Originally Posted by Celandine

"I think so too." Cela did. But then, she thought pretty much everything she did was great, which wasn't an attitude that had changed at all over the past seven years. She was very matter of fact about it though.

"Sure thing." She picked up a fork. "This one is a transfiguration spell." She held her wand with the other hand, looped the tip of it in a figure eight and then tapped the fork, stating quite clearly, "Paraplyo." The fork twitched and then expanded into a closed umbrella, standard sized.

"It took me a long time to work out how to make the umbrella change in size as it transformed from the starting object, but I changed the wand movement and the inflection in the incantation and it worked. You can use any sort of long item. Like a quill or a spoon or a stick. I used to use flowers because it was the easiest since the petals turned into the waterproof part of the umbrella, this bit that opens." She wouldn't open it indoors though. No bad luck for her.

"I used to have to enlarge the flower first though, but this way is easier still."

She handed Kellen the umbrella quite solemnly. "I haven't worked out how to specify what the umbrella will look like yet. I think it might just be intent based though. Sometimes I've managed to get them to be patterned. This one was a simple ravie blue.

"I've been working on it since my fourth year." She added with a smile. "Thats the sort of thing you wanted to see?"