Anddddd she was pushed off the desk. She carefully set the plate of cookies on the Professor's desk. ... right after taking one of them for herself.

She then plopped on the floor and nommed said cookie.

And ended up completely missing the first question. Whoops.

She raised her hand. "I would imagine that the limits would be based on the caster's ability." Like all magic. It seemed like a safe answer. "Like someone more experienced would be able to cast it further or for heavier objects."

The deets? Marigold looked at the Professor with raised eyebrows. She stayed quiet while she took notes about the "seize and pull charm." She actually knew about this charm, as she went crazy this summer and read a bunch of charms books.

"Professor, the rope is made of light, which if I recall correctly is different colors depending on the object you are pulling, like if it was alive and moving or stationary." She paused and wondered if she should go on. "The hand motion is like a whip, right?" She just couldn't help herself when it came to Charms.

Carpe Retractum? Adi had never heard of it. Nope Never read about it nor hearing anyone speak of it. But it sounded rather interesting, a rope pulling objects towards the caster. That sounded cool!

So, not having heard about the spell, Adi obviously did not know much or rather anything about it. He sat listening to his class mates with rapt attention as they spoke.

Tora had been mouthing the two words of the spell to herself, practicing, when the Professor had asked another question!....s. Questions. Plural. She started pondering some sort of answer(s) to these questions when-

Wait. Wait. waitwaitwait. Thoughts and questions coming from Tora's mind! The Ravenclaw raised her hand, "Professor, can someone escape the... light?" she picked up on what other students were saying and assumed that the rope was light like they had said. Also..."And what about Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder? Does it work through that?" She had more questions of course, but her mind got away from her on a tangent and Tora thought it best to just stop it there. For now.

Such a non-committal answer.

What did it even MEAN? She knew she was right, of course she was obviously but it would have been nice to hear it too, you know? Confirmation and all. That didn't happen though, he just moved on to the charm they'd be learning. How very helpful.

She raised her hand.

"It's not only used to pull objects to you, you can use it to pull yourself over to something as well depending on what you cast at. Like if you were falling off a cliff or needed to get up one, you could use it to pull yourself up. In that case you'd need to make sure it works--hey, did we all break our legs failing at the spell in another life Professor??" Was THAT how the hypothetical question came about?? Did they not cast it right and tumble right back down??

She TOTALLY understood noooooow. Yup. But the point was, you could use it to pull yourself toward something as well. Mhm. Main point right there.

Adelaide just shrugged. It was worth a shot and better than repeating everyone else in the class. More original that way. That and Professor Pretty still talked to her so she was okay with this.

Addi gave West a thumbs up for guessing the charm correctly. It was obvious she was in a good mood today. Probably the brownies she had before class. She bit her lip, thinking. She tried not to snort at Theo's answer about the rope being made of magic.

Right. Answering the question. She raised her hand. "The rope would have to be made of something pretty strong to be able to pull things to you with out snapping. So I don't know if it would be traditional rope threads. Maybe some kind of metallic thread?" It made sense to her.

Now, they were told to talk and discuss the details of the spell amd stuff but, there was a problem... ariana didnt KNOW this spell or anything about it, hense why we didnt guess it you know. Instead she doodled balloons with long strings attached to them on her parchment as she wrote down the spell in question and noted down some things others were saying. She was learning things, yup.

*beam*

Because beaming was required, since Fuller had said he loved her idea. Mmmhmmm.

And now they were talking about West's suggestion, Carpe Retractum. "The strength of the spell depends on how focused the caster is on the object they are trying to pull towards and the experience of the caster. Like, any first year could cast the spell while focusing on say, that plate of cookies," yes the one on the professor's desk, "and it wouldn't be as effective as you doing the same. But if you weren't focusing as hard, welp, there goes the cookies." Not that she was suggesting anyone try that. Though those cookies did look good...

So Invito was the same as accio spell, just in other language. Very interesting. Annabeth thought she should try it sometime.

