He promised not to harm her hair. Good... that was definitely good. She could work with that. He actually didn't seem that bad. Prefects had to follow the rules so she felt as safe as she possibly could about the whole arrangement. "Fantastic." She was glad that he was going to go first. She watched as her took out his wand and clutched her seat a bit tighter.

Then he was telling her his name. How rude of her. She had been focusing on the possibility of going blad so much that she had completely forgotten her manners. "Nice to meet you Gideon. I'm Hannah... Hannah Lockwood." Yes, she could be snobby, judgemental and all of the above, but she did have manners.

She held her breath as he casted the spell. Please don't be bald, please don't be bald kept running through her mind. She was sure that that he or even the professor could put it back right if things did get out of hand, but that was so not the point. She didn't look down. Wait. Why was he casting it again? Her hand flew automatically to her head to make sure hair was indeed still there. She really needed to calm down. She shut her eyes this time while he casted for the second time. Only when she heard him ask how it was did she open one eye to peek at it.

It was her hair exactly how it was supposed to be only longer. She was out of her chair with her arms around the prefects mid section before she could process what she was doing. "Thanks for not hurting it." Then she backed away. "I'm sorry." What was wrong with her? She didn't hug people. She didn't even know this person. "Er... so shall I try now." Lets just pretend that didn't happen. She hoped nobody had noticed because she had a reputation to uphold. She wasn't a puffer for crying out loud.

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained," Vivi shrugged as she put her hands on Kurumi's shoulders and centered the girl in the chair. She wasn't really sure if the spell would work or not but she wanted to try. There was added challenge in trying the spell on hair that did not want to be altered.

"I know the trimming charm, and we're going to have to use it on you, because this is going to WORK," Vivi muttered under her breath, a sort of pep talk for the both of them. It was going to work. It was.

"Cresco Capillus," Vivi waggled her wand as instructed, pointing it at Kurumi's hair. Nothing. Or maybe... nothing? She leaned in and studied the ends of Kurumi's hair. Might be a little bit longer. A millimeter longer. Maybe. "Cresco Capillus. Cresco Capillus. Cressssss-co Capiiiiiiiiiil-lus."

Well. "I don't think it's working."

"An Arrow!?" she said a bit alarmed "Is it SUPPOSE to look like that Lion Cub?" yeah your a little lion cub now girl.

Was she doing the spell right?

Did She say that right?

Was that Wand movement correct!?

"Did you do it right!?" she snapped at the girl

Anya covered her mouth quickly. "No. No. Ididn'tmeanlikethat." she said quickly. "I meant. Like. A V-shaped hair cut. That's what they're called, right?"

And if not, that's what they were called now.

"I actually looks kind of fun."

"Erm...right," Kurumi nodded as she practiced the wand movement a little more. Wiggly wand movements were always tricky. They seemed easy, but it was because they seemed so easy that one became a little more careless. So, wiggly wand movement practice it was.

"Well, the Trimming Charm does work on my hair...I think..." Kurumi said, cocking her head to the side. She actually wasn't entirely sure. She had never tried that one before. Chances were her hair would just grow back right away though...assuming that the charm they were about to practice worked at all. Kurumi's hair was a complicated subject.

Kurumi winced and waited for Vivi to finish performing the spell. Maybe it was her own fault that these spells had never worked on her or maybe it really was because she was a metamorphagus...either way she didn't want Vivi to feel disappointed. She hated disappointing friends. "Uuuuuuuuuum..." Kurumi murmured when the Ravenclaw began peering at her hair. "Oh, um....sorry..." About her hair being stupid.

Now it was her turn to give it a go, right? Swallowing, Kurumi repeated the wand movement a few more times and whispered the incantation under her breath. Focusing on Vivi's blonde hair now, Kurumi wiggled her wand. "Cresco Capillus."

Heh, Vivi would make a really pretty Rapunzel now that Kurumi got to thinking about it...

