He had liked her answer. Out of all the answers, he mentioned what she said. Eliza held her breath for a few moments longer than necessary, then exhaled quietly to herself. Get a grip! Why are you being so weird? His response however, was something she'd considered, but hadn't really known how to say. She wasn't sure of her own strength with the spell, so it was quiet possible her casting wouldn't save her at all, but perhaps it might help someone else. She'd have to practice.

She thought about the Arresto Momentum spell, and while the obvious answer was to be used during Quidditch, both regularly and famously, she remembered a moment in her own life where she'd heard it. "Professor, aside from the Quidditch mentions, I remember my mom casting it really quickly a bunch of times when our cat tries to get into things on the counter. Usually trying to get at the milk jars, but she almost always catches them before it's too late," she explained with a small smile. So, it was a rather boring personal story, but it was what she'd thought so, why not be herself and say it? Though now everyone probably thought she was... she wasn't sure what. And just like that she wasn't sure if she liked her answer all that much anymore, and sat with a strand of her pulled taught between her slender fingers. Maybe she'd get more into it again if they got to try to stop things from falling. But the idea of doing a trust fall with her fellow classmates had her a bit worried.

Asher just sat there and gazed, glass eyed, at the board. He had no idea what the professor was talking about and was fairly sure he had never heard of Aresto Momentum. Aresto, he thought about the word. Aresto. Sounded like being arrest. He supposed arrest meant to be stopped, so Aresto should have something to do with stopping. Then there was momentum. Momentum and movement went along. "Oh, Aresto Momentum. Like in Quidditch where that witch who bewitched the quaffle."

Oh, okay... Arresto Momentum had some similar properties to Impedimenta, so Mo was gonna count that as a win. Not a right answer, but an 'almost right' answer. He wondered if Cat would give him cupcakes for getting an answer almost right.

"Professor, I bet you could use the spell to slow yourself down if you were jumping or falling from a great height. Like from Ravenclaw tower or something." Mo may have glanced at the Gryffindor Quidditch captain at that suggestion. New experiment?

"But there are other levitation spells if it wasn't a plant, right, sir?" Hover Charm. Rocket Charm. Floating charm. Levitation charm. Levitation spell. And, of course, Mobiliarbus, the one Alice had exclusively mentioned because it was the most interesting sounding.

She watched the professor with observant eyes as he spoke to other students. Perceiving. Scrutinizing. The sixth year picked apart little details about him and his laid back teaching style before raising a hand, speaking as she did so. "The literal translation of the incantation means to bring an object's force or strength gained while moving to a stop." Not really helpful, considering they already knew what it did, but annnnyway.

Hmm. More tower jumping, though? Cactus got a thumbs up, that was the best answer so far.

Even better than hers, which was something.

Arresto Momentum. Sounded familiar. In fact, it sounded really familiar. "Some Beaters use it to keep the Bludger from smashing their face, usually in friendly games," Sky spoke up. If course, if it was a professional game, or a school one even, all bets were off. As in, so sorry if you trying to get your wand out, but I was trying to knock you out.

She was making note of the other ways that people were saying, though. Just in case.

HEY!!

The shout of excitement and look of utter glee on the little Slytherin's face had Mikey scowling at HIM.

"Oi, sit down you. Or I'll throw YOU out the window." Little git.



"I haven't even started Kettleburn." He was in an annoying mood today and who better to annoy then your best friend? Really, she should be used to this behaviour of his, it happened often enough.

While she was crossing her arms and huffing at him, Mikey leaned back in his chair and placed his hands behind his head.

"Maybe you could use Arresto Momentum to stare at the Prefect longer." HAHAHAHA!!

Minerva had calmed from first thinking yet another class was going to force beards on them. This was a nice thing to know that he wasn't going to do that. No he was going to actually teach. WOW a professor that was going to do what he was suppose to without first humiliating anyone. Not that Flamsteed didn't teach, no Minerva liked him, just not his jokes that always seemed to end up pointing her in a bad place whether he meant it or not.

Anyway she focused back on the lesson as she put up her hand she heard a very loud girl say about throwing someone out the window. Mikey. Her blue eyes snapped back to see that it was the boy from the summer. She had met, he was really nice why would the girl want to throw him out the window. "I don't think we need to throw anyone out any windows." She said politely to the younger student. Especially someone like Mikey Now she could name at least one in the room they could.

