Although he had not want to leave the comfort of his common room, he didn't think that it would be wise to practice spells in any other area than a practice room. Especially with his magical abilities. It was a miracle he had not blown something up yet....this month.

Having spend countless of hours in the dueling arena last year to practice practice and practice for his exams, Dorian knew the drill on how to enter the room already. He pulled out his acacia wand and tapped it on the open page of the book. He watched as his full name appeared and the current time before he stepped inside.

Not wasting any time, the sixteen year old moved to the back of the room and rolled one of the dummies out on the field , so to speak. There were a couple of spells he wanted to practice non-verbally which so far he had not mastered yet. Which frustrated him to no end because he had wanted to be able to use non-verbal spells ever since he found out in his second year what they were. He could do the minor spells though but he wanted to do more.

Deciding on practicing the diffindo charm first, he walked a couple of paces away from the dummy before he pointed his wand at it and concentrated. 'Diffindo!' he thought and waited....and waited but nothing happened. He knew this was going to happen , he was used to it now but that did not mean it didn't frustrate him each time. He waved his wand again, thought of the charm and failed again.

This went on for about half an hour. Him just standing there, a look of utter concentration on his face, refusing to give up when a colorful light suddenly rushed towards the dummy but instead of the charm hitting it, it flew passed and hit the wall behind it instead, leaving a big gash in the bricks. Oops.

Mweh, he would repare that later before he left. He was bound to make more mistakes anyway so why bother.