Lookit! More lists!

She couldn't tell if this would be helpful or detrimental to her learning just yet, all she knew was that they were there on the board and she needed to scribble them down so she did, both list of course--

You could use spells to find all that stuff out? Then why the heck was she still listening to what people said?? Merlin knew she didn't care about half their opinions in the first place and now she knew she didn't have to take their word for it because her wand could take care of that! NEAT!

Homenum revelio.

That sounded oddly familiar...OOHHHH!!!! That was that spell! The one he'd shown her when she ran into him!! "It lets you know if there's another human around if they're concealed." But that's what everyone was saying so she probably didn't need to repeat it but did anyway. "You can use it in cases where you're being spied on, like if you're trying to get something done but you can't shake the feeling you're being watch. In that way it'd be useful but seems more useful when you're just trying to find someone. If you do use the spell after getting the feeling that you're being watched then you no longer get to use the excuse that you never knew they were there and didn't mean to blow them up."

Just a thought.

When Kace heard this question, he heard Ella's answer. He chuckled at it. He would totally use this spell in hide and seek when he plays with Belle next time when he can use magic legally.

Then Kace raised his hand, "Professor i heard it can detect humans and humans possibly under invisibility cloaks and you can use it to detect humans if you are alone in a house and you want to know if anyone else is there." he actually was surprised that he knew the answer.

After he said his info, he copied down the notes with all the notes on the board. They seemed to be useful to know later on.

Well this sounded like an obvious question and maybe it was pretty obvious if you knew a little latin. It seemed like the spell revealed if and living humans where in the area. Yeah. That sounds good enough.

"Homenum Revelio reveals if any living humans are in the area and you can use it if you have lost anybody, during rescues, or after battles and want to see if anybody is left alive."

Nigel did want to try this dead spell though. It seemed pretty awesome and he wondered if anyone dead was near by.

Wait what?

Tobias was slightly uncomfortable. He squirmed slightly in his seat and waited for a question or something he felt he could do with confidence.

The one thing that bothered him was that they were going to learn a spell like that, a spell that told you if someone died in a certain place. Was that not disturbing? Apart from the magical law enforcement and historians and stuff, who would need such a spell? And why were they teaching it at school? It was perfect opportunity to get obsessed with casting it and seeing how many people died where you stood, and other issues.

Tobias had no idea about the answer to the question, so he just noted a few things down, along with a question he was too nervous to ask, and resolved to find the answer another way if it wasn't addressed by someone else.

Having written it, Tobias covered his parchment with his hand and paid attention again, waiting for the casting bit which he was... less than looking forward to.

Awesome. She had gotten one that everyone had missed. Score one for Carter-Hope. Score two, actually, because not had gotten the artifacts either. Moment to feel proud, please.

And.... moment over. Now they were moving on to learning a spell. And, huh? She hadn't known a spell like existed. She wondered if her aunt had ever used it. Probably not, since she imagined that was left up to the Aurors. Like that Emily girl she'd about that one time. Anyway, time to answer the question. "Homenum revelio reveals anyone using any kind of concealment.....even an invisibility cloak." Pretty straight forward stuff, really.

"Yes, you are all correct. Vhe spell shows the caster, only vhe caster, vhere vhe humans are located in vhe room by lighting up vheir outlines and general locations in red. You can hide vhe effects of vhe spell by casting a concealment charm of some variation before you cast vhe revelio, but vhat von't be necessary today." Especially considering they were using the sister spell.

"Like homenum revelio, spiritum revelio only reveals to vhe caster the location of vhere someone died. Vhe incantation itself comes from vhe Latin vord for spirit, as though it is showing you vhere vhe spirit separated from vhe body." If they believed in that sort of thing. "Vhe incantation is a simple 'Spiritum Revelio' as you draw a counter-clockwise circle in vhe air and vhen point your wand through vhe circle. If it vorks, you vill see an outline of a body - vhe body of vhe dead - in green."

He demonstrated the wandwork for them. "Now you try." Nothing should happen for them, though, as no one had died in this room. Yet. He'd already checked.

