| rdfs:comment | - The user can use magic to control the animals, transform themselves or others into animals, mimic animal traits and summon/create animal spirits and/or animals. They can communicate with animals, borrow their senses, possess them and otherwise use animals as extensions of themselves.
- It is the start of the summer term and there's a blizzard raging outside Cackle's Academy. The girls are all desperately trying to stay warm and Miss Drill tries to get the blood flowing by having the girls jog around the school. Meanwhile, Mrs Tapioca is having problems with a rat in the kitchen. Amidst all the chaos, who should arrive seeking shelter from the weather, but Chief Wizard Hellibore, Algernon Rowan-Webb and three wizard apprentices Baz, Gaz and Merlin.
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| abstract | - The user can use magic to control the animals, transform themselves or others into animals, mimic animal traits and summon/create animal spirits and/or animals. They can communicate with animals, borrow their senses, possess them and otherwise use animals as extensions of themselves.
- It is the start of the summer term and there's a blizzard raging outside Cackle's Academy. The girls are all desperately trying to stay warm and Miss Drill tries to get the blood flowing by having the girls jog around the school. Meanwhile, Mrs Tapioca is having problems with a rat in the kitchen. Amidst all the chaos, who should arrive seeking shelter from the weather, but Chief Wizard Hellibore, Algernon Rowan-Webb and three wizard apprentices Baz, Gaz and Merlin. Hellibore (a bit put out that Rowan-Webb started a snowball fight with him) imediatly lights a fire for everyone to warm up by. Algernon is in a particularly mischievous mood and in order to cheer everybody up, pronounces the day to be an upside-down day. Everything is turned on its head; teachers and pupils change places and there are games instead of lessons. Everyone who's not a student (including Hellibore and excepting Rowan-Webb) is disgusted. But never the less, they all go along with it. Barry and Gary are assigned to organize games in the Great Hall, and Fenella and Griselda are assigned to teach a potions class full of teachers. Barry and Gary's idea of a fun game is a version of hot potato where the box they're passing always explodes on eithor Merlin or Mildred (which earns them the instant friendship of Ethel and Drusilla). Meanwhile, in Fenny and Gris's potion class, the teachers are working on an anti-grunge potion in groups of two. The only one really enjoying himself is Algernon. Miss Cackle and Miss Hardbroom are doing miserably, and just as they try to cheat off Bat and Drill their "teachers" call time up, and fling green slime at everyone. At lunch the wizards contiue to argue about who's fault it was that the potion went awry, one thing leads to another, and Algernon calls a shape changing contest between himself and Hellibore. It goes on for a while in the great hall until Rowen-Webb turns himself into a mouse, and is threatened by The Chief Wizard in the shape of an owl. He escapes to the kitchen where he is in equal danger from Mrs Tapioca's cat. Mildred and Merlin rescue him, and as a thank you, Algernon invites Mildred and her class to his riverside retreat where he has decided to retire.
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