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Marion Burbage
"Oh, nothing figurative about this man's discoveries!" she chirped, winking at the young Gryffindor. Although her answer had cause Professor Burbage to giggle as well. Such clever and funny students this lesson!
Yup Lex was on a roll! Suuuuure, she hadn't answered any of the questions right--though she wasn't far off about Mr. Man with the white hair--she was able to receive a nice reaction from the Professor. A sign that she was doing something right. Beam. Good thing too because she felt completely clueless in this class and the last thing she needed was to feel stupid on top of it; she totally would have if every response she gave was received with a scowl or something but it wasn't! It was received with a smile and as of more lately, a giggle! It was nice that this Professor wasn't against giggling. This made her alright in her book and pushed a certain other Professor farther down on her list.
She listened with great enthusiasm when another portrait was
not pulled out. She had had enough of dead guys!!! It was clear that she didn't know them and her life up until now hadn't been terrible so they couldn't have been that important. SIGH. Not that she would say this aloud...no...then the smiles would stop for sure!
SPOILER!!: Instructions
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TAKE A POTTY BREAK!
Be sure there is NO soda left in your bottle.
Use the Severing Charm to cut ONE of your bottles about 2/3 of the way from the top so that you have removed the top. (be sure to cut the end with the lid)
Check to make sure that the cut bottle fits over the bottom of the other bottle. It should slide on and off easily.
Cut out 3-4 wings that are the same in size. If the size is off it will effect how high the rocket launches. You can make them whatever size you want and whatever shape you want.
Use Adhero to stick the wings to the UNCUT bottle. Be sure that they are attached around the same height.
Take your plastic bag, dental floss, and a remaining cardboard and lay them out on your desk.
Tie some dental to the plastic bag's handles and attach this string to the bottom of your UNCUT bottle. This will become your rocket's parachute.
Place the bottom part of the bottle on top other bottle. Make sure the bottom part of your rocket has the parachute.
DECORATE!
Your bottle rocket should resemble this when you are done.
No one had to tell her twice. By the end of the second round of question answering Lex had managed to finish her bottle of soda. NOOOO!!! She put the bottle to her head and tried draining every last drop before she headed off to the bathroom. Nothing should be wasted!!!

And of course while she was there she would wash out her bottle because she was a big girl and did
not want to ask any of the other students to clean her bottle for her. No. Once she learned the spell herself then she would cast it but for now she would do things the muggle way.
Gripping tightly to the bottle she ran from the room as quickly as possible. Her bladder was only so big and the bottle hadn't been all that small!
EVERYBODY MOOOOOVE!!!!
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There. The 11 year old walked back into the class feeling completely satisfied. Glancing over at the board she tried to figure the next course of action. Hmm...cutting the bottle...there was no way of muggling out this one--not without a knife anyway but she was sure there were none in the class. Looking to both sides to make sure no one was witnessing her potential failure, she drew her wand. She had heard a girl saying a word then her bottle got split so she would try it too. Jabbing the bottle she uttered the spell and was shocked when the charm nearly severed her desk and made a mess of her parchment. O___O....it had come awfully close to her as well....
SIGH. -_____-
Lex scanned the room reluctantly. She was a
big girl, she wasn't supposed to need anyone's helping making a rocket! She scowled a bit when she realized what she would have to do then picked up her bottle and made her way to Vivi with a slight pout. Oh the indignation of needing help. [b]"I think if I try cutting this on my own again I'll hurt myself...
can you help me with this?"[b] She nearly choked on that last part. Once this was done she could head back to her seat and try figuring out the rest
without any help!