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When you walk into the Charms classroom this morning, all seems normal and well. Except for the fact that there are no desks or chairs in the classroom. And neither is the professor. Odd? Time to panic?
OOC: Class has now started! Please don't announce your character arriving late. If you haven't posted yet, just pretend like you've been here all along.
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Without comment, Mo watched West successfully grab a balloon. Funny how West made stuff look easy. Would he look good in a fedora, though? THAT was a very important question. Because West was rather dapper and looked good in most things, but hats were really more of a Mo thing. Even hats that Aspen set on fire... maybe that was a hint.
He needed to practice that incantation, since he'd obviously mastered the motion. As he moved into the cloud of balloons, retrieving a blue one for himself and a purple one that he handed off to Caterina, Mo mouthed the shape of the incantation silently. It wasn't a very difficult one, at least.
"Carpe Retractum. Car-pay Re-track-tum." Mo tried it out loud a few times. See... easy. Hopefully.
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Marigold was ready for another go, hopefully this try was as successful as the last. She finished pacing back to a reasonable distance and tapped her wand thoughtfully on the palm of her hand. She leaned a bit back, pointed her wand at the balloon, and did the "whiplike" motion.
Carpe Retractum!" she said REEEEEALLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYY EXCITEDLY and JUMPED for joy when the balloon came zooming towards her and hit her in the face.
"PROFESSOR CAN WE KEEP THE BALLOONS? This one likes me!" Hehehe.
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Her and Cat, see? Best answers in the whole class. Forget West and his wordy theories, they were clearly the brains in this room. Alice shot her fellow favorite a wink, then stepped back a little more.
This was 15 feet away from that balloon, yes? Yes.
The color wasn't important, but the one she'd just so happened to land her eyes on was green. Keeping it in her direct line of sight, the sixth year began to practice the incantation as instructed. It had to roll off her tongue well enough to be cast on something. "Carpe Retractum. Kahr-pay Ruh-track-tum." Carpe Retractum. "Carpe Retractum. Carpe Retractum."
It wasn't as if saying it was hard.
So she had this part down.
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Picking a purple balloon that was about 15 feet from where she was sitting, Sky focused on said balloon. Focused really well. And readied her wand for casting. "Carpe Retractum!" A nice purple rope of light shot out of her wand and hooked around the string of the purple balloon. Hey, matchy. Anyway, she started pulling the balloon towards her, slowly but surely.
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"Carpe Retractum!" Benzi said, a little louder, glaring at the balloon and willing with all his might that the stupid purple not-rope rope thing would just APPEAR.
AHA. Watching it wrap around his choice balloon, he pulled it back to him and GRINNED as it bumped gently against his head, the purple thing vanishing. "COOOOOOOOOL." He moved quickly to put the balloon back next to his back and took sixteen steps back.
Again? Again.
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Henric attentively listened to the professor when he explained the sort of charm spell they were about to practice soon. He took down notes from the board. How fascinating..he didn't know there was a spell like that, any spells for that matter. It was understandable really in his situation because he only knew more about his magical abilities when a letter from Hogwarts came through the letter box a month ago.
Yes, his adoptive muggle parents always knew he was different from the other kids his age but only learn about the magical world of witchcraft and wizardry just the same time as he did. They were thrilled to learn their adopted son was a wizard. Even going through Diagon Alley in search for his school supplies was an experience of their lifetime.He smiled at the memory.
For now, he just need to focus on the lesson itself.
"Carpe Retractum it produce a rope of somekind.. but what..."he muttered. Hold on...there's a university after Hogwarts! Amazing..."he thought excitedly.
"Alright...focus...Henric, there is still time to gawk at everything you see later...time to get started,"he reminded himself. He stood up and took a good 15 steps away from Adrienne and the others. He warily looked at her for a moment but decided its best to let her be. He turned to look up at the balloon he chosen.
He took out his wand and nervously pointed at it,he then called out the spell, "Karpe Retractum! Carper Retrectom!" Did he say it right?
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Adi was all set once more to have another go! He was confident this time he was going to get it right. He focused on the balloon. "Carpe Retractum!" Follow that up with the whip like movement.
Something purple erupted out of his wand and made a beeline for the balloon. And grab the balloon around the string like thingy that was tied to it. Finally! "I'm the Huuuulk!'' he said aloud as he began pulling the object towards him. Not that it was hard to pull but why not pretend to be the Hulk? It was all in the fun- pretending that the balloon was something heavy.
Soon, Adi had the balloon in front of him. Yay! He had done it!
Blair completed taking down her notes and put her quill down. She was slightly apprehensive about practicing this charm. Ever since she was a child she had been scared of the sound of balloons popping. She knew it was stupid and irrational but she was scared all the same.