But that Carpe Retractum she had no idea about it, besides what she had just learned from that guy West. Okay. Time to put her brain to work and spill out nonsense things.
Without thinking too much, the girl raised her hand.

"Professor, I don't know this spell, but I guess that if it produces magical ropes, so, the ropes shall be made of magic. I mean, made of no physical matter, just a condensate state of particles of light. The load capacity would depends on the wizard or witch who is casting it and his or her capacity of focus on what is being pulled. I think that shall exist a limit to lenght, as we can't focus upon a object far from us." She grinned. For a while, it was the best she could say.

Oh, haiii...LOOK! The professor had a sense of humor. Score one for you, Professor Fuller. ...and he had the talent down? Hmm. Sophie didn't know about that. She didn't exactly have eyes for older men, so she didn't really consider whether he had good looks or not.

DISCUSS?!

...but what if you were just hearing about this charm for the very first time? Sophie didn't really have much to share, except...she wondered if it worked like tug of war. Could you get pulled back just as easily? "So what if I tried to seize and pull a really huge object?" she asked. "...and what if it tried to seize and pull me right back? Would it be like tug of war, where the best opponent won?"

If so, she was SO seizing and pulling a piece of parchment as credit for this class.

Mo wanted a balloon. Like seriously, he wanted one. There was a purple one right there, and it belonged to his Cat. She didn't know it yet, but she had a balloon coming to her. He eyed it, trying really hard to pay attention but COME ONE. BALLOON.

Oh, question? Mo glanced at Aidan, who was standing nearby, wondering if he could employ the smaller boy to create a distraction while he went for the balloon. Reasonable, right? "I would think a magical rope would be less dependent on the physical strength of the caster than a regular one, but it would be a limit. But also, the distance between the caster and the object would be an issue. And unlike Accio, the object needs to be in direct line of sight."

Yeah, transfiguration and whatnot, but at least she'd still named a spell. And she WANTED a cookie, PFH. Share.

"The magical rope is retractable," Alice stated, making a more than obvious statement. It was clear in everyone else's answers- after all, they had all talked about pulling back and whatnot. But no one had directly said so, which meant she could. No repetition.

And she had to say something. Always.

Cookie now, professor? For that amazing answer?

OH HI PROFESSOR. Cat was pleasantly happy when the man finally decided to show up to his class. Missed, he'd been surely missed. Most especially by one Caterina Moretti. She didn't know which was more distracting though, the man with the facial hair or the balloons in his hand. Cat liked balloons. Could she have one? He'd SURELY give one to his favorite student, yes?

Oh wait, what? There were questions happening? She'd been day dreaming about balloons and such and had totally tuned out. Whoops. Maybe she should make a deal with Mo for him to pinch her whenever she started to daydream. That would be useful. "Its made of light. Orangey light." See? She was ALSO helpful, just like Alice. This was why they were favorites.

She was totally going to draw a face on her balloon.

A face with a mustache.

Laura didn't feel like discussing anything, or saying anything at all so she just stayed quiet and hoped the professor wouldn't notice.

So...it was a sort of lasso, that allowed you to pull an object towards you. Benjamin wrinkled his nose. Sounded much more effort than a simple accio. For one, there were a whole lot more syllables, and two, well, it involved pulling. Which was fine if the object wasn't too big...but could be problematic the heavier it was.

"Given that it's on a magical rope type thing, I'm guessing you having a problem if there's not a clear route to you," he said, raising his hand. "Like, you could easily trip people up with it, or decapitate them if they happened to be flying fast towards it." And that'd be messy. He was all for laziness...but this didn't seem like it was quite the solution.

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The Seize and Pull Charm. Ella had heard of it. Definitely useful for lazy people, he was right about that. Only not too lazy because of what she was about to share. "I've read that to pull in whatever object you've seized, you do need to use a considerable amount of effort. That means you can't be too lazy, Professor. Well, unless you're really muscle-y or something." Then it was probably just a simple tug and done.

