It wasn't like the trainees came to the ministry without any magical training, but even Mateo had to marvel at how this had happened. They were still learning to work together and a bad combination of spells had been deflected into the corner of the room and somehow, some sort of vacuum had been created.

"Mrs. Moony," it had taken concentration not to just call her Moony, like he would have Kit or Ned. To be fair, he called Moony the younger, Moonshine, because he was far outstripping some of his fellow trainees. Plus he needed a way to delineate between the two. "Yes, we seem to have a combination of spells that shouldn't have been used in conjunction." He peered at the black hole warily. "I deflected them," he passed her a sheepish sort of smile. "Otherwise that might have been me." That would have been inconvenient.