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05-15-2020, 10:15 PM
| | |  Charms Lesson 1: Aparecium Charm
When you walk into the Charms classroom, the big bold words on the chalkboard will remind you of the reading you should have done before class: Aparecium Charm. It’s a chilly autumn day, so the windows in the classroom are shut to keep the cold and the rain out. And although it’s just afternoon, the sky outside the windows is darker than normal, and an odd shade of purple, so the lights inside the room are lit a bit brighter than normal to illuminate the class room.
Professor Fuller-Thompson stands at the front of the classroom in his usual position, leaning up against the edge of his desk, waiting for his students to arrive, making note of who was there on time, who was running late and who was flipping their textbook open at the last minute because they forgot to do the reading.
OOC: Welcome to Charms class! Just a reminder, this is the first OOC lesson, but this would not be the first charms lesson that your student would have attended.
Class Progression:1. Greetings / Question 1
2. Replies / Question 2
3. Replies / Mini Activity
4. Main Activity
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05-24-2020, 03:27 AM
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Originally Posted by parchment "Did you know that single elephant tooth can weigh up to nine pounds?" Avalon watched carefully as the message began to reveal itself. Uhhhh....what? Not the message she was expecting, but it was fairly interesting nonetheless. The Ravenclaw always enjoyed learning fun facts. But a nine pound tooth? Merlin, that was pretty heavy. And considering the fact that an elephant probably had about 20 of them? It'd be hard to open their mouth! She raised her eyebrows at the parchment curiously before folding it up and tucking it into her pocket. Now to find some more hidden messages.
After the next few minutes of her search, Avalon came up empty-handed. It seemed like the other students had found most of the obvious pieces of parchment. She had looked on the bookshelves, under the desks, and in the door frame. She was making her way around the room again when the old piece of parchment fluttered out of her robe pocket. Kneeling down to pick it up, Avalon noticed a slip of paper wedged between the floorboard and the corner of the wall. She stashed the old piece in her pocket again before grabbing the new piece. It took a bit of force to wriggle it out of its spot, but she finally got it free. Three taps with her wand. "Aparecium!" Would she learn another interesting fun fact this time?
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| | Mackled Malaclaw
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This was the type of practical lesson that Valencia could get behind. It was no crazy gymnastics, and was actually moderately real life practical. Not that she expected to find very many secret notes in classrooms during her lifetime, but it was close enough to useful.
She stooped low to the ground and looked around, before spotting a piece under the leg of a desk. She lifted the table and grabbed the parchment.
Tap, Tap, Tap. "Aparecium."
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Originally Posted by sarahlooo  And the little strip of parchment was free! It stayed blank as it laid on the desk. Until the charm was performed, when it revealed its hidden message...
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"Next time you see Professor Schmoe, tell him 'I know what you did last summer' and see what he says."
Ronan stared at the writing as it slowly revealed itself. He had to do what?? The Hufflepuff lifted his head to look at the Charms professor with a mixture of confusion and a little bit of horror. Was he supposed to do this no context? Was this a joke? Was this some sort of treasure hunt? Oh that last thought seemed fun. Ronan hoped it was a treasure hunt, he liked those a lot. He was really good at looking for things.
Pocketing the note - because he'd need it, for later, with Professor Schmoe - Ronan surveyed the room again. He went all the way to the back, around the tables, and towards the professor's table. Hmm. He passed the table and the professor himself, side eyeing him just slightly, and tried to look behind the chalkboard. Oh, there's one! Ronan reached to grab the piece of paper on the back of the board and happily returned to his table.
Ronan cast the charm with unveiled excitement, enjoying the tap tap tap sound of his wand on the table.
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| | Grindylow
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Before Cole had had a chance to try and write something new with the invisible ink and then make appear the activity was called off. Turning his attention to professor Fuller-Thompson he listened to their new instructions wishing that they’d get to keep the invisible ink quill at the end of class. Feeling confident with the spell Cole got up from his seat to hunt for a secret message paper of his own. Since everyone else seemed to be looking under chair and desks he chose make his way over to the windowsill where there were lots of flower vases and other trinkets. Lifting up a big vase of thorned red roses he spotted a paper. Taking the paper, Cole set the vase back on the sill. Taking his wand he tapped the paper three times as he said firmly "Aparecium." Now what writing would appear?
