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Originally Posted by Sunflower  So the charm was initially invented for Quidditch, the sport. Jo hoped to fly well enough to play someday, so the history of the charm just made the lesson a whole lot more interesting for her. She went to get a pair of gloves for herself, and took out her yew wand upon returning to her bench.
"Queritorto ... Khere-it-or-to," the Slytherin practised the incantation first, concentrating on the pronunciation of each syllable. Then the wand movement, which was a circular movement around each glove. "Queritorto!" she said, while drawing a circle around the left glove with her wand.
... Nope, still felt like a normal glove. It seemed that she needed more practice with the charm. Leanne observed as one of the younger students practiced the incantation. It was a little tricky in pronunciation, but it seemed as though Jocelyn was getting it. Almost at least. "Looking good there. I think you'll get it in no time." She stated reassuringly. Quote:
Originally Posted by lazykitty Text Cut: ketchup "Ah, but it's the perfect weather for it!" Not really, but you know. "And how do you know I have a backbone? I am a Slytherin according to the hat, after all...." No offense, just Alfred being Alfred. Though, his house did appear to produce some spineless people on the regular. He did sit up, however, though straddling the bench, so that he was sitting sideways.
The gripping charm? They had already covered this back at Beauxbatons, but everything he thought of about the spell was already said by someone else before it could come out of his mouth. So, he sat there silent, whacking the blue ball away quickly as it sailed in his direction. And cringing a little when that one kid got whacked in the face.
Climbing? Climbing what, the trees? Not that Alfred had a problem with that, really. Just that it was relatively easy to climb trees without a charm. Not that he would know anything about it or anything.
He got up, grabbed a pair of gloves, and returned to his bench, this time sitting on it the correct way. Of course, having already encountered the spell he didn't need to practice. "Queritorto." There, now his gloves had a better grip. And he was bored. Leanne chose to ignore the comment about a backbone. Because even though he was a slytherin, she was well-versed enough in anatomy to know that even if people appeared spineless, unless there was some underlying pathological condition, as a homosapien, Alfred definitely had a spine. She was sure as school healer, she would have been privy to any pathological conditions students may or may not had.
She instead nodded politely when he sat up a little more and then seemed to lazily practice the spell. She best move on soon to keep any waning interest. Quote:
Originally Posted by Charely Potter
Oh, we're climbing today. Caes thought. Something he was very used to. He glanced again at the trees nearby, wondering if they would be climbing them or not. He eventually went up to get some gloves to put on before muttering the spell. Khere-it-or-to..
He withdrew his wand out to mimick the circular motion around the gloved hand, Queritorto... Queritorto... After some time he began to feel something constrict in his hand. Did it work? Hm. Interesting.
Nothing more to see here, as it seemed Caes was getting the hang of the spell. "Good, very good," She stated simply. Quote:
Originally Posted by ArianaBlack Kinsay made her way over to fetch a pair of hideous climbing gloves and set them down on one of the benches so that she could properly cast the spell over them. Not wanting to look silly, she did make sure to take the time to practice repeating the spell in her head. Several times. Just in case. If only she felt confident in her ability to perform nonverbals. It'd certainly lessen any embarrassment that came with mispronunciation. But. But she just wasn't there yet. So. So yeah.
Instead, she quietly rehearsed. Khere-it-or-to. Khere-it-or-to. Khere-it-or-to. The wand movement was easy enough, so rather than practice it separately, she simply went ahead a cast the spell on each glove, circle her wand around them as she did so. "Queritorto... Queritorto..." If she wanted help practicing non-verbals, Kinsay would only need to voice those concerns. Leanne sadly had never mastered legilmency and even if she had, it would be an invasion of privacy to use it on her students in general everyday life.
"Sounds good...." she said, when Kinsay practiced aloud. Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Indeed Jude had a basic understanding of the spell. Since it was mentioned that they were going to use the spell for climbing, Jude immediately thought of the Muggle Superhero, Spiderman. And he couldn’t help it: he grinned. While not a huge Superhero nerd, he had watched every Spiderman movie to date with Keigh. Yep, even the ancient ones.
