Vindictus took the broom and watched quietly as Carter patiently worked on three more brooms without any further slug explosions. But the pail was getting full and used his wand to make another rusty pail appeared (it would be dangerous to enlarge the rusty spell because the slugs would get larger, too).

"Six more brooms to go, Carter," he said one hour into the detention. "And those slugs are getting bigger."