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It's bright and early Monday morning and time for the first Charms lesson of the term. As you enter, you notice the room is in it's typical set up with the desks and chairs lined in three neat rows to allow easy access should the Professor need to move about--though this is highly unlikely.
The windows, as usual are wide open letting in the natural light from the outdoors. Nothing like a little fresh air and a BRIGHT classroom to keep everyone awake after what was a large breakfast.
The Professor stands to the front, leaned against his desk waiting for the students to arrive. If he looks tired, he probably is...but that's nothing new, is it? Behind him the board remains blank for now except for these instructions:
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There was bound to be new students and just when he learned the old ones! Merlin! Come on in, the lesson will begin shortly.
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Torie listened to the professor and chewed his lip as he muttered 'Alarte Ascendare' over and over in his head. Pronouncing it A-lar-te As-cen-da-re carefully as the professor had instructed. He was determined to actually accomplish this one faster than he had in Astronomy. That had been a fiasco! Crumple a piece of parchment? He took a piece of parchment and crumpled it in his hand. Oh nice, so they had no control once it was shot with the spell. Well this might end up being fun. At least it was just paper, right?
He took out his wand and muttered Alarte Ascendare again over and over. Now? Yeah? He used his wand and said carefully "Alarte Ascendare" and watched the crumpled parchment move just a tiny bit rather than shoot up into the air. Right.
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Adi caught the squished up parchment with his dominant hand before it crash landed on the floor. He was pleased with himself. He would be even more pleased if his girlfriend was having the same success as he was. The sixth year edged over to her.
"Nice try,'' he told her, leaning against one of the desks. "But you've got to be as awesome as I am to do it right so fast. Look at the boss have a go.'' Adi brandished his wand. "Alarte Ascendare!''
UUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPP shot the parchment and WOAAAH! This time the parchment shot EVEN higher AND faster than his previous two attempts. It had to be because of the combination of the light weight of the object as well as the utmost concentration Adi had put into the effort this time around.
Adi took his eyes away from the object for a second to grin at AJ. "That's how it's done.'' GRIN! "Your turn, AJ.'' And where was the parchment? Ah, yesh! There it was, coming right back at him.
The second go round wasn't a total success, BUT she had managed to make her paper become airborne so that was something. That gave her confidence a tiny boost... maybe even enough to get the job done better this time.
Her wand was pointed at the wad of paper. "Al--" Excuse you...
"Boss... who?" AJ looked around the room to see who he could be talking about because surely he wasn't referring to himself. "The only boss I see around here is me." And to think his glasses were supposed to improve his vision. Of course she was just joking back with him.
The lion watched the hufflepuff give it a go, and she couldn't even say anything bad about his attempt because it was perfect. "I see that you waited until you had the spell mastered until you came over here to show off." Hehe. She had to give the boyfriend a hard time.
"I can do better than that." AJ was sounding a lot more confident than she was feeling because she had been down this road before. If anything was going to get her to perform better it would be Adi egging her on. This just might work out in her favor.
"Alarte Ascendare," she cried while doing the proper wand movements. Her parchment shot up into the air, and this time it didn't fall back down before it really got some air. "AHA!" Because neener, neener sounded a bit lame. Although, she was not above it. Before long her parchment was hitting the ground where it had started. Boom!
"You need specs, then,'' Adi said cheerfully. "Want to borrow mine?'' Hehe. AJ in specs... that would be a realllllly nice sight to his eyes. Mhmmm.
What, what? "I hadn't noticed you struggling before, AJ, otherwise I would have come over here to beat you earlier at the spell.'' Two can play this teasing game. Also, emphasis on the word 'struggling'.
"Oh, yeah? Let's see then.'' Adi WOULD like it if AJ did better than him, ya know. It was the reason he always teased her about him being the best. It really got her going.
A grin spread across his face as he watched the parchment zoom up. "Awesome!'' How about a high five, AJ? "It didn't didn't go as high as mine.'' There. He just had to get that out.
