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Picking out a couple of toothpick type match stick things, whatever one wanted to call them, Isabelle held them aloft for all to see. "Now, this is what you will be using to create your coracle AND the paddle. Two new spells for you all. I'll demonstrate now, then you can come and collect some of these for practice." Giving herself some room, she placed one down on the floor and looked up to make sure they were all paying attention. "This is the spell for the coracle...." Flicking her wand out, Issy pointed it downwards and did a full circle above the small stick. "Vegrandis Navis!"
Almost immediately the stick began to curl around and join it's ends together, before expanding outwards and filling in the gaps underneath. After a few seconds the bottom of the coracle sealed itself and a fully formed one sat on the ground in front of her, with just enough space for one person. Smiling, she looked up. "There, a simple enough wand movement as you can see. But quite a long spell. You need to add the emphasis on the IS portion of both words - Vergrand-IS Nav-IS. We'll get to the paddle a little later, but for now stick with this, and try to keep them about the same size as these two I made. Come and get some little sticks and you can start. Any questions, please ask."
Sierra just stared forward as she watched the demonstration. None of it sounded too hard, especially seeing as she was a fifth year now and had mastered most wand movements by now. Even still, it was a new spell, so she payed careful attention, narrowing her eyes even, as she watched the professor.
Finally, she made her way forward to get some of the sticks Magnus had instructed them to use. Sticks in one hand and her wand now in the other, she went back to where she'd been during the demonstration. Placing a stick down before her, she raised her wand. She pointed the wand downwards and did a full circle above the stick.
"Vegrandis Navis!" she exclaimed.
She sloooowly looked down at the stick, anticipating what would hopefully be a little pieced together...boat...thing.