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Did you make it to Transfiguration okay? Did you remember the w ay here from breakfast? Hopefully everyone managed to cluster together and get here without too much painstaking wrong turns or moving staircases (they had put the Professor in entirely the wrong place yesterday, so he understood).
Making your way into the classroom today, you will find that the Professor has been busy since the end of classes yesterday. He’s stacked all of the chairs into a few piles at the side of the room and tables are all against the walls to clear the middle of the room. Professor Eris has borrowed some of the defense mats and most of the floor has been covered in the softer surface.
Carwyn’s desk is still in front of the blackboard although right now said board doesn’t have anything written on it. There is a very big, tumbling stack of random and very unmatching pillows on the left hand side of his desk; you might recognise some of them from your common rooms as he had to get a few more for class this morning. On the right hand side of the desk is a pile of rope that is very much unorganised because he ran out of time to sort it after the trips to the common rooms.
“Good morning, come on in. Come on it.” He looked at his watch for the second time to make sure that it was indeed morning [just after breakfast to be exact] and looked at the piece of paper on the desk again to make sure he knew what he was meant to be teaching today. ……. Did he have everything?
“Store your things in the ….” what was it called again?” The Professor motioned towards the back of the classroom, and the cubby spaces they all used every lesson. “Uh- just store your things, including your wand and your robes.” He scratched his beard as he tried to think what it was called. "And then find a space." Yeah, that would do it.
OOC: Hi! And welcome to the second OOC class of term. We are mid-way through March annnd everyone has just come from breakfast - so feel free to use that information as you will hehe.
I'll be moving on in 22-25 hours, so come on in and get ready to have some funn!
Ilya, who found the leisurely walking unnecessary this morning, paused in his walking when professors Carwyn's instructed them to be more abstract in their movements now. He mainly was too tired to move, which probably was the point from this exercise but you can't blame a thirteen-year-old Ravenclaw for complaining.
... hmm? If they wanted to catch someone? Ilya bumped into a couple of students, didn't apologize because it was obviously not on purpose, and just hazard a guess, "With my hands." How else did you catch a person? "Like this," he grabbed Bernie's hair*, illustrating intelligently.
permission also granted here #ThanksBernadette #sorryToRo
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Originally Posted by Magical Soul
Ilya, who found the leisurely walking unnecessary this morning, paused in his walking when professors Carwyn's instructed them to be more abstract in their movements now. He mainly was too tired to move, which probably was the point from this exercise but you can't blame a thirteen-year-old Ravenclaw for complaining.
... hmm? If they wanted to catch someone? Ilya bumped into a couple of students, didn't apologize because it was obviously not on purpose, and just hazard a guess, "With my hands." How else did you catch a person? "Like this," he grabbed Bernie's hair*, illustrating intelligently.
*permission from roro granted hehe
Whoa what--- yaaaaaaaaaaaank!
Bernie didn't have long hair like some girls and mostly just shook her fringe around when she was wanting to be sassy. But with ILYA BUMROSE behind her, she wasn't exactly able to stop him from yanking on her little bob.
"HEY!" Bernie's head jerked back but she did suddenly stop walking in the middle of the ... circle or whatever. So. Ilya HAD caught her, she supposed. She tugged her hair loose (WHICH HURT, by the way, it HURTS to yank on hair that's still attached by the ROOT) and stomped her foot HARD, deliberately STOMPING DOWN ON ILYA'S FOOT but trying to make it look like she was just stomping out of outrage.
"YOU CAN'T JUST PULL ON PEOPLE'S HAIR, Ilyaaaaaa! That HURTS!" She stuck her tongue out at him. "Some of us have REAL hair, OKAY, not ELF HAIR."
And then she whirled around again to continue MARCHING IN PLACE like a dumb robot or whatever, and hoping that the old professor man didn't notice any of her petty behavior shenanigans.
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Heath kept walking in a clockwise circle around the room until the professor's voice distracted him. Okay, apparently they were going counterclockwise now. He turned on his heel and walked in the other direction, watching with something between confusion and amusement as Professor Eris skipped about. Why did that remind him of the dancing grandpa in…? What was the name of that musical? It was one of the first shows his dad took him to see when he was little. Why couldn't he remember it?! A horrible thought occurred to him. What if he forgot his dad? What if his dad forgot him?
He shook his head, trying to distract himself before those emotions reared their ugly head… again. They had a nasty habit of doing that at the worst possible time! So what were they doing again? Something about movement and skipping… Did he have to do the skipping part? He thought he heard the professor say they could do their own movement, so could he just continue walking, please? He would prefer not to look silly in front of everybody, but just in case that wasn't an option, he threw in a (he hoped!) subtle Solo shrug. There, technically doing his own movement.
It wasn't until he heard his classmates talking that Heath remembered there had been a question in there somewhere. It was something about capturing people, right? Wait, was this DADA? He thought he was supposed to be in transfiguration, but that sounded like a DADA question about strategy and stuff. Never mind, his answer was the same regardless of what class this was. He'd try to lure his potential captive in with an act. He was going to say as much, but a Gryffindor girl (Bernie) beat him to it, well sort of. She lost him at the part about Simon Says and Duck Duck Goose, but he agreed with the general idea.
"I agree with Beru about false pretenses," he said after raising his hand. Was that her name? He knew it was something with a B... He shot her an apologetic look in the likely event he mistook her name. Sorry! He didn't mean anything rude by it! Please don't kill him! "But I'd go about it a bit differently. I'd try to get them to come to me on their own with an act. Unless I had specific information about the person, I'd probably go with weak and nonthreatening. Well-intentioned people would see the act and want to help; not so well-intentioned ones would want to attack me when I'm down…"
What was he saying again? The more he talked, the less sense it made. He was just gonna… be quiet now before he embarrassed himself any worse!
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SPOILER!!: Nina
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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack
They were..... walking?
Nina tried her best not to scowl as she began following the crowd around the room. This was ridiculous. She was perfectly awake! There was literally no need to march around the room. That's why she refused to switch things up when they began walking in the other direction. Nina would be doing none of this, or this, or ~this~. Professor Eris looked ridiculous.
As for catching someone... the question was pretty open ended. Which meant that some of her classmates would likely offer up entirely silly answers. If anyone said 'with a net' they were going to receive the STINK eye from one Nina Castillo. In any case, Nina thought the most important step in capturing was having a plan. Knowing who you were going to capture and approaching it systematically, especially if you were to avoid an attempted escape. She'd also opt for magic as that would be far less work and far more effective. An incarcerous spell would work just fine.
No answer from Miss Castle? Hmmm… Shame, she usually gave such interesting reviews and conundrums! The old man gave her a smile, encouraging an answer but moved on when nothing was said. Okay Miss Cillo!
SPOILER!!: Naya
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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11
Oh. They were moving on to the next excercise. Student’s choice apparently. Naya decided to do some stretching movements. She lifted her knee to her chest and held it there for several seconds. Then she switched to the other leg. Repeating the stretch several times, she listened to the professor’s question. How would she capture someone?
Naya raised her hand and began to speak. “If I was trying to catch someone, I would try to use the element of surprise. Get them when they least expect it, you know? It helps if you can find out things about your victim. Know their patterns and tendencies. You have to be one step ahead of them.” That is if you had time to plan all of it out. If it was a spur of the moment capture or catch.......well that would be an entirely different thing.
“Knowing them helps you know where they will be, sure Miss Lint … but how would you catch them when you find them?” He gave her a smile encouraging her to think about how she would actually capture them.
SPOILER!!: Kimberley
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Originally Posted by Chelliephone
Err... What was those exercise movements? K blinked for a moment, watching Professor Eris demonstrate before giving a small shrug of her shoulders and doing the side skip the Professor had shown. She felt ridiculous but, hey, movement was movement and still nice to do. She liked all of the activity currently happening in her classes.
She paused to focus on the question, raising her hand to offer an answer once called upon. "I'd use a trap. Like someone else said, the element of surprise helps, so perhaps a nice hidden hole in the ground? Covered by a rug clearly so you've got that surprise in there." Not that she was planning anything or.. y'know.
Heh.
