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Waterloo · 06-06-2019, 02:06 PM

SPOILER!!: analiese and avalon

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Originally Posted by SneakySeverusSnape

"Why would I carry an egg in my pocket all the time? It'll probably crack and my pocket will get all messy." A bit weird of a suggestion, really. Er... now what was she supposed to do with the egg? She just left in on the table in a corner. By the time the rest of the class realised what they were supposed to do, Analiese was already halfway to the table of props. She quickly grabbed a deck of playing cards and went back to her desk. She tried a few tricks and failed. Seriously?

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Originally Posted by Fireheart

They were going to be learning about....muggle magic tricks? Last time Avalon checked, she was in Transfiguration, not Muggle Studies. But when she thought about it, she supposed that some of the tricks her classmates were describing could possibly be categorized as transfiguration. She wasn't too familiar with them, other than the classic card trick - which had already been mentioned - and the 'pulling something out of your ear' trick that her cousins had told her about. She raised her hand. "Some muggles try to pull an object out of another person's ear. Like a ball or a coin or something. Of course, they aren't actually pulling it out of their ear. It's just an illusion," she said.

She watched with a raised eyebrow as Analiese performed some odd trick using a piece of paper and an egg. Avalon never understood the purpose of muggle magic tricks. It didn't seem to serve any purpose. She made her way over to the table after Professor Barlow relayed the instructions for the activity. Grabbing a handful of coins and a few cups, she tried to think of some tricks to do. But she had no idea where to start. They weren't given any instructions, and she hadn't perused any muggle magic books in her spare time.

"Do you have any idea how to start?" she asked Analiese, glancing over next to her to see that her classmate was having similar trouble with her deck of cards. Avalon laid out three coins on her desk and covered each one with a cup. She shuffled them around a bit, quickly sliding one cup to the edge of the table and catching the coin with her hand as it dropped. Well, that was way too obvious. Muggles made this kind of stuff disappear all the time. But how did they do it without real magic?

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Originally Posted by SneakySeverusSnape

Analiese frowned. She couldn't seem to think of a trick. "No, I have no idea have to start." She looked over at Avalon and she seemed to be having the same problems. Analiese turned fully towards Avalon and held out the deck of cards. "Pick a card." She had seen various muggles doing this trick. It was the first thing that can to her head. Idea! She could use 'all that psychology jazz' to figure out which card Avalon chose. The bad news was that that method of mind reading didn't seem to work at Hogwarts.

Well, that egg had to come from SOMEWHERE because he certainly hadn’t seen her conjure it with her wand. Unless her sleight of hand was just THAT good? Perhaps that was it. Except…… while Avalon was somewhat successful with her coins and cup trick, Analiese appeared to struggle with her deck of cards.

“Not as easy as it looks, is it?” Barlow asked the girls on his way past. “It can take years to master some techniques. Makes you appreciate our magic, doesn’t it? So how do you think Transfiguration would make your efforts easier?” Something to consider.

SPOILER!!: cassidy

His pacing around the classroom soon brought him in the direction of Cassidy and Barlow stood back to admire her handiwork for a moment. “That’s it, seems like you’ve got the right idea. Remember, it’s all in the movement and practice makes perfect. Try making it come out of your ear!” Just like he’d done. It was a CLASSIC!

SPOILER!!: lili and dorian

He didn’t expect or require an apology from Dorian, after all, it was each to their own. He was, however, glad to note that the Ravenclaw boy hadn’t written the lesson off completely and seemed willing to partake in the activity.

“Have Dorian pick a card, Lili.” He suggested, stopping by their desk. “And then see if you can deduce what card it is he picked. Sounds simple enough but not as easy as it seems without the use of Legilimency I assure you.” He’d stop by and see how they were getting on in a while.

SPOILER!!: patrick

“I like your style,” Barlow observed on his way past the desk of the Slytherin. “Would be a heck of a lot easier if you were allowed to use your wand for this, wouldn’t it?” But alas….

SPOILER!!: rylee, maeve and dezi

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Originally Posted by Kolyander

Magic. Not magic as they all had come to know. Muggle magic in the form of tricks and illusions. Now this was surely going to be interesting if nothing else at all.

Keeping quiet for the first question was okay, she had been taking down some notes just in case. As they wouldn't be needing their wands, Rylee slid that back into the holster on her wrist. No sense in having it out if they wouldn't be using them.

With a more than ready smile on her face, at a chance to try something new, she wasted no time in getting up and making her way to the table at the front of the room. Out of all the props there the one that really caught her eye was what looked to be like two large shiny rings looped together. Selecting those, Rylee returned to her seat to see if she could figure what to do with it.

