Kate did have a question, but this question was more of a question to herself than to the professor. Did she have any control over what color her eyebrows would change to? The professor didn't say anything about an extra incantation or intent, so Kate guessed not. She situated herself in front of her mirror and took a good look at her natural eyebrows. She just hoped she didn't mess up and cause some permanent damage. Practicing on a stuffed animal was one thing, but herself?

Suddenly, Kate was a little nervous. She didn't want purple or blue eyebrows for the rest of her life. She sighed and looked around the room. Everybody else was practicing, so she should, too. With one last look at her usual eyebrows, Kate flicked her wand and said, "Capillus Colorum!" She blinked and studied her eyebrows. They looked the same. The spell hadn't worked! She honestly breathed a sigh of relief at that point. She still wasn't sold on practicing a brand new spell on herself.

Be careful? Focus?

Those were perhaps the two things that Tobias had more trouble with than anything else, these days. BUT he would do his best and focus and everything 'cause even though having pointy ears for the rest of foreer would be COOL and give him character, Toby didn't want to make Bellaire angry or get shouted at or anything for not paying attention. That was motivation enough. The Hufflepuff moved along to one of the free mirrors and glanced automatically at his reflection.

Incantation first, because it was the type he was likely to need to get used to before putting straight into practice.

"Aurbus Aq-... Aquita? No, wait." Toby looked back at his notes again for the incantation and used his quill to make little dashes through the words to break them up. "Aur-i-bus Aq-u-ta... Auribus... Aquta. Auuuribus Aqutaasa. Aurrrribus Aaaaquta." Ahem. Little bit carried away there. "Auribus Aquta."

Really, the incantation would be the easy part. The HARD part would be the focusing and the intent of the spell and getting it right without setting his ears on fire or permanently pointing using them or something. But he'd try it. And... maybe give the non-verbal practicing a miss until he mastered it; THAT was hard enough with the easiest spells.

Toby looked into his mirror and turned his head to one side, wondering vaguely if this might be the last time he ever got to see his ear looking quite like this. Exciting stuff, really.

Angel went and sat near a mirror, she knew that she was going to have to be a brave little trooper and actually do this. She was a bit upset because she had only just trimmed her eyebrows and if anything went wrong she could looked weird or worse.

Angel decided she was going to practice the incantation. "Capillus Colorum! Capillus Colorum!" Angel smiled that sounded perfect and she decided that she didn't want to try a third time, she also decided that red eyebrows would be great for her, now all she had to do was concentrate.

Angel pointed her wand at her eyebrows and then she concentrated hard on the colour she wanted. "Capillus Colorum!" Angel then she looked into the mirror.

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Pink!! She didn't think that suited her, what had gone wrong, she had been aiming for red though saying that this looked a pinkish reddish colour, but anyway at least she had changed the colour of her eyebrows.

Margo was smiling, she had one blue eyebrow and looked like a crazy lady, but she had done the spell on her first try and life was great. Maybe her magic was becoming more powerful or maybe it was beginners luck but either way Margo was pretty happy with her results.

So turning her attention to her right eyebrow this time, she was ready and hoping for result that were just as fantastic. "Capillus Colorum" Margo said taping her eyebrow, but nothing happened this time. Ugh, magic was so frustrating!!!!! A spell should just work every time you used it!!!

Cilla always liked to get the pronunciation of the incantation correct before attempting the wand movement. She had learnt from previous experience that the spell won't work if you aren't saying the incantation properly.

Cilla muttered under her breath, "Capillus Colorum!" three times.

When she felt confident enough to try the spell, Cilla picked up the mirror in her left hand and her wand in her right. She tapped her left eyebrow with her wand whilst thinking of the darkest night sky and said, "Capillus Colorum!".

Cilla looked in the mirror and was happy to discover that her left eyebrow was now black instead of its usual copper tone. Cilla repeated the process on her right eyebrow except this time she thought of a field of sunflowers. The result was that her right eyebrow was a bright yellow.

Kate's first attempt at the spell hadn't worked, and even though she was relieved that she hadn't caused some facial disaster, she knew she had to try again. She looked in the mirror and studied her eyebrows. She should really try picturing some colorful things, things a different color than her own eyebrows.

Pink.

Kate loved the color pink. She still hadn't grown out of her whole pink stage that she'd been in since she was about six or seven. So what was pink? Pigs were pink, but Kate didn't want to picture a pig when she was trying to change the color of her eyebrows. Cotton candy could be pink! So could bubble gum, ice cream, and hair bows.

