Camira waited until it seemed like everyone was done answering and then raised her hand yet again. "Professor, is it okay if I say one more. If so, what about a Cushioning Charm? It Makes a nice little cushion for you wherever you are." She particularly liked that one.

Demetria raised her hand. "Well it would be useful if the object was too heavy to carry right?"

Ella just got back her thoughts, raised her hand, "It gives more space and convenient when we travel especially when the object was heavy or delicate" she said, bitting her lips.

Camira's hand shot up. "It could be useful in a case where someone is injured and unconscious. The person might be too heavy to lift normally, but a levitation charm would help a lot."

Isabella raised her hand into the air. "The levitating charm can help by raising objects too heavy to normally be lifted by one person." she answered with some confidence.

Chris raised his hand. "we could use this charm as a life saving acton or for something as usless as getting you cup off the table."

Cale raised his hand, "Well if something is blocking your way, like...a huge rock or something, you could just levitate it out of the way, if there was room for you to move it around," he explained.

Allie raised her hand.
"Maybe to lift objects that are too big or heavy for us to lift on our own?" said Allie. With her being so small for her age, she has had that problem many times.

Anna raised her hand. "A levitation object can be used to help a person carry large amounts of objects at once, even a person, although, there's another charm altogether for that. It can be useful in removing obstructions in times of danger or when a person is in a hurry," she said.

Dominic didn't not take well to the professor's sarcasm, but shrugged it off for now. He earned points! Yay! Whatever the heck that would mean?

Ah well, new question... something about levitation charms. Why would they be useful? And sudden remembrance of an event not too long ago struck his imagination.

"To reshelf books in an easier fashion than picking them up and hurting our wrists?" He offered quietly.

Piper kept her head buried deep in her notes, she knew an answer, but she didn't want to speak up.

Rian was about to answer with a charm but the teacher started talking about the lesson. Rian quickly lowered her raised hand and blushed. Instead she thought about the answer to the teacher's next question. She quickly reraised her hand and said, "Well, a levitating charm would be useful if something was to big or heavy to lift manually, right?" she asked, not quite sure of her answer. It seemed logical though.

"It can be helpful when you have little arms and can't carry heavy things of when your arms aren't big enough you can use it to carry a lot of things. Or if you are short and can't reach something you can levitate yourself so you can reach it." Lucas told the professor with a raised hand.

Livvy thought for a while. She raised her hand and answered, "A levitation charm may prove useful if you wanted to carry an object, but didn't want to do it yourself. Or just to carry heavy objects such as a rock or a person."

Livvy then looked down at her notes and wrote down quickly other answers.

Miranda raised her hand shyly ''um...the levitating charm is useful if we want to get something thats to far away or to high up...maybe?''

"You could use it to move large, heavy or dangerous objects and place them somewhere else," Rachel replied, trying to keep up with all the note taking.

"The charm allows you to "levitate" several objects at once." Remy answered

Katelyn drung some courage from deep down, and raised her hand.
"If somethings falling on someone or thing, and its falling really quickly, can't we just say the charm, and it will stop in midair and raise up? That could work, right? It would save the poor person, right?" she said in her high voice. She turned a brilliant pink. She was so shy...well, hmph, at first. And in class.

Gwen raised her hand. "I think it's useful because of its flexibility. It's the sort of basic charm that isn't difficult to cast, and can be used in so many different situations."

Jack raised his hand. "Its useful if you have a physical problem, or moving things out of reach" he said.

"Yes, it absolutely can be useful to lift heavy objects! Two points!"

"Well it doesn't neccessarily give more space, it doesn't make things smaller or enlarge spaces, but you can use it to stack things to make space more convienent, so you're on the right track. A point to you."

"Oooh, a good point. To use this spell to lift an unconcious person is very difficult and may take a couple people to do if you're not a strong caster, but you're right, the levitation spell would be useful for that. One point to you!"


"Are you saying I'm short?" Callie teased. "That's a great way to use this charm, and you're right I do use it for this purpose from time to time." Callie blushed. "Two points to you."

"Yes, your classmate just pointed out how you can use it to help someone, good point. But you also have a good point when using the spell to move things. You can use levitation to move an object from one place to another if you needed to. A point to you."

Callie stifled a laugh as she watched the Ravenclaw boy come back to life after daydreaming and drooling at his desk. "Welcome back. I'm glad you joined us. Unfortunately a classmate already shared this answer with us. Two points from Ravenclaw for daydreaming. Maybe that will keep you awake."

"Yes! Another great answer! Moving things blocking your way! Two points to Gryffindor!"

"Wow, I think the two Gryffindor Prefects share a mind." Callie laughed, "But you make another good point Anna that you can use this in time of danger to move something in a hurry,

"Yes, that's right, you can use levitation to simply carry things along if you'd like, as well. That's a point for you!"

