Foresaken (Old, being rewrote)

Thoughts

 "Class is over, dismissed," Professor Malfoy drawled, and quickly people scurried out of the dueling room. Harry was no different as he darted out with Tiernan and Orion at his heels, the only people who lingered longer than needed was the brood of the older Malfoy and the rest of Riddle's gang. As Harry got himself out of the classroom he breathed the cold musty air of the dungeons and paused for a moment for Tiernan and Orion.

"Whoa!" Tiernan chirped, skipping along with his hair bouncing around his head in a very appealing way, "What was that horse thing? That looked soooo cool!"

"A thestral," Harry duly answered and Orion looked over at him curiously.

"A thestral? My father has told me about those," Orion commented, as he thoughtfully frowned, "I've never heard of them being a Patronus."

"Is that what the spell was? A Patronus?" Tiernan asked brightly, "It was so neat!"

Harry frowned, "You've never heard of a Patronus?"

"He has," Orion scoffed as they started walking down the hall, "We studied Dementors in third year, he should remember what a Patronus is. Maybe if he studied he'd remember."

"Wow, I feel so attacked right now," grinned Tiernan, "I almost care, but that class was too neat. What was the lightning ball thingy? I've never seen anything like it!"

"It's something I found in the the library at home," Orion started to explain, "It's a charm that can basically zap people to knock them out, or, if charged with enough magic, it can electrocute them."

"No wonder we had to vanish it so quickly," Harry mumbled with a hum, "Done want to zap someone to oblivion."

"With how much Magic I used the most it would do is incapacitate someone," scoffed Orion with a small frown, "I'm not the type to put people in danger to show off. Unlike Abraxas, the first spell he used was literally a skin peeling curse, like who in their right mind would cast that?"

"A skin peeling charm?" Tiernan looked repulsed as he grimaced, "Why in the living hell would you cast that in class? I understand it's his father and he wouldn't get a punishment for it, but that's just scary. I didn't exactly cast some jaunty disembowelment curse, like come on! It's common sense not to cast something that can actually maim someone to the point of death."

"That's what I thought!" sneered Orion who darkly narrowed his eyes as he glared at the floor, "That was just dangerous, and certain curses like it have a tendency to unpredictable bounce off walls and if it rebounded. Someone could have been skinned alive!"

"Yikes," mumbled Harry as he grimaced, "That would not be a pleasant way to go. Wouldn't someone die of shock almost instantly?"

"Well, if they didn't it would take months to recover if critical care was near. Hate to say it, but the Hogwarts infirmary isn't a critical care unit, and in the time of transfer the victim would most likely get germs and bacteria in the wounds and would most likely develop an infection. With the transport you can't exactly floo them in, you shouldn't apparite them, they shouldn't go through the average means of travel because of the extent of injury. You can bring med-wizards in, but without they're critical care equipment the victim would absolutely die," Orion rambled but paused as his brows furrowed, "Well, and I guess they'd bleed out in two minutes or so, as it isn't something like a burn or acid that damages the tissue enough to where it cauterizes, so to ensure they don't bleed out you'd have to burn them or as said have an acid bath-"

"Stop it, Orion!" Tiernan interrupted as he glared over at Orion, "Yeah, fuck you don't have to describe it in painstaking detail. I feel sick now, asshole."