OHPHEW. Louisa let out a small breath and couldn't help but twirl some of his hair... then tugged. "Yep, it's real." Chuckling to herself mostly, she moved and inspected him from all sides. "It's the same length, same color and same... texture." Cue another touch from her hand. "For a second try in the men's hair care department, I'd say I did quite well." Hehe. She turned around wondering if summoning her hand mirror would be okay with professor Bellaire. Oh pity.

"My turn!" It was a bit silly to be this excited maybe. She hopped on the chair and threw her hair so it laid on her back. It was already tall, not the same length though. But that was how her hairstyle was. "You should... stay focused... and... don't seek revenge." Her tone was playful and worried at the same time. Not that Ethan seemed the kind of guy who'd act this childishly, he was a Ravenclaw not a Gryffindor, but still. Louisa needed to make sure. And just to get into the dramatic zone, she hid her face behind her hands. "Go for it!" SQUEAK.

Finding a seat for himself already, Daichi sat down with his knees on the seating and looked backwards over the chair. He sighed softly as he watched his fellow students making pairs and he felt a pang of sadness when he had been ignored. Or perhaps his voice had been too soft and no one had heard him?

He really did not want to be the *kid-that-got-chosen-last* kind of guy and he especially did not want to pair up with the Professor after she had just kicked him out of class. That would be just awkward.

He was about to call for a partner for the second time when he heard his name. Smiling brightly, Daichi turned to the sound of the voice and noticed Oakey was walking towards him. "Okay~!" he said cheerfully now that he got himself a partner. "But" he added , looking at the Hufflepuff. "I want to say that i was not a mess during the previous lesson" cue a major pout. "I just got hit by a first year and couldn't concentrate anymore" yeah yeah blame it on a firstie~!

"How's your nose?" he grinned when he remembered that Oakey had been hit as well. He had been bleeding during that time right? Anyways, on to the task. "Eh, i first want to practise" he said after Oakey said it was okay that he went first. "And uhm, i think you should too..i like my hair you know?" meaning if he messed this up he would have to deal with a flailing Daichi with a Mr.Duckles!

Flicking his wrist, the wand in the wristholster slided down and he pointed it to no where in particular. "It's a wave motion right?" he asked as he moved his phoenix feather wand in a riple wave motion. "Mweh this is easy, i don't get why the Professor says it's a difficult charm" Seriously, this wand movement is just as easy as the jab motion!

Now for the incantation. The Slytherin looked at the board to read the words. "Cres - cresco Capil-lus" he said carefully and slowly. "Cresico..no Cresco Capillus. Cresco Capillus Cresco Capillus!" Beaming , Daichi turned to face Oakey and gave him a firm nod. "Okay i think i can do this!"

Once Cassia was done practicing, Kat was nervous about what would happen if she did it wrong on Cassia' hair. Would the girl even forgive her? That's not likely. Kat never committed a mistake in Charms before, unless it makes a fiasco then yes, this would be the first time. But Kat was confident that she can pull it off. She was a Slytherin, no Slytherin was bad at anything BUT other Houses. Puffers, you know. Well, most of the time but not for Kat.

Kat nodded. Yeah, some were already starting. Maybe they should too. But Kat wanted to avoid unexpected events. "Do you need to practice first, or are you okay with starting now?" Kat didn't wanna ruin her hair... or Cassia's. They had nice hair. Plus, West likes nice hair.

She trusted him.... That brought a small grin to his face and helped immensely it trying to help him relax about the thought of him working on her hair "Thanks Min." he murmured back as he settled into his seat and waited for her to work on him. It was then that she said about making his hair grow all the way down to the floor. She was joking right? Cue airy chuckle.... No? She was actually going to aim for it? "Uh... " he mumbled, those piercing blues growing a little large in alarm "... why not just all the way down till to the edge of my shoulders?... I-it would be plenty long enough." For some reason he had this terrifying notion that if his hair grew the length of Rapunzel's he might actually be mistaken for one damsel in distress.

With trepidation he watched her do the spell-- and there was odd tickling on his scalp that he could only imagine would be the spell's effect on making his hair grow. But she was right, it didnt look that much different from a few seconds before. She wants to try again? "Uh... okay sure."