Ahaaa! The look on his face showed that he was pleased with her answer. ”Good! Very good. Maybe we can’t all be lazy blobs of human after all.” DARN. Sucks for them. Welcome to adulthood.

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"It's a magical rope, I doubt it's touchable." He paused. "The book says it's orange or golden light." So if it was wrong, he should be angry at the book, because Forrest knew nothing about the spell besides the book's description.

”Magical orange rope, good.” A book answer was better than no answer. ”But is it not touchable? If it can seize and pull something physical, does that not mean it’s touchable?” Just something to think about.

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There was only one person Wade immediately thought of who he'd imagine summoning to him, which got him feeling a little warm in the face. No, he was sure his Indy wouldn't need the spell to come to him. So they were going to use the Seize and Pull charm today. Well, facts came first. He rose his hand to add, "I imagine the target can't be out of the caster's sight to pull it towards them." Since you know, it took a lot of focus.

Piers nodded at the Head Boy. ”Okay, good speculation.”

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After a minute or so, the boy raised his hand in the air. "It requires a whip-like hand... wand movement. As if... as if you're literally lassoing the object and pulling it towards you." You know, like a cowboy. Nodnod.

... Also... if the spell did produce a light and something blocked the light, would that something else be pulled towards you instead? Or would the spell just... not work?

”Good, yes, whip-like wand movement. Exactly just like a lasso. I should have brought cowboy hats.” That would have made it even more fun. Darn.

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Taylor raised her hand at his question, "It is made out of some orangeish light and it doesnt necessary pull it... you have to pull it on your own accord... it is just kinda like a lasso, no? " Tay paused and thought for a moment before continuing, "well... almost like lasso... since the motion is more like a whip instead of circling then whip... I guess... and I believe the book says they recommend leaning back on when pulling a heavier load... so that it would be easier to pull because of the distribution of the weight.../COLOR]

He nodded some more. ”Yep, good thoughts. Just a like a lasso, you may have to use your own physical strength as well as magical.”

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"Well, I think the rope is made out of...well, magic, right? It doesn't ACTUALLY create a literal lasso for you," he said with a shrug. At least he didn't THINK so. Now that he thought about it he'd never seen it really done in action.

Ahahahhhh, yes, he was waiting for this. ”Good question!”

That’s all (for now).

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Once he had some ideas he raised his hand, "Professor i know the spell requires you to have a whip like movement." he said mimicking the movement with his own hand. "But it is recommended the caster leans backwards when pulling targets that are heavier than them." he nodded. He saw his cousin do it and he wasn't the strong type. He was sort of a weakling.

”Yep, very good. And yes, since heavier objects require more strength, using your own body weight to pull would help.”

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THE DEETS? Was this professor too informal or what? Not that she minded, anyways it was about time that she stopped judging people like that.Sarah raised her hand "it is also easier for stonger people to pull heavier ojects therefore muscular strength will come into play... "

More nods. ”Stronger people can pull heavier objects. Magic, strength, and logic.”

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West put his hand up. "Its colour is different based on what you are actually trying to seize and pull. When used on inanimate objects its purple, and when you use it on plants or animals that's when it's orange or gold." He thought about it a bit. "I dunno why, and I don't know if there are any other different colours what happen."

So that could be fun to find out. Oh and also, "The target has to be in your direct line of sight, and I guess it can't have any obstacles in its way either."

Top of the class, this kid was. At least today he was, bringing up things that no one else was. ”Good! Very good. We’ll cover that in a minute.” Once everyone else was done discussing.

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Dunno this spell.

"The rope is made out of magic, obviously." Theo said, and actually managed to stop himself before adding a 'duh' on the end. Anything to make his gooey brains look a little more intelligent than they were.

Obviously. He almost laughed. ”Okay. It is a theory.”

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She raised her hand. "I would imagine that the limits would be based on the caster's ability." Like all magic. It seemed like a safe answer. "Like someone more experienced would be able to cast it further or for heavier objects."

”Another good speculation.” Hey, did she steal one of his cookies? Pfft.

