Practicing Spells *open*

[absentminded]

Yippeee! Since Alyssa was at Hogwarts now she would be able to cast spells without receiving a letter from the ministry that she was being illegal. :] She couldn't wait to do some spells now, she wanted to know how her skills were. Did all these years of home school and watching others preform spells pay off, or would it just have been a complete waist of time?

She decided to go to a place where she wouldn't harm people when spells went wrong, and the lake seemed to be a good place for it. She wore her cloak over a pair of faded blue skinny jeans and a red hoodie to protect her from the cold. She was also wearing her favorite pair of converse all stars [she owned more than one pair, duh!], the black ones. Really simple, but nonetheless perfect!

When she arrived at the lake she picked up a little leaf and put it upon a rock. Let's see if this works. She said, getting out her wand. "Wingardium Leviosa." while saying the words she swished and flicked and even though the leaf started to move, it didn't start to levitate as it was supposed too. Meh, she'd just try it again. Wand at the ready..

[xanthe]

Xanthe approached the grounds silently. She was still trying to get used to the fact she wasn't at home anymore, but a rather large school where she could get easily lost in. Not to mention the several times she attempted finding the sign-ups for each class so she could hopefully start sooner than expected. The grounds, however, were not as confusing as the school. Most of it was straight foreward. A few things were not quite understandable.

She scanned the fielded scene with ease. Xanthe looked over to her right to find a lake [what lake, she had no idea] and a girl pointing a stick at a stone. To her skepticism, she still had not believed in the witchcraft performed here. Xanthe was still in shock of the year that her father had been a wizard and everything still was not making any sense.

Xanthe pulled her large black over coat closer to her. The wind was starting to pick up as it started to crisp into her black jeans and dark blue long sleeved shirt. Her wavy blonde hair was pulled back at the sides with two small clips.

As she approached the girl, she could feel her insides churning. Xanthe never associated with other people alongside her family and whatnot, and this had been a completely new experience for her. "Hi," Xanthe said in a fairly soft voice, hoping for the girl to actually hear her. "W-What are you doing?"

[absentminded]

Just as she wanted to try to preform the spell another time she realized that somebody behind her was talking to her. Alyssa looked over her shoulder and saw a girl, probably her age. "I'm trying to find a spell so I can hex you." She joked, though she made it sound as if she meant it.

"Don't worry," She added later on, before the girl could run away scared. "I will not actually hex you. I'm just practicing this spell I remember. It's supposed to make something levitate, see, that's what I'm trying to do with this leaf." The girl explained.

"I'm Alyssa." She said, being her polite self. "Who are you?" She then asked.

[xanthe]

Xanthe realized she was getting ready to perform again when she stopped by. She hadn't known why, but maybe it wasn't her place. The girl looked over at her and had spoken. Wait a minute. Hex her? Xanthe gave a look of confusion before realizing she was joking. With a small smirk, she simply nodded.

Hm. Levitate a leaf. But, wouldn't the wind just blow it away making it seemingly levitate? Xanthe wouldn't know. The girl, then, introduced herself as Alyssa. "I am Xanthe," she answered. Xanthe watched as she tried to prove her magic to her. "A-Are you new here as well?"

[absentminded]

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Alyssa said as the girl told her that the name was Xanthe. Quite an original name, she hadn't heard of anybody named Xanthe before.

"Yup." The fresh first year answered. "Arrived here like, let's say 4 days ago or so.." She couldn't believe that it had been only 4 days. It felt as if she had been here for at least two weeks already. She had done so much and had gotten so many new impressions, more then she usually did in 2 weeks.

Realizing her wand was still at the ready, she said. "Wingardium Leviosa" Again the leaf showed some signs of magical connection, but levitate? no. "You see, I'm not that good yet." She said.

[xanthe]

"Windgardio -- what?" Xanthe asked, quite confused. She had never heard of such strange words, but they were very clear as a toner for magic. Perhaps that's what the stick or... wand was for! It was quite weird how this so-called wizarding world worked, but it was all started to make sense. Xanthe watched the leaf as it slowly moved, but she hadn't been sure if it was the wind. She smirked.

