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It was a mild October day in France when Piers opened up the doors to the Charms classroom. The sun was out, but it was a little deceiving as it wasn't very warm outside. Thankfully the room had a bit of a warming charm in it so the students would stay warm - but not warm enough that tempted one to take a nap.
Keeping the doors open, Piers made his way to the front of the room and stood in front of his desk. He leaned against the desk, crossed his ankles, stuck his hands in his pockets and waited for the students to arrive.
By the way, you'll notice that there aren't any desks in the classroom today. There are, however, large bullseye targets painted onto the ceiling. So, feel free to just... stand there until class starts.
OOC: Welcome to Charms class! Although this is the first lesson for YOU, please note that it is October in the RP, so this isn't the first lesson for your students. Make sure you read the Charms Classroom Rules!
Alessandro felt his hand jerk, itching to be raised. Yes, accuracy was important to spell casting, but the Toussaint would argue that intention was even more important. Magic was not as simple as waving your wand and saying the right words, otherwise all witches and wizards would be talented spell casters. And that could not have been farther from the truth.
He had seem some truly disastrous spell casting the last five years at Hogwarts, often performed by excitable Gryffindors. But he didn't raise his hand and say any of that. His gloved fist remained hanging at his side as his classmates answered the posed question.
As the lesson progressed, the sixth year quietly drummed up lots of ways things could go wrong with spell casting. He tried not to ruffle any feathers. He had done enough of that already this term.
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Cecelia tilted her head, considering what Tavie said for a moment. "Bet it won't be TOO dangerous. Doubt the professor wants to have all our parents calling all angry 'cause we did something that could hurt us super bad," She said reassuringly, offering her friend a smile. Speaking of danger, though...the blonde giggled as Phoebe crashed into them, holding out her own arms to steady her, being the helpful girl that she was. "That. was. awesome." She really liked Phoebe's style, purposeful or not.
The question was a good one and Cecelia was new to spells, so she KNEW that it took a LOT of concentration and stuff to make sure she made something happen. She ALSO started relating the question to defense against the dark arts, 'cause they'd kinda talked about something similar. "Professor, if you're in a situation where you're trying to protect yourself, you really need a spell to work the first time around. Having to try again and again could mean the difference between protecting yourself from something bad and getting caught or hurt by it." Which, was sort of similar to what others had said, but it was STILL true.
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Launching right into a discussion, were they? Claudine supposed that it was a good idea because once the lesson’s activity started, everyone would be too worked up to pay attention to a discussion. Her gaze kept flicking from the students, to her Head of House to the targets up above. Based on the question asked, they would definitely be practising on said targets. But what about her answer? Claudine had basically the same thoughts as those that answered. Did she think it was worth repeating? No. It was for this reason that the first year kept quiet for now. Also, she wanted to sit. Merlin. Did Fuller- Thompson like making the students uncomfortable?
Even a month into the term, Teddy was still instinctively sticking to his life-long friend group like glue - Cece, Tavie, and his twin Fi, of course, had been greeted with the usual exuberant chatter. It was comfortable with them, it was safe, and they could help each other. They'd studied and problem-solved together all their lives, so it just worked. Thus, it was no surprise today that the blond-haired boy had joined his girls when he entered, but familiar faces like Eiji were the recipients of a smile and a wave from him.
As the class discussion began, Teddy settled sliiightly tucked behind his friends so that they were sort of between him and the professor as best has he could angle it. His experience thus far with answering questions during classes did not make him keen on verbally participating, but he didn't like giving the professors the opportunity to give him a look of disappointment for not speaking up either. So, when he could have control of it, he tried to sort of hide as best as he could, and that's precisely what he was doing now: avoiding eye contact with the professor, but attentively listening to the others' answers and smiling reassuringly when his friends spoke up. It didn't even matter what kind of answers the girls and Flynn gave, Teddy would always be supportive and give them nudges of fond encouragement when needed.
His instinctive answer was, naturally, that someone could die if something went wrong. But. He was going to keep that obvious one to himself.
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Why was accuracy so important? What happens if we get the spell wrong? That...... that was pretty simple, wasn’t it? In fact, it was something that was drilled into them from the very first day. He couldn’t even remember a time when he didn’t think the accuracy was important with spells.
A lot of - mostly terrible - things could happen if you got the spell wrong. A lot of things that people had already mentioned: injuries, nothing happening at all, even getting hurt while you tried to get the spell right. Which sounded like something Trent would remind them about.
And some of these things? Yeaaaaaaah, he didn’t really want to think about them at all.
So, Lucas stayed quiet. He was only mildly uncomfortable but distracting himself was easy in this classroom. Hello, targets, he was looking up at you, again.
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Fiona wasn't too confident in answering but she was willing to try so she raised her hand. "Spell accuracy is like a recipe. You need to have all the right techniques in order to successfully cast your spell. If that doesn't happen, it can lead to....possible injury to yourself or someone else."
