Kace was dazing in the class as normal. But he heard the professor ask a question and knew the answer but the students already had it. He copied down the information in his notebook and now he needed to look for a partner. He looked around someone close to his age and noticed a slytherin that looked close. He tapped her on her shoulder and said,

"Hey i need a partner." with a warm smile.

No one was answering. She would have to sit on the sidelines and WATCH wouldn't she? Ugh, it'd be the first time EVER in a DADA lesson and the Gryffindor didn't think she'd be able to live with herself so when Mo offered an old man liable to wet himself when tickled, she was sold. Her grin mirrored his. Did he know he was saving her from feeling restless while sitting this whole thing out? Maybe. Maybe that's why he was grinning. "No problem at all. Even old I'd prefer you to half these people." Mostly because she didn't know half of them and wasn't willing to chance their level of stupidity but for the most part that was a compliment, yup.

"Funny enough, I have." She admitted, a little taken aback by the answer. How long had it been since she proper talked to Mo. Start of term when they snuck down to the kitchen? Some random classes scattered around the term? Sounded about right.

"Er...did the Professor say we could get started?" She might not have been paying attention. Sue her.

Adrienne flinched as the boy turned, and then cursed herself for doing so. She'd gotten so jumpy recently, it was like she was afraid of trouble around every corner. Usually she was the one who instigated the trouble, but now it hurt when she moved too quickly, so she spent a lot of time reading or grumbling about her housemates to Tora. "Yeah, you be my partner," she repeated. Isn't that what she had just said? Honestly, kids these days, always talking unnecessarily.

"Adrienne," she said shortly in response to the greeting. She knew it wasn't the most polite way to introduce herself, but she'd never been one for pleasantries anyway, and her bones were aching too much for her to care at all. There weren't very many signs of age externally, save for the odd grey hair, but inside she was definitely not her regular fourteen year old self.

Ohh, haii! This boy right there needed a partner! Sophie grinned as he approached her. Cool. Finding a partner was easy. It didn't take any time at all. "Oh, cool," she said to him. "Partners it is, then." Had she met this boy before? "Did I work with you in another class? Or...am I thinking about somebody else?"

Soo...

"Are we supposed to get started?" she asked. She hadn't heard the professor say. Maybe he had, and she just missed it.

Kace smiled and was glad she could work with her. He also cleared the water with his name. "The name is Kace." he nodded towards her. Oh? Had she? She could have. "Ermm i think you could have but my memory is horrible sometimes. You do look familiar." he told her honestly.

"Erm i do not think we started yet..." he looked around the room and noticed people were still looking for partner. "I think people are still looking for partners but i know we need to practice Rictusempra on one another." he remember the professor saying that.

Kace? No. Sophie didn't think she's worked with him after all. "Your name doesn't sound familiar, so I guess not. Anyway, I'm Sophie," she said. They should at least know each other's names if they were going to start tickling one another any second now.

Okay, Rictusempra. Yeah, they should start with the one that wouldn't hurt them. Sophie nodded and moved a few feet away from him. That was when she started to glance around her. "Nobody else is casting yet," she said. "Maybe we should wait?"

Yeah, he didn't know a single thing about those spells. Buuuut, they were tickling spells? TWO tickling spells? That was weird, and Raiiiiise the hand. "Professor, Why would someone invent two different spells for tickling? Wouldn't they vary in intensity depending of intent or something?"

And they were gonna be practicing and needed partners? Great. There weren't many people he'd feel confident in. But then again, you couldn't lose a finger or anything doing this one could you? "Er, Partners?" anyone?

.......

Her eyes sought out where the spell had come from. "Mister Mordaunt!" she called over to the youngster while keeping an eye on those who were looking or now had partners. "I had not said to start yet."

Did she need to undo Mister Rehman now?

"Good question, Mister Yarborough. I can answer this question fully ...ven ve start on practicing Titillando." Which would be in a short while. "Alright?"



It looooooooked like they were going to have an even number. Maybe.

