Yes it was SAFE fire, which meant no one was going to catch on fire and no one was going to hurt themselves unless they stabbed themselves with a stick. But that was NOT going to be his fault.

While everyone worked on levitating their marshmallows, Piers decided to take it easy and chill out at the desk at the front of the classroom. He plopped into his chair and kicked his feet up onto his desk and then popped a marshmallow into his mouth. He didn’t have the mental capacity to lead a lesson today, but it seemed like everyone just needed a day off. But he also didn’t want to get in trouble, so he WOULD teach them something in a minute. But they were gonna chill for a minute.

He, of course, was watching them all and making sure nothing dangerous was going on. Then he waited a while for the students to make some s’mores and socialize with their friends.

Then it was time to move on.

”Alright,” Piers said, getting up from his desk. ”Finish up your last marshmallows, we gotta move on to something educational.” UNFORTUNATELY.

After another moment, Piers rose his voice again and called for the class’ attention. ”Okay, marshmallows and wands down. Here comes the good part. We’re going to learn to put out these fires using the extinguishing spell.” With a wave of his wand, a few words showed up on the chalkboard.

Extinguishing Charm
IG-NIS EX-TINCT-IS

”Ignus Extinctus,” Piers said aloud, reading the spell for them. ”This is the easiest way to put out a fire by magic and even works better than just spitting out aguamenti. This spell spits out a material very similar to muggle fire extinguishers that smothers the fire, as some of you mentioned, and then when the fire is gone, that material sort of.. evaporates so it doesn’t leave a mess.” So that was nice.

[b]”The wand movement is simple, but a little bit large, depending on the size of the area that you are trying to put out. All you have to do is draw a figure eight in front of the fire and the size of the figure eight depends on the size of your fire. So for this fire, your wand movement will be fairly small.”[b] Piers then took his wand out to demonstrate. ”Watch closely,” he said, lifting his wand.

”Ignus Extinctus,” he said, waving his wand in a small figure eight. He didn’t have a fire to put out, but this would at least give them an idea of how to do it. ”Okay? Now go ahead and give it a try on your own fires. It’ll take some practice, but when you get it figured out, you’re free to go.” So that would motivate them to hurry up and get it figured out, right?

OOC: Thanks for playing along so far! We've now made it to our main and final activity where your characters will try to put out their fires. You'll have a few more days to finish the lesson!

Quirly bowed after the Professory took the tray. "Quirly is always happy to help."

Quirly was about to leave when one of the studentsies spoke up.

"Of course!" Quirly nodded. "Quirly brought all this for the studentsies." Quirly loved nothing more than filling the stomachies of the studentsies with ALL the treatsies. "There is more in the kitchens too."

OKAYYYYY ..... Was Fuller-Thompson in a bad mood? Who really could tell, but Carsyn was going to just ignore that for the moment because one of the house elves appeared with chocolates and marshmallows, as it appeared they were having smores. And how could one be upset or bitter when they were having smores?

Levitation charm of the marshmallows, which was obvious. Carsyn was adept in this charm, as she'd been successfully able to cast it for a couple years now. What she WAS more curious about was the fire that the Professor used because it wasn't incendio. Waving her hand over it, she gazed in awe for a moment or two, studying it curiously, before raising her hand, "Professor? Is it possible to teach this fire charm?" Cause no offense, but it seemed like it would be rather handy since it wouldn't burn anything accept the wood. And she was all for learning USEFUL spells. Surely he wouldn't want them casting incendio - or worse, fiendfyre - if need for a fire should arise.

While she awaited his response, she cast, "Wingardium Leviosa" on her marshmallow, hovering it just above her flame enough to get it all toasty and browned. Reaching for her toasty marshmallow, she was surprised the fire didn't burn her and carefully placed it onto her graham cracker with a piece of chocolate and another cracker on top. Officially best class ever. Even if she didn't get brownie points for her original answer before.

Holly decided after licking one of the crackers, that she didn’t want to use them at all… so instead she levitated the chocolate to rest on top of the floating marshmallows and let the heat melt the chocolate over the top of the gooey sugary treats. Then she plucked them one at a time out of the air, and let it all completely melt inside her mouth. Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Yup, so much better without the crackers. Sorry, Professor.