Fiona felt pretty satisfied with her answer but what would her Charms teacher/Head of House think? Honestly, she wasn't fussed either way.
When the first student raised their hand, Piers nodded at her and let her go. ”Very good analogy. Good job.” Like if someone didn’t put cheese in their lasagna it would be gross and disappointing. And maybe not getting a spell right could be more dangerous than that, but it was still a good analogy.
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The idea of shortening the Charms professor’s name hadn’t actually ever occurred to Carys, mostly just because she rather liked feeling like she was showing the professors respect. Especially since it seemed like the Beauxbatons staff wasn’t always doing the same. She’d heard rumors about what the Slytherins had to deal with and it kind of made dealing with the Bellefeuille students seem not so bad.
The discussion wasn’t really a surprise either, come to think of it. Accuracy gave her an idea what the targets on the ceiling might end up used for, anyway. “Making a mistake with casting could end up with someone getting hurt. If the aim is off, the spell won’t go where it’s supposed to, and a wrong wand movement might mean we end up casting a whole different spell than we meant to, or at least we might get a different result. Every part of a spell is important. Even pronouncing it wrong could be dangerous,” she said after a moment. Spells turned into explosions way too easily.
Piers nodded when Carys starting giving her answer, indicating that she was spot on. ”You’re very right, good job.” It was a simple question, but at least they could answer it right.
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The question the professor asked them was the most basic thing when it came to spell work. It felt like a stupid question - or maybe it was just her terrible headspace. Because being unnecessarily salty was not her thing. Glancing
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Mentally scolding herself and resisting the urge to roll her eyes, she found herself nodding along the few students who answered it - and glancing toward the boyfriend because surely he wouldn't have missed the chance to roll his eyes. It was just SO OBVIOUS.
Could they move on to the interesting stuff? Please?
Was she bored or was it just her face? He may never know.
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Kaiser was not in the least bit tempted to open his eyes, even as Fuller-Thomson returned the greeting and the other students started filtering into the classroom. Not until he heard Gunnar's voice, at which point his blinked his eyes open, a little confused about what his dorm-mate was talking about.
But only for a couple of seconds, until he noticed all the first years that happened to be nearby, and he gave a start of surprise. This - the whole being surrounded by eleven year olds thing - happened alarmingly often, which Kaiser supposed he should have expected as there were just so, so many this year.
"Shut up," he muttered to Gunnar, though in a good-natured sort of way, and smiled vaguely back at that one Ravenclaw kid.
Now that he was, uh, slightly more awake, Kaiser straightened up slightly, but still continued to lean against the wall. He kept his eyes open this time, though reluctantly. Lucky, too, because the whirlwind plant-licker that he had, by now, discovered went by the name of Phoebe, came crashing in. Literally. Like, into him, a little bit. He would have tried to help steady her so she didn't end up falling, but one of the other first years had that covered. Kaiser just kind of... blinked, and pretending like nothing had happened.
The start of the lesson was a good distraction. Kind of. It was just a shame it required paying attention and everything.
Uhh... right. Spell accuracy. That... was this a trick question? Kaiser was starting to feel like it was a trick question; apparently he didn't trust the idea of being presented with a question that he actually knew the answer to. Hmm.
All the same, he half raised his hand. "If you are not accurate with the wand movement or incantation, nothing may happen at all. It would be like trying a spell that does not exist."
Piers prided himself in not paying attention to student drama, student conversations or student collisions - unless, of course, someone got injured. Kaiser looked like someone who could handle themselves. Piers nodded when he gave his answer. ”That’s very true. Sometimes the wrong wand movement may result in nothing at all - in fact, that is most common.” Not ALL misfired spells resulted in tragedy.
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Why would there not be any desks?? Where on earth was Blake suppose to put his stuff ... on the ground he guessed. Taking a deep breath and set his bag on the ground. That's when he noticed the targets.
His pulse quickened a bit ... what would they be doing with targets??? The anticipation was unnerving! He was ready for class to begin. Smiling at the Professor's and then contemplating his answer. "Well you could end up saying the wrong spell all together, and causing series harm if there is anyone around you.".
Piers nodded at the next student’s response. ”That’s right. We don’t want to say a completely different spell altogether.”
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This seemed like a pretty basic question, but alway important to touch back to the basics, yes? Nettie smiled at the professor and raised her hand, trying not to think about how she really wished they were sitting right now. Why was it that standing was always so hard when you had no option to sit?
"Well Professor, like Kaiser said, the most common thing that'll happen is that you won't have anything happen at all. But you don't know for sure what will happen - you could injury yourself, or others around you, in the worst case scenario. So it really stresses how important it is to make sure you know what you're doing, because one wrong wrist movement could be the difference between NOTHING happening, or something catastrophic happening," she explained.
Basically, a very long winded explanation of what everyone had already said. Ahem.
Piers nodded at Nettie, grateful for her positive attitude. Not as grateful for her long winded answer, but at least she was right. ”Veeeery good,” he said with a long nod. ”Thank you, Nettie.”
