umbrellas indoors

♦ tess goshawk ♦ slytherin class of 2023 ♦ wandmaker apprentice ♦

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nadineshafiq:

“Oh well,” Nadine shrugged. “You’ll get it next time.”

“Thanks, Nadine. Can I buy you lunch or coffee or something? Make up for this complete waste of your time?”

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nadineshafiq:

Nadine frowned, standing still in the middle of the room. “I don’t think it’s working.”

Tess sighed. “Could’ve given up ages ago.”

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beatingbletchley:

“Glad to hear it.”

Didn’t mean to ruin your day.

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nadineshafiq:

Nadine nods, “I’ll try.”

“You’re a good sport.”

Tess waited a few extra moments before murmuring the spell in an effort to recreate a natural situation as best as she could.

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nadineshafiq:

Right. Do you want to try again? Now I know there’s less chance of you making all my hair fall out.

Okay, yeah, just don’t leave because you know you’re supposed to.

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dellaplunkett:

I hope it’s not too scary, you know? Maybe it’ll be like a cute scary haunted house.

Wouldn’t that be nice.

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beatingbletchley:

“Can’t you, I don’t know, practice on a gopher or something instead?”

Wouldn’t work the same on an animal. Don’t worry, though, I won’t try anything on you again.

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chefsuri:

I imagine they wouldn’t take much convincing. You could probably just owl them a pair of shoes with the charm on them and tell them they can try them for themselves. 

Well, alright! Worth a shot.

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nadineshafiq:

Well wouldn’t you need – I don’t know – a loud room? More people?

Yeah. I just thought it’d be easier to test it on one person first to see if it works at all. The larger the group, the more concentration would be required, see. If it didn’t work in that setting it might have just been because the magic isn’t strong enough yet or I wasn’t concentrating hard enough. Just testing it on one person would let me know for sure if the problem had to do with the spell itself or if it was just me.

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dellaplunkett:

I don’t like it very much either.

I never understood the appeal of these places. They’re just very excessive, almost vulgar. I don’t know why people would voluntarily come here to shit themselves.

That being said, I voluntarily came here, but I just wanted to be “festive” or something.

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beatingbletchley:

“The type of person who at least might tell me what to expect!”

But, see, if I told you, it could’ve affected the accuracy of the spell.

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I knew I should’ve just stayed home.

[beatingbletchley]

“You were going to disappear me?”

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No! No, not disappear you, just make you want to leave the room. Calm down, Frances, who do you think I am?

[chefsuri-blog]

It’s brilliant. You could make money off this, selling it to fashionable shoe stores. 

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That’s a really great idea, actually. I’ll have to start pitching it to some people. 

How do I even get in contact with shoe companies, holy shit.

[nadineshafiq-blog]

What was it supposed to do?

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I’m trying to make a spell that’ll clear a room. You know, if it’s too loud, or you want to be by yourself or something. But, since it’s such subtle magic, it’s hard to pin down exactly how to get it to actually have any effect.

[beatingbletchley]

“Am I not meant to be?”

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No. Not if it worked. Which, obviously, it didn’t.

[chefsuri-blog]

Oh, sweet Merlin, that is so much better. Where has that spell been all my life? 

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In one of my old notebooks.