Just as she finished eating her fourth marshmallow, the Professor told them it was time to move on. Obviously, that meant she had to eat the last marshmallow while she listened to him. So she did that, eating the remaining two at the same time - fingertips slightly sticky from touching the marshmallow/chocolate combination… but she’d lick her fingers before she held her wand again. After she finished her treats. Hehe.

As she did that though, she listened to the Professor. Ignus Extinctus. She repeated in her head a few times as he fingered his wand and showed them a figure eight in the air. Okay. Bigger fire, bigger 8. Smaller fire, smaller 8. Okay… she could figure that part out. ”Professor?” The Slytherin asked her head of house, pushing her curly hair behind her ear. ”If its a much bigger fire, like… that has spread before you saw it… would it be better to tackle the fire in ‘sections’? Doing a figure of eight as big as you can with your wand, seems like it wouldn’t be as precise as doing it a few times over..?” Was she making sense? She hoped she was. She also hoped he didn’t mind her asking questions.

However, even as she had been speaking, her wand hand had been making figure eights in the air as she tried to start and finish the diagram at the same point in front of her. Holly wasn’t sure it needed to be that precise, but she was a perfectionist. She would hate for the charm not to work simply because of shoddy wandwork. Ignus Extinctus.

Claudine was finished with her marshmallows just as Fuller-Thompson declared that they had to move on. She was quite ready to; that feeling of happiness still filled her and she was certain that this was a Charms lesson that she would excel in. The marshmallows were set down in a neat pile, and the wand was substituted for a quill. Very neatly, Claudine printed the incantation and jotted some notes about the spell.

There it was again, that mention of a fire extinguisher. What in the world was that?

This all seemed straight forward though, the activity. The Snakette was ready to put out her fire but she too, had a question. “Professor?’’ A hand went up out of habit more than anything else, really. “What if we do manage to put the fire out and want to continue practicing for a bit more. Would you be relighting the fire?’’ Her expression was questioning as the wand was picked up.

With great deliberation, she practiced silently the movement.

Well, it was gonna be SUPER hard to do any sort of incantations with six marshmallows stuffed in her mouth, and Phoebe gave the professor a very cheerful, chubbybunny sort of smile. Chew chew chew, Phoebe James, because it was time to do magic and learn how to save lives and put out forest fires.

"IGGUS STANKUS," she managed, but NOPE, mouth still too full. She finally swallowed the last of the marshmallow and mouthed the incantation without any sticky bits getting in the way. Perfect. "Ignus Extinctus. Ignus Extinctus." Was that right? No better way to tell than to try to put out her fire.

"Ignus Extinctus," she traced the figure eight carefully in the air, and nearly all of her fire went out. CLOSE! SEE, PROFESSOR!

She was so CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!! Bernie couldn't handle it. She'd even forgotten mostly what they were supposed to be doing. She just wanted to talk to the REAL LIFE ELF!

"Can I come visit you in the kitchens sometime?" she asked the CUTE CUTE house elf, still staring at her with doe eyes, and helping herself to some chocolate while she admired her from afar. After a moment, though, Bernie's stomach rumbled and she FINALLY decided to just skewer a marshmallow on the end of her wand. Bernie held the wand and marshmallow over her fire, lazily wondering why everyone was making this harder than it had to be?? What was with all the floating marshmallows??? And now, everyone was just giving up on their fires??!!??!

Silly kids! She was NOT done here and was NOT extinguishing anything yet!!!

“IG-NIS EX-TINCT-IS,’’ Claudine muttered in a firm voice. Her wand was held still in her hand, her eyes upon the blackboard to properly read the incantation in syllables. “Ig-nis-ex-tinct-is.’’ Over and over the said syllables were repeated until they seemed to flow right off her tongue. Not only that, but they sounded exactly the way Fuller-Thompson had been pronouncing the incantation.

This meant that she was actually ready to give this a go.

“Ignis Extinctus. I mean, Ignis Extinctis. Yes, Ignis Extinctis.’’ Claudine had gotten slightly flustered due to her mix up so naturally, she hadn’t focused properly nor had she done the proper wand movement. It was why she took a deep breath to regroup herself.

“Ignis Extinctis.’’ Small figure eight movement and… viola! There was still a fire on her desk.

She'd been only SORT of successful in roasting a marshmallow because they either fell RIGHT into the fire, which torched them and made them a little less appetizing than she'd hoped, or she took them out of the flame too quickly 'cause she didn't WANT them to burn, which meant they didn't get that toasty brown which allowed them to be JUST right for s'mores making. It was tough out here in the marshmallow toasting world, it was.

