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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Mar 7, 2010 15:15:31 GMT -5
The Room of Requirement had, as always, provided exactly what they needed. A tall replica of the Astronomy tower loomed over a squashy floor that was nearly impossible to walk on, but was sure to break any falls without breaking them. He bounced lightly as he made his way toward the base of the tower, where a box and a book lay. Apparently the Room recommended they use wizarding safety gear to prevent them from plummeting to early deaths.
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Post by Willow Wenlock on Mar 7, 2010 15:34:22 GMT -5
As Willow walked into the room, the floor shifted under her, and she couldn't help a laugh as she half wobbled to the front of the room where there as a box full of odd looking contraptions. The first thing Willow did was bend over to take her shoes off. If she was going to do this, she was going to do it right, and that meant transfiguring all parts of her body. She wiggled her toes in the soft plush floor, another chuckle coming out. "I think this is going to be better than I had imagined."
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Mar 7, 2010 19:01:50 GMT -5
Dare nodded his assent, grinning as he kicked off his own shoes by the wobbling box. "Show me the spell again?" he asked, dropping his book bag. He worked his thumbs out of the holes on his arm warmers and pushed them up to his wrists, moving them out of the way without giving up the comfort they provided. He looked at his ring, wondering if it would get in the way of the suction cups, but decided it didn't matter. He was wearing it.
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Post by Willow Wenlock on Mar 7, 2010 19:18:28 GMT -5
Willow nodded, her wand starting with her feet and working their way up to her hands. "Lentesco Manuum." The motions of her wands were again like poking some molecule that existed in the airspace around them. She shivered as her hands and feet filled out with tiny little suckers, and she had to carefully slide her wand along the ground to get it to unlatch from her hand. "Alright, now that feels weird," she said as she straightened up, looking at the tower in front of her and entertaining the idea of trying to climb it.
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Mar 8, 2010 11:45:49 GMT -5
Dare nodded absently, his attention already focused on his own transfiguration. He stifled the chuckles that wanted to escape at the ticklish feel, then took a moment to calm down when he'd finished. "It's bizarre," he agreed, no matter that he'd already said it. "Think we should take pictures for Transfiguration?" He didn't have the camera, but he could always grab it the day of the show.
He moved to tuck his wand away, but realized the futility of the act as it followed his hand. He grinned, amused by it all, then took his wand between his teeth and slid his hand free. It took some finagling and some creativity, but he started working on getting his wand back where it belonged all the same. He wasn't leaving it behind.
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Post by Willow Wenlock on Mar 8, 2010 21:45:02 GMT -5
Willow thought about what the credit they might get for transfiguration, "I think we might be able to score extra credit for this. Doesn't that teacher give extra credit based on imagination? I'd say this is pretty imaginative." She looked up at the tower that seemed to loom over them, the bright lights in the Room of Requirement making it not as threatening. She smiled, "I forgot to put my hair up." She wiggled her fingers, "to late now," she said as she chuckled, placing her hands against the stone and testing out her suction hands.
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Mar 9, 2010 11:03:05 GMT -5
Dare got to his feet, then pulled a face at realizing he'd have to get to the tower before actually starting. "Yeah, most of the grade is for creativity," he said. He began the process of sliding his feet and sticking his way over to Willow's side, only part of his attention on the conversation for the moment. "I think she lets her kids grade things." She probably gave herself veto power, but at least one project had been decided wholly by who made them the coolest toy.
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Post by Willow Wenlock on Mar 9, 2010 11:18:54 GMT -5
"Really?" That didn't sound like such a good grading system, Willow thought. After all if you put in the work, why would you not get the grade back that you deserved? "Extra credit grading?" She might understand that if extra points were being awarded. She slid her hand up the wall, loosening it and grinned to herself. More firmly she put one hand high on the wall, and the other just under it, closing her eyes and hoping for the best she swung her feet up to the wall as well. When she didn't immediately fall she tilted her head back with a smile, her hair streaming to the floor, "This is awesome." She was at least a foot off of the ground.
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Mar 9, 2010 11:33:08 GMT -5
Dare grinned up at Willow and reached high, pressing his hand flat against the wall. It was tricky getting everything in order, but before long, his legs were bent up and the balls of his feet were stuck to the wall beneath him. "I'll race you," he said, then laughed. His self-appointed head start had been foiled by the slow process of deciding which limb to move, then getting himself unstuck to move it.
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Post by Willow Wenlock on Mar 9, 2010 11:53:53 GMT -5
Willow's lips twitched, "you're on." This was definitely more tricky than she had imagined, even knowing to go one hand at a time, it was apparently best to put one hand, one foot, the other hand, the corresponding foot. It took a process of trial an error to figure it out, but once she got the hang of it, her feet and hands slid almost spider-like across the surface of the tower. "Is it just me," Willow asked a bit breathlessly, "or does this feel like we're some kind of sneaky evil doer," her lips twitched at the thought.
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Mar 9, 2010 12:40:56 GMT -5
"Nah, Spiderman," Dare said. He released one hand and turned it, bending in his two middle fingers and making sound effects to go with his invisible web shooters. Then he pushed his legs straight and reached up, sticking his hand as high on the wall as he could to move further at once. "You know who Spiderman is?" he asked, looking back at Willow.
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Post by Willow Wenlock on Mar 9, 2010 21:45:43 GMT -5
Not the foggiest Willow thought as she continued working on the wall. It was kind of like walking, but with weights attached. It was exhilarating, knowing she was carrying herself up a wall. "No idea. Who is Spiderman?" Sounded like some kind of hybrid animal, had the ministry been experimenting again?
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Mar 9, 2010 22:49:51 GMT -5
"A character in Muggle comics. And movies," Dare added, pushing ahead to see how fast he could go. Not very fast at all really, but it was fun. "He was like, bit by some radioactive spider and then he got these powers, he can make spiderwebs shoot out like this..." Dare demonstrated with another twist of his hand. "And he climbs walls." He was grinning at the fun of it all.
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Post by Willow Wenlock on Mar 10, 2010 11:32:39 GMT -5
The idea seemed ludicrous, muggles had advancements that flabbergasted her, sure, but radioactive spider humans. "Is he real? Or like the Tales of Beedle & Bard?" Fairy tales or things of that nature she could understand. "Because if muggles can do things like that, I think I might trade in my witching hat," Willow said with a grin. Her hair swung as she continued up the wall, her cheeks flushing with the exertion. They would definitely need to do this at night.
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Post by Dare Blackwood-Hardt on Mar 10, 2010 13:00:54 GMT -5
"It's a comic book," Dare repeated. "Like The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle. Then they made it into a movie. You know what a movie is, right?" Not everyone did, so it was a valid question, especially with her confusion over whether Spiderman was real. He just hoped she didn't ask him what radioactive meant, because he had very little idea, and what he did know was mostly educated guesses.
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