Minerva turned back to the professor, "Many have said quidditch sir, but what about Flying class? Could it be used in teaching flying in general. When students are new they could easily fall off. This could help so they don't harm themselves when they fall." She just didn't want to give the same answer, so it was just a thought really.

To be honest, Vesper didn't really know anything about the charm Professor Fuller had mentioned...but that was okay. She was too busy staring at his face...and trying to decide if she could get away with doing a rough sketch now...No one was paying her too much attention...which was just how she liked it. Most of her classmates were too focused on the professor to really bother, guys included.

Yep.

She was going to do that.

Grinning (and taking notes about the things at the same time)...Ves started inking out some basic lines, shifting between the piece of parchment and her notebook. See? She could do both at once.

SPOILER!!: drama llamas: Kettlesaint

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"Know how I'm going to top my entrance next class, Toussaint? I'm going to start with punching you in the head."

Which she actually tried to do NOW since... he was a SO ridiculous. ZAHRA DID NOT. She missed with her fist, mostly on purpose, but she was SO GOING TO PUNCH HIM IN THE HEAD LATER...

"I'm going to punch that girl in the head, too. She's rude," Zahra told Mikey. Maybe she was just grumpy. But Professor Old So and So was NICE and LIKED her and THAT Gryffindor was the know-it-all-bossy-pants sort that no one liked.

Anywho...

"I VOLUNTEER MIKEY TOUSSAINT. Let's drop him out of the window and you can show us this, "pause... what was the charm of the day thing??....???? errm.... Oh yeah. "Arrested Momentumeyum thing. This boy right here. I'll push him if you need me to."

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"HAHAHAHAHA!!" Now she really was embarrassing herself. She wouldn't be able to hurt a fly. Mikey continued to laugh and almost fell off his chair, he was laughing so much. "you keep looking at the Prefect like that and his girlfriend will be punching you in the head." He had no idea if the guy had a girlfriend or not but he just thought he'd say that.

His gaze went to the girl that Zahra was talking about and he let out a snort. "She's not being rude." He poked her in the arm with his finger. "You just don't like being shown up."

BWAHAHAHA!

She was just killing him today. Her comments had him laughing again and he had to squeeze his sides because he was starting to get a stitch in his side. Like the Professor was going to throw him out the window.

He didn't have an answer for the Professor because he had never used it, he hadn't seen anyone use it, he had heard about it being used years ago but someone had already given that answer. Although he wished they would have learnt this earlier then he could have used the charm when Alexa was throwing things at his face by the Whomping Willow.

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YEAH! YEAH KID! Zahra sent a grin his way. That was at least TWO PEOPLE that wanted to chuck a Toussaint out of the window. WHO ELSE? EVERYONE RAISE THEIR VOICES!

Haha! HAHA!


"Shut UP, Toussaint....." YOU KNOW? YOU KNOW? He didn't know. MERLIN. She wasn't LOOKING AT THE PREFECT SHE WASN"T DOING ANYTHING GOSH OKAY. SHUT UP. Zahra just kept getting redder and she wasn't LOOKING AT ANYONE AT ALL.

But he just kept laughing, so Zahra crossed her arms and ignored him SO HARD.

He was getting punched in the head sooner rather than later.

Maybe Professor Really-Nice-What's-His-Name would punish him. Publicly.

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HEY!!

The shout of excitement and look of utter glee on the little Slytherin's face had Mikey scowling at HIM.

"Oi, sit down you. Or I'll throw YOU out the window." Little git.

"I haven't even started Kettleburn." He was in an annoying mood today and who better to annoy then your best friend? Really, she should be used to this behaviour of his, it happened often enough.

While she was crossing her arms and huffing at him, Mikey leaned back in his chair and placed his hands behind his head.

"Maybe you could use Arresto Momentum to stare at the Prefect longer." HAHAHAHA!!

Woah hey whaaaaat was this here interaction happening before his eyes?? Piers snapped his fingers loudly to get their attention. "Oi! Kettleburn. Toussaint. No punching, no throwing each other out the window, knock it off. And you," he said, pointing to the encouraging Slytherin (Cutty), "No encouragement."