When it was time to move on, the first year was actually glad and she sat up a bit straighter, thinking maybe knowing this new spell could've been a LOT more useful back when she'd had the rose garden incident, especially if it meant no mess left behind. WHY couldn't they have learned this sooner?!

She practiced the figure eight a few times first, making it different sizes just for practice. Once she was comfortable with that, it was ALL about giving the spell an actual try.

"Ignus...Ig-nus Ex-tinc-tus." Didn't really roll off the tongue, now did it? "Ignus Ex-tinc-tus...Ignus Extinctus." Annnd with the movement.. "Ignus Extinctus!" She made the smaller figure eight and watched and waited...but there was nothing. Hm. Maybe it was because the fire was nice and toasty and warm and she didn't really want it to go out deep down inside?

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Holly decided after licking one of the crackers, that she didn’t want to use them at all… so instead she levitated the chocolate to rest on top of the floating marshmallows and let the heat melt the chocolate over the top of the gooey sugary treats. Then she plucked them one at a time out of the air, and let it all completely melt inside her mouth. Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Yup, so much better without the crackers. Sorry, Professor.

Just as she finished eating her fourth marshmallow, the Professor told them it was time to move on. Obviously, that meant she had to eat the last marshmallow while she listened to him. So she did that, eating the remaining two at the same time - fingertips slightly sticky from touching the marshmallow/chocolate combination… but she’d lick her fingers before she held her wand again. After she finished her treats. Hehe.

As she did that though, she listened to the Professor. Ignus Extinctus. She repeated in her head a few times as he fingered his wand and showed them a figure eight in the air. Okay. Bigger fire, bigger 8. Smaller fire, smaller 8. Okay… she could figure that part out. ”Professor?” The Slytherin asked her head of house, pushing her curly hair behind her ear. ”If its a much bigger fire, like… that has spread before you saw it… would it be better to tackle the fire in ‘sections’? Doing a figure of eight as big as you can with your wand, seems like it wouldn’t be as precise as doing it a few times over..?” Was she making sense? She hoped she was. She also hoped he didn’t mind her asking questions.

However, even as she had been speaking, her wand hand had been making figure eights in the air as she tried to start and finish the diagram at the same point in front of her. Holly wasn’t sure it needed to be that precise, but she was a perfectionist. She would hate for the charm not to work simply because of shoddy wandwork. Ignus Extinctus.

The activity started, but he had fully expected to get some questions - and welcomed them, too. When one of his Slytherins raised their hands, Piers was happy to call on her and he nodded at her question. Yes, Holly, quite right. It will take a lot more to put out a bigger fire. Once you get a handle on the spell, it will be easier to put out larger sections with one incantation, but some larger fires do take a couple goes." So she was right, but it also depending on skill.

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Claudine was finished with her marshmallows just as Fuller-Thompson declared that they had to move on. She was quite ready to; that feeling of happiness still filled her and she was certain that this was a Charms lesson that she would excel in. The marshmallows were set down in a neat pile, and the wand was substituted for a quill. Very neatly, Claudine printed the incantation and jotted some notes about the spell.

There it was again, that mention of a fire extinguisher. What in the world was that?

This all seemed straight forward though, the activity. The Snakette was ready to put out her fire but she too, had a question. “Professor?’’ A hand went up out of habit more than anything else, really. “What if we do manage to put the fire out and want to continue practicing for a bit more. Would you be relighting the fire?’’ Her expression was questioning as the wand was picked up.

With great deliberation, she practiced silently the movement.

As the students worked, Piers continued to meander through the room and make sure that the students were making progress. He caught sight of Claudine's hand and nodded for her to continue. "Of course, I'll light another one for you. Just flag me down when you're ready." If she wanted to practice, he didn't mind one bit.

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She was so CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!! Bernie couldn't handle it. She'd even forgotten mostly what they were supposed to be doing. She just wanted to talk to the REAL LIFE ELF!

"Can I come visit you in the kitchens sometime?" she asked the CUTE CUTE house elf, still staring at her with doe eyes, and helping herself to some chocolate while she admired her from afar. After a moment, though, Bernie's stomach rumbled and she FINALLY decided to just skewer a marshmallow on the end of her wand. Bernie held the wand and marshmallow over her fire, lazily wondering why everyone was making this harder than it had to be?? What was with all the floating marshmallows??? And now, everyone was just giving up on their fires??!!??!

