Was there distance in space?
From the perspective of the Flight Charm, space did have distance.
But that distance was completely different from the distance an ordinary person perceived. It was also unlike the warped spatial planes described by Muggle physicists or science fiction writers, where two points directly overlapped.
It originated in the mind. Starting from the individual, it treated the distance between people and the distance between souls as the spatial distance between them.
Thus, to most people, the Flight Charm looked faster than even the fastest Flying Broomstick.
Or take Apparition, Portkeys, and the Floo Network. To bystanders, wizards appeared at their destination in an instant, but the caster felt themselves swaying through countless chaotic, spinning spaces.
To be precise, when wizards used these spells, time stretched out for them compared to everyone else in the world.
They experienced the process of traveling through space, but to everyone else, they appeared instantly.
This was rarely discussed in the Wizarding World, because few could clearly sense it—when traveling through space, almost everyone had one of the Six Elements of the Soul, Thought, disrupted and suppressed.
Only a handful of top wizards could ensure that Thought continued to function normally while they traveled through space.
Even if Voldemort published the Flight Charm, hardly anyone would be able to learn and master it. They would simply crash into something after taking off, their bodies smashed into a pulp.
Likewise, this was why methods of spatial travel such as Apparition and the Floo Network placed so much emphasis on having a "clear destination."
Thought, stretched and distorted by the dimensions of both space and time, no longer worked. At that point, wizards could rely only on their "will"—that is, having a clear idea of their "destination."
Just like now.
Dumbledore and