She pulled out her wand to first practice the movement. She looked down at her notes, okay whip-like wand movement. Blair forcefully whipped her wand back and forth a couple of times to get a feel for the movement.
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SPOILER!!: Professor
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Top of the class, this kid was. At least today he was, bringing up things that no one else was. ”Good! Very good. We’ll cover that in a minute.” Once everyone else was done discussing.
”Alright, great! You all brought some excellent points and discussion topics. Now let’s iron them out and figure this spell out.” Pierson rubbed his hands together, pushed some balloon strings out of his face and grabbed a piece of chalk before beginning to writing on the board.
Whip-like wand movement
Produces a rope made of...? (insert your thoughts here)
Rope is either orange (for plants and living objects) or purple (for inanimate objects)
Heavier objects take more muscle
Object must be in direct line of sight
Limits are dependent on caster’s experience and strength
”Am I missing anything? Anymore questions? What IS it made of? Light? What power does light have? Magical matter? That seems to make more sense. Actual rope? If so, where does it go when you’re done? Where does anything go, for that matter? There are theories, my friends. Most of them you will learn when you take Charms Theory at University. But now, we must move on to our practical portion of our lesson.” Which meant.... balloons!
”Your first task will be to simply seize and pull the balloon to you using this charm. Remember to use the whip-like wand movement,” he said, as he demonstrated. Piers grabbed a balloon and stood several feet away from it. ”Carpe Retractum!” he said, while whipping his wand forward and then back. A purple-lighted rope snaked out and looped around the balloon string and tugged the balloon to his side before disappearing back into the wand. ”Just like that.”
Pierson got out his wand and directed the balloons to the center of the classroom where the students were standing. ”I want everyone to take a balloon of your choice. Don’t worry, they’re charmed not to go any higher than they are now, so you won’t lose it.” Once everyone had a balloon, he continued, ”Give yourself plenty of room and stand, oh... 15 steps away from your balloon. First, practice the incantation and the wand movement separately. Then I want you to practice this spell just like I did. Balloons are almost weightless, so it should be rather easy. Do it at least twice or until you’re ready to move on. Ready, set go!”
Well this seemed to not be a hard task at all. Looking at the balloons Minerva listened to the instruction. Keeping an eye on the balloons Minerva turned her focus to her bag pulling out her parchment and writing down some notes. Placing the parchment back in her bag she set her bag out of the way. No this didn't seem to hard for the seventh year.
Pulling her wand from it's holster she lifted it doing a quick whip movement. Then she did the whip movement again. That seemed easy enough. She had done harder wand movements before so this didn't seem to phase her. Now for the words. She looked to the board and said them in her head a few times. Then said it out loud, "Carpe Retractum.. Carpe Retractum...Carpe Retractum" Just to make sure she was saying it correctly.
Now it was time to pick a balloon. Which one should she choose. The eighteen year old looked around.
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Next was wand movement, yeah? Cowboy time! Fuller was right: cowboy hats would have been PERFECT for this!
Alec bounced a little on the balls of his feet, his eyes still on the balloon he was meant to be working on. This... probably wasn't a necessary procedure but it seemed right. As if he was preparing himself for something epic. Yeah. Like an actual cowboy fight where... no one got hurt. Maybe a mix of a pillow fight where the fighter got to wear cowboy hats. YEAH.
... Wand movement! Right.
The Hufflepuff held his left hand while holding up his right hand behind his head. Whip-like wand movement. As if he was lassoing the balloon towards him. Whi-pashhhh! ... That didn't seem to be TOO bad. He leant back a little before continuing. Whi-passhhh! And again! Whi-passhhh! Whi-passshhh! Whi-passhhh!
... Could he just... stand here doing this? It wasn't BAD.
First she had to practice the incantation.. which usually was the hardest for her, yet she was getting more efficient at saying incantations since she came to Hogwarts. She wrote down notes first, being an OWL student and all. Then she tried the incantation
"KAHR-pay - ruh-TRACK-tum" Sarah said breaking it up into manageable pieces. This made it easier for her. "KAHR-pay - ruh-TRACK-tum" she repeated. She said it again finishing with "Carpe Retractum"
Now it was time to practice the wand movement It was like a cowboy movement. Utterly awesome" ride 'em cowboys" Sarah called as she practiced which whip like motion. "yeeehaa"
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Alright now that she had wondered around a bit to find a balloon, she found a nice Yellow one. This one would work just fine. Moving back the fifteen steps that was needed Minerva pulled up her wand very confident that she would have no issues doing the spell. It was just a wand whip and the words, plus of course concentration you always had to have the concentration. Thinking of the words one more time just to be extra sure she had them, Minerva looked at her balloon to concentrate.
