Into The Light (Golden Trio Era) {2}

First Lesson

"Right," Harry said when she sat back down. "shall we get practicing then? I was thinking, the first thing we should do is Expelliarmus, you know, the Disarming Charm. I know it's pretty basic but I've found it really useful-"   "Oh, please," moaned Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-You, do you?"  "Harry used it last year," Mikayla said, standing up and looking at Smith. "against Voldemort himself. He's still alive, so I'd say it's damn well useful. Zacharias all you've said to us since the beginning has been criticising, you can leave right now if you think you're well enough off to survive." He didn't move, nor did anyone else, much less speak. "Thanks," said Harry, Mikayla sent him a nod, "Okay, I reckon we should all divide into pairs and practice." Harry looked a bit shocked that everyone listened to his instructions so easily. They all got up and paired with one another.  "Alright Mikayla, er- wand raised-" he instructed as they lined up parallel from each other. Mikayla caught him off guard, "Expelliarmus!" she proclaimed, whipping her wand towards him, his wand flew out of his hand. Mikayla grinned as she tossed his wand back to him. The room was loud with people shouting the charm and wands clattering against walls of the floor. But not everyone was having success with the spell. Mikayla noticed Neville by himself, his hands hanging loosely at his sides.  "Harry, I'm gonna-" Mikayla started, glancing over to Neville, Harry nodded and went to see how other people were doing.  "Hey, Neville!" Mikayla called over people shouting the spell, he looked at her and she waved him over.

"C'mon then, try to disarm me." He raised his wand nervously. "Expelliarmus!" He said, her wand moved, but did not get lifted out of her hand.  "Again, try again." She encouraged. "Try to sound a bit more confident, Neville. You have to believe you can do it." Harry shot her a look saying 'Good job'.  "Expelliarmus!" once again, nothing. He looked extremely disheartened.  "Hey, Neville! Third time's the charm!" Harry called from across the room. Neville took a deep breath and tried again, his legs shaking slightly.  "Expelliarmus!" He said, whipping his wand toward Mikayla . Her wand snapped out of her hand and clattered against the floor. Mikayla looked back at Neville, beaming, his face was bright and he was grinning hugely.  "I DID IT!" he said gleefully. "I DISARMED YOU! I DID IT!"  "Nice job, Neville!" Mikayla walked towards Neville and gave him a pride filled hug.

Although Neville did a wonderful job, the others still continued to mess up. Harry walked around the room looking very disgruntled, having to dodge flying books and correct every other person. George and Fred were messing with Zacharias Smith's wand from a distance, Michael Corner was too uncomfortable with shooting a spell at his girlfriend, and Luna seemed to being the wrong spell entirely, as she sometimes sent Justin's hair sticking straight up.  "Okay, stop!" Harry shouted, but it was barely heard over everyone talking. "Stop! STOP!" He looked around for a moment, spotted something, pointed his wand at it, caught it as it flew toward him, then blew as hard as he could into it. The sound of a whistle blared out and everyone stopped to look where it was coming from.  "That wasn't bad," said Harry, "but there's definite room for improvement. Let's try again." 

Mikayla swapped with Harry, allowing him to practiced more with Neville, Mikayla waltzed around the room, "Fredrick Hugo Weasley! George Gideon Weasley!" The twins froze, before slowly spinning around, "Focus more on what you were told to do and mess with Smith on your own time." They nodded before beginning to disarm one another. Mikayla then made her way over to Ginny and Michael, "Michael grow a pair. It's a disarming curse it won't hurt her." Michael nodded before attempting to disarm Ginny, hitting the book case instead. "Point your right foot where you want it to go and focus on the point." She told Michael, he nodded before successfully disarming Ginny. "There you go well done." Mikayla continued down the line correcting people. She made it down to Luna, "Luna you're not doing the disarming spell. Can you try doing it, please?" Luna nodded before disarming Justin, Mikayla beamed, "Keep up the good work." She walked over to Zacharias Smith that was paired with Hannah Abbot. "Alright. Can I call you Zach?" He nodded politely, "Get in the stance you'd do when casting the disarming spell." He did as instructed, Mikayla pointing his right foot towards Hannah, "Focus on her hand." She spoke, "And go." He missed slightly, "No worries try again." This time he got a little wiggle of Hannah's wand. "You've got to believe in yourself. You can do this."

Just after Zach disarms Hannah, Harry blew the whistle. "Well, that was pretty good," Harry said proudly, "but we've overrun, we'd better leave it here. Some time, same place next week?" "Sooner!" Dean Thomas said eagerly, many people nodded in agreement.  "The Quidditch season's about to start, we need team practices too!" Alicia said quickly, not wanting D.A. to overshadow Quidditch. "Let's say next Wednesday night, then, and we can decide on additional meetings then... Come on, we'd better get going..." He pulled out the Marauder's Map to check for teachers, then cautiously sent everyone out in small groups of threes and fours.  "Terrific class, Professor Potter!" Mikayla smiled clapping her hands on his shoulders proudly. "You were great Professor Black." Mikayla laughed as Harry imitated her. "That was really, really good, guys," Hermione beamed.  "Yeah, it was!" Ron said enthusiastically. "Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?"  "Only once," she scoffed. "I got you loads more than you got me-"  "I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times-"  "Well, if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand-"  "Quit your bickering!" Mikayla said loudly, "Did any of you see Neville disarm me? He's getting a lot better!" Mikayla said proudly. They all walked back to the common room in a mood much happier than they had been in weeks.

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