Subject: Hoom hom.
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Posted on: 2014-09-12 11:10:00 UTC

The description is partly from the HP wiki, and partly just from my own head. I'll definitely change 'white' to 'silver', that's a pure error. I think the description of the actual casting - beam of light becomes Patronus - is close enough, since it could read simply as the Patronus moving very fast. I'll reword it as a streak of light, though, since that more explicitly has it as a discrete object. The Deathly Hallows examples show that they do sometimes physically attack, so I have no qualms about that.

The preamble, though... I don't know. I like it, and I've explicitly classed it as 'secondary', ie, as a focussing aid. How much focus do HP spells take? Is it even possible to mutter the words of a spell without firing it off? My reading (er, of my own story ;^-^) is that Sandra was still getting her mind focussed through the remember/mutter/star sequence; the actual casting of the spell begins when she opens her eyes.

hS

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