A hole… in the ground… hidden by a rug… Well, he guessed it was tried and tested for centuries. “Sure… Might be a long dig without magic, to make the hole big enough so that people won’t climb out again but magic will make that job easier.” He nodded. It would be one very deep hole… and it definitely wasn’t what he was teaching them today. …… Right? He looked down at the paper in his hands and sighed, relieved. No digging of holes today. Professor Wickam had done enough of that outside earlier in the month.
SPOILER!!: Isla
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Originally Posted by Anna Banana
Okay, erm...what was the deal with all the exercising in classes? Isla was energetic enough. She didn't want in circles. She complained inside the silence of her mind, but only because it made her feel better about the walk. She followed the class around and around in the circle formation they'd made. Her mind wandered to everything else but class, too.
Isla was so focused on whatever else was on her mind, that when the person in front of her made an abrupt turn, she almost collided with them. "Oops, sorry...sorry...," she said, turning immediately on her heels and following everybody in the new direction.
Okay, so...if she wanted to catch somebody... "With Wingardium Leviosa!" she said, waving her hand around. Wasn't that the spell you used to catch somebody? Isla couldn't remember, but it sounded about right. "Either that, or you could lure them in by baking cupcakes. That smell always gets me."
Carwyn nodded his head. MAGIC. Yes! “That would work - just be careful where you levitate them too, Miss Billkat.” Wouldn’t want to waste all that energy and not have your captive at the end of the trouble. Cupcakes… Well… Maybe, if sugar was your thing? Did he like cupcakes? He liked coffee cake, were they coffee cupcakes?
SPOILER!!: Carsyn
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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising
Carsyn wasn't exactly sure how she managed to be in Transfiguration today, but then again it seemed as if most days were a process of going through the motions. And constantly checking the parchment in her robe pocket to make sure she was where she was meant to be. Sixth year wasn't supposed to be this challenging, was it? Also, why were they walking around the classroom, the gryffindor was uncertain
If you were looking to capture someone .... how would she do it?? Okay that was a super vague question because Carsyn wanted to know WHY she was catching someone? Did they do something wrong? Did she need to interrogate them for something? Copy their homework? General fighting? Also that younger slytherin girl Isla suggesting baking cupcakes was a sad reminder that baking was a challenge for her these days.
"Well assuming it's in present-day Hogwarts that I need to catch someone, magic would be useless, so it's gotta be without magic. I guess it would depend on who I'm trying to catch, because everyone has different interests. So it could be food or sports or extra credit." Really it depended and there was more information needed.
Nodding slowly as Miss Bouquet spoke, the Professor nodded at her. Catching people with extra credit…. Carwyn was starting to think that a few months without magic was making everyone forget that they would have their magic back soon… He hoped. NJo, they would. They would. He looked back at the paper in his hand, what were they talking about? He blinked and looked up for the next hand to call on, that was totally what he needed to do.
SPOILER!!: Minjae
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Originally Posted by DuckyLinJi
Just when he had made himself comfortable on the pile of cushions the professor had to ruin his moment by telling him to get up. The Hufflepuff rolled his eyes but got up as told, the cushions toppled over and he stooped down to put them back in their original pile.
It was like some professors shared the same braincell when it came to magic-less classes. Exercise. As if they did not have enough exercise these days. The grand staircase alone was a torture to walk up to get to the lessons up in the towers now that they didn’t move anymore and they could skip a few floors.
The teenager put his hands in his pockets as he walked around the room, following the others. When it was time to turn around, Minjae did and had to hold his laugh when the professor suddenly skipped. With his grey beard he looked like he could be a grandpa so seeing him skip was pretty funny to him. Instead of skipping though, he chose the second option and he began to side-skip cause it looked less ridiculous.
How to capture someone? Minjae listened to some of the responses before giving his own. ”Well, had i been at home I’d tell my father’s guards to catch them." he said. He had done it before. Not him personally but his father. But if he could do it, Minjae could as well since they also listened to him.
Oh, but he WAS a dad and grantad and a GREAT-grandtad…. But that didn’t mean he couldn’t have fun! In fact, he thought his great-grand daughters made him more fun and kept him young. Mmmhhmmm. Yes, they did! But… He what now… “Uh… That wouldn’t … be you catching them Mr Yin… So… how would you catch them.” And … he would consider the fact that they had guards??? At a later point, but he couldn’t distract his mind right now or he’d forget what he was meant to be teaching!
SPOILER!!: Aboli
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Originally Posted by kayquilz
Okay for real what were they doing? WHY were they doing this? Aboli scoffed a bit but continued..moving...skipping like Professor Eris has showed them to. She was out of breath and CRANKY now, and she couldn't think of how she would catch someone anyway, especially not with magic.
"MAYBE a giant net, like a fishing one or something. You can set up it up and GET EM," she explained, stopping skipping to give her SUPER smart answer, yeah. Were they going to be discussing the theory of catching someone with magic, then?
Snore snore.
Aboli shot Minjae glance because of THAT answer. His parents had GUARDS?!
“A net! That would work well… and has been well used for muggles and wizards a like for snares and traps.” He nodded. `”Also Professor McGonagall herself used them in the Second Wizarding World!” He’d loved reading about his predecessor while he had been studying at University - wasn’t she fantastic? Well done Miss Singer.
BUT! Ropes and nets, now they were getting somewhere.
SPOILER!!: Claudine
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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19
Now that they were a bit more awake?
Claudine assumed Eris was speaking of the rest of the class for she still felt the same level of awakeness she had when she first stepped into the room. And what now? They had to do movements of their own? Ugh.. Listen, Claudine was not in the mood to get this sort of thing done. Would Eris mind if she just stuck her left leg out and just sort of rolled her foot around by the ankle. Yep. Nothing too strenuous here.
As for that question.. Well, of course she had to think of it but most of what she thought of was already covered by the others. Or at least that was until something else popped into her mind. Claudine’s hand went up. “The Seize and Pull charm, Professor.’’
Also, was Minjae super rich or something?
Ahhh they were really getting somewhere now! He jumped a little on his toes and grinned at Miss Blank. “Yess!” He grinned. “Obviously, that is a charms equivalent but we’re getting warmer!” Oh they were so close! Well done Miss Blank!!
SPOILER!!: Bernie
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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl
Bernie almost ran into the person ahead of her (was that Ilya?!) when they suddenly switched directions of walking. WELP. SHE DIDN'T LIKE RUNNING INTO PEOPLE. He was behind her now so... she turned around grumpily stomped after the person ahead of her. Hogwarts without magic sucked, but classes ESPECIALLY sucked. If she'd wanted to live like a Muggle she'd have just gotten herself expelled by now.
So anyway.
"I'd trap 'em, like Ab...Ab...Abby and K...ennifer said, but here's how," she answered when it was her turn. So sorry to the names of the older classmates she was butchering. She could NOT remember anything today. She shoulda had more tea at brekkie.
"First I'd lure them to a room with false pretenses, like telling them they were gonna learn magic and then making all the magic go away, and if that trap alone didn't work and they were STILL around, I'd make them play a silly game like Simon Says or Duck Duck Goose, which is ALSO a trap because then they'd be distracted and walking all around for no reason, and then when THAT didn't work, I'd pull a lever on the wall to open up a big trap door and then they'd fall in and I'd catch 'em. And maybe I'd put a net in the floor to catch 'em, and then I'd crank a DIFFERENT lever and it would raise them up from the floor in a big net. Like bad guys use."
Stomp stomp stomp in a circle. A STUPID circle. This was a TRAP!!! Bernie GLARED at the floor to make sure it didn't look like a disguised trap door but WHO COULD TELL?! She also threw a GLARE up to the ceiling to check for a hidden net. BUT WHO KNEW, it could be invisible, and coulda had a spell put on it from The Times Before We All Lost Magic. WHAT WAS THEIR GRANDA SLASH PROFESSOR UP TO?!! She was Highly Suspicious!!!
Carwyn turned to find the next student. Ahhhh. Now Miss Gantham.. Follow the logic and take us to where we are going…He listened. That isn’t where we are aiming for. “Distractions and traps.” He paused and added … “You want to have them drop into a net… instead of using the net to catch them…?” Was she sure? Sounded like she was making this too complicated.