So they were learning a spell in history of magic? That was nice - and a good change of pace maybe? Mika sat there for a minute as the new spells wording hit her. They were going to reveal the presence of spirits in rooms and then ask them questions maybe?

Well, you obviously wouldn't have to use it find Myrtle. Just listen for ghost-tears falling and sobbing noises. She did feel sorry for the girl - but she was also quite annoyed with the tears by now.

Raising her hand, "Professor, Homenum Revelio is a spell that is used to reveal the presence of any human in the area however there is debate on whether it can reveal the quantity of people or just the presence." So it wasn't a surefire thing. "is it also safe to assume that Spiritum Revelio, will reveal presence not quantity as well?" She asked and still delved into practicing the shape of the wand movements.

"Spiritum Revelio" she spoke without the wand-movement, just trying the word out. It was a good thing to check. "Spiritum Revelio" again with the movements - and nothing. Which was expected. Because that would mean that someone had died in here that wasn't accounted for. Hand shooting into the air again, "Professor, is it safe to say that if part of the school wasn't destroyed in the Great-War that this room could have had a death in it - say, the former Professor Binns?" What he was a ghost and died in his classroom right?

Ehhhh... Tobias was still very reluctant. It weirded him out a bit, and he glanced around the room to see if anyone was trying the spell and looking horrified. Gah, it was weird. Tobias didn't want to be able to know if someone had died in a specific place. That was a sad thing and Tobias didn't deal with sad.

Hm.

Biting his lip nervously but then raised his hand tentatively before speaking. "Mister..." yeah he couldn't remember his name... starting again "... Sir? If you did this somewhere outside or something, wouldn't it like show up loads of red? I mean because of old battlegrounds people might not have discovered yet, from wizards or muggles, or going way back through time loads have people might have died in one area... it's, you know, possible. Does the spell ever like... I don't know... is there a time limit on how long ago the people died before their outlines no longer show?"

Not putting off trying the spell. Not at all. But he was interested anyway.

You could hide it with a concealment charm? West perked up. This was a good thing to KNOW. He wondered too if it worked in reverse.... Hand up. "Professor, if you can conceal the revelio charm, can you also take measures to conceal yourself from it? Or conceal traces of a death from one too and like.... hide that stuff somehow?" And... he had more questions. Not that he was planning on murder it was just interesting.

"Does how long ago the death happened matter? And does the method of death effect how much it shows up or whatever? Like... a more violent death rather than just some old dude dying in their sleep or something?" West too had his hand up for questions, just like that one kid...

Also, "Does it show ghosts?"

And.... and he was gonna practice now. This was definitely interesting.

He drew the circle counter clockwise in the air a few times and then pointed his wand through it. A couple times with that, until he sorta felt alright with it. Not natural but not weird either.

"Spiritum Revelio!" But.... nothing.

Okay, so all the questions that she had had been asked already. So, practice it was. "Spiritum Revelio." Trying it out first, of course. Wanted to get the wording just right. Once she was sure she had it right, she pulled out her wand and copied the motion. "Spiritum Revelio." And nothing. Which meant that either no one had died in here or she'd done it wrong.....

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...he wasn't sure if wisteria was joking or not. "are you talking about vhe deaths of vhe astronomy and ancient runes professors two years ago?" he asked, rather point-blank. "because vhat did happen." at least one very important person had died back then. He shouldn't be forgotten like that.

Almost instantly, Lottie shook her head. "No, I know of those," well, of the Astronomy one, at least. Burbage had been a strange lady, all former astronauts and scientists seemed handsome to her. A talk between her and Airey would've been incredibly entertaining. But, no, we weren't talking about that. "I was referring to a similar event that happened a couple years before they came along." It has happened before. It was probably the same plant, though.

Guess we'll never know.

WHOA.

Say what? They were going to do what now?? AHA! Lottie was definitely mentioning Vinteren to Airey. This guy was creepy. And he appeared to be withholding important information too. She did not approve. We're definitely keeping an eye on this Vinteren guy.