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If Morgan had given it much thought, he might wonder what good this spell really was if EVERYONE knew it and therefore NO ONE could really write secret messages without being found out by literally ANYONE. But he wasn't giving it much thought right now because all he wanted to do was find out what the secret messages were!
He was having trouble finding one after everyone went running off and he took off aimlessly in the classroom, not seeing any in plain sight. But as he neared the professor's desk, Morgan got down on his hands and knees and pulled a slip of parchment caught under the desk's leg. Found one!
Since he was up by the professor's desk, he laid the parchment on the top of that desk, to cast the spell. "Aparecium!" TAP. TAP. TAP.
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Blake's piece of paper said that the Professor had a prize for him!! What could it be! Taking his piece of parchment to the Professor he smiled.
"Professor." Blake said holding his parchment in case the Professor wanted proof that it did indeed say what it said. "My parchment said you have a prize for me." He showed his proof and waiting to see what kind of exciting thing was to be offered.
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She placed her wand on the table right next to the parchment where she wrote her name. Jillian was enjoying this, she could find a time to write a journal and then use this spell. Now only if she was motivated enough to write about her day. That'd be nice too.
Anyway-
Professor Piers mentioned that there were pieces of papers with hidden messages in them around the classroom. Awesome. With his signal, she stood up and walked around the room. Some of her classmates were already going in for the kill having to collect as many paper as possible. Jillian went to the shelf and checked the back portion of it. It was random, the seventh year Slytherin figured one of the papers could have slipped there by accident.... or not.
And there is was, sitting with some of the dust, a piece of paper. She grabbed it carefully. Tap tap tap "Apparecium" she said. Fingers crossed there will be a messaged that pops up.
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| | Shrake
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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack ..... Nina looked around the room. No one saw that right? Because.... Her ego had most definitely taken a hit. Um. And there was no way that this was a random piece of parchment. Why would anyone cut up such a small piece and leave it under the desk like that. Maybe she wasn't as good at nonverbals as she had thought. Again, Nina concentrated. Trying to take her mind off the fact that she had just made a COMPLETE fool of herself!!!
No one saw? Right?
Um.
Again, she tapped the sheet three times, CAREFULLY this time she tried again. AparEcium. Saw what?
When the spell was done right, the little paper fluttered around a bit before revealing the message.
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Originally Posted by parchment ”Rumor has it Headmaster Trent cuddles a teddy bear at night.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana Isla waited, breath held in anticipation, as the words revealed themselves. *blink* Whaa?! Yeah. Rubbish. This one was no good. She rolled her eyes at the parchment then wandered to a completely different part of the room. Her eyes scanned the windows for any sign of a piece of parchment sticking out somewhere. She'd seen a few others find pieces there, but it seemed like they'd all been taken.
The second year rubbed the right side of her neck. She was going to have a crick in it from the way she'd twisted around to get that last piece of parchment. Then, after all that, she'd just gotten some weird message that didn't even make any sense at all. She had to think outside the box, didn't she? Windows and desks were obvious places. Where else could she look that might not be so wide open and easily accessible?
Isla got down on her hands and knees and began crawling around on the floor. Pretty soon, she found herself near Fuller-Thompson's desk. Well, to be more accurate, she was right near the legs of the desk. She scanned the floor for any sign of something out of place. Nothing. She looked around on the front side, left side, and right side of the desk. Nothing.
She was just about to get up, when she noticed that the left leg of the desk looked a little different than the other legs. She ran her hand along it, and a piece of parchment unraveled and fell into her hands. Whaaa?! It'd been pretty much disguised as a desk leg! She'd nearly missed it. Well played, Fuller-Thompson.
Wiping off some dust that had settled on the bridge of her nose, Isla wandered to a random desk and placed the parchment in front of her. She took hold of her wand and aimed it forward. "Aparecium!" she said, and then she tapped three times with her wand. That little piece of parchment was wondering (if an inanimate object could wonder) if anyone was going to find it. Thank goodness, because it had a secret to share!
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Originally Posted by parchment ”I really need to itch my nose. Can you help a little piece of paper out?” Quote:
Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl Oh how fun!
