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Originally Posted by
Tegz 
"It is! This predates the Locomotor charm though, like with a lot of spell steps," Including Higitus Figitus which had become the packing charm as she'd mentioned earlier, "They've been refined over time and simplified for wand usage. Our movements don't quite replace the inanimate movement though! Wouldn't be much use if you froze, would it?"
Oh, that was an interesting little tid bit of information there. "
So...are the majority of the spells we use now were at one point dance magic? Before wants were introduced to wizarding kind perhaps?" Kurumi actually knew nothing about the history of wands outside of what they had done briefly in History of Magic a few terms back.
And GOOD about the not replacing movement. Kurumi really did not fancy the notion of being frozen...again.
SPOILER!!: Cela instructiooooooooooooons
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Tegz "Substitutiary Locomotion is magic which allows for things that usually require OTHER things to make them move, to move all the same. In particular, things which usually are moved by people liiiiike...." She went over and opened the cupboard against the wall, a WHOLE lot of robes and shirts and pants and shoes and gloves and all sorts of clothing were within. "Like clothing!"
So now she'd demonstrate, but first; "The better you get at it,the more items you can move at once, together, but when you first try, just choose one item and aim to get it to DANCE!"
She herself stepped away from the closet ready to demonstrate.
HOP!CLAP. WIGGLE. KICK.
Shuffle!pointinggggg!
"Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee!"
...As she began, a shirt 'peeked' out of the closet and was soon tucking itself into a pair of pants, which then 'stepped' out of the closet...
Tap!Ball. Swwwwwwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!
Jazz hands!
"Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee!"
...It held out a sleeve, and a pair of long ladies gloves took hold of it and followed, along with a lovely flowing dress. They were joined by matching shoes, and the two outfits marched out to a bare patch of floor...
Step and sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiide!
Pivot and power!fist!
"Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee!"
....and began to waltz around to the rhythm of Cela's spell.
She went through the steps and the incantation a few more times, expression intent on the 'dancers' while she smiled happily at their antics. They continued to dance, even when she stopped.
"They'll keep going for a little while!"
She faced the students again, bright smile in place while the dancing outfits waltzed behind her. "Okay if you're ready to try, go grab a piece of clothing from the closet! Shoes, a shirt, robes, anything! Just stick with one item though!" She'd been practicing a LOT longer after all.
"If you still need help on the steps, come over here and we'll work on those!" She shifted to one side and waved encouragingly at Elliot, and at Harlow, if she didn't feel ready.
"Lets get started! Everyone take an item of clothing from the closet, return to your spot, and put it down in front of you, so you can focus on making it moooooove while you do the spell steps and say the incantation!"
She went ahead and put on some music too, not loud enough to drown out the spells but so that there'd be something rhythmic for the clothing to continue to move to.
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ooc: If anyone has questions they can ask them, and if they need help come over to Cela and she'll help out, but otherwise this is the fun part woohoo.
Have your charrie go to the closet and choose one item of clothing, and then they can try out the spell steps and the incantation to get it moving.
It mayyy take up to three repeats of the steps to get it moving completely, and I'll leave it up to you to judge how well your items dance (and what kind of dancing is up to you as well if you want your shoes to bust a move on their own thats fine by us)
However, everyone that completes the steps and says the incantation should manage to get their item moving!
There is no minimum or maximum number of posts, just have fun and follow instructions and do as much or as little as you think your charrie is capable of.
Dancing clothing. Right. At least they didn't have to design clothing first and then make it dance. Took one of the more terrifying elements out of the whole activity. Kurumi first walked over to the clothing and selected an plain black robe, not much different from her Gryffindor robes, to start with. Hopefully she could at least get the arms to move or something before the end of the lesson.
Looking up again as Cela demonstrated, Kurumi tapped her hand against her leg to sort of keep the rhythm of the dance and incantation. It didn't seem...all that bad now that she saw it all put together - other than being somewhat exhausting.
So before she got to doing this seriously, Kurumi laid the long sleeve over her shoulder and began to go over the movements slowly, repeating the incantation three times, just as Cela had done in her demonstration.
"
Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee...Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee..." Merlin was that sort of hard to say.
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Originally Posted by
Cassirin
"If you can get yours to dance and I can get mine to dance, maybe we can get them to dance with each other," Vivi suggested to Kurumi as she returned to her spot and dropped the robes on the floor. She needed the little cheat sheet to get started working out the steps again, and Vivi ran through the dance several times before even considering adding the incantation.
Going over the steps again at a ridiculously slow pace, almost as if she were in slow motion, and was somewhere around the third set of steps when Vivi spoke to her. "
Sounds like a plan to me," Kurumi grinned, wiggling her fingers in the Ravenclaw's direction as an added sign of approval.
Going over the dance yet again and muttering the spell to herself a few more times, Kurumi decided to give it a go. What was the worst that could happen really? Just the clothing wouldn't move at all, right? Kurumi laid her robes flat on the ground and then stood in front of it, took a deep breath, and then began.
HOP!CLAP. WIGGLE. KICK.
Shuffle!pointinggggg!
"Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee!"
..........and there was no noticeable change with the robes on the ground.
Tap!Ball. Swwwwwwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!
awkward Jazz hands!
"Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee!"
.............again, no noticeable change...maybe one of the sleeves twitched slightly, but one would really have to be paying attention to notice it.
Step and sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiide!
Pivot and
awkward power!fist!
"Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee!"
THIS time, the sleeve did twitch and was a big enough movement that even Kurumi noticed it...but it was hardly anything that the Gryffindor was impressed by. Or, well, maybe she should be? It HAD moved a little...and that was better than no movement at all, right?