Chapter 50.5- Doom Days

“I promise I’ll get you back” I said, when I finally stopped retching. A mouth refreshing charm got rid of what remained of the taste, and I only looked at the accumulated slugs for long enough to vanish them with a flick of my wand.

“All I hear is talk, more doing less talking if you want to adopt the way of the Marauder, my young apprentice” I just scowled at him.

“Now I need you to help me test something else” I said.

“Oh? Another spell? Someone’s been mighty productive.”

“I wish. I just had an idea while I was working on this and hated to see how it would pan out” I said, before slashing my wand thou the air to draw the runes while I murmured the chant: “Aegis, I call upon thee, protect me from all who would do me harm”. The shield snapped into place. I did not use that word lightly. While most spells kind of built themselves into existence, the shield snapped into place. One second, it was no there, and the next it was. There were no halfsies with this spell.

“I just need you to hit this with a shield breaker. The strongest one you’ve got” I said.

“Your funeral, kid” he replied with a lazy shrug that bellied the speed at which he carried out the instructions, snapping both spells at me with a twist of his wrist and a flick at the end— the first a shieldbreaker, the second another lime green slug vommitting hex. Trust Sirius Black to try. I prepared myself to dodge out of the way in case my theory ended up being wrong, but the shield repelled the shield breaker, taking it with no effect just as it did most other spells before it rebuffed the slug vommitting hex as well.

“That’s insane” Sirius said with a whistle.

“How many more of those do you know?” I asked, and he answered with a purple spell that moved through the air like it was in slow motion. It was so much slower than a regular spell that you could just tell it was designed to face against immobile targets— like someone hunkered behind a shield for example. It hit with an explosion of force but the shield remained stable and active.

“That one was from the Black Library. The fellow who came up with it called it the Siege-ender.”

“How ambitious” I drawled. That spell had been powerful, but not so powerful that it would have ended a siege on powerful wards on its lonesome.

“Protection wards weren’t anywhere near as complex when he came up with it. So it probably did actually end a siege or two back in his day.”

“Not going to ask me how it works?” I offered, itching to explain my story.

“Do I have to? Not really in the mood for a lecture right now” I pinned him with a glare that promised even worse revenge if he did not behave himself.

“Fine, fine. How does your spell repel shield breakers?”