Ivy was pretty confident in her Aparecium casting skills after the practice session, and she was immensely curious to find out what the professor had written on all the pieces of parchment around the classroom. She wished she could read them ALL, especially the ones that he said had surprises they liked. SHE liked surprises! She wanted all the surprises!
So she may or may not have quickly peeked over the shoulders of some of her classmates to see what their notes said as she passed. But she was definitely searching for her own too!
She looked under a few desks, but either there weren't any under those, or someone else had already grabbed them.
Hmm...
She walked over to some of the bookshelves, checking in between the books to see if... Aha!
Ivy pulled the piece of paper out from between a couple books and set it flat on the shelf. She tapped her wand on it one, two, three times, and said, "Aparecium!"
What would it say??? Finally, the paper was free! And it had something important to say.
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Originally Posted by parchment ”In the phrase ‘apart’, ‘a’ and ‘part’ are apart. But when ‘a’ and ‘part’ are no longer apart, they become ‘apart’.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Optimist.Prime Islay leaned her head on her hand and watched as the note seemed to change. Lines and strokes darkened until letters blossomed on the page – the little tiny page.
Oh good.
She hadn’t ripped a page out of a book willy-nilly – and now, reading the note she just grinned. This was great, she’d have to use this line on someone sometime. “huh, cool” she tucked the note into the pocket for safe keeping as she made her way to search for more papers.
Islay walked around looking for more notes, even heading toward Professor Thompson’s desk. After all he had said they could be anywhere, she didn’t go into the desk – no, she just ducked down on her hands and her feet and looked UNDER the desk. Dust. All she could achoo see was dust. “pardon me” she murmured as she turned and looked at the from another angle. She was going to find another note.
SHE WAS GOING TO GET THIS.
There, she saw it. The white slip of almost imperceptible nothingness that was half stuck under a chair. Kneeling down the Gryffindor peeled it off of the chair before dropping the note onto the table and tap-tap-tapping away. “Aparecium” she tried again.
Funny where all those pieces of parchment ended up.
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Originally Posted by parchment ”No one has ever been inside an empty room.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Ginevra Fiona couldn't help but grin when Professor Fuller-Thompson gave her an audible high-five. "You're welcome, Professor," she replied when he thanked her. Fiona then set off to find another piece of parchment.
Furrowing her brow, Fiona began searching high and low until she spotted a slightly chipped china teacup that was amongst a section of knick-knacks. It was white with red roses adorning it. Peering inside, Fiona pulled out a small piece of parchment that was seemingly blank. Heading back to her desk and placed the parchment in front of her and tapped it thrice before saying, "Aparecium!" He gave the girl a pleasant smile and watched her go on her way.”
When the next piece of parchment was found, it waited for the spell to be cast, and then revealed...
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Originally Posted by parchment ”Your future self is watching you right now through memories.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunflower An extra five house points! This was indeed one of the special messages. With a big smile on her face, she walked up to Professor Fuller-Thompson and showed him the paper proudly. "Five points to Ravenclaw, sir!" Yay.
After that, Jina returned to the activity. She looked everywhere for random pieces of paper, but it seemed like she was less lucky this time. She could not find anything and began to feel anxious, because everybody else was doing so well!! She decided to look at the bookshelf more closely, which was where some students were finding the notes. She lifted the books one at a time and found a piece of paper under the fifth book she lifted. Smoothing it out on the desk nearest to her, she cast the charm. "Aparecium," she said, accompanied by three firm taps on the paper. A message began to appear, and she read it excitedly. Piers was watching all of the students work, pleased that they were doing so well. He looked over at Jina as she came over with her piece of paper that awarded her points. ”Aha,” he said, plucking the paper from her fingers. ”Very good. I’ll add these to your class points.”
Her second piece of parchment wasn’t quite as rewarding, but still interesting.
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Originally Posted by parchment ”The only time the word “incorrectly” is spelled incorrectly is when it isn’t spelled incorrectly.” Quote:
Originally Posted by littledhampir He must have done it right, and it must have been on the right side of the paper because suddenly words started to appear. This was very exciting, watching the message reveal itself. The first thing he saw was 'Congratulations,' which made him even more excited because that meant it was going to be something good, didn't it? And then the whole message revealed itself!
