Schleppend
Schleppend is an enchantment of the third level with a range of one-hundred-twenty feet and a duration of about four minutes.
Schleppend nearly quadruples the processing speed of the brain, allowing one to think and calculate at a super-human rate. However, there is a drawback; the perceived world slows down to quarter speed. People have reported feeling trapped in their bodies as they feel they are moving in slow motion. The spell lasts fully for two minutes, then fades over the next two. But for one under its influence, the experience seems to last for fifteen minutes.
Schleppend was discovered in Germany by independent researchers Friedrich Stolz and Henry Drysdale Dakin in 1904. Even though another independent researcher in Japan, Jokichi Takamine, made the discovery four years earlier, the Germans were the first to file the discovery with their local magical authority, and thus they received the credit.
On the morning of January 15, 2009, US Airways flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia airport in New York City. A few seconds later, both engines became disabled by a flock of Canadian geese. No commercial aircraft had ever lost both engines so soon after take-off, and no pilot had been trained for such an extreme event. Forty-nine-year-old, First officer Jeffrey B. Skiles, cast Schleppend upon himself so that he could work through the problem more quickly. His calculations determined that the aircraft would not be able to land at any nearby airport. He relayed his conclusion to lead pilot, Chesley B. Sullenberger, who skillfully crash-landed the plane into the Hudson River, saving the lives of everyone on board.