Another Day, Another Practice, Another Friendship PV Finished

EmmaLee's days were getting so full. Homework, Cello practice, Dueling. It was a wonder she had time for anything else. Thankfully, most of her classes came easily to her and practicing cello was mostly about not getting rusty, practicing techniques she knew as well as walking, learning new songs, and exploring new techniques. Dueling was another thing.

Now, she liked dueling. Loved it. Really. She wished that she had been able to join the team much sooner so she could have been doing it longer. The whole experience was thrilling. She didn't like at all how fluctuating the Hufflepuff team was. People dropping it on a whim and causing the teams to shift and change once she had gotten the groove of a new team. The other house teams didn't seem to change nearly as much as Hufflepuff. What did that say for Hufflepuff loyalty?

Anywho, there was nothing to be done about it. Not by EmmaLee, at least. She just needed to go with the flow a little better. Getting a new team wasn't the end of the world or the end of dueling. The second stage had gone well for her new team, although she had wished it wasn't as evenly matched to be honest. She had lasted longer on her own this time before Emma Wynn had chosen to heal her and so she hadn't lasted longer in the over all match. She had thrown some solid spells. It had gone well, despite her misgivings about her change of team. She just needed to remember that she knew all of team Hufflepuff now and all of them would make good teammates. The were a good team. Changing around a little who exactly dueled with whom wasn't that big of a deal.

EmmaLee shook the thoughts out of her head and sighed as she pushed the dueling club door open. Practice, practice, practice. She knew from all sorts of situations that only practice was going to make her better. Better at taking a hit, better at casting, better at dodging, better at aiming. Hopefully there was someone already there to spar with, she had found those practices to be the most rewarding, but if their wasn't, casting practice would do just as well. She needed to get better at enunciation. It hadn't messed her up too much yet, but she couldn't help but feel as if one day she was going to get tongue tied and back fire again.

Walking in an looking around she saw not a soul, maybe everyone was enjoying the warming weather. Oh well. Enunciation it would be. She pulled out her long, white wand from the black and blue holster at her hip and levitated a practice dummy to the middle of the practice piste. Walking up onto it as well and taking her place, she took a calming breath and tried to focus on the dueling spells she knew.

She tired to treat it almost like cello practice. Check the tune, bow skills, finger exercises, scales, songs. Practice had a rhythm that created a perfect song at the end of hours of dedicated practice. Anything could be perfected with practice, making the movements second nature was key.

So she began. Going through each spell she knew in turn. Bullarum Immortalem, Mucus ad Nauseam, Tarantallegra, Incendio, Extinguo, Verdimillious, Flipendo, Wingardium Leviosa, Fumos, Steleus, Spongify, Rictusempra. Then again and again.

@Lily Isobel McCoire