House points! A whole seven of them! Yesssss. Alexandre grabbed the piece of paper and excitedly hopped up from his crouching position. "Professor!" He hurried over to Professor Fuller-Thompson, because that was what the paper said to do. Yes, he probably could have waited but he was so excited he wanted to do it right now. "Here's the paper. Can I have my house points now please?" Piers looked up when he heard someone call him and saw Alexandre rushing over to him with a piece of parchment. Ah, must be another winner. He chuckled a bit at the boy’s eagerness. ”A little patience, Pascal,” he said, taking the paper from him. ”I’ll add them at the end of class.”
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Originally Posted by GD2204 Placing his wand down, the prefect just looked up, still not fully paying attention because so far, he just didn’t have to. Although, even just half paying attention, the next activity did get him a little bit more interested in the class. Sure, he was 17 going on 18 now but there was just something about a treasure hunt of sorts that brought out the inner child in him. He couldn’t help but smile a little now as his eyes focused on the professor properly for the remaining of the instructions.
After the Professor had finished explaining what was going to happen next, he got to his feet, tucked his wand in his back pocket and started to explore the classroom for some of the pieces of paper that the professor had described. It didn’t take the 6ft4 prefect long to find a scrap that was hidden under a book left on a desk.
Holding the piece of paper in his hand outstretched in front of him, he quickly cast the spell ”Aparecium!” and waited patiently to see what note the professor had left him. When the tall prefect performed the spell, the paper fluttered in his hand a bit before revealing the message.
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Originally Posted by parchment ”Look behind you.” There was nothing there - at least nothing out of the ordinary. The piece of parchment just wanted to trick him.
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Originally Posted by Chelliephone K stared at the note in her hand as it revealed itself, giving a slight snort when the words unveiled themselves. Was Professor Fuller Thompson a dad? She assumed so.
Stashing her first note into her robe pocket, K glanced around the room again to try to decide where to look next. She could see some checking the floor and potted plants and window panes. But where else would be a decent place to look? She noticed a couple of paintings and mirrors on the walls, and decided it was worth a shot to check around those. Making her way to the nearest wall art, she eyed along the edges before -- AHA! White! She reached up on her tiptoes to grab the piece of parchment sticking out towards the top. She pulled out her wand and tapped piece of paper three times.
"Aparecium!” When the piece of parchment was plucked from its hiding spot, it waited for the spell to be cast and then revealed its contents.
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Originally Posted by parchment ”When you say the words ‘foward’ and ‘back’ your lips move in those directions.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Bazinga This was a handy dandy thing, wasn't it? She was actually getting more and more interested as she practiced with her own notes. She thought about writing one to a certain person in this class and grabbed the parchment just as the professor called them back to his attention. Setting down the parchment she decided she could write the note at any point and put the message in the back of her mind.
Listening to the next thing they were going to do, Chloe got up to look for the parchment. Searching under her table she grabbed of the piece of parchment and looked at it. She still found int so interesting that you couldn't tell at all that something was written on it. How many students were already using this and she was just kind of realizing she could have. She knew it was around, but never thought to ever try it. How many other things did she miss out on always following rules and always doing what she was supposed to?
Lifting her wand and doing the movement, she said the word very clearly, "Aparecium" The parchment that she pulled from under her desk waited to be revealed. When she spoke the spell, it began to appear.
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Originally Posted by parchment ”A bolt of lightning has enough energy to toast 1,000 slices of bread.” Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Who knew that she had so much to say about the subject? Had Fuller-Thompson even being listening to her, Carsyn wasn't particularly sure but no matter because it seemed they were moving on to practicing the revealing charm. It sounded easy enough for the sixth year. "Aparecium," she stated in practice of the spell, before getting out her notebook to scribble something in the invisible ink provided: CaRsYN RoSE iS The COOleST sEEkeR yoU wIlL eVER meET
Only problem? She couldn't read her handwriting because well, invisible, so she had no idea how need or legible it was, which meant "Aparecium" and tapped the parchment three times to reveal: CaRsYN RoSE iS The COOleST sEEkeR yoU wIlL eVER meET
Whew, it did work. Although not the most legible but she supposed that was what you got when you couldn't exactly see what you writing, as you were writing it.
