Lia was on quite a roll today! She had earned herself a small smile and an enthusiastic head nod all in one lesson. So far so good. Things were at least looking up a little in this class and she was ready for whatever came next. Hopefully. Maybe.

Conjuring birds. It was no Nundu or Dragon but she liked birds. She could sit outside in her yard at home and watch the birds come bathe in the bird bath or eat from the few different bird feeders they had. A small smile formed on her lips as she remembered this, it made her miss home. A few more months and she would be back with her family. She would be okay until then.

Dahlia watched Carton conjuring an bunch of very pretty birds, lifting her head to see them landing in the trees. How cool was that?! Nudging Tadhg lightly in the side with her elbow she smiled at him. This was something they could do.

Jumping up onto her feet, she wasted no time at all getting a bird cage and bringing it back to her seat where she set it down. The entire time she had going over the incantation both in her head and out loud. "Avis... avis... avis.." Really it was that simple. Nothing difficult about this one!

What was a little more troublesome was prefecting the wand movement. The natural flow of a bird shape didn't come all that easily to her and had to be practiced more than a handful of times before she was comfortable with it.

Now came visualization. Choosing a bird and seeing it fully in her mind. Closing her eyes, Lia did her very best to picture the type of bird she wanted to conjure. A Starling.