Come to think of it...wasn't he at one of Scabior's lessons? Sadly, Lottie couldn't remember what Scabior's reaction to the man had been. Pity, though, since it would've been of used now. If Scabior didn't trust him, then se wouldn't. Airey's opinion would do, it seems.

And thanks to all that thinking she missed the spell. Or...not really, she had it all written down. Heh. Awesome.

Whatever, let's try this. Counter-clockwise circle in the air, "Spiritum Revelio." And the only thing green she saw was...Slytherins.

This was a wicked spell, if it actually works. WHY was it useful, though? She had no interest in finding out if someone had died here, there, wherever. On the other hand, West had very interesting questions.

Right. She was listening to what the Professor was saying....and the questions her peers were asking had sparked a question from her too. The Ravenclaw put her hand up, "Professor, is there a certain.....range to this spell? For example, if only one of us would cast the spell, would it cover the whole classroom and locate all spirits around?" Not that she was hoping that there would be. "Or...is it limited to, say, a meter radius or something?"

What was the incantation again? Spiritum Revelio. Yes, that one. Wand movement is a clockwise circle and a point through it. Got that. As always, she repeated the incantation in her head first for a few times, then moved on to the wand motion without the incantation.....before performing both together. She drew a circle in the air in front of her, clockcwise in direction and then pointed through it. "Spiritum Revelio!"

..............Nothing.

....That was a good thing.

Sarah listened and took down some notes (which were illegible so they would not help her anyway. Homenum sides like hocide, so maybe it meant killing and revilo sounds like revealing so maybe in this case it meant... wait she had actually learnt that spell before, it reveals if there are any living being around. So what was spirit?

Now that was osrted out Sarah quickly wrote it down i her notes. Now she had to practice the charm though.

First she had to do the incantation. "Spiritam Reverlio". she tried. "Spritum Ravelio". No luck. More concentration. She looked at her notes again"Spiritum Revelio". Finally she said it. Then she repeated it again for more luck "Spiritum Revelio,Spiritum Revelio Spiritum Revelio"

All done. THen she did the wand movement, the cirle and then put the wand through it . It seemed so simple.

Lex was still beaming. He said her answer was VERY good. Not just good or 'okay' NO, it was VERY good and now she was VERY happy with herself. Nodnodnod.

The newer spell sounded neat, it sounded even neater after that Tobias kid--that was his name right?--mentioned something about stepping outside and seeing a lot of it because of old battle grounds. Coooooool! This was interesting stuff and Aidan wasn't even here to hear it. Pity, she'd have to fill him in later and by the looks of if, Cassia as well.

She raised her wand and first practised the wand motion. This wasn't one of the more difficult ones and she was soon ready to move on to adding it to the incantation. "Spiritum Revelio!' Needless to say her eyes darted around the room for even a glistening speck of green but there was nothing. Bummer. Or maybe her wand was being rude again and the spell hadn't worked but everyone else was seeing green??? She tried again. "Spiritum Revelio!"

Blink. Still nothing. Okay, fine, no one died in here, jeeeeez.

Lex stuck her hand in the air. "This is a neat trick professor, but, is there one that shows you how the person died? You know, like a flashback playing kinda spell?" Did those exist? They'd really make history come alive for her.

Heh.

Laura just stared at the Professor, if anything happened here, he did know that she would run up-to him and cling to him for dear life right, if someone had died in this room, she would refuse to come back into this room until she had spoken to the Ghost-busters to make sure that the ghost was really nice and friendly, she didn't mind having Peeves around and the house-ghost but if she saw anyone else she would freak out.

Laura decided it was time to use the spell, " Spiritum Revelio!" Laura did the ward movement and closed her eyes, she was a bit frightened was it safe or not, she slowly opened her eyes and smiled, it was safe, that was good, she didn't want to see anyone who was dead staring at her.

Now it was time for her to do it properly. "Spiritum Revelio" she said making a circle with her wand and doing the wand movement with cirlce in the in. Then there was nothing. Convinced that she had done it wrong (as that was very likely) Sarah redid it. Yet still nothing. So maybe no one had died in the room? Sarah hoped there would be no more deaths in Hogwarts, unless they were bad people.