He didn't LIKE being unpleasant, but he really didn't like disruption in his class. "Don't make me separate you two." EYES. LOOKS FOR YOU.

Aaaand moving on.

SPOILER!!: examples

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Alright this class was getting more interesting. He was learning a lot and even when the professor was going over the answers, he made a few notes about what the professor was saying. Some of it was useful but some of the times Kace did not know the spell that was mentioned so he copied it down in detail.

Then his ears perked up when the Professor mentioned Aresto Momentum. Kace had heard of that spell before. His grandma used it before on his cousins! Kace raised his hand and said, "Professor i know that spell! My grandma used it to stop my cousins from running away from her when they knew they were in trouble." He thought the spell was cool but he wouldn't want that spell preformed on him anytime soon.

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Arresto Momentum. Nerida knew that spell, she giggled remembering her brother. It would slow an object down right or did it stop it? Hehe maybe shed get lucky and the spell would be on her newts. That would be awesome!! She had never personally used the spell, but she remembered seeing her grandfather use the spell.

"My grandfather had to use that spell when my brother accidentally fell off his broom when my other siblings hit a bludger at him...He still hasn't lived it down. I think it stopped him not completely but slowed him down enough so he gently landed on the ground."

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Jake got a small smile from Ella because that was good thinking and he'd been right. She scribbled down some of the other facts that Professor Handsome-face was saying and then sat back, trying to think of instances where she knew this particular spell had been used. Quidditch was one of the first to come to mind though that had already been said several times. Hmm.

And that little Gryffindor, the blonde one, she was LOUD. The badger wondered if she knew she was talking that loud or if she was simply extremely excited about everything. It was certainly amusing and hard on her ears. Mhm.

Anyway..."We've used the spell in Herbology, Professor. When trying to harvest pods and make sure they don't hit the ground too hard."

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Nicola couldn't help but snicker a little bit when the amazingly handsome Professor had told them most of the Ravenclaws were over thinking the situation, but could you blame her? Nope, you have to look at the hypothetical possibilities you are presented with, along with your chances of stopping whatever is coming at you. Honestly though? Common knowledge! But it was alright, Nicola was obviously more than willing to forgive him though! Especially when he had mentioned the first answer she had said suggested, was the answer he was looking for.

A light giggle escaped her lips feeling proud of herself once more. She was very tempted to pat herself on the back once again. But she'd refrain for now. His hotness was continuing on with the lesson, as well as writing down the charm Arrestum Momentum on the board, which gave Nicola a moment to admire his lovely locks on his head.

...

Nicola tilted her head after he done so and was now facing the class again. She then paused when he had asked if any of them knew from history when or who had used this incantation. Now, granted Nicola had been attending this school for almost two years now, but she still didn't entirely have the full knowledge of its' history. Although she did learn something amongst her nosy searches through the Common Room, which caused her to raise her hand.

"Correct me if I am wrong Professor, but I was reading something in an article I had found about one of the Professors who used to teach Charms here some time ago..I think his name was...Filius Flitwick, if I'm saying it correctly..", she paused, "But regardless, since he taught the class here, I would obviously assume that he knew that incantation & most likely taught it to his students as well.."

Did it answer his question? Maybe not fully, but she felt that it was a pretty good & a valid point to make notice of. So that was good enough for her. And that was that.

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Uh huh well that depended on where and how you applied the charm when it came to hitting you in the face or not, but West just eyed the professor and waited as he talked. Arresto Momentum? He knew that one. West put his hand up.

"When I was a kid I climbed on the roof and jumped off," Lets not elaborate on why, "And my sister used Arresto Momentum to stop me from dying and stuff." Obviously it had worked. Just saying.

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He had liked her answer. Out of all the answers, he mentioned what she said. Eliza held her breath for a few moments longer than necessary, then exhaled quietly to herself. Get a grip! Why are you being so weird? His response however, was something she'd considered, but hadn't really known how to say. She wasn't sure of her own strength with the spell, so it was quiet possible her casting wouldn't save her at all, but perhaps it might help someone else. She'd have to practice.