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Time for practising the incantation was over and Yoongi wanted to try the charm on the crumpled piece of paper in front of him. He looked around him for a second, observing the other students as they tried the spell and eventually pointed his phoenix wand at his own piece of paper.
“Alarte Ascendare” he said and did a small flick upwards. Despite only having used a small flick, the paper shot up in to the air, hit the ceiling above him with a thud and landed back down…on his head. Of course a piece of paper did not hurt , unless you got a papercut , those were nasty, the Gryffindor stood up from his chair to grab the paper as it had rolled away.
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Time to practice the incantation, and Lux figured that it might be a good idea to start off slow the way that Quigley had demonstrated. Even though the spell didn't seem hard to pronounce, it was always better to be safe than sorry. "A-lar-te As-cen-da-re... A-lar-te As-cen-da-re..." Easy peasey lemon squeezey. A couple goes of that, and she was more than ready to say everything properly.
"Alarte Ascendare... Alarte Ascendare... Alarte Ascendare..." Perfect. Now to practice the wand movement a little even though it was super simple. Lux always liked to be on her game when it came to this kind of thing because it really helped with her spellwork. Firmly holding her wand, she brandished it a few times. Weee, this was fun!!
She was so ready to shoot that piece of paper up into the air.
Okay, so maybe her first try hadn't worked, but Rowan Fields did not give up that easily, so she was going to have to figure out what she was doing wrong.
So she should work on speaking clearly first, right? Right. Okay. So she lowered her wand and repeated the incantation to herself a few times. "Alarte Ascendare. Alarte Ascendare. Alarte Ascendare." Better? Probably. Let's try it out then...
"Okay little ball, I'm gonna shoot you up in the air now." she said to the ball of paper, then took a step back and a deep breath.
"Alarte Ascendare!" She brandished her wand at the ball of paper...
IT MOVED! It did a little bounce! Rowan squealed with excitement and clapped her hands a little, then looked around a bit and cleared her throat. Nothing to see here.
Right, now she had to make it better! "Alarte Ascendare!"BRANDISH!
Weeeeeeee there it went. Not very high, maybe about a foot, but it was DOING something!
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"Another excellent point, thank you Mister Rider; tossing the quaffle should the Referee find him or herself with a bad case of neck strain all of a sudden." No doubt it was painful and it took a lot of dedication to keep looking UP until you threw your neck out of sorts. Something Maddox was not prepared to do. Another reason to avoid Quidditch.
Well look at that, his uncreative answer had gotten Benzi a compliment. He liked this professor a lot. Professor Squiggle. Yes. Benzi squiggled down his new nickname for the apple loving Charms professor and added a little about the lesson. Okay.
"Alarte Ascendare." Why did spells always make him feel stupid the first time he said them? Incendio,Wingardium Leviosa or Rictusempra all seemed part of the English language now but at first.. ugh. It was like speaking gibberish.
So, again. "Al-ar-te A-scen-dare," got it. Not too complicated. Benzi tore off a part of his parchment, careful to not tare off a part of his notes as well, and crumpled it up into a ball. Time for the practical part.
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Pointing her wand at the crumpled up paper, Lux furrowed her brows slightly and concentrated on what she wanted the spell to do.
With a BRANDISH, she called out the incantation. "Alarte Ascendare!" Haha, look at that paper goooooooooo. Giggling, she watched as it raised off the desk and then fell back down. Okay, so it hadn't traveled WAY up there like a rocket, but baby steps and she would have this down like a pro in no time! Yep, she was confident in her abilities.
Smiling, Lux brandished her wand again and tried with more force behind the spell. "Alarte Ascendare!" Now that was much more like it. This time it had shot up and hit the ceiling before coming back down. That had been fun, so she kept shooting the paper up into the air again and again and again....
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"Alarte Ascendrere!" the sixteen year old brandished his wand in the same movement the Squiggle had taught them, and looked expectantly at the piece of parchment. FLY LITTLE BALL. FLY AWAY LIKE A BIRD. Be the quaffle you're always aspired to! OWN IT.
... Hang on. That wasn't even the right incantation. Sigh, Benz.