Moving on though, because apparently they were finding scraps of paper with notes around the room. Well, it just sooooo happened that as a SEEKER, she was GREAT at finding at things. Especially in the hard to find places, which is why she headed over to the bookshelves, scanning the rows of books for any books that seemed out of place. Huh.... was that ... yes, it did look like that one had recently been moved. Selecting the book on Modern Day Charms, Carsyn flipped through it as a paper fluttered towards the ground. Seeker reflexes in check, she shut the book and caught the paper just as it was about at the ground.
Could it be? Only one way to find out.... "Aparecium." And now time to wait. The piece of parchment didn’t have to wait long to be found, since those seeker skills came in handy. Now what would it say...
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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 The wait was worth it. Slowly, the words on Naya’s paper began to reveal themselves. Annnnd......
She had hit the jackpot. House points! Yessss. Naya wasted no time and headed straight for the professor. “Professor, this is the message I got. Points for Gryffindor, yeah?” What more could she ask for? Her day was pretty much made. However, she wasn’t done with her searching. As soon as the professor acknowledged her message, she would be off to find more papers. Practice made perfect right? Maybe she would find another good message. Who knew? Ah, another winner! Piers nodded at Naya when she came to redeem her points. ”Yep,” he said, taking the paper from her. ”I’ll add them after class.”
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Originally Posted by kayquilz !!! NO CHARMS HOMEWORK FOR A WEEK? Aboli BEAMED. "Professor, if I still WANT to do my homework, can I get extra credit?" She batted her eyelashes. Not that she needed it, but what if one day she had a BAD DAY and she skipped class and SOOOOO she needed it?
Also, taking a week off homework might be a bad idea. What if she got super behind?
BUT THEN ALSO ALSO - what if she didn't take advantage of this NOW and next week was VERY busy and MAY MAYBEEEEE she should take the extra time off from CHARMS to play catchup in HERBOLOGY -
Aboli's mind was SPINNING. .....
Piers stared at Aboli for a moment. ”No,” he said simply, wondering if the girl should have ended up in Ravenclaw instead.
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Originally Posted by Watson Noah folded the piece of parchment up and pouted (?)/frowned (?). He wore a facial expression somewhere between a pout and a frown as he read it. Why were all of his classes somehow about cats or kneazles? Though to be fair, it was a pretty cool fact, he shoved the folded piece of parchment into his pocket and continued searching.
He watched as some of his fellow students, such as Islay, started looking underneath the tables and chairs of where they had been sitting previously. The boy made his way over to a few bookcases and began opening up various books and shaking them to see if he could find something. After his twelfth book, he saw a sliver of parchment fall out. Gotcha. Swooping down, he picked up the parchment and held it in his left hand as he readied his wand.
"Apparecium." He tapped the parchment three times. When the paper was caught and the spell was cast, the words slowly began to reveal themselves...
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Originally Posted by parchment ”Did you know there are more trees on earth than there are starts in the Milky Way?” Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Um…
Claudine blinked at the parchment. No, she had no answer to this question but now it was on her mind. Why did the chicken cross the road? Maybe it just wanted to get to the other side? Maybe it was hunting for worms? Maybe it was trying to escape a butcher? Who knew? She amused herself, as she shuffled to the back of the classroom, thinking of possible other reasons. Also, maybe there was one or a few notes lurking by the windows.
Casually, the Snakette ran her hands along the sill of the first window she came across. The little cracks and crevices were not missed. The result? She was rewarded by a piece of parchment with no writing upon it.
“Aparecium.’’ Triple taps with the wand.
Would there be a message? Or was this a discarded piece of parchment stuck at the window ledge by some idle student? Ah, but a message there was!
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Originally Posted by Cassirin "Fine, then I fixed me," Phoebe stuck out her tongue at Bernie as she reached to scoop up the parchment from the floor. Where had that even COME from? The air? The floor? One of their pockets?
And didn't it figure that Bernie was going to make Phoebe perform the spell perfectly twice in a row? What a good friend. "I hope I fixed me enough to do this twice." Her scalp itched from the intense scrutiny (imagined) as she tapped the parchment three times. "Aparecium." Ahem. PLEASE WORK. Oh good, was this little piece of parchment finally able to reveal its secret???
