Charms for the Charmed (Cynthia)

[gabriel]

Gabriel was sitting by the fireplace in the Hufflepuff common room, he had sent a message to Cynthia to meet him here so they could begin her tutoring for her Charms skills. He knew he was two years below her, but still, he had the skills to teach her a few things, and if she is as bad as she said she was he would be able to tutor her fully, without the fear she might already know the stuff he was going to teach her.

In one hand he held a few notes, no point going into a lesson environment without proper planning, and in the other he held a few books, most of them charms books from his own personal collection, that and the Herbology book he promised to leaned her. He sighed and stretched a bit, he had been waiting for a bit of time, but he was not getting impatient, he was just not one for sitting idly by and doing nothing.

So, when he had enough he sitting around he decided to pass the time with some light exercise. He got up and put the books and paper down on the table near by. He stretched a bit, his muscular figure clearly visible with the clothing he wore. After a bit of time stretch he fell forward and caught himself into a push up. He then continued to do more push ups as he breathed in going down and breathed out when he pushed himself up.

It was just like Gabriel to exercise when he was getting bored, it goes with the territory, plus, he liked to keep himself strong because of how frail he was when he was a child. It had not been long and he was already on his fiftieth push up but he showed no signs of stopping.

[cynthiahale]

CK has recived a note earlier that day from the Hufflepuff she had meet in the library the day before. Gabriel Richards. When they had been chatting she had discover that he was quite talented when it came down to charms and had asked him to tutor her. He had agreed to do so even though Cynthia wasn't taking the subject anymore which she though was very nice of him and proved that he did defiantly belong in the house of Helga Hufflepuff. So she decided that before she went and studied with Gabriel that she should finished of her Defense Against The Dark Art essay that Umbridge was forcing them to right. She was already feed up with the women after one lesson but the homework was due Friday so she had to get it done and out of the way. She didn't want it all to pile up on her as that is something that the Head Girl of Hogwarts didn't want to happen as it could making her life a living hell.

Defense Against the Dark Art was so not fun anymore as Umbridge wouldn't teach or let them practice any spells in class. What was the point of that as reading wasn't always the best way to learn anything as not everybody like that method of learning. But anyway she managed to finish the three foot of parchment she had set them. Then as she glanced at her watched she shoot up of her bed in the seventh year girls dorm as she was late for her meeting by five minutes. It was a good job that they was only meeting in the common room or she could be really late. So shoving on her shoes she headed on down to the common room as fast as she could. When she entered she noticed a figure doing push up and as she near them she realized it was Gabriel. She had never realized how strong he looked before and it was quite impressive. "Sorry I'm late just finished an essay. Hope you haven't been waiting to long."

[gabriel]

Gabriel stopped in mid push and looked up, something he was not really use to considering his height. He then pushed up so he arms were full outstretched and then brought his legs to his chest. He then used his leg to push himself up to his full height of six foot six. He looked at Cynthia and shook his head before speaking, his voice clear and calm, like always,

“Not at all, I understand completely, and I’ve not been waiting long, I thought I might as well get a light bit of excises in whilst I waited for you.”

He then walked over to his bag and rummaged through it, he was looking for one particular item, something he used when he went through the motions of mastering this basic charm. He then nodded as he found it. He then pulled out a palm sized metal sphere. He looked at it for a second before looking back at Cynthia,

“Tonight I will be seeing how you are on basic charms, with this sphere I will be testing you on two charms, Wingadium Leviosa, and The Accio Charm. Two spells that are both easy to understand, but to truly master them, well, some say it would be easy, but they would have to think twice about that statement.”

He then walked over to the far end table and placed the sphere on it was a large clunking sound, this ball itself was heavy, so it would be a look more difficult to use these two spells skilfully. He then walked over to the mid point and used Flagrate to draw a W in front of him. He then walked to the far end and using the same spell he drew an A.

After doing this he walked over to the sphere and touched it using the feather-light spell. He would be teaching her these two spell and gradually increasing the weight of the sphere whenever he thought it was time. He then looked over to Cynthia and spoke,

“Right, stand behind the W and cast Wingadium Leviosa, and when I say, go beside the A and you the summoning charm. Do you understand?”

