Okay, well... Glacius had worked okay, after a couple of tries, and it seemed like other kids were trying the other variations of the spell, so Toby decided to do that too. The salamanders seemed fine with it.

He stood there, wand raised and staring at the container in the middle of the room. Unfortunately, it wasn't long before Toby's attention wandered, and he found himself watching other students work instead of looking for his own target. His focus wasn't brought back until a few minutes later, when out of the corner of his eye Toby saw movement, and quickly whipped his head around to look.

TWO fiery red salamanders had darted out from the flames, just off to Toby's left. He raised his wand, and attempted the spell.

"Glacius Duo!" With a forward slash of his wand, Toby sent the spell at the closest of the two salamanders, but missed again and froze part of the floor. The creatures avoided the icy stone beneath them as Toby tried again. "Glacius Duo!"

Another forward slashimg motion with his wand, and the spell was off. This time, it HIT one of the salamanders, which froze instantly. Granted... Toby had been aiming for the other one, but that was an unimportant detail, okay?

Grinning, and mighty pleased with himself, Toby carefully scooped up the now frozen salamander and hurried over to drop it carefully into the flames. But when he turned back to try a spell on the second fire dwelling creature... it had gone, scuttled off. Rats! Toby looked around the floor, still with his wand raised, fully intending to find and freeze the creature, unless someone else got to it first.