Charms Club: Clear the room!

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For this week’s activity we’ll be doing a participation type of a different sort. As members of the Charms club you’re all familiar with different types of spells, correct? *Hears a unanimous ‘yes’* I will be giving you all a sample situation where the need for a spell (or maybe two!) is needed to save the day. It is preferable if you don’t use the same spells that someone else did already, if you do however, it’s still fine. Just make your situation as different from the other person as possible. I encourage creativity! Using the unusual charm and making it work in this situation will earn you a brownie. There’s no definite right answer.

In case people don’t understand what I’m getting at, this will kind of be like an rp tag. I open and you conclude. You must mention use of at least one charm, its wand movement if it exists and the effects the charm has. Of course, remember to sign with your name and house ♥



There have recently been many noises coming from this room at night. Whispers of blood chilling horror, unexplained shadows and lights with the occasional seductive scents of honey. You brace yourself, expecting the worse as you enter the room and hear the door quickly shut behind you. Upon a quick survey of the room you notice nothing out of the ordinary besides an exceptional amount of dust and – “wham!” What was that? You think to yourself and quickly look left and right trying to pick out anything, just anything that might’ve made that noise.

It takes you another few seconds of searching before you spot it. Orange and black stripes. First one and then more and more flying, or rather, buzzing around behind a cloth covered closet. The Giant Barnacle Bees; a whole nest of them. Each one almost the size of your palm in length.

“Please capture them all alive~!” comes the voice of your Club leader from beyond the door. That was easy for her to say. You return your attention to the Bees, first you need to protect yourself from their stingers, second would come the capture.



You have until the 20th of January to clear the room!

Comments

Question...

[ladykuroda.livejournal.com]

So, are we making up our own charms again or are we using charms since defined from the Harry Potter series?

thanks!

Re: Question...

[magelet.livejournal.com]

I should have been more clear on that, my fault. It's by using canon charms, spells or hexes defined within the series or found on the lexicon.

[rocknrollpixie.livejournal.com]

I looked around nervously. By entering the room I seem to only have disturbed the bees slightly. I was being very still and they were buzzing about the room as if I was not there.
My mind raced, how was I to capture these huge bees alive? One false move and hundreds of them would decend on me and sting me to... well... death!
Then I remembered something. In the fourth year I had seen Ron Weasley stop a bee mid air with the Impediment Jinx. I decided to try it.
I poised my wand and cried; "Impedimenta!"
The first thing I noticed was the noise. The constant buzzing and droning that had filled the air just moments ago had stopped. The bees, some of them almost teh size of my fist, hung, still in the air, hundreds of them like snowflakes on a Christmas card. Although slightly more stipey and a lot more deadly...
Now how to get them out of here?
I picked up a huge sack that had been thrust in my hand as my task had been explained to me, I'd almost forgotten about it. I had an idea.
I took a deep breath and pointed my wand at the nearest bee to me. It was hanging a few inches in front of my face and if it is possible for a bee to look confused, that one certainly did.
"Locomotor Giant Barnacle Bee"
As I moved my wand the bee followed it through the air, and into the sack. I exhaled. A sigh of relief.
One down, hundreds more to go... I thought.
It took over an hour, being as careful as possible to move the bees, in case the Impedimenta jinx wore off, but enentually the air was cleared of floating bees.
I tied a knot in the side of the sack and gently lifted it and took it out of the door, my task completed!

Pixie // Hufflepuff

[lariren-shadow.livejournal.com]

All right, so to start off I am going to assume that the room is lit, if not then I would say Lumos. So there they are, and they come at me. Immediatly I say Protego shielding myself from them. And not hurting them. Once I hopefully have had them repelled, I cry Stupefy stunning them. Then, to catch them, and not hurt them, I use Incarcerous to put ropes around them so that they are captured. And the rope can be a good lenght so as they will not be to far away.