Surprisingly, she hadn't seen anyone sit down yet so, gold stars for everyone. On the other hand, one pair of students had her raising an eyebrow in...amusement. "Miss Bishop. Mister Maroon." she called over to them. Who else was near them? "And...Mister Bay and Miss Wayne. Vould you four be so kind as to svitch partners vith one another? Miss Bishop vith Mister Bay and Mister Maroon vith Miss Wayne?"

Would even out the years a bit.



"Hmkaaaay, it looks like most of you haff a partner. If you don't, start drifting tovards the stands so I can see who doesn't." But for the most part, it looked good. "Ve're going to start vith Rictusempra for the time being. The incantation is rather known by now. It's rictusempra."

Ahem.........yes.

"And the vand movement is a narrow arrow pointing to the right. There is a second vand movement that leads this spell to haff a couple extra undesired effects, but ve vill only be focusing on the tickling part of it today. You may practice the vand movement and incantation first if you please, othervise....feel free to go ahead and start. And please, do be careful." Bunch of 'mature' for their age students in here. Goodness.

"A simple 'Finite' vill lift the spell. Shout out for me if you're haffing trouble."

OOC: Feel free to start now! Effects of Rictusempra are usually the sensation of being tickled and mild weakness throughout the body. Deaths are a no-no. Please no deaths. *mellow* Also, it's OKAY to not get the spell right on the first try if your character is new to this.

Seeing the look on her face kind of scared him a little.. "what did i just get myself into??" he thought and then the dreaded "you can be mine" maybe he took it the wrong way but he held his smile.. "great.. we will be awesome" he hobbled over to an open area to give them plenty of room.

"so now we wait eh… and ohhh.. I'm Bay by the way..Gryffindor" he said.. almost forgetting where he was..putting his hands in his pockets he started to move his knee to give it a work out before they started anything.

Bart turned and looked towards the professor. Oh he was changing partners, allrighty then. "Hey Bay, Hey Beverly guess you are my tickling partner." He smirked. It would have been fun tickling Head Girl, but Bev would be fun as well. "Thanks for going to be my partner Ella." He gave a grin before moving closer to Beverly.

Now the spell was Rictusempra, he could do that easy, but just in case he figured he better practice. Rictusempra Rictusempra Rictusempra Rictusempra. Yep easy. Now practicing the wand movement a bit he did it over and over again. Browns eyes looking towards Beverly. "So you want to go first or shall I?" He didn't care who went first, but he didn't want to laugh too much. "If I start laughing a lot you're going to stop the spell, right?" Too much and he might hurt his old bones more then they already were.

Rictumsempra. That was the spell they were supposed to start casting first. Even though Sander knew how to perform the spell having done so during his dueling practices and back home....yes Elin was the willing victim of his tickling from a distance...he still watched as Professor Romanos demonstrated the wand movements to every one in the class. With his state of occasional memory loss, he couldn't trust his memory right now.

So watch and learn like the rest were doing. The wand movement was a narrow arrow pointing to the right. Right...I mean got it.

Sander waved his wand a couple of times adopting those wand movements...first to warm up and second to practice before actually saying the incantations. Then he turned to face Alex.

"Rictumsempra...Rictumsempra....Rictumsempra" he first practiced saying the incantation. Next was the wand movements.

"Let's take a couple of steps back from each other to give ourselves enough room to work with," Sander suggested to his name twin as he did what he suggested.

"I'm ready if you are," Sander called out to Alex.

"Rictumsempra," Sander called out the incantation as he waved his wand simulating an arrow pointing right and waited to see the familiar silver beam of light stream out of his wand and head towards Alex. At the same time he braced himself expecting Alex's spell to hit him.

Tickle me silly...please.

Adi knew Cutty would agree to be his partner. He also knew the Slytherin might try to act smart and he was ready. "Protego!'' Adi smirked at Cutty as the spell was blocked, mentally thanking Alec for being such a good teacher and helping him master the Shield Charm last year. "I knew you'd do that.'' Though he wasn't sure if his friend's attempt at the spell would work because they had not been given the wand movement as yet.

.................
Wand movement and incantation practicing first. Keeping an eye on Cutty in case he decided to be sneaky again, Adi began his practice. "Rictusempra, Rictusempra, Rictusempra, Rictusempra.''

