Professor Zephyrflame
May 23, 2005 3:21 AM
Semester 2: Lesson 1 (For 2nd Years) by Professor Zephyrflame
Alexander had a few great plans for the class this semester. But before he could start anything, he had to teach the class a few more spells...Alexander walked into the class and settled his things on the professor's desk. "Oh, everyone's early today," he thought in his mind. He took a look at the waterclock on his desk and realised that it was he who was late, not the students.
After arranging his stuff on the desk, he then walked over to the center of the classroom and began introducing the lesson.
"Good afternoon, students. Now, as we all know, quite a few dangerous magical creatures are afraid of the sun, such as lethifolds, chupacabras and vampires. So today, we will be learning a spell that produces a ray of artificial sunlight, which is very close to the real thing. The incantation is "Lumos Solarum".
Alexander moved back to his desk, took a piece of chalk out of his cabinet and wrote the incantation on the blackboard for everyone to see.
Lumos Solarum
Loo-moes Soe-la-rur-m
"Now, the spell is strong enough to hold back the advancing creature for a while, but effects are not guaranteed. So before anyone goes about trying to slay Lethifolds," he glared at a certain Stephen Baxter before continuing, "remember that creatures like them are far beyond school level, and even adults have difficulty facing them in tough situations. So today, I want you to practise the spell on your own.
You may begin."
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Subthreads: Goat eaters... *giggles* by Mia with The Twins, Sorrel
Question (Yo! Zepherflame!) by Stephen Baxter (Pecari) with Professor Zephyrflame, Stephen
Should be easy... by Tally Adams (Teppenpaw) with Ash Craven, Tally
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Semester 2: Lesson 1 (For 2nd Years)
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Tally Adams (Teppenpaw)
June 07, 2005 12:18 PM
Should be easy... by Tally Adams (Teppenpaw)
Tally made her way to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom along with all her other peers. This was her second favorite class (and easiest thus far). It helped that both her father and brother were Aurors and had been teaching her (with a stick not wand) all sorts of defensive spells and the like.She sat towards the back of the classroom so that she could avoid any weird looks and be somewhat invisible to most people. She was having issues lately that dealt with feminine things and she didn't want to be stared at by anyone.
She sat in silence while listening to Zephyrflame talk about dangerous creatures and how to repell them. Didn't seem all that difficult. Tally already knew the lumos spell from having studied it the year previously from her book on spells, but she didn't know the one for artificial sunlight. She took out her 10 inch maple wand, studying it with a satisfied smile (she had just polished it the night before) and silently said the incantation in her head a few times over.
As she patiently learned the incantation without so much as waving her wand to practice it, Her eyes looked around the classroom at everyone else. She always found it interesting (and somewhat challenging) to find out how everyone else is fairing when it came to learning spells. Once she assest how everyone else was doing, she returned to her own spell work and began the lesson properly.
She lifted her wand and gave it a wave while speaking, "Lumos Solarum." It was a dim beam of light that emitted from her wand and her confidence in her spell work increased slightly. Not so bad for the first time. She continued practicing the spell, but little had changed with the results. Though spell work usually came easy to her, sometimes it was bothersome and difficult even with the simplest of spells. Her smile vanished and was replaced with an ever growing frown. After awhile she gave up on her own spell, finding it hopeless and disappointing, and looked around the room again to see if she was the only one who couldn't get it to work.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Should be easy...
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Ash Craven
June 11, 2005 12:53 PM
... isn't going to be by Ash Craven
Ash was actually rather glad when Sorrel got distracted by secretly competing with Mia. He liked this class, to the extent he liked any class, and could see that to get onto more interesting stuff, he had to get the hang of things like this first, even if it would have been more exciting to have a real vampire to practice on. He could always seek out Dione after the lesson."Lumos Solarium," he repeated, magic words were funny, and he knew he rarely said them right enough the first time around to get it to work. This one seemed ok though. "Lumos Solarium," he repeated, this time including the wand movement. It felt familiar, somehow, but he couldn't quite place why. He cast his mind back to first year, as far as it could reach. He was fairly sure they hadn't used it in this class. He wasn't sure if it had worked. If it had, it had been very weak, but he could have sworn he'd seen a flicker. It was too light in here to tell properly though.
"Lumos Solarium," he cast again, shielding the spot he was aiming for with his hand. There was definitely something there...
'Ha, I did it! Oi, Ash. Watch out, I can blind you now.'