[cynthiahale]

As Gabriel got up from doing push ups CK smiled as she thought it was really sweet of him to help her out. She didn't know what his weakness where but if she could help out in any way in his studies for his O.W.L's she would gladly lend him a hand after he had helped her. He told her that he hadn't been waiting long at all and he thought that he get in a bit of light exercise. Well that was some hell of a light exercise as CK would think just a gentle jog or something along that lines would be light exercise and not push ups. But then Gabriel was quite a muscular lad so to him it probably was. She herself did exercise when she could as she would with out a doubt go for a jog along the lake on a Saturday morning and then she did her prefect rounds on a night as well. So she got her fair share of exercise in one way or another as CK hated feeling lazy and sluggish.

Then he told her the two charms they would be studying that night. Wingadium Leviosa the levitation charm and Accio the summoning charm. Both charms where easy and simple to learn so he wouldn't be making CK do anything that would be too much for her. She watched him as he set up placing a metal sphere on one end of the table then drawing at W and a A in different places as he instructed her on what to do. It seemed easy enough to do so she hoped that she didn't make a fool of herself and not be able to preform the task at hand. "Yes I understand you." CK told him before she went over and stood behind the W as she took out her apple wood wand pointing it at the metal orb. Remembering the movement from her first year she flicked her her wand in hopefully the right way. "Wingadium Leviosa." She said concentrating and slowly the metal orb lifted off the table as she gently highers her wand and a smile came to her face as she waited for further instruction form Gabriel.

[gabriel]

Gabriel stood there and watched, the technique behind the levitation spell was simple enough, and he doubt very much that she was not skilled enough to do this simple spell. The actual test would come with the next set of instructions, but that would come a little later on. Gabriel wanted to know if she could keep the spell steady for prolonged amounts of time, and there was a way he was going to make sure he knew she was keeping it as such.

The young wizard walked over to the sphere and moved his wand once over it and once under it, muttering a few words. Then out of his wand two almost clear objects appeared. He then looked over at Cynthia and spoke,

“Right, I want you to keep the Wingadium Leviosa Charm as steady as possible for as long as possible. You maybe think this silly, but you have no idea how hard some wizards can actually find this. The two objects I have just conjured are charmed alarms, and if the sphere touches either of them they will sound off.”

He then walked over to a table and put his watch on it. He then charmed the watch as well to link it to the alarms. When the alarms sound off it will call out how long, and depending on how long she held the charm for would make his choice for him, move onto the next step, or give her a break and start again.

Gabriel had a weird teaching method, and actually his teaching method has so far been untried. Cynthia was actually the first person he ever taught charms to, and he was hoping it would work, because he might actually be able to write an essay on this for extra credit for his OWLs. After all, it would look good for him teaching a student two years above him Charms.

((sorry it took me so long to reply, writer's block))

[cynthiahale]

The task she had been given to do by the younger student was really quite simple which Cynthia was glad of as she wasn't found of being thrown in at the deep end. Though she wouldn't have said anything if she had as she wouldn't want Gabriel to think that he was a bad teacher.Cynthia found it hard to put people down as there was really no need for it but she may do if she was really tired. Though she wasn't a push over at all as she was after all Head Girl so she was responsible for the other twenty four prefects below her who she had to make sure did their rounds and what not. Though she also made sure that the Head Buy did his duties though she tended to let him deal with the Slytherin's since he was one and she did the Hufflepuff's.

Then came the next set of instructions from Gabriel. “Right, I want you to keep the Wingadium Leviosa Charm as steady as possible for as long as possible. You maybe think this silly, but you have no idea how hard some wizards can actually find this. The two objects I have just conjured are charmed alarms, and if the sphere touches either of them they will sound off.” Cynthia nodded in reply as she continued to concentrate on keeping the metal orb steady. As the time ticked away slowly she could feel the strain of up holding the orb. But she was determined to keep it up for a decent amount of time. After about five or six minutes she gave up letting the orb touch the lower of the two alarms before floating back down to the table. "Was that good or terrible." Cynthia asked as she thought it was a bit lame.