Outside, a distant scream cut the night. Not a student — a trapped animal? Or something worse.
“The best wizards are not the ones who never fall. They are the ones who always get back up — and look around to see who else needs a hand.”
He’d already used sectumsempra on a training dummy in the Room of Requirement. The slash had been clean, precise, terrifying. Now he was searching for something gentler.
Outside, a distant scream cut the night. Not a student — a trapped animal? Or something worse.
“The best wizards are not the ones who never fall. They are the ones who always get back up — and look around to see who else needs a hand.”
He’d already used sectumsempra on a training dummy in the Room of Requirement. The slash had been clean, precise, terrifying. Now he was searching for something gentler.