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"Great examples from everyone! As you all pointed out, levitation makes life much easier for us in many different ways."

"Today we will use this spell to simply practice lifting objects" Callie smirked at the class. "To use this charm to move things around takes a lot of practice and concentration. I hope by the end of the class you'll be able to master that, but for now, let's focus on making an object float, shall we."

"Now, I put a great deal of thought into how I was going to go about teaching you this charm. Back in my day at Hogwarts, a Professor might use a feather, or cotton ball, or something very simple to begin teaching this charm with, and I could have done the same. Then my better judgement got to me." Callie grinned, as she took her wand, waved it, and watched in delight as the black sheet lifted up revealing a stack of water balloons underneath it.

Lucas' eyes got wide at the site of the water balloons. He started bouncing in his seat at the thought a poorly worded charm.

"Haha yes!!!" Demetria thought. She pulled out her wnad so fast and so ready to raise those balloons.

Water Baloons!!
"This is going to be a fun class." Allie thought.

Isabella saw the water balloons and the devious looks that seemed to cross the faces of every boy in the room. She had a feeling that perhaps she should have brought a rain coat or an umbrella.

Livvy looked at Professor Hawkins with a confused look. What did she mean? But Livvy immediately understood when the black sheet was lifted. Livvy's eyes widened at the sight of water balloons. Oh... Professor Hawkins. This would definitely be interesting.

Jack's eyes widened. WATER BALLOONS! He might of fainted right there. Oh...this was going to be fun.

Anna sat back and crossed her arms over her chest. Ha, she may not be the greatest student this term, what with all the relationship stress she was under, but water balloons and Cale Newell in the same room? Merlin BLESS Professor Hawkins!!!

Chris saw the water balloons. He grinned. This should be a good class. he thought.

Water balloons?! Sweeeet! Punz grinned when the professor made the big reveal. There was a lot of prank potential there...heheh...

Rian grinned at the water balloons. She started twisting her wand around in her right hand. This'll be fun, she thought happily, watching other students' expressions brighten.

She smiled when she heard that today they would be working with water balloons. This was going to be really fun... She turned to Mads and winked at him mischievously. She was going to drop one over his head...

Miranda grinned at the sight of the water baloons ''awsome!'' she said looking around the class at everyone's bright faces. The grin however slowly faded as she thought of what would happen if she didnt get the charm correctly ''oh dear'' she mumbled ''i dont want to get wet!"

Callie grinned, as she anticipated this reaction.

"That's right, why use simple feathers, when you could use water balloons instead?" Calle laughed.

"Actually my true intention is a bit more mischievious than that. You see, after last term I learned that some of you have a great deal of difficulty paying attention during class. That's understandable, Charms isn't everyone's favorite subject.

"Unfortunately though, as I said earlier, this spell takes a great deal of concentration. Fooling around or slacking off isn't going to cut it here. That's why I brought in the balloons."

"Anyone can begin to lift up feathers and oops . . . if you drop, no big deal, you'll just haphazardly try again. Well that's not good enough here. If you levitate these water balloons and drop them on yourselves, or more importantly . . . you classmates, that nice, icy cold water inside will be a good reminder of why it's so important to concentrate in my class."

"Any questions so far?"

If witches could cast spells through the eyes the water balloons would have popped as soon as Daphne's hazel eyes landed on them. Holding back a grimace, she satisfied herself with merely wrinkling her nose at them.

The last thing she needed was to stand around a bunch of animals whisking water balloons at high speed from one side to the other of the classroom. Scratching her cheek, Miss Hopton started contemplating the ways she could go without having to participate.

Even extra homework was better than joining in. She didn't want to play with other little boys and girls and get wet. She didn't have to. Davis did that sort of stuff.

Hopton simply reminded herself that it was just best not to mess up the Charm. It's not like it was so difficult, now was it?

Maddox noted the mischevous wink she gave. She was going to try and get him. It wouldnt work. He was to good at charms and protection charms for her to try and get him. He grinned and winked back.



Maddox said, "No ma'am." And smiled.

Rachel decided right away that she liked this professor very very much! She grinned at her and listened for instructions. She couldn't wait!

Pipers eyes went wide as she looked at the water balloons. Oh my goodness this teacher was the best! She looked excited and she couldn't wait to start trying out the spells..

Questions??!! "Come on!" she thought. "Lets get to lifting!" a huge smile creeped across her face

Anna shot an evil look over in Cale's direction. Maybe he'd get the hint loud and clear. Before this class was over, Cale Newell would be drenched in water. Oh, wait. Had his sideburns grown an inch in the three days they hadn't spoken? Hmm... Oops. Oh, yeah. Charms class. Right. She turned her head back in the direction it was supposed to be in and simply smiled at the professor.

Isabella gulped and was suddenly quite unsure of her skill level. She had a very bad feeling that she would need to know the drying charm much more than the levitating one by the time this lesson was over.

