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Bazinga 
Minerva had her face covered but could still feel the sand stinging her hand. This was horrible, her worse nightmare, ok maybe not worse nightmare, but it had to be close. She felt something hard hit her stomach and she let out air, What the heck?? Pulling one of her hands down she felt the object, coconut... great. Would this ever end. Minerva decided she was just going to stay in the position until class ended if she had to, but what if it didn't end, what if class would leave and she would still had her face covered. The professor would never leave students in a hurricane, right? Minerva wasn't so sure, if it was Lafay she knew the answer would be yes she would, but she wasn't sure about.. stop thinking like that Minerva you will be fine.
Just then she felt something on her again and heard a muffled sound. Now what was going on, Minerva then felt as if the sand wasn't hitting her as hard. Maybe it was finally stopping, Minerva took a chance and looked around. No it wasn't stopping she could see it all around her looking down she saw Sutton and smiled, "Thank I owe you one." she screamed. Trying to get up she got closer to Sutton, "Where should we try to go? This is horrible."
Sutton came up a little bit to sit on her knees, hunched down, allowing her left arm to rest on the top of her leg while she still held on to Minnie. Yelling right next to Minnie's ear in an attempt to be heard over the wind, Sutton responded,
"I don't know! I can't hold on to anything against the wind... not unless I put my wand away.... Hurt my shoulder!" She was trying to use as few words as possible but still be able to be heard. Still protected behind her shield charm, Sutton looked around. It seemed the trees weren't being much help. Students were still being blown and hit with things.
Think, Sutton, Think...
There had to be something... something they all SHOULD know that would keep them safe. Besides the one they had learned today, Sutton only knew three other types of shield charms. Protego, which seemed to be effective against the sand, Contego, which would only shield a specific object, and Impiriano, which was a shield against piercing objects. Her spellbook's definition of a "piercing object" though had been vague, and this didn't seem like the time to try it.
She was smarter than this, Sutton knew it. She just needed to think. The Protego charm could only protect them from one side at a time, and it had to require all of her concentration to keep it until the storm ended, so they had to find a way to protect their backs. Looking around, her eyes settled on the large rock she had once planned to use as an anchor. The two girls were small enough... they could easily curl up on one side with their backs against it, and maybe if they cast Contego on it, it would repel anything that flew at them from behind...
It was better than sitting out here with no protection but Sutton's wavering Protego charm.
Catching Minnie's eye again, Sutton used her wand to point toward the rock.
"Well put our backs against it... Protego in front!" she yelled over the roaring storm. Hoping that Minnie understood, Sutton gripped her wrist tighter, and came up to her feet in the lowest crouching position she could. She was going to have to drop her shield to cast Contego on the rock. Leaning in to Minnie's ear, she yelled,
"Cast Protego in front of us!" and demonstrated the wand movement for Minnie, though the older girl probably already knew.