Orthoepy: the study of correct pronunciation… like spellcasting.
August 25, 2012
"How does this one go, Vicky?" Dominique asked.
"Wingardium Leviosa," Victoire said dismissively. She had summer holiday homework that she had put off until the last moment, but the term started back in a week and she was nowhere near done.
"Weengardidum Leviosa?" Dominique said.
"Mhmm," Vic said with a quill sticking out of her mouth.
"Ahh what about… umm… Aguamental," Dom pointed.
Victoire rolled her eyes, "It's Aguamenti and the next one is Incendio, for future reference."
"Oh, Incendio!" she said. Victoire nodded; relieved her sister had finally gotten one right.
"Uhh… Vic," Dominique said, voice shaking.
"What, Dominique?" Victoire asked, biting the end off of her quill. Then she found a fire consuming the rug in front of her.
"Bloody hell!" Vic scampered for her wand on the end table and got to it just as the fire began to lick at the couch.
"Aguamenti!" she yelled, directing a large jet of water at the floor in front of her. She was separated from her sister by the wall of flame that had been conjured by her sister.
Ten heart wrenching seconds later, Victoire held her sister in her arms.
"How'd you do that?" Vic asked.
"Mum's wand was on the…"
"Where is it now!" Victoire asked.
"It's um…" she pointed at burnt chunk of wood in the middle of the floor.
"Well Mum is going to kill you… but at least you're going to go into Hogwarts being able to do one spell," Vic said, glad that she and her sister was safe. Her homework however wasn't.
"I wonder if Flitwick would accept the excuse that my sister burned my homework?"
I'm really into the sibling stuff lately... the dynamics are so cool to me. Enjoy!