Professor O'Leary
September 30, 2006 12:34 PM
Lesson II - First and Second Years by Professor O'Leary
Drake sat at his rather expansive oak desk grading papers while the students worked on their assignment, shifting his glance around the room from time to time to make sure no one else was cheating. Once it appeared that everyone had finished and had found a group, he glided to the front of his desk."All right, class, I see everyone appears to have completed the assignment and found their group. This lesson was important to give you an idea of how to make something appear from an item, as this leads us to our next lesson, the Specialis Revelio spell. If an item contains anything hidden by magical means, this spell will cause the item to reveal it," Drake allowed his dark eyes to drift around the room to make sure the students were paying attention. "Now, for those of you with some semblence of intelligence may wonder, why not just use Finite Incantatem? Finite Incantatem removes the effects of any spells currently cast, however, this is not always the best option. For example, if you do not want to end the spell, but rather determine what spell was used. Another example is if you receive an item that is supposed to be charmed, however, you do not wish to remove this charm, but rather reveal any harmful spells and remove those. To end one spell, you can use the Finite spell instead of Finite Incantatem."
Drake allowed his gaze to shift to Michael Tallow, who had used the Finite Incantatem spell. Even though he had given Michael an assignment for not following instructions, he hadn't truly been angry. His mouth twitched slightly into a smirk. No, the kid had used his brain to find another way to accomplish a goal, an important part of defensive thinking.
He continued on his deep baritone voice, "For this next lesson, I am going to give each group a few items. All of the items are charmed and some contain mulitple charms. I would like each group to identify what charms were used on each object."
"To perform the Specialis Revelio spello,"his wand slipped out of his sleeve and appeared, as by magic, in his hand,"move your wand like so and state firmly Specialis Revelio!"
He walked over to his cabinet to take out the box of objects to be passed around, "Once you receive your items you may begin."
Drake swooped between desks handing each group a few items.
OOC: The items and spells are your choice, as long as neither would be considered harmful and the item would fit in a box. Have fun and be creative! \n\n
Subthreads: Blue Group by O'Leary with Grail Markner, Echo Elms, Adam B., Ginger Silverstein, Gray
Red Group by O'Leary with Elly Eriksson, Briony
Yellow Group by O'Leary with Caedence Redoak, Nikki
Green Group by O'Leary with Guenther Heindrich, Saul Pierce
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O'Leary
September 30, 2006 12:35 PM
Blue Group by O'Leary
Members of the Blue Group, please post here.\n\n
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Grail Markner
October 07, 2006 12:27 PM
Okay, come on by Grail Markner
Echo Elms, Pecari. Gray couldn't help but wince. She was going to try not to make judgments, but she couldn't help it. People were in that house for a reason, they were outgoing. And in Gray's mind, outgoing meant stuck up and annoying. She was immensly glad that Echo went into his bag to get a pencil out (Muggle-born as well? Worse or better?), she didn't really want to shake his hand. And then the other boy, Adam from Crotalus. Gray didn't know too much about Crotalus except that Leo was from there. She gave Adam a smile and a little wave.She was glad she didn't have to talk now, since Professor O'Leary decided to speak up. Something about a Specialis Revelio spell? Well, she had no idea what that actually was, so she waited until he could explain it. And then something on Finite Incantatem, not that she had any idea on that one either. Oh wait, removes spells. And apparently this Specialis Revelio one showed what spells were used. Very useful. She fumbled through her bag to pull out a notebook and in her pocket for her pen, and raced to write all this down. She felt her sisters aughing at the back of her head at the Professor, but as long as it wasn't her, Gray was fine.
She copied the wand movements and mouthed the words just as O'Leary had done. Her shaking had gotten a little worse on hearing her sisters turn on her to ridicule her movements. She was sure her face was turning hot, and she looked at her three partners to see if they had noticed anything wrong. The little sound the item O'Leary had dropped on their desk made her jump. This made her sisters crack up in complete laughter. Great, she felt herself turning redder.
"So, uh, we... do the spell now. Right?" she had asked. Well, of course. Her hands were really shaking now. Gray had to slip them down to her legs in order to hide them. "I mean... uh..." Enough talking. She couldn't even hear her thinking anymore, Chali and Libby were laughing so hard. Great. "Make a fool of yourself again, Grailie." She'd heard through the laughter. Gray believed it to be Libby. \n\n
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Echo Elms
October 07, 2006 1:38 PM
Eep! by Echo Elms
Echo straightened up in his chair and got his notebook ready. When O'Leary spoke, he listened. He even jotted down a couple of obvious notes, "ID charms used on objects. Spesh-ee-ahl-es rav-el-ee-oh." He hadn't figured out a good system yet for writing down wand movements, but he was working on it and did the best he could. A swish here, a back loop there, and a short stop. There had to be a pattern to how those movements worked. He thought it might have something to do with quadrants and that transfiguration diagram, but transfiguration was so far over his head that he kinda hoped he was wrong.Gray jolted a little as O'Leary dropped the wooden box on their desk. When no one else moved to open it, Echo cautiously reached his hand toward it, hesitated, and picked the thing up. He glanced around at his groupmates uncertainly. Maybe the thing was going to fly off when he opened it, or make a loud noise. Gray wouldn't be the only one jumping if it did one of those.