Allie smiled, ready to get started...this will be a fun class.

Miranda listened as the professor spoke i think i like the feathers more...
''well im glad she didnt take eggs instead..."

Livvy had to smile. Professor Hawkwins was wickedly smart and sneaky. Yes she was. But Livvy liked her. She grinned mischievously as she wated for the professor to continue on with what she had to say.

Isabella smirked at the girls remarked. She leaned over and mumbled "Thank Merlin for small miracles."

Cale's mouth fell open in horror. Water balloons? No, this was not gonna be good at all. He could already tell that those water balloons would be drenching his curly head soon. Glaring over at Anna, who looked like Christmas had come early, he smirked right back at her. She wouldn't do it...it would be too obvious and look horrible for her as a prefect. She didn't have the nerve!

Rian's eyes widened. She hadn't thought of that.
She looked down at her nice and smooth Ravenclaw robes, and her eyes got even bigger (if possible) at the thought of them getting wet. Well, I'll just have to concitrate. she told herself determinedly.

"Alright, I know you're excited. Settle down, settle down, we're getting to the good part I promise. Now, since there were no questions, before we can bein, we need to practice the incantation to this charm, "Win - Gar - Dium Levi - O - Sa" Callie said slowly, pronounced it so that everyone could clearly understand it.

"Who could tell me what might happen if we pronounce this incorrectly?"


OOC: Use your imagination. :P

Bah, concentration was never a problem for Rapunzel. Er, not in Charms or Flying, that was. She looooved Charms class.

And she loooooooved water balloons. And levitating.

"If we misprounce the spell," Punz answered, raising her hand just a bit, "maybe we'll levitate ourselves instead of the object we're supposed to be working with...?" Just a guess.

Asteira grinned as she couldnt help but let out a little laugh. Ha. who wouldnt love this class. Water balloons! oh she could so pretend to be bad at this spell and accidentally drop it on her classmates. Though it would be rather bad to make enemies via water balloons. She wondered if it would break into a water balloon eventually. As she heard the professor ask if anyone had any question. Really the only question any one was thinking was who were they going to get wet first. Hope no one had a white shirt on.

Liz raises her hand "Things might fly at somebody instead of up into the air."

Isabella raised her hand. "Well in this case we'll get drenched with freezing cold water."

Miranda smiled at the girl, she was glad someone had talked to her
"you ever done this charm before?" Miranda whispered hoping she wasnt overheard by the professor

Allie raised her hand.
"Well, for one the spell wouldn't work." she siad, pointing out the obvious. "Or it could make the water balloon explode and soak us."

Anna raised her hand. "Any number of things could happen. For one, you could chance reciting the wrong spell and cause something totally different to happen. I read where there is a similar incantation that causes an object to blow up. We wouldn't want that, now would we?" Anna asked, glaring in Cale's direction again.

"You could end up with wings in your bum," Dominic suggested quietly, not at all excited about the prospect of getting wet.

Piper raised her hand and she smiled, "Well, whatever we are trying to levitate might blow up?" She asked. She had seen it done before in her old school

Cale raised his hand. What would go wrong? Hmm, lots of things, especially in this situation. "Well, maybe whatever you're levitating will explode? Like, in this case...water will go everywhere and it can get messy," he said, unable to hide his grin.

''um if we misspell it we might grow wings?''
hmmm that wouldnt be too bad she thought

"Never, but I'm hoping I'm a quick learner." She whispered back.

Awww..! The spell was for beginners. She remained calm and let the first years to answer as she carrasing her wand, which was so suitable for Transfiguration.

She pouted when he winked at her. He wasn't going to let her. She looked at him sweetly, silently pleading for him to let her.
Though she turned her attention back to the professor. She raised her hand and said, "instead of just floating in the air, the objects would turn into elephants. She grinned, knowing that Ella would have liked that answer.

Rian thought about the answer for a bit. After raising her hand, she said, "The spell could backfire." she answered as confidently as she could.

Livvy raised her hand. "Well, the charm obviously wouldn't work. There's millions of results that could happen though. The water balloon wouldn't levitate... it explodes... the water evaporates, or something else that could effect us or the balloon." She bit her lip as she thought. Yippee. Better do things right then.

''oooh thats good'' she smiled maybe i should keep an eye on her if i get into trouble

But when she heard Lima's answer, she was so struggling to control her laugh. Turned an object to elephant in air?!!! My goodness. Ella turned and stuck out her tongue at Lima.

Isabella smiled confidently. "It shouldn't be too hard. It seems like a fairly simple charm. But I suppose we'll find out soon enough." She just hoped it really was so simple. She did not want to be drenched in icy cold water.

Crossing her arms would be unlady like so Daphne held her hands over her lap, an irritated sigh escaping her lips. Some of the answers the students were giving made her want to laugh and cry all at once.

