From Bad to Worse

"I'm so sorry. I appeared to have accidentally put a real jinx on you."

"What does that mean?"

"Until it wears off, which might be in anything from just a matter of hours up to several years, you'll have really bad luck. Anything that you try to do is likely to go wrong in an unpredictable way. I'm afraid that you've little hope of losing any weight until the jinx wears off; you might even find yourself getting even heavier. And I wouldn't try cutting your fingernails or toenails; you might well cut off a finger or a toe."

"Can't you remove the jinx with a spell?"

"Because you're jinxed, the spell would almost certainly go wrong and make matters even worse for you."

Astra sighed. "Oh well. Lets go and find the dragon then."

1. The three go in search of the dragon.
2. Ingrid says: "Sorry, but I think that Fred should go to slay the dragon without you. If you go with him, your jinx means that he'll probably never find the beast. I suggest that the two of us leave him to it and head for the exit."
3. "Before we do," she adds, "I need a drink." "No, wrong bottle!" Ingrid warns her, but too late. Astra has taken a swallow from the potion bottle, and her weight increases from 230 pounds to 260 pounds.

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