Charm The Eyeglass Repair Charm, First Year

Katrina could not believe it, a practical history of magic class? She didn’t enjoy History of Magic as much as some of her other classes, but it was still better than muggle school. She would much rather be learning charms than listening and taking notes during a lecture. She couldn’t wait!

Katrina stood practically staring down the broken glasses. There was a small fracture on the bridge and the left glass was shattered. She would have to say the words with determination and the right emphasis: “OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-roh,” simultaneously touching her wand to the glasses to complete the charm. Upon finishing the charm, the glasses would, in fact, repair themselves.

Katrina stood and recited the words repeatedly in her head. OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-roh, OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-roh, She always struggled with emphasis, but was determined now to do her best the first time. She tested the wand movement, worried that she would make a fool herself if she did that part wrong.

Katrina cleared her throat and spoke “OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-roh.” She touched her chestnut wand to the glasses but knew it wouldn’t work—her voice had failed her. The glasses continued to stare blankly at her, not changed at all.

The Gryffindor had felt so sure she could do it on the first try. Now crestfallen, the girl stared wistfully at other students doing just fine. She mustered her courage and tried again.

“ OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-roh!” She spoke with fierce determination and tapped the wand to the glasses. Katrina hoped she had done it right this time. She watched as the glasses menses themselves together.

Professor Edit: Seeing the distraught look on one of his Gryffindor student's face, Zahid quickly made his way over but Katrina caught herself and tried the spell again. Giving her a slight encouraging smile, he praised "Good work, Miss Walker." as the glasses on her desk mended themselves.

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Professor Edit: Blinking in surprise Zahid watched in amusement as one of his students had fun jumping on his glasses. Well, that was certainly one way to re-break them. He was about to stop him - as fun as it looked it might distract the other students - but Andrew was already finished and put the pieces back to mend them again.

"Good work, Mr. Vance."

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While History of Magic was considered one of the more boring subjects to some, it happened to be one of Tatiana's favorites. Growing up in a muggle school with no knowledge of magic had left gaps in her overall understanding of the wizarding world, of which she was eager to fill. In primary school, she'd had to listen to her history teachers drone on and on about which countries went to war with each other and when, usually instigated by petty muggle squabbles. But in her history class at Hogwarts, she got to learn about topics such as gargoyles, of which she was elated to learn were sentient beings who had once fought against the cruelty of some masters.

So when Tatiana heard that her professor was going beyond teaching them significant dates and events by offering up some extracurricular classes to learn practical spells as well, she jumped at the opportunity. And while the spells may not be as exciting as the ones they learned in say, Charms or Defense of the Dark Arts, she was just as hungry to learn more about the sorts of magic she could use to make her everyday life a bit easier. And with gracefulness being one of her weaker characteristics, an eyeglass repair charm was something she was certain she would have a need for in the future.

As Professor Zahid had instructed, Tatiana placed her wand on the table and practiced saying the incantation correctly a few time. "OCK- you- liss reh- PAH- roh," she said, awkwardly pausing between each individual syllable. "OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-roh," she said once more, trying to string the syllables together as quickly and fluidly as she could. After a few more times, both with and without pausing to enunciate, she felt confident she was pronouncing the words correctly and picked up her wand again. Thankfully, the words were all that really required practice, as this spell didn't have any sort of particular wand movements- just point, tap, and speak to cast.

Tatiana grabbed one of the broken pairs of sunglasses from the box provided and set them on the table in front of her. Making sure to concentrate, she held her wand firmly in her hand and gently tapped the top of the glasses with it. "Oculus Reparo!" She drew back and watched in childlike wonder as the two halves seamlessly brought themselves together. It had been so easy the first time, she was excited to try again. Pressing her thumbs against the bridge, she pushed on them until they snapped in half. Setting the pieces next to each other, she gave it another go. "Oculus Reparo!" And with a quick tap of her wand, the two broken pieces brought themselves together just as flawlessly as the first time. Proud of herself and beaming, she stepped back and clasped her hands together in front of her as she waited for the professor to make his way over to her table.

Professor Edit: It was always nice to see students that were happy about having learned something, after all, making sure they learned something was his vocation.

Stopping next the Ravenclaw girl's table, he watched as she broke and repaired the glasses again. "Well done, Miss Crane." Smiling he moved on to the next student.

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Professor Edit: ”Good work, Miss Starr.” Zahid nodded at her, before shaking his head in regret – he could hardly just hand out sun glasses to students or if he did, he would have to let all of them keep theirs. ”Sadly, no. But such glasses are not so rare and should be quite easy to find in non-magical London, for example.”

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Professor Edit: It seemed some students would always find History of Magic boring, no matter what was taught. (Maybe it was the classroom?) Truly, learning the Eyeglass Repair Charm was probably also not the most exciting of lessons, but he had not expected to see one of his students half-asleep in one of the more practical lessons.

At least the Gryffindor seemed to jerk awake again once she realized he was currently checking the spell work of a student two seats over. After correcting the boy's wandmovement ( “You only need to tap your glasses, not stab them.””) he moved down the line. Nodding to the Gryffindor “Well done, Miss Decipio.” he then turned to the girl next to her to remind her to properly enunciate the incantation.