SPOILER!!: Ilya [and Bernie
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Originally Posted by Magical Soul
Ilya, who found the leisurely walking unnecessary this morning, paused in his walking when professors Carwyn's instructed them to be more abstract in their movements now. He mainly was too tired to move, which probably was the point from this exercise but you can't blame a thirteen-year-old Ravenclaw for complaining.
... hmm? If they wanted to catch someone? Ilya bumped into a couple of students, didn't apologize because it was obviously not on purpose, and just hazard a guess, "With my hands." How else did you catch a person? "Like this," he grabbed Bernie's hair*, illustrating intelligently.
*permission from roro granted hehe
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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl
Whoa what--- yaaaaaaaaaaaank!
Bernie didn't have long hair like some girls and mostly just shook her fringe around when she was wanting to be sassy. But with ILYA BUMROSE behind her, she wasn't exactly able to stop him from yanking on her little bob.
"HEY!" Bernie's head jerked back but she did suddenly stop walking in the middle of the ... circle or whatever. So. Ilya HAD caught her, she supposed. She tugged her hair loose (WHICH HURT, by the way, it HURTS to yank on hair that's still attached by the ROOT) and stomped her foot HARD, deliberately STOMPING DOWN ON ILYA'S FOOT but trying to make it look like she was just stomping out of outrage.
"YOU CAN'T JUST PULL ON PEOPLE'S HAIR, Ilyaaaaaa! That HURTS!" She stuck her tongue out at him. "Some of us have REAL hair, OKAY, not ELF HAIR."
And then she whirled around again to continue MARCHING IN PLACE like a dumb robot or whatever, and hoping that the old professor man didn't notice any of her petty behavior shenanigans.
Carwyn had moved on from Bernie to Mr Bluebell. … Wait, he didn’t think that was right… Bluelily? Bellblue? … Hmm. “Yes Mr B-” Before he could call on the Ravenclaw for his answer however, the boy had his hands in Miss Grandhome’s hair and was tugging - much to the girl's chagrin and pain. “Mr Bluebell! Let go of Miss Grandhome at once. That is not the appropriate way to behave in my class! Apologise to her, right now! I asked you what you would do to catch someone, I did not not ask you for a demonstration.” He frowned at the boy. “That’ll be five points, Mr Bluebell… and if you do anything like it again you’ll be serving detention with me.”
“Miss Grandhome. Move away please, come over here.” He motioned to the opposite side of the circle, splitting them up so they couldn’t tread on each other's toes or elbow each other by accident. He knew how teenagers could be - but he wouldn’t have it in his class. He quickly scribbed a note on the page about the loss of points as he waited for the pair to split up and then looked for another student. “One last answer and then we will move on.”
SPOILER!!: Heath
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Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy
Heath kept walking in a clockwise circle around the room until the professor's voice distracted him. Okay, apparently they were going counterclockwise now. He turned on his heel and walked in the other direction, watching with something between confusion and amusement as Professor Eris skipped about. Why did that remind him of the dancing grandpa in…? What was the name of that musical? It was one of the first shows his dad took him to see when he was little. Why couldn't he remember it?! A horrible thought occurred to him. What if he forgot his dad? What if his dad forgot him?
He shook his head, trying to distract himself before those emotions reared their ugly head… again. They had a nasty habit of doing that at the worst possible time! So what were they doing again? Something about movement and skipping… Did he have to do the skipping part? He thought he heard the professor say they could do their own movement, so could he just continue walking, please? He would prefer not to look silly in front of everybody, but just in case that wasn't an option, he threw in a (he hoped!) subtle Solo shrug. There, technically doing his own movement.
It wasn't until he heard his classmates talking that Heath remembered there had been a question in there somewhere. It was something about capturing people, right? Wait, was this DADA? He thought he was supposed to be in transfiguration, but that sounded like a DADA question about strategy and stuff. Never mind, his answer was the same regardless of what class this was. He'd try to lure his potential captive in with an act. He was going to say as much, but a Gryffindor girl (Bernie) beat him to it, well sort of. She lost him at the part about Simon Says and Duck Duck Goose, but he agreed with the general idea.
"I agree with Beru about false pretenses," he said after raising his hand. Was that her name? He knew it was something with a B... He shot her an apologetic look in the likely event he mistook her name. Sorry! He didn't mean anything rude by it! Please don't kill him! "But I'd go about it a bit differently. I'd try to get them to come to me on their own with an act. Unless I had specific information about the person, I'd probably go with weak and nonthreatening. Well-intentioned people would see the act and want to help; not so well-intentioned ones would want to attack me when I'm down…"
What was he saying again? The more he talked, the less sense it made. He was just gonna… be quiet now before he embarrassed himself any worse!
… Weak and nonthreatening. Carwyn blinked and wondered if he needed to get Eliot to give the boy some lessons in self-defense to give him some confidence.. Hmm. That was a thought for another day, when they weren’t at Hogwarts and he could get to his son. “But… how would you catch them…?” He asked Mr Jim as he stopped speaking. Hmmm.
Carwyn blinked as he stood in the middle of his classroom. He had meant to get them to turn around, to change up their actions but he’d completely forgotten about that as they’d discussed their thoughts on the first question and with the issue with Bluebell and Grandhome. …. Though, as he took one last answer and thought over the answers they had given… -
No-one gave the answer he was hoping for. Very few of the students were thinking too much about magic. He knew their magic was in a null zone right now, but they still needed to remember that they were young witches and wizards! They had so many spells at their finger tips… Surely, Professor … uh… Tent? No… Tank? Eh… The Headmaster, yes him, Professor T, had taught them so much more than diversions and pretenses. Hmmmm.
”Uh… Right, that was a great selection of answers.” He started, slightly uncertain and without his usual energetic praise. “Now, as Miss Blank mentioned, one of the ways to catch someone is to use the seize and pull charm… However, we are in Transfiguration so our equivalent is to conjure ropes.”
Were they remembering now?? Maybe? Silly memory issues. “Now, there are a variety of them that we could discuss but since this isn’t about defense or charms, I will leave most of them for uh- the other Professors to discuss with you.”
“Stop walking now, make a big circle. Stand side by side and we will do a quick discussion before we move on.” Carwyn stopped talking and let them maneover themselves into a circle as if they were at a party and they were going to play pass-the-parcel. Heh, wouldn’t that be fun.
When they were all settled, he smiled and nodded. “Now then. What do we know about this spell? What does it look like? How does it work? Do people produce it the same? Is there anything we need to be wary of? What is the incantation? Is it hard - in regards to transfiguration in general.”
OOC: Hi everyone! Sorry this is a few hours late, shopping took forever and I got distracted. We’re moving onto question 2 now, please give one answer - there is plenty of options to go around!
Carwyn had moved on from Bernie to Mr Bluebell. … Wait, he didn’t think that was right… Bluelily? Bellblue? … Hmm. “Yes Mr B-” Before he could call on the Ravenclaw for his answer however, the boy had his hands in Miss Grandhome’s hair and was tugging - much to the girl's chagrin and pain. “Mr Bluebell! Let go of Miss Grandhome at once. That is not the appropriate way to behave in my class! Apologise to her, right now! I asked you what you would do to catch someone, I did not not ask you for a demonstration.” He frowned at the boy. “That’ll be five points, Mr Bluebell… and if you do anything like it again you’ll be serving detention with me.”
“Miss Grandhome. Move away please, come over here.” He motioned to the opposite side of the circle, splitting them up so they couldn’t tread on each other's toes or elbow each other by accident. He knew how teenagers could be - but he wouldn’t have it in his class. He quickly scribbed a note on the page about the loss of points as he waited for the pair to split up and then looked for another student. “One last answer and then we will move on.”
OW!
Though Ilya made sure to swallow the pain shooting from Bernie's stupid foot to his watery eyes because he was a TOUGH boi. Boy. He totally wanted to shove her to the floor and shriek like a banshee, but he held himself because he was a good person. Just kidding, he held himself because professor Carwyn was now addressing them and taking five points ONLY from him???
