
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Originally Posted by xXxPandora
All the dust, litter....everything had a purpose and that was because they were learning Cleaning Charms. Perfect. That was extra help right now since their house elves had left them. Hand up at that question. "How about Impervius, Professor? It prevents a substance from affecting another. Therefore, we can assume that it can make, say, our desks repel dust."
"Ah, yes, preventative spells. Excellent job, Miss Castell." She was on top of things today. Ivy wrote that on the board as well.
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Originally Posted by Charely Potter
Then they were asked about cleaning spells. Wade was familar with Tergeo and Scourgify, already.. But what else was there? He rose his hand and waited till he was called on to add, "Well, Aguamenti can also be used to help rinse off some substances." It was useful during laundry after all.
"Yes, Aguamenti can be of use at times.” Ivy nodded and the piece of chalk wrote it down on the board.
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Originally Posted by Princesspower
Sarah knew a few cleaning charms, yet one by one students said what she thought. She then began to think out of the box, "maybe Deletrius, to disintergrate the spiderwebs" Sarah said. She knew other spells could work yet that one was more out of the box.
Another one they hadn't heard yet, fantastic. "Deletrius, yes, wonderful. And disintegrating anything, for that matter." But spiderwebs were definitely the first to go.
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Originally Posted by DecemberMoon
Now racking her brain for ways to clean that hadn't already been mentioned, Eliza got a strange idea. Well they've already said, scourgify, evanesco, tergeo, aguamenti....What about fire? Fire sort of cleanses...but it's not the safest... It was worth a shot and she had a feeling like woman, judging by her response about her killer shoes, liked things to be a little bit more exciting than the typical answers. She raised her hand to give it a try. "Professor, I know those others are more common cleaning spells, but what about the fire spell Incendio? Only to be used in certain situations of course, but it could be used to burn up small piles of dust or burn non-toxic items in a bin." Had she known a spell to make things smell nicer or to provide a blast of air to blow bad smells out of the window, she'dve suggested that, but for now she hoped fire would do.
........ Well. There was that. "I commend your creative thinking, as this could be useful in some situations. Just be careful with what you want to burn and be sure not to do so around other flammable objects." And not in her classroom.
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Originally Posted by hpfan18
"Professor i know episkey could be used if you have an injury while cleaning. My mom used that spell when she accidentally dropped Gilderoy's Guide to households pests on my foot and she broke it. So she fixed my toe using the spell. She used Descendo to clean the shelves off the house as well." he nodded to show he was telling the truth.
This one was more of a stretch than the painting charm. "Episkey is not a cleaning charm, dear. Descendo, could potentially be helpful in cleaning, but it's a bit of a stretch." He was young, though. Nice effort.
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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom
Tucker raised his hand. "Professor, you could use the refilling charm if you are mopping and run out of water, and don't feel like waiting for Aguamenti to fill up the bucket," he explained. Everything else he thought of had already been mentioned.
"Ah, now there's a clever idea. Good." Ivy nodded and added that one to the board as well.
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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo
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BOOM!
Bliiiiiiink. What just happened there...did the dust...and there was blowing up...
"COOOOL!!! Professor, are we going to learn to rig things to blow up at some point during the term?? It'd make for an EPIC lesson!!!" IT WENT BOOM!!! Did no one else see that??? Like, nevermind that she was covered in dirt, that would have happened some other way, but the dirt blew back and it blew up in her face.
dkjdgkfudg!!!
Where was Lottie to see this and Cassia??
What else blew up in this class??.....if she tried cleaning herself...would...would she blow up on herself...? Were they rigged tooooo. A rather curious thought. How would she have even gotten away with it? Something by the door jinxing them as they walked in maybe??? Ooooooo. Lex turned to look at the door with a new level of respect. Well played Professor. Nodnodnod.