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It is a no brainer that Cassie picks hand-on learning over theoretical any given day. When some of their House mates mentioning that Professor Zahid teaches an extracurricular class and they will learn a new spell or two, Cassie get up from the sofa that they lounge at in their Common Room.

In instant Cassie got out from their Common Room and towards where History of Magic class located. It suppose to be an easy trip. Just two stories up and Cassie supposedly already arrived at their destination. But no, for the umpteenth time Cassie got lost because of the ever changing stairs.

When they finally arrived outside of the classroom door, Cassie abruptly open the door. "Sorry, professor. I am late"Cassie said to Professor Zahid just in time to listen one of their house mate saying the incantation for what the spell that Professor Zahid will teach. Then Professor Zahid tell the class what the pronunciation.

"OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-roh" is what Professsor Zahid said to the class. Cassie knitted their eyebrows because they arrived at the class already halfway through. Then Cassie looked down at the table where the broken sunglasses at. There's cracks here and there were taped in multiple places to bind the sunglasses.

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Oh so today lesson is how to repair a glasses, Cassie thought internally. Professor Zahid then pick up the said sunglasses, holding it on his right hand, tapped the sunglasses and said the incantation for the eyeglass repair charm. Cassie then follow what Professor Zahid said. Cassie place their wand on the table and practice the pronunciation.

"OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-roh"Cassie stated with their thick Spanish accent for several times. When it comes to saying things in Latin, sometimes their accent could get in the way. After two or three time Cassie said the pronunciation and it did not sound weird in their ears, Cassie picked up their wand and hold in on their left hand.

Taking a deep breath and concentrate. "Oculus Reparo!"Express Cassie tapping the broken sunglasses. "Ha!"Cassie stated excitedly when the sunglasses repaired then smirks. No more cracks and tapes on it. The sunglasses looks like it never been broken before on the first place.

Professor Edit: After taking some points from the Slytherin for being late, Zahid returned to the lesson.

When it came to making his rounds while the students practised, he made no more mention of her tardiness and simply oberved as she repaired her glasses. “Well done, Miss Ironwoods.”

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Professor Edit: Zahid gave the boy a nod as he turned toward him. “Well done, Mr. Rainwood. Go ahead and break the glasses again to practice some more.” He gave a slight encouraging smile. After all, a success was a good thing but practice could turn one success in a sure success in the future.

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Willow had become quite taken with the extracurricular spell classes that were offered. It let her take her wizard journey into her own hands and she found herself being even more excited to learn the spells because of it. While Willow didn't wear spectacles herself, she figured it would be a handy dandy spell to learn in the future in case any of her friends ended up breaking their glasses. She sat down at a desk and fiddled with the purple sunglasses in front of her, obviously broken. Snapped clean in the middle. She jokingly put them broken, balanced on her face before the Professor started teaching in which she promptly returned them to her desk to focus.

It seemed like a fairly simple spell, with an especially easy wand movement that made sense. She laid her head resting on her arm onto her desk. Her fingers moving the glasses around her desk as she practiced the incantation. "OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-rohhhh" She dragged out the last word lazily. Her voice shifted into many different accents, some nonexistent as she practiced it a few more times. "OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-rohhhh, OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-rohhhh, OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-rohhhh." Feeling satisfied with her future career possibility in voice acting and her pronunciation she lifted up her head and twirled her wand in her hand.

She moved the spectacle pieces closer together to maybe increase the success rate of the spell, because that's definitely how it worked. She took a deep breath, "Oculus Reparo!" For someone on the Quidditch team, her aim at the classes missed and her wand tapped between the glasses rather than actually on them. With a small giggle at her silly mistake she recentered herself to try again. "Oculus Reparo!" This time with a gentle tap on the glasses, they shook and moved together to repair at the center. Willow nodded satisfactorily, before reaching out and snapping the sides of the glasses off to try again.

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Professor Edit: He was glad to see that the Hufflepuff didn't let herself be discouraged by such a simple mistake and even found some amusement in her mishap before trying again. Always a good mindset to have.

Her second attempt was a success and the glasses repaired themselves. “Well done, Miss Anderson.”

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Professor Edit: Walking through the rows, Zahid congratualed some on their success, corrected mistakes for others but noted that most of the students were quite enthusiastic in their task which is why he was surprised when he spotted a Ravenclaw that seemed more interested in watching her neighbours efforts than putting in her own.

However, as he walked closer to inquire if there was a problem that prevented her from participating in the lesson, the Ravenclaw seemed too have an AHA!-moment as she smacked herself in the head before she turned to her glasses to repair them. He hoped she didn't make a habit of that action in the wake of a realistion, but she would neither be the first nor the last.

Still, she succeeded in repairing her glasses and so he merely gave her the same nod and "Well done, Miss Gollens." that most of his students received.

