Defense Against the Dark Arts was a class Sydney enjoyed. It combined two of her favorite things: dark scary creatures and destructive chaotic spells! As such, she was in a pretty good mood as she arrived on time, though it didn’t show in her stoic expression. She’d greeted Professor Khanna upon her arrival and quickly taken her seat afterward. She examined the room layout for clues to the lesson subject but saw none. While the nondescript layout provided no clues, the professor’s instructions did. Going somewhere else? Interesting… would there be a scary creature waiting for them in the other location? Fun!


Before she had time to dwell on that possibility, the lesson started. Sydney was only half listening to the professor’s intro. Despite her penchant for darkness and chaos, she wouldn’t seriously harm anything that didn’t understand what it was doing, like the injured crup in question. Where was the fun in that? She considered the hypothetical scenario carefully. Honestly, if she encountered a mountain troll, it was a toss up whether she’d attack it or try to train it to do her bidding. Either way, she supposed she’d need to subdue it first.

Her first instinct was to knock the troll out, either with a spell or with its own club. If she was going to use defensive magic, she’d go all out with it! Somehow she had a feeling that that answer was a little more… brutal than the professor would want, so she came up with a plan B. If she wasn’t going to knock the troll out, she’d have to find some other way to immobilize it. Immobulus? Or would Petrificus Totalus be more effective? She raised her hand and said, “I’d immobilize the troll to buy myself time to get away, though would Immobulus or Petrificus Totalus work better?”