As she pushed her blonde hair back, she tried to figure out what was going on. "Hm. Perhaps you're saying it wrong? I wouldn't know. Just a quick guess." Xanthe suggested as she pulled her jacket closer as the cold started to creep in once more.

[absentminded]

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"Muggle born, aren't you?" Alyssa asked with a smirk. Xanthe obviously had no clue what was going on. It was pretty funny actually. She'd never thought of herself as a teacher, but she tried to explain. "Wingardium Leviosa. That's what you have to say in order to be able to preform the spell. Your wand -" Alyssa held hers in the air "Which I by the way hope you've got - has to swish and flick while saying those words." Duh.

She'd practice the Levitate Spell later, now she just wanted to show this Xanthe girl what she could do. "Here let me show you another spell." Alyssa said. "Lumos!" This had the wanted result. At the end of Alyssa's wand you could see a small bulb of light appear. "Nox!" The light vanished again, just as soon as it had appeared.

[xanthe]

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"Half-blood actually," Xanthe said, gaining some dignity. She wondered what sort of spells the other half of her family had done, since she never knew. As Alyssa started to explain one spell, she began to understand a little more than before. Xanthe blankly nodded. She understood the fairly simple spells, but other ones were a bit too complicated for her well being, believe it or not. Normally, she would catch on, but a new territory would have to fit in.

"Thanks, on account," Xanthe said simply, as Alyssa had shown a beginner's spell. The library would probably help her a bit more, and is it not what the classes are for? Xanthe stood corrected.

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[absentminded]

"Oh," Alyssa then said. "Well, it seems blood doesn't really matter these days anymore. Your parent didn't mind telling you about our world before coming here?" She didn't mind if the girl was half blood, muggle born or pure blood, it was more about the knowledge, and you could also get knowledge as muggle born, you only had to work a little bit harder since you didn't get to school with the same amount of knowledge as pure blooded wizards, like Alyssa, who had parents that taught them about magic.

If the girl had brought her wand she could practice, but Alyssa somehow doubted it though. The expression on Xanthe's face was more like 'What's that weird thing your holding?' instead of 'It seems your wand is a bit swishy.'

"Mind to try a spell?" Alyssa asked. "Or haven't you brought your wand. You know, it's always handy to take it with you everywhere. From now on your wand is your life!" The last sentence she added with a grin. Ok, maybe it wouldn't be exactly your life, but an important part of your life!

[xanthe]

Xanthe jaw twisted. Before she intended to say anthing, Alyssa said more about the joining of different bloods at school. Her parents didn't seem to know about it either. 'Cept for her dad, which was a relief. "The only wizard between my parents was my father. He died when I was thirteen." Xanthe said, softly. It didn't bother her that he passed away, it only bothered her that he didn't tell her anything between her brother and herself.

She sighed. Xanthe had a look of contentness as Alyssa told her about the wands and how 'important' they are. "Of course, I have it," Xanthe said as she pulled it out of her pocket within her long coat. "It's kind of old in my opinion." she said as she scanned the dulled color. It had been her grandfather's since her father's had not worked within the store.

[gatlingrimm]

Lucian was strolling around the grounds, trying to find something interesting to do, he could go fly...but that just didn't seem right so he thought about taking a walk around the lake, maybe that could be of some entertainment. He was wearing a black sweatshirt with dark letters saying 'First Gear' and some faded jeans with a pair of black converse shoes on that he had taken quite a liking to.

While walking around the lake he spied two girls who had their wands out...which was sort of odd because they looked like firsties like him, and to him it looked like they were about to duel. But has he got closer he saw that the girls were just practicing magic...which gave Lucian an idea. As he got closer he took out his wand and then her the one of the girls say "Windgardium Leviosa!" and then he saw what she was trying to levitate, a leaf. He was close now and then he bellowed "Incendio!" and then there was the leaf, but now on fire.

He walked up to the girls and said. "Hi my name is Lucian whats yours? I see that you were levitating, well almost levitating. If you want I can show you how to do that spell I just preformed?" asked Lucian. Lucian was standing there with his hand in is sweatshirt and the other gripping his wand.