[Gagnon, meanwhile, will spend a good hour slogging about in the restroom. Magical plumbing was nowhere on his list of skills before taking this job, but it doesn't take much beyond a few charms that test for the presence of magic and a little observation to determine the cause of the mess: paper and a few spells any first-year might have picked up.
After having sifted through his pockets for the right combination of magical devices to pick the spells apart—working with magic, for him, is like jimmying a lock where everyone else uses a key, a careful process of feeling out and defeating invisible mechanisms with just the right tools—he undoes what he can and delegates the final steps and the majority of the clean-up to two house elves.
Then he goes to change clothes and consider locking Cane up for the rest of the day. Useless animal.]
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After having sifted through his pockets for the right combination of magical devices to pick the spells apart—working with magic, for him, is like jimmying a lock where everyone else uses a key, a careful process of feeling out and defeating invisible mechanisms with just the right tools—he undoes what he can and delegates the final steps and the majority of the clean-up to two house elves.
Then he goes to change clothes and consider locking Cane up for the rest of the day. Useless animal.]