Silly kids! She was NOT done here and was NOT extinguishing anything yet!!!

And then there was Bernadette... roasting her marshmallows with her wand in the fire. But you know what? Your first year at Hogwarts (or Beauxbaton for that matter) was a year to LEARN and GROW and if she wanted to learn the hard way that wands were flammable, that was on her.


"Alright, everyone! Start to wrap it up! We've got just a few minutes left. You're all free to go once you've put your fire out or exerted yourself too hard to continue. Don't forget to check the notice board for your homework." He'd have it up sooner than later. But for now he had to clean up all this firewood.

OOC: Thank you all for coming! You have about 2-24 hours to finish up until I close the thread!

Ok, so figure eight over the fire? Seemed easy enough. Good to know too, in case she accidentally set fire to something at any point in her life. First Nettie decided to start working on the pronunciation. She did better with that part of the spells than she had when she had first come to England, but it was still the part she struggled with most.

”Ignus Extinctus,” she muttered a few times, and then she practiced the figure eight shape a few times as well. She then turned to her own fire and cleared her throat.

”Ignus Extinctus!" she exclaimed as she did the figure eight movement over the fire. She watched as the flame started to die down...and then promptly began to burn at the same rate it had been before.

With her wand moving in an 8 symbol in the air, Holly repeated the phrase over and over in her head until she felt like she had it right. Though just before she attempted it for the first time, Professor Fuller-Thompson called on her and then gave his answer. She nodded, watching and listening to the man with her full attention. This was important. It could save lives one day. Slowly she nodded. “So, it would depend on how strongly you can cast the charm… and how big, ferocious the fire itself is.” That made sense to the fifteen year old.

Looking back at the fire on her desk, the Slytherin pushed her curls away from her face before she said firmly, “Ignus Extinctus.” Her wand moved in the figure eight as needed and her pale eyes watched as the charmed worked - well, almost. The flame spluttered, the charm attempting to do its job. Holly frowned slightly, as the flame winked and twinkled at her, still happily alight. Urgh. That wasn’t what was meant to happen.

“Ignus Extinctus.” She stated again, focusing on the core job of the charm. To put on the fire, safely and quickly. This time, the fire went out in a flash - the extinguishing charm doing its job and the brunette let out a breath she hadn’t realised she had been holding. She could distinguish fires. She could distinguish fires.

The Slytherin was just away to raise her hand to ask the Professor to relight her fire, when he started to wrap the class up. Huh. Holly blinked. She hadn’t realised that it had taken her so long to get the charm to work in her favour -- but that was okay. She could do it now! It made her feel lighter, happier, somehow.

Packing her things away into her bag, Holly smiled at the Professor. “Great lesson, Professor Fuller-Thompson.” She stood from her seat and gave him a wiggle of her fingers as a goodbye wave as she walked out of the classroom towards her next class.

With Fuller- Thompson confrming that he would relight their fires, Claudine worked and worked to put hers out. However, nothing she seemed to be doing was working. The only outcome was that she wound up feeling frustrated and annoyed; the feelings only got worse when it was announced that they needed to start wrapping up.

“Ignis Extinctis, Ignis Extinctis.’’ One figure eight movement followed by another did nothing to end the flame. Sighing, the Snakette decided to give up for the time being. There was no sense continuing when she was feeling so frustrated. Not even the marshmallows that she popped into her mouth did anything to help.

In the end, Claudine gathered her belongings and the remaining marshmallows. “Bye, professor. My flame’s still lit.’’ You know… so he’d help a student out there by extinguishing it.

So confused and taken aback by the - fake? real? - flames that it took him a while to realise that they had long since moved on. Uhh??

Turning a little red, Lucas immediately let the marshmallow drop and turned his attention to whatever it was everyone else was doing and then up to the board. The Extinguishing Charm? So they were going to put out the flames? Could they eat the marshmallows, then? Have a snack? It was part of the lesson, right?

Right. Charm.

