Brent looked up at his shield and watched it for a bit before deciding whether or not it was strong enough. It looked pretty good to him. People were partnering up, which was cool by Brent, because he always preferred a group of friends over being bored by himself. "Anybody want to partner up?" he asked the crowd of students. Hopefully they did. He didn't want to achieve instant loser status by having nobody respond to him.

In the meantime, he decided to work with the spell a little. It was a new one to him. The Fianto Duri part, that is. Not the Shield Charm. That was pretty much basic spell work. He ended his shield and decided to practice the incantation and wand movement of the spell a bit before trying it for real. "Fianto Duri!" he called out. "Fianto Duri!" He decided not to practice the wand movement. He'd be a total dork to stand here and practice a simple point of the wand.