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Alessandro felt his hand jerk, itching to be raised. Yes, accuracy was important to spell casting, but the Toussaint would argue that intention was even more important. Magic was not as simple as waving your wand and saying the right words, otherwise all witches and wizards would be talented spell casters. And that could not have been farther from the truth.
He had seem some truly disastrous spell casting the last five years at Hogwarts, often performed by excitable Gryffindors. But he didn't raise his hand and say any of that. His gloved fist remained hanging at his side as his classmates answered the posed question.
As the lesson progressed, the sixth year quietly drummed up lots of ways things could go wrong with spell casting. He tried not to ruffle any feathers. He had done enough of that already this term.
The Toussaint looked like he had something to say. Piers even waited a moment to see if he would raise his hand... but ultimately moved on. Toussaints were moody.
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Cecelia tilted her head, considering what Tavie said for a moment. "Bet it won't be TOO dangerous. Doubt the professor wants to have all our parents calling all angry 'cause we did something that could hurt us super bad," She said reassuringly, offering her friend a smile. Speaking of danger, though...the blonde giggled as Phoebe crashed into them, holding out her own arms to steady her, being the helpful girl that she was. "That. was. awesome." She really liked Phoebe's style, purposeful or not.
The question was a good one and Cecelia was new to spells, so she KNEW that it took a LOT of concentration and stuff to make sure she made something happen. She ALSO started relating the question to defense against the dark arts, 'cause they'd kinda talked about something similar. "Professor, if you're in a situation where you're trying to protect yourself, you really need a spell to work the first time around. Having to try again and again could mean the difference between protecting yourself from something bad and getting caught or hurt by it." Which, was sort of similar to what others had said, but it was STILL true.
When the next student responded, he listened carefully. ”This is true. Spell accuracy is very important when you’re dueling.” And he was saying dueling instead of self defense so he wouldn’t scare the first years.
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Launching right into a discussion, were they? Claudine supposed that it was a good idea because once the lesson’s activity started, everyone would be too worked up to pay attention to a discussion. Her gaze kept flicking from the students, to her Head of House to the targets up above. Based on the question asked, they would definitely be practising on said targets. But what about her answer? Claudine had basically the same thoughts as those that answered. Did she think it was worth repeating? No. It was for this reason that the first year kept quiet for now. Also, she wanted to sit. Merlin. Did Fuller- Thompson like making the students uncomfortable?
Piers moved his eyes over another student who looked like they had something to say. Some were silent, and that was okay.
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Even a month into the term, Teddy was still instinctively sticking to his life-long friend group like glue - Cece, Tavie, and his twin Fi, of course, had been greeted with the usual exuberant chatter. It was comfortable with them, it was safe, and they could help each other. They'd studied and problem-solved together all their lives, so it just worked. Thus, it was no surprise today that the blond-haired boy had joined his girls when he entered, but familiar faces like Eiji were the recipients of a smile and a wave from him.
As the class discussion began, Teddy settled sliiightly tucked behind his friends so that they were sort of between him and the professor as best has he could angle it. His experience thus far with answering questions during classes did not make him keen on verbally participating, but he didn't like giving the professors the opportunity to give him a look of disappointment for not speaking up either. So, when he could have control of it, he tried to sort of hide as best as he could, and that's precisely what he was doing now: avoiding eye contact with the professor, but attentively listening to the others' answers and smiling reassuringly when his friends spoke up. It didn't even matter what kind of answers the girls and Flynn gave, Teddy would always be supportive and give them nudges of fond encouragement when needed.
His instinctive answer was, naturally, that someone could die if something went wrong. But. He was going to keep that obvious one to himself.
This kid also looked like he had something to say. Piers waited... but he was very actively avoiding eye contact. Oh well.
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Why was accuracy so important? What happens if we get the spell wrong? That...... that was pretty simple, wasn’t it? In fact, it was something that was drilled into them from the very first day. He couldn’t even remember a time when he didn’t think the accuracy was important with spells.
A lot of - mostly terrible - things could happen if you got the spell wrong. A lot of things that people had already mentioned: injuries, nothing happening at all, even getting hurt while you tried to get the spell right. Which sounded like something Trent would remind them about.
And some of these things? Yeaaaaaaah, he didn’t really want to think about them at all.
So, Lucas stayed quiet. He was only mildly uncomfortable but distracting himself was easy in this classroom. Hello, targets, he was looking up at you, again.
Another silent student. Piers didn’t mind though. It was time to move on anyway.
Once Piers was satisfied with the answers he was given, Piers moved the discussion on. The students had good answers, and he wanted to recap what they said. ”Alright, so let’s recap. Kaiser brought up a good point - sometimes the wrong wand movement or missing a syllable will simply do nothing at all. Sometimes the spell just won’t work at all. But of course, sometimes aiming loosely or not focusing - not having the right intent can really mess you up.” And he was going to leave it that vague.