The box had a clasp like a kid's jewlery box, and he unlatched it with his thumbnail. Was it his imagination, or did he hear a small intake of breath as he slowly opened it. Maybe it was his.
It smelled like cedar inside. He had a brief flash of a tree back home near his elementary school. He'd come home with sap all in his hair and on his pants, shirt, and elbows. The stuff didn't come off even with a good scrubbing. Other kids didn't want to touch him when he had sap and sticks and dirt everywhere. He loved that tree.
The box was a quarter of the way open now. He braced himself. And leaned out away from it, opening it the rest of the way with a quick jerk.
Nothing happened.
He waited a second and looked at it again without the squinting and cowering this time. His shoulders sank back down to their normal level. Placing the box glently back down on the table, Echo pulled away from the box and whatever it contained and grinned sheepishly at his groupmates. Time for someone else to do something dumb.\n\n
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Adam B.
October 08, 2006 9:37 PM
When gourds attack. by Adam B.
Gray seemed awfully...uncomfortable. Adam could understand that, he really didn't like group situations and was still rather nervous himself. The only reason he could relax at all was that Ginger was there with him. Maybe she just doesn't like me, thought Adam. After all he was in Crotalus. Most people didn't like them. Plus, people in general didn't really seem to like Adam .That's why it completely and totally shocked him when she smiled at him and waved. He was thoroughly confused, but gave her a quick nervous smile back as the items arrived. Adam picked up the object closest to him, a hollow wooden pumpkin that had been carved with a jack-o-lantern face. It was likely a halloween decoration. He looked at it's face. It looked friendly enough, but Adam sensed something sinister about it. He didn't know why. He wasn't a Seer and normally he got feelings about people being sinister (as in most people until they proved themselves otherwise), not objects. Objects were harmless, right? He was trying to reassure himself of that when the thing winked at him . Adam's eyes widened as the pumpkin twisted its mouth into a malevolent looking grin. "I t-think someone used an animation sp-" He broke off, feeling a pair of eyes on him. That happened to be one of his least favorite feelings. Adam couldn't stand being stared at. It made him more nervous and paranoid. He quickly gazed around the class, but nobody seemed to be paying attention to him.
Oh, of course. It was the pumpkin. Adam drew his wand on it. "Spe-". The jack-o-lantern hopped towards him, jumped, and bit on to his wand! He yelped and stood, waving it around, trying to shake off the decoration, but it seemed to have clamped itself on real good. Its eyes seemed to be mocking him. It wants to bite me, Adam thought. His hands began to shake and he lost his grip, flinging the enchanted object across the room, his wand still in its mouth.
Adam sat back down, pale and breathing heavy. He glanced warily from the pumpkin to the professor and back down at his desk. He was going to be in trouble, he knew. Plus he was going to probably need a new wand, because it looked like the pumpkin had eaten half of his. His eyes shifted over at the pumpkin which was now gnawing on some girl's bag. It looked back at Adam, still grinning malevolently.....
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Ginger Silverstein
October 08, 2006 10:09 PM
AHHHHHHHH! by Ginger Silverstein
Ginger was satisfied with the group that she wound up with today. Gray seemed really sweet, Adam was one of her friends, and Echo was one of the Pecari firsties that she could actually stand. This would have been her choice group anyway, and she was extremely satisfied that Morgain or Grim wasn't in her group.She smiled she looked over to Echo after he opened his box. She wasn't going to go near it for now. This was going to be an extremely creepy lesson. She could just feel it in the pit of her stomach. She looked at Adam when he opened his box, and gave him a reassuring smile before the wooden pumpkin came to life. It was really really scarey.
Ginger's eyes widened when it bit onto Adam's want. This was not good... "Oh my god.." She said in a mixture of awe and fear. Only in the wizarding world...
Ginger had to do something.. Adam didn't have his wand anymore, and she didn't want to professor to be the one to remove the spell and yell at Adam. That wouldn't be fair at all. Screw finding out what spell was casted on it, it needed to be removed!
Ginger walked quickly to where the creepy pumpkin was, pulled out her wand, and said "Finite Incantatem!!"
Instead of removing the spell like it should have done, the pumpkin turned orange, and real. She turned into a real pumpkin. Okay.. she didn't make it totally harmless, but it was a start. She noticed Adam's wand close to the wall. She picked it up, and placed it in her pocket. "Hey guys!" She piped up, still afraid of the now real possessed pumpkin. "Do any of you have your transfiguration books with you?" Maybe one of them could transfigure the pumpkin into a pie or something.....\n\n
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AHHHHHHHH!
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Gray
October 09, 2006 8:06 AM
Attack of the.. Pumpkins? by Gray
Gray watched when Echo opened the box, ready to move back and... hit the it or whatever if it misbehaved. When she saw nothing was in the box, she looked closer at Echo's. Then, Ginger's voice made her turn to the older two. A live wooden pumpkin? The magical world was as confusing as ever.And scareier than ever. Gray found herself jumping up again when the pumkpin attacked Adam and then jumped to another girl near them. She was surprised the girl didn't even seem to notice, but now Gray started shaking again. Was the professor trying to kill them?
