But Harry’s nearly-instant moving of his broom during this battle was only half the reason why Mark knew that history was being made here today. Harry and Hermione now were thirty feet above the heads of the Death Eaters and never came lower, so those two teens always could dodge whatever spells the Death Eaters cast at them; but Hermione Granger was not casting regular spells in return. Regular spells would have moved at spell-speed—about the speed of a car on the motorway—which the Death Eaters easily could shield against or sidestep. No, Hermione Granger was using the Lumos laseri charm—and Death Eaters discovered that they could not sidestep red photons that attacked them at 186 thousand miles per second! The result of Harry’s and Hermione’s combined efforts was one-sided death; and Mark had never seen anyone sliced in half from top to bottom before.