[laynie.livejournal.com]

I took a deep breath, squashing the fear that rose up in the pit of my stomach. I can do this, I reassured myself.

First things..."Protego!" I yelled, casting the shield charm on myself. Hopefully this will protect me from the bees' stingers.

Next: stopping the bees. I desperately tried to remember some charms that would help me.

Let's try this. I pointed my wand at a bee, flying unnervingly close to me, and shouted, "Impedimenta!" The bee completely stopped, in midair. Hmm, nice.

I stepped closer to the buzzing closet, knowing I'd have to get pretty close to take care of all the bees behind it. Another charm popped into my head. Again, I raised my wand. "Stupefy!" A bolt of red light shot from my wand, and all the bees suddenly stopped buzzing, dropping to the ground. At least now they'll be unconscious, and less of a threat.

I spotted a large bag, lying in the opposite corner of the room. "Accio bag!" I yelled, and it came flying at me, spreading dust everywhere.

A simple levitation charm should do. Raising my wand I said, "Wingardium Leviosa." and began to levitate the bees into the large bag I had found.

It took more than 30 minutes, but the bees were finally cleaned up. I closed up the bag and headed out the door. That wasn't too hard, after all.

Brooke / Gryffindor

[ohthatisbadnews.livejournal.com]

Before I did anything else, I decided that my own saftey was of more importance, so with a flick of my wand and a muttering Protego, i protect myself witht the shield charm. Now that that is taken care of I think for a second and cast the confundus charm, to confuse the bees. "Good, now they don't know what they are doing" I think to my self as I cast the "Impedimenta!" spell then I cast "EvanescO" and banish them into the cage that I had conjured using the Conjuring Spell.

Ivan//Ravenclaw

charms club

[esrielle.livejournal.com]

Esrielle quietly steps into the room and jumps slightly at the sound of the door closing behind her. She quickly glances around the room, finally settling on a cloth covered closet in the far corner of the room. "Bees," she says to herself. "It would be bees. I'm allergic to bees."

Taking a moment to collect herself, she realizes that utilizing Protego would be useless as bees aren't hexes so she decides to rely upon the defensive charge charm (see lexicon -HPL Encyclopedia of Spells)for protection. She then adjusts her hold on her wand and with a nice swish and flik motion calls a burlap sack to her by casting, "Accio burlap sack". Quickly, pointing her wand at the bees, Esrielle clearly speaks the spell, "Stupify" rendering the bees unconscious.

Esrielle then casts the spell, "Evanesco" and quickly closes the bag as the bees appear inside. Carefully walking to the door, she places her wand inside her robe pocket, opens the door and hands her club leader the bag with the advice, "Be careful, they will probably be waking up anytime now."

Esrielle/Ravenclaw

Charms Club Activity

[karinablack.livejournal.com]

"I... I have to PEE," I whine at the door. "RIGHT NOW!"

I look around the room.
"Sugar Honey Iced Tea," I hiss.

I slink to the floor behind a chair and cast The Defensive Charm (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_d.html#Defensive) on myself just in case.

I'm going through every charm I've ever read or heard about. I grin, remembering "My life with as a Cornish Pixie Rescue and Relocate agent" by Gilderoy Lockhart.

"Peskipiksi Pesternomi! (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_p.html#Peskipiksi)" I shout, aiming my wand up at the bees.

Nada. "Oh hell," I think. "They're not Pixies you idiot!"
"Peski....bee Pesternomi?" I call out. "What the hell is Latin for 'bee'?" I wonder to myself, mentally noting to brush up on my Latin as soon as I have a free moment.

The bees are angry. The buzzing gets louder as they approach nearer.

"The buzzing... they communicate through the buzzing," I reason as I cannot remember ever having read anything in depth regarding Giant Barnacle Bees. "That must've been the chapter I skimmed!" I curse myself.

"SILENCIO!" I swish and flick my wand toward the approaching swarm. "STUPEFY!" I try, desperately swishing and flicking, trying to ward off an attack.

