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DanialRadFAN01 
What was a charm? Well that could go either two ways: Riley sure had lots of charm on the girls around Hogwarts and would love to discuss how that went but was almost 78% sure the Professor had meant the other type of charm, the one the class was devoted to.
Oh. *cough*
The Gryffindor raised his hand to answer the question. "Professor, a charm is a type of spell that is performed on objects or people to make them do things or act a certain way that is not found natrually in the object or being. For example if you made something float that would otherwise be firmly on the ground." He finished with a nod, his eyes still wondering around the winterland classroom.
"Or," Sophia began, smiling at the Gryffindor.
"If I may add an example on to that... If you made something dance that originally was stationary."
She paused. She wasn't going to talk originally, but maybe...
"Basically, with a charm you just change the properties of an object without changing it's shape. Sometimes the original purpose of the object stays the same, sometimes not, like if you make something dance around like I suggested. You know, a statue's original purpose was to just stay in one place. But with some charm to make it move, that's not the original purpose. Well, other than artwork, I suppose."