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Now that everyone is done celebrating boorish feats of strength, I was wondering if I could get 5-10 volunteers to help me test a new spell that I've been working on. It's a very simple security spell, and I can guarantee with 82% certainty that you won't get hurt if you agree to be a subject. It's not intended to be harmful, we'll put it that way. (You might, however, experience residual tingling in the extremities, and possibly loosened bowels. I'm still working out the kinks.

For liability reasons, I'll only take volunteers third year and up (I would say fifth and up, but, well, I wouldn't want to exclude anyone my age). My name is Billy Harris, Slytherin 5th year, and if you leave your name, house, and year I will contact you within the next few days to sort out the experiment.

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It not only obscures the text written on whatever it is that it's cast on, but it reads the person holding it and changes it to something that will make them specifically want to not touch it.

I was going to put the spell on a parchment with something simple written on it, and ask my classmates to tell me what they read on the parchment when they tried to read it.

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[wwistful]

Interesting and innovative.

Where does the 18% chance of injury factor into that, Mister Harris?

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18% is probably a more-than generous estimate, simply based on the fact that I don't know exactly how it will react to people who aren't me. It isn't meant to cause physical harm. I'm not trying to hurt anyone, but I didn't want to tell everyone that it was completely okay without knowing for sure that that was the case. It's covering my bases, basically.

Any negative physical effect should be relatively minor, though, and will tell me what I need to work on for the next phase of testing.