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Originally Posted by Crayola

For once in his academic life, Dezi Willard was actually paying attention to a class. No, not just paying attention, Dezi was invested in this class.
Maybe it was the fact Barlow didn't look like your regular professor, all uppity and boring. Maybe it was Barlow's hair and his curl definition that honestly made Dezi a little jealous. ~~Maybe it was Maybelline.~~ The odds were that it was all the magic tricks. Yup, that was it. He was caught once Barlow produced a galleon from behind his ear.

Muggle magic tricks were the coolest.

BEST. LESSON. EVER.

The fourth year was going to go to the front table and get a deck of cards but, as so often happened with him, something else caught his attention and he was sidetracked. "Ooooh, those get separated even if they look so so so stuck to each other!" MAGIC! He loved it. "Can I watch you do it?" Maybe watching wasn't exactly what Barlow had told them to do but he was excited now.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising

Maeve LOVED Transfiguration, okay. Okay, maybe love was the wrong word, but the sixth year didn't mind transfiguration, which was practically the same thing. What she wasn't sure about was when Professor Barlow introduced the topic of today. Muggle Magic? Uhhh did he get confused? This wasn't Muggle Studies class!! They had a whole subject matter to be devoted to mundane methods used by muggles.

But she did happen to know a supposedly muggle magician, by the name of Houdini. Which was one that she merely wrote down on her notes.

Moving on though, because it seemed they were going to attempt some muggle tricks. Okayyyy... obviously she was going to use it on one of the younger kids because they were the most naive. Swiping a coin from the table, as inconspicuously as possible, the sixth year walked over to a pair of lions (Re: Rylee and Dezi).

"Yo, Willard! Whaddddupp!" Making small talk was the best way to trick him, wasn't it?

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Originally Posted by Kolyander

Rylee fiddled with the rings for several long moments, tugging at them to see if they were truly stuck together. They were. Or to her they were, the more she tugged the worse luck in getting these things apart, she had. Obviously tugging at them wasn't going to work.

She had seen a magician do this very same trick once at some kids birthday party when she was really little. Seeing someone else do it though was very different than trying to do it yourself.

An excited voice broke her concentration and she lifted her gaze up to see who it was. "Sure you can! I know these are supposed to come apart but I'm not having any luck at all with it," the Gryffindor replied giving the rings another more gentle tug as if to prove her point. "Do you know how to do it? Want to give it a try?" Once more she tried to separate the rings more carefully before holding them out to Dezi.

His travels soon took him in the direction of a Gryffindor trio and naturally, he had to stop and observe. “Aaahhh, familiar with the famous metal hoops are you, Mr Willard?” Seemed like they had a fan over here! Can’t say he’d ever seen the young Gryffindor focus this much in lesson before today. It seemed Miss Prichard had hit a spot of bother though, and Barlow found himself grinning. “Make sure you’re familiar with the props… sometimes they might not exactly seem as they appear.”

And as for Maeve? He had no idea what the plan with the coin was, but was he hanging around to catch a glimpse?? You betcha.