"Al-ar-te A-scen-dare. Alarte Ascendare. Alarte Ascendare!" he did the wand movement again, and GRINNED WIDELY when the little ball bounced a TEENSY bit off the floor. It was something! He hadn't completely botched it on his first go.
Now to get it to ACTUAL quaffle heights. He'd make this parchment ball's dreams come true.
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A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.
Get it together, Natalia Jane Woolf! The Lioness thought to herself. No pressure, though. Encouraging herself through her own thoughts could sometimes help the concentration.
Alright, alright, let's go!
"Alarte Ascendare!" WOOSH. YAAAAaaayyy...nevermind. "Accio paper ball!" Because Natalia was simply too lazy to move her legs. Will it ever stop going in an unnecessary parabola? According to the professor, the appropriate result was for the ball to move straight up and straight down. Natalia sent her paper ball a maximum height of around two to three feet, but the curve, though, had to be corrected.
Maybe tilting her wand more upright would help?
"Alarte Ascendare!" Nope.
Maybe it had to do with the movement of the wand flick. Deciding to work on the wrist movement instead, Natalia flicked her wand a couple times over and over while only muttering the spell.
"Alarte Ascendare... Alarte Ascendare... Alarte Ascendare- oh,I really didn't mean that..." It turned out that during her 'silent' practice, the magic picked up her voice and transferred it to the ball, allowing it to soar into the air in a straight line (to around... four... five feet!) before plunging back down. Well, well, look at that! The best thing did when you weren't expecting it.
Okay little crumpled up ball on parchment, let's see what we can make you doooooo.
Well... broadly speaking, he could make it do a lot of things, 'cause of magic and everything, but specifically speaking he could only fling it up in the air with this spell, unless he got it WRONG. But... yeah. Figure of SPEECH, okay? Okay.
Toby took a moment, to sort of stretch and limber up his wand arm (and his other arm 'cause why not) even though that exercise with the desks already had him nice and warmed up. Just PREPPING, okay? Aight. Let's doooo thissssss.
"Alarte Ascendare!" Toby said with great enthusiasm, BRANDISHing his wand at the ball of parchment and envisioning it flying way up up up into the air.
And it DID fly, at least. Or, well, shoot up. Kinda. Except it only reached about his eye level.
BUT IT WORKED.
He just needed to keep practicing, and that would get it up higher. Yep.
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Angel now had to put everything together, she looked at her crumbled up piece of paper and smiled, she couldn't wait to see if the spell would work she really hoped that it would because she thought it would be really fun and interesting.
"Alarte Ascendare!!" Angel did the wand movement and watched as the ball went about an inch into the air before coming back onto the desk... she sighed she was sure that she could do a lot better than that, she wanted to get it to go really high into the sky, you know like the song. "I wish I could fly right into the sky but I can't." Angel thought it would be cool to help Orville the duck fly as high as he wanted even if the thing was a puppet.
"Alarte Ascendare!!" Angel did the wand movement again and smiled as the ball went about 5 inches into the air, she was getting better at this, though how high was it supposed to go into the air?
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Okay incantation? Check. Wad of parchment? Check. Time to get this show on the road, then! It seemed easy enough, anyway. Plus some first years were already ahead and this was gonna make Zander look really bad. Not that it really mattered since Professor Q was already so hateful. ANYWAYS.
Spell time.
"Alarte Ascendare!" he brandished his wand at the wad of paper and before he knew it, it was flying straight up into the--oh. Well that didn't go very high.... Erm. "Alarte Ascendare.....Alarte Ascendare!!!"
And apparently third time's the charm. Geddit, cause this was charms? Heh. But yeah, anyways, now that that was over. What now? Just sitting here and waiting... La la la. Wonder what the main activity was gonna be like. Just sayin'.
