Everything had been going all wrong, and nothing looked perfect like it should. Hermione had tried to draw all the little symbols inside the snake’s body that coiled around the inside of the largest circle, but it wasn’t a language she knew and she could tell they didn’t look quite right. Then, to top it all off, she’d smudged them. There were so very many symbols to draw, and she’d gotten some of them right, but then she’d rested her hand on the design without thinking, and it all got smudged into a colourful chalky smear.