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MeredithRodneyMckay 
"As you have all heard from each other, there are various types of hats that you can choose to transfigure your cloth into today. Some will be harder to create than others due to shape and style." Isabelle moved over to the board and picked up the chalk. She wrote down two words:
"This is the spell you will be using today. It is pronounced 'Tec-tum Ca-put'. And as you saw when I did the demonstration, the wand movement is a simple clockwise circle - making sure you touch the material gently with the tip of your wand." She showed them that bit again, without actually performing the spell, before going back to the front of her desk.
"Now, you don't actually need to place the material on your head for this to work, I just did that to give you a hint to the subject matter - and because it was amusing to me. It will work just as well, if not better, by placing it flat on your desk." She gestured for them to do that, having noticed a few had moved it to the side to place down their parchments and such like.
"I'd like you all to make sure you get each element of the spell correct before attempting to use it on the actual material. So please do separate practice before launching straight in. And, for fun, I'd like you all near the end of the lesson to create a certain style of hat for the next lesson - but more on that later. For now, please practice." OOC: I won't be on until late tomorrow, that's why I've bought the practice forward a bit. Have your character try the movement and incantations on their own first a few times, then by all means try and make yourself a hat like Isabelle did earlier. My next post will be in about 22 hours from now. But Issy will be here at all times. 
Erin removed her parchment on the desk allowing the cloth to be placed at the center of it. She wrote every bit of information about hats that her classmates had mentioned. For some odd reaasons, she had so much interest about hats - the stylish ones of course. Phasing a bit, she grabbed her wand from her robes pocket. Before starting, Erin quickly return her parchment on the desk since they were only practicing. It was wrtten to recite 'Tectum Caput' and move your wand in a clockwise manner.
She practised the spell firstly.
"Tec-tum Ca-put" Repeating the words a couple of times wouldn't take so much time and the professor actually told them to get used to the spell as much as possible. Focusing on the hat she saw Professor Magnus wore earlier, she repeated the incantation several times,
"Tec-tum Ca-put. Tec-tum Ca- put. Tec-tum Ca-put"By that she shifted to the side so that she will have the right distance from her desk to point her wand - she removed the cloth - and in from 3 o'clock to to 15 o'clock, she moved her wand. She shook her head,
"Clockwise. Clockwise." trying it again in a clockwise manner and then again and again. She was now all ready for the next part. Make that hat. As much as Erin wanted to make her own version of a bonnet hat, she needed to focus on the basics first and do what the professor had instructed them to do.