 #3: locking it ¼ of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pls
Katherine wrinkled her nose when Tory seemed to have locked it back without any problems. Ew. No. If he could, so could SHE! Therefore, as she had watched several older students already doing that charm, she went through the same process: First, she visualised how the lock would be locked. She replayed the image a few times in her mind. Then, she practised the wand movement: A flourish of her wand as she pulled it to one side and back again to where she started. And at last, she pronounced the word to herself: "Colloportus. Cull-low-PORE-tus. Colloportus. Cull-low-PORE-tus!" ...yeah, it sounded like the older students. And now came the performing part. She had to do it at her first try, the rude boy did so. She wiped her forehead (was it hot here?) and cleared her throat. Then, she imagined the lock locking as she did the wand movement and said "Colloportus."
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????!!!!! NOTHING HAPPENED???????
She pulled the cabinet and it opened with ease. WHAT?! She flushed and looked around. Had the boy seen it? She hoped not. He had BETTER be busy with her own stuff! She was STILL better than him. She was better than any first year here, and she bet she was even better than some second years. That's right! So she went through the steps, took a deeeeeeep calming breath, repeated her mantra ("My name is Moss, rhymes with success,") under her breath, and tried this again.
"Colloportus."
Well... remember her alohomora? Yeah, it was the reserve this time. She tried it and it didn't... look so secure, so she quickly added a second "Colloportus!" QUICKLY before the boy could see it. Yeah, THAT'S better.
Most importantly, would the professor know that it took her one failed and 2 half-successful spells to lock it!?
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