"But but what about her??!?! She stomped on my foot! And caused a scene. At least I was doing it for learning purposes," he whipped his head sassily and frowned at the professor first then at the stupid Gryffindor, crossing his arms. What was this pang in his chest, you ask? That was the feeling of betrayal from both the professor and his so-called friend. "It's Belrose." He corrected halfheartedly, not correcting Bernie's last name. Carwyn did her a favour there, to be honest. Ilya, nose in the air, muttered. "Yeahfinewhateveri'msorryIguess." BLAH. Bernie was so getting ants in her bed tonight.
Now that they were forming a circle, Ilya moved AWAY from Bernie so he didn't stand next to her. He was going to stick to illustrating on non-Gryffindors from now on, lesson learned.
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"I did NOT!!!" Bernie loudly protested, making sure to defend herself from more possible Ilya attacks by holding her arms up like a karate expert (which she was not). She also conveniently couldn't remember if she had or had not actually stomped on Ilya's foot. It coulda been an accident, okay?!
But the professor was calling her over to him so she flounced thataway and stood next to him smugly. See, Granda liked her better than Illy boy! Hehehehe. The Claw had even had to apologize to her, which she mostly just recognized with a small, proud nod in his direction.
Now, as for this spell they were learning....without the use of magic... wellp, Bernie could only hazard a guess at best. "Uh, sir, what's the spell called?" She raised her hand, sure she'd missed something. "It's probably got a Latin incantation...." she added, hoping to jog the professor's (or someone else's) memory.
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Oh, wow.
Claudine had not expected her answer to be so well received. That definitely meant that she was thinking along the right lines. Also, must those two {the hair pulling/physical altercation duo} be so loud and dramatic? The Snakette tried to ignore them but they were kind of loud and she was failing in doing so.
Ms. Blank. Yes. That was her. Awh, she had gotten a mention. She was proud. Anyway… the conjuration of ropes was what they would be focusing on today. It already sounded complicated for conjuration was no easy task. Without hesitation, she did as instructed: she started to form a human circle with the others. “I think the incantation is Incacerata. No wait. It might be Incendio.’’ Claudine blinked in confusion at the professor.
She couldn’t remember and blankly lowered her hand.
Was there a commotion involving Bernie? Of course there was. There was always something with Bernie. She listened intently to Eris and thought it was VERY interesting of him to want them to think of magical stuff when they couldn't very WELLLLLLLLL practice any magical stuff. Also, she literally couldn't remember anything about the spell.
Aboli went to stand in the circle he asked them to get into and waited for someone to offer an amazing answer she could bing off of. It didn't come, though, and everyone was being a whoooooole lot of useless, including herself, so she just sighed. "Professor, I know ropes come out of your wand when you do it. And THAT is why it's part of Transfiguration, right? Because you're producing the ropes from nowhere."
And that was the best she could offer right now.
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They were done walking? Ok. Naya joined her classmates in a big circle, as instructed by the professor. And then she was distracted by the Bernie/Ilya debacle. There was definitely never a dull moment in a Hogwarts class. Wait, what? What was the professor talking about? Conjuring ropes? Apparently this was the new topic of discussion.
Soooo many questions. You would think that with that many questions, Naya would be able to answer one. Nope. She was drawing a complete and total blank. Ropes. Ropes. Conjuring ropes. Ropes coming out of a wand. Yeah, she had nothing. Determined to come up with some sort of answer, Naya went for the first and most obvious thing she could think of. She reluctantly raised her hand. ”Um.....once the ropes come out of your wand, they wrap around the target.....and um.....they are bound.” Duh! Talk about stating the obvious. Sadly, it was all Naya could remember.
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Heath blinked,completely caught off guard by the professor's question. The whole point of putting on an act was to get his potential captive to follow him voluntarily. Once that happened, he could lead them wherever he wanted, like into a trap or prison, but he didn't dare try to clarify what he meant. Knowing him, he'd just say the wrong thing and embarrass himself again. His ideas made sense in his head, but not so much when he tried to put them into words.
He stared at the floor so that his dark hair would fall into his face and hide his blush. This felt unpleasantly familiar, but it took him a minute to place it. This was exactly like all those times in muggle school when he tried to make himself understood and failed miserably! The only thing missing was the chorus of students' laughter, which he half-expected to happen at any moment.
Wait, why was he so down on himself? Heath completely forgot as soon as Professor Erso said to stand in a circle! He joined the others and listened intently, though the information seemed to leak out of his brain just as soon as it entered. What spell were they talking about again? Something to do with rope conjuring… Heath thought for a minute. If this was the spell he thought it was, the wand movement looked a bit like a pretzel or an unfinished knot. But what if it wasn't? He didn't want to wrong in front of everyone! Not fully trusting his memory, he kept quiet.
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SPOILER!!: Ilya
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OW!
Though Ilya made sure to swallow the pain shooting from Bernie's stupid foot to his watery eyes because he was a TOUGH boi. Boy. He totally wanted to shove her to the floor and shriek like a banshee, but he held himself because he was a good person. Just kidding, he held himself because professor Carwyn was now addressing them and taking five points ONLY from him???
"But but what about her??!?! She stomped on my foot! And caused a scene. At least I was doing it for learning purposes," he whipped his head sassily and frowned at the professor first then at the stupid Gryffindor, crossing his arms. What was this pang in his chest, you ask? That was the feeling of betrayal from both the professor and his so-called friend. "It's Belrose." He corrected halfheartedly, not correcting Bernie's last name. Carwyn did her a favour there, to be honest. Ilya, nose in the air, muttered. "Yeahfinewhateveri'msorryIguess." BLAH. Bernie was so getting ants in her bed tonight.
Now that they were forming a circle, Ilya moved AWAY from Bernie so he didn't stand next to her. He was going to stick to illustrating on non-Gryffindors from now on, lesson learned.
“Yes, yes.” That’s what he had said. “Desist now, or you will end up in detention. You gripped Miss Gralnam’s hair before she did anything.” He shot the young man a disapproving look - one that had withered many of his grandchildren into behaving - as if asking Ilya if he would like to continue arguing. Detentions were all magic-less right now, do you really want to push this subject right now?
Carwyn looked towards Ilya for an answer to the questions for the next section but when they were not forth-coming, he moved on to the next student for an answer.
SPOILER!!: Bernie
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"I did NOT!!!" Bernie loudly protested, making sure to defend herself from more possible Ilya attacks by holding her arms up like a karate expert (which she was not). She also conveniently couldn't remember if she had or had not actually stomped on Ilya's foot. It coulda been an accident, okay?!
But the professor was calling her over to him so she flounced thataway and stood next to him smugly. See, Granda liked her better than Illy boy! Hehehehe. The Claw had even had to apologize to her, which she mostly just recognized with a small, proud nod in his direction.
Now, as for this spell they were learning....without the use of magic... wellp, Bernie could only hazard a guess at best. "Uh, sir, what's the spell called?" She raised her hand, sure she'd missed something. "It's probably got a Latin incantation...." she added, hoping to jog the professor's (or someone else's) memory.
Carwyn had never studied karate himself, but he had sat through enough matches with Eliot to know that Bernie also knew nothing about how to defend herself without magic. Poor thing. Looking down at her, he gave her a chuckle as he nodded. “They often do, Miss Gantam … go stand in the circle.” He motioned for her to join everyone else as he looked around the circle to see whoever remembered what… wait what were they discussing again? He once again looked at the paper in his hand to keep him on track.
SPOILER!!: Claudine
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Oh, wow.
Claudine had not expected her answer to be so well received. That definitely meant that she was thinking along the right lines. Also, must those two {the hair pulling/physical altercation duo} be so loud and dramatic? The Snakette tried to ignore them but they were kind of loud and she was failing in doing so.
Ms. Blank. Yes. That was her. Awh, she had gotten a mention. She was proud. Anyway… the conjuration of ropes was what they would be focusing on today. It already sounded complicated for conjuration was no easy task. Without hesitation, she did as instructed: she started to form a human circle with the others. “I think the incantation is Incacerata. No wait. It might be Incendio.’’ Claudine blinked in confusion at the professor.