Kate tried to keep a good mental picture of these colors as she flicked her wand forward. "Capillus Colorum!" she called out. She blinked as something began to change in her eyebrows. Oh my Merlin! It was working! She closed her eyes. She'd open them in a minute. She just wanted to open them only when she could see what had changed on her.

No pressure or anything when he heard the effects maybe permanent if you didn't concentrate. He didn't want elf ears for the rest of his life but he thought they looked cool in the movies. He copied down the wand movement and the spell. He saw the spell was Auribus Aquta. Nothing too hard right. He began pronouncing it first before even attempting to do the spell.

"Au-rib-us Aq-u-ta......Au-rib-us Aq-u-ta......Au-rib-us Aq-u-ta......Au-rib-us Aq-u-ta......Au-rib-us Aq-u-ta......Au-rib-us Aq-u-ta......"

Now to put the spell all together.

"Auribus Aquta......Auribus Aquta......Auribus Aquta.....Auribus Aquta.....Auribus Aquta.." and he did a tap of his wand too. Now time to put it all together. He took a deep breath and tried to concentrate. Let's see how this will go.

Slowly, Kate began to open her eyes. She didn't quite know what to expect, but she imagined it was something along the lines of the cotton candy and bubble gum she'd pictured earlier. She frowned when she saw the result, though. Her eyebrows didn't really change colors. They were still her normal eyebrows but with the faintest hint of pink. By 'faintest', she meant that if you weren't looking for a color change, you probably wouldn't even notice it.

Sigh.

Kate pointed her wand forward and said, "Finite!" Whatever she had done before, faint or not, was reversed now. She refocused herself and stared into the mirror. Again, she pictured all the pink things she'd imagined before. This time, though, she focused not on the object itself but on the color of the objects. There had to be some magic in that train of thought somewhere!

Kate pointed her wand forward and with much more determination than before, she said, "Capillus Colorum!" Something had to work this time. It just had to.

Time to put the spell to the test. He looked at himself in the mirror and calmed himself down. He needed to be confident. He knew he could do this. He held his wand at the ready. Only a simple tap was all he needed on his ears. He felt confident and tried to spell.

He said the incantation....."Auribus Aquta...?" and with a simple tap on his ears and he felt nothing. Hmmm...now that was weird. He didn't even know what he was supposed to feel. Was he supposed to feel his ear stretched or would they just appear fastly? He really had NO idea. He shrugged and began to try again.

The puffer held his wand and went for a second attempt, he said the incantation "Auribus Aquta!" and he tapped his ears while saying the spell really loud and he saw something. He saw he had longg elf ears.

Huh...they didn't look soo bad as he thought they would. They looked bloody cool!

Well, something did happen alright. Kate opened her eyes to see a pretty pink eyebrow. Eyebrow. As in one eyebrow. Her right eyebrow had stayed the same for some reason, but her left eyebrow was a medium shade of pink, just like the cotton candy and bubble gum she'd pictured! In some ways, this worried Kate. What if she couldn't get it to turn back to its normal shade? What if she had to keep it pink forever? That might not be so bad, but what if the other eyebrow wouldn't turn pink, too? What if she had to live with one pink eyebrow and one normal one?

There were way too many questions.

Kate thought about casting the spell again on that one normal eyebrow, but then what if that caused the already pink eyebrow to become hot pink? Okay, she was over-analyzing this too much. She flicked her wand forward and said, "Finite!" To her relief, the pink eyebrow reverted back to its regular shade.

So this was take four of her attempt to change the color of her eyebrows. The first time had resulted in nothing at all. She'd cast a second time and had nothing but a tint that probably couldn't even be seen by anybody but her. then she'd cast a third time and had only one pink eyebrow. The third time had NOT been the charm, as they saying goes.

So take four was hopefully the time it took for her to get it right. Kate stared into the mirror and studied her now normal looking eyebrows. At least she knew she could turn them back to normal successfully. So if the spell never worked, she at least wasn't stuck with this. Kate again focused on anything she could think of that was pink. There was the usual cotton candy and bubblegum she'd been thinking about before, and then pigs were pink, ice cream, crayons, color-changing quills, clothes, bows, and purses, too.

With a point of her wand, she called out, "Capillus Colorum!"