Then she raised her hand, "What about if they are horcruxes, like Voldermort's. Will there be an outline in every place he died?"

There was a spell that showed where people died? Jory never knew that and he was at once fascinated by the spell. Time to practice! "Spiritum Revelio!'' he said drawing a counterclockwise circle and then pointing his wand through the circle. But he saw nothing. Duh. No one died in this room, right? "Spiritum Revelio!'' said said again and making the wand movement. You know, just to be sure. Hehe.

Ella was a bit creeped out. Just a bit, though. She honestly couldn't imagine what she'd do if she did the spell and saw the outline of a body. Probably feel even more creeped out. It was just a weird feeling she had in her gut. A mixture of morbid excitement and uneasiness. Strange feelings were strange.

"Spiritum Revelio...Spiritum Revelio...Spiritum Revelio...Spiritum Revelio..."

The incantation wasn't exactly hard or anything but the blonde liked to get a feel for that first before attempting it with her wand too. It was important to be accurate and confident in the spell and all that.

Next she practiced the movement. Counterclockwise circle and pointing your wand through the circle. She did this twice before deciding she was ready.

"Spiritum Revelio!" And she did the movement just like she'd practiced, eyebrows raised. ...and nothing.

Welp. That was anti-climatic.

So he was right? He would tell Belle about the charm later on tonight. Kace was getting quite uneasy. So this spell can detect the outline of where somewhere died? Um...Kace particularly didn't want to mess with dead people. I mean what happens if they haunt you? He shook that fear from his mind and focused on the incantation.

So the incantation was Spiritum Revelio? He would practice saying it first. "Spiritum Revelio...Spiritum Revelio....Spiritum Revelio.....Spiritum Revelio." he finally got the hang of it. Then he tried to wand movement.

What did the professor say about the wand movement again? " A counter-clockwise circle in vhe air and vhen point your wand through vhe circle."

He tried that and did a counterclockwise circle and point the wand through the circle. That shouldn't be so hard. He did a couple times to be sure. Then it was time to put the spell into action.

He pointed his wand at the object and said "Spiritum Revelio!" while doing the counterclockwise motion and pointed it through the circle and he felt his wand working but nothing happened...

Huh...well he thought at least he did the spell right.

Nigel listened intently because he did want to try this spell out after all. So all he had to do was say Spiritum Revelio as you draw a counter-clockwise circle in the air and then point your wand through the circle. Sounded easy enough.

But he did not were to point his wand. OR Nigel missed that part of the lecture from being excited to use this spell. So why not just point it at the ground. Yes that sounded like a good plan.

Nigel drew a counter-clockwise circle in the air, pointed his wand through the circle, and cast "Spiritum Revelio". Of course pointing his wand at the ground. It seemed like he had the same outcome West did. Nothing. No outline in green or anything.

Disappointing.

Wade had been quiet throughout the discussion of dead people at Hogwarts. He frankly didn't know as much as the others here have said. Hmm.. Oh well, now they were getting to try a new spell. Spiritum Revelio... Wade wrote it down while inaudibly repeating it. Then he repeated the counterclockwise circle movement and pointing through the circle with the same quill he had written with.. Alright, done. Now he could practice it?

"Spiritum Revelio!" Wade after withdrawing his wand out, drew a circle counter-clockwise in mid-air.. then with his steady wrist pointed in the center of the imaginary circle.... and nothing happened. Were they expected to find one in here? Guess not. Now what?

The spirit spell only reveals to the caster the location of where someone died... And it showed where the spirit left the body. Creepy stuff. ... So that's how wizards find out where someone's died? And that would be... a first hand source, yeah? Because the spell wouldn't lie and... and...

He needed to stop thinking so much.

And now it was time for them to try? What would happen if the spell actually worked and a green outline appeared? Were they going to investigate that? Or was this... just for practice?

Shaking his head, Alec pulled out his wand and took a deep breath. Spiritum Revelio... spi-ri-tum... re-ve-lio... spi-ri-tum re-ve-lio... "Spiritum Revelio!" Counter-clockwise circle and point through the circle! ... Nothing. Should he... try again? "Spiritum Revelio!" Counter clockwise circle and point through the circle!