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Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy Heath had barely managed to successfully cast Aparecium once before Professor Fuller-Thompson moved on to the main activity. He lowered his wand and faced front, listening intently to the directions. At first, he was concerned that his lack of success would hurt him in this activity, but the more he heard about it, the more fun it sounded. Now this was how to do a “collect X object” activity! No bouncing, no unnecessary competition, just fun for everybody!
At the professor’s signal, Heath got up, his dark eyes scanning the area for anything that looked even remotely like a scrap of paper. As he looked down, he spotted something white under one of the back legs of his chair. That didn’t look like it was part of the chair, so he was going to guess it was a paper. Hmm… how had he not noticed that there when he came in? Never mind, it didn’t matter. He bent down, picking up the object, and - aha! It was a piece of paper!
Now came the hard part: the actual spell casting. He’d already done it once; surely he could do it again, right? Right?! Only one way to find out… Gathering all his concentration, Heath held the paper out and tapped it three times with his wand. “Aparecium!” Did that work? He stared at the paper, hoping to see a message appear. And the concentration certainly worked. A moment later, the words began to appear...
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Originally Posted by parchment ”I dare you to sneak into the staff room.” What? Who wrote that?
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Originally Posted by Fireheart Avalon watched carefully as the message began to reveal itself. Uhhhh....what? Not the message she was expecting, but it was fairly interesting nonetheless. The Ravenclaw always enjoyed learning fun facts. But a nine pound tooth? Merlin, that was pretty heavy. And considering the fact that an elephant probably had about 20 of them? It'd be hard to open their mouth! She raised her eyebrows at the parchment curiously before folding it up and tucking it into her pocket. Now to find some more hidden messages.
After the next few minutes of her search, Avalon came up empty-handed. It seemed like the other students had found most of the obvious pieces of parchment. She had looked on the bookshelves, under the desks, and in the door frame. She was making her way around the room again when the old piece of parchment fluttered out of her robe pocket. Kneeling down to pick it up, Avalon noticed a slip of paper wedged between the floorboard and the corner of the wall. She stashed the old piece in her pocket again before grabbing the new piece. It took a bit of force to wriggle it out of its spot, but she finally got it free. Three taps with her wand. "Aparecium!" Would she learn another interesting fun fact this time? When the paper was free, it waited for the spell to unleash its secret. It could be another fun fact, or it could be...
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Originally Posted by parchment ”Do you think our pets have names for us?” Quote:
Originally Posted by LilFox06 This was the type of practical lesson that Valencia could get behind. It was no crazy gymnastics, and was actually moderately real life practical. Not that she expected to find very many secret notes in classrooms during her lifetime, but it was close enough to useful.
She stooped low to the ground and looked around, before spotting a piece under the leg of a desk. She lifted the table and grabbed the parchment.
Tap, Tap, Tap. "Aparecium." Ooooh, the paper was free! And once the spell was cast, the secret message began to reveal itself.
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Originally Posted by parchment ”What are snails even trying to do?” Quote:
Originally Posted by Daemon Ronan stared at the writing as it slowly revealed itself. He had to do what?? The Hufflepuff lifted his head to look at the Charms professor with a mixture of confusion and a little bit of horror. Was he supposed to do this no context? Was this a joke? Was this some sort of treasure hunt? Oh that last thought seemed fun. Ronan hoped it was a treasure hunt, he liked those a lot. He was really good at looking for things.
Pocketing the note - because he'd need it, for later, with Professor Schmoe - Ronan surveyed the room again. He went all the way to the back, around the tables, and towards the professor's table. Hmm. He passed the table and the professor himself, side eyeing him just slightly, and tried to look behind the chalkboard. Oh, there's one! Ronan reached to grab the piece of paper on the back of the board and happily returned to his table.
Ronan cast the charm with unveiled excitement, enjoying the tap tap tap sound of his wand on the table. Tap tap tap, and the ink surely appeared again.
