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emjay 
Alright, so Chloe wanted to be blindfolded first. It really didn't matter that much to Gunnar, though he was a little surprised for reasons. He nodded then went to his side of the line while she went to her spot.
"No, I wasn't going to," Gunnar assured his sister when she asked him not to aim for her face. He wouldn't try to hit her in the face after her recent head injury. In fact, he was thinking pretty much as far away as he could.
"Okay, I'm going to throw the ball at your legs.... on your left." His right, her left. "Ready...? Now!" He wanted to let her know the exact moment, and he tossed the ball, aiming right where he said.
And soon enough, he heard the professor's voice. Nonverbals, right. Gunnar had been practicing them for some time with little luck. Listening to some of his peers, he raised his hand as well. "They're difficult to learn and take some advanced knowledge of spellwork. They also take a lot of concentration and focus to work properly."
She waited for her brother to throw it, but just as he is always an amazing brother he made sure to say exactly when he was throwing the ball, so now she knew it was near her legs and he was doing it now. So she leaned down with more of her arms than anything else to catch it, trying to hear a quiet ball was not something that was possible so of course, it hit her leg before she realized it was close. A small giggle left her with the ball being soft, it was fun and her anxiety of being hit faded away.
She lifted off her blindfold to throw the ball back to him, but the professor was speaking again.
"Maybe we can practice later?" She looked at Gunnar before she heard others answering his question. During questions she stayed quiet mostly in fear of being wrong, so she made notes of the answers and nodded as her own brother even said a few things on the matter.
Now they were moving into teams and she would have to try nonverbal spells. What was the Headmaster eating for breakfast, Merlin, this was going to be hard. She watched as others started to give it a go and waited her turn. When it was her turn she lifted her wand and thought about the levitation spell. She had done it often, so she knew the movement well and did so while thinking about the spell.
Watching her though, it looked like she might have been doing nothing but wand movements, because no balls were lifting from the basket at all.