I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

Neville and Pansy, did Madam Pomfrey know how to fix it?

Did she ask where you'd learned the spell?

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[alt_sally_anne]

Well, I see a couple of problems with that.

1. It's a hard spell to cast in a hurry.
2. There are things that keep the scaling from happening and if that happened, we've just given them a fantastic defense spell for free that will keep OUR spells from working on them.
3. THEY WOULD WANT TO KNOW WHERE WE LEARNED IT and I don't think we'd better say 'oh, Neville has these books that used to belong to his parents back when they were aurors instead of dangerous enemies of the Protectorate!'

[alt_ron]

1. Well, if we work on it, we'll get so we could do it straight off.
2. But if we do the spells together like we did last night and not anything that would stop it happening, then it'd work. That's why we're working it out in advance, right? I mean, that's what all this if for, right?
3. We'll tell them the twins made it up, innit?

You always see problems with everything.

[alt_pansy]

3. If the twins actually find it somewhere other than a crazy dangerous book that we can't admit we've seen or heard from, I can see how we might have a really great excuse. But only then.

Sally-Anne's 2. has a point too.

I think we ought to try and sort out how to not scale up and use it on ourselves.

[alt_ron]

Girls.

Always taking all the fun out of everything. And making exciting stuff seem just like homework.