Duelling Club last night
Jan. 29th, 2010 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_nevilleWell, at least my nose is back to its normal shape now. I'm not sure if that's what Bulstrode quite intended, but I'll give her points for taking me totally by surprise.
I don't always get the sorts of wand directions Professor Lockhart shows us, so maybe that's why I'm not doing so well. But I have to say, they never look quite the same way twice to me, any time he's demonstrating. And it's sort of hard to tell what's the wand motion he means to show us, and what's the, er, flourishing and what not. But I did do a little better toward the end, right before the meeting broke up. That's because Professor Brutka was looking over my shoulder when I was paired up against Jenkins, and the Professor offered a little suggestion or two. Nothing too major, just about the way I was gripping the wand, but it made a big difference. I actually hit Jenkins spot on with the jelly-legs jinx--except I suppose I shouldn't get much credit because actually dropped my wand then because I was so surprised. That wouldn't do me much good if I was in a for real duelling situation.
(Ron, it's too bad that your wand acted like that, but at least you didn't give up. And that tickling jinx on Smith worked real well, too.
Maybe someone has some fresh Spello-tape, and that might help?)
I don't always get the sorts of wand directions Professor Lockhart shows us, so maybe that's why I'm not doing so well. But I have to say, they never look quite the same way twice to me, any time he's demonstrating. And it's sort of hard to tell what's the wand motion he means to show us, and what's the, er, flourishing and what not. But I did do a little better toward the end, right before the meeting broke up. That's because Professor Brutka was looking over my shoulder when I was paired up against Jenkins, and the Professor offered a little suggestion or two. Nothing too major, just about the way I was gripping the wand, but it made a big difference. I actually hit Jenkins spot on with the jelly-legs jinx--except I suppose I shouldn't get much credit because actually dropped my wand then because I was so surprised. That wouldn't do me much good if I was in a for real duelling situation.
(Ron, it's too bad that your wand acted like that, but at least you didn't give up. And that tickling jinx on Smith worked real well, too.
Maybe someone has some fresh Spello-tape, and that might help?)