She couldn’t remember and blankly lowered her hand.
Carwyn nodded. “You are really close, Miss Baze. The incantation is ‘incarcerous’.” And considering their memory issues right now, he was proud of how close that sounded. He gave her a proud smile, and a nod. “Incendio is for flames!” The fingers of one hand wiggled a little, as if flames were flickering. Though, really his fingers did it without his authorisation and he stopped after a few seconds when he actually realised he was doing it…. But why was he doing it? Weird… moving on.
SPOILER!!: Aboli
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Was there a commotion involving Bernie? Of course there was. There was always something with Bernie. She listened intently to Eris and thought it was VERY interesting of him to want them to think of magical stuff when they couldn't very WELLLLLLLLL practice any magical stuff. Also, she literally couldn't remember anything about the spell.
Aboli went to stand in the circle he asked them to get into and waited for someone to offer an amazing answer she could bing off of. It didn't come, though, and everyone was being a whoooooole lot of useless, including herself, so she just sighed. "Professor, I know ropes come out of your wand when you do it. And THAT is why it's part of Transfiguration, right? Because you're producing the ropes from nowhere."
And that was the best she could offer right now.
Carwyn rubbed his jaw as he nodded at Aboli, and then listened to what she had to add to the mix. “Exactly. We are conjuring the ropes with our own magic and intent, which is part of Transfiguration.” Very good. He hoped Miss Swung knew he was proud of her remembering and contributing. ‘Cause he was!
SPOILER!!: Naya
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They were done walking? Ok. Naya joined her classmates in a big circle, as instructed by the professor. And then she was distracted by the Bernie/Ilya debacle. There was definitely never a dull moment in a Hogwarts class. Wait, what? What was the professor talking about? Conjuring ropes? Apparently this was the new topic of discussion.
Soooo many questions. You would think that with that many questions, Naya would be able to answer one. Nope. She was drawing a complete and total blank. Ropes. Ropes. Conjuring ropes. Ropes coming out of a wand. Yeah, she had nothing. Determined to come up with some sort of answer, Naya went for the first and most obvious thing she could think of. She reluctantly raised her hand. ”Um.....once the ropes come out of your wand, they wrap around the target.....and um.....they are bound.” Duh! Talk about stating the obvious. Sadly, it was all Naya could remember.
Again, calling on a student Carwyn paid attention to what they said. “Excellent Miss Linksea. Yes, once you cast the spell and ropes come out like Miss Swung said, they will wrap around the person you are trying to bind.” He paused and looked at Naya- “Do you happen to remember if the ropes are the same for everyone?” Just curious.
SPOILER!!: Heath
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Heath blinked, completely caught off guard by the professor's question. The whole point of putting on an act was to get his potential captive to follow him voluntarily. Once that happened, he could lead them wherever he wanted, like into a trap or prison, but he didn't dare try to clarify what he meant. Knowing him, he'd just say the wrong thing and embarrass himself again. His ideas made sense in his head, but not so much when he tried to put them into words.
He stared at the floor so that his dark hair would fall into his face and hide his blush. This felt unpleasantly familiar, but it took him a minute to place it. This was exactly like all those times in muggle school when he tried to make himself understood and failed miserably! The only thing missing was the chorus of students' laughter, which he half-expected to happen at any moment.
Wait, why was he so down on himself? Heath completely forgot as soon as Professor Erso said to stand in a circle! He joined the others and listened intently, though the information seemed to leak out of his brain just as soon as it entered. What spell were they talking about again? Something to do with rope conjuring… Heath thought for a minute. If this was the spell he thought it was, the wand movement looked a bit like a pretzel or an unfinished knot. But what if it wasn't? He didn't want to wrong in front of everyone! Not fully trusting his memory, he kept quiet.
Turning around the circle to get the last of the answers, the Professor gave Mr Jam a smile to see if he wanted to give any last snippets of information. However, when he didn’t say anything, the Professor simply moved on to see if he could get one last answer before he moved on.
…. He had hoped that they would have known more, but with things well, no matter. He could fill them in, that was his job! “So, as we have mentioned today we are going to be working on the incarcerous spell, that conjures ropes from thin air to bind and wrap around whatever you are pointing your wand at.” So far so good? “The charm is, as I said incarcerous. Everyone repeat after me - incarcerous.” He waited, knowing that they would need to say it many many times in the last bit of the lesson.
“Because it is part of the conjuration branch of magic, this is one of the more advanced spells -- but don’t worry we will have a good lesson today.” Y’know, since there was no magic they would be doing their best!
Turning a bit more to look at a different set of students he continued. “First things first, we need to make sure we are happy with the spell itself. The charm is incarcerous -” He repeated again. “Heavily influencing the KAR -- in-KAR-sir-us. Four syllabus.” He paused and repeated this again another few times, turning around to speak and show everyone in the circle. Why on earth were they standing in a circle??
“For your wand work, it is very simply, you did to point your wand towards the item, thing or person that you want to bind and then draw a …..” he paused, what was the right shape. “A-a pretzel! Yes, a pretzel in the air.” He stopped again and drew the shape in the air a few times for them all to see with his wand. Start on the left, loop up on the left, down around the bottom, up on the right this time and end on the bottom right like a twisted almost-preztel. Mmmm cinnamon pretzels sounded great right now.
Wait, no. No getting distracted.
“Now, please make note that you aren’t to sway, flourish or brandish your wand as that will not give you accurate results… if any.” Obviously, their magic wasn’t going to work right now anyway, but if they could actually be practicing, it wouldn’t work. You know. Telling them for the future when they could practice properly.
“I want you to work with the person on your right today. You need one pillow and one piece of rope between your pair…” He paused and motioned to both piles that were by his desk.” “So decide who is going to go and get them, and then find yourself a space to work in.”
He gave them time to get sorted and then looked around the room again. “Set the items on the floor between you to start with. I want you to practice saying the incantation - incarcerous - and the want motion. As we have no magic, don’t worry about your wands, but I want you to practice the motion regardless. You have five minutes to practice your pronunciations and wand motion and then we will do the last part of the activity before we move onto the game.”
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Blake had watched and listened to his classmates answers, he had honestly not felt like answering ... but figured he should at least particpate in the wand movement part of class. It was always good to learn to spells.
"Incarcerous" He said with moving his wand hand (though wand less for the moment) in the shape of the pretzel... or at least in the best pretzel shape he could muster.
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Oh yes. It was Incarcerous indeed. Now that Professor Eerie mentioned it, the incantation did sound familiar and she had the image of flying ropes. “Right, Professor,’’ Claudine acknowledged. “Sorry for the mix up.” The girl listened to the others but in some cases, their words seem to pass through one ear and exit the other for she found herself forgetting almost everything they said.
Oh well.
“Incarcerous,’’ came the repeat as Eerie instructed. “In-KAR-sir-us, In-KAR-sir-us.’’ How on earth was she to remember all of that information. Claudine hoped there would be notes provided by Eerie after the lesson. But of course this exercise required a partner. Claudine glanced to her right and was surprised to find that it was Heaten {Heath} standing there. Had he been by her side all this while? She tilted her head back to look up into his face because, you know… he was considerably taller than her. “Partner,’’ Claudine announced. It wasn’t a question. Somehow she knew he’d agree; he was her friend, right?
Without a word, the Snakette left and returned soon after with a pillow and rope. They were set down between her and Heaten as instructed. “So… practice time.’’ She threw him a bewildered look.
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Okay this was dumb, Carsyn wasn't going to lie. How were they meant to practice a conjuration spell when their wands were useless pieces of wood? Not to mention they could barely remember their class schedules so when they did finally get things back to normal, they likely wouldn't remember ever having learned this incantation.
Also what was up with that ravenclaw boy pulling on Bernie's hair? And Bernie stomped back on his foot? Was she that childish at Bernie's age? Sure she made dumb choices but she didn't recall being petty?
She had of course been completely lost in reminiscing that she had forgotten about the question(s) that Professor Iris had asked. Probably related to the conjuration spell incancerous? And they moving on to practicing ??
Glancing to her right she spotted Bernie there in her new spot. Must not let on to her how pointless she thought this was"So uh.... incantation and wand movement?"