And now for the wand movement. Narrow arrow to the right? Okaaaay. Adi traced out a few of those. Meh. He thought he got it.

Right. Time to get back at Cutty. Without any hesitation, the Puffer raised his wand and made the movement. "Rictusempra!''

Oh good, they were getting started. Adrienne abandoned all attempts at being polite or even relatively pleasant to be around and turned her wand in her hand so that the tip was actually facing away from her. Prodding people aside, she actually had a spell to cast. Rictusempra, easy enough to pronounce, and she couldn't imagine that she'd be able to mess up such a simple wand movement- even in her weakened state, she was more competent than that!

"Okay, on three," she said, pointing her wand at her opponent. "One, rictusempra!" Adrienne exclaimed, before she'd even gotten to the second count. A beam of silvery light came from her wand and hit Ben in the arm and, lowering her wand, she checked to see what the effects seemed to be on him. She'd done everything correctly, right? It had felt so, at least, though she was unsure of how much she trusted her feelings since the whole Alarte Ascendare incident.

Yes, they'd be awesome as long as he lifted whichever of the spells they were using at the count of three seconds. But no need to scare the guy, her face probably did that already. When he introduced himself, she sent him a curt nod. "I'm Beverly Wayne from Slytherin." When were they going to start already?

There was the professor. Thinking the woman was going to start the activity, Beverly drew out her wand and...

Bart.

Okay. New partner. No problem. "Looks like a change of plans, Bay from Gryffindor." She waved at him and met the smaller Gryffindor half way. What was that look on his face? Change of tactics was needed. This Gryffindor wasn't just ANY Gryffindor.

Beverly thought his proposition over. She wasn't new to this, both the hex and charm; her old tutors could attest to that. The only difference back then was that they weren't allowed to touch a single hair on her head.

"Only if you do," she said. "So I go, ladies first I suppose," she sighed, but mentally patted herself in the back for good decision making.

It was going to be extremely weird to let a wizard hit her with a spell, but house points were house points. Holding her wand tight, facing down, she nodded the go at Bart. "Ready?"

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What was the motion? Jeremiah tilted his head a bit and tried to imagine what the heck that would be before turning to Tag, "what was the motion?" either he missed something or he just didn't understand the professor but either way all he got was the spell name Rictusempra which he said quietly to himself a few times

"Ric-tus-emp-ra, Ric-tus-emp-ra, Ric-tus-em-pra," he got all the symbols in there and his diction seemed on key enough for him "Rictusempra?" he said a bit louder in a questioning tone, Right tag was he doing it correctly? He had this thing where he questioned everything when learning it just made him remember stuff beter.

OK, it was showtime. Alex felt the need to go over the spell a few times before unleashing it on Sander. So while he practiced, so did she. Alex repeated the incantation aloud several times. "Rictusempra, Rictusempra, Rictusempra.". Next she practiced the wand movement. "Narrow arrow to the right", she thought as she moved her wand to match her mental image.

Alex turned toward Sander and moved back a few steps as he suggested. After giving it some thought, Alex said, "Maybe we should do this one at a time first". That way, we can end the spell on each other. If we're both tickled and weakened at the same time, it might not be good. You go first." Taking a deep breath, she said, "I'm ready now."

Alex readied herself and waited for Sander to cast his spell. When he did, she resisted the urge to shout Protego. When the spell hit her, it felt like a hundred little fingers tickling her all over. Usually Alex wasn't ticklish, but this was not the usual situation. Since she was already borderline giggly, she couldn't help it when she started to laugh and laugh and laugh. "Well twin.......I guess you......did it......right", she gasped between giggles. When the spell was ended. Alex took a few moments to recover from her laughing fit. Since her old lady tank was only half full to begin with, she was feeling a little winded and fatigued.

After Alex felt better, she faced Sander again. "It's my turn now. Are you ready twin?" Moving her wand in the arrow motion, she shouted, "Rictusempra". Standing back, Alex watched to see Sander's reaction to the spell. Hopefully she had done it correctly.

...and that made total sense. If both of them cast the spell at the same time and were laughing hysterically, under the throes of the Tickling spell, who then would cast the spell to end their spells? Professor Romanos? Sanders suspected she would if she was asked to help out, but that would be more expected from the younger students not from the older ones.

