Aurora would’ve been more than happy to share her dummy and lend Brandon a helping hand if she knew what anxiety the task was giving him. Instead of being an interfering or distracting little so-and-so like she often was, although never intentionally she just liked to be around others, she sent a reassuring smile in the Hufflepuffs direction as if to let him know she was there if he wanted some support. The Ravenclaw didn’t know the meaning of the word anxiety, she oozed confidence out of her pores. Even when she had no idea what she was doing and everything was going wrong, she’d do it with that blazing smile and a girlish giggle. It was never arrogance though, she was too selfless to ever be such a way.

Back to the actual task in hand which she was taking her sweet time with having watched some of the other students do theirs first, the fourteen year old pointed her wand in the direction of her dummy and whipped it like a lasso. “Ignisio Funem” she stated clearly as the firey rope wrapped its way around her dummy’s waist and as she ‘willed’ it to, began to melt its way through the ice.

She would’ve been chuffed with herself for achieving the spell first time but she was starting to see where Brandon was coming from with feeling sorry for the dummy. Poor innocent ice mannequin, melting away like a snowman at the end of winter.