"Latex," she murmured, not sure if anyone would hear, finishing the Ravenclaw's sarcasm riddled speech about the consequences of a spell gone bad. The whole beady eyes comment threw her off and a small hand flew to the back of her neck as she nearly doubled over in pain from too much idiocy.

Was that a Ravenclaw badge on his robe? He needed to be de-housed! Merlin! Taking a deep breath, Daphne's eyes once more fell to the exit. This would be a nice time to come from the manor and save me, Davis. You good-for-nothing-driver-butler-nanny person.

"I--Am I still in Hogwarts?" She whispered to herself, furiously scribbling notes in her parchment.

Noticing the look on Ella's face after she answered the question, Lima giggled. She put her hand over her mouth to silence it. She winked at Ella in returned. Then smiling, she turned her attention back to the class.

"Oh dear, I hope that won't happen!" Callie laughed. "I'd be really impressed if it did, that would be one very powerful casting you'd do to lift yourself up. Good guess though. Take a point"

"Ouch! Yes that can definitely happen. Concentrate on the balloon at all times when you're casting this spell or you just might send something else flying. It wouldn't be very pretty. A point to you!"

"You might just get drenched, absolutely!" Callie laughed. "In fact I'm sure some of you will, but it will teach you to learn. That's a point to Slytherin."

Callie was tempted to levitate a ballon and use this girl as a demonstration, seeing as she wasn't paying attention. She held back then and cleared her throat. "Ahem! Care to share your thoughts with the rest of the class? Five points from Hufflepuff, I need you paying close attention to this lesson please."

"Yes, you're right, if you pronounce the incantation wrong you might just explode the balloons and soak us all, I don't think your classmates would enjoy that. They might enjoy that Gryffindor just got another point though.

"I doubt that your spell would be powerful enough to change the temperature of the water, but that's a good thought all the same. A point to you."

"Now that would be interesting if you did, I would think though the only way that would happen is if you're casting an altogether different charm. You're not planning on that now are you sir?"


Callie laughed, "No don't worry. That's the whole point of this lesson, practice makes perfect. As I said before, I expect some of you to get very wet!"

"You're absolutely right Anna," She said as she noticed Anna glancing in Cale's direction. "In fact why don't you and hmmm . . . . let's see . . . Ahh, Cale! Yes, you can Cale come on up here please. I'll have the two of you demonstrate for the class how this is done."

Hearing the answers people were giving, Nico sighed and busied himself with ensuring the Impervius charm he customarily had on his clothing and hair was in place. Once he was satisfied that he would be well protected from any mishaps with water, Nico focussed his attention on the Professor with an expression of resignation clear on his face.

WHAT?

Go up to the front? With Anna? NOOOOOO! This wasn't going to end up good at all...he could just see the gears working in her head right now. Had the professor picked them out on purpose, just to humiliate them? He always had the small feeling that the professors knew about their relationship--perhaps they knew about the breakup too?

Gripping his wand and shooting a death glare at Anna, he walked confidently up to the front of the class. If Anna planned on embarrassing him, he was soooo not gonna go down without a fight. And in style, too.

Anna rasied her eyebrows and smirked at the professor when she was told she was right. "Erm, Cale and I?" Anna asked, her face showing fear for only one split second before she realized the endless possibilities that could result just by being called to the front of the classroom with him. Showtime, Newell.

"Why, thank you, Professor," Anna said in her oh-so-smart tone. "I'd be glad to." She made her way to the front of the room and stood directly by that glorious selection of water balloons. She turned and smirked in Cale's direction. Did he realize what she was thinking? Of course he did. Would he do the same thing? Of course!

Miranda turned red oh no! Five points !? ''Sorry Professor Hawkins'' she said not looking up, she grimaced at her stupidity

What in Merlin's beard? How could she accuse him of purposely doing that? Though it was tempting now do that to her, but something told him that it wouldn't go over well with the professor, nor the headmistress for that matter. Not like he cared.

Eying the exit briefly, he turned back towards the front of the class and shook his head. "No, but either way it was still possibility for a spell mispronounced, right?" he asked, wondering why the professor didn't see it as just that. She wanted original answers, but apparently not THAT original...

Allie had to stifle a giggle when she saw how happy Anna looked, when she was walking up to the class. She knew it, this was going to be a very interesting class.

Isabella had always been taught not to talk back or correct her elders. However in this case she felt as though she had to. "Um, excuse me professor. I'm in Slytherin House not Ravenclaw." she said quietly, feeling slightly ashamed of herself for correcting her professor and on the first day of class no less.

Gwen's eyes widened behind her glasses. Cale and Anna. With wands and water balloons. Not good.

Asteira smiled as anna was called to the front. "Go anna." she said from her seat. Hey why not support your friend. Ha this boy was going to learn a new meaning of water balloons.