Suddenly it all made sense. She had to MAKE more steps. Transfigure them. And what from? The EXISTING steps. DUH! She felt silly now that she realised what it was that she had to do. Secretly she blamed the slight dehydration and mugginess. She felt like an idiot, to have thought it would be so simple to use a repairing charm on the bridge. She got onto her hands and knees right at the start of the bridge and managed to wobble one of the steps free. She placed it on the ground, and she knelt up so that she could cast the spell. It was the easiest way she knew to do it, to have it on the ground in front of her, rather than trying to do it when it was already on the bridge. She would figure out how to actually fix the bridge as soon as she had made enough steps. She'd done this spell twice before, successfully, but she was still a bit unsure about it. It wasn't an everyday spell for her, so she carefully practiced how to enunciate the spell. "juh-MIN-ee-oh, juh-MIN-ee-oh, juh-MIN-ee-oh," she said, repetitively a few times. Easy for the hand movement, a flick of the wand.

Okay, for real this time. "juh-MIN-ee-oh," she said, flicking her wand at the step. Happily, she watched as two steps were now in front of her, rather than just one. "juh-MIN-ee-oh," she said again, flicking her wand at the original step. There were now THREE! She looked over to the bridge, counting she needed another two. "juh-MIN-ee-oh," she said twice more, flicking her wand at the original step twice. Five steps now.

But how was she supposed to put the bridge together? She knew there was the shoe-gluing spell, but was that only for shoes? She certainly didn't want to get her shoes stuck. She could conjure up some rope or chains and link the steps down... or... this might work... she placed one of the steps down where there was a cap, lining it up nicely. Her wand came out and she pointed it at one side of the step. "Epoximise," she said, then turned to the other side of the step and did the same. She gave it a shove and a wiggle and was relieved when it STUCK down. She grabbed the next step and put it just in front of the first one. "Epoximise," she repeated on both sides, giving it a wiggle to make sure it was stuck down. She repeated this for the other three steps until finally... she was at the other side. She breathed a sigh of relief. All that NEWT study was sort of paying off it seemed.