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FireboltAvis88 · 01-06-2012, 05:10 AM

SPOILER!!: Professor Schirmer

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tegz

ooc: remember to refresh next time if you see me in the thread

"A point that many of you mentioned, that is very important and relevant is that a Transfiguration changes what something fundamentally is, while a Charm leaves the base object and gives it properties or changes its behaviour."

She added that first point to the board with a flick of her wand, the chalk writing as she spoke.

"Several of you mentioned the 'seven classifications of spells'. It isn't precisely wrong but neither is it a particularly useful or clean cut definition of spell types. You'll find different classifications depending on who wrote the textbook, and many of the classifications are arbitrary."

Sooo to the next main point.

"The three main components of a spell are wand movement, incantation and intent. This means you have to get the wand movement right, focus on what you are trying to do, and pronounce the incantation correctly, all of which feed into your focus and intent. The intent is the most important of the three because eventually some will be able to cast their spells non-verbally, or in some rare cases, wandlessly."

They could move on quickly from this intro stuff, she hoped.

"First years, you'll find more information about particular wand movement types on page 47 of Quintessence a Quest. You can revise this later with an older student if you need help understanding these, and I do suggest you practice with a buddy later."

Because she wasn't going over it in detail right now.

One more bit before they could move on to something a little more substantial.

"We're going to touch briefly on incantations. What is an incantation? What kinds of words are used as incantations? What kind of words are not used as incantations? What is the relationship between an incantation and a spell? How are incantations chosen? You can answer any of these questions, I'm trying to get you all thinking a bit. Just share what you know about incantations." Some of it she'd touched on the previous year after all, so it wasn't as if most of them wouldn't know something.

ooc: Firsties and new students! You'll find 'page 47 of Quintessence a Quest' in this post.

You don't have to and aren't expected to answer ALL the incantation-y questions, just what you think your character would know/want to answer. Just share what you know .

Alyssa quickly wrote down in her journal what the Professor had mentioned in her summation of the first question she posed. Then she listened to the next series of questions and after thinking for awhile and listening to some of the other students who had raised their hands and answered before her, Alyssa raised her hand and answered,"Professor, an Incantation is a sequence of words used to create a charm or spell. Most incantations are derived from latin based words, even though some incantations are based on the old languages, like Greek."

"What are the words not used in Incantation? Could it be the words that are commonly used by everybody? Because they are so common it would be dangerous if someone accidentally said a spell without intending to?"Alyssa hoped that her answer made sense.

"As for the relationship between an incantation and a spell, could it be that a majority of spells use incantations in order to cast the spell? I mean, I know that there are spells that don't require incantations or words to be spoken and can be cast by using a specific formula, like the one Professor Hadley used in Arithmancy class last term, but not everybody knows how to cast those. So most people use incantations to do theirs." Alyssa again hoped that her answer wasn't wrong.

"As for how incantations are chosen, Professor, could it be that people chose words that were short, easy to pronounce, something that hopefully rhymes, if possible, and most importantly of all, words that could be easily remembered and said. I mean if they were too long, complicated or hard to pronounce, people might end up getting them wrong, mispronouncing them or mixing up the words entirely and accidentally casting the wrong spell." Alyssa finished off her answers hoping that at least one of them was correct. After all the Professor had wanted them to think and THINK she definitely did before she came up with her answers.

01-06-2012, 05:10 AM	#186 (permalink)
FireboltAvis88 Banned Kappa Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Calif., USA Posts: 14,643 Hogwarts RPG Name: Cristoffer Daniel Strand Sixth Year x12 x12	There's some good in this world and it's worth fighting for\| LOTR\|Whovian\|Sherlock Fan SPOILER!!: Professor Schirmer Quote: Originally Posted by Tegz ooc: remember to refresh next time if you see me in the thread "A point that many of you mentioned, that is very important and relevant is that a Transfiguration changes what something fundamentally is, while a Charm leaves the base object and gives it properties or changes its behaviour." She added that first point to the board with a flick of her wand, the chalk writing as she spoke. "Several of you mentioned the 'seven classifications of spells'. It isn't precisely wrong but neither is it a particularly useful or clean cut definition of spell types. You'll find different classifications depending on who wrote the textbook, and many of the classifications are arbitrary." Sooo to the next main point. "The three main components of a spell are wand movement, incantation and intent. This means you have to get the wand movement right, focus on what you are trying to do, and pronounce the incantation correctly, all of which feed into your focus and intent. The intent is the most important of the three because eventually some will be able to cast their spells non-verbally, or in some rare cases, wandlessly." They could move on quickly from this intro stuff, she hoped. "First years, you'll find more information about particular wand movement types on page 47 of Quintessence a Quest. You can revise this later with an older student if you need help understanding these, and I do suggest you practice with a buddy later." Because she wasn't going over it in detail right now. One more bit before they could move on to something a little more substantial. "We're going to touch briefly on incantations. What is an incantation? What kinds of words are used as incantations? What kind of words are not used as incantations? What is the relationship between an incantation and a spell? How are incantations chosen? You can answer any of these questions, I'm trying to get you all thinking a bit. Just share what you know about incantations." Some of it she'd touched on the previous year after all, so it wasn't as if most of them wouldn't know something. ooc: Firsties and new students! You'll find 'page 47 of Quintessence a Quest' in this post. You don't have to and aren't expected to answer ALL the incantation-y questions, just what you think your character would know/want to answer. Just share what you know . Alyssa quickly wrote down in her journal what the Professor had mentioned in her summation of the first question she posed. Then she listened to the next series of questions and after thinking for awhile and listening to some of the other students who had raised their hands and answered before her, Alyssa raised her hand and answered,"Professor, an Incantation is a sequence of words used to create a charm or spell. Most incantations are derived from latin based words, even though some incantations are based on the old languages, like Greek." "What are the words not used in Incantation? Could it be the words that are commonly used by everybody? Because they are so common it would be dangerous if someone accidentally said a spell without intending to?"Alyssa hoped that her answer made sense. "As for the relationship between an incantation and a spell, could it be that a majority of spells use incantations in order to cast the spell? I mean, I know that there are spells that don't require incantations or words to be spoken and can be cast by using a specific formula, like the one Professor Hadley used in Arithmancy class last term, but not everybody knows how to cast those. So most people use incantations to do theirs." Alyssa again hoped that her answer wasn't wrong. "As for how incantations are chosen, Professor, could it be that people chose words that were short, easy to pronounce, something that hopefully rhymes, if possible, and most importantly of all, words that could be easily remembered and said. I mean if they were too long, complicated or hard to pronounce, people might end up getting them wrong, mispronouncing them or mixing up the words entirely and accidentally casting the wrong spell." Alyssa finished off her answers hoping that at least one of them was correct. After all the Professor had wanted them to think and THINK she definitely did before she came up with her answers.