Kennedy's eyes had been set on the dummies the whole time. Were they going to practice on them, because if they were then that would be really fun. He looked back to professor Magnus when she began to speak. So, now they had to go with the older students. Alright the, but he did feel better with the younger ones. Maybe, that was because with the younger group he was one of the older students. Whatever, he stood up and made his way to the other side. That meant he was going to get to learn the trickier spell. He liked that.

"You are all correct, of course. It is a severing charm, and as Selina pointed out, not strictly Transfiguration. But it will be used to assist whichever upperclassman that you younger folks will be pairing up with." But she wasn't going to tell them exactly what they would be doing with it just yet. "So I thought it prudent to teach those of you who don't yet know it, since charms and transfiguration are very closely linked." Isabelle gave the girl a smile and wink before pulling out her wand. With a quick flourish she conjured a melon and held it out in front of her.

"The wand movement is down, then up, then down again. In one fluid motion," Isabelle held the melon in one hand and showed them the movement with her wand. Not saying the spell though, could be bad. "Now, would anyone like to demonstrate it for me? Anyone at all."

Alyssa raised her hand to volunteer and stood up. She had seen what the Professor had done. Taking out her wand, she copied exactly the movements. "Is this how it's done, Professor?". Waving her wand down, then up and then down in one fluid motion, Alyssa did the wand movements for the spell.

There weren't a lot of fifth, sixth, or seventh years here. Why? Did they, at least the sixth and seventh years, all drop Transfiguration after OWLs? It was a pretty useful subject though, so Vashti couldn't see the reason behind such a thing. Maybe they were just being lazy, or they'd overslept. Probably one of those.

So this lesson was about the Severing Charm? Except they were in Transfiguration, and that was a charm. Confusing? A bit.

She would've volunteered to demonstrate, but another student already beat her to it. So she just watched silently, her notebook balanced on her knee and her quill raised to take notes when needed.

Don't all rush at once. Heh.

Isabelle smiled at Alyssa as the girl stood up, nodding when she repeated back the wand movement that she herself had just shown them. "Wonderful. Now if you take this and place it on the floor - I'd like you to cut it in half for me please. The pronunciation is 'Dif-FIN-doe'. Have a go, so everyone can see." Isabelle held the melon out for the girl to take.



OOC: I'll be moving on to the main spell soon/tomorrow. But I keep getting Peeves, so don't know how much more time I'll be spending trying to post tonight. xD Not forgotten about you older ones though!

Diffindo?

They were going to need it to assist upperclassmen? Eh...seeing he was sitting at that side, it meant one of the littles was going to attempt to diffindo him. Sounded great!!! Josh was going to have fun watching him or her try to attack him with the spell...

Wait...

The professor said 'assist' though, so it probably did not involve attacks. Eh...it could have been fun but whatever.

Moving on his seat for a more comfortable position, Josh just stared at the side of the younger students wondering who would be brave enough to pick him.

*smirk*

*stare*

India had been sitting on the older students side, watching and waiting for instructions.

Nothing. Not yet, not even a peep. Pfft it was like she was inivisble - wait they all were invisible.

So running her hand through her hair she sighed and just decided to try the wand movement - without the words. No accidental chopping someone's hair or worse off.

Sitting back slightly, Mina watched as all the fourth years made there way over to to the other side. It really didn't dawn on her just how lopsided most of the lessons were. Shrugging, she turned her attention back to what the underclass-men were learning.

They would be paired up later, but she glanced over to the other side briefly. She didn't really know that many underclass-men, but she didn't think they were all too bad. She just hoped that whomever she was paired with wasn't a self-proclaimed know-it-all or something.

Glenn looked over her shoulder at the table of older students. She didn't really want to work with them; she had always learnt best on her own.

She also noticed how much taller they were than all of the younger students like herself. Glenn wondered how much more magic they knew than all of them. Gee - even half the first-years knew more than she did about spells and performing them.

Kourtney made a note of the incantation and the wand movement, and watched with interest as an older girl volunteered to perform the spell. She hadn't a clue about how to do the severing spell, but hey, that's why they were here, wasn't it? Laying her quill down, she watched closely for the demonstration. She was sure they'd have to perform the spell themselves later and she didn't want to miss anything.

Kurumi's jaw momentarily dropped when she heard that she was considered in the "older" group. It really only hit her then the weight of being a fourth year. It was the final transition into the upper grades, the real in between year. If you divided all seven year up evenly that is. Three for the younger grades, and three for the upper grades, leaving fourth year somewhat in limbo. Neither being young nor old. OWLs were the indicator for reaching the threshold perhaps.

She was still over thinking things.

Slightly reluctantly, Kurumi flashed a smile at Selina and began gathering her things. She followed Gideon to the other side of the room where she already saw Josh chomping at the bit to do something active. She smiled at Jonathan as she took a seat towards the back - seeing as everything else had already been taken.

Her hand shot up, out of pure reflex mind you, when Professor Magnus asked the question before realizing that it was directed at the younger group of students.

Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevermind...

Kurumi sat and waiting for Professor Magnus to finish with the younger group. Merlin...she hoped they wouldn't be learning anything too complicated. She didn't want to make something or someone melt in the process...

Harvey watched Alyssa perform the wand movement and tried to memorise the movement just in case they had to do it later.






Harvey said the incantation in his head over and over again as he watched the Professor give Alyssa a melon to try the wand and incantation.

Alyssa took a big gulp. She didn't expect the Professor to ask her to actually perform the spell for real. But she trusted that the Professor knew what she was doing, so she walked up, took the melon and placed it on the floor. Then taking out her wand, she waved her wand down, then up and down again in one fluid movement while saying the words:

"Dif-FIN-doe"

A green beam shot out from her wand, and engulfed the melon within a split second. Immediately the melon split into half sending small bits of melon flying in all directions. Taking a deep breath, Alyssa wiped some off her face and looked at Professor Magnus. She was sure that she had done the spell correctly but needed confirmation from her.

August had been watching as the Professor expalined and then demonstrated the wand movement for the Diffindo spell. The she pulled out a melon. The Gryffindor sat up straighter in his chair as Professor Magnus pulled out a melon.

Yum! Were they going to get any of it to eat? Hmm?

Then she called upon someone to split it open, and a younger Hufflepuff girl stood up and did it. Auggie clapped quietly for her.

Tori had entered the Transfiguration classroom -- or practice room, rather -- with great suspicion for the doll thingies all lined up. Some were green, which was good because that was Slytherin's colors, but then some were also red. Hmm. She wasn't a big fan of red.

She also didn't like having to sit with the little kids on the left side of the room. Pffft. Lame. Who separated students by age anyway?

Tori sat still and stared at the professor as she started asking questions about spells which she had never heard of, much less used. Whatever, professor. It looked easy enough.

Were they going to be sewing or something today, then?

Minerva saw Alyssa get up from beside her and do the spell perfect. She had no doubt that Alyssa wouldn't do it correct the first time. Minerva smiled at Alyssa and mouthed "great job" Minerva took her own wand and practiced the movement thinking of the word in her head.

Harvey clapped and smiled broadly as she managed to split the melon, he was happy for her. She and Minnie were good at this class, remembering Minnie changing his hair color as well as her own. He practiced the wand movement and incantation in his head over and over again, still smiling at Alyssa.

Elise raised her hand, particularly happily today. She knew this one! Oh, mememe!

When Professor Magnus inclined her head towards El, indicating that she answer, answer she did. "Diffindo's a severing spell, used to cut things open!"

Feeling pleased with her answer, she lowered her hand and stared around the classroom for more answers, jotting them down in her trusty notebook.

-x-x-x-

Elise clapped as she saw one of them spit open a melon.

GIRLS RULE!

William will try to do the next one when the professor asks the youngr students.

Sarah sat down in the seat next to her. "Hi Nora. I just wish she doesn't make us change our nose or something." she said, smiling. "Which year are you in?" Sarah watched as other students hurried into the class.

Another girl. She has seen her a lot of times around the school grounds and classrooms. Sarah smiled at her as she sat next to us. "Hello. You must be Gwen?" she asked. "I'm Sarah." By the time they could extend their chat, Professor addressed the gathering.

Sarah just watched. Diffindo? Really? Wasn't that a charm? And this was Transfiguration. She listened to the answers of various student. Already too many answers, I ain't adding anything new.

One student, probably below third year stood up to volunteer it. Better be Gryffindor, we need some big points.

Amidst the little crowd Sarah spotted Will. "Hey, Will" she said, pretty quietly.

Wow. That Hufflepuff is FIERCE!
Katrina managed a small clap, not audible and cannot be heard.

DIFFINDO? Oh, that spell Uncle Terrence had used before to cut open an apple. But then that was nice.

Katrina looked at the older students. Merlin, they look... scary. Well, soon she'll be joining them there and be one of the eldest students in there.

Oh? They were supposed to transfer to the other side then? Oh, but why? She was perfectly happy on her seat...but nonetheless, Cass stood up with the other fourth years, gathered her things and crossed to the other side of the room and sat down on one of the chairs.

Salander, who was sitting directly behind Marie, cleared his throat as he propped himself straighter in his seat curious and a little concerned for the current discussion. It was a simple enough spell, Difindo, but in the hands of young ones it could have quite unpredictable results. He should know, he has unpredictable results and he's older than most people in this room save the Professor.

Then again, if the young ones get to do Difindo, what awesome spell does the Professor have for the older students. He kept his eyes on the Professor, curious at what next is in store.

"Diffindo cuts, professor!" Janice said. They had learned that spell last year in charms class, but it is always good to refresh your memory once in a while. She looked at Alyssa as she was asked to demonstrate.

"Nice,"

Sarah thought someone just clapped, a quite for given for that. She was sure they did. She turned around to find Katrina. "Can't resist clapping, could you?" she asked, smiling.