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No matter the path you take through the forest, you'll end up going by a lair.
Going BY one and not IN one. Not to say that this Gryffindor was not thinking about going IN one or anything (he was) but it was a distinction that needed to be made. Glancing to his side where Remy had once been, his eyes widened slightly and blinded as he saw her heading off without tugging on his sleeve or otherwise trying to take him along with. So, naturally, he followed (and hopefully Atlas would come along too) and sighed a HEAVY sigh when he saw that the group included Daniel of all of the possible peer options. But, still, the Hufflepuff's suggestion was closer to what he had been imagining.
"There is a daydream charm that could make the acromantula think they are seeing a basilisk," he offered thoughtfully while coming to a stop beside Remy. Not that he could ever produce such a potent charm but that was not what they were talking about here. He was actually pretty sure he heard mum talking about that very tactic being used during the acromantula invasion while she had been a professor at Hogwarts. "But...the headmaster said we are going BY a lair...not that we HAVE to go through or in one. So...since we are the invaders of their space, shouldn't we first try to find a way of getting by and through without being detected? They are giant creatures, so their lairs are not exactly conspicuous spaces and have tell tale signs. They probably have constructed a series of intricate webbing with their silk along the ground to alert them when prey or trespassers are nearby...so might be worth casting a Featherlight Charm on ourselves so we don't trip or otherwise disturb the thrust and basically go knocking on their door. Going straight on the offensive with explosions is just going to get the whole colony inside that lair riled up and aggressive. It's DEFENSE Against the Dark Arts, after all. Not OFFENSE Against the Dark Arts."
And Atlas loved a good Bombarda. It was still the only spell he had learned from this class that he had any confidence with and it had, ironically, been taught to him by Rosier. Go figure.
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