"Ah-lay-sur..." Tobias whispered to himself as he checked the notes he had written down. "Ah-lay-sur.... Alacer."

It was a simple enough incantation, and for that Toby was thankful. The wand movement of a tap was also another easy one to get down, so Toby figured all the difficulty would be in the intent of the spell, and getting it to actually work. The problem with these simple-at-first-glance spells, though, was that they had a curious tendency to be the ones that always ended in things catching fire. At least for Toby. And hadn't they already had enough of THAT in Herbology? Yeah, he would be trying to avoid that today. No more negative attention pls.

Of course, the fact that it was on Toby's mind at all was going to cause problems. With his mind still half on the fire in the greenhouses earlier, Toby tapped the middle of the photo with his wand and spoke.

"Alacer."

...

Was it moving? Well... there WAS movement, but... *squint* was that... smOKE?

!!!!!!!

Toby's eyes WIDENED as the very thing he'd hoped WOULDN'T happen seemed to be coming true right in front of him. Without skipping a beat he quickly used his non-wand-hand to smack at the photo and put out any possible flames. He hadn't SEEN one. Okay, there may have been a pretty decent sized flame.

A lot of smoke too. Boy. Toby coughed and wafted his hand in front of his face, eager to clear the space in front of him so he could see better. Yeah, no. Spell hadn't worked at all. It was KINDA weird though, because... well, the picture didn't look very damaged. Just a little... singed and furled significantly at the edges. How did it even PRODUCE that much smoke? He was positively engulfed.

That didn't deter him, though, only served to delay the Hufflepuff for a moment as he leaned across and pushed the window he was sat by wiiiiiide open, to air it out. Now he was coughing for REAL. Boy oh boy.

Right, attempt two.

"Alacer." Toby tapped his wand in the middle of the photo, this time thinking ONLY OF MAKING THE slightly burnt PICTURE MOVE. Very focused on the intent. Aaaaaaand... no smoke. GOOD SIGN. Toby peered at the picture and saw that, YES, it was moving; the students in the photograph just casually milling about and doing their own thing.

Sooooo... take two?