Heart of a Claw 23. Levicorpus
(Inspired by my friends randomly playing freeze tag at a playground at night)
Harry, Ron, Hermione and a couple of other students sat lazily around the lake.
Suddenly Hermione jumped up saying “We should play freeze tag!”
Everyone looked at Hermione like she was crazy, except Harry, who had seen muggle kids play the game before.
“The exception would be that we would use magic.” Hermione stated.
After Hermione explained, with help from Harry, everyone decided to try magical freeze tag.
Harry pointed his wand at Hermione, and spoke clearly “Levicorpus”
Immediately everyone was excited at the prospect of hanging everyone upside down from their ankles.
Harry explained, “The person who is it, should use this spell. The person who is tagged must drop their wand and wait for someone to tag them out, by using the counter spell Liberacorpus.”
Hours later, after intense playing, the students made their way back toward the castle. They occasionally tripped because many of them had been upside down for too long and were quite dizzy.
“I think we should just use freezing charms next time,” Hermione muttered.
“But what’s the fun in that.” Harry laughed.
Over the next weeks crowds of students came to play the dizzying game. In time, it became a Hogwarts tradition.
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