She thought about the Arresto Momentum spell, and while the obvious answer was to be used during Quidditch, both regularly and famously, she remembered a moment in her own life where she'd heard it. "Professor, aside from the Quidditch mentions, I remember my mom casting it really quickly a bunch of times when our cat tries to get into things on the counter. Usually trying to get at the milk jars, but she almost always catches them before it's too late," she explained with a small smile. So, it was a rather boring personal story, but it was what she'd thought so, why not be herself and say it? Though now everyone probably thought she was... she wasn't sure what. And just like that she wasn't sure if she liked her answer all that much anymore, and sat with a strand of her pulled taught between her slender fingers. Maybe she'd get more into it again if they got to try to stop things from falling. But the idea of doing a trust fall with her fellow classmates had her a bit worried.

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Oh, okay... Arresto Momentum had some similar properties to Impedimenta, so Mo was gonna count that as a win. Not a right answer, but an 'almost right' answer. He wondered if Cat would give him cupcakes for getting an answer almost right.

"Professor, I bet you could use the spell to slow yourself down if you were jumping or falling from a great height. Like from Ravenclaw tower or something." Mo may have glanced at the Gryffindor Quidditch captain at that suggestion. New experiment?

The professor listened to each example the students gave and nodded. "Yes, very good. All good examples. Though I highly suggest not jumping off any sort of tower unless you trust the spellcaster's ability to get the charm right with your life. Literally." Just saying.

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Sarah listended carefully and took notes.. leaning over her legs to take notes at her desk. It was uncomfortable, yet she was stretching as well.. so it had to be good for her. Or maybe it felt good because of the sheer feeling of rebbellion, sitting ow her parents would never let her sit. She raised her hand. "When Harry Potter fell off his broom upon fainting at the sight of demontors, the Headmaster at the time, the great Albus Dumbledore used this charm to save Harry from the impact of reaching the ground. His broomstick was not very lucky and landed up in the Whomping Willow, Alexa's favourite place'. May the broom rest in pieces" She just like to joke around. She shifted her notes to her lap and she sat cross legged. "By the way Professor, sorry for going off topic.. yet is there a spell to record sounds and play them back later? I am an auditory learner so learning for OWLs would be simpler if I had that" That was off topic.. yet she needed to get it out. Later she would forget and all

"Yes, a very good and well-known example," he stated with an approving nod. He was about to move on, but she brought up another question... that was quite off topic. "Off topic, but yes, there is. Stop by my office sometime and we'll see what we can find." Now, back to arresting momentum.

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"But there are other levitation spells if it wasn't a plant, right, sir?" Hover Charm. Rocket Charm. Floating charm. Levitation charm. Levitation spell. And, of course, Mobiliarbus, the one Alice had exclusively mentioned because it was the most interesting sounding.

She watched the professor with observant eyes as he spoke to other students. Perceiving. Scrutinizing. The sixth year picked apart little details about him and his laid back teaching style before raising a hand, speaking as she did so. "The literal translation of the incantation means to bring an object's force or strength gained while moving to a stop." Not really helpful, considering they already knew what it did, but annnnyway.

Hmm. More tower jumping, though? Cactus got a thumbs up, that was the best answer so far.

Even better than hers, which was something.

"Yes, of course. You could use any of those levitation charms if you wished to." But this was now about Arresto Momentum. Which she then described literally. "Exactly. Thank you. Meaning, quite simply that you can stop the momentum the object. Stop the movement. It's quite straightforward." Nod nod. Very good.

SPOILER!!: quidditch and flying answers

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Sophie sort of jumped as the professor loudly proclaimed the name of the charm. Merlin, he was an excitable man, wasn't he? Except when he was lounged back in his seat eating an apple like in the beginning of class...

So Sophie had been right after all! She just hadn't known the name of the charm. She'd said to stop it in its tracks or freeze it, which was basically what this charm did. She really needed to learn her charm names.

Anyway...

"Oh," Sophie said, raising her hand. "Isn't it used in Quidditch to slow the speed of the Quaffle?" She might only be a first year, but she was a Greingoth, and all Greingoths knew their Quidditch. She never really understood why some people wanted to slow the Quaffle, but she guessed it was to keep less accidents from happening.

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Arresto Momentuuuuum.

A handy spell but not one she concerned herself with, given her BEATER status and all. Still, thanks to Quidditch Through the Ages she knew a little on the subject and raised her hand, not that she waited for permission to go ahead and talk. The hand-raising was really just a warning.