Hence. the reason why Alex stood still and allowed his spell to hit her. Sander suspected she must have fought against her instincts to raise her shield and admired her for resisting the urge.

He watched as she began to laugh uncontrollably and even though he wasn't under the spell, he began to laugh along with her. He couldn't help it. Her laugh was infectious. Wiping the tears of laughter from his eyes, Sander pointed his wand at her and ended the spell.

"Finite" Sander said the incantation and waited for Alex to recover before stoically...and bravely...standing still in front of her. Hey if she could do it, he would do it too.

"Okay it's your turn, Alex. Give it your best shot," he grinned over at his best friend as he raised both his arms up in surrender.

He was smiling at her and Sophie offered him a big ol' grin back, pleased that he seemed genuinely happy to pair up with her. Well, why wouldn't he be? "Excellent." But she laughed a little, then, when Toby said he'd go easy on her.

...

Until that moment, it hadn't crossed her mind that he would be practicing the spells on her, too - she had just been concerned with him not being tortured to death and wanted him to be paired with someone who would look after him properly - and her expression paled. But, the more she thought about it, she was grateful that she did pick Tobes as her partner, then, because they had a sort of understanding that tickling was serious business and not good in excess. She trusted him to be kind to her, and she hoped he trusted her just as easily. He should. She certainly didn't want to be his cause of death.

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Originally Posted by Roselyn

"Hmkaaaay, it looks like most of you haff a partner. If you don't, start drifting tovards the stands so I can see who doesn't." But for the most part, it looked good. "Ve're going to start vith Rictusempra for the time being. The incantation is rather known by now. It's rictusempra."

Ahem.........yes.

"And the vand movement is a narrow arrow pointing to the right. There is a second vand movement that leads this spell to haff a couple extra undesired effects, but ve vill only be focusing on the tickling part of it today. You may practice the vand movement and incantation first if you please, othervise....feel free to go ahead and start. And please, do be careful." Bunch of 'mature' for their age students in here. Goodness.

"A simple 'Finite' vill lift the spell. Shout out for me if you're haffing trouble."

OOC: Feel free to start now! Effects of Rictusempra are usually the sensation of being tickled and mild weakness throughout the body. Deaths are a no-no. Please no deaths. *mellow* Also, it's OKAY to not get the spell right on the first try if your character is new to this.

Instructions. Right. Good. There were butterflies in her stomach now as she listened intently to the professor's directions and followed the wand movement with her eyes. Her wand still in its holster, Sophie practiced the wand movement with her hand. "Rictusempra. Riiictusempraaaa." Simple enough, the incantation was, and she figured this would be a pretty hard charm to mess up.

...Then why was she so nervous?

Turning to Tobes, Sophie gave him a sheepish smile and took a few steps back. "Y'wanna go first in casting? You're older, so you should be less likely to mess it up. I'll learn from the pro." She wasn't entirely lying, but she moreso wanted to see how the spell affected her, as her body hadn't aged as far as Toby's had yet, so she could take notes and try to reduce the severity of the spell accordingly for him, if she could manage it.

Clearly Alex was a little rusty because her first attempt at the spell either missed or was not effective. If at first you don't succeed........

Looking at Sander with his arms raised in surrender was a little disturbing. "Put your arms down. I don't want to feel like I'm attacking a completely defenseless man even though I am.

Standing directly across from Sander, Alex raised her wand and tried to visualize the spell doing it's job. Getting a mental picture of Sander laughing uncontrollably made her smile. Ooops, momentary lack of concentration-not good. Trying hard to focus, she repeated her right narrow arrow movement. "Rectusempra", Alex said while concentrating with all her might. The spell was going to work this time, or else. Seeing a silver stream of light burst from her wand, Alex was hopeful that it would reach it's target.

Even as Sander ended the tickling spell on Alex, he saw a silver stream of light fly by him barely missing his shoulder. Sander did a double take. Had that spell come from Alex or someone else? Wishing good luck to the person who happened to be standing in its way, Sander turned his attention on Alex. When she told him to his arms down, he smiled apologetically and held them behind his back.