Ginger did the wrong spell. Gray knew that immediately. That was the one O'Leary had said not to use. The one that took the spell off the object. Whatever, it was good enough. She waited to see a safe, unalive, wooden pumpkin. Nope, now it was actually alive. Great.
"Do any of you have your transfiguration books with you?"
Gray nodded and quicikly went to her bag to fish for her book. Would a first year's transfig book be able to stop that? She could only hope. She brought the book to Ginger. "Here," she muttered, backing away from the possessed pumpkin.\n\n
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Echo Elms
October 09, 2006 11:22 AM
Hungry little buggers by Echo Elms
Echo jumped back, topling his chair as the pumpkin went at Adam. He barely noticed the crash. His wand was out before he even knew he needed it. Then Ginger used the Finite Incantatem and wooden pumpkin head became bright orange living pumpkin head and rounded on her."Do any of you have your transfiguration books with you?" she asked. It seemed completely out of place. Why was she thinking about transfigurations at a time like this? Did she not have a mad vicious pumpkin coming at her? Gray was already diving in her bag so he stayed frozen with his wand in the air and his chair on the floor.
He glanced down at his notebook, scrolling down his brief notes with his free hand. Why had O'Leary given them this other spell, Spesh-ee-ahl-es rav-el-ee-oh if he didn't think they'd need it? If he he could just find his voice, he could use it to distract the pumpkin head while Ginger flipped through Gray's text. Unfortunately, that squiggle he used to write down wand movement didn't mean a thing to him just now.
Breathe. It's just a magic pumpkin, like the stagecoach in Cinderella, or maybe Linus' Great Pumpkin. Not wicked, just crazy hungry. If it were really dangerous, O'Leary would come over and help us. He made himself glance around at the rest of the class. O'Leary was watching one of the other groups.
He had it! A swish, a back loop, and a short stop!
"Spesh-ee-ahl-es rav-el-ee-oh!" he intoned, feeling pretty magical himself for remembering the wand part of it. A jolt hopped through his center, up his arm and wand, and off toward the room's back wall.
Aim, Echo, you gotta aim!
He tried again, concentrating on the toothed pumpkin. A shot of magic darted off the end of his wand and toward Ginger and the pumpkin adversary. He held his breath and waited for contact, not really sure, in hindsight, what exactly that spell was for.\n\n
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Hungry little buggers
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Ginger Silverstein
October 11, 2006 6:56 PM
Yeah...I gathered that much.. by Ginger Silverstein
Ginger desperatly flipped open Gray's Transfiguration book, and skimmed through the table of contents. It took her a little less than a minute to find the page number that said something about pies. She quickly flipped to the page where it showed the spell, and the wand movement. She quickly said the spell to herself, and tried her best to understand the wand movement. She knew that there was probably a good chance that she was going to screw up on the spell, but as long as the pumpkin would cease it's movement, there wasn't going to be too much to complain about.She closed the book, and tossed it back over to Gray, and appraoched the crazy, hungry pumpkin. She pointed her wand at the pumpkin, did the wand movement a little incorrectly, and said the spell.
Instead of the pumpkin turning into a pie, it exploded. Pumpkin guts, seeds, rind, and juice was everywhere. A little bit of pumpkin guts was now dangling off of her shoulder. She wiped it off, "Yuck..." she said. She knew she was probably going to get in trouble now. And if the students didn't notice the pumpkin before, they sure as hell did now. \n\n
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Yeah...I gathered that much..
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Echo Elms
October 12, 2006 7:49 PM
I think we broke it by Echo Elms
The hungry pumpkin exploded. Exploded."Was it, um, was it supposed to do that?" he asked. And was it his spell or Ginger's spell or a combination that did it? Pumpkin guts were everywhere. Absently, Echo righted his chair and sunk down into it the wrong way.
He wanted to put his head down on the back of the chair and be done with this lab. He compromised and rested his chin on it instead. "Prolly too late to find what spell was on it."\n\n
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Adam B.
October 12, 2006 10:20 PM
I sure hope so! by Adam B.
Adam sat in his chair, his knees drawn up to his chest, shaking like crazy. He was glad nobody had noticed yet. They'd laugh at him. Or maybe they were already. Things seemed to be kind of a blur right now. He'd been spacing out. There was a pumpkin after him. He was in a Group. Who must think he was the biggest freak right now.And Professor O'Leary was going to kill him. Adam was sure that he'd be punished severely. The defense professor was certainly not one who seemed like he'd be very tolerant of....much of anything. Including and especially disturbing the class. Adam felt like he was going to vomit. They were probably all going to be in trouble and the others would blame him and hate him. Probably even Ginger, one of his few friends.
