"Truth comes from practice, and the demonstration is over! Now I will come among you and divide you into groups of two. Professor Snape, if you will help me..." Lockhart began to organize a duel among the students.
Snape leaned over with a murderous look on his face. He was so aggressive that many students leaned back unconsciously when they saw his appearance. Just because Lockhart could beat him didn't mean they could do it themselves. None of them are idiots.
Seamus and Justin formed a pair, and Harry and Ron tried to move closer to Lockhart, but Snape got in front of them first. "The dream team should break up, I think," he sneered. Said, "Weasley, you can pair up with Finnigan. Potter—" He seemed to want to take out his defeated anger on them.
"Draco, I think the Savior would be a good opponent for you. Let's see what kind of person you can make the famous Potter into. As for you, Miss Granger." Snape lowered his eyes On to Hermione.
"Just pair up with Pansy." Snape found a Slytherin student nearby.
Hermione let out a sigh of relief, so that she would have a chance to get close to Pansy. She also deliberately took a few steps in that direction just now, but she didn't expect to succeed.
"Face your partners!" Lockhart returned to the stage, shouting, "Bow!"
The two walked onto the stage slowly, and Harry was extremely nervous. He still remembered Ron's tragic situation in Hagrid's cabin.
"Wands up, ready!" cried Lockhart. "When I count to three, I'll cast a spell and disarm the other - just disarm - and we don't want accidents." one two three-"
The two raised their weapons over their shoulders. When they counted to three, they turned around. It was unknown whether it was because of nervousness or something. Harry shot first. He raised his wand and pointed it at Malfoy: "Disarm!"
A thin red light shot out, much dimmer and slower than Snape's just now.
The spell was undoubtedly deflected by Malfoy's Iron Armor Charm.
"Snap-ridden!" Malfoy raised his wand and muttered quickly, but nothing came out from the tip of the wand.
"I said, it's just disarming!" Lockhart looked at Malfoy with some dissatisfaction, but Malfoy smiled and said, "This magic is safer than the disarming spell."
"How is it possible!" Ron said angrily in the audience, "If you violate the rules, you should deduct points."
"Snakes are mentioned in the spell?" Hermione's heart skipped a beat, and all the students these days are getting freaked out by that basilisk that may or may not exist. There was also a whisper in the audience, and everyone heard the curse about the snake.
Harry was concentrating on it, but found that Malfoy's wand did not respond after he chanted the spell, but he would not underestimate his opponent, he did not believe that Malfoy would make such a low-level mistake.
Soon Harry heard exclamations from the audience, he buried his head down, and saw a boa constrictor wrapped around his waist, hissing and spitting out a message, staring straight at him with green eyes, looking at his upper body Circling up. Except for the momentary fear at the beginning, Harry actually wanted to communicate with the snake in a strange way afterwards, and he felt that the snake could understand what he said.
"Can you let me go?" Harry asked, staring at the snake.
Nothing works.
"Hermione, what's wrong with Harry?" Ron asked involuntarily. "Harry talking to the rope?"
"I don't know." Hermione shook her head, she was also puzzled by this, and she still couldn't understand what Harry was saying.
The students off the field only saw that the corner of Harry's robe began to disintegrate into threads and then reassembled into a rope, which was tightly wrapped around Harry's body, as if to restrict his movements. Harry was spitting out some syllables they didn't understand either.
"Is he talking to that rope?" asked a Ravenclaw student. "Or another spell to break the spell?"
Harry desperately searched for the words he knew, and gave commands to the snake he saw. He didn't know how he could make those strange syllables, but his intuition told him that the snake could understand, but the reality was different. It gave him a merciless blow, and the snake's head was already wrapped around his neck. It was opening its mouth wide, baring its fangs, and attacking his neck ferociously.
And the students saw the rope tighten around Harry's neck.
"Draco, it's over, it's over," Snape said, interrupting the duel.
"Of course, Professor." Malfoy kept his eyes closed just now, as if he was also very confident in his spell, and stood motionless opposite Harry as if in deep thought. "Curse stop!" He suddenly pointed his wand at Harry.
Harry saw the snake slowly withdraw from him, then disappear in the blink of an eye, as if it had never been there.
The students in the audience felt that the duel was very boring. It's far less exciting than a duel between teachers.
It was Lockhart who spoke: "It's a wonderful spell. It reminds me of an old oriental adage, which is to fight without fighting... and what is it?"
"Surrender without fighting." A black-haired girl in the audience added.
"Yes, yes, that's the sentence. You all know that my ideal is world peace. This spell really suits my appetite. Slytheringa is very good!" Lockhart raised his wand and said happily .
Harry was still staring at the opposite side in a daze. Even though his opponent had already ended, he hadn't recovered yet. Now he was confused and didn't know what happened, until he heard Hermione and Ron shout, Only then did he come to his senses, he was about to give up his position to the next group of opponents.
He stepped off the stage numbly, and the figure of the snake still appeared in his mind.
"Oh, Harry, what are you in a daze for? You can tear the rope apart with your hands." Ron couldn't help complaining, because he thought it was too strange for Harry to lose.
"Rope?" Harry looked at Ron in surprise.
"Did you see anything else?" Hermione asked out of words, her instinct telling her that the magic was not that simple.
"I only saw a snake," Harry said slowly.
"It's obviously a rope, everyone saw it." Ron looked at Harry in disbelief, but he believed that Harry would not lie, so he couldn't understand it even more.
"It should be that he combined several spells to make people hallucinate, and at the same time, he disassembled and reassembled his robe." Hermione said her reasoning.
"Well, there's no way." Ron sighed, he felt that if he saw the spider during the duel, he would not be better than Harry, for most people , snakes should all be feared creatures.