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She suppossssssssed it was smart to get the incantation down AND the movement down even without magic so that when it HOPEFULLY and SOON returned, they would be prepared. What Aboli did NOT understand, though was what they were going to do with the rope and pillow...but he wanted them to set them aside anyway. Aboli turned to [INSERT PERSON TO HER RIGHT] and just sorta half-smiled.
"So...wanna work together then?"
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She was still mulling on Professor Eris' response to her first answer. Yes, digging a hole without magic WOULD be exhausting, but if it was a non-Hogwarts time she could just use her magic? And she was torn on if she would want a deep, DEEP hole, because she wouldn't want to accidentally INJURE someone when they fell because she'd set a death trap instead of just a trap. Unless they were hypothetically trapping for more insidious reasons?
She was so stuck in her rabbit hole of trap holes that she missed the rest of the commotion and the second question. Which was probably fine, considering she didn't have much to offer about this subject anyways. She knew nothing.
Hearing a voice to her left, and noting that it was thankfully familiar, K nodded her head and gave a thumbs up towards Aboli. "Want me to go get the rope and a pillow so we can get started on our incarcerated spell?" Which... would be interesting. Practicing magic without the ability to DO magic seemed off, but they couldn't just NOT have lessons the rest of the year so... hopefully they could retain what happened this class period.
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“Yes, yes.” That’s what he had said. “Desist now, or you will end up in detention. You gripped Miss Gralnam’s hair before she did anything.” He shot the young man a disapproving look - one that had withered many of his grandchildren into behaving - as if asking Ilya if he would like to continue arguing. Detentions were all magic-less right now, do you really want to push this subject right now?
Carwyn looked towards Ilya for an answer to the questions for the next section but when they were not forthcoming, he moved on to the next student for an answer.
Desist? Ilya's frown deepened. Whatever. He apologized and moved away from the stupid Bernie, who was going on his Silent Treatment list. He was also going to protest for the rest of the class for good measure. The spell, yes, yes, he had read something about it somewhere and he MAY or may not have been able to cast it.
The person to his right? Well, everyone moved around so the circle was messed up now and he didn't manage to look to his right. He didn't want a partner anyway. Ilya went and grabbed a pillow, set it on an empty space and sat on it. He fished out his notebook and wrote down the incantation phonetically as Carwyn said it. The wand movement was pointless to learn now with no magic, he was going to forget about it eventually...
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Incarcerous, incarcerous… Heath repeated the incantation over and over in his mind, even before Professor Erso told them to say it out loud. It was the only way he could even possibly remember it! “In-KAR-sir-us,” he said robotically and distinctly. “Incarcerous…”
Heath blinked in confusion as whe professor mentioned wand flourishes - or more accurately, not to do them. Okay, that was going to be hard! He loved dramatic wand movements; must be the actor in him. Way to take the fun out of everything… Hold on, did he just say the wand movement was a pretzel shape? Ugh, he knew that! Now he wished he’d spoken up when he had the chance.
Heath was so distracted by… whatever just happened that he completely forgot about finding a partner until a familiar voice jerked him out of his thoughts. Partner? Who, him? He glanced to his left and saw Claudine. Why do I have to be so tall and odd-looking? He inwardly berated himself for towering over her. He bowed his head to get a proper look at her, tucking his hair behind his ears to keep it out of his eyes for once in his life. “Partner,” he replied with a nod and a warm smile.
So… wasn’t there something they were supposed to get? Heath started to ask Claudine, but she’d already gone to fetch their rope and pillow. “Right… practice,” he said, returning her bewildered look with one of his own. What were they practicing again? He wracked his brains, desperately trying to recall. “I think the wand movement goes like this…” He drew his now-defunct wand, tracing a pretzel shape in the air, but as for the incantation, he had no idea!
“Do you remember the incantation?” He was prety sure it started with I... and wasn't there a "KAR" in ther somewhere?
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Soooo, they were going to practice the Incarcerous spell......with no magic. Okaaay. Practice was always a good thing, she supposed. Naya wrote down the incantation and wand movement in her notes. She had known this spell before, but had a hard time remembering the details. She had a hard time remembering everything these days. The notes would keep her on track.......she hoped.
Now it was time to get to work. Why they needed partners for this practice, Naya was not sure. Surely there was a point to it, right? Anyway, she went to grab a pillow and a rope and then set out in search of a partner. Who was to her right? Ahhh. Naya went over to the Ravenclaw in question (Ilya). “Hi. Do you want to be partners?” She held out the pillow a rope with a questioning look.
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SPOILER!!: Team One = Blake and Ilya
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Originally Posted by love-for-HP
Blake had watched and listened to his classmates answers, he had honestly not felt like answering ... but figured he should at least particpate in the wand movement part of class. It was always good to learn to spells.
"Incarcerous" He said with moving his wand hand (though wand less for the moment) in the shape of the pretzel... or at least in the best pretzel shape he could muster.
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Desist? Ilya's frown deepened. Whatever. He apologized and moved away from the stupid Bernie, who was going on his Silent Treatment list. He was also going to protest for the rest of the class for good measure. The spell, yes, yes, he had read something about it somewhere and he MAY or may not have been able to cast it.
The person to his right? Well, everyone moved around so the circle was messed up now and he didn't manage to look to his right. He didn't want a partner anyway. Ilya went and grabbed a pillow, set it on an empty space and sat on it. He fished out his notebook and wrote down the incantation phonetically as Carwyn said it. The wand movement was pointless to learn now with no magic, he was going to forget about it eventually...
As the class started pairing off, Carwyn watched them collect the things that they needed and he nodded. However, when all was set, he noticed two of the class sitting separately. Well that wouldn’t do - the next section needed pairs! He moved over to Blake and motioned over to where Ilya was sitting on a pillow. “Why don’t you get a piece of rope and join him. You’ll need a partner for the next part.” He nodded. “Stand up to practice once you’ve taken your notes!” And that was that. Nothing about drama, he’d already moved on. He wanted them all to learn!
SPOILER!!: Team Two = Claudine and Heath
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Oh yes. It was Incarcerous indeed. Now that Professor Eerie mentioned it, the incantation did sound familiar and she had the image of flying ropes. “Right, Professor,’’ Claudine acknowledged. “Sorry for the mix up.” The girl listened to the others but in some cases, their words seem to pass through one ear and exit the other for she found herself forgetting almost everything they said.
Oh well.
“Incarcerous,’’ came the repeat as Eerie instructed. “In-KAR-sir-us, In-KAR-sir-us.’’ How on earth was she to remember all of that information. Claudine hoped there would be notes provided by Eerie after the lesson. But of course this exercise required a partner. Claudine glanced to her right and was surprised to find that it was Heaten {Heath} standing there. Had he been by her side all this while? She tilted her head back to look up into his face because, you know… he was considerably taller than her. “Partner,’’ Claudine announced. It wasn’t a question. Somehow she knew he’d agree; he was her friend, right?
Without a word, the Snakette left and returned soon after with a pillow and rope. They were set down between her and Heaten as instructed. “So… practice time.’’ She threw him a bewildered look.
What was the incantation again?
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Incarcerous, incarcerous… Heath repeated the incantation over and over in his mind, even before Professor Erso told them to say it out loud. It was the only way he could even possibly remember it! “In-KAR-sir-us,” he said robotically and distinctly. “Incarcerous…”
Heath blinked in confusion as whe professor mentioned wand flourishes - or more accurately, not to do them. Okay, that was going to be hard! He loved dramatic wand movements; must be the actor in him. Way to take the fun out of everything… Hold on, did he just say the wand movement was a pretzel shape? Ugh, he knew that! Now he wished he’d spoken up when he had the chance.
Heath was so distracted by… whatever just happened that he completely forgot about finding a partner until a familiar voice jerked him out of his thoughts. Partner? Who, him? He glanced to his left and saw Claudine. Why do I have to be so tall and odd-looking? He inwardly berated himself for towering over her. He bowed his head to get a proper look at her, tucking his hair behind his ears to keep it out of his eyes for once in his life. “Partner,” he replied with a nod and a warm smile.