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"Professor, the rope is made of light, which if I recall correctly is different colors depending on the object you are pulling, like if it was alive and moving or stationary." She paused and wondered if she should go on. "The hand motion is like a whip, right?" She just couldn't help herself when it came to Charms.

Oh, she was good too. ”You are correct, good. Yes.”

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Tora had been mouthing the two words of the spell to herself, practicing, when the Professor had asked another question!....s. Questions. Plural. She started pondering some sort of answer(s) to these questions when-

Wait. Wait. waitwaitwait. Thoughts and questions coming from Tora's mind! The Ravenclaw raised her hand, "Professor, can someone escape the... light?" she picked up on what other students were saying and assumed that the rope was light like they had said. Also..."And what about Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder? Does it work through that?" She had more questions of course, but her mind got away from her on a tangent and Tora thought it best to just stop it there. For now.

OooOOohhh, interesting. VERY interesting. ”Two very good questions. What do you think? I think it might be possible to escape, but how?” Physically? Magically? ”Would it work through Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder? It’s not a physical barrier, but the spell requires you to have your desired object in your direct line of sight. What if you know it’s there, but you can’t see it? I must say, I don’t know. If you find yourself lost in Peruvian darkness, do let me know what you find.” He was quite interested to find out.

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"It's not only used to pull objects to you, you can use it to pull yourself over to something as well depending on what you cast at. Like if you were falling off a cliff or needed to get up one, you could use it to pull yourself up. In that case you'd need to make sure it works--hey, did we all break our legs failing at the spell in another life Professor??" Was THAT how the hypothetical question came about?? Did they not cast it right and tumble right back down??

She TOTALLY understood noooooow. Yup. But the point was, you could use it to pull yourself toward something as well. Mhm. Main point right there.

”Interesting point. As long as whatever you’re using to pull yourself up is heavier than you, or you might end up breaking whatever it is.” And..... sigh. ”Err... yeah. We’ll go with that.” He really needed to stop using hypothetical situations.

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Right. Answering the question. She raised her hand. "The rope would have to be made of something pretty strong to be able to pull things to you with out snapping. So I don't know if it would be traditional rope threads. Maybe some kind of metallic thread?" It made sense to her.

Another interesting point. ”Okay, so maybe it is something tangible. But another thing to think about is... if it made of magical matter, would the spell caster’s magical and physical strength define how sturdy the rope is? So, maybe it doesn’t have to be so strong as something like metallic thread if it’s all up to the spell caster - as most magic is. The stronger the caster, the stronger the spell and the greater the outcome.” Just something for her to think about.

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And now they were talking about West's suggestion, Carpe Retractum. "The strength of the spell depends on how focused the caster is on the object they are trying to pull towards and the experience of the caster. Like, any first year could cast the spell while focusing on say, that plate of cookies," yes the one on the professor's desk, "and it wouldn't be as effective as you doing the same. But if you weren't focusing as hard, welp, there goes the cookies." Not that she was suggesting anyone try that. Though those cookies did look good...

He nodded to lazy patronus girl. ”Okay, good point. Like most spells, the outcome depends on the experience and focus of the caster.”

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"Professor, I don't know this spell, but I guess that if it produces magical ropes, so, the ropes shall be made of magic. I mean, made of no physical matter, just a condensate state of particles of light. The load capacity would depends on the wizard or witch who is casting it and his or her capacity of focus on what is being pulled. I think that shall exist a limit to lenght, as we can't focus upon a object far from us." She grinned. For a while, it was the best she could say.

Another magical matter theory. It made him EXCITED. ”Okay, very good again. And maybe that is a limit of sorts. It’s harder to focus on objects far away, therefore it might be more difficult to seize.”

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...but what if you were just hearing about this charm for the very first time? Sophie didn't really have much to share, except...she wondered if it worked like tug of war. Could you get pulled back just as easily? "So what if I tried to seize and pull a really huge object?" she asked. "...and what if it tried to seize and pull me right back? Would it be like tug of war, where the best opponent won?"

