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Text Cut: Emmeline and Professor Marchand Quote:
Originally Posted by NifflerFan 
Emmeline had been watching Derf out of the corner of her eye; if he hadn't found a partner, she or Stasya would have gone over there. She didn't have to worry about him for long, though, because the Hufflepuff champion had partnered up with him really quickly. She suppressed a smile as she watched them for a second; did Derf have a crush on his housemate? She felt like Derf had a thing for older girls. She didn't really understand it, but she supposed no one could help who they like liked.
What were they doing again? Right, Charms. Emmeline was glad that Stasya didn't think it was unfair that she had to cast the healing spell for five whole minutes, and she grinned at Stasya when the other girl got the heating spell perfectly right on her second try.
Now, how was she going to stir this stuff in when they hadn't learned a stirring spell? Emmeline took out the other ingredients one by one from the box and opened their packaging enough that they would be easily poured/stirred in. To her relief, there was a small wooden spoon in their box.
The first year carefully measured out 1 cup of white sugar, and poured it into the butter bowl. She stirred it up a bit with one hand while pouring the cup of molasses with her wand/right hand. Some of the molasses spilled on the desk as a result, but they still had a cup's worth that Emmeline stirred into the mixture. Lastly, she measured out 1/2 a teaspoon of salt and dumped that into the bowl too, keeping the stirring up as much as possible the whole time. She'd seen Slinky, their house-elf, bake stuff in the kitchen when she was little, so she was pretty sure that that was how to stir stuff in.
Now to keep stirring until their 5 minutes was up. "Doing alright there?", she asked Stasya; her friend had the harder job after all, and Emmeline had been so focussed on the other ingredients that she hadn't paid attention to how Stasya's casting was going. Her friend seemed really good at Charms, though, so she wasn't really worried.
Emmeline glanced down at her watch as she continued to stir: "Five minutes are almost up, right?" She thought so, but she'd check with Stasya to make sure they agreed before they moved on.
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Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy Gaston moved between the rows of desks, watching his students intently in their varying stages of progress, ready to offer assistance if necessary. Miss Summers and Miss Burton were off to a great start. It had taken Miss Burton a couple of tries to get the heating charm, but the important thing was that she didn't give up. "Excellent, Miss Burton!" the professor said with an approving smile. "Practice makes perfect!"
Miss Dalgaard-Volkova also seemed to be having a bit of trouble with the spell. Gaston was at her side in moments, but she got it right before he could offer any pointers. "Nicely done!" he said, giving her and Miss Sparkes a smile.
"I knew you could do it!"
Miss Morrison and Miss Cambridge seemed to be the farthest along, having already made several popcorn balls. "Great job, ladies!" he praised them. His eyes darted to Miss Cambridge just as she tasted one of the popcorn balls. "So how do they taste?"
The teams of Miss Phillips/Mr. Bronwyn, Miss Potts/Miss Harington, Miss Holden/Miss Diggory, Miss Kramer/Mr. Ashbury-Hawthorne, and Mr. Salander/Mr.Westwood were also making excellent progress. Each team got an encouraging smile from the professor before glanced at his watch and turned to address the class as a whole. "Excellent work, all of you! You have about ten minutes left to finish making your popcorn balls. Once you're done, you may eat them or take them with you to save or later or give to-"
A voice cut him off mid-sentence, and he wheeled around, his long black coat billowing behind him, just as Mr. Moore walked in. Where had he been? "Mr. Moore, you're late," he said. "I'm afraid that's five points from Gryffindor." He hated to do it, but rules were rules. "Now go join one of your classmates' groups and try to catch up..." He brandished his hook playfully at the boy. "... or ye'll walk the plank!"
Gaston looked around and saw that Miss Sorin-Ward also hadn't found a partner yet. Had he forgotten there was an odd number of students in the class? "You may join another group as well, Miss Sorin-Ward," he said, "or try to work by yourself if you prefer."
And speaking of working by oneself... the professor turned and saw Mr. Botros all alone and struggling to cast a heating charm. He heard the boy ask about the wand movement and sidled over to him. "The wand movement for the heating charm is a flame shape, Mr. Botros," he said. "Like this..." He drew the shape of a flame with his wand but didn't say the incantation; the boy needed to learn to do the spell himself. "You've got the incantation down, now let's try putting it with the wand movement. I know you can do it; just keep trying." and he gave the boy an encouraging smile.
OOC: You still have ABOUT 8 HOURS left to finish the activity!  Any distractions she had earlier had to be forgotten, or at least ignored. Stasya had to focus, and besides, the main distraction had gotten figured out anyway as she sort of had listened to the conversation going on between Derf and Etta near where she was working with Emmeline. She wanted to make sure everything was going okay, anyway, while she was trying to melt all the butter. She’d already begun moving her wand around over the bowl to try and keep things even when Professor Marchand had suddenly stopped by their table. She’d looked up with a grin when he’d complimented her, taking one second of distraction. Maybe it’d give Emmeline enough time to get everything else ready. “Thank you Professor,” she said sweetly, before she turned her attention back to the butter and moving her wand at nearly the same time as Emmeline had started pouring the sugar in.
Okay, back to focusing on keeping things melted, and she softly repeated the incantation just to make sure her wand hadn’t forgotten what it was supposed to be doing as Emmeline had continued adding the rest of the stuff that was supposed to be in the butter mixture. It kind of reminded herself of when she’d helped her mama make cookies, except there wasn’t all the flour and other stuff that needed to be added. Plus, she hadn’t been able to use magic before.
Looking up at the clock, she counted down the seconds until five minutes were up. “Mhm ,” she said, in response to one or the other of the questions she’d been asked. Maybe both. Five minutes was almost…now it was up. “Okay, so now we need to pour this on top of our popcorn so we can start making it into balls!,” she said, making sure she didn’t accidentally set her wand in the spilled molasses as she got ready to help with the pouring or whatever else Emmeline wanted her to do.
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