SO YEAH. Imagining things. This should be fun, yeah? Marigold was still a bit disappointed that the classroom in the beginning was just a daydream, but it had been a while. She could TOTALLY get over it.

Buuut the food had looked so goooood *tear*

Anyway. Practical bit. Marigold GRINNED at the Professor and was happy because CHARMS. She practiced the incantation first. "Sentio Somnium." She rolled the words around a bit in her mouth, tasting them. THAT WAS WEIRD 0.0 She practiced the wand motion a couple times as well, ignoring her cracking wrist.

Okay, water to daydream, here we go!

Here went nothing.

The spell had appeared to work on the outside, drinking it was the only way to see if it had actually taken hold. Ben exchanged wand for goblet and after taking a moment to stare into the liquid as he absently swirled it around he took a large sip.

Soon enough what he saw before him wasn't the classroom he was in, even the modified classroom created by the daydream charm. Nope, this was a vastly different location, a place it took Benjamin a moment or two to recognize as a place in the states he had visited while staying one summer with his grandparents. It wasn't even the image he had been thinking on as he practiced but it surely worked. It was calm and serene and filled with happy, exciting memories.

Of the sea cove near his grandparents' home...the water lapping against the shore as he walked along the coastline.

....... there really wasn't. Wasn't anything better than this.

Okay, no that was a lie. The only thing that could top this paradise was if Olly were there, too. That thought was awfully cheesy and awfully cliche, wasn't it? But it was the truth. As lovely as this field of fine flowers was, the thought of her girlfriend her friends back at Hogwarts made it click in her mind that maybe now might be a good time to end this reverie. Perhaps one of the few things that separated Schuyler from the poets whose words she read was that those whom she loved always came before anything else, even including tall sunflowers and blue skies.

'She loved not Nature the less, but man more.'

So with a soft smile she spoke it: "Finite."

Finished. Back to their Charms classroom and her peers and professor. She felt relaxed and light, carefree.

This had already turned into one of her favorite and most appreciated lessons of the term. She ought to remember to do this next year, before NEWTs..

Marigold fetched her goblet of water and prepared herself mentally for the spell. MHMHMHMMMM. She imagined herself happily sitting with her friends. A few names, well actually a lot, floated into her mind as she went to zen mode. Ronnie, Maureen, Kace, Hazel, Ella, Lesta.

Maintaining this dreamlike state, Marigold lethargically took her wand out. She chanted Sentio Somnium in her brain twice, then said the spell. MHMMH. "Sentio Somnium."

But THEEEN certain PEOPLE came into her MIND which did not WANT THEM THERE and she lost her focus.

Gah. Her water just cleaned out her throat, not made her dream. She tried to escape her annoyance by humming and going back into that dreamlike, confident, concentrated state.

OMMMMM.

"Sentio Somnium."

In a blink she wasn't in the Charms classroom. Instead she was on top of a grassy hill. The sky was shaded by white and gray puffy clouds. The sun was out, but not too bright. Beverly wasn't one for too much sunshine. She didn't tan, she burned so cloudy days were just fine.

Anyway, she was on this hill and just below was the Wayne Manor. She was so close to home, but she didn't want to go there. A large shadow swooped overhead. Beverly didn't need to look up to know what it was.

Unlike a normal witch or wizard whom would be running for their lives, she stood perfectly still, enjoying the breeze and the sound of large flapping wings up in the sky. With a heavy THUMP a large iridescent creature crouched in front of her. Its multicolored eyes watched her with curiosity, as if wondering if she would approach it.

Beverly beamed and ran toward it with open arms. The Antipodean Opaleye was waiting for her to ride it. Soar through the skies and never fear heights again. She was so close to it.

Soooo close...

OUUUUUCH!

Back hurts, back hurts, back huuurts!

In another blink she was in the Charms classroom and... O______O

Oh dear Catalonian Fireballs! She was halfway climbing over her desk. Wide-eyed, she froze registering what she was going. The desk was NOT an Antipodean Opaleye. And she should DEFINITELY not be climbing it. Slowly, as to not make her back hurt more, she sat back on her chair.

Blush. Blush. Wasn't this embarrassing?

Marigold took a sip of her water and only registered that she MUST have gotten the spell right for one second because before she fully understood that she was in a daydream, she was... in the daydream. WHOOPS.

But her daydream was LOVELY. For some reason, it took place on a farm, but it was sooooo peaceful. There were chickens that surrounded her, and she was giggling as a sheep baaad. Maureen was there with her, and the two of them she skipped and jumping off haystacks.

And ALL of her friends were there, from Kace to Zahra, Leah to Ronnie, Lux to Ella. And Mitchell.

And then West came in on a horse and offered her a hand up and they were FLYING THROUGH THE FIELDS AND IT WAS ALL SO WONDERFUL.

And her grandpa was there...

"Finite."

After wandering through the class a couple more times, Fuller looked at the clock and saw that it was just about time to go. The students seemed to be finishing up their charms, too.

"You all did great!" he said as he made it up to the front of the class. "Once you finish, put your water goblets on my desk. Class dismissed!" Semi-short class today, but hey. First charms lesson of the year. Didn't to strain them too much. Besides, he didn't know if he could handle more yelling students for the rest of the day.