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She refused to fail a second time. It wasn’t in Brooklyn to fail, to look stupid in front of everyone else. She didn’t even care that she might have an excuse since she was only a third year, and even some of the older students had been having problems getting the spell to work right. That just meant she had to show them. The fact she’d failed and the parchment ball hadn’t even gotten two feet off the ground the first time she’d cast was going to be ignored. It never happened, because now she was going to actually get it to fly up high. She wanted it to hit the ceiling, even. It’s not like it would hurt anyone if it ricocheted and hit them. She didn’t even think it could give anyone a paper cut. Unfortunately. There were a few people she wouldn’t have minded if they got some.
Anyway, time to cast again, and she focused her blue eyes on the parchment ball below her desk. Only that, and nothing else. If concentration was what would make the spell work, that’s what she’d do. Concentrate. Brandishing her wand at it again, she spoke clearly. “Alarte Ascendare!” As the ball rose, she kept her eyes on it. The entire way up, until it slammed into the ceiling and fell back to the ground. Slightly misshapen now. Dented. Oh well. The spell had finally worked. It wasn’t her fault that there was the castle in the way.
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"Alarte Ascendare!" ... Still just above knee height. D:
Oh come on, you silly parchment ball. Have some DRIVE. Some PASSION. YOU'RE GOING TO BE A STAR. A QUIDDITCH STAR. "Alarte Ascendare!" Benzi brandished his wand again with MUCH GUSTO and practically BEAMED when the tiny little parchment shot up WAY over his head.
THAT'S the spirit. Go little parchment ball. Watching it fall back down, Benzi grinned and did it again. And again. "Alarte Ascendare!"
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THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! SHE WAS DOING MAGIC!!! ACTUAL MAGIC!!!!!! LIKE FOR REAL! WITH A WAND! DOING SPELLS! CHARMS! THINGS! GOODNESS!
Rusty had to take a moment to close her eyes and clear her head, because the more excited she got, the less she concentrated, and the less powerful the spell became.
Okay, after she counted down from five she opened her eyes again and eyed the ball. Right. Here goes.
"Alarte Ascendare!!" The ball shot up into the air, reaching approximately head hight, then falling down again. Okay NEXT time she was going to make it hit the ceiling. YES SHE WAS.
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Abby heard the rest of her classmates practising the spell and practiced the incantation into herself just so she knew what she was going to say Alarte Ascardaire and then out loud she said "Alarte Ascardaire" with the wand movement she sighed as nothing happened but knew that she wouldnt have done it on the first try
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Lololol. He was late in getting started. Looooooool!
Oh man. What a great start to the year.
Shaking his head, Grayson opted to practising the spell first. It was his go-to plan when it came to learning new spells and this was no different. Besides, practice made perfect or whatever. Not that he'd be too fussed if he didn't get the spell right but firsties had been able to get their parchments up in the air, for Merlin's sake. His ego demanded that he did the same.
So, rolling up his sleeves, the seventh year took out his wand and placed it on the table. "A-lar-te........ A-lar-te.......... A-lar-te....... A-lar-te...... As-cen-da-re..... As-cen-da-re....... As-cen-da-re......" Chant chant freaking chant.
"Alarte Ascendare! Alarte Ascendare! Alarte Ascendare!" Seriously, man, who came up with these spells? Couldn't they have picked words that were easier to pronounce? Jeez.
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Caleb had a feeling that this was what budding dark wizards did in their dorms. But with things like boulders and bowling balls. He wasn't sure WHY it was necessary to really know this, but ah well. At least it wasn't as hard as the stone dragon thing from last term. That had been TRICKY.
Taking a piece of parchment and crumpling it up, he took out his wand and cleared his throat. He pointed his wand and then brandished it wildly, shouting "Alarte Ascendare!" as he did so.
It lamely toppled on his desk and off onto the floor. Boooooo.
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Abby was determined to get this done right and said "Alarte Ascandare" Abby was amazed this time as the next water balloon lifted off of her table and raised a bit of the way up and she knew next time she did it she would get her next balloon higher up
Norah gave her crumpled parchment ball a little pat because just 'cause it was paper didn't mean it didn't deserve niceness, before raising her wand for the zillionth time. It was going to go up so high this time, she could FEEL IT. Narrowing her eyes and imagining the little ball going all the way up to the ceiling, she cast "Alarte Ascendare!" and brandished her wand. Even though she'd obviously believed in it all along, the fourth year gave a squeal of delight as the paper shot up above her head and fell down again, teetering at the edge of the desk. So it hadn't gone aaaalll the way up to the ceiling but it was better than last time.
