Question for Headmistress Umbridge

[alt_sally_anne]

Early this year we learned a lovely spell for securing our belongings, which I've been using ever since. (Obviously any competent adult would easily be able to defeat the spell, but it keeps my peers from borrowing quills, for instance, which they might then forget to return.) Do I need to stop using this? I've been thinking it's not a spell I'm learning in class, it's a spell I learned in class, but there are others in my year who haven't mastered it. What if I'm careful to only cast it when no one else is present?

I guess I need some clarification about which magics we are allowed to use. I looked through all the messages this morning from first, second, and third years and your replies and I'm not feeling as though I really have a clear answer to this.

Thank you!

Comments

[alt_umbridge]

Miss Perks, really, I thought you were supposed to be brighter than that.

If you are routinely using it in daily life, and have been doing so prior to my instruction yesterday, you may continue to do so. If you were not, or were still learning, you may not. Likewise, practice sessions outside of scheduled class sessions are forbidden.