Suddenly, he heard something explode and something..orange flew onto his desk. Adam looked at it anxiously. Could it be ....the pumpkin? He turned his head to where he'd last seen it. It was gone. There seemed to be a large amount of goo and debris around the room. On the walls and on people's clothes and in their hair. Oh, he was so doomed. They were going to hate him even more. This had to be all his fault. Adam knew very well what pumpkins looked like inside. Though this one had been wooden. Some how though, the pumpkin had exploded. He noticed Ginger standing with her wand. Had she blown it up? Wow she was awfully brave to go after it. She could have been bitten. He hoped she was ok.
"Prolly too late to find what spell was on it."
Adam turned his head to look at the other boy. "I-I guess not." He was still a bit shaken up and confused. "I suppose I could try to do it on this um..bit of pumpkin on my desk. Only I don't know where my wand went. The pumpkin took off with it. It's probably broken now....and it probably wouldn't work anyway, since more spells have been done on it since. I think it was probably some sort of animation spell. Or some creature someone tried to transfigure into a pumpkin. At my cousin's school, there's supposed to be a whole cave of them and they roam the paths there all the time. Some of them are even worse than the pumpkin." Adam didn't really care that he couldn't do the spell on it. He was just glad it was gone.\n\n
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I sure hope so!
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Gray
October 14, 2006 9:59 AM
Yes yes... by Gray
Gray had watched as Echo and Ginger both did different spells on the living pumpkin at the same time. Of course, the very first thought in her head was something like, this is trouble followed by the mental crossing of fingers from her sisters, hoping all trouble would come to Grail. It wasn't that bad though, the pumpkin exploded.Of course, now the teacher would be mad they didn't do the spell right and... yeah. She could hear the three cheering at the thought of Grailie Markner getting yelled at by a teacher. She felt like hitting them.
She turned away from the exploding pumpkin so the guts only got around her back, not her face. Seeing Adam sitting there looking deathly scared. Well, of course a giant pumpkin just attacked them. The only reason she wasn't scared then was that shock overtook the fear. She nodded, even though Adam was addressing that Echo boy, and picked up the pumpkin on his desk.
It wiggled a bit in her hand and she dropped it with a jump. "Uh, I guess we could still find out," she muttered. "The pumpkin gut moved." That or she was even more insane and now imagining more things alive.
"Oh Gray, its okay to be insane. They have places for that nowadays. With nice white suits you can wear..." Chali smiled. Angrily, Gray pushed her sister away.
Joy, so she really was insane. Lovely. She moved a bit closer to Adam and looked at him for a second. He looked pretty scared before. Should she check if he was okay? Her hands shook a bit at the ridicule her sisters would start if she began to talk again. Her hands shook a bit, but as always, she hid them behind her back.
"Hey, uh, Adam... you okay?" she asked. Oh they were thinking up comments in her head already. "I-I mean." she had to say something to get them off her back. "That pumpkin seemed to... it was really..." the laughter from them came. Her hands shook a little harder. Drop out of the conversation before you start crying! her mind whispered. She fell back against the table and sat on the ground, her chair right next to her. She looked down and tried to breathe.
"So, uh, animation spell?" she muttered again. Falling silent after was easy.\n\n
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O'Leary
October 15, 2006 12:08 AM
Exploding pumpkin? *eyebrow raised* by O'Leary
Drake loomed up behind the group that was responsible for the exploding pumpkin. It never failed. Anything involving group work and magic was doomed to end in some sort of disaster and today would be no exception.He looked at each member of the group. His eyebrow quirked in question.
"Would you care to explain what happened?" He said, not kindly, as that would not be his way, but not unkindly either, "The idea was to figure out the spells used on an item, not destroy it."
He glanced at the shivering student under the desk. He gave a very small wink, one that no one would see and even the student would even question happened. He didn't want anyone to think he had gone soft for he hadn't, but he did at least want the student to calm down. A paniced student had the potential to make the situation worse.\n\n
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Exploding pumpkin? *eyebrow raised*
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Echo Elms
October 15, 2006 9:36 AM
*swallow* by Echo Elms
Echo lifted his chin from the back of his chair and tried to look more like he wasn't letting the exploding pumpkin get him down. Grail and Adam both looked sick, and Ginger hadn't said anything yet. That might mean it was up to him to answer Professor O'Scary."It attacked us, professor," he said, still sitting backwards on the chair but sitting up now, "it went after him," he pointed to Adam with a tilt of his head, "and ate his wand. Ginger distracted it by turning it into a pumpkin--it was wooden--and I used the," he glanced down at his notebook and found the spell, "Specialis Ravelio on it and it exploded. Was it supposed to do that professor?"\n\n
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*swallow*
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Ginger Silverstein
October 15, 2006 7:15 PM
Oh man...... by Ginger Silverstein
She knew that it was coming, but the fact that the teacher was there now made nothing better. She was almost sure that everyone was going to get in trouble and possibly a detention, considering that the DADA Professor wasn't the most tactful. He was a little more nice than Coach Fox though. She was almost sure that Adam would be leaving the classroom bawling his eyes out. Ginger didn't want to see that! He already made her feel really bad for him when he had the attack in the begining of the year.She saw it now.. Everyone in the Blue group receiving detentions, being laughed at by the rest of the class (the thing she was most worried about), and Adam and possibly even Gray breaking down and crying. Ginger couldn't stand to see people cry. It made her feel so helpless, and sometimes it would even make her cry to see others like that.
