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Roman Gellar
Slytherin Seventh Year
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SPOILER!!: thanks to you guys for sticking with me! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by Squishy  This time Apollo gave her a RED sticker, and that make Lux happy. Yaaaaay. AND it was a star too!! That was totally awesome. She liked stickers.
Ooooh, they were going to make apples look golden. Lux knew a Professor who would have been happy to eat all of them. Then again she wouldn't mind eating them either... They looked delicious and it had been a while since she had last eaten. Her apples were definitely going to end up in her tummy after this seminar was over.
Taking two, she placed them on her desk so that she could get started. The incantation sounded like a bit of a tongue twister, but she was sure she could get it right in the end. "Nitidus Superficies." That sounded weeeeeeird. "Nitidus Superficies... Nitidus Superficies... Nitidus Superficies." She kept working on the incantation until she was sure that she was pronouncing it the same way that Apollo had. Now onto the wand movement.
Lux began drawing circles in the air with her wand. Quote:
Originally Posted by SpiritWolfe Malfoy SPOILER!!: Apollo
“RIGHT, Little Miss Hady. I was...going for exactly what you just said--making them SHINIER.” He beamed at her, plastered a blue sticker to her forehead, and went back to the front of the classroom, ready to lead them into their next activity.
OKAY.
“So, for today, we are going to focus on making the apples shinier. in fact, they’ll be….they look golden.” He smirked. “It’s a fun little spell--and keep in mind, since it’s a CHARM, the apples won’t actually BE gold...then that would be alchemy! But...here..the apples will look shiny and appealing and GOLDEN. The spell is a bit simpler than the one from before.”
He cleared his throat and grabbed one of the apples. “The wand movement is simple, too. Just a circle above the apple, and the words ‘nitidus superficies’....it’s also a bit of a tongue twister, but…” the chalk on the board was writing how to say it. “Nitidus SUPERFICIES!” he cried, roving his wand around the apple in his hand, in a circular motion. The spell shot from his wand and when it touched the apple, it looked like the fruit was engulfed in a shiny golden tint.
It was so pretty...Apollo smirked and bit into it. “See? Still an apple, and with no side effects--just--SHINY.”
“Now...I’d like you all to try! Grab an apple or two--and practice! You can eat them at the end of the seminar--because for the activity after this one, I don’t think eating should be...well, it’d be distracting.” He shot a glance at the third table.
She'd been right! Well technically she continued with what Zeke had said but still she'd been right. So it counted and the blue sticker on her forehead confirmed that. Grinning brightly Hady sat herself up straighter to pay attention still what what they'd been trying now.
Her mind drifted for a second back to what she'd been called. Little Miss Hady. It was certainly different but in a good way and she liked it. Removing the sticker from her hand to examine it a moment she then stuck it to the back of her left hand as she continued to listen to Apollo.
Rising to her feet she collected herself an apple before sitting back down. "Nitidus Superficies...Nitidus Superficies...Nitidus Superficies..," Hady whispered to herself many times as she worked on getting that right first. It took some time but after saying it out loud enough it became easier and easier.
The wand movement was much easier and picking up her wand in her hand she practiced making circles above the apple sat in the center of her desk. Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 ANOTHER sticker! Wheee! Adi was going to be a sticker book by the time he was through with this seminar. He was LOVING every second. "Pssst. Apollo,'' he whispered when the man had bestowed him with the third sticker. "You should have seminars here more often.'' Because Adi would be at them ALL!
Alright, they were moving on from his correctish answer and the other answers which were a lot better than his to make apples golden and shineeeey! Yay for shiney stuff! Maybe he could use a few of the apples to find a Niffler. Yes, the crazy Puffer wanted a Niffler!
Adi grabbed some apples for him and AJ. "No eating them,'' he told the girlfriend. "Not yet, anyway.'' He was telling that to himself too because the temptation was real, yo! Maybe practicing would help. ''Nitidus Superficies, Nitidus Superficies, Nitidus Superficies.'' For some reason the first reminded him of Nintendo. Hehe. The boy began tracing out a circle over the first apple. ''Nitidus Superficies!'' Quote:
Originally Posted by Squishy Okay, time to make some shiny apples.