Piers almost laughed at this one. Okay, he chuckled. ”That’s a good question. In this case, I think the only way for a case of tug of war would be for another spellcaster attempting to seize and pull the same object from the other side.” Which was funny, because... Well, they’d see. ”Trying to seize and pull an extremely heavy object would be just like trying to pick one up and move it. Difficult. But it does depend on how heavy. I think you’d be surprised at how much you can pull with a little help from magic.”

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Oh, question? Mo glanced at Aidan, who was standing nearby, wondering if he could employ the smaller boy to create a distraction while he went for the balloon. Reasonable, right? "I would think a magical rope would be less dependent on the physical strength of the caster than a regular one, but it would be a limit. But also, the distance between the caster and the object would be an issue. And unlike Accio, the object needs to be in direct line of sight."

”You bring up good points. Magic makes our load easier, yes, but physical strength does still play a part along with experience and focus.”

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"The magical rope is retractable," Alice stated, making a more than obvious statement. It was clear in everyone else's answers- after all, they had all talked about pulling back and whatnot. But no one had directly said so, which meant she could. No repetition.

....... Oh, was that it? Okay. ”Okay. Good, thanks.”

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Oh wait, what? There were questions happening? She'd been day dreaming about balloons and such and had totally tuned out. Whoops. Maybe she should make a deal with Mo for him to pinch her whenever she started to daydream. That would be useful. "Its made of light. Orangey light." See? She was ALSO helpful, just like Alice. This was why they were favorites.

Was someone spacing out? ”Yes. Orange. Or purple, depending on what you’re grabbing.”

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"Given that it's on a magical rope type thing, I'm guessing you having a problem if there's not a clear route to you," he said, raising his hand. "Like, you could easily trip people up with it, or decapitate them if they happened to be flying fast towards it." And that'd be messy. He was all for laziness...but this didn't seem like it was quite the solution.

Well, that was... slightly morbid. ”Good point...” He was just going to leave it at that. No decapitating.



”Alright, great! You all brought some excellent points and discussion topics. Now let’s iron them out and figure this spell out.” Pierson rubbed his hands together, pushed some balloon strings out of his face and grabbed a piece of chalk before beginning to writing on the board.

• Whip-like wand movement
• Produces a rope made of...? (insert your thoughts here)
• Rope is either orange (for plants and living objects) or purple (for inanimate objects)
• Heavier objects take more muscle
• Object must be in direct line of sight
• Limits are dependent on caster’s experience and strength

”Am I missing anything? Anymore questions? What IS it made of? Light? What power does light have? Magical matter? That seems to make more sense. Actual rope? If so, where does it go when you’re done? Where does anything go, for that matter? There are theories, my friends. Most of them you will learn when you take Charms Theory at University. But now, we must move on to our practical portion of our lesson.” Which meant.... balloons!

”Your first task will be to simply seize and pull the balloon to you using this charm. Remember to use the whip-like wand movement,” he said, as he demonstrated. Piers grabbed a balloon and stood several feet away from it. ”Carpe Retractum!” he said, while whipping his wand forward and then back. A purple-lighted rope snaked out and looped around the balloon string and tugged the balloon to his side before disappearing back into the wand. ”Just like that.”

Pierson got out his wand and directed the balloons to the center of the classroom where the students were standing. ”I want everyone to take a balloon of your choice. Don’t worry, they’re charmed not to go any higher than they are now, so you won’t lose it.” Once everyone had a balloon, he continued, ”Give yourself plenty of room and stand, oh... 15 steps away from your balloon. First, practice the incantation and the wand movement separately. Then I want you to practice this spell just like I did. Balloons are almost weightless, so it should be rather easy. Do it at least twice or until you’re ready to move on. Ready, set go!”