She was about to open her mouth and explain the truth to him, but Echo spoke before she could get the chance. "Oh that's really good," she thought to herself as Echo explained to him. It wasn't the complete truth, but it was probably going to get everyone out of trouble. She supported it...
"Ugh actually I found Adam's wand," she said quietly. She bend down, gave Adam a very nervous smile and a small pat on the back, and handed him his wand that was in her pocket. "Yeah..."she said, "I was really worried and the pumpkin looked scary.. and well I didn't want someone to get splinters if they were to be bitten by that thing..I just wanted to make it a little safer.. And I ugh I panicked a bit.. I mean his wand was GONE!"
That did it... She had officially made a complete jackass out of herself. She should have just kept her mouth shut the whole time...\n\n
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Grail
October 15, 2006 10:14 PM
SO fearful by Grail
Gray found herself still shivering on the floor as the scary Professor decided now would be a good time to help them out of their problem. Everyone looked so scared, were they going to get in trouble? But it wasn't entirley their fault! It was the Professor who'd given them the assignment, and the pumpkin, right? They shouldn't get in trouble for trying to stop the thing. Even if they didn't do it right... was that really bad? Her confusion heightened when the scary Professor winked at her. Did this mean he was just going to... scare them and not hurt them. Or did it mean something worse. Gray's eyes dropped to the ground again as Echo and Ginger tried to explain."Grailie... dearest..." Libby called sing-song-like. Gray was an idiot and asked her what the hell she wanted. "You're in trouble. How's it feel dear? You're going to be laughed a~t."
Chali decided it was a good time to join in now. Laughing at the thought of Grail getting in trouble she whispered to her big sister, "I. Hope. You. Cry," she was whispering. "It'll make you lok even more stupid. And then everyone will hate you. Even you're so called friends..," Grail lifted her heavy head, still wanting to cry now, to give a good look around at Leo and Nikki. She didn't want to look like a fool in front of them, no way. She'd probably lose them.
Try to get the teacher to see it through her group's eyes. She couldn't, wouldn't, give her sisters the satisfaction.
"Sir, please," the tears were coming. "What else were we supposed to do? We all... panicked!" THe were welling up and she looked down again. After this her contacts were going to be very dry. She snatched her bag next to her chair to find her glasses. She couldn't cry.
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Adam B.
October 19, 2006 9:25 PM
Me too... by Adam B.
The blood drained from Adam's face and he began to tremble, as Professor O'Leary joined them. I'm in for it now, he thought. Everything that happened was his fault. Adam felt like he was going to vomit or faint. Perhaps he was going to have another attack. Please not that, he silently begged. Not here in front of everyone. After the professer got through with them, especially him, he'd probably going to wish the pumpkin had devoured him.He looked down at the ground, his fists clenching the seat of his chair so hard his knuckles were turning white. He hoped he wouldn't start crying. If Professor O'Leary yelled at him, Adam knew he wouldn't be able to keep the tears from coming out. Gray was on the floor and she didn't look any better than he was.
Adam barely heard as the others began to explain. Even Gray managed to say something. "It's all my fault." He blurted out in a strained, cracked voice, hardly louder than a whisper. "My fault." He hoped nobody was paying attention as tears slipped out of his sockets.
Then, a small movement caught his eyes as one of the pumpkin bits began to twitch and Adam led out a strangled cry. Bile began to rise up in his throat. "I think I'm going to be sick," he murmured and instantly regretted it. He very much doubted Professor O'Leary was going to care if he felt ill. Especially given the trouble Adam had caused and the fact that he'd just admitted it.
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Echo Elms
October 20, 2006 10:56 AM
You guys make me look brave. by Echo Elms
"It's all my fault," the older boy said all choked up like. What the crazy weirdo stuff? Was Adam really going to cry? Sure, Echo felt like his insides were going to jump out through his chest and zing around the room while the rest of him perched backwards on the chair like some weirdo statue, but he wasn't going to cry. And how the what was this Adam's fault? For real-real."It's not," he started at him, "How is it--dude, how is it your fault? I mean, the thing ate your wand. It ate your wand, dude. That's crazy."
He might have gone on from there after a good breath, expounding upon the crazy weirdoness of it all, but he suddenly remembered Professor O'Leary and clipped the comfort speech short. He doubted O'Leary would appreciate the rampant muggleness of it; and, come to think of it, Adam probably wouldn't either so it was just as well he stopped.
If he were Brett -- which, obviously he wasn't -- Echo'd definitely have added a couple more "crazy"s and "weirdo"s in there and then Brett would have replied, "Crazy weird stuff," and Echo would have said, "For real-real," and Brett would have said, "Smack on, for real-real," or whatever he was saying these days. And then everything would have been good.
But this was Sonora, and things like that didn't happen here.\n\n
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You guys make me look brave.
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Adam B.
October 21, 2006 1:26 AM
I tend to make anyone appear so by comparison. by Adam B.
