Unlike the other guys on the team, Scott fantasized about becoming bigger, getting fatter, and making the football team fatter too - for one thing, they weren't ever going to beat their fatter competition, the Bovine, if they didn't put on weight! While these spells all seemed to be about getting fatter, once a guy was fatter and heavier, if he worked out, he'd put on muscle too, right?
This spell book might be Scott's chance to achieve his dream. But not here. No, wait until he got home, and work out how to do it - then if he needed a lock of hair or something he could come up with a plan.
At home, relaxing with a bowl of chips, Scott read through the spells. He chose an easy-looking one try first: "Immediate weight gain: causes subject of spell to gain X amount of weight."
He reads through the instructions. He has to say the subject's name, then repeat an incantation. But who to start with?
Ben Landers, the team's left tackle, is the biggest guy on the team, but that's not saying much. Ben only weighs about 250 pounds. And not a lot of it is bulk, as he's really tall, and it's all lean muscle, but that's not what the football team needs - Ben is built more like a basketballer. At his height he could be so much better if he had extra weight on him.
Mike, the team's center, is almost as tall and skinnier - who ever heard of a 225 pound football center? The guys in his family are all big, so Mike should be good for a LOT more weight.
But, Scott himself, as left guard, needs a lot more bulk too - and wants to get fat, to have real heft on his six foot frame, not his measily 196 pounds. Maybe he should try the spell on himself!
Scott ponders on who he should try the spell on, he then decides to try it on...