She flicked the parchment ball back to the center of the desk and cast the spell again. "Alarte Ascendare!" It went hurtling up again until it was nearly halfway to the ceiling before slowing down and falling down again. Norah lunged forward to catch the ball before it hit the desk, effectively smashing her knee into the wooden leg but she did catch it without falling over so it really didn't matter. PROGRESS, she'd MADE IT. That totally counted. She didn't want to lose her parchment ball to all the cool stuff in outer space anyways.
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Ok, Caleb was determined now to get this right. Everyone else was doing it well - he was not going to give up! Clearing his throat again and getting ready to wave his wand, he decided that maybe he had gotten a bit TOOOOO wild on the last one. And that was why it had gone so poorly. Yes, he'd be a little less...aggressive in his wand waving this time.
"Alarte Ascendare!" he exclaimed, waving his wand at the wad of parchment but not as crazy as he had the last time. This time, instead of just flopping sadly on the ground, the parchment SHOT up in the air, about a foot about his head. Like a kernel of corn popping. How had nobody made a type of Quidditch based off this? Just shoot things in the air and hope they land in hoops? That would be fun!
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Abby was pleased with the last effort and said "Alarte Ascendare" Abby moved her wand in the correct movements and saw her balloon lift off her table and really quite high she was pleased that she had managed to everything correctly now she sat and waited for the next set of instructions
Okay. Right. So. Now the aim was to get the crumpled ball a little HIGHER. Toby knew he could do the spell, got it on the first try and everything, perhaps it was his enthusiasm for flying or being able to visualise things in the air 'cause of Quidditch, but he'd managed it. Now... higher higher higher.
After quickly nudging the balled up parchment back to the middle of his desk, Toby cleared his throat and tried again, swishing his wand at the parchment in the grandest brandish he could think to muster.
"Alarte Ascendare!"
Again, the parchment shot up into the air, a little faster this time, and so a little further. It made it perhaps two feet higher than last time before gravity took hold once again. Toby caught it, this time, instead of letting it bounce back on the desk, in case it ended up bouncing way away.
It would have been fine to stop there, really, as the spell had totally WORKED. But Toby was gonna KEEP AT IT. He wanted to make the parchment reach new levels.
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They were shooting paper up in the AIR? REALLY REALLY? Dot tugged a scrap of scribbly parchment from between two pages and crunched it up into a teeny tiny ball. Maybe too tiny, considering she needed to actually hit it with a spell. And track it up through the air. And figure out where it fell.
Dot uncrumpled the parchment a bit, smoothing out some of the wrinkles until the ball was just a little smaller than an apple. It fit easily into the palm of her hand... although it wasn't going to stay there if she was casting at it. She tipped her hand to the side and let the paper fall to her desk.
What was the incantation? "Ala-carte Ascending." Hehe, nope. Dot looked around for inspiration. What was it really?
'Cause HERE GOES. Yep, okay. This was the big one, Toby could feel it. This time he was going to take home the gold; this ball of parchment was going to regionals.
Toby set the parchment back in the dead centre of his desk again, rolled his shoulders because rahhhh so ready, not gonna risk PULLING A MUSCLE, oKAY?, and held up his wand.
"Alarte Ascendare!" This time, the incantation was accompanied by perhaps thE MOST DRAMATIC BRANDISH Toby had done yet, and visualised like there weren't no tomorrow. He was getting into the groove of the spell, okay. And it did the trick, too, because from its static position on the desktop, the ball of parchment suddenly SHOT STRAIGHT UP IN THE AIR. It was still going at full pelt when it hit the ceiling, and so bounced almost as quickly right back down. Toby stuck out a hand and plucked it fron the air, before holding up his arms in a VICTORY POSE.
Nailed it, yo.
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