Oh god, he’s not accustomed to being a teacher, they’d never entrusted him with the novices at Kamar-Taj precisely because he was absolute garbage with them —
But Stephen Strange is quick on his feet, and Hermione Granger is uncommonly quick at picking up magic, and that’s precisely the kind of mind he can communicate with. “More effort,” he explains, hurrying across the glade to take up position beside her. “If your spell is like lifting a box, then consider the box is now heavier. Put in more effort than you’re used to. Haul harder.”
And to demonstrate, he whirls his hands with exaggerated flourish and summons a magical buzzsaw out of reality: it carves its way through the demon, shearing off one of its grey skeletal limbs. It hiss-screams, roils, recoils, before lunging at them again.
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But Stephen Strange is quick on his feet, and Hermione Granger is uncommonly quick at picking up magic, and that’s precisely the kind of mind he can communicate with. “More effort,” he explains, hurrying across the glade to take up position beside her. “If your spell is like lifting a box, then consider the box is now heavier. Put in more effort than you’re used to. Haul harder.”
And to demonstrate, he whirls his hands with exaggerated flourish and summons a magical buzzsaw out of reality: it carves its way through the demon, shearing off one of its grey skeletal limbs. It hiss-screams, roils, recoils, before lunging at them again.