Harry walked around the room of requirement with Hermione checking on the students progress. They were working on stances and how to hold their wands for maximum balance and aim.
It was a pretty normal meeting when you thought about it. No one (i.e. Fred and George) had caused any distractions. There were no bouncy houses, nobody as writing letters, and nobody was discussing DA mottos. Even more shocking was that everybody was listening to him for once I mean really, how often does that happen. Harry could actually count the amount of times on one hand.
Harry decided to test the waters and see if they would continue to listen to him. "Okay, everybody line up in front of the practice dummy."
Hermione stepped to the front of the line and demonstrated the wand movement and incantation like we decided she would do everytime before the others started practicing.
Padma, Parvati, Cho, Ginny, Fred, and George went up one by one and disarmed the dummy without problem. Then it was Dean's turn.
Harry was watching his stance and the grip he had on his wand when he noticed something off. There was something white wrapped around the wand. Harry was a second too late to realize what it was. "WAIT STOP!" It was no use. Dean fired off his spell. His wand movement and incantation were both done perfectly. Unfortunately the white thing Harry saw on the wand was spello-tape.
Instead of disarming the dummy the spell backfired and caused a small isn't it?explosion in fron of Dean. When the smoke cleared it was silent. That is until Seamus got a look at Dean and ended up on the ground laughing. Most of the others unfroze and were laughing now too.
Three exceptions to this were Harry, Ron, and Hermione. They were still staring open mouthed at him. Harry walked up to Dean and calmly took the wand from him. "This is spello-tape, isn't it?"
"Yeah, why?" he replied hesitantly.
Ron walked up next followed shortly by Hermione who waved her wand to clear the soot off Deans face. Doing this however just made the rest of the DA laugh even harder. The explosion singed off Dean's eyebrows.
"Dean, mate, you can not fix a wand with spello-tape. It just won't work" Ron explained slowly.
"Yeah just ask Ron he would know, remember what happened when he tried to use his wand after it broke when he and Harry drove thee flying car to school second year? That's why Lockhart's crazy now, well that's why he's in St. Mungos anyway." Hermione added in.
"Okay guys calm down!" Harry shouted over the laughter still filling the room. "Okay guys, if your wand ever breaks DO NOT under any circumstances use spello-tape to fix it. We have an emergency fund for this kind of situation. Just let us know and we'll sort it out to get you a new wand. By the way guys, expect this in the next letter."