James waited for his fifth year students to arrive for their latest lesson, they would be going over another curse as part of their wider review in preparation for their O.W.Ls at the end of the year, he didn't envy them, James remembered how stressful O.W.Ls were when he had been a student at Hogwarts and nothing would be worth going through that again...well maybe one thing.
Once he was sure every one of his students was in the classroom and had taken their seats he closed the classroom door and turned his attention to them. "Today we will be discussing two curses, the Jelly Fingers curse and the Sponge Knees curse. Now the effects of these curses are pretty self-explanatory, one causes your fingers to become like jelly and the other makes your knees sponge like making it hard to walk, I'll let you figure out which is which," The chalk behind him wrote his words, more or less, furiously on the blackboard behind him for the benefit of the students taking notes.
"Now some of you might be wondering something I did when I was in your shoes, not that long ago I might add, why are these two spells considered curses rather than jinxes? Whereas a similar spell such as the jelly-legs jinx is just that, a jinx. There doesn't seem to be a consistent answer, not one that I'd be comfortable sharing with you as a definitive one at least, as our favourite resident grouch Professor Styx once said when he was sitting at my desk a few years ago, a spell is a spell and their effects are the same, so does it matter if the jelly fingers curse is a curse or a jinx? I'll let you ponder on that in lieu of actual homework and feel free to submit your answers to me for a little extra credit otherwise, class dismissed,"
Assignment: RP the lesson. Extra credit for anyone who completes the assignment.
Once he was sure every one of his students was in the classroom and had taken their seats he closed the classroom door and turned his attention to them. "Today we will be discussing two curses, the Jelly Fingers curse and the Sponge Knees curse. Now the effects of these curses are pretty self-explanatory, one causes your fingers to become like jelly and the other makes your knees sponge like making it hard to walk, I'll let you figure out which is which," The chalk behind him wrote his words, more or less, furiously on the blackboard behind him for the benefit of the students taking notes.
"Now some of you might be wondering something I did when I was in your shoes, not that long ago I might add, why are these two spells considered curses rather than jinxes? Whereas a similar spell such as the jelly-legs jinx is just that, a jinx. There doesn't seem to be a consistent answer, not one that I'd be comfortable sharing with you as a definitive one at least, as our favourite resident grouch Professor Styx once said when he was sitting at my desk a few years ago, a spell is a spell and their effects are the same, so does it matter if the jelly fingers curse is a curse or a jinx? I'll let you ponder on that in lieu of actual homework and feel free to submit your answers to me for a little extra credit otherwise, class dismissed,"
Assignment: RP the lesson. Extra credit for anyone who completes the assignment.
