Chapter 52: Charms(4)
The trip to the great hall was smooth after that for everyone since Flitwick was with the students. Like before Daphne and Tracy split away from Nick and Harry and sat at the Slytherin table for lunch while this time Hermione sat across from Nick in a huff. "How did you do it?" she asked unhappily. Nick raised and eyebrow at the question before grabbing a ham and cheese sandwich from a nearby platter. "You will need to be more specific." Nick said casually before taking a bite of his sandwich.-
"The Lumos spell you cast earlier , I can't get it to work despite matching your movements and incantation perfectly." She said clearly upset at her failings. A few other nearby people also listened in hoping to figure it out as well. Nick chuckled and finished off the sandwich since it was merely finger food sized. "There is indeed a trick to the spell that makes merely copying what you see insufficient. We aren't friends so the best I'll give you is a hint "the key is in the name" take of that what you will." Nick said before ignoring the girl. He then ate a salad he specifically ordered from the house elves much to the confusion of everyone.
Nick found amusing how almost no one seemed to realize where their food was coming from though to be fair you never actually see a house elf drop the food off. Those who own house elves but still don't realize where the food is coming from confuse him though. Like how do you not recognize the same work as what you get at home? Still Nick decided to act all mysterious by keeping the secret to himself and enjoying his salad.-
Hermione was far too stuck in her ways at the moment and in magic that simply doesn't work. Magic loves imagination far more than it does structure and unfortunately Hermione is all about structure at the moment. Nick's version of the Lumos charm was a work of imagination and so it was outside a structural being like Hermione's grasp. Perhaps this incident would allow her to mellow out a bit and actually use her imagination that had been stuck behind ruthless amounts of cold logic. 'Hopefully it doesn't take getting saved from a bloody troll to get there this time.' Nick thought darkly.
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