Ignus Extinctus. Ig-nus. Ex-tinct-us. He didn't know how many times he had been saying the words over and over and over again but something he did know: it was becoming easier to chant the words the more he said it. Ignus Extinctus. Ignus Ex-

It was then that his ears picked up on the sound of a question. Holly's question, actually. The Gryffindor did his best to try and fail looking as sneaky as possible while he tried to overhear whatever it was the Slytherin was asking. And what Fuller-Thompson was saying to her in return. Something about skill? And needing a few goes with the spell for a bigger fire? This....... led to more questions, questions he had about fire extinguishing, but.......

........ later. Later.

For now, he held up his wand and pointed it at the fire in front of him. Ignus Extinctus. Ignus Extinctus. "Ignus Extinctus!" he called, moving his wand around in a figure-eight motion. The result? Nothing. Maybe the tiniest of splutters but if this was a life or death situation, he...... well. This was a situation where screaming wasn't going to help, was it? "Ignus Extinctus!" Oh, come on! What was going wrong? It wasn't the wand movement, was it? How hard was it to draw a figure eigh-

They could LEAVE?!

Uhh.......

Uh oh. Come on. Don't panic don't panic. "Ignus Extinctus!" A slightly bigger figure eight was drawn in the air, followed by a slight spluttering of the flames and...... was it dying down? Was he dreaming? Were they smaller? He looked up and around, almost expecting the answer to come out at him but, instead, was only met with the sight of the other students leaving the room and saying their goodbyes.

Sigh.

This was it. Lucas hastily shoved his things in his bag and made his way to the door, uh, a little quicker than normal. "Bye, Professor. Thanks for the free food."

Taking a bite of her s'more and naturally oozing marshmallow over her desk - because face it, who can eat a s'more WITHOUT making a mess - Carsyn then figured she might as well set to work on extinguishing her fire. But before she did so, did Professor Fuller-Thompson not hear her? Was he ignoring her??? Because he seemed to address EVERYONE else's concerns, but literally just OVERLOOKED her. WHY? What did she do wrong?? She even raised her hand!!!

Ig-nis Ex-tinct-is. She murmured under her breath a few times, but then figured why the heck was she murmuring? The Professor was just going to ignore her anyway, so she had literally NO reason to be quiet in her charm casting. Except to not disturb her peers. Perhaps if she was louder he would hear her. Perhaps if she was loud enough he would not be able to ignore her. Perhaps if she was loud enough, he'd teach the fire charm. Perhaps if she was loud enough the extinguishing charm would work without fail. Perhaps. Perhaps. Perhaps.

"Ig-nis Extinct-is" Carsyn said this time in a voice that was probably three times louder than necessary. In a tone that meant it, a frustrated tone at being ignored. Because Carsyn Rose HATED being ignored. There was a reason she liked seeker which was because she wanted to be the star. A large figure eight without and another loud bellowing of "Ig-nis ex-tinct-is" and maybe it was the forcefulness of her tone or the determination, but the fire extinguished.

Free to go. Didn't need to tell her twice since the Professor hated her anyway. Or at least she assumed she hated her because why else would he have ignored her question. Irate, the fourth year slid her belongings into her bag and made to leave, a courtesy nod to the Professor which was about all he got and he should appreciate that much after his blatant disregard for her.

Okay, so her marshmallow wasn't as perfectly toasted as it would have been had she been provided with a real fire. But it was pretty close. The edges were nicely browned - albeit unevenly. At least the center was still gooey and delicious. It was turning out to be a very enjoyable lesson.

Avalon stuffed the last marshmallow in her mouth as Professor Fuller-Thompson moved on to the educational portion of the lesson. She hadn't yet taken any notes during the lesson, and she figured now would probably be a good time to get her parchment and quill out. Jotting down the incantation and the correlated wand movements, she murmured "ig-nis ex-tinct-is," under her breath a few times. Then, she practiced a few varying sizes of a figure 8.

Her first attempt resulted in a tiny spray of foamy-looking stuff. It sprinkled onto the fire, sputtering out a few of the outer flames. So that's what muggle fire extinguisher looked like then. "Ignus Extinctus!" she said again, tracing a small figure 8 above her fire. Some more flames were smothered out. After one more try, her fire had completely extinguished. Looking around, she realized that she was one of only a few students left in the room. Guess it was time to head out. Packing up her belongings and double checking to make sure that her fire was out, she gave the professor a polite nod. "Bye, Professor! Thanks for the s'mores," she said with a wave as she headed out.