As Echo spoke, Adam's face flushed. He felt like the biggest idiot in the world. He needed to get out, badly. Of course, there was no way in the world he was going to actually leave. Adam had heard about some older students leaving Professor K's class without permission and getting in trouble. And Professor K. was much nicer than Professor O' Leary. So Adam was stuck there.Now things were even worse, Echo probably hated him and thought he was a baby. Gray probably would think so too. Not to mention the rest of the class. Adam was weak and that didn't seem to be tolerated very well by guys here. And had Echo just called him crazy? He probably was, the way he had those attacks. This all just made him want to cry even more.
Fighting back the tears, Adam replied. "I-it didn't break my wand." He pulled it out. The only damages were some teeth marks. Plus, it was full of pumpkin slobber. He was going to have to polish it up or something later. Even though he wasn't even sure it would work.
His eyes shifted unconsciously to that bit of pumpkin on his desk. It seemed to have moved closer towards him. Adam's face went ashen again. He began to tremble uncontrollably and wave of nausea hit him.\n\n
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I tend to make anyone appear so by comparison.
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Gray
October 21, 2006 10:24 AM
Aw... by Gray
After she had spoke, it seemed Adam decided to as well. Gray noticed he was close to tears, the poor kid. She was also just that. But wait, why was he blaming himself? It wasn't even his fault. Grail had a feeling that if she, or anyone in the room despite Professor O'Leary, would have had the same or similar things happen to them. But what she couldn't help was when Adam started crying, a few tears found their way down her face as well."Yes!," Chali was laughing. "Now you and this kid can sob togather and make a fool of yourselves!."
"I can't wait until we hear their punishment," Libby was now saying. "She'll probably cry even harder!"
No. She had to stop right now, she couldn't, could not give Chali and Libby that kind of satisfation. She couldn't let them see how bad they were getting to her, and how much she felt it ruined her chances at this place. But what her sisters said, and when Echo started talking like that to Adam, she cryied a little harder. Adam had said he was going to be sick, her head snapped up. She gave a tiny glare to Echo, one she was sure he didn't even notice, and moved closer to Adam.
"Are you okay?" she asked after he'd mentioned his wand wasn't broken. She placed her hands on her knees to hold so she'd stop shaking. Gray didn't like seeing other people cry (unless it was her sisters), it was a part of her worrying side. So she felt she had to calm down herself to get Adam to be okay. "I'm sure..." Start over. "I'm sure we... we'll be okay...?" This was confusing, And Adam looked sick again.
That creepy piece of pumpkin was still there, he was looking at it. Did it move? Was she really not insane feeling it move. Gray took her shaking hand to it and picked it up. And... it began to squirm. Her eyes widened, this wasn't her imagination. She wanted to throw it down and jump back, but she didn't want the others to worry. Or the gut to get loose. For a second, a shiver rose up her spine and a wave of disgust came as the pumpkin moved in her hand. Was this really happening?
"Uh... sir..." she muttered, not being able to help that disgusted feeling. This was like holding a twitching slug, nasty. "We... we can still finish the lesson... I think. This piece seems to still have whatever spell it started out with..." this might help them.
She was also about to suggest them to stay after to clean up the rest of the possessed pumpkin, but she wasn't sure her group would enjoy that. Gray allowed the pumpkin to drop to the table as she wiped away the tears on her face. She wasn't crying too hard now. Good. No one would notice.
She just hoped Adam would be okay right now.\n\n
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Echo Elms
October 21, 2006 1:49 PM
Try the spell again? by Echo Elms
His bolstering words to Adam seemed to have made things worse. He'd been trying to be helpful like Brett would have done for him if it'd been him being near tears. He tried to make him laugh, reenforce comradie, that sort of thing.Grail was crying now. Echo didn't look at her and maybe Adam was crying for real too by now. It wasn't nice to notice when people were actually crying. Maybe. Or maybe it was rude to not notice. He tried to catch Ginger's eye to shrug, eyebrows up, and spread his hands -- silently asking her what he did wrong and what he was supposed to do.
"We... we can still finish the lesson... I think. This piece seems to still have whatever spell it started out with..." Grail said unexpectedly and Echo looked at her accidently. She seemed to be getting things together a bit but you could never really tell with unpredictable people like her and Adam.
Echo shook his head, pushing his notebook with the spell written on it toward her, "Not it. I blew the thing up last time." He did not mess around with blowup spells until he figured out why they blew up. Ever. Magic was dangerous stuff.\n\n
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Try the spell again?
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O'Leary
October 25, 2006 3:38 AM
A good idea by O'Leary
Drake raised a couple fingers to his temple, as the students began to talk over themselves to allow himself to think over them. He knew it was an accident. Accidents and mistakes were to happen in the classroom, so that they didn't happen when you couldn't afford them. But how to handle children? He had two that were unusually fragile, however, he couldn't coddle them, but they all had to try again.He allowed his wand to slip from beneath his sleave. With one wave, the disaster of the pumpkin was gone, and in it's place was a goblet. No teeth, no eyes, no glass. Just a goblet.
"All right, then, the spell will be attempted again, however, at it's most basic level. The pumpkin was never a pumpkin. It was transfigured from something else. I have taken that something else and turned it into this goblet. There is no other spell on it. Using the spell, try to turn it back into the original object. When you have mastered that, then come see me for a more difficult item," he stated in no-nonsense voice.