”Today we’re going to learn about the ascension charm, or the spell known as Alarte Acendare.” Piers waved his wand a the board and the spell appeared. ”Go ahead and tell me what this spell does and how it might be useful. Think of ways you could use it in your daily life or even on special occasions.” It was time to think inside and outside of the box.
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The ascension charm? Huh? Was this something religious? Bernadette scratched her elbow and tried to think of a guess, because she definitely had not done the reading for THIS charm.
"It makes balloons go up in the air," she guessed, after raising her hand of course. He'd SAID think about SPECIAL OCCASIONS, so of course she was thinking of a birthday party.
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The ascension charm....so did that mean they were going to be shooting stuff up at those targets today? That sounded like fun. Avalon usually enjoyed Charms class, and combining it with target practice made the lesson seem even more exciting. She raised her hand, fairly confident in what the charm did, but a bit unsure of some circumstances in which the charm would be useful.
"The ascension charm shoots an object into the air. It shoots it up pretty fast, which is what makes it different than the levitation charm, right?" And also the fact that you could really control the direction that you wanted something to hover when performing Wingardium Leviosa. Avalon didn't know if you could control the object precisely when using the ascension charm. "It might be useful if you needed to quickly get an object to someone who was flying overhead on a broom." That way you wouldn't have to take the time to mount and take off on your own broom first. "Perhaps when the referee releases all the balls at the start of a Quidditch match!"
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Valencia thought for a moment before raising her hand. "Could you maybe use it to shoot off fireworks?" Of course, something would also have to explode the fireworks, but this could get it up in the sky, probably.
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See? He was right. That was suspicious. Mildly suspicious, but suspicious all the same.
Kaiser stood waiting for the catch, but it never came. Fuller-Thompson simply moved the lesson on, just like that. Even mentioning his answer again, which was an odd sort of experience.
Anyway, moving on. And onto the ascension charm, apparently. Kaiser opted to answer the second part of the question, based on the information that other kids had already given about what the spell actually did.
"Maybe you can use it on yourself if you want to get to the roof," he suggested, hand halfway raised. That was a part of daily life, right? At least it was for Kaiser, although he would never use an ascension charm to get up there because most of the fun was in the climb. But still, it was the first idea that came to him, so it was the answer that Fuller-Thompson got.
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So today is all about the ascension charm. Pretty straight-forward but sometimes it takes time to get used to perfecting a charm. Like everyone has shared earlier accuracy in saying the incantation and wand movement are very important when it comes to spells. But she also thought that Alarte Acendare would be an easy spell to use. Perhaps.
Hmmmm but where does one use this spell? Jillian shot one hand up to give an answer "you can use it with like chores, let's say when you're cleaning and you need something to be hoisted up towards you. This would be a good spell for that"
It launches on object into the air" Blake nodded and smiled at himself!! Ha!!! He knew an answer to a question, not something he had right often, growing up in the muggle world and being a first year meant he was wrong .... and often.
As for the second part of the question, who knew... why would you want to launch something into the air rather than with controlled speed? "Well I guess it would depend on if you can control the speed of a launch ... I mean ... can you?" He asked ... he didn't really answer the question and posed his own all in the same sentence. "I guess in celebration you could use it ... launch balloons or something." He added as an after thought.
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Carsyn was confused about the lack of desks. And the targets on the ceiling. Perhaps Professor Fuller-Thompson was salty about drawing the short straw for his slytherins??? But honestly, no need to punish the rest of them... If it wasn't for the fact that she LIKED charms and was generally pretty decent at it...
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”Let’s talk about what goes into making a spell work. One of the most important things about performing a charm correctly is accuracy - in the incantation, wand movement, and of course, aim.” Because aiming correctly could be the difference between animating a mop and animating your dog. ”So tell me - what’s so important about spell accuracy? Wand movements, incantation, aim... What happens if you get something wrong?” Then he gestured to the class to turn the discussion over to them.
Well if that wasn't the most OBVIOUS question in the world. If you for something wrong, the spell wouldn't work. Duh. An eleven year old could answer that one, for which Carsyn almost forgot that there were eleven year olds in the lesson. She also, vaguely wanted to answer with a sarcastic answer of 'you die', just to see the reaction, but decided against it. She wasn't quite sure of Fuller's humor yet, even though he'd been teaching her for a year now.
Ascension charm? Was that why there were targets on the ceiling? "Perhaps if there's something on the roof of the castle and no access to a broom, so you can use this to shoot yourself up into the air...." It wouldn't be a daily occurrence though. "Maybe you want a cool and unique view of the grounds or the quidditch pitch." UGH COULD YOU IMAGINE........ KISSING ON THE CASTLE ROOF??! Nevermind that she'd never been kissed yet, but that sounded amazing and ooh could she could she??? Have a first date on the castle roof??
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Drewett was there all along, keeping to himself as always and scribbling down notes. He had not been able to join in the discussion for the first question, but had transcribed the important points on his parchment.
