"Finite!"
Dracula's voice rang out across the stage, echoing throughout the auditorium.
An invisible light curtain spread outward with Dracula on the stage as its center, gently sweeping over all the second-grade wizards who were in the duel.
The messy spell lights in the hall disappeared in an instant. Seamus with a dark face, Ron with pimples all over his body, Harry dancing happily, Draco laughing non-stop...
The symptoms of these little wizards who were attacked by each other all recovered. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Now there are only two young wizards left on the field who have not escaped from the chaotic duel—
Hermione and Millicent are still dueling between themselves!
Millicent clamped her head with her arms, which were thicker than Hermione's thighs. Hermione screamed in pain and tore Millicent's hair frantically...
Both of their wands were forgotten on the floor. Everyone forgot that this was a magical duel and subconsciously treated it as an everyday fight between Muggles.
Dracula secretly held his forehead and shook his head helplessly.
Miss Granger still had the problem of getting nervous in battles. She had already shown this problem in the second half of her first year when she went with Harry and Ron to search for the Philosopher's Stone, and she had not completely corrected it until now.
When Millicent knew that she could not defeat Hermione with magic and pounced on her with her strong body, Hermione immediately became panicked under the heavy pressure. Her mind went blank and the large amount of magic theories stored in her mind seemed to disappear out of thin air.
So, the two little witches finally returned to their original state and started a physical fight...
Dracula waved his hand gently, and Hermione and Millicent's muscles suddenly lost their strength, loosening their grip on their opponents' necks and hair. Harry and Ron, who had hurried over, easily separated the two.
"You guys were too reckless and violated many of the duel rules," Dracula criticized. But his eyes were not serious at all, but rather excited. "In order to prevent other wizards from doing the same thing, I think it's necessary to find two wizards to demonstrate—"
He pretended to choose, then turned his interested eyes to Ron and Seamus in the audience, "How about you two, Mr. Weasley and Mr. Finnigan?"
Ron looked at his broken wand in confusion, and Seamus stroked his hair which was still "ruffled" by the explosion, looking in disbelief at Professor Dracula standing on the central stage of the auditorium.
"We?" they asked doubtfully.
"Cough cough!" Before Dracula nodded, Snape finally couldn't bear it anymore and coughed heavily twice.
"Professor Dracula, if you want to appreciate the art of explosions and the performance of self-mutilation, you might as well go and watch it privately later." Snape curled up his upper lip and looked at another little wizard not far from Ron and Seamus with ill intent.
"Potter, Malfoy, why don't you two come up and show everyone?"
Dracula shrugged, looked at Ron and Seamus with some regret, but nodded.
"Well, the duel between Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy was also very exciting, not inferior to that between Weiss and Finnigan." He chuckled, "Listen to Professor Snape, you two come on stage."
Harry looked at Snape angrily, then glared at Malfoy with hostility, then quickly walked to the stage in the center of the hall and stood next to Dracula, not wanting to get close to Snape at all.
Malfoy was not to be outdone. He walked onto the stage with his head held high, stood beside his headmaster and glared at Harry.
Snape took two steps closer to Malfoy, lowered his head and whispered something to him. Malfoy's eyes lit up, his expression immediately became extremely confident, and he sneered.
Seeing Malfoy, who had obviously been taught by Snape and might cast some vicious spells, Harry looked up at Dracula nervously.
"Professor, Snape seems to have secretly taught Malfoy a spell. Can you teach me a temporary method to stop him?" he asked in a low voice.
"Are you scared?" Malfoy said in a low voice when he saw Harry's reaction.
"You're dreaming!" Harry gritted his teeth and blurted out these words.
"Before the formal duel, the two opponents should not whisper to each other." Dracula glanced at Malfoy.
Then he turned to look at Harry, "Well, in order to prevent Professor Snape, who favors Slytherin, from disrupting the balance of this duel, I should also teach you some practical little spells."
"Well... that's it. Have you heard of the Tongue Locking Curse?" Dracula stood still, but his voice was transmitted to Harry's ears very accurately, without being heard by Malfoy and Snape.
"Never heard of it." Harry shook his head blankly.
"It's okay. This is a very simple spell that you can learn quickly. Although it can't completely block a person's voice like the Silence Spell, it can make the opponent's tongue stick to the upper palate." Dracula said, "Second-year wizards don't know how to cast spells silently yet, so if you can make the opponent unable to speak the spell clearly, you can easily interrupt his spellcasting."
"The spell for the Langlock curse is 'Langlock'. Lengthen the first syllable and stress the second. Do you understand?"
Harry nodded blankly, then opened his mouth, wanting to ask some more detailed questions.
But Dracula seemed to have great confidence in him, and before he could even ask any other questions, he turned his gaze to the crowd below the stage.
"It was my negligence just now. I didn't introduce the rules of wizard duels to you, which led to many violations of the rules." Dracula said loudly, "But the specific duel rules are too long and too troublesome to read. You can go back and look up the information yourself... I will briefly introduce a few important ones here-"
"In a formal duel, one wizard needs to first challenge the other wizard. If the other wizard accepts, the two sides will agree on the time and place of the duel. As for duels in dueling clubs like ours, since there are organizers, there is usually no need to challenge. Instead, the organizer arranges the duels..."
"In addition, one thing has been mentioned just now - before the duel begins, wizards on both sides must bow to each other as a sign of courtesy."
"In a formal duel, there is usually an 'assistant' who serves as a trusted ally of the duelist and takes over from the duelist to continue fighting when necessary. However, this was rare more than a hundred years ago, and wizards usually dueled one-on-one."
