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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Sarah Edwards
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|  post 1 Gryffinclaw-Ravendor • The REAL Hermione Granger
SPOILER!!: Zahra and Mikey! Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz  [COLOR="RoyalBlue"]
"I'm going to punch that girl in the head, too. She's rude," Zahra told Mikey. Maybe she was just grumpy. But Professor Old So and So was NICE and LIKED her and THAT Gryffindor was the know-it-all-bossy-pants sort that no one liked. Quote:
Originally Posted by Mell "HAHAHAHAHA!!"
His gaze went to the girl that Zahra was talking about and he let out a snort. "She's not being rude." He poked her in the arm with his finger. "You just don't like being shown up."
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Sarah watched the conversation out of the corner of her eye. She wondered why she was going to be punched in the head. She was out of practice in physical fighting, but she could take pain from it. It was growing up in a boys house taught you. SPOILER!!: sarahlooo;11440170
"Yes, a very good and well-known example," he stated with an approving nod. He was about to move on, but she brought up another question... that was quite off topic. "Off topic, but yes, there is. Stop by my office sometime and we'll see what we can find." Now, back to arresting momentum.
"Yes, you are all right. There are quite a few uses of this spell involved in Quidditch and flying. Most commonly used on quaffles, as most of you said. And to answer your question, Tobias, yes, this is indeed where this spell can prove to be tricky. Daisy Pennifold created this charm to slow down the quaffle if the players in a Quidditch game dropped it, so they wouldn't have to dive all the way down to the bottom of the pitch to retrieve it. There is, then, the question of how... How does one bewitch the quaffle in a way that it only slows down when you want it to -- for example, when it is dropped and not when it is being tossed from player to player? And, how do you differentiate from slowing an object from completely stopping an object?"
Pierson paced the floor slowly as he gave the students a moment to think about those questions. Yes, it was seemingly a simple spell, but once you got to the nitty gritty of which aspect of the charm you wanted to use, it could easily become slightly difficult.
"The answer is, quite simply, intention. Magic is in your body -- in your mind, and it is channeled through your wand. Or, if you are quite the expert, through your entire being. But wandless magic is a different subject. Intention, my friends, is everything. If you cast a disarming spell with the intention of painting a wall, it's obviously not going to work because that isn't what the spell is designed for. Arresto Momentum is designed to slow or to stop an objects speed. Which one it does when cast is entirely up to you."
Turning back around, the charms professor picked up the piece of chalk again and began writing on the board as he continued to speak, "Today we will be learning how to slow and how to stop an object's speed. We will first begin with learning the incantation and wand movement." Stepping away from the chalk board, he revealed what he wrote:
Arresto Momentum
ah-REST-oh - mo-MENT-um
Wand Movement: Wave "Repeat after me: Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um... Good. Quite simple, yes?" Pierson unholstered his wand and tossed the piece of chalk several feet in the air, over the head of the male Slytherin Prefect's head. "Arresto Momentum!" he said with a short wave of his wand towards the white stick of chalk, and it froze, just a few inches above the Prefect's head. With another flick of his wand, he summoned it back and caught it in his free hand. I want you all to try it out now. First, practice the incantation without your wand, but that should be quite easy. Then, do what I just did. Toss something in the air, I don't care what: a pencil, a textbook, your tablemate -- just joking, Kettleburn -- and first try to slow it from hitting the ground too fast. Then throw it up in the air again and completely stop it. Don't slow it, stop it. Don't let it hit the ground. Make sure your intentions are clear. Ready, set, go." Piers tucked his wand away and turned to write the instructions on the board: 1) practice the incantation
2) slow the momentum of the object
3) completely stop the momentum of the object
OOC: This task must be done in no less than three posts. I'm not picky about how you divide them up. More is fine, but you'll only get points for three. You have about 36 hours to complete this task before we move on to the next!
Sarah hoped she would not forget to stop by his office, so she made a little note. She listened to what the teacher said with interest. intention was always important, she knew that, yet this just made it clearer.
Sarah then wrote down her notes. So she had to say it... "ah-REST-ah - mo-MEN-tum" she tried. Nahh.. wrong emphasis, "ah-REST-ah - mo-MENT-tum" she tried again. Maybe it was better to write down the transliterated version as well. She wrote that down and tried it again.. syllable by syllable. ah-REST-oh - mo-MENT-um" Great she had it. Now try again. She repeated it a few times every time going faster until her tongue was aquainted. She really should have done that spell as part of revision in the holidays, seeing as she learnt it before. Practice makes permanent after all.
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