Now wasn't that better. An open target....and then he heard her cast the spell and a second later, felt a little weak and then...wham!! the sensation of a million fingers tinkling him all over.

Oh Merlin!! they found all his funny spots. His sides, the spot right under his right ear, the back of his thighs...everywhere he didn't know he was ticklish, the spell found it.

Sander began squirming all over....and then the laughter spilled out. It didn't matter that he sounded like a hyena or a mule, Sander just couldn't stop laughing. He laughed until he was bent over, holding onto his sides, his eyes filled with tears.

"Good..heehee...hahahaha....job...Alex...heehawheee hawhhhhheeehaw...I surrender," Sander looked up at Alex raising both his hands up.

Okay it was time for Alex to end the spell before he started to hiccup.

HIC....HIC...HIC....too late.

Bullseye. Alex's second attempt did not miss and Sander was soon doubled over with laughter. Alex was amused, at first. It was funny to see Sander wiggling and "dancing" as the spell did its thing. So funny, that it was kind of hard to keep a straight face. Laughter was like yawning, when you saw another person doing it, you couldn't help but join in.

Alex laughed along with Sander until tears came to his eyes and he started to hiccup. It was then that it stopped being fun and began to seem a little like torture. Alex raised her wand and said, "Finite Incantatem". Ending the spell, Alex called out to Sander. "Are you OK?, she asked.

Alex began to prepare herself for more tickling because she knew that once Sander recovered, a new spell would be coming her way. "Your turn twin. Whenever you're ready."

Leah swallowed. She did not find a partner yet! Luckily the Professor gave out instructions to people like her. She walked over to the side, dodging spells coming. "Professor, could you please help me? Anyone needs a partner?" She jumped up and down, waving her hand in the air, afraid that no one could see her.

Under her breath, the first year started practicing the incantation first. "Rictusempra. Ric-tu-sem-pra" She roughly got that right.

Fern grinned, gap-toothed and all, right back at Lux and raised her hand for a high-five, "Let's do this! Let's show 'em how it's done!" Then after class, they could celebrate their genius in the kitchen. Freshly baked cookies and the latest house-elf gossip!!



This was shaping up to be a pretty decent class, despite Adi partnering with Cutty and Fern's future BFF, the fashion knowledgeable Ravenclaw, partnering up with Toby. She had Lux for her partner, Cuthbert was publicly called out by the professor for being the loser that he was, and Bart wasn't allowed to practice with Ella. Fern's grin just grew wider and wider.

After Professor Romanos had finished talking, Fern turned back to Lux, "Let's practice! Rictusempererrr...Rictusempra! Rict-u-semp-ra! Rictupsempra!" Yep. That sounded correct. The Hufflepuff drew out her wand and worked on forming a couple of arrows. The first arrow went to the left, and she shot a quick glance at Lux to see if her partner had seen her mistake. But the second, third, and fourth arrows went the right way.

"Okay! I'm ready!"

So she was going to go first, Bart smirked a bit, this was going to be interesting. He hadn't paired up with Beverly in awhile, but he trusted her enough. Shuffling his slippers a bit further away from her he turned and crossed his arms.


This was going to be fun and easy and he couldn't wait to make the girl fall to the floor laughing, not that his spell would probably be that strong, but a boy could hope. He gripped his wand with his hands still crossed, and waited for dramatic effect. Looking around at the others.

Turning his brown eyes back to Beverly, "You sure you can handle tickling me?" he chuckled jokingly, but it was fun to try and get into her head. Why not make practice a little more fun. "Give me your best shot! I'm ready."

Bring it on!

Partner switch? Ella smiled at Romanos and nodded her head, not really concerned by the switch. If anything, it'd make more sense for her to work with Bay so that was fine. The eighteen year old smiled at B...Bart and waved as he moved over to the younger girl, "Anytime." Now to go talk to Mr. Cowboy.

"Hey Bay." Was he ready to be tickled? Ella smiled a little and made a slow circle around him, observing him curiously. "Ready to start?" She was...mostly. Although if she went down during this, he'd totally have to help her back up. Just saying.