Doing a quick wand whip movement, Min kept her eye on the balloon, "Carpe Retractum" She watched as the purple rope quickly whipped out of her wand, but instead of lassoing around the string it whipped the balloon as if someone took a wet towel and whipped it quickly, the balloon popped with a loud POP. Letting out a surprised yelp Min jumped at the sound and landed on someone's foot.
Turning quickly she looked to see none other than her brother like friend standing under her foot, thankfully no heels for the seventh year today. "Alec I am so.. soo.. sorry. I must have whipped my wrist to hard and it smacked the balloon instead of roping the string. Is your foot alright? I'm sorry, what can I do to make it better?" She would make him cookies if that made it better, cookies always make things better, right?
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Marigold was GRINNING really happily. She loved loved LOVED Charms, and her excitement was not going to wear off anytime soon. She put her balloon in front of her and walked fifteen... Twenty..... Thirty steps back to see if the distance changed the result. Variables, ya know?
"Carpe Retractum!" she said with a now glowing confidence. She cracked her whip, bouncing a bit on her toes, then giggled as the light wrapped around the string once more. However, the balloon didn't come all the way to Marigold, it fluttered abut two-thirds of the way to her. She didn't care. She hopped over to the balloon, and resolved to practice with heavier things and longer distances.
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A wide grin spread across her face as the balloon was yanked toward her by the magic rope they'd been talking about. It was a contrast to the colour of her balloon but that was all extra details that she didn't need to pay attention to. The important thing was that HER SPELL WORKED!! There would be no falling back down cliffs and breaking legs!! You see that Professor?? Did. You. Seeeee????
Technically it didn't count, this being a balloon and all but what mattered was that she at least got the spell right. Now she would just need to focus on the parts of a cliff that could put up with her weight and work on her upper body strength...
...
Or maybe she'd just give herself a sudden burst of energy with some sugar before trying it. That sounded like the cooler option. Merlin imagine scaling the side of a cliff while on a sugar rush! She'd be up there in NO time!!! Could they try it? For like homework or something?? She would suggest it. Alexa took 15 steps once again, placed the balloon in midair then got back in position to cast.
"Carpe Retractum!" And just like that the balloon was on its way over again. Useful spell this one.
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Now it was time to catch the balloons. Sarah chose a ballon and then took 15 steps back. 15 steps for a fifteen year old.. that was awesome. She looked at the balloon and then whipped her wand back. "Carpe Retractum" she said Nothing... she had to picture it.
"Carpe Retractum" she said trying again, doing the whipping motion of her wand. BEHOLD it was working! The balloon was being drawn towards her. The thing was that she got so excited that she lost her concentration so the balloon did not complete its journey towards her. Sarah chose another balloon that was already 15 steps away and said "Carpe Retractum" and allowed the spell to do its thing
IT WORKED PROPERLY THIS TIME! Sarah tried it on the next balloon
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... No. He had to actually practice the spell.
Alec shook his head and stood up straight, looking up at the balloon. If this spell was done correctly, there should be a purple light cast from his wand, yeah? A purple light!rope that would attach itself around the string of balloon and all he had to do was pull it back. It didn't sound TOO hard and yet...
... he might as well get this over and done with.
The seventeen year old stood in his stance from before and tried to keep his focus on the balloon and the balloon only. Focus... focus... he was a cowboy who was going to lasso a balloon over towards him... fo--
"OWIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!"
BLINK. Hop hop hop... What the...
... Someone was talking. Apologising. And Alec was still hopping around, clutching onto his foot. He turned to look over at the sound of the voice, fully expecting it to be someone tiny who didn't know him but... "Minnie?!" BLINK. What was... Oh. OH. The sixth year hastily put down his foot onto the ground, trying not to think about any pain that was coming from there. It didn't REALLY hurt. Instincts, you know. Someone steps on your foot... you have to grab it, right?
Was his foot okay? "Oh yeah yeah! I'm a strong boy... man. Strong man. Wizard. Strong man wizard," Stop talking, Summers. "Are you okay?" Also, did she say that she had smacked the balloon? Did it pop?
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SPOILER!!: Alec
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... No. He had to actually practice the spell.
Alec shook his head and stood up straight, looking up at the balloon. If this spell was done correctly, there should be a purple light cast from his wand, yeah? A purple light!rope that would attach itself around the string of balloon and all he had to do was pull it back. It didn't sound TOO hard and yet...
... he might as well get this over and done with.