With this, he turned and headed back towards his desk, robes billowing.\n\n
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Adam B.
November 03, 2006 4:59 PM
I'd argue that, but I'm too scared of you. by Adam B.
Professor O'Leary hadn't punished them but Adam still felt anxious,embarassed and stupid. He could tell the professor was really unhappy with them and it was all his fault. Everything usually was. He was a completely worthless and inferior person. His entire group probably despised him because Professor O' Leary probably thought they were all hopelessly incompetant because of Adam. Even Ginger probably didn't like him now. He already was convinced Echo didn't like him and thought he was a loser, because Adam had cried and boys weren't supposed to do that. He couldn't help it, even though he wanted too. He was probably going to be the butt of jokes for the rest of his time at Sonora. Plus, now the Defense teacher knew who he was. Adam would probably stand out in his mind, as the crybaby who couldn't handle an enchanted pumpkin. No longer could he remain unnoticed.Now they had to do the spell again but Adam just wanted to escape. He needed badly to get out of there, away from all the people . Especially since he felt like he was going to vomit or faint. The young boy stared blankly at the goblet. Adam couldn't move. He was afraid to do the spell again. He might screw up further and then the professor probably would punish them and yell at him and then , Adam would be totally humiliated. His group members would hate him and the rest of the class would laugh. He'd probably even lose the two friends he had because they wouldn't want to be friends with such a baby.
Such thoughts made Adam's stomach contract like a fist. He couldn't handle the thought of Ginger and Pepper hating him. Nor could he deal with the thought of everyone teasing him all the time. Kaylie was the only person who'd stick by him. Adam wanted to go find her now. She'd comfort him. Being with his sister was the only safe place for him. Unfortunately, he had to stay in the hostile environment that was Defense.
He barely heard as Gray asked if he was all right. Of course Adam wasn't all right, but he couldn't tell her that. If he told anyone (other than Kaylie) how retched he felt, they'd only laugh at him and dislike him more . They might hate him the way his Grandpa Frank hated the Mormons. Or how Lily hated Earl.
Adam looked anxiously up at the clock, silently willing it to go faster. He needed to get out of here so he could find Kaylie, the only person who'd always be good to him no matter what.\n\n
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I'd argue that, but I'm too scared of you.
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Echo Elms
November 03, 2006 11:21 PM
Goblet to original object. Right. by Echo Elms
Echo waited for the others to do something. He'd already tried the spell once, assuming it was the same one, and it hadn't done anything like that. This had a transfigurations component to it, too, and transfigurations was his absolute worst subject.But no one else seemed to be moving either. Adam had the shakes like Echo got when he touched someone, and Grail wasn't really much better. Ginger was pretty quiet, or not paying attention or maybe she was scared in her own way. Or confused, like he was.
The goblet in front of them wasn't really a goblet.
Echo picked it up and checked it out from all angles. It sure looked like a goblet to him. But then, there was that transformations thing. He closed his eyes, leaned it against his forehead, and tried to feel the magical other-than-a-goblet-ness about it. He couldn't. It was a goblet.
Defeated, he put the thing back on the table and picked up his wand. If no one else was going to try the spell, then he had to. Someone had to. It wasn't right, though. He had claimed "not it," and that meant it shouldn't fall to him to do the potentially dangerous spell. At least this time the circumstances were different -- it wasn't being hit with a transformation spell at the same time, and it wasn't attacking anyone, and it wasn't in the form of a man-eating pumpkin. These were all positive changes.
"Watch out," he warned his group and scooted back a bit himself, "it might explode again."
He thought again about the otherness of the goblet and pretended he could feel it, and aimed at the made up feeling in the not-real goblet, "Specialis ravelio!"\n\n
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Goblet to original object. Right.
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Grail
November 04, 2006 7:23 PM
Goblets and tears... go togather? by Grail
Grail was extremely glad when the Professor doecided to have them try the spell again. The tears on her cheeks went a little slower, since she still had the fear something else would happen. And Libby was still trying hard to get Grail upset again. To flip her mind away from it, Grail took a long look at the goblet that wasn't really a goblet. Her eyes then made their way to Adam.The poor thing. Grail frowned. With how much the two had been crying, Grail was sure the goblet would have overflowed. Her eyes made their way to the silent Ginger, who, for her general stereotype of Pecari, was extremely nice. Gray hoped Ginger wasn't mad that Grail suggested re-doing the spell. Or thought Grail strange to be crying. She would murder her sisters,
Then, over to Echo. Grail didn't know much about the boy yet, meaning she disliked him at the moment since he hadn't proved her Pecari stereotype wrong yet. He seemed very indifferent, Grail didn't know how to read him either. Echo did, however, seem to take charge of the flustered group now. This chalked up to her not liking him a little more. Even though she was a little grateful to not do this again.
