It was a week or so into term, and Paul hadn't held any sort of beginning of term party. He hadn't felt it was necessary, especially with Ilvermorny coming soon enough. They could have a gathering then. He had two ideas in mind. A tea party, or rather, a tea TASTING party (which...could very well still happen at some point) or...well, the second option.

Which Paul thought could be fun.

He took his wand out and gestured wildly at the common room. "DETRAVITAS!" he cried.

If this were a movie, there would a cool sound effect at this moment. However, Paul merely felt a jolt and...then light. Like, FEATHER LIGHT. And that was because this CHARM invented by none other than Airey Flamsteed took the gravity away from a room. All of the desks...chairs....everything started floating upward, but not at any fast sort of pace.

Everything was, exactly, weightless.

Including Paul. And his wand. And the his idea about letting loose SILVER GLITTER DUST, he suddenly realized, was a BAD idea, but the contain had slipped out his pocket. Paul made a swimming grab at it with his wand, and not only did he BLAST the thing open on accident, but his wand SHOT out of his hand. Wandless, and GLITTER billowing into the weightless air like squid ink under water, Paul was stuck. Because without his WAND he could not reverse the spell.

Well. Welcome party or not, the students would be returning soon, surely. Paul drifted in the opposite direction than his wand. Swimming towards it would do nOthing. THERE WAS NO GRAVITY TO HELP THE SITUATION. Paul wished he had a book...or something...Merlin. A chair bumped into his bum, and he attempted to twist around to give it a kick.

EVERYTHING WAS FLOATING WILLY NILLY IN THE COMMON ROOM CURRENTLY ALL RIGHT? THIS WAS DIFFICULT. ABORT. PAUL REGRETTED EVERYTHING.