Oakey nodded in agreement to Daichi's claim that it was a first year who got him good in the last lesson. That was a rule that even Oakey would abide by if he could avoid evidence that pointed the blame to him. shovel all the problems onto the first years.

Oakey removed his wand and watch Daichi practice some "I wouldn't just jump right into it, promise." He repeated the same motions that the Slytherin was doing. "Nothing could possibly go wrong with this charm." Oakey said back with a smile. Nope not since today was his birthday, everything was going right so far. "My Nose, it's fine. Nothing a quick Episkey couldn't fix.". Thank Merlin for that, he avoided a visit to the Evil Healer. He looked back over to the charm written on the board and also began practicing the the words. "Cresso, cresco, cresco. Capiles, capilus, capillus. Cresco Capillus."

Ella walked around Harvey and looked at his hair carefully. When done right, this spell was actually really awesome! She even reached out to tug on Harvey's long locks, smiling when they felt just like his regular hair. As he questioned her, she tilted her head to the side and thought about it for a moment before answering him. "I...well I think if you were like a rock star or something, this might be a good look for you." But Harvey just wasn't a rock star, not that he couldn't be one if he wanted. "I think your old look might suit you better." And she gave him a small smile before shrugging her shoulders. "Alright, your turn."

Shooing Harvey out of the chair, Ella plopped down and looked up at him expectantly, a small smile on her face. "Don't forget to practice first, okay?" Cause while she trusted Harvey, this was her hair! It was very important business.

Ethan chuckled a bit as Louisa played with his hair. It felt okay to him.. and apparently it looked okay as she seemed quite pleased with the result. Grinning at her comment, Ethan added, "Well, as long as it's presentable, right?" And this style at least felt more stylish than the previous attempt.. even if it wasn't his preferred style. That could always get sorted out later..

And now it was Miss Head Girl's turn.. Her excitement put the fifth year a little more at ease about trying the spell. She couldn't get too mad at him if he failed, right? And he was fairly certain he would.. at least on the first attempt, because wandwork wasn't this Ravenclaw's strong suit. Rarely did he ever get a spell to work on the first try. Listening to Louisa's words of advice, Ethan nodded to the older girl, then chuckled. "What.. you don't think you'd like an extra-long lady mullet??" Grin.

"Alright.. let's see here.." he said contemplatively, while biting his lip and assessing the locks on her head. The 7th year's hair was already pretty long.. was he supposed to make it even longer? He thought about what he should do.. maybe make it all the same length and just a little longer than it was? That sounded reasonable.. he didn't think she wanted it floor-length. "Ok.. ready?" he said, pulling out his wand. Moving it in waves, over and over above her head, the boy commanded, "Cresco Capillus!"

Bliss frowned a mini frown as Theo looked over at...Ella, with a strange needy sort of look on his face. Sounded right. Wait. Theo wants Ella? o___O Um. Bliss shook her head slightly and focused back on the task at hand. The charm, right. Bliss returned the grin when Theo beamed at her and all Theo-Ella stuff disappeared from her mind.

FOCUS, Bliss. Good.

"Great then," Bliss said enthusiastically. She couldn't wait to try out the spell, she'd always been quite good at charms and she really enjoyed the lessons too. Oh. Her go first? BLINK. Why not? "Sure thing," she said and smiled at Theo. "Um. How long-ish do you want it?" She asked. She didn't want to do the spell until she was sure she didn't do it too long. By the sounds of Professor Bellaire's instructions, it was quite simple.

While she waited for Theo to reply, she decided to practising saying the incantation. Cresco Capillus. Cresco Capillus. Cresco Capillus. Cresco Capillus. She repeated it over and over in her head and aloud to make sure that she was saying it right. On to the wand movement, cos that was important too. Nice, fluid. Weird way of describing it, but she understood. Quickly she practised in the air, making a mental not that when she did it on Theo she'd have to keep the movement going until his hair was at the right length.

Whatever he decided that that would be.