"It was created by this lady who wanted to shut complaining chasers up. It slooows and stops the Quaffle right down so it's easier to catch."

What was her naaaame again?

Something to do with a flower.

"Daisy Penny.. Daisy McSomething, anyway."

Nod, nod.

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Tobias twirled his quill thoughtfully as he mulled over the professor's question. He was mostly watching the hilarious interaction between two Gryffindors in his year. One of them was the girl who'd fallen off the statue of the humpbacked witch on... one of the floors in this castle. He had to hold back from laughing at their exchange, but it WAS amusing.

Anyway.

Arresto Momentum.

Toby knew it, of course he did. It was in a lot of the Quidditch books he'd read, but people had already used the Quaffle example. It was a pretty simple, but important, spell to know, and that was obvious from the amount of examples that included falling from a great height. There was ONE thing though that made him think.

He raised his hand. "Professor, I don't have an example-" because his parents were non-magic and his grandfather hadn't ever appeared to use to spell since he'd moved in with them... also a lot of the examples he could think of from history had already been said "-but I've always wondered about the Quaffle thing. If the spell stops the quaffle from dropping too quickly, then how come Chasers can still throw it through the air and it doesn't slow down? Because the spell literally arrests momentum, but momentum isn't just downwards." He paused, fiddling with his quill again just for something to do with his hands. "So I guess... does that mean there's a way of specifying what kind of momentum it slows down? Is that where it gets tricky, like you said?"

Just, y'know, wondering.

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Arresto Momentum. Sounded familiar. In fact, it sounded really familiar. "Some Beaters use it to keep the Bludger from smashing their face, usually in friendly games," Sky spoke up. If course, if it was a professional game, or a school one even, all bets were off. As in, so sorry if you trying to get your wand out, but I was trying to knock you out.

She was making note of the other ways that people were saying, though. Just in case.

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Minerva had calmed from first thinking yet another class was going to force beards on them. This was a nice thing to know that he wasn't going to do that. No he was going to actually teach. WOW a professor that was going to do what he was suppose to without first humiliating anyone. Not that Flamsteed didn't teach, no Minerva liked him, just not his jokes that always seemed to end up pointing her in a bad place whether he meant it or not.

Anyway she focused back on the lesson as she put up her hand she heard a very loud girl say about throwing someone out the window. Mikey. Her blue eyes snapped back to see that it was the boy from the summer. She had met, he was really nice why would the girl want to throw him out the window. "I don't think we need to throw anyone out any windows." She said politely to the younger student. Especially someone like Mikey Now she could name at least one in the room they could.

Minerva turned back to the professor, "Many have said quidditch sir, but what about Flying class? Could it be used in teaching flying in general. When students are new they could easily fall off. This could help so they don't harm themselves when they fall." She just didn't want to give the same answer, so it was just a thought really.

"Yes, you are all right. There are quite a few uses of this spell involved in Quidditch and flying. Most commonly used on quaffles, as most of you said. And to answer your question, Tobias, yes, this is indeed where this spell can prove to be tricky. Daisy Pennifold created this charm to slow down the quaffle if the players in a Quidditch game dropped it, so they wouldn't have to dive all the way down to the bottom of the pitch to retrieve it. There is, then, the question of how... How does one bewitch the quaffle in a way that it only slows down when you want it to -- for example, when it is dropped and not when it is being tossed from player to player? And, how do you differentiate from slowing an object from completely stopping an object?"

Pierson paced the floor slowly as he gave the students a moment to think about those questions. Yes, it was seemingly a simple spell, but once you got to the nitty gritty of which aspect of the charm you wanted to use, it could easily become slightly difficult.

"The answer is, quite simply, intention. Magic is in your body -- in your mind, and it is channeled through your wand. Or, if you are quite the expert, through your entire being. But wandless magic is a different subject. Intention, my friends, is everything. If you cast a disarming spell with the intention of painting a wall, it's obviously not going to work because that isn't what the spell is designed for. Arresto Momentum is designed to slow or to stop an objects speed. Which one it does when cast is entirely up to you."