Ash twisted Sorrel's arm away as she pointed her wand in his face, not troubling to make sure he didn't hurt her. Although he'd never have thought he'd be thinking it, he was glad for Princess's presence. Sorrel was so busy trying to do... whatever it was she was doing, she hadn't actually asked if he could do it.
He glanced up, finding Tally looking at him from the row just in front.
"How likely do you think we are to meet a vampire?" he asked, rolling his eyes a little in a good natured way. "And what's wrong with good old fashioned garlic if we do?" \n\n
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Tally
June 11, 2005 6:24 PM
and why not? by Tally
Tally was only observing the rest of the class with swift movements of her eyes, so she was quite surprised to see that she spent a longer moment on the Craven twins than on anyone else. She frowned for a moment remembering the conversation at the welcoming feast she had had with Mia. She liked Mia, was good friends with Mia, and, therefore, couldn't understand why people couldn't like the girl.But, Tally also liked Sorrel. Of that brief meeting on in the gardens, Sorrel hadn't been like everyone else Tally had met. She was even beating up a tree and hadn't scolded Tally when she let off the curse words without thinking. A habit of hers she always picked up when spending long periods of time with her father and brother (neither of whom ever corrected her if she cursed infront of them). So, even though she could understand why the two girls would clash, she didn't see why they would hate each other for no apparent reason.
As Tally observed them, she unintentionally locked eyes with Ash. Tally hadn't really spoken to him, but knew him well enough by how he interacted with his sister and Stephen. Tally was surprised by the eye-contact and looked quickly away, she didn't want them to think she was listening in on them or anything. Because of her embarrassment at the eye-contact, it took her a moment to realize that Ash was speaking to her and an even longer moment for what he said to register in her brain.
Her head was slightly tilted as she listened and tried to figure something to say that was witty or funny. Since she was neither witty on purpose nor funny by nature, she said the first thing to come to her mind, "I suppose you could just go up to the Astronomy classroom to find the vampire. As for the garlic, where's the fun in that?" She then realized that she had made a negative remark towards a professor, and flushed with embarrassment while looking just passed Ash to the back-wall.
Tally wasn't a teacher's pet. Far from it in fact, but she had been taught to respect her elders, no matter how creepy, strange, scary, boring, childish, or vampire-ish they were. Looking back at Ash, still flushed, she shrugged. Vaguely remembering that they were in class, Tally indicated with a slight wave of her wand, "How'd you do with the spell?" Of course, saying this Tally realized, that Ash might have thought her to be snooping, "Mine's no brighter than a nightlight." Tally said with a scrowl on her face as she demonstrated with her wand.
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Tally
and why not?
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Ash
June 11, 2005 6:50 PM
Dunno. Current evidence just suggests it. by Ash
Ash was a little surprised by how much the girl looked away and went all... blushy. He was sure it was Tally. Sorrel had pointed her out, he'd seen her in classes, acknowledged her existence in corridors... But she wasn't acting a bit like the girl Sorrel had described. She wasn't acting like someone who had a pet frog and a mouth as foul as his and his sister's. He hated when people blushed. Ash was a confident, out going guy. He was also a fairly typical male, in that others' feelings were difficult for him to compute. Therefore, he could never understand what social reasons people had for turning the colour of a tomato. He couldn't see what he might have done to embarrass her, especially given that she was meant to be hard, so he decided to flatter himself and assume she thought he was cute."We were just saying the same thing," he grinned, jerking his head at Sorrel, although it was probably obvious to anyone who he was talking about. "The fun's in watching the vampire go all crinkly and turn to dust," he said, as if this were obvious, though the grin remained on his face.
As she asked how he'd done with the spell, he shrugged nonchalantly, wondering how he could get out of it without either having to demonstrate his non-existent prowess nor admit he'd failed. It helped when Tally said hers wasn't that good.
"I think I'm getting the hang of it," he said, "But it's kind of light in here, which makes it hard to tell. Show us yours then, perhaps we can..." he tried to think of a non-geeky way to say 'swap tips', "Two heads are better than one," he shrugged. He felt oddly guilty at having said this, even though he and Sorrel had never said it to each other, and weren't working together on this particular thing. He just guessed it was one of those things they'd internalised. Another of their unwritten twin rules. A furtive glance told him she was still busy trying to burn Princess though, so it wasn't like it mattered. \n\n
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Dunno. Current evidence just suggests it.