Minerva looked at Vickers trying to visualize him with longer hair, a smile crossed her face.. "Are you sure just shoulder length?" Laughing a bit she put her wand up. "Alright let's make it a cute shoulder length for Louisa." She didn't know why, but she was having way to much fun with this. Was it just because it was Vickers and she knew he had been so nice to her in other lessons.

Bringing her wand up she did the movement and spoke clearly "Cresco Capillus" Keeping the movement going she felt like she was having the hair follow her wand. It was a neat thing to watch like her wand had a magnet and it was going with the wand, like one of her play-doh dolls she had as a kid or something.. "Well I think you look good with shoulder length hair." She smiled triumphantly. This was fun, she enjoyed learning another hair changing spell.

"Nice to meet you Alexa, and sure I'll take on you're hair first. She examined the young girls head of hair, "Well, the short blond hair looks really nice on you but why don't we try making it a little longer, would you like that? It would certainly make you look more womanly.", Oichi said with a grin.

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For a moment Lex just stared over at the girl. Her mind was trying to figure out the right thing to say at a time like this. When she worked it out she took a deep breath then answered. "I don't mind you making my hair longer--just so long as you put it back," 'Cause longer hair just meant way more to take care of and she was already slacking with what she had, "but why would I want to look womanly? That doesn't sound very fun...just lame."

Now that that was clear.

"You can go ahead and give it a go if you think you know what you're doing." She did know what she was doing...right?

Gideon nodded as she gave her name in return. "Nice to meet ye as well." Which was the truth as she certainly appeared to be halfway decent and not one to be mean or bossy or want him to do all the work. He was sure there were a few of her house as well as the other three to be fair that had that mindset. One never knew what type of partner you were going to wind up with if it wasn't a friend or even a housemate.

He saw her reach her hand up to her head seemingly to check out his work after the first spell. Was she really that afraid of what could come even with Bellaire promising to fix and without even knowing what kind of magic he was capable of? "It didn't work the first time," the prefect remarked to let her know why he had cast again, hoping to set her at ease as well, noticing how Hannah had closed her eyes this time. With the positive changes going trhough the second time the Gryffindor held some relief within his tone.

As Gideon waited for a response to his inquiry, the last thing he had expected was what he got, the younger girl jumping out of her seat and engulfing him in a hug. A look of surprise upon his face, unsure of what to do before weakly hugging her back before Hannah made her move again and pulled away seemingly embarished by her reaction. "um..yer welcome and its okay," he assured her, nodding to give her permission to move onto him.

"I hope my curls don't cause too much trouble," he mused quietly as he took a seat of his own to allow her a better setting with which to work. Though they could be unruly during normal circumstances so it was anyone's guess how the spell effected his hair.

Harvey watched her as she walked around him to see his hair, not only did she have a look she actually even tugged on his hair "Umm yeah thats my hair!" he said to her chuckling, before she thought about his question "Oh ok.. well.. I dont think I am a rockstar.. well not right now anyways" he chuckled a little as she said that his old look would be better on him "Cause my old look his more.. Harvey-like.. right?" he questioned though he knew that it had to be that cause any look that was Harvey-like would suit him more,, though he was not sure what that look was.. not the pink mohawk or this long hair. He then watched her shrug her shoulders as she said it was his turn.

He got up as she shooed him out of the chair and watched as she sat in his place, as she looked at him. He nodded "Of course.. practice first..right" he looked at his wand and then Ella now that it was his turn he was suddenly nervous again since he didnt want to mess up her hair, though she looked great no matter what style but he didnt want to give her a bad look and embarrass her in front of the whole class that was for sure. He practiced the wand movement first making sure he had it done perfectly, once that was done it was time for the incantation. "Cresso Capilluus? no.. Cressco Capillusss? no.. Cres...co Cap...ill...us.. yeah thats it Cres...co Cap...ill...us.. Cres-co Cap-ill-us, Cres-co Cap-ill-us.. right got it.. Cresco Capillus" he said with relief that he had gotten it. "Right.. Ella.. here we go" he said nervousily "Cresco Capillus" he said doing the wand movement as he watched her hair changing a little, since he had been nervous about the fact that he was changing her hair, it hadnt grown too much about two inches at the most "Well it is a little longer.. just not as long as I wanted to have it.. but it has grown.. I think one more final try should get it to the length I was thinking of." he said to her.. he looked over at Minnie.. how did she do these hair spells with such confidence? wasnt she ever nervous that she might mess it up? She didnt look it she was always so confident when she changed his hair or anyone else's for that matter.