The charm wasn't also unfamiliar to him. Drewett had read a bit on it while studying for his OWLs last term too. Its incantation's etymology gave away its function as a charm too. Ascension. But the Ravenclaw hadn't ever really thought of using the charm or, at least, he had never faced a situation wherein he would have to use it. Kaiser's response was a bit interesting, though, and also not surprising because he'd seen the Slytherin climb up the Stemp House roof before.
Did it work on humans, actually? That wasn't something Drewett knew for sure.
He raised his hand. "Maybe it could work like th-the banishing charm, sir? It can remove obstacles.... or maybe serve as a distraction to b-buy you time to, y'know, run away." Drewett wouldn't actually use the ascension charm in any of the situations he'd mentioned, but they could be possibilities.
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Cecelia wished Teddy knew how awesome he was 'cause she figured if he DID know, he'd be okay showing others how awesome he was, too. Then maybe he'd have the confidence to pepper in some of his smarts to the mix and he'd be UNstoppable as far as SHE was concerned. The small Gryffindor gave his hand a gentle squeeze of encouragement just cause and then focused for the most part on the NEW question being asked.
To be REALLY honest, Cecelia had NO idea what the ascension charm was, but it SOUNDED cool based off what her classmates were saying. As for how you might want to use it, the blonde was FULL of ideas, not all of which were safe ones, but you know....
"Bet it'd be REALLY cool to make a rocket go up in the air that way! You could still do the whole countdown thing and all, too. My little brother would LOVE that."
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The Ascension Charm? Huh. That..... explained the targets up on the ceiling. While he still had no idea what they were for, he couldn't help but get the feeling that they were only going to be sending items up there. Which meant that nothing was coming down on them, which was a great sign. Y'know, unless he got the spell wrong......
....... yeaaaaah, not thinking about that.
Except, at Fuller-Thompson's question, he kind of was. Still. Lucas glanced off into the distance, trying to imagine a situation. The situation. The one he couldn't quite shake off. But it was still linked, wasn't it? It was answering the question and had something to do with what the man had asked before.
It was with this thought in mind that he tentatively raised his hand in the air. "What about if something was falling on you?" he asked, turning his green eyes on the Charms professor, "You could use it if something was falling on you, or on someone else. Something heavy or likely to cause a lot of harm. Gives you enough time to get out of harm's way."
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Of course.
In addition to the possibility that something going wrong, nothing at all could happen. Claudine would need to remember that one. The spell that was their focus was one she knew about. Not that she had ever used it. A lot of students beat her to answering what the spell did so she refrained from repeating what was sadi. Instead, she would provide an idea for what the spell could be used for. Her hand went up. “To give annoying family members a good scare by using the spell on them.’’ Or anyone else for that matter. But since she came from a huge family, and some of them annoyed her, Claudine thought the spell would be quite useful on them.
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Phoebe was glad to have such very good friends, since she'd nearly embarrassed herself with all the crashing into people. And she was glad to have her Teddy there, since he was this solid anchor of her whole life. She bumped him with her hip while they waited for the professor to move on.
That charm the professor mentioned, though... everyone seemed to know that it made things zooooooom, even if she'd never heard of it before. Phoebe raised her hand hesitantly, not with an idea... just a question. "Professor? Since you can't Wingardium Leviosa to float a person, can you use A...this spell to zoom a person? Does it work on persons?"
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Why yes, thank you for noticing, professor. Eiji always did have a lot to say, very opinionated, but selective in what he shared and with whom.
Which was quickly applied to the first question. No thanks. He would let the first years handle speculation there and save his breath for something more thought provoking. Maybe. Or maybe he would just coast through the theoretical portion of the lesson and bank on better participation when they got to the practical. Which was sounding very, VERY, promising when the spell of the day was revealed.
So they WOULD be launching things upward at the target. If he were superstitious he would cross his fingers and make a wish that some overly zealous Gryffindor attempted to launch themselves or someone else.
Or Phoebe, since apparently she was curious about its uses on people. He...may have to step in and make sure she didn't do that.
But bottom line? The spell hoisted and shot things into the air and had always felt like more of a defensive spell than something meant for accuracy. A thought that seemed in line with what Drewidiot was saying and thus shut Eiji's mouth up tight.
Attention, sort of, listening it was again.
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The ascension charm? Huh? Was this something religious? Bernadette scratched her elbow and tried to think of a guess, because she definitely had not done the reading for THIS charm.
"It makes balloons go up in the air," she guessed, after raising her hand of course. He'd SAID think about SPECIAL OCCASIONS, so of course she was thinking of a birthday party.
Ah, first years. If nothing else, they were.... sometimes precious. This one seemed okay. ”It could, yes... but unless the balloon is filled with helium, it would, unfortunately, float back down. You would want to use the levitation charm for balloons.” But hey, at least she was thinking. And at least she could now have a successful birthday party.
