Artie's person was crying the whole time, and he says the man looked pale and awful, like he'd been sick.

His wand was shaking so badly that he missed twice, and although he finally managed to cast the Stinging hex it took a few tries to cast the counterspell.

He's a bit worked up about the whole thing. He keeps describing what the man looked like over and over again, and I think he's beating himself up over taking so long to sort out the counterspell.

I wish