Arabella watched as her classmates started to invoke the Nox charm in attempts to extinguish the Lumos spell they'd used to set the tip of their wands alight. Fleur, her fellow Hufflepuff, hadn't had the best of luck with her attempt at Lumos but the professor was helping her with that. It would soon be her turn to try and she quashed the sense of mystery and dread in her stomach. It wouldn't be right to simply give up, so she took the wand she'd been clutching and relaxed her hand.

Swishing it in the air, she stared at the tip of the wand as she quietly but firmly stated, "Nox." Would it work? Would it not? She was hoping for the former but knew that the latter was equally as likely.