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Originally Posted by Fireheart
The ascension charm....so did that mean they were going to be shooting stuff up at those targets today? That sounded like fun. Avalon usually enjoyed Charms class, and combining it with target practice made the lesson seem even more exciting. She raised her hand, fairly confident in what the charm did, but a bit unsure of some circumstances in which the charm would be useful.
"The ascension charm shoots an object into the air. It shoots it up pretty fast, which is what makes it different than the levitation charm, right?" And also the fact that you could really control the direction that you wanted something to hover when performing Wingardium Leviosa. Avalon didn't know if you could control the object precisely when using the ascension charm. "It might be useful if you needed to quickly get an object to someone who was flying overhead on a broom." That way you wouldn't have to take the time to mount and take off on your own broom first. "Perhaps when the referee releases all the balls at the start of a Quidditch match!"
Piers nodded at the girl when she gave her answer, indicating that she was right. ”You’re right, it’s not like the levitation charm. Excellent example.” She was getting it just fine.
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Valencia thought for a moment before raising her hand. "Could you maybe use it to shoot off fireworks?" Of course, something would have to explode the fireworks, but this could get it up in the sky, probably.
Piers considered the next girl’s answer and nodded a bit. ”Yes, I suppose, but you’d have to time it well with whatever is lighting said firework.” Because it would need to go off at the right time. Too bad there wasn’t a firework lighting charm. Or was there?
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See? He was right. That was suspicious. Mildly suspicious, but suspicious all the same.
Kaiser stood waiting for the catch, but it never came. Fuller-Thompson simply moved the lesson on, just like that. Even mentioning his answer again, which was an odd sort of experience.
Anyway, moving on. And onto the ascension charm, apparently. Kaiser opted to answer the second part of the question, based on the information that other kids had already given about what the spell actually did.
"Maybe you can use it on yourself if you want to get to the roof," he suggested, hand halfway raised. That was a part of daily life, right? At least it was for Kaiser, although he would never use an ascension charm to get up there because most of the fun was in the climb. But still, it was the first idea that came to him, so it was the answer that Fuller-Thompson got.
”Well,” he said with a small shrug, ”This charm doesn’t work very well on humans. It’s hard to get the wand movement right on yourself. I think the charm Ascendio would work a bit better for that.” Not to mention the roof of a castle was quite high and if he didn’t shoot himself high enough.... Well, he’d have a long way down to fall.
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So today is all about the ascension charm. Pretty straight-forward but sometimes it takes time to get used to perfecting a charm. Like everyone has shared earlier accuracy in saying the incantation and wand movement are very important when it comes to spells. But she also thought that Alarte Acendare would be an easy spell to use. Perhaps.
Hmmmm but where does one use this spell? Jillian shot one hand up to give an answer "you can use it with like chores, let's say when you're cleaning and you need something to be hoisted up towards you. This would be a good spell for that"
Piers nodded again at the next answer. ”Right, okay, you could probably use it for chores.” It might also be too aggressive for chores, but he would let her figure that out on her own.
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It launches on object into the air" Blake nodded and smiled at himself!! Ha!!! He knew an answer to a question, not something he had right often, growing up in the muggle world and being a first year meant he was wrong .... and often.
As for the second part of the question, who knew... why would you want to launch something into the air rather than with controlled speed? "Well I guess it would depend on if you can control the speed of a launch ... I mean ... can you?" He asked ... he didn't really answer the question and posed his own all in the same sentence. "I guess in celebration you could use it ... launch balloons or something." He added as an after thought.
Ah, a good question. ”It’s difficult to control the speed and momentum of a launch. We’re not going to worry too much about that today - it takes a lot of practice and control.” Today they were just focusing on getting stuff into the air.
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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising
Carsyn was confused about the lack of desks. And the targets on the ceiling. Perhaps Professor Fuller-Thompson was salty about drawing the short straw for his slytherins??? But honestly, no need to punish the rest of them... If it wasn't for the fact that she LIKED charms and was generally pretty decent at it...
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”Let’s talk about what goes into making a spell work. One of the most important things about performing a charm correctly is accuracy - in the incantation, wand movement, and of course, aim.” Because aiming correctly could be the difference between animating a mop and animating your dog. ”So tell me - what’s so important about spell accuracy? Wand movements, incantation, aim... What happens if you get something wrong?” Then he gestured to the class to turn the discussion over to them.
Well if that wasn't the most OBVIOUS question in the world. If you for something wrong, the spell wouldn't work. Duh. An eleven year old could answer that one, for which Carsyn almost forgot that there were eleven year olds in the lesson. She also, vaguely wanted to answer with a sarcastic answer of 'you die', just to see the reaction, but decided against it. She wasn't quite sure of Fuller's humor yet, even though he'd been teaching her for a year now.