"Okay then, if thats how you feel. I personally wnt long hair itjust that my hair grows really slowly and my mum always has it cut over the summer for sports. This spell could certainly help change things for me. Anyway I am gonna give this a go and I hope I get it right the first time. Oichi waved her wand over Lex's hair, "Cresco Capillos", she wave her wand downard but instread elongating her hair it cut her hair upward sideways, "Uh oh, I,I, Reparo". Lex's har reurned to the way it was, "Sorry, I messed that up. WH don't you have a go on me and then I'll try again.

"Oh. I don't think hair really matters. It's just there and it gets caught in things when you don't bother putting a scrunchie to it." Shrug. "Long or short, it's all the same to me. At the end of the day it still gets messed up and I still have to comb out the knots." NOT something she liked doing. Nope.

Lex gave the girl a nod, indicating that she was ready but quickly tried speaking up after hearing the incantation the girl used. "Hey, wait a minute, it's not--" But is was too late. Reaching up she felt a good bit of her hair missing.

BDJSKCHHSDSPHF!!!

She went absolutely livid. For a moment Alexa struggled to find the right words thatwould be considered appropriate for her age group and the girl was rather lucky that in that time she managed to fix it. "Are you a--how could you--don't you know anythi--UGH!!!" She turned to the Professor, getting ready to ask for a change in partners seeing as this one was clearly an idiot. It was just like Vivi had warned her; never trust anyone to aim at wand at you!

Taking a deep breath she turned to the girl again when she said she could give it a go. "Well, I'm glad you still trust me to cast on you after what you just did to me," Naive, wasn't she? "But if you're going to have another go afterwards then can you at least remember that the spell's Cresco Capillus--with a 'U' not an 'O'." SCOWL. She, herself had learnt that pronunciation was key, something this girl should have known too. Ahem. "Cresco Capillus." She practised it a bit without her wand, just to make sure then with wand in hand she aimed at the girl's head.

Revenge was nice but at the moment she couldn't be bothered to have the Professor kicking her out really she just didn't know any hair removal spells; now wasn't this girl lucky? "Cresco Capillus." And she added the wand movements too. At first the hair seemed determined to remain the same length but soon it started making its descent down the girls shoulders. "Just let me know when to stop."

She couldn't help but shrugging as she seated herself in the chair. It wasn't like Kurumi hadn't given her ample warning that this probably wasn't going to work, and Vivi had tried. The trouble was not knowing whether she could get the spell to work, but Vivi would just try it on herself.

The other trouble was not stepping on her own hair, or sitting on it, or otherwise yanking it out of her head as it started to grow. Because apparently Kurumi could get the spell to work, and quite well. Vivi shifted in her seat as her hair grew and grew and grew.

The other other trouble was that now they'd have to get rid of all this hair. "That's enough," she put her hand around Kurumi's wrist to stop the wand wiggling. That was more than enough, yes. What was the look they were going for today? Rapunzel??

"Let me try." Vivi grabbed a strand of her own hair, pointed her wand at it, and made her wand ripple as she said, "Cresco Capillus." The hank in her hand immediately began to grow, and Vivi grinned at Kurumi... and kept waving her wand. Oops!

"We should have made me bald first, hmm? Look at all this hair."

Gideon seemed nice and she could work with nice. She had been trying really hard lately to treat others how they treated her. She had gotten told off by her brother Marcos in a letter and she wasn't looking forward to when she would see him face to face this summer. Some of the words her said really stuck with her and made her question things that she never would have questioned in a million years. She was letting her mind wander and she needed to focus on not making this prefect bald.