Practicing on gloves was a good start, especially since the gloves were of the cool type. Jude grabbed a pair and pulled it on; the pair fit snugly on his hands. And yeah. He actually admired his hands for a bit because they looked rather nice with this type of gloves. It was this lesson, in fact, that influenced his love for them and in turn influenced him in using the things when he played the piano as an adult for his future concerts. As for practice, he was already repeating the incantation in his head. The Hufflepuff was worried about his spell work as lately it had been absolutely atrocious.
Eventually, he began saying the words out loud but softly to himself. “Khere-it-or-to. Khere-it-or-to. Queritorto.” A circular wand movement was easy enough. No need to practice that bit. Leanne watched as Jude put on the gloves, wondering what he was thinking when wearing them. When he eventually got to practicing the incantation, she nodded approvingly. "Sound goods, Jude." Quote:
Originally Posted by Chelliephone Wait. WAIT.
Did Progessor M just say they were going to be... CLIMBING!? Like for REAL!? Vera's comment had been more wishful thinking than a true guess, but she was absolutely DELIGHTED she'd been on the right track and that was the activity for today. She wasn't even disappointed any longer that they wouldn't be running!
She rushed to grab herself a set of gloves for practice, plopping herself down on the ground near the rest of the supplies as she was SO anxious to start. Wiggling a bit, she pulled out her wand and began to draw the wand movement over her gloves. "Quierototoro!" ... Wait, they didn't seem right. And she was lucky nothing seemed to happen either. "Kharetoto?" The glove just made a feeble movement at that, which she was also fairly certain she was NOT right then. One would think she would have realized by now that just because she had a wand that was good for charms, didn't mean it could make up for poor pronunciation of the booooooring incantations.
Pushing herself up, she moved closer to some other students to observe them for a moment, paying SPECIAL attention to the way they said it. After hearing it a few times from eavesdropping on her classmates, she was ready to try again. She drew the wand movement over her glove and tried again. "Queritorto. Queritorto. Queritorto." She was pretty sure she had the word right this time, and she must have since after about seven attempts it seemed like maybe she'd had some success. Leanne should have known from the opening feast that she would need to keep an extra eye on this one. She did smile in amusement as in her overenthusiastic excitement she mispronounced it several times before back-tracking. She would have corrected her, but it seemed Vera realized it herself and took a couple steps backward to reassess. "Excellent. Sounds good this time." Quote:
Originally Posted by MadAlice A Quidditch charm, eh? No wonder Violet had never heard of it. She shrugged and adjusted the glove onto her hand, and then circled it with her wand several times, chanting "Queriorto. Queriorto. Queriorto." Curiously, she looked closer at her gloved hand--didn't it feel different, somehow? Violet wished she could test it on something to be sure, before trusting it to hold her up while climbing.
She glanced over at Caes, who had returned her smile, but just barely. Had she done something to offend him somehow? Or maybe he was just tired of her; maybe he was feeling like he didn't want this friendship to go any further. Violet saw him looking eagerly toward the trees and remembered some of the stories he'd told her about recreational activities at Koldovstoretz, riding trees like they were brooms! She bet Caes would be great at climbing, gripping charm or no gripping charm. She just hoped she didn't embarrass herself in front of him today. That was it's primary use, although not the only use as charms inventors have come to realize. She did squint at Violet's chanting because it sounded almost right, yet not quite. "Queritorto", it seemed she missed the the first t, so Leanne only hoped Violet would hear it when she emphasized upon it this time. Quote:
Originally Posted by Waddles Of all the objects in the world available that they could practice the gripping charm on and play catch more, Mancini had decided that climbing was a good idea? Margaret was disappointed. Still, learning about something useful like the gripping charm was cool.
Maybe she could use it to do Quidditch training with a football in the summer--because yes, by next summer she'd be of age and actually able to do magic at home.
But first, practice. "Queritorto," she muttered several times on her way to get a pair of gloves. What a weird word, Queritorto. She donned a pair of gloves and pointed her wand at one hand. "Queritorto," she said firmly, ignoring her classmates' sounds as she focused on circling her wand around her gloved hand. She flexed her hand, testing the charm. Then something occurred to her.