Alexa was so fixated with what just happened that she nearly missed the woman's question. Even after she heard it she was still imagining the faint BOOM. Slowly her hand rose but she wasn't all that much paying attention anymore, naaaah, something else would blow up soon, she was hoping for it. "I know this isn't a cleaning spell Professor but could Aguamenti be considered. It'd be useful for getting muddy things washed off if you use it right or for something as simple as filling a basin so you can get stuff washed in it." Also, what else was rigged. She HAD to know.
... Merlin’s beard. She certainly wasn’t this full of energy when she had her kneazle dangling from 15 feet in the air last time they had met. ”No,” Ivy said flatly. They were NOT learning how to blow things up for this lesson. Why was she so excited about this? Ugh children.
Sigh, yes, moving on. ”Aguamenti, good.” Moving on.
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Originally Posted by lazykitty
As the dust began blowing back in people's faces, Sky just stared at the professor. Not a derpy stare, more of an 'I've got your number' stare. She had, of course, heard from her aunt what a piece of work this Knox woman was and she was currently in the process of proving her right. Not that she had doubted Aunt Roxi one bit.
As the temporary professor told her to put her robe back on or leave, Sky just sat there and quirked up a brow. Nope, not putting the robe back on, nor was she leaving. Miss Ivy Knox was just going to have to suck it up. Though she did offer up a suggestion. "Wouldn't it be easier to learn the spells if we're not all dust covered? Oh, and Scourgify is one." There, couldn't get her for not paying attention, because she'd just proved she was.
Ivy watched this girl as she stared at her. As she didn’t do what she told her to. She did not like her tone. ”Excuse me, I told you to go retrieve your robe and put it on or return to your common room. You will lose five points for not doing either. Now make a decision or I will make one for you and I don’t think you will like it.” Ivy Knox was not a patient person.
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Originally Posted by Talikins
*COUGH COUGH COUGH!*
WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN?
The Hufflepuff closed her eyes as dust hit her face. This was NOT funny. NO NO NO. Dust and dirt on her face was NOT okay. NONE OF THIS WAS OKAY. Especially not today.Argh! The Hufflepuff slowly opened her eyes and examined herself, her robes weren't too dust-full but from her neck up it was difficult to find a dot of untouched skin.
Blaa Shmaaa blaaa. She was NOT listening and for one reason only, being that she was irritated beyond the point of keeping calm any longer. Her throat wanted to let out a screech and it was really hard for the frustrated red head not to. "I.will.not.screech.I.not.screech." She mumbled quietly then actually listened to what the Professor was going on about.
She raised her hand to one. Answer. two. She needed to screech, it was growing inside her throat. "Professor it may be transfiguration but would we be able to use Piertotum Locomotor on a mop and get it to clean for us?" Logical right...but enough of logic. SCREECHING WAS NEEDED "And may I please be excused for a moment?" Because she had the consideration not to break the whole entire classes ears.
Ivy kindly ignored whatever the silly Hufflepuff was mumbling to herself. It didn’t seem to pertain to her question. The girl answered, though, and Ivy nodded. ”Yes, that is transfiguration, but for the sake of cleaning, that would work.” She was just about to turn her attention elsewhere when... wait, she wanted to be excused? Ivy stared at the girl for a moment. She wasn’t bleeding or vomiting, so... ”No.” And she turned her attention elsewhere.
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Originally Posted by Goblinfrog
"Scourgify is a very basic one, but there is also Descendo and Reparo. Those are the three ones I myself watched being done that I can name, and I can do scourgify myself." She looked around at all the cobwebs and dust. "Professor, may I ask what spells you used to make this room dirty in the first place?"
”Yes, those are good. Descendo is a stretch, but Scourgify and Reparo are good.” Ivy nodded to the girl. As for the dirty room. ”I did nothing to the room. It was already dirty.” Welcome to Hogwarts, dear.
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Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl
But first, to name some spells that would help with cleaning. Hmm... There were the obvious ones of course, but other random ones that could help too? She wracked her brain for a minute or two while other students offered their answers, and then her hand was raised. "Reducio could probably help. If you had a really big mess or something," and you could easily say this room was a big mess, "you could make it smaller and then it'd be easier to clean."