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BALLOONS! Ariana had half a mind to just skip around the room and collect all the balloons for herself, but then figured that might be frowned on and decided against doing so. She cleared her throat and as she walked back away from the group of balloons she practiced said incantation "KAHR-pay - ruh-TRACK-tum." sounding out each syllable so that she was sure to get it correct. "KAHR-pay - ruh-TRACK-tum" good yes? "Carpe Retractum"
a few good times withought sounding out each syllable and sounding like an idiot "Carpe Retractum!" hopefully she wouldn't mess this up. hopefully. Now what was that wand motion again?

Adi jotted down the stuff Professor Fuller had written on the board. He was finding this spell particularly interesting. The questions raised by the Professor were beyond interesting and Adi was very curious about where the rope went or what it was made of. He was almost sure it wasn't actual real rope.

So that was what the balloons were for! Awesomeee! Could he have more than one? Just kidding. Adi bounded over and collected a yellow balloon, set it down so that it hovered above the floor and counted out fifteen steps away from it. "Carpe Retractum...Carpe Retractum...Carpe Retractum...KAHR-pay - ruh-TRACK-tum...KAHR-pay - ruh-TRACK-tum...'' repeated the first year.

So the wand movement in question here was a simple whipping one, correct? the Seventh year took her wand out and held it firmly in her wand hand, which would be her left one, Lefties FTW, and whipped her wand forward in a striking motion before pulling it back. All the while she was making whip noises in her head whi-psh really it seemed simple enough, the motion anyway, yet she tried it a few more times just for good measure.
whi-psh
whi-psh
snort.
Ariana liked this spell and it would surely come in handy when she needed something close but was too lazy to get up and get it.
she liked this class.

Okay, so time to move onto the wand movement which was an easy whip like movement. Nooo problem! Adi grabbed his wand and gripped the wand in his left hand and began to practice.

Adi couldn't help grinning as he had his go at the movement. He found it sort of funny, for some reason. He sort of felt like Indiana Jones.

The first year continued the practice, thoroughly enjoying himself.

Laura looked around and saw that everyone was practicing and she decided that she might as well join in, she really had been hoping for some fun lesson but well she couldn't get what she wanted all the time and she knew that this lesson was going to teach her something good. Well she hoped it was. "Carpe Retractum!" Laura said, she was in shock she had got it first time. She decided that she would just make sure that she knew what she was saying. "Car..pe Re..tract..um." Laura smiled as she broke it up, now though was the time to practice. "Carpe Retractum" Well that was good she was sure she knew it off by heart now.

Still mentally laughing to herself over the whole whip noise thing she was doing she tossed her hair back behind her shoulders and took a breath as she tried to gather her thoughts to concentrate on the spell and to do it right. Carpe Retractom!" and she pointed her wand at a balloon string and she watched as ...... nothing happened.. Whut!?
The seventh year looked at her wand in confusion, clearly it was doing something wrong and not her.

Laura took out her wand and started to practice the wand movement, she knew it was important that she knew that wand movement before she said the spell because otherwise she would look kind of stupid when the spell didn't work and she didn't want that to happen, not now she was a sixth year.

Laura continued to practice the wand movement. She wanted to make sure that she knew the wand movement perfectly before continuing with the task at hand.

she hit her wand into her hand a few times. what was happening? She was confused. She looked up at the Board and decided to start from square one with saying the spell in syllables once again. "KAHR-pay - ruh-TRACK-tum" you can do this Logan, just breathe and concentrate on what your doing. "Carpe Retractum." that was correct, yeah? she bit her lip just slightly and adjusted her robes on her shoulders, crummy things.

Caleb liked to practice the wand movement before actually getting INTO the spell bit, so he set up shop in front of his balloon and just practiced whipping his wand towards it. It seemed pretty simple. Like having an actual whip! He felt like that one guy...that Muggle guy who fought bad guys, what was his name? Florida Smith or something right?

He raised his hand when a question popped into his head. "Professor, if you like, REALLY whip your wand hard at the balloon, will it pop?" he asked. He didn't want to get too crazy with it. After all, Caleb was SOOOOO strong he didn't even know his own strength sometimes. Well, once.