Ascension charm? Was that why there were targets on the ceiling? "Perhaps if there's something on the roof of the castle and no access to a broom, so you can use this to shoot yourself up into the air...." It wouldn't be a daily occurrence though. "Maybe you want a cool and unique view of the grounds or the quidditch pitch." UGH COULD YOU IMAGINE........ KISSING ON THE CASTLE ROOF??! Nevermind that she'd never been kissed yet, but that sounded amazing and ooh could she could she??? Have a first date on the castle roof??
It was creative, he would give her that. ”Like I mentioned before, the charm Ascendio would probably work better for that.”
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Drewett was there all along, keeping to himself as always and scribbling down notes. He had not been able to join in the discussion for the first question, but had transcribed the important points on his parchment.
The charm wasn't also unfamiliar to him. Drewett had read a bit on it while studying for his OWLs last term too. Its incantation's etymology gave away its function as a charm too. Ascension. But the Ravenclaw hadn't ever really thought of using the charm or, at least, he had never faced a situation wherein he would have to use it. Kaiser's response was a bit interesting, though, and also not surprising because he'd seen the Slytherin climb up the Stemp House roof before.
Did it work on humans, actually? That wasn't something Drewett knew for sure.
He raised his hand. "Maybe it could work like th-the banishing charm, sir? It can remove obstacles.... or maybe serve as a distraction to b-buy you time to, y'know, run away." Drewett wouldn't actually use the ascension charm in any of the situations he'd mentioned, but they could be possibilities.
Piers didn’t know who Drewett was running away from, but... whatever. ”Yeah, that’s true.” If he needed to make a quick escape and something was in his way. He briefly wondered if Drewett often ran from things chasing him. Hmm. Oh well.
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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow
Cecelia wished Teddy knew how awesome he was 'cause she figured if he DID know, he'd be okay showing others how awesome he was, too. Then maybe he'd have the confidence to pepper in some of his smarts to the mix and he'd be UNstoppable as far as SHE was concerned. The small Gryffindor gave his hand a gentle squeeze of encouragement just cause and then focused for the most part on the NEW question being asked.
To be REALLY honest, Cecelia had NO idea what the ascension charm was, but it SOUNDED cool based off what her classmates were saying. As for how you might want to use it, the blonde was FULL of ideas, not all of which were safe ones, but you know....
"Bet it'd be REALLY cool to make a rocket go up in the air that way! You could still do the whole countdown thing and all, too. My little brother would LOVE that."
Ah, another firstie. Very.... very precious. ”Yes, you’re probably right.” Even though most rockets had their own jets and blasters and things... but whatever.
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The Ascension Charm? Huh. That..... explained the targets up on the ceiling. While he still had no idea what they were for, he couldn't help but get the feeling that they were only going to be sending items up there. Which meant that nothing was coming down on them, which was a great sign. Y'know, unless he got the spell wrong......
....... yeaaaaah, not thinking about that.
Except, at Fuller-Thompson's question, he kind of was. Still. Lucas glanced off into the distance, trying to imagine a situation. The situation. The one he couldn't quite shake off. But it was still linked, wasn't it? It was answering the question and had something to do with what the man had asked before.
It was with this thought in mind that he tentatively raised his hand in the air. "What about if something was falling on you?" he asked, turning his green eyes on the Charms professor, "You could use it if something was falling on you, or on someone else. Something heavy or likely to cause a lot of harm. Gives you enough time to get out of harm's way."
This suggestion was interesting, and important. ”Potentially. However, the wand movement, as you’ll soon see, would be difficult to work if you are under the object you want to move. In this case, Arresto Momentum would probably work much better.”
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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19
Of course.
In addition to the possibility that something going wrong, nothing at all could happen. Claudine would need to remember that one. The spell that was their focus was one she knew about. Not that she had ever used it. A lot of students beat her to answering what the spell did so she refrained from repeating what was sadi. Instead, she would provide an idea for what the spell could be used for. Her hand went up. “To give annoying family members a good scare by using the spell on them.’’ Or anyone else for that matter. But since she came from a huge family, and some of them annoyed her, Claudine thought the spell would be quite useful on them.
............... Well. Piers nodded slowly. ”Feel free to try that one at home.”
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Phoebe was glad to have such very good friends, since she'd nearly embarrassed herself with all the crashing into people. And she was glad to have her Teddy there, since he was this solid anchor of her whole life. She bumped him with her hip while they waited for the professor to move on.
That charm the professor mentioned, though... everyone seemed to know that it made things zooooooom, even if she'd never heard of it before. Phoebe raised her hand hesitantly, not with an idea... just a question. "Professor? Since you can't Wingardium Leviosa to float a person, can you use A...this spell to zoom a person? Does it work on persons?"
Piers sighed.
These children and their desire to shoot humans into the air. Piers paused.
”I’m not going to answer that. But anyone who tries it on a person will suffer at least five detentions. With me.” And he wasn’t fun to be around when he was grumpy.
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Why yes, thank you for noticing, professor. Eiji always did have a lot to say, very opinionated, but selective in what he shared and with whom.
