Who: Peppar Where: Hogwarts When: Wednesday 19 August What: Makin spells for protections Rating: G
This type of magic, admittedly, was not one of Pepper's strongest points - he far preferred the quick to-and-fro of battle or the subtlety of potions - but wars were not places to stick to ones comfort zone, and besides, it was nice to get out by himself on the grounds. Summer was drawing to a close and the warm days would start to dwindle soon, if he was even still around to see that, and the sun made him feel relaxed and soothed muscles aching from the intensive training he'd been pushing himself to do.
Leaving more complicated defenses for those better suited to it, he stuck to the tried and true spells, sturdy basic wards where appropriate and things that would work with what was already in place - touch-activated duplication spells on plants that moved, explosives in strategic places that could be set off with a well-aimed incendio, detection charms on major routes that would alert them to intruders.
The work was challenging without requiring too much thought, leaving him to muse instead on exactly how strange it was to be back here. Their last visit hadn't really counted, given that he'd spent most of it delirious and/or passed out and the rest fighting, and now he was finding himself with vast stretches of time with an uncomfortable sense of surreality and deja vu. It all seemed a lot smaller. Less forbidding. More... ordinary. For all that it probably was one of the safest places in Britain (discounting obscure camp locations under Fidelius charms, he supposed), it lacked, now, the power that it had held when he was fourteen and could never quite decide whether he hated home or school more.
The sun passed behind a cloud above him and he stretched with a frown, probing at the spells he'd been casting with his wand. They seemed to be decent enough, at least, and he knew there were several others weaving their own magic on the land, that their different approaches would fill the gaps in each others' work.
It was surprising how much comfort there was in that, really.