A certain Hogwarts magical cat

Chapter 233

"Did you pay attention to the bulletin board just now?"

During breakfast, Seamus and Dean asked Harry and the others excitedly.

"What's wrong? Has the school notified you of anything?"

Ron looked interested as he ate the beef pie.

"It says on the bulletin board that at eight o'clock tonight, the school will hold the first meeting of the Dueling Club in the auditorium!"

"Duel Club! Which professor is instructing?"

Alice asked curiously.

"Well, the announcement only said that it will start in the auditorium at [-] o'clock tonight, and it didn't say which professor will guide it!"

Seamus and Dean were stunned for a moment and replied.

Hermione thought for a while and guessed:

"Maybe Professor Flitwick, it is said that when he was young, he was the champion of the dueling club!"

Harry shrugged and replied:

"As long as it's not Lockhart and Snape, it's any professor!"

During this period of time, Harry was really hurt by these two professors, Lockhart's Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he had to go to every class to cooperate with playing the villain,

As for Snape's Potions class, I don't know if it was because he had won the Slytherin in the Quidditch match before, and recently Snape was always criticizing and deducting points by name when he had nothing to do.

So as long as it wasn't for the guidance of these two professors, he would be very happy.

"I'm afraid it will disappoint you!"

Charlie under the dining table shook his head secretly when he heard Harry's words.

Regarding the dueling club, he actually knew about it two days ago, because when Lockhart applied to Dumbledore to open the dueling club, he asked Dumbledore about enchanting in the principal's office.

Lockhart wanted to further expand his influence by organizing the Dueling Club, but Dumbledore felt that it would only expose Lockhart to his hypocrisy and incompetence earlier.

So Lockhart's application was quickly approved by Dumbledore, and Dumbledore also sent Snape, who had long disliked Lockhart, to assist him.

Eight o'clock in the evening, the auditorium.

All the little wizards in the school gathered here, and the four long dining tables were magically turned away by the house elves in advance, and replaced by a gorgeous gilded stage.

The ceiling of the auditorium is no longer a pattern of bright stars, but is replaced by a velvety black, with hundreds of magic candles floating below,

The overall feeling is a little less the fireworks in the cafeteria, but a little more ritual sense of duel.

"Oh, NO!"

Standing under the stage, Harry looked at Lockhart, who looked extraordinarily radiant in a fuchsia robe, and Snape, who was beside him with a gloomy face, and suddenly let out a desperate cry.

Ron on the side could only pat him on the shoulder to show comfort.

At this time, Charlie was not among the little wizards, but used the Disillusionment Charm to become invisible, and lay down on a flagpole inserted on the wall above the stage.

In view of Dumbledore's free guidance on his magical knowledge during this period of time, he also intends to help a little tonight, as a reward for meow!

"Well, Professor Dumbledore has allowed me to start this little dueling club, and to train you well enough, in case you ever need to defend yourself, in the same way that I have used countless times—see my published work for details on this!"

Lockhart's opening remarks not only boasted about himself, but also promoted a wave of his own book.

However, except for some of the little witches who were loyal to him, most of them, especially the senior wizards, had dubious expressions at this time.

Then Lockhart introduced Snape again, but in his introduction, Snape was just a little assistant who knew some dueling skills, and he also boasted that he would not hurt the opponent during the demonstration for a while.

Regarding Lockhart's wild words, Snape just pursed his lips and let out a sneer.

Snape didn't try to explain, his idea was very simple, whether he had strength or not, he would see the result in a duel later, and Lockhart would have to slap him in the face on the spot.

Unfortunately, Snape still underestimated Lockhart's thick skin and ability to smooth things over.

Doesn't Lockhart know his true level?

But why he was willing to engage in the opening demonstration with Snape, because he had already prepared for it.

When Snape and Lockhart were in a duel position, Lockhart began to count down. After the countdown was over, Snape skillfully used a disarming spell on Lockhart,
Lockhart, who was too late to react, didn't even wave his wand, but directly let Snape's disarming spell hit him.

His plan was very simple, that is, not to resist, because he knew that he was definitely not Snape's opponent, so it would be better not to resist, so that he could argue afterwards that he was afraid of hurting Snape, or that he wanted to increase the knowledge of the little wizards and understand the effect of the Disarming Curse.

Of course, after a while, he did indeed do so, and some young wizards really believed his nonsense.

However, the only thing that was beyond Lockhart's expectation was that Snape's Disarming Curse was too powerful, not only knocked his wand into the air, but also his whole body, and hit the wall hard.

This time, if it wasn't for him being an adult wizard with a stronger body than ordinary humans, he would probably vomit blood.

"To be able to lie until now, I still have some acting skills!"

Charlie looked at Lockhart, who got up from the ground, actually in pain, but calm and boastful, and couldn't help admiring his acting skills.

"I still have to meow my horse!"

After the demonstration, there was a chaotic battle among the little wizards, and then at Snape's request, Malfoy and Harry were brought onto the big stage and became everyone's focus.

"Oolong out of the hole!"

Malfoy cast his pride spell on Harry.

The appearance of a poisonous snake scared the young wizards to retreat a few steps collectively. The little Ma Erfu did not have such advanced spell control ability, and could precisely control the poisonous snake to attack the enemy.
The poisonous snake he summoned, apart from not attacking himself, there was no guarantee that it would not attack anyone other than Harry.

Facing the poisonous snake, Harry didn't know which spell to use to repel the opponent for a while, because at this stage, there were really not many attacking spells he knew.

Snape didn't want to really hurt Harry, but just wanted to see Harry, who was similar to James, deflated, so seeing Harry and the poisonous snake in a stalemate, he wanted to step forward to eliminate the poisonous snake.

However, at this time Lockhart felt that he had an opportunity to perform. He couldn't deal with Snape, and he couldn't deal with an ordinary poisonous snake summoned by a summoning spell?
It's a pity that he, who has been obsessed with fame and fortune all year round, is a little too confident in his magical ability.

With a "boom", he failed to release the Elimination Curse, and instead of turning the poisonous snake into nothing, he bounced it into the air.

"Get bigger fast!"

And Charlie was waiting for this opportunity,
When he saw the poisonous snake flying in front of him, he flicked his tail and cast a spell on the poisonous snake, and then activated the hypnotic ability of the cat and leopard, temporarily controlling the poisonous snake that had grown more than ten times its size after landing.

(End of this chapter)