Verity sighed. Yeah, it would have been a whole lot easier if she'd found someone to borrow from. But most of the professors only had tiny ones for grading, and not very powerful. If she'd been close to any of them, she could have borrowed one and altered it, but... Yeah, most professors looked through her. "Not for this," she said, trying to keep it simple.
"Because hoping it will go away isn't working," Verity told him quite honestly. No one seemed to be getting it anymore, but the Ministry wouldn't drop the shield. But that wasn't the way to present it to Nicky, she didn't think. "Wouldn't you like to be able to protect your friends?"