So… wasn’t there something they were supposed to get? Heath started to ask Claudine, but she’d already gone to fetch their rope and pillow. “Right… practice,” he said, returning her bewildered look with one of his own. What were they practicing again? He wracked his brains, desperately trying to recall. “I think the wand movement goes like this…” He drew his now-defunct wand, tracing a pretzel shape in the air, but as for the incantation, he had no idea!
“Do you remember the incantation?” He was prety sure it started with I... and wasn't there a "KAR" in ther somewhere?
As Carwn moved away from matching up the boys, he was happy to see that Claudine and Heath had paired up. Fantastic. He liked when people were paired up randomly - it always seemed so interesting for their working! Just as he walked past them, he heard the boys question. “Incarcerous, Mr Joe.” He nodded his head. “Incarcerous.” He looked between them both, “Say it now…” He encouraged them with a smile.
SPOILER!!: Team Three = Carsyn and Bernie
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Okay this was dumb, Carsyn wasn't going to lie. How were they meant to practice a conjuration spell when their wands were useless pieces of wood? Not to mention they could barely remember their class schedules so when they did finally get things back to normal, they likely wouldn't remember ever having learned this incantation.
Also what was up with that ravenclaw boy pulling on Bernie's hair? And Bernie stomped back on his foot? Was she that childish at Bernie's age? Sure she made dumb choices but she didn't recall being petty?
She had of course been completely lost in reminiscing that she had forgotten about the question(s) that Professor Iris had asked. Probably related to the conjuration spell incancerous? And they moving on to practicing ??
Glancing to her right she spotted Bernie there in her new spot. Must not let on to her how pointless she thought this was"So uh.... incantation and wand movement?"
Carwyn continued his circle around the room and smiled at the two Gryffindors as they practiced. He had nodded and repeated the spell for them again to help them remember. It was such a struggle but they would get there. He knew they would! He believed in them … Wait, what was he dong? He looked at the girls, gave them a smile and continued on his rounds after looking at the parchment to remind himself.
SPOILER!!: Team Four = Aboli and Kimberley
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She suppossssssssed it was smart to get the incantation down AND the movement down even without magic so that when it HOPEFULLY and SOON returned, they would be prepared. What Aboli did NOT understand, though was what they were going to do with the rope and pillow...but he wanted them to set them aside anyway. Aboli turned to [INSERT PERSON TO HER RIGHT] and just sorta half-smiled.
"So...wanna work together then?"
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She was still mulling on Professor Eris' response to her first answer. Yes, digging a hole without magic WOULD be exhausting, but if it was a non-Hogwarts time she could just use her magic? And she was torn on if she would want a deep, DEEP hole, because she wouldn't want to accidentally INJURE someone when they fell because she'd set a death trap instead of just a trap. Unless they were hypothetically trapping for more insidious reasons?
She was so stuck in her rabbit hole of trap holes that she missed the rest of the commotion and the second question. Which was probably fine, considering she didn't have much to offer about this subject anyways. She knew nothing.
Hearing a voice to her left, and noting that it was thankfully familiar, K nodded her head and gave a thumbs up towards Aboli. "Want me to go get the rope and a pillow so we can get started on our incarcerated spell?" Which... would be interesting. Practicing magic without the ability to DO magic seemed off, but they couldn't just NOT have lessons the rest of the year so... hopefully they could retain what happened this class period.
Seeing the girls working together already, Carwyn smiled at them especially as they got their things and got straight down to work. See, his students were soooo hard working. He grinned at them, and stayed around for a minute or two to help with any pronunciation issues that they had, and then continued on to the next group.
They were doing so well! Now, what was next? Raising his hand to once again look at the paper in his hand and keep himself on track, he found his hand empty and the parchment slowly floating its way to the floor as he looked down. Frowning, the Professor looked at his hand again, and although it was raised higher than it hand be at his side it was very much still in the position of holding the paper and yet… the parchment had just handed on the ground.
Without calling attention to the class to stop practicing, he straightened his fingers out and crouched down to pick it up, sure he had simply let it go without realising. However as he bent to pick it up his fingers moved straight through the transparent parchment. …. That was different.
Thankfully the parchment had landed text up, he quickly read his writing but frowned as he read the second part of the mini activity only said PILLOWS!!! … He sighed, frustrated at his memory because he had no idea what they were meant to be doing with said pillows.
No matter, they only had 15 minutes left of class, so he’d just move onto the main activity. No matter.
”Okay everyone, lets move on.” He smiled at them all, waiting for their attention to be turned to him. “Great! You seem to be coming on really well with the incantation, so now, comes the fun part!” He chuckled, as fun as they could have without magic anyway. “Firstly, please remember that when you are moving around with your wands, you need to obviously be very careful to not hurt anyone else.” Just like running with scissors, hmmmmm. No poking people in the eyes or sides or anywhere else. “With that said and due to the glitching, we won’t use them today but just a safety note.”
He was babbling. What was he talking about? Ah yes. The Game!
“For the last 15 or so minutes, we’re going to play a game. If we were truly trying to ensnare someone or wrap them up with incarcerous, the likelihood is that they would be moving around. So here is what you are going to do in your pairs.
“One of you, will move around the classroom while your partner tries to catch you! The person who is running, will hold the pillow in front of them - preferably against your chin so that most of your face and chest will be protected.” He couldn’t cast cushioning charms, so this and the mats on the floor would be all the protecting they would get from any trips, falls and rope marks.
“The person who is chasing you, will be using the rope. You will need to say the incantation, and then try to catch them with the rope - whether you want to make a loop, put it over their heads… etc. How you use the rope is up to you but do not use it with the sole intention of hurting each other. This is meant to be fun.” He looked around at them all.
“I want you to each have a shot at running and caching - if you manage to complete that and you still have time left, feel free to swap with another pair and have a second go at it. “ He looked around at them.
Sound good? All sorted? …….. “Go!”
OOC: Hi everyone, sorry RL happened and made me a few hours late.
We’re moving on the MAIN ACTIVITYYYY now! *cheers* I hope you have fun with this. Start off in the pairs you picked - generally this will take about two or three posts each to get the full cycle, if you manage to catch each other on the first go. You can do it as slowly or as quickly as you want, just enjoy it!
As always if you have any questions, let me know and class will be open until night time on the 10th.
~ Mrs. Steve Harrington ~ It be like that sometimes.
Oh?Heaten had eyes? His hair had spent a good amount of time covering them during the lesson that she quite forgot he had eyes. Claudine stared at his forehead, her own creased in a frown. “I forgot,’’ she mumbled. Darn this whole memory thing. Fortunately, Professor Eerie saved them. Incarcerous! Yes, that was it. “Thanks, Professor.’’
And so she began to repeat the incantation while copying Heaten’s earlier wand movements. After a few minutes, Claudine was confident, not that it would make much of a difference as they still could do no magic. “I think I’ve got it,’’ she told Heaten, beaming up at him. It was always rewarding, all this practice. As for that activity, it sounded like a kid’s game but it sounded fun.
“Want to run first?’’ she asked, offering him the pillow. Already her mind was running slyly. Heaten was so tall that Claudine was quite confident that he’d be easy to lasso.
Was it just him or did class seem weirder than usual today? First they had to take off their robes and then they were walking around the classroom? It seemed strange to Morgan that they'd be doing that in... what class was this again? He needed to look at the professor to remind himself that this was Transfiguration. And while he would have loved to learn how to conjure ropes - because how cool was that spell?? - he was a little confused about pretending to do magic when it wasn't working at all.
But all of that was forgotten (quite literally) when it was announced that they'd be playing a game. Morgan generally liked games especially when they were played during class in lieu of taking notes or something else equally boring.
The third year Gryffindor grabbed a rope, then looked for someone with a pillow as people started partnering up. "Anyone need a partner?!" he called out loudly. Where were his friends?
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She was still mulling on Professor Eris' response to her first answer. Yes, digging a hole without magic WOULD be exhausting, but if it was a non-Hogwarts time she could just use her magic? And she was torn on if she would want a deep, DEEP hole, because she wouldn't want to accidentally INJURE someone when they fell because she'd set a death trap instead of just a trap. Unless they were hypothetically trapping for more insidious reasons?
