Private Lessons in Defense Against the Dark Arts.

[HaelKatrin]

Hael remained quiet, allowing the girl to consider her words. She could practically see the thoughts racing in her mind. She nods as the girl finally speaks. "Try that again. Let me hear you. Are you going to 'try' or are you going to succeed?"

[P.K.]

Fira's eyes narrowed. "I'll get this." She said with a Low determined growl. She'd promised as much when she'd come this year, if professor Hael was going to lend a hand then Fira might as well take it however reluctant she might be to be here. "What's first?" Fira asked shifting her wand in her hands.

[HaelKatrin]

Hael once more smiles as the student decides that she would succeed. "Good. Hold on to that confidence. The wands choose us, my dear. Yours chose you for a reason. But, that does not mean it is master of you."

She thinks over the question of what to do first. It was an interesting dilemma. "I think you like a bit of a challenge. Let us try to levitate first."

To demonstrate this, she turns to face a stack of rather heavy books on her desk. A swish, and a flick. "Wingardium leviosa." She says quite calmly. Musing to herself at how odd it always was to do magic aloud. She much preferred silent. Ah well. One must teach by example. the books rose slowly into the air. She brought them to sit nearly in front of Ms Clementines.

"Now then, you and your wand are both stubborn. Return those to my desk, if you please." She said with a glint in her eye.

[P.K.]

Fira watched the books float over and settle down on front of her. She knew where this was going even before the professor spoke out loud. Great. She thought looking at the stack of books. Even though she'd said she'd had it, and she was still determined to try she could already feel her frustration growing just by thinking about it.

She rolled her eyes before she pushed away from the desk and flicked her wand at the stack. "Wingardium leviosa!" She said firmly. Nothing even stirred. She kept from grinding her teeth and instead took in a deep breath and let it out slowly, pushing back the urge to throw down the magical piece of wood. She tried once more. "Wingardium leviosa." One of the books shifted in its place and the stack trembled.

[HaelKatrin]

"Well. . . It's a start." Hael said aloud. Trying very hard to hide her own frustration. Fira wasn't the first student to have trouble with magic. Nor would she be the last. Each student came with their own set of issues, and trouble. It was a matter of showing them they could do this. And helping them find that confidence.

She once more takes Fira's wand. "Any witch can make a wand bend to their own will." She said again. Then, with a swish and a flick, without saying a word, the books rose off the desk they were on, and moved to a desk next to her. Even farther away from the professor's desk now.

Instead of handing Fira's wand back to her, she hands her her own. "Try again." Perhaps it was the wand. Or, perhaps it was simply the girl had a few problems that needed to be discovered first.

[P.K.]

Fira couldn't help feeling even more frustrated when the Professor spoke. It wasn't mocking but it still frustrated her. She looked at the women as she plucked her wand from her hand and moved the books with out saying a word. Damn. Fira thought quietly. What had it taken for this women to get that good that she didn't even have to say it out loud...

She looked back as she was offered the professors wand. Fira was taken back a little bit but hesitantly took the want. It felt different in her hands. She knew it was possible to use other peoples wands, wasn't there a wand that only answered to the person who could beat its previous master? She looked at the wand for a long moment before looking to the stack of books again.

She flicked the wand at the stack. "Wingardium leviosa!" The books clattered over the side of the desk, spilling all over the floor. "Tisk..." That was more movement then last time, but nothing like levitating something.

[HaelKatrin]

Hael watched with almost horror as the books clattered to the floor. A car came screeching out from under the desk, tail fluffed completely out and straight in the air. Hissing at Fira as she hid behind Hael. Hael shook her head in amusement. She then uses Fira's wand, which she still held, to once more wordlessly pick the books up. This time, she placed them on a desk a row behind them. She then set the student's wand down in front of the girl. "It's the Elder Wand." She commented casually. It was an obvious thing for a student to be curious about. It didn't take legilimens to know that's what she'd been thinking. "One must won it in a duel. For your more common wands, it will do as you say even if you've not won it. Now, try again."

[P.K.]

Fira grimaced at the cat as it hissed at her. It wasn't unusual, so far the only animal that seemed to like her was Katrin's Dog... Which was strange in s many ways. She looked back to the books as they were picked up and placed on another desk once again before looking back at the click of her wand being set aside.

"The elder wand?" Fira asked. How did she know? She hadn't said anything out loud. "Can you read minds?" she asked before looking back to the stack of books. This wasn't going well so far, same old out comes. She sighed before pulling the wand up once more. "Wingardium leviosa." She hissed, Again one of the books shifted off the stack, it slipped off but hoovered for a moment making Fira's eyes sharpen as she tried to will it to stay there. But it finely dropped hitting the corner of the desk and falling to the floor.

[HaelKatrin]

The cat looks between Hael and Fira. She flicks her tail a few times until the fur returns to it's unfluffed state. Then, walks up to Fira, purring rather loudly and rubbing against her leg.

"You are using a wand belonging to myself. It is a common legend that entices young minds. The wand that can only be used by killing it's previous master. What else would you be thinking of?" She doesn't deny or affirm whether or not she could actually read minds. Leaving that up to the girl's imagination.

The cat jumps back a few steps, hissing at the book that had fallen once more. Hael ignored the cat. She picks up the wand once more, lifting the fallen book, and placing it on a desk next to the others. Now, Fira would have to return the book to it's stack, before moving them all back to the desk. "Good. That time was better. Try again."

[P.K.]

Fira gave the cat an uncomfortable glance but tried to focus on the books. Ugh, things were just getting messier here. She was trying to hard not to grind her teeth as She raised the wand again, focusing on just the one book. Why did magic never seem to work for her? Her mother was a witch, she was half witch shouldn't she at least be able to use a simple spell?! or was she just not good enough? not powerful enough? not meant to be here. She didn't know any of these answers.

She hesitated for a long moment, her brows knitted together in furious concentration. What the hell was she even doing here and why would a wand chose her? She couldn't even manage a simple spell. Most first year students could get this one the second or third try, but she'd lost count. "Wingardium leviosa!" She snapped, The book flew off the desk and slammed into the Professors desk before skidding across the floor.

"Damn." Fira growled. Glowering down at the book. "I don't think it matters what wand I use." she said finely losing her white knuckled grip on the wood and offered the wand back. She obviously lacked something, and maybe it was just magic by itself....