Lightly, Grail leaned her head over on Adam's chair. Since she didn't have to finish up the spell, and was fairly calmer herself, Gray was going to try to comfort the older boy a bit. Her hand lightly shook his knee, then went to wipe away the residue tears. "Adam," she said, a bit of shakiness in her voice. "Adam. Are you going to be okay? We're not getting punished... it's all a little better." Did he think this was his fault? That was what she would feel if something like that happened. "It's not... too bad. And we get to do it again. Everything is going to be fixed up. And... it's no one's fault. We just weren't ready..."
"Good job, Graila... such a way with words. Bet any money you've just made the baby more upset...." Chali chimed in. Grail shook, was Chali right? Explain! Explain!
"Sorry... if I'm... not helping," she muttered. "I'm not good with the... word... thing," Grail frowned. Good job. Word thing. "I just hate seeing people hurt." Especially if they don't deserve it. Grail jumped a bit when Echo said the spell, and turned her head away from Adam to see what was going to happen. Please don't explode... she begged mentally.\n\n
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Adam B.
November 04, 2006 8:49 PM
Echo, don't take this personally. by Adam B.
Adam's insides were quivering like a mass of Jello. He was trembling horribly. He just wanted to run away, go to his sister. She'd take care of him. Why won't this class end? He wondered miserably.He felt even worse as Echo began to examine the goblet. The other boy didn't seem afraid at all. He wasn't all wussy like Adam was. It felt to him like the first year was mocking him. Showing how he was better than Adam. Of course, he was . Everyone was. Adam just felt so inadequate. Echo must not like him, or he wouldn't be making fun of him. People didn't make fun of people they liked. It was all Adam could do not to start crying again and it wasn't easy either. He was fighting the tears with everything in him. He rubbed his eyes hard to prevent them from being seen if they leaked out.
Adam vaguely heard Gray's voice trying to comfort him. He didn't understand why she was being nice. Maybe because she was scared too. He couldn't answer her though. If he told her, she'd be disgusted with him. And Echo would probably pick on him. Ginger wasn't saying anything, did she hate Adam too?
The urge to cry became even stronger as Echo told warned them that it might explode again. It was like he was blaming Adam for being so incompetant. Teasing him for screwing up. Everything was his fault. Completely and totally.\n\n
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Echo, don't take this personally.
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Echo Elms
November 05, 2006 10:25 AM
No point in trying to say that to Adam. by Echo Elms
Nothing happened.Echo flipped his chair back around forward and leaned over the incoherent wand movement diagram he'd hastily scribbled in his notebook. Maybe this line... here... meant a short flick instead of a stop? Or was it the other way around. Which was the way he'd just done it? He closed his eyes, scratched idly at his forehead, and tried to remember.
"Okay, wait," he consulted his group a minute later, while rechecking the notebook, "Does it go left and then underarc right with a short left stop, or does it loop all the way around clockwise and then flick back left?" His diagrams needed a lot of reworking. He demonstrated the differences that his words sort of didn't, "Or is that the same thing?"
"How did you guys get it down?" he glanced up and was momentarily surprised to see Adam, Grail, and Ginger sitting there with him. He had sort of forgotten they were there. Or maybe not that they were there, more so how they were there. Adam was still upset, Grail was less upset than she had been -- she seemed to take comfort in a mothering sort of role to Adam. Where were their notebooks? Textbooks? Well, they might have been out but they weren't using them.
What sort of group was this, anyway? He blinked at them, wondering if it would help at all to shout, "We have a job to do! Work with me people!" but he didn't have the audacity to do that and it probably wouldn't have helped anyway.
Surprise wore off quickly. These people were starting to get on his nerves. Being in this group was like being put in a group with a bunch of jocks who were too cool to do the work -- except for the opposite. Either way, he, Echo Elms, still came out the nerdy outsider who did all the work.
He was just being cynical, he told himself. One of them would prove him wrong. They would. They would.\n\n
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No point in trying to say that to Adam.
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Grail
November 05, 2006 7:58 PM
Because he's right? by Grail
Grail sighed in relief when nothing happened. Wait. Was that really good? Or was it bad. Echo seemed to be unresponding for a minute, so Gray just took to staring at him for the second. Before he came back to them.Grail left Adam for a second to stand and look over Echo's shoulder at the notebook. He'd actually copied down the movement? Gray frowned. It looked like a bunch of squiggles. Why not just write the directions down. "Flick back," she muttered, but he must not have heard her because Echo went on to how they had it down.
He seemed to forget for a second that her notebook was out on the table with the general use of the spell, as well as the textbooks, because he started to shout... sort of. Gray's expression towards the boy turned cold. She was over her sadness, but she could tell that Adam may be hurt a little more by it. She had written the directions to wand movements in her notebook, so she picked it up roughly and shoved it in Echo's face.
"Read it," she hissed, angrily. At first Gray didn't like this boy for no other reason but the Pecari thing. But right now she was starting to dislike him even more for not paying attention. "And look around better next time."
OOC: I'm using references from the earlier posts. In the first one I had Grail writing everything down in a notebook, and I didn't say she put it away. And the textbooks were from struggling to find the spell to kill the evil pumpkin. And don't mind Grail, it's just how she is. And she doesn't really like Echo all that much right now...\n\n
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Because he's right?
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