Which was quickly applied to the first question. No thanks. He would let the first years handle speculation there and save his breath for something more thought provoking. Maybe. Or maybe he would just coast through the theoretical portion of the lesson and bank on better participation when they got to the practical. Which was sounding very, VERY, promising when the spell of the day was revealed.
So they WOULD be launching things upward at the target. If he were superstitious he would cross his fingers and make a wish that some overly zealous Gryffindor attempted to launch themselves or someone else.
Or Phoebe, since apparently she was curious about its uses on people. He...may have to step in and make sure she didn't do that.
But bottom line? The spell hoisted and shot things into the air and had always felt like more of a defensive spell than something meant for accuracy. A thought that seemed in line with what Drewidiot was saying and thus shut Eiji's mouth up tight.
Attention, sort of, listening it was again.
And there he was again. Silent and brooding. It’s okay, Rasting. He understood.
Once he was satisfied with the quantity and quality of the answers he got, Piers stood up from leaning against his desk, ready to move onto the practical portion of the lesson. ”That’s right,” he said, slowly pacing in front of the classroom. ”Alarte Ascendare - it shoots things upward. I’ll add that this charm is quick and temporary. It’s not a levitation charm - your object won’t stay in the air with just this charm itself. Once gravity kicks in, it’ll come right back down.” Oddly enough, the laws of physics worked pretty well with this one spell.
”The incantation is simple, and we’ve heard it a thousand times. Alarte Ascendare. The wand movement,” Piers said, holding out his own wand to demonstrate, ”is simple and straightforward. You point at the object, and then flick your wand upwards quickly.” And while he spoke, he demonstrated just that. It was fairly easy.
And now it was time for some action. ”Alright everyone, go ahead and set your things down on the ground against the wall. Pick a partner or two or four and stand under one of the targets I’ve got painted on the ceilings.” They were large targets, large enough for four people to stand underneath comfortably, and well spaced out so that there was room enough for all of them to stand around without bumping into each other.
With a wave of his wand, small boxes containing bean bags levitated off of a nearby table and landed on the ground underneath each target. ”I’m sending each group a box of beanbags. Don’t worry about the target too much right now, but just focus on getting a couple bean bags to shoot up in the air.” They would focus more on preciseness and aim in a little while.
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Tavie wasn’t particularly keen on fighting over a dozen other student voices to answer questions in class, but she did listen somewhat intently, eager to get to the most fun part of lesson.
Thankfully, Piers didn’t ask too many questions.
When he was done explaining the activity they were starting with, Tavie measured up the bean bags with her eyes before turning to her childhood friends. ”Partners?”
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She was not bored, she had just been hoping to be distracted - but so far this lesson was doing absolutely nothing for her. And soon enough she was zoning out too - to other worries like OWLs, and what would they have for lunch, and if she should ask for Eiji's help when it came to an actual internship in the ministry later this year, and just why had the French girl been staring at her this morning ---
--- thankfully though, these thoughts were very much interrupted when the professor spoke again, and started explaining the practical part of the lesson.
Taking out her wand, she made her way over to Eiji.
"I promise I will try my best to not drop the beanbag on your head," she said, before tying up hair in a bun.
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Oh. Carsyn's heart may have slowed in silent defeat when Fuller-Thompson corrected her about the use and that ascendio could be more useful for human use. She might not have been using that particular spell in today's lesson, but the charms professor didn't seem to be objecting to launching oneself onto the roof. Which was slightly enough adrenaline booster for the moment, as the fourth year quickly grabbed her parchment to scribble that down. 'Ascendio - use for a first date on the roof'. And parchment back into her bag because it seemed they were forming groups of two or four and ... wait?? They weren't going to launch each other??
Oh. Beanbags. And for the second time in a period of less than five minutes, Carsyn felt deflated. But not for tooooo long cause activity and moving around was good.
"May I?" she asked of Missa and Eiji, moving to stand across from the fifth year pairing.
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Blake didn't see any other students needing a partner, but with all the commotion of a room he may have missed them, so going to stand under a target by himself with bean bags he practicing flicking his wand super fast... the first time he flicked it up so fast he dropped his wand.
Blushing deep scarlet, he was thankful nothing had happened and then tried to say the spell. "Ascendare" He said flicking his wand quickly ...... nothing happened ... why had nothing happened????
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Cecelia thought Phoebe's question was REAL interesting and she waited, watching the professor expectantly until he answered...and then she deflated a bit like a balloon. Five whole detentions was a LOT, and she bet her mum would be super disappointed with even ONE, so she wouldn't DARE try and launch any friends upwards, even if it sounded really fun.
"Partners," The first year agreed eagerly as soon as Tavie suggested it. She liked being partners with friends best 'cause she felt less weird about making mistakes in front of THEM. "So the incantation is like alarte a-ascendare, right? That's how you say it?" It was a mouthful, but it wasn't TOO hard to say, luckily.
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