Thank you so much for teaching the mending charm so early! I have a feeling I'm going to need it.
Isn't the unlocking charm kind of a useless measure? I mean, if you're teaching it to first-years, it's clearly kind of a basic spell. Wouldn't anything worth protecting be under counter-enchantments?
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3g. Practical Word Practice
Look at the following spells, and using what you have learned, please determine the intent of each spell. Have your teacher check your work.
Stupefy
To stupefy is to 'make (someone) unable to think or feel properly'. So I would guess the effect at being some kind of stunning.
I remember this from the history books! It also halts moving objects.
Spongify
This one I remember from DADA. It makes things rubbery.
Without that knowledge, I would assume it either made things spongy or turned them into sponges (the sea kind or the artificial kind).
Finite
'finish', at a guess.
As I recall from previous study, it is a spell to end other spell's effects.
Fera Verto
I always learned it as 'Vera Verto'. Without knowing what it was, I couldn't have guessed the effects.
As it is, however, the etymology guesses would include 'verre' being the french word for glass.
So, for the purposes of practicing these two spells, I've bought a few padlocks and grabbed a few toothpicks.
*breaks a toothpick*
Reparo!
Nothing.
Reparo!
Nothing and a half, as the toothpick seems to knit, incompletely, back together.
*breaks another toothpick*
*focuses very hard on a whole toothpick* Reparo!
Nothing.
Reparo!
Nothing.
Reparo!
Nothing.
Reparo!
Nothing.
*draws the spiral in the air a few times, to get the hang of it.*Reparo!
The toothpick turns into a very small twig. Well that was interesting.
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twenty minutes later, mostly gotten the hang of it.
*grabs a mangy paintbrush*
Reparo!
The brush's bristles look a little better.
Hmm, I can see this being really useful!
*turns her room upside down looking for a broken necklace*
Reparo!
Some of the beads are in the wrong order, but wearable enough I suppose!
Okay, enough fun, on to lockpicking!
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Fifteen minutes later, one lock is open, another one is melted, a third is plain old broken, and one's been broken into shards and cobbled back together, so that it looks more like a peice of abstract art than a padlock. Thank goodness I decided not to practice on my mother's doors.
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