Well, we don’t know just how close they were, but if it were all that slow people wouldn’t even bother using it in combat. I tend to assume that fired spells are somewhere in the ballpark of fastball speed.
A spell that can be dodged with difficulty when fired by an opponent you’re dueling should be more than a little more difficult to dodge if it comes without warning out of a wall behind you though.
Well, we don’t know just how close they were, but if it were all that slow people wouldn’t even bother using it in combat. I tend to assume that fired spells are somewhere in the ballpark of fastball speed.
A spell that can be dodged with difficulty when fired by an opponent you’re dueling should be more than a little more difficult to dodge if it comes without warning out of a wall behind you though.