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Waterloo Occamy Join Date: May 2007 Location: London Posts: 63,511 Hogwarts RPG Name: Cora Dredworth Sixth Year x1	connoisseur of comfort ❅ Crayola's Wibby Mrs Alex Turner ❅ Netflix and meow SPOILER!!: analiese and avalon Quote: Originally Posted by SneakySeverusSnape "Why would I carry an egg in my pocket all the time? It'll probably crack and my pocket will get all messy." A bit weird of a suggestion, really. Er... now what was she supposed to do with the egg? She just left in on the table in a corner. By the time the rest of the class realised what they were supposed to do, Analiese was already halfway to the table of props. She quickly grabbed a deck of playing cards and went back to her desk. She tried a few tricks and failed. Seriously? Quote: Originally Posted by Fireheart They were going to be learning about....muggle magic tricks? Last time Avalon checked, she was in Transfiguration, not Muggle Studies. But when she thought about it, she supposed that some of the tricks her classmates were describing could possibly be categorized as transfiguration. She wasn't too familiar with them, other than the classic card trick - which had already been mentioned - and the 'pulling something out of your ear' trick that her cousins had told her about. She raised her hand. "Some muggles try to pull an object out of another person's ear. Like a ball or a coin or something. Of course, they aren't actually pulling it out of their ear. It's just an illusion," she said. She watched with a raised eyebrow as Analiese performed some odd trick using a piece of paper and an egg. Avalon never understood the purpose of muggle magic tricks. It didn't seem to serve any purpose. She made her way over to the table after Professor Barlow relayed the instructions for the activity. Grabbing a handful of coins and a few cups, she tried to think of some tricks to do. But she had no idea where to start. They weren't given any instructions, and she hadn't perused any muggle magic books in her spare time. "Do you have any idea how to start?" she asked Analiese, glancing over next to her to see that her classmate was having similar trouble with her deck of cards. Avalon laid out three coins on her desk and covered each one with a cup. She shuffled them around a bit, quickly sliding one cup to the edge of the table and catching the coin with her hand as it dropped. Well, that was way too obvious. Muggles made this kind of stuff disappear all the time. But how did they do it without real magic? Quote: Originally Posted by SneakySeverusSnape Analiese frowned. She couldn't seem to think of a trick. "No, I have no idea have to start." She looked over at Avalon and she seemed to be having the same problems. Analiese turned fully towards Avalon and held out the deck of cards. "Pick a card." She had seen various muggles doing this trick. It was the first thing that can to her head. Idea! She could use 'all that psychology jazz' to figure out which card Avalon chose. The bad news was that that method of mind reading didn't seem to work at Hogwarts. Well, that egg had to come from SOMEWHERE because he certainly hadn’t seen her conjure it with her wand. Unless her sleight of hand was just THAT good? Perhaps that was it. Except…… while Avalon was somewhat successful with her coins and cup trick, Analiese appeared to struggle with her deck of cards. “Not as easy as it looks, is it?” Barlow asked the girls on his way past. “It can take years to master some techniques. Makes you appreciate our magic, doesn’t it? So how do you think Transfiguration would make your efforts easier?” Something to consider. SPOILER!!: cassidy Quote: Originally Posted by GrapehSarah Cassidy couldn't help but giggle a bit at Professor Barlow's enthusiasm. It had gone from a very dull early morning to something more exciting just from his change in mood. Cassidy herself was already getting more excited for the lesson. Muggle magic was just so...weird. She went up to the table and her eyes scanned over everything. She didn't know what to grab because she wanted to try everything. She decided on something simple that she'd also heard of: making a coin disappear through a table. Shouldn't be too hard right? Cassidy grab a coin from the table and skipped back to her seat. So all she had to do was get the coin from one hand to the other without someone noticing to make it look like it went through the table. Easy peasy. She grabbed the coin and started practicing sliding it from right hand down to her left. She kept doing it over and over, each time doing the motion faster and faster, only dropping the coin a few times. Eventually she was going to have to practice this with another person or she wouldn't be able to prove if the trick was working or not. His pacing around the classroom soon brought him in the direction of Cassidy and Barlow stood back to admire her handiwork for a moment. “That’s it, seems like you’ve got the right idea. Remember, it’s all in the movement and practice makes perfect. Try making it come out of your ear!” Just like he’d done. It was a CLASSIC! SPOILER!!: lili and dorian Quote: Originally Posted by RachieRu Transfiguration was not really Lili's strongest suit. To be honest, her wand work wasn't the best. Her best subjects were the ones where she didn't really need to do magic. Which was... interesting. But she still tried her best. She wasn't the best academically, but that was okay. As long as she passed her NEWTs, then that didn't really matter right? This lesson did seem pretty fun though. Muggle magic? That was interesting. Something she hadn't thought about before. She didn't need to. She was a witch after all. But she supposed it would be pretty fun to try and at least see if she could do some muggle magic. She stowed her wand away, and then approached the table, tilting her head. She had no idea where to start. She hadn't really seen magic tricks before. Deciding to just pick up something, she grabbed a pack of cards, and wandered away to find herself a spot. Now to try and work out what she had to do with this. Quote: Originally Posted by DuckyLinJi The frown on Dorian's face slowly vanished as he thought about the Professor's words. "I guess..." he answered slowly. "I'm trying to see it from a muggle point of view but i KNOW that real magic, our magic, exist so thinking about their tricks being called magic...that's odd to me, sorry" he wasn't sure why he was apologizing. "Computers, now THAT