"Make sure to check the notice board for the homework!" he added as he erased the chalkboard.

OOC: Class dismissed! You have 12 hours to wrap up your posts and head on out. Thanks for attending Charms! Click HERE for the homework assignment.

Still wincing from the aches all over her body, Alice gathered her materials up. Ouch. That hurt. And that. And there, owww.

Once she finished, the seventh year headed over to the professor's desk and set her goblet down.

"Bye Professor Facial Hair." Pause. Had she just said that out loud? "Fuller. I mean Fuller."

She shot Cat a LOOK, then turned and quickly exited the classroom. Ahem. 'Scuse her.

Cutty still sat upon his raft, adrift upon the vastness of his dreamt-up ocean, when out of nowhere a seagull came flying in low and clearly, in no uncertain terms told him, "You all did great!". Then gave him these instructions...

"Once you finish, put your water goblets on my desk. Class dismissed!"


Oh, yeah. That was definitely Professor Fuller's voice the bird had been speaking with, which could've only meant that class was indeed over. "Finite.", the Slyth casted casually ending the effects of the charm. "Pack!", he gathered his things back into his school bag. "Thank you, Professor Fuller." He managed to remember to thank the Charms instructor before making his way out to the corridor. This was going to be the year that Cutty Mordaunt was trying to be nicer to his teachers. Just like Tobias.

Sander was glad when Tessa ended the daydream. He wanted to return to his island daydream but then the Professor informed everyone that class was over.

Picking up his water goblet, he placed it on the desk before walking over to the Professor. "Thank you for an interesting lesson, Professor." Sander thanked Professor Fuller and then walked over to the door and waited for Tessa to catch up with him.

The Professor announced that class was over and Alex was a little unhappy. She had hoped that she would have a chance to try out her other daydream. Oh well, maybe she could do it another time. Alex picked up her water goblet and took it over to the Professor's desk. Returning to her desk, she gathered her things and prepared to leave. As she was leaving the classroom, she thought about the beautiful the daisy filled hills that had been there at the start of class. Too bad that wasn't real.

Why was there a voice cutting into her candy fantasy? She didn't remember inviting the Professor here. Not at all. This was her daydream and there was a reason her mind was blocking out everyone; the girl wasn't sharing. Terrible idea to think you could have any of her cotten candy or the little chocolate frogs that were hopping by. Hers, all HERS.

Oh Merlin, what was this talk of homework now?

Lex blinked, considering the pros and cons of removing the charm. On the one hand, she didn't want to, but on the other, the Professor was ruining her candyland with all his talk of homework in some ominous voice she couldn't see. It was things like this that gave a girl nightmares, sheesh. "Finite."

And a highly disappointed look at the realization she'd now come back to the regular classroom. Not at all something she wanted to see when you considered where she was coming from but the lesson was over...she could deal. "Thanks for crushing my dreams and lowering me into a false sense of satisfaction Professor. Have a good rest of the day." Well it was TRUE. First the cupcakes then he goes and ruins the rest of her sugary dreams. Man needed to grow a conscience.

Lex dropped off the goblet at his table, grabbed the rest of her things that headed out.

The class was over and yet Leah failed in her Daydream Charm. Groaning slightly, she packed up and walked slowly to the front of the classroom and placed her goblet still full of clear water on the desk.

"Bye, Professor. Thanks for the great lesson!" Hopefully she would succeed for her homework.

"Finite."

Delilah smiled to herself. That had been rather lovely... Wait, homework? A frown immediately replaced the smile on her face. Ugh. So much homework. The girl was just so tired. She couldn't wait to get this year done with.

"Bye, prof." Delilah said, with a small smile. She gathered her belongings and left quickly.

Say what? Class was dismissed? Hannah still was not able to get her charm to work. She was not going to leave like this. Surely she could get in one last attempt and hopefully that one would work because she was running out of time to do much of anything.

Hannah cleared her mind and blocked out all noise around her which really wasn't that hard considering she could hardly hear anything anyways. Okay it was all or nothing this time. She picked up her wand and did the circular motion over her goblet of water just like she was supposed to. "Sentio Somnium." Was this going to work? She was still here in the classroom and nothing was different.

The seventh year was just about to give up and pack up her belongings when it hit her. There she was jogging down the beach barefoot and without a care in the world. This was wonderful. She wished she was really there. Hannah had a hard time snapping herself out of it.

Adi used Finite to cease his day dream! Darn! That was a cool spell! He seriously liked his day dream. All those Hippogriffs...

Anyway, it looked like it was time for class to end. It was a good thing he wrapped up his day dreaming. Adi stuffed his book, quill and ink bottle back into his bag, holstered his wand and placed his goblet on the Professor's desk. "Awesome lesson, Professor! See you later.'' And with that, Adi headed for the door.

Hannah definitely couldn't stall any longer. She cast the finite spell and delivered the goblet back to it's rightful place. She picked up all of her belongings and headed for the door. "Bye professor, thanks for the lesson." Even though he wasn't very helpful with the whole whispering the lesson thing. Still, the class was over and it was time for her to move on.