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sevensnared 
As she sees Simon and Jimmy teaching the real Defense Against the Dark Arts, Aiden stands quietly at a corner of the room while observing the groups. Perhaps she could learn some spells from them. "You gonna join in?" Jim asked, noticing an audience of one. "You're more than welcome to." Really, he was almost having fun.
Whodathunkit?
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AuroraQuinn Aurora stood very still in front of the a dummy. She took her wand and pointed it at the dummy. "Urticate." She made a cross shape with her wand. Nothing. "Urticate!" she tried again. Nothing. She tried once more, getting a little impatient and realising that she wanted this to work even more now that it had failed twice. She took a deep breath. "Urticate!" She crossed her wand quickly and felt a little 'zing' from her wand hand. She peered at the dummy. There was a light, barely noticeable cross on it's chest. It had worked! She grinned and kept trying.
Jimmy watched and saw the moment when focus seemed to come to Aurora. "Hey thats it, good stuff. Nice wand movement."
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hermygirl He was late-ish. Maybe. It was a long way upstairs to deposit Matilda on his bed, check Killy and Kranky hadn't wandered over to Finn's bed AND grab some food. He'd decided being hungry didn't help concentration, and concentration was needed to get antlers. He reeeeally wanted to learn this.
Spike skidded to a halt near Jimmy, just as the older boy started to demonstrate. Phew. Just in time. Though he did give a little pout that said 'you coulda waited for me'. Watching carefully, he mimicked Jimmy's wand movements with his left hand, and muttered the incantation. Er-tick-ate.
Biting his lip as they were left to practice, Spike looked doubtfully at the dummy. He wasn't sure about negative intent, being a happy-go-lucky kind of chap, and there were more people than he was hoping. He pulled his wand from his robes, and rubbed his lips together.
"Er-tick-ate," he reminded himself, as he lined up with a dummy. He repeated the wand movement a couple of times too. Breathe. Antlers. Breathe. Focus.
"Er-tick-ate!" He opened his eyes, not really sure quite when he'd closed them. Did it work? Probably not.
"Open your eyes, Spike." Jim suggested. "Don't really want you to whip me with a stinging nettle hex by accident." Grin. Jim's tone made it clear he was confident that Spike could do it. "When I first learned this one, and was just getting the hang of hexes, I used to sorta do this whole.... mental.... 'bamBAM' thing." Jim demonstrated, really putting some attitude into it, the bamBAM being the way he punctuated each swipe of his wand with a flick.
It was pretty gangsta.
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ArianaBlack Nika nodded with a small smile. "Yeah, Nika." So intent, confidence, and negative feelings. Shouldn't be too hard... Then why is it so hard!? She took a deep breath as she concentrated hard. "Right." She said strongly. If only she could feel that confident while casting the spell. Jim made it look so easy. She held up her wand once more and looked at the dummy again.
Nika took one last deep breath trying "channel" all of the negitiveness into her spell. "Er-tick-ate" She said louder than the first time she had tried and a little more confidently. Still nothing happened. She frowned slightly and tried again. She was determined to get this right, even if it took all day.
"Er-tick-ate!" This time a little wisp of something came out of her wand. The spell may have not worked, but she was getting somewhere. Hopefully this little wisp meant improvement and not that she did something wrong.
Then she turned to Aurora just in time to see the first year get it right without even asking for help. She felt a little pink creep up on her cheeks as she burned with embarrassment. Even first year Aurora can do it.
"Don't worry about her." Jim suggested, putting his own wand away for now. "Can't get distracted and all that you know? Gotta put it all aside and focus on the immediate stuff. Do you want this? Took me bloody ages to get the hexing to come naturally, but I really
wanted to get good, and I practiced." So much. He grinned encouragingly. "I reckon you can do it."