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As the History of Magic and History in general were Jack's absolute favorite subjects, he had always had more trouble attempting to maintain his slacker reputation in Zahid al-Benghazi ibn Masoud's class. This was especially difficult when History seemed to be many other students' least favorite subject, so his enthusiasm, though restrained, still tended to stand out in blatant contrast to his classmates' disinterest.

Zahid al-Benghazi ibn Masoud - or 'Professor Zahid', as he had told his students he preferred to be called due to the different naming conventions regarding his place of origin - seemed to be a patient man. Like Jack, he also seemed unsure as to why some students were expected to learn some spells in their History of Magic class rather than Charms. The Scouring Charm, for example, was a lesson taught not by Professor Vernatis, but Professor Zahid, though neither really seemed to be able to provide a reason as to why.

Jack had assumed it supposedly had to do with how certain spells fit in to certain lesson plans tied to history. With some spells they were meant to learn, however, this did not seem to be the case. Thus, as he often did with his other classes, the redheaded Slytherin boy decided to look into the history of the spell and the etymology of the incantation prior to the actual lesson taking place. As it so happened, his father actually wore glasses of his own and broke them from time to time, so it was a simple matter to owl home and request to be given whatever pairs might have been...well, in need of repair.

While he waited for his request to be fulfilled, the first year read up on the history of the spell. Since he couldn't really find much on the very specific Eyeglass Repair Charm, he resorted instead to reviewing the history of its more general version which was simply known as the Mending Charm or, as he preferred to call it, the Repairing Charm. This was his preferred name for it because the Eyeglass Repair Charm seemed to be a variant of the Repairing Charm and the two shared the same base incantation of 'reparo', so it made it easier not only to remember the incantations but the fact that the two were related to one another.

What he found to be more puzzling, however, was the literal translation of the Latin incantation. As with the general Repairing Charm, the term 'reparo' was derived from the singular first person conjugation of the Latin verb 'reparare' which translated to 'to renew' or 'to revive' in English. The Latin word 'oculus', on the other hand, literally translated to 'eye', meaning that the incantation's literal English translation was 'I repair the eye' or 'I renew the eye'.

Not only did this grammatically lack sense, but it seemed to be logically and literally lacking sense as well. If the spell was meant to repair eyeglasses, why did it refer to a singular eye of a person? Was it possible to repair one's eye with the same incantation, or was there something different for that if anything at all?

Jack would have liked to look into the matter more, as well as maybe experiment a bit, but he had neither the time nor the resources to do so. He also dreaded to think what could have happened if he somehow managed to incorrectly perform the spell on someone's actual eye and it permanently worsened or destroyed their ability to see.

Shuddering at the idea, he quickly shoved it aside before noting in an article that there were supposedly various textbooks containing instructions for the Repairing Charm. Aside from The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 1 by the famous Miranda Goshawk, there also seemed to be a spellbook entirely dedicated to teaching it. Jack wondered idly if it included variants such as the Eyeglass Repair Charm and others, as well as if it explained why said variants had been invented or were required or used at all.

He presumed said variants may have been more easy or simple to learn than the general, 'reparo', but as that spell in itself was simple enough to have been one of the two taught in their first Charms class, Jack wasn't sure what that would have mattered.

Once he thought he had read enough to be confident in his knowledge of the charm, Jack took a set of his father's broken glasses, pointed at it with his wand, and said, "Oculus Reparo." Initially, nothing happened, but then he re-read the steps and realized what he had done wrong.

Like the general Repairing Charm, the wand wasn't meant to produce any light when performing the spell. However, the Eyeglass Repair Charm did not require the same spiral wand movement that the the general Repairing Charm did. Instead, one simply had to lightly tap said glasses with one's wand after speaking the incantation. Astonished at the simplicity of it, Jack thought he might have discovered just why this charm might have been preferred over the general 'reparo'. It seemed to save both time and trouble.

"Oculus Reparo," he spoke again, lightly tapping the frame of his father's glasses as he did so. The pair immediately restored itself, causing Jack to laugh in astonishment and delight. He enjoyed practicing it so much that he quickly finished fixing his father's other four pairs before returning them by owl to his parents in the muggle world and preparing for the actual lesson in the History of Magic.

Though Jack smiled when Professor Zahid walked by, he continued to rest his chin atop a small stack of history books he had brought with him to class, staring idly at the sunglasses he had been presented with specifically for the occasion. The boy casually prodded at them with his wand, pushing them across his desk this way and that, as if bored. Waiting for just the right moment when no one else seemed to be watching him, a large grin split his face and he poked the wand at the shades one more time, whispering something under his breath.

"Oculus Reparo."

Professor Edit: Maybe it was nervousness, maybe simply bad luck but for whatever reason, it seemed that grinning boy stumbled over the incantation and while the crack in his test subject started to repair itself, it stopped halfway. “Careful which syllable you put stress on. The correct pronunciation is OCK-you-liss reh-PAH-roh.”, Zahid encouraged the boy to give it another try.

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As you did not include the proper pronunciation of the spell, you did not learn it.
You can still learn the spell by making a new post writing how you try again - just make sure to include both the wandmovement and the pronunciation this time.