Turning back around, the charms professor picked up the piece of chalk again and began writing on the board as he continued to speak, "Today we will be learning how to slow and how to stop an object's speed. We will first begin with learning the incantation and wand movement." Stepping away from the chalk board, he revealed what he wrote:

Arresto Momentum
ah-REST-oh - mo-MENT-um
Wand Movement: Wave

"Repeat after me: Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um... Good. Quite simple, yes?" Pierson unholstered his wand and tossed the piece of chalk several feet in the air, over the head of the male Slytherin Prefect's head. "Arresto Momentum!" he said with a short wave of his wand towards the white stick of chalk, and it froze, just a few inches above the Prefect's head. With another flick of his wand, he summoned it back and caught it in his free hand.

I want you all to try it out now. First, practice the incantation without your wand, but that should be quite easy. Then, do what I just did. Toss something in the air, I don't care what: a pencil, a textbook, your tablemate -- just joking, Kettleburn -- and first try to slow it from hitting the ground too fast. Then throw it up in the air again and completely stop it. Don't slow it, stop it. Don't let it hit the ground. Make sure your intentions are clear. Ready, set, go." Piers tucked his wand away and turned to write the instructions on the board:

1) practice the incantation
2) slow the momentum of the object
3) completely stop the momentum of the object

OOC: This task must be done in no less than three posts. I'm not picky about how you divide them up. More is fine, but you'll only get points for three. You have about 36 hours to complete this task before we move on to the next!

Taylor smiled as the professor said that she was correct. She wrote down what he had on the board about the pronunciation and the wand movement. Tay repeated with him, "Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um..." Then watched as he demonstrated it. She giggled at his joke and smiled at him. Taylor listened to what he had said they should do and watched him write it on the board. She looked at the board then nodded. Okay... practice... its practice time... Taylor made sure that she had cleared her mind as she said, "Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um... Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um... Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um... Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um..." She frowned and closed her eyes as thoughts started to invade her mind. No... no... no... go away! go away! I cant do this right now... go the heck away... Taylor took a few deep breaths and tried again, "Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um... Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um... Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um..." She grumbled some more. Come on Taylor... clear your mind... you need to focus on Charms... you don't need to focus on anything but Charms... none of your problems... or of him... just on Charms... After a few more rounds of that, she finally was able to clear her mind and say it perfectly so it was time to move on...

Marigold LOVED this class. ONE, he was a good looking teacher, mmmhhmm. TWO, she just loved Charms ANYWAY, so... One of her favorite classes by default. THREE, ACTIVITY TIMEEEEEEEE.

Marigold read the pronunciation and sounded it out slowly.

"AHresto.. No.. Ah REST oh moMENTo. Ah REST oh moMENTo. Arresto Momento!" She looked around and saw that people were still practicing the incantation so....

"Professor? Is the incantation for this charm Arresto Momento because it 'arrests the momentum' by any chance?"

Practice the incantation... Shouldn't be that hard. How cool was it that they were learning the spell... Now she could tell her grandfather that she could rescue her brother with him..Might even knock him off his broom on purpose to show her grandfather...Maybe?

"AH-REST-oh - mo-MENT-um" Nerida said without her wand even though thats what she really wanted to do was just pick it up and wave... Nope that didn't sound right.

"ah REST oh mo MENT um now that sounded right, Nerida repeated the incantation until she said it a few more times completely right, which took longer than what she had expected it to as she kept out pronouncing it wrong in some parts of the word.

West, as usual, was taking no notes. It was all up in his head with the memory he had. Notes weren't something that did him any good since he'd never need to look at them again. He didn't really need to practice the incantation either, it was a simple one, but he did anyways just so that he could say that he did.

"Arresto Momentum. Uh-REST-oh mo-MENT-um." West said carefully.

And just because it was the way you did things, he also practiced waving his wand. Second nature now though and all. Toss something in the air... he glanced towards those Gryffindor second years and then thought better of it. Hmm so what would he try it on?

Okay, it was official. Sky liked this class. Just randomly throwing things up into the air so they could practice a spell? Sounded like fun to her. Though, she didn't think she could get by with the thought that briefly crossed her mind......

Anyway, she copied down notes then started practicing the incantation. "Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um. Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um. Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um. Arresto Momentum." Yep, got it.