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Originally Posted by parchment ”Your stomach thinks all potatoes are mashed potatoes.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Nordic Witch
Before Cole had had a chance to try and write something new with the invisible ink and then make appear the activity was called off. Turning his attention to professor Fuller-Thompson he listened to their new instructions wishing that they’d get to keep the invisible ink quill at the end of class. Feeling confident with the spell Cole got up from his seat to hunt for a secret message paper of his own. Since everyone else seemed to be looking under chair and desks he chose make his way over to the windowsill where there were lots of flower vases and other trinkets. Lifting up a big vase of thorned red roses he spotted a paper. Taking the paper, Cole set the vase back on the sill. Taking his wand he tapped the paper three times as he said firmly "Aparecium." Now what writing would appear? When Cole plucked the paper from under the vase, it fluttered with excitement while he cast the spell. Then the ink began to reveal itself.
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Originally Posted by parchment ”Did you know? The human nose can remember 50,000 smells.” Quote:
Originally Posted by emjay If Morgan had given it much thought, he might wonder what good this spell really was if EVERYONE knew it and therefore NO ONE could really write secret messages without being found out by literally ANYONE. But he wasn't giving it much thought right now because all he wanted to do was find out what the secret messages were!
He was having trouble finding one after everyone went running off and he took off aimlessly in the classroom, not seeing any in plain sight. But as he neared the professor's desk, Morgan got down on his hands and knees and pulled a slip of parchment caught under the desk's leg. Found one!
Since he was up by the professor's desk, he laid the parchment on the top of that desk, to cast the spell. "Aparecium!" TAP. TAP. TAP. The little piece of paper was WONDERING (again, if paper could wonder) if anyone would ever find it. Oh, but someone did! Thankfully. And what did the little paper have to say?
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Originally Posted by parchment ”Why are baked beans called baked beans if they’re actually just stewed?” Quote:
Originally Posted by love-for-HP Blake's piece of paper said that the Professor had a prize for him!! What could it be! Taking his piece of parchment to the Professor he smiled.
"Professor." Blake said holding his parchment in case the Professor wanted proof that it did indeed say what it said. "My parchment said you have a prize for me." He showed his proof and waiting to see what kind of exciting thing was to be offered. Hearing his name (or his title, rather), Piers looked up and saw Blake heading his way with another piece of parchment. What was this then? Ah, a prize. ”Right, yes, a prize...” The man looked around him and plucked an apple off of the desk before handing it off to the boy. ”There you go. A snack.” What a nice prize, right?
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Originally Posted by hjhm She placed her wand on the table right next to the parchment where she wrote her name. Jillian was enjoying this, she could find a time to write a journal and then use this spell. Now only if she was motivated enough to write about her day. That'd be nice too.
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Professor Piers mentioned that there were pieces of papers with hidden messages in them around the classroom. Awesome. With his signal, she stood up and walked around the room. Some of her classmates were already going in for the kill having to collect as many paper as possible. Jillian went to the shelf and checked the back portion of it. It was random, the seventh year Slytherin figured one of the papers could have slipped there by accident.... or not.
And there is was, sitting with some of the dust, a piece of paper. She grabbed it carefully. Tap tap tap "Apparecium" she said. Fingers crossed there will be a messaged that pops up.
When the prefect found the piece of paper, some dust fell from it as she picked it up. When the spell was cast, a message started to reveal itself...
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Originally Posted by parchment ”The largest snowflake ever recorded was 15 inches wide.” The Charms Professor was enjoying this. He enjoyed seeing the students’ reactions to all of the weird things that he had written down on all of those pieces of paper. Some of them were weird, some of them were interesting and some of them were just useless. Those ones were fun.
He waited about fifteen minutes, his eyes glancing towards the clock every few minutes or so to make sure that they didn’t go over their allotted class time. But he also watched everyone in class and saw that everyone was getting the hang of it - and that was good.
”Alright everyone!” Piers called out over the chatter of the classroom. ”Everyone, wands away. You’ve all done a great job. I’m going to let you lot out a bit early today because you’ve done so well.” And that was a VERY rare thing for him to do. But honestly, they were doing great. ”Keep practicing this charm until I see you again and keep your eyes peeled for the homework assignment. Class dismissed.” OOC: Thank you all for coming! I hope you guys had fun! I’ll get the points (and the extra points) added for you guys in the next week or so. | |
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