This was also a clever answer. Ivy waved her wand at had the chalk write it down. ”Good thinking, absolutely.”
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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow
"Professor, you could use the summoning charm to help get the objects you'd need to clean a space. Like a bucket, broom, mop..things of that sort." Though just using magic to clean would be faster, obviously.
Eh. ”In a roundabout way, I suppose so. But using a cleaning charm would be much easier than summoning all those items and using them individually.” Nice try, though.
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Originally Posted by McFeisty
Mika just sat there quietly and watched people coughing. She just put her hand over her mouth and coughed into her sleeve. "Would vacavus be a cleaning charm when used along side a vacuum?" She asked very quietly as she glanced at the Professor.
After all it was obviously used for cleaning right? "We also have Scourgify and the Skurge charm as well" she offered the ectoplasm cleaning spell as a possible cleaning spell. Because obviously that worked. "And what about Waddiwassi? Or does that just shoot gum out of the wand..." she stopped after her outburst of giddy possible answers - more like questions.
The eager Ravenclaw was eager to clean.
Ivy blinked a few times. ”The first three, yes. Waddiwasi would be completely counterproductive.” At least she was half paying attention..?
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Originally Posted by Cassirin
Mo's grin broadened at the professor's words, and he leaned over in his seat to watch those man-killer shoes in action. Also, man-killer shoes accentuated the professor's legs, which were nice, and okay, he was done looking at shoes and now paying attention to the class. Yup.
He took careful note of the spells mentioned, many of which they'd already learned. Or which he already used to keep his room and things tidy. He was a Branxton after all, and tidiness was deeply engrained. The professor had said they should think out of the box, though, so Mo raised his hand with a new suggestion. "Perhaps Piertotum Locomotor, professor. You could animate your belongings and have them put themselves away. You might even be able to animate dirt, but I feel like that would be very difficult to control."
Was he...? No, Ivy was ignoring that. This was a Branxton child.
”Piertotum Locomotor is considered to be transfiguration, Mister Branxton, but it would indeed be helpful. Animating dirt however, might end up being more messy than helpful.” She was almost tempted to make him try it.
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Originally Posted by Bubbles
At the question asked Peyton raised her hand eagerly. SHE KNEW AN ANSWER. AND SHE FELT TOO EXCITED TO HOLD IT IN. "PROFESSOR KNOX," she didn't shout, she was just excited. Then continued rapidly, her words coming out fast as someone who was on a sugar high. "There's the Dishwashing spell. We can use it in the kitchen so the dishes can clean themselves. Not that we have real plates and utensils or cups, but on like, pots and stuff Toddles uses to cook." Because it appeared he was the only elf left.
Finishing what she had to say, Peyton took a deep breath and lowered her arm and leaned back on her seat. She was ready for more questions.
She could hardly believe how chipper some of these students were, especially after receiving a face full of dirt. Ivy raised an eyebrow at the excited girl. ”Yes...” She was fairly certain she just said the dishwashing spell, but she had spoken so fast, it was hard to be sure...
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Originally Posted by lemon
"You could just use the Locomotion Charm, Locomotor, professor, to move dirt and things." Alice already liked Professor Knox (mostly because of exploding dust, that was so incredibly cool), but the best thing was that she taught useful spells and charms in her class. Things that they could use around the castle to make it less awful. Were the Hufflepuffs listening? Seeing as Oakey had practically volunteered them for maid duty or whatever, yeah?
”Again, moving might dirt might be a tad too complicated. Dirt and dust are made up of hundreds and thousands of tiny little particles, that actually moving all that dirt might be hard. Evanesco, as Mister Montmorency suggested, might be more useful for that.”
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Originally Posted by Lockhartian
Lottie was too busy eyeing the desk again, but still managed to raise her hand. "There's also that hot-air charm... and dry things quickly...," the one Alyssa had used on her clothes last term, what was it called again? It was a cleaning charm, OKAY? Okay. Also, "...I guess you could also cast something on someone who's walking inside with muddy shoes or something of the like, that'll probably teach them to clean themselves up a lot more," she said, nonchalantly, as she shrugged.