Well, she didn't get to know if the vanishing spell would be a good choice but she got to know about other options. Cassia paid attention and jotted down information and some spells and jinxes the others have mentioned. Might come in handy one day. No one knew.

The fifth-year didn't know if the class was fun or it watching and hearing the Professor was fun. She hoped it was the first. Will never know, thought. She scribbled the incantation on her notebook for no reason other than being used to. And she repeated it after the Professor and the others. Also, good thing that piece of chalk didn't hit Theo in the head. He wouldn't have been happy about it. No one wanted an unhappy Theo.

Leaning back in her seat, Cassia stared down at the incantation for a bit then held her quill. No need for the wand just yet.

"Arrestooo Momentuuum...Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um..." Was that too exaggerated?

"Arres-to Mom-en-tum," Much better. She glanced around her considering at whom to throw stuff. Or maybe she'd just throw something of her belongings up in the air.

Laura wasn't sure if she would be any good at this but she would give it a try anyway. "Arresto Momentum!" Laura said the incantation and smiled, maybe all her practicing had helped her. "Arr...est...o Momen...tum!" Laura was really happy with this.

Laura looked at Nerida, really couldn't she try and throw her older friend in the air and see what happens, nothing bad would happen right. Laura thought about it for a few minutes but knew she wasn't allowed to, so she just looked at her desk... what to throw into the air.

Benjy had been doodling, ahem, we mean, writing notes, on his parchment, and only now they were doing an activity zoned properly back in on the Professor. For the last few minutes, his mind had been considering whether one could spells like Arresto Momentum to make skateboarding tricks even more cool - or that was just a travesty, taking away some of the skill needed with magic. It was conundrum.

If he wanted to try though, he needed to know how to do the spell. He pulled his wand from his robes, and placed it carefully on the desk whilst he practiced the incantation. "Arr-es-to Mo-ment-um." No, that wasn't right. "Ah-REST-oh. Ah-REST-oh."

Now, what was something he could throw? ...preferably at Kalla's head?

Sarah watched the conversation out of the corner of her eye. She wondered why she was going to be punched in the head. She was out of practice in physical fighting, but she could take pain from it. It was growing up in a boys house taught you.



Sarah hoped she would not forget to stop by his office, so she made a little note. She listened to what the teacher said with interest. intention was always important, she knew that, yet this just made it clearer.

Sarah then wrote down her notes. So she had to say it... "ah-REST-ah - mo-MEN-tum" she tried. Nahh.. wrong emphasis, "ah-REST-ah - mo-MENT-tum" she tried again. Maybe it was better to write down the transliterated version as well. She wrote that down and tried it again.. syllable by syllable.
ah-REST-oh - mo-MENT-um" Great she had it. Now try again. She repeated it a few times every time going faster until her tongue was aquainted. She really should have done that spell as part of revision in the holidays, seeing as she learnt it before. Practice makes permanent after all.

Tsk. Tsk. Professor Fuller was a very interesting subject for the eyes of a Beezus Castell who was at the moment, letting her thoughts wander freely as the man was explaining things in front of the class. Of course, she was listening and comprehending what he was saying.

So. It was the Arresto Momentum spell that he was looking for, is it? Lucky Jake....he must be studying for NEWTs now. Mental note to see him later and possibly swap notes. Yeah, yeah. Back to the class..... Intention. That seemed to be the focus of this lesson. The incantation was easy enough. "Arresto Momentum. ah-REST-oh - mo-MENT-um." She got the hang of it now. Wand waving was also happening.

Okay, now ready set go?

She had to practice on stopping AND slowing an object now. ....But which object exactly? Beezus turned her head at the person beside her, West, and well, spoke a proposition, "Want to practice together? I can throw something at you and you throw something back at me and we try to slow or stop it at the same time?"

Now she had to slow something down... what should she through on the floor? Books could get ruined... so could her glasses. She thought about it for a moment and then decided on a text book. She held her book above her head and took her wand in her right hand. She threw her book up, yet was so busy focusing on tossing the book up she forgot about the spell itself. She picked up the book after it fell loudly to the ground.
Time to try again. “Arresto Momentum” she said, waving her wand., but this time she forgot to toss the book.. THERE WERE TOO MANY THINGS TO CONCENTRATE ON! She took a breath and tried again, this time managing to toss the book up in the air and do the spell, yet alas the spell was done too late, so by the time she casted it the book was on the floor.

