Dueling Club!

Sep 25, 2011 22:56

In the Great Hall, Kale's gotten the tables moved out of the way and mats put down on the floor. With a few absent flicks of his wand he repositions a few of them to his liking. The last thing he needs is for someone to hurt themselves. To one side Trever is sitting, holding Veena. He's here to help. You can't have a good duel with only one person ( Read more... )

dinah lance, trever delvar, kale delvar, *era: modern day, *location: hogwarts, !game: elusive jobberknoll

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serinusniger September 26 2011, 13:37:33 UTC
Dinah peeks her head through the doors early on in the lesson - she's not an official member of Dueling Club right now for the same reason that she's no longer in any other clubs but the one - too many other commitments.

Nevertheless, she's still the child of Dinah Drake, who was breathing dueling techniques from the day she could hold a toy wand, and of all the clubs she dropped, even Quidditch, this is the one she misses the most.

"Just dropped in to see if you needed any help?"

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engineermage September 26 2011, 16:17:35 UTC
Trever's got a few of the wee ones (they're eleven, they're wee) flicking their wands at each other trying to disarm one another. About two thirds of the time their wands go flying out of their hands not from the spell, but from sheer enthusiasm. The older ones are flicking harmless charms in pairs. Kale glances over.

"What be dragin' this duck in?" Kale asks, with a smile and exaggerating his accent.

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serinusniger September 26 2011, 19:57:35 UTC
"Being completely bored of Potions homework," Dinah replies, with a bright smile. "And I heard there was wand flicking and I wanted to look in."

Wild horses couldn't keep her away, really.

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engineermage September 26 2011, 21:53:38 UTC
"Of course. Would you like to be our victim... I mean help us demonstrate?" Kale asks.

He gestures over to Trever to come join him. Veena gets upset at her lap getting up and moving so she stalks off into a corner.

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witchnotninja September 26 2011, 18:11:59 UTC
Kirika is at the back and not volunteering for any of the dueling yet. She is here to learn about dueling after all and nit fighting. Fighting she knows.

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engineermage September 26 2011, 18:22:37 UTC
Dueling is a form of fighting. It's just a formalized and "civilized" form of fighting.

Seeing her just standing there, he gestures at her. "Come up here."

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witchnotninja September 26 2011, 23:53:26 UTC
...Yeah well Kirika leans towards striking from the shadows rather than stand up fights.

"Yes sir."

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engineermage September 28 2011, 01:57:22 UTC
Trever sniggers at Kale being called 'sir' which earns him a swat on the shoulder with the flat of the wand. If a wand could be considered to have a flat.

Kale waits patiently for her to come up and then says, "Do you mind being the example?"

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fiss84 September 26 2011, 21:01:05 UTC
Julie (1st year, Gryffindor) has gotten over the fear and conviction that her placement in Gryffindor instead of Hufflepuff was going to get her in trouble, possibly even expelled...really she has...well mostly. Anyway, the point is that while she still thinks she was placed in the wrong House, that doesn't mean she can't apply the dogged determination Hufflepuff is known for to becoming as Gryffindor like as she can.

This means learning to duel cause that's what Gryffindor's do right? And so she came to at least see what she can manage though she'll watch for a bit first.

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engineermage September 26 2011, 22:01:50 UTC
When they're all settled, Kale holds out his wand at his twin who is standing about ten feet away, his own wand held lazily at his side.

"For you newcomers, the first thing we're gonna be working on is the classic, and probably most important spell in dueling and in fighting in general. This is the Expelliarmus charm. With this, correctly applied, you can disarm your opponent," he says, "And if your opponent doesn't have his wand, he can't fight you."

He then turns to Trever who now holds his own wand up. "If you get really good at it, you can do this."

Perhaps they've done it a bit too often at each other because the brothers both cry "Expelliarmus!" at the same time. Their wands flick from their grasp and land in the other's hand.

Trever gives a bow at this.

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fiss84 September 26 2011, 22:14:34 UTC
"But can't you just use each others wands now to fight?" Julie hears herself ask before she can stop herself.

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engineermage September 26 2011, 22:27:24 UTC
"We could," Trever says, indicating himself and Kale, "But our wands are practically identical, like us, and we've done this trick a hundred times so our wands know us very well. However, it's taken us years of practice to be able to do the wand switching trick, normally the wand would just go flying somewhere."

Kale then adds. "And wands rather like their owners in most cases. It's usually hard to use another person's wand. They say the wand chooses its owner for a reason. That being said, in a real fight, you can lose the allegiance of your wand."

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