The seventeen year old stood in his stance from before and tried to keep his focus on the balloon and the balloon only. Focus... focus... he was a cowboy who was going to lasso a balloon over towards him... fo--
"OWIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!"
BLINK. Hop hop hop... What the...
... Someone was talking. Apologising. And Alec was still hopping around, clutching onto his foot. He turned to look over at the sound of the voice, fully expecting it to be someone tiny who didn't know him but... "Minnie?!" BLINK. What was... Oh. OH. The sixth year hastily put down his foot onto the ground, trying not to think about any pain that was coming from there. It didn't REALLY hurt. Instincts, you know. Someone steps on your foot... you have to grab it, right?
Was his foot okay? "Oh yeah yeah! I'm a strong boy... man. Strong man. Wizard. Strong man wizard," Stop talking, Summers. "Are you okay?" Also, did she say that she had smacked the balloon? Did it pop?
Minerva's face was as red as a tomato how could she have jumped on his foot. She had put her hand to her mouth as she watched the seventeen year old jumping like a bunny around the room. Feeling horrible that his foot had hurt that bad, was she gaining weight? Could she really hurt him that badly she was much shorter than him. A giggle left her lips and she bit down on it trying not to laugh at him. She really did feel horrible.
[b] "Are you sure you are alright?" She would look at his foot if he needed. She would even suck it up and see Tillstorm if he needed the healer.
Giggles left her again as he tried to act all big and manly. Alec was tall much taller than her, but he would always be her ickle little brother/friend. "I'm fine Alec just startled from popping that balloon. I can't believe I did that. Must not know my own strength or my beater training has really given me more power for swing." She smiled and looked back up to the balloons. Now she was going to have to pick another one.
Finding another balloon she looked at Alec, "You might want to step back as I try this one." She chuckled and whipped her wrist a little lighter this time, "Carpe Retractum" She watched again as the purple rope formed and wrapped around the string. She went to pull it towards her. "Well that was better." She smiled towards Alec. See she wasn't hurting him anymore.
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As he waited for the Professor to answer, Caleb decided to give it a whirl and try it out - if he did it too hard, well, maybe it would pop and maybe it wouldn't. Guess he just had to find out!
So, taking his wand and practicing the whip like motion a few more times, he yelled "Carpe Retractum!" as he whipped his wand at the balloon. Instantly, a rope like thing came out of his wand and wrapped itself around the room, bringing the balloon right towards him.
"WHOA!" he exclaimed with a chuckle. He hadn't expected that much force!
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So, they were free to get started on practicing. Wade blinked at his surroundings. Professor Fuller really loved his balloons. First stopping balloons, now lassoing balloons, what was next? Riding balloons? He smiled at the thought before jotting down the spell and it's pronunciation. Carpe Retractum. "KAHR..pay.." His lips pronounced. "Ruh.." His brows furrowed a little. You'd think it'd be a "Ree" sound. He shook his head, continuing. "TRACK..tum"..
"Carpay.. Ruhtracktum.."
"Carpe.. Retractum.."
Not so bad, after all. Now to actually use it. His eyes searched for a nice balloon to use.
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Alec grinned sheepishly when Minnie started giggling. He didn't look like a fool, did he? The boy reached up a hand and ruffled his hair. "Yeah! I'm really strong! See!" He gave his right bicep a small poke before looking back at her... and then at his foot. "I don't think you broke anything." GRIN.
... Yeah... what had he told himself NOT to do?
"You actually popped the balloon?" he asked incredulously, his eyes widening slightly. Man oh man! "Looks like people shouldn't get on your wrong side, then." GRIN. As for the bit about beating practice... yeah. Maybe he could try that sometime if he wanted to get more of the beater strength. Maybe.
... Oh right! They were in a class! As for taking a step back, Alec did so... before taking another step back... and then yet another. Just as a precaution, you know. He watched as Minnie lassoed her balloon, keeping it perfectly intact in the process. "That was awesome! Well done!" And he gave her two thumbs up.
The Hufflepuff cleared his throat and turned his attention back towards his own balloon. ... He... was a little conscious about the fact that Minnie was RIGHT THERE. Meaning that she would be able to tell if he failed on the first attempt. ... Right. He leant back a little and held out his wand. Lasso. LASSO. "Carpe Retractum!"Whi-passhhhh!
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As Caleb observed his classmates practicing, it occurred to him that this could be REALLY dangerous if people weren't paying attention. He knew they weren't real whips or anything, but it would probably sting if you got hit with one. Or maybe YOU'D be lassoed in instead. Weird. Maybe Caleb would keep this spell in his back pocket when it came to dueling - what better way to keep your enemy in place than by lassoing them!