Feeling frustrated she decided to take a break for a moment and review all the steps in her mind. She thought of it over and over and finally she got up. She was ready. She took out her wand and selected the book. She tossed the book in the air, casted Arresto Momentum, thinking of the book slowing down and behold it did. It was probably just luck, yet Sarah needed little excuse to carry on.

Okaay. They were going to actually do stuff now. That was a lot further down Clement's street. He learnt a lot more by actually doing stuff. Which was a good thing really. In a way. Unless the teachers didn't do practical lessons. But charms was practical today clearly, so Clement was a very happy seventh year. Okaay. The first thing he needed to do was practice the incantation. That didn't seem too bad actually. Clement hoped he would be able to say it, considering that he was among the oldest students in the room. So it would be pretty embarrassing if he couldn't actually say the spell.

He would just start with doing it slowly. "AH-REST-oh - mo-MENT-um" He murmured slowly, thinking that he looked a little stupid to be honest. But he could say the spell. So that was the best thing really. He wasn't going to look overly stupid when he couldn't say the spell. "Arresto Momentum" He mused a few seconds later. Okay. that was enough practicing right?

Now it was time to throw the thing AGAIN.. this time making it stop. Sarah was wider this time so she spent some time reviewing it in her head. Throw –cast-think.... There were sooo many things to concentrate on. She decided to break it up. First she began tossing the book up in the air, and catching it before throwing it up again. She let that fall into rhythm before reaching for her wand. She took a deep breath and when she tossed the book up again, she casted “Aresto Momentum” thinking of the book halting. And it did, yet not by magic, but rather by Sarah’s hand. Her hand was so used to catching the book by now, it leapt forward and caught it.

Charms really did require a lot of concentration and Sarah was eager to prove herself that she can control her mind. She through the book up again and said “Aresto Momentum”, giving her wand a wave. She thought of the book slamming to a halt as she closed her eyes concentrating on that image. Behold, hen she opened her eyes her book had stopped in mid air! She had done it! She scooped up the book and began to practice the spell again, slowing down and stopping the books.

This class was so dull and if this Professor was going to use the same gimmick over and over again to impress people it was going to get downright tedious. S'not like throwing chalk at someone's head was impressive anyway...more irritating then anything else. And Theo was definitely the wrong person to throw chalk at, fyi.

Anyway, with a new list of things to do at least that meant Ascanius wouldn't really have to pay attention to the ugly faced Professor anymore. S'just his own little corner and his own little experiments with the spell.

Not wasting any time, he drew out his wand and mumbled, "Arresto Momentum." The fifth year made sure he took the time to emphasis the middle syllable of each of the three syllables words just like the board said. It seemed good enough. Though he said it one more time for affect, "Arresto Momentum."

When he felt satisfied with that, he drew out his wand and practiced waving it a few times. Seemed solid enough.

Practicing the incantation first! That at least, should be no problem. And so Adi began. "Ah-Rest-oh Monu- No, no! That's not it! Ah- resh- not that either!'' He squinted at the board. "Okay let's go again. Ah-REST-oh. Mo-MENT-um!'' Yay! He got it!

"Ah-REST-oh. Mo-MENT-um! Ah-REST-oh. Mo-MENT-um! Arresto Momentum! Arresto Momentum! Arresto Momentum!'' Great! Now came the harder part but he'd get it sooner or later too.

More note taking and doodling was happening and Ella was pretty pleased with Professor-face so far. Not just cause his face was lovely but because she enjoyed his teaching style. Not that it hurt that he was nice to look at. When notes were done, she placed her quill down and got ready to practice.

Incantation first, yeah? That seemed to be the standard way of practicing. " Ah-REST-oh Mo-MENT-um... Ah-REST-oh... Mo-MENT-um." Nailed it. Plus she'd used it before during Herbology so she was familiar and everything. Next she picked up her quill and practiced the wand movement a few times. ..."Arresto Momentum." Yup, got it.

With that done, she'd need to find an object to slow down and stop. Hm. Did the Professor have anymore apples or? OH! She probably had gummy worms in her bag. Yeah, those would work perfectly. Mental high-fives for that.