She raised her grippy, gloved hand. "Professor, is there a special incantation to remove it or do we just use Finite?" she asked. Some spells had special opposites, like engorgio. Though she supposed that was because the action they did had an obvious opposite. Perhaps she should have convened with Margaret for a more interesting object to use..... since she was disappointed. Not that Leanne would know that except for with reading her expression.
She considered her question a moment. "Good question. You could use finite if you wanted to remove the gripping charm as it's a universal charm for ending charms and hexes, so yes, finite would work just fine." There was other counter-charms but for all intent purposes, finite was fine for basic charms instruction. Quote:
Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow Climbing was something Luca could actually do, so it was probably pretty obvious by his expression that he was relieved. Now he could focus entirely on the whole glove task without worrying too much over team sports coming into play.
"Queritorto....quer-it-or-to...queritorto," He murmured quietly to himself, practicing as he went up to retrieve a pair of gloves from the box. He waited until he'd returned to his spot before slipping the gloves on and considering how his wand felt in each hand. You know, before the whole charm thing came into play. It was the only way he figured he'd know that his spell had worked. Knowing the before feel and then the after. Once he was satisfied with his mini experiment, he took the gloves off and focused on the one for his right hand.
"Queritorto," He said firmly, brow furrowed as he circled his wand around the glove. Had it worked? He hesitated for a moment before actually slipping the glove on, clenching and unclenching his now gloved hand before holding the wand with it. It felt a bit stronger. His grip, that is. But it wasn't the sort of life saving climbing glove miracle he'd hoped for. Maybe he needed to try again..
Leanne was sure she noticed the relief on Luca's expression as she explained the task on hand. She observed him trying on the gloves and then with practicing the spell. "Excellent. Good work." Once it seemed as though everyone had obtained a pair of gloves and practiced a fair amount, Leanne figured it was time to move on. The strange thing with holding a lesson outside was that it was definitely easy to lose track of time. Fortunately she was aware of no lessons immediately following today's charm lesson so it offered her some flexibility. And yet she didn't want to keep them for a five hour lesson either not that it had been five hours
"Okay let's continue, shall we? If you haven't yet been able to cast the gripping charm successfully, let me know and i can cast it for you. You can test it out on the blue ball here to see if you're able to grip the ball easily." Since the red ball had the gripping charm on it.
"As you progress in your charms studies you might learn another variant of the gripping charm. The Queritorto Charm is used for more solid objects, such as quaffle balls or brooms or even pencils and quills. There's another variant that can be utilized if the object if the object is slippery, usually objects composed of metal. But we're not here to focus on that today. If you wish to learn that one too, you can schedule a meeting with me during my office hours."
Moving on. "As I mentioned we'll be using this to climb today, specifically trees. The gripping charm on the gloves will enable you to easily climb the trees without fear of slipping down. It creates a sort of traction between your hands and the tree. I've taken the liberty of marking the trees you are to climb with a red string, so you are NOT to climb any trees not marked or venture further into the forest than indicated. Unless you wish to spend your next couple weekends with me in detention." She gave a stern look around them all.
"You can cast the gripping charm on your shoes and your gloves to aide your ascent. At the top of the trees you'll find coloured plastic eggs hidden among the branches and leaves. Your job is to collect two or three eggs each. And once you climb down, inside the plastic egg you'll find a number. Depending on your number it will correlate to a prize. Good luck." ooc: sorry for the delay in getting a post again. I've been lost in mental health feels :3 but should be back to wrap things up with a fun activity!!! Your job is to find no more than three eggs each ... you can use a random number generator to determine a number between 1-300 (no there's not 300 eggs hidden, but it's randomly numbered pieces of paper up to 300). The number will correlate to prizes, which i'll reveal in a day or so.... but ummm you have until Sunday June 12th to complete the activity. Any questions, ask either IC in here or OOC via PM/VM. OH and have fun !!! Don't stress about the random number because you get a prize no matter if high or low number, but try not to reuse a number. So if someone before you gets 15 and you randomly generate 15 as well, please try to be conscious and generate a new number. I'll try to update the first post with numbers drawn as i see them.
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