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Tally
June 12, 2005 2:17 PM
Oh, yeah, I forgot. by Tally
The blush had finally left her face and Tally was once again able to look Ash straight in the eye without hesitation. She smiled when Ash told her that him and Sorrel had spoken about Dione being a Vampire as she had done. Now Tally didn't have to feel so bad. It's not that she didn't like Dione (she has only had one class with the woman and hasn't been able to figure the woman out just yet), but she never voiced her dislike or feelings about a Professor (or an adult in general) so bluntly before."Have you actually watched one turn to dust?" Tally asked out of curiosity. Ash's confidence in his statement made Tally believe that he might have actually been present when a Vampire stepped into the sunlight and turned to dust. "I've seen it in the movies, but not in real life. It's cool to watch on the big screen, so if it's anything like that..." Tally commented.
At the mention of swapping ideas and the use of 'we' when Tally wasn't apart of the 'we' confused her momentarily. And then her eyes fell on Sorrel and the confusion immediately cleared. "Yeah, sure." Tally demonstrated the spell, swishing her wand to the movements specified while voicing the incantation with as much confidence as she could muster. The results were the same as before, only this time the light pulsed rhythmically. She looked up at Ash, glancing at Sorrel, but mainly keeping her attention on Ash, "See, nothing brighter than a nightlight."\n\n
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Oh, yeah, I forgot.
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Ash
June 13, 2005 4:36 PM
Duh by Ash
OOC - actually, with the second 'we' and the 'two heads' thing, he did mean him and Tals. Sorrel is... otherwise occupied. *rolls eyes*IC
"Looks alright to me," said Ash. Coming from him, this was pretty high praise. Ash rarely went into hyperbole, and almost never with compliments. "Reckon you could ward a vamp off with that until the cavalry arrived with some garlic grenades," he grinned.
"I wonder if there is a nightlight spell that like... Purebloods and stuff use, cos they wouldn't know what a proper nightlight is." His cousin came to mind as he said this. Not that he would admit to having a cousin afraid of the dark, because it was almost as shameful of being afraid of it yourself. He wasn't actually sure Alfie was afraid of the dark. It just seemed like the sort of thing he would be afraid of. Mainly because he seemed afraid of everything. "I guess they's use lumos," he said, suddenly realising how obvious this was, and how stupid he'd just sounded. He tried not to blush. Blushing was girly.
"Hey- lumos, lumos solarium!" he exclaimed, before he had time to process that exclaiming it would reveal how ignorant and slow he'd been being up to that point and just serve to make him look even stupider than his first lumos comment had. He didn't embarrassedly mutter 'But you probably already realised that...' because that implied he thought she was smarter than him. Even if he did think that, he'd never say it. He resolutely did not blush. If he didn't believe he was blushing - if he ignored the burning in his cheeks that let him know he was - then he wasn't. It was logic along the same principal of 'If I can't see you, you can't see me'.
"Right, it shouldn't be so hard," he said decisively, "We can both do lumos, and it's just that with a bit added on. The wand movement even starts out the same," he said, as he realised why it felt so familiar. He managed not to sound so totally amazed this time, so he at least came off as partly knowledgeable.
"Lumos Solarium," he cast, firmly, supported by the reassurance that he part knew how to do this spell. A beam as bright as Tally's emitting from his wand, much to his self satisfaction and relief. He hadn't been beaten by a girl, even a cool one. \n\n
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Duh
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Tally
June 15, 2005 2:57 AM
And, I'm all out of titles. by Tally
OOC: Heh, sorry, 'we' should have been 'us'. BIC:Tally tried not to show her happiness in the compliment he had given her or his approval of her spellwork. A small tug on the corners of her mouth and a slight tilt of her head away from him to hide it. She thought she did a good job of concealing it, but when she turned back, he was grinning at her and her face fell easily into her own matching grin, "Thanks."
When he asked about a Purebloods nightlight and seemed to then ramble on as though doing a one-sided conversation with himself, Tally couldn't help but smirk at him, especially when his cheeks reddened a bit. "Or they could use a candle." She said casually with a tiny shrug of her shoulders.
Again he seemed the need to work things out loudly as he talked his way though the lumos spell. Tally sat quietly as he did so, waiting patiently until he tried the spell on his own. And when he finally did cast it, Tally was impressed with the results. "You don't seem to need any help." She told him with a grin, "That's some good spellwork."\n\n
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And, I'm all out of titles.
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