"Carpe Retractum!" he cried, pointing at his balloon again with his whip like wand movement. CRACK! Out came another magical rpe, and in came the balloon. He was a natural at this spell!
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Now on to practice the incantation. She consulted her notes once more and read the spell to herself. Feeling a little stupid, she repeated "Carpe Retractum... Carpe Retractum... Carpe Retractum." It sounded like she had it. Just to be sure, Blair whipped her wand a couple more times. Now she felt comfortable to try out the spell.
Time to practice the real thing, Blair got up and collected a balloon. Blue, obviously, her favourite colour.
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Alec grinned sheepishly when Minnie started giggling. He didn't look like a fool, did he? The boy reached up a hand and ruffled his hair. "Yeah! I'm really strong! See!" He gave his right bicep a small poke before looking back at her... and then at his foot. "I don't think you broke anything." GRIN.
... Yeah... what had he told himself NOT to do?
"You actually popped the balloon?" he asked incredulously, his eyes widening slightly. Man oh man! "Looks like people shouldn't get on your wrong side, then." GRIN. As for the bit about beating practice... yeah. Maybe he could try that sometime if he wanted to get more of the beater strength. Maybe.
... Oh right! They were in a class! As for taking a step back, Alec did so... before taking another step back... and then yet another. Just as a precaution, you know. He watched as Minnie lassoed her balloon, keeping it perfectly intact in the process. "That was awesome! Well done!" And he gave her two thumbs up.
The Hufflepuff cleared his throat and turned his attention back towards his own balloon. ... He... was a little conscious about the fact that Minnie was RIGHT THERE. Meaning that she would be able to tell if he failed on the first attempt. ... Right. He leant back a little and held out his wand. Lasso. LASSO. "Carpe Retractum!"Whi-passhhhh!
...
Nothing.
Minerva smiled at him as Alec said well done, "Thanks Alec" She knew she could do it if she just concentrated and well didn't pop the balloon. That was still a bit embarrassing. Now she was watching him as he well didn't get it, but that was alright. Maybe he was thinking of Ella or something instead of what he was doing, or maybe his foot hurt still. Oops that wouldn't be good. Moving closer to him she smiled.
"Alec dear" she chuckled at the dear part and took his wand hand in hers. "I think you are doing everything great, but maybe if you did a little more of a tight whip movement and less of I'm a cowboy going for the cattle." She took his hand and did the movement before letting go.
She moved back from her balloon. "Watch my wrist" Lifting it she did the whip movement, "Carpe Retractum" The purple rope came out and went around the balloons string. Pulling it close again she smiled towards Alec, "Okay, your turn"
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... Dear? That was a first.
Alec chuckled a little nervously and turned his attention towards Minnie. ... Wait. She had SEEN his failed attempt? Man oh man, this was EMBARRASSING! He reached up a hand and ruffled his hair again, feeling even more embarrassed at the cowboy analogy. Because that was EXACTLY how he was treating this. MAN. "But cattle's great!" he blurted out before he could stop himself. This... was not doing him any favours.
Luckily, though, the older Puff was willing to show him how it was done. First with his own wrist and then by casting the spell herself. Watch her wrist? Sure! Yeah! He kept his grey-blue eyes on the whip-like motion of the girl's wrist right up until the girl pulled the balloon closer to her. "How did you do that?!" Because she had made it look SO easy but... it didn't seem to work for him.
... Okay. So... no cowboy.
"Okay... here goes!" He took a deep breath before taking up the stance once again. He mimicked the whip-motion that Minnie had done a couple of times before calling, "Carpe Retractum!"Whi-passshhh! His eyes widened as a beam of purple light shot out of his wand and wrapped itself around the balloon. He pulled his wand closer towards him, which in turn pulled the balloon closer as well! "I did it!" he said, turning to face Minnie, "Did you see that?" GRIN.
He was glad Marigold was good. It seemed she got the hang of the spell by now.
Well now that Kace got the hang of saying the incantation, he had to practice the wand movements. He could do that. He saw the professor do it before. All it was a whip like movement. He practiced that whip like movement when he helped his grandma rope in the cows back to the barn. He had the muscles to do that well from this summer.
He did the whip like movement a few moments and then he was gonna practice saying the incantation now. He could do this. He did the whip like motion one more time and apparently a rope was supposed to come out of the wand. He made a mental note to look out for that.
Then it was .."CAR-PEH RE-TRACT-UM" he said sounding it out. Alright, he took a deep breath and was kind of nervous to mess it up. He pointed his wand at the balloon and then did the whip like movement and said "Carpe Retractum!" and then nothing happened....
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