Vespera Salazar ~ OWLS
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xxxASTRONOMY ~ Dxxx
- ■ Vespera went into the exam ready to at least get an Acceptable, Jonah had quizzed her so many times about the stars and planets, she should know this. However, when she sat down and looked out the window, she blanked. Astronomy was a class taken at night, the Sun was out, the stars were not, and Vespera forgot nearly everything she knew about Astronomy. After barely answering any questions on the written portion, she managed to bring her grade up to dreadful during the practical portion... that was in the dark like astronomy should be. She could remember Jonah pointing out the constellations during class, and took that knowledge to complete the exam.
xxxCHARMS ~ EExxx
- ■ The theory of charms was easy enough, just studying the wand movements and the phrases. It was the practical that needed the most practice. Sona and Vespera took turns practicing spells giving each other different scenarios for when they would use what spell (a locked box, probably alohomora, but maybe bombarda to blow it up). When it came time for the practical portion of the exam, Vespera did very well (and did not blow up any boxes).
xxxDEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS ~ Axxx
- ■ Vespera struggled in the beginning of DADA, because she did not exactly like the course or the professor (especially after being chewed out). Vespera had began looking into what she wanted to do with her life, and thought about healing in her fourth year. Unfortunately, she needed to be in the NEWT level DADA to become a healer, and with that, Ves began studying a bit more diligently with DADA. She had to review quite a few pieces of material from previous years, and had August help her study after curfew. She did much better in the practical portion of the exam than the written portion, and managed to scrape by with an Acceptable.
xxxHERBOLOGY ~ Oxxx
- ■ Vespera always had a knack for herbology, which she picked up from her gardening with her mother. She took this love of plants with her throughout the classes, and the exam itself. Herbology was a bit different than muggle gardening, but she had started putting the witch plants that were of use or popular (such as Abyssinian Shrivelfig) in her summer garden, which made her study up on certain plants a bit more, even in the summer.
xxxHISTORY OF MAGIC ~ Pxxx
- ■ History never thrilled Vespera very much, so when it came time to study for OWLs, Vespera put her efforts in not History. It wasn’t until the day of that Vespera started to study, much to the dislike of August’s ramblings. Somehow she managed just barely a passing from what she remembered in class.
xxxPOTIONS ~ EExxx
- ■ Vespera knew she had to get a decent OWL score on potions in order to continue on, so she cracked down. She spent part of her winter break with Sonora’s mother, helping with the potioneering office to get some extra practice. Also, she had always liked potions, second to herbology. When it came time to brew the potion for the practical portion, she made an outstanding brew, did half-decent on the written portion, and pulled out with exceeds expectations.
xxxTRANSFIGURATION ~ EExxx
- ■ Transfiguring items was always a fun way to pull a few pranks on Jonah. One second there’s a chair in the room, the next it was a cat. With this bit of spuratic practical practice of the spells, along with the occasional cram study, Ves did pretty well on the written portion, but did the best on the physical portion of the exam.
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xxxHEALING ~ Oxxx
- ■ Vespera took a strong liking to healing in her third year, and in fourth year when she was isolating herself from her friends she buried into healing class, cross referencing their studies and texts with non-classroom texts. Vespera continued these study habits into her OWL year, while balancing friendships, which gave her the knowledge base to do quite well on the written portion of the Healing exam. When it came around to the practical portion of the healing exam, Ves did better than even she had expected. It probably came from her knowledge from reading, plus a bit of experience, such as going from half asleep to ready to examine a friend in a moments notice.
xxxSTUDY OF ANCIENT RUNES ~ Axxx
- ■ Ves enjoyed the idea of ancient runes, maybe being able to read older books, but she did not do well. Instead, she struggled with reading and translating the runes, but did pretty decent enough to translate a few lines of the script. However, she did mostly dreadful at reading aloud the scripts, especially when it came to Younger Futhark Runes, who needed the runes anyways? Ves was pretty excited to have scraped by with an acceptable, because maybe if she continued learning a few more runes she would be better at reading some older books of potions and healings.
xxxWANDLESS MAGIC ~ Axxx
- ■ Vespera had originally only went ot Wandless Magic to be able to better prank Jonah Lane with. She did fairly well with one spell, Wingardium Leviosa. Other than that, she was mediocre at wandless magic. Her fellow classmates offered assistance, and while struggling along side Sona, they managed to figure out better techniques for using wandless. When it came time for the exam, Vespera did fairly well at the written portion, the theory of wandless magic wasn’t an issue. However, when it came to the practical side of Wandless Magic, she did deserved a dreadful. Her grade managed to level itself out at just barely Acceptable.