She was so stuck in her rabbit hole of trap holes that she missed the rest of the commotion and the second question. Which was probably fine, considering she didn't have much to offer about this subject anyways. She knew nothing.
Hearing a voice to her left, and noting that it was thankfully familiar, K nodded her head and gave a thumbs up towards Aboli. "Want me to go get the rope and a pillow so we can get started on our incarcerated spell?" Which... would be interesting. Practicing magic without the ability to DO magic seemed off, but they couldn't just NOT have lessons the rest of the year so... hopefully they could retain what happened this class period.
Oh cool, it was Kimmie next to her! She smiled at the Hufflepuff and nodded. "Sounds good. Only thing...it's not the INCARCERATED spell, Kimmie. We're not going to prison yet - " she smirked and winked. "It's the incarcerous spell....right?" Aboli practiced the wand movement a bit. A pretzel.
It made her absolutely crave a cinnamon sugared pretzel. Gosh. Next time she visited the kitchens - oh goodness! If THEY the STUDENTS and STAFF couldn't use magic - what were the poor elves doing to make their FOOD?! COoking the muggle way?!
ABOLI WAS APPALLED. She was about to whisper SOMETHING to Kimmie when Professor Eris continued the lesson, explaining the game.
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SPOILER!!: Team One = Blake and Ilya
As the class started pairing off, Carwyn watched them collect the things that they needed and he nodded. However, when all was set, he noticed two of the class sitting separately. Well that wouldn’t do - the next section needed pairs! He moved over to Blake and motioned over to where Ilya was sitting on a pillow. “Why don’t you get a piece of rope and join him. You’ll need a partner for the next part.” He nodded. “Stand up to practice once you’ve taken your notes!” And that was that. Nothing about drama, he’d already moved on. He wanted them all to learn!
SPOILER!!: Team Two = Claudine and Heath
As Carwn moved away from matching up the boys, he was happy to see that Claudine and Heath had paired up. Fantastic. He liked when people were paired up randomly - it always seemed so interesting for their working! Just as he walked past them, he heard the boys question. “Incarcerous, Mr Joe.” He nodded his head. “Incarcerous.” He looked between them both, “Say it now…” He encouraged them with a smile.
Carwyn continued his circle around the room and smiled at the two Gryffindors as they practiced. He had nodded and repeated the spell for them again to help them remember. It was such a struggle but they would get there. He knew they would! He believed in them … Wait, what was he dong? He looked at the girls, gave them a smile and continued on his rounds after looking at the parchment to remind himself.
SPOILER!!: Team Four = Aboli and Kimberley
Seeing the girls working together already, Carwyn smiled at them especially as they got their things and got straight down to work. See, his students were soooo hard working. He grinned at them, and stayed around for a minute or two to help with any pronunciation issues that they had, and then continued on to the next group.
They were doing so well! Now, what was next? Raising his hand to once again look at the paper in his hand and keep himself on track, he found his hand empty and the parchment slowly floating its way to the floor as he looked down. Frowning, the Professor looked at his hand again, and although it was raised higher than it hand be at his side it was very much still in the position of holding the paper and yet… the parchment had just handed on the ground.
Without calling attention to the class to stop practicing, he straightened his fingers out and crouched down to pick it up, sure he had simply let it go without realising. However as he bent to pick it up his fingers moved straight through the transparent parchment. …. That was different.
Thankfully the parchment had landed text up, he quickly read his writing but frowned as he read the second part of the mini activity only said PILLOWS!!! … He sighed, frustrated at his memory because he had no idea what they were meant to be doing with said pillows.
No matter, they only had 15 minutes left of class, so he’d just move onto the main activity. No matter.
”Okay everyone, lets move on.” He smiled at them all, waiting for their attention to be turned to him. “Great! You seem to be coming on really well with the incantation, so now, comes the fun part!” He chuckled, as fun as they could have without magic anyway. “Firstly, please remember that when you are moving around with your wands, you need to obviously be very careful to not hurt anyone else.” Just like running with scissors, hmmmmm. No poking people in the eyes or sides or anywhere else. “With that said and due to the glitching, we won’t use them today but just a safety note.”
He was babbling. What was he talking about? Ah yes. The Game!
“For the last 15 or so minutes, we’re going to play a game. If we were truly trying to ensnare someone or wrap them up with incarcerous, the likelihood is that they would be moving around. So here is what you are going to do in your pairs.
“One of you, will move around the classroom while your partner tries to catch you! The person who is running, will hold the pillow in front of them - preferably against your chin so that most of your face and chest will be protected.” He couldn’t cast cushioning charms, so this and the mats on the floor would be all the protecting they would get from any trips, falls and rope marks.
“The person who is chasing you, will be using the rope. You will need to say the incantation, and then try to catch them with the rope - whether you want to make a loop, put it over their heads… etc. How you use the rope is up to you but do not use it with the sole intention of hurting each other. This is meant to be fun.” He looked around at them all.
“I want you to each have a shot at running and caching - if you manage to complete that and you still have time left, feel free to swap with another pair and have a second go at it. “ He looked around at them.
Sound good? All sorted? …….. “Go!”
OOC: Hi everyone, sorry RL happened and made me a few hours late.
We’re moving on the MAIN ACTIVITYYYY now! *cheers* I hope you have fun with this. Start off in the pairs you picked - generally this will take about two or three posts each to get the full cycle, if you manage to catch each other on the first go. You can do it as slowly or as quickly as you want, just enjoy it!
As always if you have any questions, let me know and class will be open until night time on the 10th.
All right so...Aboli nodded at Kimmie. "Sure..go get our stuff. I can start with the pillow and you can try to catch me. Test your SKILLS!" she smiiiirked and as soon as the pillow and rope were acquired, Aboli held the pillow in front of her chest...were they supposed to walk backwards? They didn't have a pillow on their back???? This was weird! So she took a step back, and then another, trying to get used to it before wondering if others had the same idea she did. Buuuut wait - if they fell backward, there would be no pillow to break her fall, so she turned around to face things the NORMAL way and WALKED REALLY FAST AWAY FROM KIMMIE. She didn't run because that would be dangerous, wouldn't it?
CATCH US IF YOU CAAAAAAAN KIMMEH.
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K blinked at Aboli's response, correcting her on her wording. Had she not said Incarcerous? Apparently not, because she was saying Incarcerated and that they weren't imprisoned yet. Which... The joke did get a laugh out of the Hufflepuff. "Oops. I guess it's just always on the brain now." She chanted the CORRECT spell under her breath as she gave a nod before heading off to find a pillow and a piece of rope. She did pause to do a couple of pretzel like drawings, just to TRY to get a feel for the spell.
She grabbed a pillow that looked suspiciously like Hufflepuff, before heading back over as Professor Eris began to explain what they were doing. Running and... Throwing ropes? Oh Merlin, she had TERRIBLE aim. Although avoidance she wasn't super terrible at. Heh.
Kimmie turned back to her partner when Aboli said she would try running first, and watched as the Slytherin seemed to fumble with WHERE to put the pillow. "I think it goes in front of your face ish?" Because if she fell she wouldn't want to hurt that. Well, actually she probably wouldn't want to hurt anything. ANYWAYS. Aboli was off and K's competitive instinct naturally kicked in.
She quickly made a make shift lasso out of her rope, which quite honestly she surprised herself that she had even been able to, before following Bones but also not running, because Hufflepuff could NOT afford to lose points. She tried throwing the rope only for it to miss TERRIBLY and almost hit some other students. She quickly reigned it in again and gave it another TOSS towards the blonde.
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Incarcerous. Not incancerous. Got it. Maybe. Probably not, but she smiled at Professor Iris when he corrected her, and then they were playing a game. "Oohhh this is just like catching a snitch!" Carsyn exclaimed at the younger lion. Basically she was totally going to be AMAZING at this game. And Bernie was much bigger than a snitch too, so surely this would be easy enough for her to manage. Of course she probably underestimated Bernie's ability to creatively think on ways to be difficult to catch...
"I can catch you first?" she asked, almost pleadingly at her housemate.
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