... Still nothing.

Slightly confused, the sixteen year old raised his hand in the air, his grey-blue eyes on the older man. "Erm... Professor Vinteren?" Professor Vinteren or Sir Vinteren? Which one? "Erm... I have a question. If you cast the spell and nothing happens because... no one has died in the area... how do you know that you've cast the spell properly?" ... Or... was this a silly question?

Alice didn't need to ask questions, apparently, because it seemed everyone had already taken care of that bit. Instead, she waited for the pretty professor to answer them all and went on performing the spell, no practice because it seemed simple enough. "Spiritum Revelio." She drew the counter-clockwise circle he'd shown them in the air, and then pointed her wand through it. That was as directed, yeah? Had anyone died in here?

.. apparently not. Either that or she'd done it wrong.

No dead people, then.

Minerva had raised her hand for the question, but so many people had their hands up that she decided it was time to let someone else talk. She had been doing well in the class so far, so why not be the nice person that she was and let others answer. It was an interesting spell though, one that could really ruin a good game of hide n seek.

Now the focused changed.. they were practicing a spell. Min felt herself shudder at the thought of what the spell did. She really didn't want to know where someone died, really she didn't and she hoped she never had to use it for anything.

They were practicing O_o but so many people hide died in this castle, what if someone... died in here. No.. no he wouldn't do this spell if that was the case, would he? Taking a deep breath she watched closely the professor show them how to do the spell.

Now it was her turn.. alright, pulling out her wand she did the counter clockwise motion and stuck her wand through the circle, Spiritum Revelio She felt her eyes shut tight automatically in fear of seeing something she really didn't want to see.

Now come on Min....

That wasn't the way to do spells and so what if it did show, the person had been long gone for many years.. no not creepy... at.. all.. Doing the wand motion again she stuck the wand through the circle Spiritum Revelio This time she left her eyes open, but didn't see anything. Sighing with relief she just assumed nothing was shown because no one died in here.

"No, do not assume vhat," Erik replied to the Ravenclaw with a shake of his head. "Professor Binns did also not die in vhis classroom. If he had, your spell vould reveal something to you. It is not revealing anyvhing, is it?"

"For one vhing, vhis spell shows vhere a person died in green," Erik gave the boy, who was clearly not practising the spell, a look, "and for another, it does have limits. You'll only see who died in vithin vhe confines of vhis room, for example. And no, time is of no consequence to vhis spell."

"I do not vhink you can conceal yourself from such a spell, nor can you conceal a body from vhis spell," he gave the boy a serious nod, "but good questions." And he had more of them. "Time does not matter, but vhe method of death does. A more violent death vill show up with a brighter aura, a brighter green outline. And no...vhis does not reveal anything about ghosts." Other than that they had died in a particular area and thus might be more likely to haunt it.

"It's not really a radius thing so much as it is a...room thing." Erik shrugged, he was losing track of how to explain this spell amongst so many questions. Now he saw how many professors lost patience with their students. "It reveals vhe locations of deaths only in vhe room you're currently in." No spirits. "If you think of a particular person as you cast vhe spell, vhen vhe spell vill only reveal their outline to you." So that prevented the problem of the battlefield, if that other kid was listening.

"No, none vhat I can think of." That should be something spell inventors worked on though, as it would be a cool spell.

Erm...Erik wasn't sure he understood this question. "I'm not sure I know vhat you are asking..." he mused. "Vhis spell reveals vhe locations of one-time deaths, actual physical deaths of humans. Not ov horcruxes." Which were really little bits of the soul, that was all. No bodies to outline.

"Good question," Erik replied to the Hufflepuff, "but vhere really is no way of knowing if you cast it wrong if it reveals nothing, as is true ov many spells. Vhis is why practise is important." Because practise made perfect, and he was going to give them a good chance to practise now.


"Everyone, if you vould please take your wands and follow me...I'll give you a chance to practise this spell in a place vhere it definitely works." He led the way out of the classroom without further ado. And on to the ground floor....