is magic" so much information in one tiny thing. Magic! They had to do illusion...no..magic tricks without the use of their wands? He had no idea how he was going to do that. He pocketed his wand back inside of his Ravenclaw robe and stood up from his seat. He looked around the room, wondering if perhaps someone wanted to work together when he spotted a girl sitting alone with a deck of cards. Card tricks didn't sound too difficult to do. "Mind if i join?" he asked. He didn’t expect or require an apology from Dorian, after all, it was each to their own. He was, however, glad to note that the Ravenclaw boy hadn’t written the lesson off completely and seemed willing to partake in the activity. “Have Dorian pick a card, Lili.” He suggested, stopping by their desk. “And then see if you can deduce what card it is he picked. Sounds simple enough but not as easy as it seems without the use of Legilimency I assure you.” He’d stop by and see how they were getting on in a while. SPOILER!!: patrick Quote: Originally Posted by siriusblackliveson Glancing up Patrick looked at their professor.... PADDY? He had never been called that and was fairly certain that he didn't want to be called that again. It felt very odd and he wanted to be sure to maybe talk to their professor after class, although it could be a sign that their professor actually lied him and didn't just tolerate him. His eyes grew wider at the thought that he needed to try and perform muggle magic. How in the world was he supposed to do that? Well he knew that he wasn't going to try and saw something in half. Seeing a hat, he figured that pulling something out of a hat was safer than anything else he could have tried. Looking over the hat he spun it in his hands a few times envisioning a rabbit in there. Maybe... just maybe if he thought about it enough he would get the chance to pull one out of the ridiculous hat. “I like your style,” Barlow observed on his way past the desk of the Slytherin. “Would be a heck of a lot easier if you were allowed to use your wand for this, wouldn’t it?” But alas…. SPOILER!!: rylee, maeve and dezi Quote: Originally Posted by Kolyander Magic. Not magic as they all had come to know. Muggle magic in the form of tricks and illusions. Now this was surely going to be interesting if nothing else at all. Keeping quiet for the first question was okay, she had been taking down some notes just in case. As they wouldn't be needing their wands, Rylee slid that back into the holster on her wrist. No sense in having it out if they wouldn't be using them. With a more than ready smile on her face, at a chance to try something new, she wasted no time in getting up and making her way to the table at the front of the room. Out of all the props there the one that really caught her eye was what looked to be like two large shiny rings looped together. Selecting those, Rylee returned to her seat to see if she could figure what to do with it. Quote: Originally Posted by Crayola For once in his academic life, Dezi Willard was actually paying attention to a class. No, not just paying attention, Dezi was invested in this class. Maybe it was the fact Barlow didn't look like your regular professor, all uppity and boring. Maybe it was Barlow's hair and his curl definition that honestly made Dezi a little jealous. ~~Maybe it was Maybelline.~~ The odds were that it was all the magic tricks. Yup, that was it. He was caught once Barlow produced a galleon from behind his ear. Muggle magic tricks were the coolest. BEST. LESSON. EVER. The fourth year was going to go to the front table and get a deck of cards but, as so often happened with him, something else caught his attention and he was sidetracked. "Ooooh, those get separated even if they look so so so stuck to each other!" MAGIC! He loved it. "Can I watch you do it?" Maybe watching wasn't exactly what Barlow had told them to do but he was excited now. Quote: Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Maeve LOVED Transfiguration, okay. Okay, maybe love was the wrong word, but the sixth year didn't mind transfiguration, which was practically the same thing. What she wasn't sure about was when Professor Barlow introduced the topic of today. Muggle Magic? Uhhh did he get confused? This wasn't Muggle Studies class!! They had a whole subject matter to be devoted to mundane methods used by muggles. But she did happen to know a supposedly muggle magician, by the name of Houdini. Which was one that she merely wrote down on her notes. Moving on though, because it seemed they were going to attempt some muggle tricks. Okayyyy... obviously she was going to use it on one of the younger kids because they were the most naive. Swiping a coin from the table, as inconspicuously as possible, the sixth year walked over to a pair of lions (Re: Rylee and Dezi). "Yo, Willard! Whaddddupp!" Making small talk was the best way to trick him, wasn't it? Quote: Originally Posted by Kolyander Rylee fiddled with the rings for several long moments, tugging at them to see if they were truly stuck together. They were. Or to her they were, the more she tugged the worse luck in getting these things apart, she had. Obviously tugging at them wasn't going to work. She had seen a magician do this very same trick once at some kids birthday party when she was really little. Seeing someone else do it though was very different than trying to do it yourself. An excited voice broke her concentration and she lifted her gaze up to see who it was. "Sure you can! I know these are supposed to come apart but I'm not having any luck at all with it," the Gryffindor replied giving the rings another more gentle tug as if to prove her point. "Do you know how to do it? Want to give it a try?" Once more she tried to separate the rings more carefully before holding them out to Dezi. His travels soon took him in the direction of a Gryffindor trio and naturally, he had to stop and observe. “Aaahhh, familiar with the famous metal hoops are you, Mr Willard?” Seemed like they had a fan over here! Can’t say he’d ever seen the young Gryffindor focus this much in lesson before today. It seemed Miss Prichard had hit a spot of bother though, and Barlow found himself grinning. “Make sure you’re familiar with the props… sometimes they might not exactly seem as they appear.” And as for Maeve? He had no idea what the plan with the coin was, but was he hanging around to catch a glimpse?? You betcha. __________________ _____________Take part in our Higgledy Piggledy House Cup!