"In a formal duel, duelists can only use magic to fight each other, and no physical contact is allowed. Miss Granger and Miss Bulstrode, your 'duel' violated the rules and turned the wizard duel into a brawl."
Hearing Dracula's comments, Hermione's face turned red, and she lowered her head and stared at her toes. Millicent looked proud, as if she was very happy because she won the fight...
"In addition, in a friendly duel, it is forbidden to use black magic." Dracula continued, "Pay attention! The black magic here not only includes the most vicious curses (Curse), but also covers the evil curses (Jinx) and poisonous curses (Hex) that you use on each other..."
"So, many groups of second-year players, such as Potter and Malfoy, Weasley and Finnigan, Lombard and Finch-Fletchley, have actually violated our dueling rules."
Looking at the thoughtful little wizards in the audience, Dracula nodded gently to Snape, "That's about it. Now, please invite Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy to give everyone a presentation."
Snape walked to the side of the duel stage with understanding, and began to count for the start of the match in a cold voice:
"One... two... three... go!"
Malfoy raised his wand quickly and yelled, "Wu ...
Harry's movements were faster than his, and the syllable length of the Tongue-Locking Curse was much shorter than the spell Snape taught Malfoy, so he recited the spell before Malfoy -
"Langlock!"
Malfoy's tongue immediately stuck to his upper palate. He finished reciting the spell halfway and could no longer speak. He could only make a "wuwu" sound.
Seeing that he had successfully used the spell he had just learned, Harry showed an extremely excited expression on his face, and began to think happily - he was thinking about what kind of spell could not only not violate the rules of the duel, but also teach Malfoy a lesson!
Snape, the referee, looked gloomy and felt depressed. He was unwilling to let Harry win the duel with just a simple spell.
Then he shook the wand in his hand slightly.
Dracula's eyes moved and the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, but he didn't say much.
He also felt that ending the duel like this was too dull and completely meaningless!
Then, Malfoy's tongue and palate, which were stuck together, quietly separated.
As soon as he regained the ability to speak, Malfoy pointed his wand at Harry angrily and shouted -
"Serpensortia!"
The tip of his wand suddenly seemed to explode, emitting a large amount of black mist.
Harry was happily thinking about how to teach Malfoy a lesson, and he never expected that his tongue-locking curse had been broken by the unsportsmanlike Snape.
Unable to react in time, he could only stare ahead in horror, and saw a long black snake suddenly leap out from the black fog and land heavily on the stage between them, then raise its head, ready to attack Harry!
The crowd watching the fight couldn't help but scream and quickly stepped back, leaving a large open space for the stage in the center of the auditorium.
"Shouldn't this kind of evil spell be a vicious curse or a poison spell?!" Harry turned to look at Snape and asked loudly in dissatisfaction.
"Don't use your poor knowledge to question other people's magic, Potter." Snape curled his lips in contempt. "If you can put away your arrogance and ignorance a little, you may be able to understand... what is the Summoning Spell."
"Summoning spell?" Harry looked at Dracula in confusion.
"Didn't Professor McGonagall tell you?" Dracula crossed his arms, looking like he was watching a play. "The Summoning Spell is a branch of Transfiguration. The opposite of it is the Vanishing Spell."
However, at this moment Harry had no time to think about the relationship between the Summoning Spell and the Transfiguration Spell. The big black snake between him and Malfoy was already crawling towards him and could attack at any time!
"Don't move, Potter," Snape said lazily, "I'll get him away..."
He felt a great deal of pleasure at the sight of Harry standing there motionless, helplessly looking at the angry black snake's expression.
But at the same time, Snape held the wand so tightly in his hand that even his knuckles turned white.
Obviously, even though he wanted to scare Harry, he didn't want anything to happen to Harry. This contradictory behavior and complex emotions were fully reflected in Snape.
"Don't move!" Harry suddenly shouted, "The duel isn't over yet!"
Snape paused and did not recite the solution to the Snake Summoning Curse. As the black snake approached Harry, his expression became extremely nervous.
Harry still felt unwilling in his heart, he didn't want to lose to his mortal enemy Malfoy, nor did he want to admit that the spell taught by Professor Dracula was not as effective as Snape's... Even though he didn't know that according to the normal process, the spell Snape taught Malfoy had already lost at the beginning of the duel.
At this moment, Harry's brain was working rapidly.
He was thinking about how he could deal with such a big snake.
First of all, the tongue-locking spell that Professor Dracula had just taught him would definitely not work. This was a spell used by wizards when they cast spells, and it obviously had no effect on snakes. The snakes didn't need to chant spells like wizards!
In addition, he carefully recalled the offensive spells he had learned in his first year. Thanks to the devilish practical training in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class last week, he could recall most of the offensive spells in an emergency.
There was no need to consider the curses that the Weiss twins and Ron had secretly taught him, as that was against the rules of dueling.
As for the spells that we learned in class, such as the Dancing Charm, the Repulsive Charm, the Limp Legs Charm, etc., it seems that except for the Repulsive Charm which may have some effect, the other spells do not seem to be magic that can work on a snake.
For example, the dance spell Malfoy used on him before... He couldn't make a snake dance on the stage, could he
At this moment, a dazzling red light suddenly appeared in Harry's mind -
"Expelliarmus!"
For some unknown reason, he subconsciously recited the disarming spell that Snape and Dracula had used on stage before!
A beam of red light hit Malfoy directly, knocking the wand in his hand high into the air!
Looking at this scene, Dracula was stunned.
It seems that all the time I spent commenting on the disarming spell not being effective was in vain
… This tactless little wizard actually used the Disarming Charm in front of him, and the key is that he used it well!
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