Professor Rory Taransay
November 15, 2018 12:46 PM
The Magical, Disappearing Puffskein [Advanced] by Professor Rory Taransay
Each year always seemed to go so quickly, with exams rolling round much faster than expected. That was how it seemed to Rory, anyway, once again faced with upcoming RATS exams for his seventh years. He wasn’t panicked about how prepared his students were – this year group was a pretty good one, and he knew he could trust them to do their homework and revision – but it was sad to think that he didn’t have many more weeks left with the older half of his advanced class.“Good afternoon everyone,” he greeted his class as they entered. There was always something nice about working with older students, as he was generally able to be more relaxed, allowing things like general discussion instead of hand-raising.
“Today we’re going to be venturing into a different subject area,” he announced. “Could you raise your hand if you’re taking advanced charms, please.” He made a note of who didn’t raise their hands, in case those students needed extra help in the lesson he had planned.
“So, one of the important parts of caring for magical creatures is hiding their existence from muggles, the reasons for which you should remember from other lessons. Having said that, and given my previous question, can anyone guess what we’re going to be studying today?”
Rory always gave his advanced class permission to answer a question directly, rather than waiting to be picked to answer the question. Once he’d been given the correct answer, he moved on.
“Professor Wright assures me that some of you will have already studied the Disillusionment Charm. However, we’re still going to have to spend a lesson on it, as it’s required for your Care of Magical Creatures RATS. If you already know the charm, think of this as an opportunity to perfect it, and to practise on actual creatures.”
Professor Taransay wrote the incantation on the board, and then drew his wand. “The wand movement is simple: all you have to do is tap the target with your wand,” he instructed the class. He followed this up with demonstration, using a block of wood on his desk. As expected, the block of wood seemed to disappear, taking on the appearance of the objects behind it. A quick finite incantatem cancelled the effects of the charm.
“You’ll all find a similar block of wood on your desk. Use this to practise on and, once you’re able to make the entire block disappear with only one use of the charm, you may come up and take a puffskein from the cage at the front, and practise on it.”
He gestured to the cage nearby, in which quite a large selection of puffskeins were gathered. He’d borrowed these to use for a beginners’ lesson and, seeing as puffskeins were quite docile, had decided they’d be good target practice for his advanced class.
“Please be careful when you extract your puffskein; I don’t want to spend the next hour chasing a poffle of puffskeins around the classroom. And, as ever, remember to treat all creatures with respect and kindness. If performed correctly, the Disillusionment Charm should not hurt them. If I see anyone mistreating the puffskeins, it’s back to using blocks of wood.
“One last thing: if you don’t take advanced charms, feel free to work with someone who does. I will of course be wandering around and offering advice, so grab me if you’re struggling.”
With that, he let them begin.
OOC: Usual class rules apply. You’re all welcome to tag Rory, and he would be there if he saw anyone mistreating a puffskein.
Information on the Disillusionment Charm can be found here: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Disillusionment_Charm
Information on puffskeins can be found here: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Puffskein
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Angelique Brockert,Crotalus
December 17, 2018 11:04 AM
Surprises by Angelique Brockert,Crotalus
Angelique was counting down the days until she left Sonora for good. Which was ironic, considering that she'd done the same thing before she'd gone to school for her first year. She'd wanted to be here so badly then and now she wanted to leave even more so.To say that things had not turned out like the Crotalus had wanted or expected was putting it mildly. She was supposed to come to Sonora, meet a bunch of girls whom were proper young ladies like herself and become wildly popular. Instead, the other girls in her year had been anything but and she'd been ostracized , which as far as she was concerned was a fate worse than death. Angelique didn't have a single friend here at school among the other students that she wasn't related to somehow.
That wasn't supposed to happen to people like her. She wasn't sure whom that was supposed to happen to but not her. Still, Angelique was not supposed to be the one who was different and as it was, she wouldn't mind someone sticking it to the jocks. To people who had everything when she had nothing. It would so serve them right.
It was like she'd been trapped in some bizarre parallel dimension for slightly more than six and a half years. A warped twisted horrible place. Angelique knew that Sonora was a good school, a respectable school, so how had things gone so terribly wrong for her? How had she gotten stuck in such a dreadful year group?
And it wasn't as if she was very interested in the academic parts of school either. The seventh year was often bored in class. The only part she'd ever really cared about there was being reasonably good with a wand and while she was no Kira, she had acheived that. A lot of the time Angelique was stuck listening to boring theory.
Care of Magical Creatures was not too terrible in that respect but it still didn't really hold her attention much. The Crotalus was basically there because she didn't want to take DADA, Potions or Herbology and felt like she had to take at least three classes.
However, she had to admit today's lesson was a good one, if not particularly useful to her as Angelique was never going to live around Muggles and have to hide magical creatures. Still, she generally liked Charms so incorporating it into Care of Magical Creatures.
She got her block of wood and tapped on it. It began to waver a bit. She was just about to give it another go when someone spoke to her and she nearly dropped the wooden block in surprise.
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