She probably seemed pretty rude. "It's hard for me to trust other peoples work." She didn't know him and although he was a prefect that didn't mean that he had hair growing skills. Still he had proved himself so she visibly relaxed around him. Then the hug happened and although she could tell that he took him off guard she was glad that he reacted the way that he did. Now they could just go on living their lives like it never happened.

She watched ad he took a seat and she was actually nervous about preforming the spell. He was a lot more at ease than he probably should be. She had been having a hard time mastering her spells lately, but she wasn't going to let that get her down. She didn't think his curls would be the issue... more like her shaky wand work. "Nice curls." She thought about the hug and didn't want him getting the wrong idea. "Lets see if we can make these curls grow." She took a deep breath. "Here we go." Please don't set his head on fire. "Cresco Capillus!" she cried while doing the wand movement. His hair blew back like a gust of wind had just hit him. "Sorry, let me try this again." She could do this. "Cresco Capillus!" Nothing, absolutely nothing. Ugh! What was she doing wrong? "I'm hopeless."

Presentable. Louisa tittered at that, it was a polite way of saying her 'haircut' job was a so-so. "I like the way you roll, Ethan. You remind me of one of my close friends." Adam. He always knew how to say things without stepping on her ego and irregularly high self-esteem. Oh and an extra-long lady mullet? WHAT. "No, no mullets whatsoever please. I hate fish." Untrue but she was going to hate them if he made her end up with a mullet as a hairstyle.

Right after when Louisa hid her face, she moved her fingers to peek at Vickers and Minerva. The Ravenclaw never saw the other Ravenclaw with longish hair... or well, she never noticed the hair before this summer. This could be distracting and interest-- Why did her ears suddenly blocked? The hands moved away from her face and gingerly to the sides of her head and she touched... hair. Lots of hair. Too much hair? "Ethan...?" Her hands were frantically touching her head and down the too-long-it-is-almost-to-the-floor hair. She brought a lock and stared at it. "Umm... you did that on purpose?" You know, the overly long thing? How was she supposed to go to the loo without getting all fussy about it now?

Eliza practiced on her own hair for the meantime, which wasn't such a bother to her. She might have been a little nervous about someone messing with her hair anyway, had she found a partner. Then again...it might be fun to get to play with someone else's hair, but oh well. Maybe I'll get someone later. Her hair really didn't have much style to it in the first place, so she figured she couldn't go too wrong.

She grabbed a section of hair and thought about how long she wanted it. Let's see...if it's already fairly long...a bit past my collar bone anyway, maybe I'll go for chest level. She waved her wand at her hair and said the spell.

"Cresco Capillus!" She kept waving her hand, watching her honeyed strands grow longer and longer. She was so mesmerized by them getting longer and longer that she forgot to stop. Once she realized it, she stopped her wand movement at once. Woops! She had let it grow all the way to her waist. And now that she took a closer look, she had only grown that one section. Weird. I must've been concentrating too hard on the piece I had looked at. She wound her long tress of hair around her finger, and hand, and wrist. This is pretty neat! She'd always liked how the long princess hair looked in picture books and movies. Now she could have it herself if she wanted. Okay, so...maybe I'll just cut this and start over? She looked around to see if anyone else was using scissors. Unsure, she walked over to a barber seat and grabbed a pair anyway. She held them up to her hair and grinned as she snipped it off. Well that was fun! She could get used to growing her hair out as she pleased and cutting it when she was bored of it.

Yeah, yeah. Sierra guessed it was nice to meet this girl, too, but at the same time, those words were just way too friendly. "Are you new?" she suddenly asked, not being able to keep that thought to herself. "...because I've never seen you around here before now, and...I've seen just about everybody."

The talk had already turned back to the librarian's bald head, though, which caused Sierra to follow the girl's gaze to the opposite side of the room. "Good," was all she said. She was not donating all her hair just for some Charms class. Nope. What if she never got it back?!

Sierra turned back to her partner. So she volunteering to be the guinea pig first? Heh. Excellent. "Okay," Sierra agreed and held out her wand. "Turn around then, and get ready for a head full of hair." Hopefully. Sierra was sort of new at this spell.