\u201cYou know what I thought was the most frightening spell in the world, during those horrible three years of having Voldemort, death eaters and werewolves in my home?\u201d, Lyra sat on the couch, hugging her knees.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m afraid, with those people, the list would be extensive\u201d, Viktor frowned, and Harry and Hermione seemed to agree.<\/p>\n
\u201cExpelliaramus<\/i>\u201d, Lyra whispered.<\/p>\n
They all looked at each other, not understanding.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, it\u2019s quite simple, in fact\u201d, she nodded. \u201cAnd it\u2019s the reason Harry uses it in duels. Once you remove a wizard\u2019s wand, the next spell can be whatever you want, and you can even take your time, because you\u2019re no longer dealing with a wizard, you\u2019re dealing with a muggle\u201d, she explained. \u201cOnce the wand is out of your hand, the duel is over. The fight is over. Your bodily autonomy is over. Your life is over. My greatest fear was being disarmed from an ambush, being rendered helpless, and then having someone\u2026 take their time with me\u201d, she shivered. \u201cThey were already making suggestions out loud. I didn\u2019t even have to use my imagination\u201d.<\/p>\n
The rest of them felt as if the temperature in the room dropped ten degrees. \u201cOh\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you gave me your wand\u201d, Harry whispered.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes\u201d, she smiled. \u201cI did get some other wand, that didn\u2019t like working for me very much, and then I thought, this is hardly better than having no wand at all, so why not try that\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long did it take you to get it to work?\u201d, Hermione wondered.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot long. Days. What actually helped is that the new wand processed everything with a delay and a reluctance, and I could feel individual steps being taken, now my command is being translated into the magical layer of the world, what it ends up being\u2026 and then I stopped telling it to the wand, and started telling it to the world itself\u201d, she explained. \u201cWith my old wand, it would actually be much harder, with how eager it was to obey me\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose must have been a terrible few days\u201d, Viktor rubbed his chin. \u201cHaving a disobedient wand, not yet figuring out how to do it wandlessly, and all those horrible people roaming about\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne would think, but actually it gave me something else to think about, and they also had other things to think about, with Harry, Hermione and Ron breaking into Gringotts about that time. Nobody was giving me any thought\u201d, she smiled. \u201cAnd once I got it, I very quickly advanced from the basics to replicating everything I could do with a wand\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, a wand limits you to what you\u2019re pointing at. When those five thugs surrounded me, my first thought was that I can\u2019t deal with more than two of them in time the others will get me. From what I could see, wandlessly you just dealt with them all at once\u201d, Hermione noted. \u201cYou need to teach me this\u201d, she hugged her friend. \u201cIt makes me feel exposed to be the only one not to know it\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, technically, nobody knew it before Lyra figured it out, and you didn\u2019t miss it then\u201d, her husband pointed out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s true, but now that all of you know it, I feel I need to learn it quickly\u201d, Hermione managed a weak smile.<\/p>\n
\u201cTomorrow after breakfast\u201d, Lyra nodded. \u201cWe\u2019re all too tired now. Also, keep in mind that it\u2019s more dangerous than using a wand. You put your wand away when you don\u2019t mean to use it. You are also deliberate about where you point it. You can\u2019t put your mind away when you\u2019re not using it, and once you get accustomed to binding it to magic directly, you can\u2019t allow your mind to wander aimlessly, or think too hard about something because you will make it happen\u201d, she pointed out.<\/p>\n
An orange levitated, peeled itself, separated into slices, the slices transformed into roses, assembled themselves into a bouquet, and fell into Hermione\u2019s lap.<\/p>\n
\u201cPoint taken\u201d, Hermione giggled.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, avoid messing with space geometry. That\u2019s probably the easiest way to get yourself killed by accident\u201d. She pointed in the air, and space suddenly looked like a cracked mirror, one shard showing Hogwarts main hall, the other Slytherin girls\u2019 dormitory, another their office in the Ministry, and the final one showed Diagon Alley. She closed her eyes and the space healed.<\/p>\n
The others looked at her with mouths agape. \u201cScary girl\u201d, Harry smiled.<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou know what I thought was the most frightening spell in the world, during those horrible three years of having Voldemort, death eaters and werewolves in my home?\u201d, Lyra sat on the couch, hugging her knees. \u201cI\u2019m afraid, with those … Continue reading