Lux was so ready to get started. She hoped she could make hers as shiny as Apollo's. They looked delicious though. Could she not just eat them instead? ...Probably not. At least not until the seminar was over so she needed to be patient. Pout.
She drew another circle with her wand - this time over one of the apples. "Nitidus Superficies!" Whoa, it looked super shiny and golden now. That had been easy once she got the pronunciation down. Lux wondered if she would get showered with more confetti because that had been cool. She liked confetti. Now on to the second apple! Another circle was drawn in the air over it. "Nitidus Superficies!"
Tada! Two shiny apples.
Yummy. Quote:
Originally Posted by SpiritWolfe Malfoy It was time to get started making those shiny golden apples!
Flexing her fingers around her wand she once more traced the circle above her apple. She had the wand movement down. Then once under her breath she repeated the charm to herself. ''Nitidus Superficies.'' Hady knew she had both the pronunciation of the charm and it's proper wand movement down. Now she only had to put those both together in order to produce a shiny apple.
Focusing intently on the apple on her desk she moved her wand in a circle over the apple, ''Nitidus Superficies!'' she recited at the same time. The apple shimmered slightly but nothing more happened then that.
Alright time to give it another go. She'd get this. ''Nitidus Superficies!'' Hady called out once again moving her wand in a circle above the apple as she did. This time the spell hit the apple and there was a bright glow, a golden glow around the apple as it became a gorgeous bright and shinny golden color. Hazzah! She'd done it! Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Nuh uh. Nothing happened there.
''Nitidus Superficies!'' Adi tried the spell with the appropriate wand movement and hey presto! One very shiny apple! Adi examined the apple then put it aside. He would try this spell again. ''Nitidus Superficies!'' WOOT! Another shiny, golden apple. He examined this one too, fighting the urge to take a chunk out of it. Hehe.
COOL SPELL, YO!
Apollo was immensely PROUD. The students were all GETTING IT. A fantastic feeling. Though, he felt this spell was a less difficult than the one he started out with. Hmm. Maybe he should have switched them. Whatever. It was over and done with, and the students who had gotten the spell ALL GOT CONFETTI ON THEIR HEADS.
YAAAAY!
He was a very excited man. VERY. EXCITED.
He was MOST EXCITED for this last story, though...HMPH. "You know what? Go ahead and eat your apples--" he smiled. "While I tell you all the last myth...and move us into the final SUPER AMAZING AND EXCITING activity..." which involved...less magic, and more FUN.
This was why he was excited. FUN. FUN FUN!
"I'm sure some of you might have guessed, when seeing the wax--" and he stepped in front of the third table, gesturing at the wax. "That one of the myths I'd be covering would be Daedalus and Icarus. Well. That's correct!" he smiled warmly. "The final story is...a bit tragic, I must admit, for those of you who don't know this story." He sighed, but eyed the board, the chalk doing its job and bullet pointing what he was saying.
"Daedalus was a very talented artisan who was in exile in a place called CRETE--" which actually existed, just...not as mystically. "And...there, as crime for something he did before--" he didn't want to go into THAT part of the story. "He is the one who built the famous labyrinth! He was...sort of a servant of the king there and had to do what the king commanded." He felt like he was doing a very...shotty job of explaining this story so far. But yes...he was generally getting the idea across, he hoped. And plus, the important part of the story was coming up!
"He had a son while in Crete, and they were stuck in the labyrinth that he built. He wanted to escape with his son, and so...using his IMMENSE skill--he made wings...from wax and feathers...." And he stopped and looked out at all the...YOUTHFUL GLOWS.
"Now...I want to hear from you. I said this was a tragic story. For those of you who know the story--you can contribute, still, but try to let the others guess, first. For those of you who aren't familiar--how do you think the story will end? I am...very curious." he smiled and sat on the now empty middle table. They'd taken ALL of his apples..heh. Of course they had. IT WAS FOOD.
OOC: I'll be posting again in about 24 hours! If your charrie does know the story, just post him/her saying what they know, and I'll rearrange it so that they've held back their answers while other people give their guesses as to what happened. <3
__________________ "You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough."
Roman Gellar ● 1st Year ● Slytherin |