"Magic can make a rune more effective, imbue it with a greater strength - but it is rather a risky thing, so I would caution against using your wand just yet. One needs a confident touch for it, as well as a delicate precision: one false flick of the wrist and you might've cursed your object and not charmed it!" Carmelina explained, trying not to belie the danger of it by smiling too candidly (a difficult endeavour). Unlike the ordinary spells they learnt, one could not practise wand-waving repeatedly with runic incantations: what was written was much less easily undone.
"But you might select something from in here to try on your turquoise," she added, leaning over to pull open a cabinet drawer, in which a selection of tools were arranged, set into velvet in neat lines. (Such neatness was a stark contrast to the rest of her office, Carmelina was aware.) She gestured towards some of the instruments that might be useful on hard-wearing materials, some little steel engravers and sharp-pointed chisels, all set with different nibs. (She brought these - and equivalent artifacts - with her to the classroom every so often, but it was likely not until NEWT level, usually, if at all, that a student would require them for inscribing anything themselves.)
"But you might select something from in here to try on your turquoise," she added, leaning over to pull open a cabinet drawer, in which a selection of tools were arranged, set into velvet in neat lines. (Such neatness was a stark contrast to the rest of her office, Carmelina was aware.) She gestured towards some of the instruments that might be useful on hard-wearing materials, some little steel engravers and sharp-pointed chisels, all set with different nibs. (She brought these - and equivalent artifacts - with her to the classroom every so often, but it was likely not until NEWT level, usually, if at all, that a student would require them for inscribing anything themselves.)
