He wasn't used to getting the plan all at once: most of the scrapes he'd been in had involved acting first and thinking later. It hadn't quite occurred to him yet that maybe that was why some of said scrapes had started, or at least why they always got worse before they got better.

"Distraction! Got it!"

He slashed his wand through the air as he ran toward the Chimera.

"Thunder!"

That ... wasn't exactly how it worked. Unfortunately, he still got the creature's attention, two of its three heads swiveling in his direction.