The bees hang in midair, frozen, but growing ever angrier. "Catch them?! She can't be serious," I mutter.

"CONFUNDUS," (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_c.html#Confundus) I do a loop-de-loop, swish, flick combination to cast the Confundus charm at the bees. They appear dazed.

"Okay uhh..." I'm thinking, grasping at straws, knowing Mary Sue Knowlesital, a Ravenclaw in my class, will be up after me, and probably will do it right the FIRST time. I have to outdo her. I pace, knowing my spells will wear off at any moment.

"OOH!! OOH!!! CONFUNDUS!" (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_c.html#Confundus) I cast. "I am the GRAND HIGH QUEEN BEE!" I tell them, hoping and praying it will work. "You must follow me to a new hive. One with a POOL and a VIEW!" I promise.

I cast the Cheering Charm (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_c.html#Cheering) at the bees to make them happy, and feel good towards me whether or not they've understood. If nothing else, maybe I'll make it out alive.

"ORCHIDEOUS!" (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_o.html#Orchideous) I chant, and a fragrant bloom springs from the tip of my wand.

I walk towards the door. "Alohemora!" I cast, unlocking the door and beckoning my swarm to follow.

"If this works, someone should totally Scourgify (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_s.html#Scouring) this place," I note to the Professor.

I see Mary Sue's shocked and horrified face as I walk through the door. Feeling just a bit smug, but terrified myself... for if my litany of spells and charms may not have worked I've just unleashed a very angry swarm of Giant Barnacle Bees loose in the castle.

*gulp*

Karina Black, Ravenclaw (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_s.html#Silencio) (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_s.html#Stupefy)

[zentraedi-shep.livejournal.com]

It takes you another few seconds of searching before you spot it. Orange and black stripes. First one and then more and more flying, or rather, buzzing around behind a cloth covered closet. The Giant Barnacle Bees; a whole nest of them. Each one almost the size of your palm in length.

“Please capture them all alive~!” comes the voice of your Club leader from beyond the door. That was easy for her to say. You return your attention to the Bees, first you need to protect yourself from their stingers, second would come the capture.

"Yeah, well thanks a lot... I HATE YOU!!!"

The bees are drawing nearer and nearer while I get out my wand. Okay, I'm not allergic, but when those things as big as my fist will sting me it'll hurt terribly...

"Prot... no wait, they're not magic. " I yell to cast the defensive charm (cf. HP-Lexicon; made the incantation up...).

The air around me denses, giving me a merely solid protection against those ugly insects. If the spell wouldn't wear off as fast as it does, this would be the perfect moment to study the creatures, but well...
I look around. Catch them, alive...

"You think that funny? Stop laughing out there!"

Well, if the closet has no holes...

" cloth!" I say while walking over. The closet seems to be okay, and as long as there's no boggart inside... Damn, it's locked.

""

I open the door slowly... phew, it's empty. Now how to get the bees inside... I could use a... no that won't work... Perhaps with water? No! Ohhh, I have to think faster, the density of the air is slowly getting back to normal. Well, if they were things and not creatures... Wait a sec, if they don't move, they ARE things...

While moving my wand in a half circle and then pointing at the swarm, I shout at the top of my lungs: ""

I step aside from the open closet door.

"" I say, shutting the door behind the last bee.

""

I go over to the room's door and knock gently.

"You can let me out, I'm finished with your pets. You might wanna have a new closet, though..."

[2weeks3days.livejournal.com]

Staring at the door behind me, I can't help but wonder how I'm going to get all of these bees inside a tiny bad like that. The first thought that pops into my head is that I need to force these bees into it. The only spell that can literally force anything to doing anything is Imperius!

As it is not a problem, as far as I know, in using it on a living creature, I flick my wand and make a stabbing motion at the bees saying, "Imperio apis!" As each bee flies into my bag, I grin. Mission complete.

Karina, Slytherin

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