Was she suggesting jinxes, hexes and curses? Yes. But there were also charms, surely.
Ah, yes, she was waiting for this one. ”Perfect. This would be good to use after rinsing something off with Aguamenti”
Once all the answers had been given and repeated and stretched until they were hardly relevant, Ivy put the chalk back down onto the tray. ”Very good input, everyone, thank you.” Time to move on.
”Now let’s move on to our first activity. Whether you like it or not, this classroom and parts of Hogwarts are still dirty and need cleaning attention. Right now, we’re going to review our basic cleaning charms, since most of you should know them by now. The most basic cleaning charm is, of course, Scourgify. To perform this charm, simply point your wand at the target you wish to clean and say ’Scourgify’. I know all of you know this, so we won’t spend too much time on it.”
”The first spell you will be learning today is a simple, but effective polishing. This young man mentioned the charm to polish metal,” Ivy gestured towards West Odessa, ”However, today we will be using ’Poliotus’.” Ivy turned around and picked up the piece of chalk and wrote down on the board:
Poliotus poh-lee-OH-tuss
”This polishing spell works for just about everything else, nonspecific. Wood, leather, linoleum, etcetera. Today, after you clean your desks, you will polish them using this new charm.” Ivy dusted off her hands and walked over to her desk and pulled out her wand. "To perform this charm, you will say the incantation while slowly moving you wand over the target in an 'S' shape. For example... Poliotus." Ivy spoke the incantation clearly, drawing a large 'S' shape over the surface of her desk. In a matter of seconds, the wooden surface was shiny, smooth, and good as new.
Ivy holstered her wand and returned her attention the students. ”So, first things first. Clean your desks using Scourgify, then polish them using Poliotus.”
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Originally Posted by TwistedHearts
"Scourgify," he said after he raised his hand. Plain answer, he heard it from others as well. But why not? It was the simplest cleaning spell. He even shot Amara a grin from across the room. Zeke was pretty smug about showing her that spell just days ago when she fell into the mud puddle. Good Gryffindor girl. Very good.
Now she'd seen him. The guy was grinning at her from across the room. HEH. GRIN RIGHT BACK. Zeke had also mentioned Scourgify. She'd knew that one before but hadn't known the incantation. Boy that was lucky, since the professor wasn't teaching it.
The professor was making a note of all the charms. HUH? Well well, she was going to publish a dictionary of cleaning spells, wasn't she? YES! I solved the Knocks mystery!
She looked down at her robes, it was the same one Zeke had cleaned up for her. She flashed him a grin again and took out her wand. Target, target.
There she found a very dirty looking box right in front of her. Amara waved her wand "Scourgify" Seconds the later, the box was pristine. Nice and clean, though she doubted it had flecks of dust...teeny flecks. She gave a thumbs up sign to Zeke.
Clean their desks? Really? She'd seen a lot of students have their face blown with dust. OH no, Hogwarts doesn't do face clean up service. She eyed the desk with scrutiny and moments later, MERLIN BE GOOD, pointed the wand at her desk.
"Scourgify"
No dust clouds. YAAY! That saved so much time and...dustiness. She looked at the incantation on the board. Poliotus. Alright.
She first tried practicing the movement.
Go slooow, left..down..right..down..left.. S She drew a perfect Slytherin S in the air. Now, moving to the incantation. "poh-lee-OH-tuss" Tuss, fuss, puss. NAW, out of rhyme. Shut up and back to lesson.
Separately, things were always good. Nice and simple. Together, merlin do her some help! She pointed her wand at the desk. She traced the S in the air and cast the spell. "Poliotus!"
She looked at her desk. There did seem to be some significant change in her in her desk. It looked....new. As fresh as a flower. Too poetic. Just, the desk looked shiny not as shiny as the professors though and polished. That was what it was supposed to be. Polished. Which meant...
Good Merlin! THE SPELL WORKED!
She could just jump with joy. Since the Professor would knock her out, she finished the celebration with a victory smile. YEP, decent.
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