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.

Raiden giggled. Water balloons! This would be loads of fun!

"We're using water balloons?" he asked quietly, a wide smile on his face. "This might get very... very messy, Professor Hawkins."

He bounced a bit with excitement.

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!!!

When the professor took the sheet off of the objects all he could do was laugh. "Water Ballons eh? This will be fun." He gave a mischevious grin.

Mariska watched Professor Hawkins closely as she explained their task in class for the day, her eyes moving to the black cloth as she flipped it away. Water balloons? Mari arched a brow. This could get interesting, she thought as she smiled.

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

Dominic listened to the professor drawl on about how they would be mastering levitation charms today. Something simple would of course be fine with him. And then she removed the black sheet to reveal... water balloons! For some reason, the fourth year got the idea that this would not be a clean lesson at all as he slunk down in his chair.

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!"

Tino frowned and shrank down in his seat. What?! The other kid had said something about lifting himself up to put stuff away on high shelves. . . hadn't he? Tino couldn't remember. He had been in Africa at the time.

Blowing out his cheeks, the floppy black-haired boy gazed at the waterballoons miserably. This was not going to end well.

MJ smiled at the sight of the water balloons, a huge smile spread on her lips and she knew this was going to be a fun class. Now she knew that she wouldn't sleep if one of them fell on her head. She would be wide awake tonight. She knew Misty her mischievous panda would have loved to sneak into the room and had some fun with them. Oh no, Misty is going to be so mad at me for not bringing her to the class... she thought

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..