October: Charms

Ben walked into the classroom once it was unlocked, thinking it was rather an interesting way to begin class… to have the door locked! But once he heard what the spell was for the lesson today, he understood. He looked at the small box that was locked in front of him on the desk and took out his wand, taking a deep breath. 

Ben held out his wand, made a movement that was a backwards-S shape, and said the incantation, “Alohomora!” He tried to pronounce it “ah-LOH-ho-MOR-ah”, like the book said, but it took a bit to get the pronunciation right. He knew that this would be the area he struggled most in with Charms. 

One of these fifteen or so tries, he called out the spell so loud that it actually made a student beside him jump out of her skin. He apologized and continued to try. Another time, his wand actually hit her in the head… He did it so often that she finally said her name was Kelly, and that she could help him with his spell. He took her up on the offer to help and she showed him the way to hold the wand properly, then they worked on the pronunciation a few times.

After about fifteen or sixteen tries… he lost count after he started getting frustrated… he finally saw the blue light coming from his wand and the locked box in front of him unlocked! The effects of the spell worked and the lock was opened! Inside the box was a chocolate frog! Ben was so excited and ripped it open right away to see what the wizarding card inside it was. It turned out the card was of Newt Scamander! Ben was so excited he put the card into his robe for his collection back in his dorm! Kelly’s gift was also a card, and they compared them as they wrote up their assignments and then went to hand them in.  

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