Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 31
The chaos of the duel reached this point, and Snape and Lockhart also knew that it could not go on, so Lockhart proposed that Neville Longbottom and Justin Fenliery take the stage as a duel demonstration.

"That's not a good idea, Professor Lockhart." Snape slid across the stage like a large malevolent bat. "Longbottom can wreak havoc with even the simplest of spells. We're going to put the remains of Finlay in a matchbox and send them to a hospital ward." Then Snape grinned. "How about Malfoy and Potter?"

"Fantastic!" Lockhart motioned Harry and Draco into the middle of the Great Hall, and the people stepped back to make room for them.

Snape shook his head and said, "Draco, I'm not talking about you Malfoy; Sherin, come here!"

Xie Lin didn't expect to be called. After a moment of surprise, he shrugged and walked slowly to the stage.He couldn't help feeling a bit of anticipation in his heart, "Well, let me see how capable the savior Harry is right now? Snape probably saw me defeating Ron easily, and wanted to use me to beat Harry."

Harry's complexion was also not very good-looking. Although Schelling was very low-key last semester, his academic performance was excellent, especially the two major subjects of Transfiguration and Charms, which were given a lot of attention by Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall. It can be seen that Schelling's strength is definitely stronger than his brother who yells all day long.

A well-known saying in the British Muggle world even inadvertently floated in Harry's mind-a dog that bites does not bark, and he felt a heavy pressure in his heart.

Schelling and Harry stood on both sides of the stage, Lockhart whispered beside Harry, as if to teach some fighting skills, but Snape didn't say a word, just let Schelling play freely.This caused dissatisfaction among the Slytherins in the audience, and there were whispers complaining about unfairness one after another.

Schelling smiled politely at Harry, and performed a very solemn dueling ceremony. This dueling ceremony was completely different from Lockhart's previous set of fancy movements. The movements were smooth and smooth, full of sacred and solemn artistic conception. Not many people knew it. This was an ancient dueling ceremony that was only mentioned in the documents of ancient families.

Harry grew up in a Muggle family, so naturally he knew nothing about the ancient dueling etiquette. At this time, he was at a loss because he didn't know how to deal with it. Sherin smiled and said: "Don't be nervous, Harry, this is just an ordinary duel of a learning nature, and no personal grievances are involved. Let's make an agreement now, and we must not intentionally hurt each other. Do you think this is okay?"

Harry nodded. As for what was going on in his mind, Schelling didn't know, and didn't bother to guess.

Harry took the lead in issuing a full-body binding spell. In Schelling's eyes, Harry's spellcasting technique was rough and unfamiliar, the flying route of the spell was straight and too obvious, and the speed of releasing the magic was too slow. With Schelling's physical quality, he only needed to lean slightly to the left to easily dodge Harry's attack. While dodging, Schelling waved his wand upwards and shouted, "Siege in all directions!"

Four transparent magic barriers suddenly rose from the ground around Harry—it was a barrier spell, like a box tightly trapping Harry in the middle. This spell was learned by Schelling from the family library, and it was not within the scope of the professors at Hogwarts, so Harry didn't know how to break it.

Seeing that he had no escape, Harry immediately shot a Fire Curse at one of the barriers.Schelling nodded in recognition of Harry's adaptability, but unfortunately with Harry's pitifully scarce mana points, the weak flames he shot could only turn into scattered sparks when they hit the barrier, and could not have the slightest impact on the barrier.

Xie Lin thought "it's over" in his heart, and quickly made a sign of the cross with his wand. Without chanting any spells, the end of the wand shot out a dim white light, which flew towards Harry's face with a tricky curve. Several women screamed from the audience, among which Hermione and Ginny's screams were the loudest.

Even Snape's expression was not right, and when he was pulling out his wand to intervene, the corner of Schelling's mouth, who was in control of everything, slightly raised, and the hand holding the wand slightly trembled, and the white light suddenly disappeared without a trace less than ten centimeters away from Harry's forehead.

Although he felt that it was impossible for Schelling to use lethal magic in public, being forced to face this mysterious and unknown magic still made Harry uncontrollably fall into a daze due to fear.

"Concession!" Xie Lin did not show any pride because of the victory, his face was as calm as if the victory was a matter of course, he performed the ancient and solemn duel ceremony to Harry again, and then politely bowed to the two professors on the platform to thank him, walked off the stage slowly with graceful steps, and drifted away without looking back.

The audience was shocked!

Although Schelling was well-known for his excellent academic performance in the first grade, his opponent was the famous Harry Potter who defeated Voldemort when he was a baby!Moreover, at the end of last year's semester, Harry and his little friends broke through the restricted area of ​​the corridor on the fourth floor, cracked many levels of the professors, and finally defeated the dark wizard Quirrell who sneaked into Hogwarts as a professor!These stories are proven - Dumbledore added 1 points to Gryffindor in one breath is the best evidence.

Before this, except for Draco, Daphne, and Meredith, the little wizards never thought that the famous Harry would lose to a student of the same class, let alone such a crushing defeat!

The audience was captured by the momentum of Schelling's explosion and fell silent.

It wasn't until a while after Xie Lin left the auditorium that someone asked about Xie Lin's identity, not to mention some girls with nympho attributes staring at Xie Lin's appearance and strength.

Xie Lin was born in the noble Malfoy family. His appearance and demeanor already had the nobility and ruthlessness of aristocrats. With the display of super strength, his demeanor was even more heroic. In addition, the ancient duel ceremony performed twice made him appear personable, gentle and courteous. It is no wonder that he can easily win the favor of many girls present.

Draco proudly revealed the identity of Schelling to everyone, and at the same time he did not forget to mention that when Schelling was at home, he practiced magic by himself, as if Schelling's strength was due to Draco.

Hermione covered her small mouth with both hands, and exclaimed in disbelief: "Oh my God! Silent casting! That's at the level of NEWT, and it's a relatively difficult part. It's said that not everyone in the senior class can master it. He's only in the second grade, how did he do it?"

Ron's face was full of dissatisfaction on the side, but his good buddy Harry was defeated by the opponent in full view. Even if he was not convinced, he could not refute the facts.

Harry's face was very bitter. It was the first time he felt that he was ordinary. He had always had a feeling that he was different. Even though he was angry when he was misunderstood as a descendant of Slytherin, he was not without a hint of joy in his heart.After this duel, Harry realized that he was nothing special, and that he was often noticed only because of a scar on his forehead.

Lockhart on the stage was still bragging about how he could break Schelling's magic, but at the moment there were only a few little girls left to listen.

After watching the battle of Harry Schelling, more people have more desire for strength because they recognize the gap between themselves and the top level. At this moment, they are quietly indulging in recalling the various details of the previous duel, and they don't care about Lockhart's endless chatter at the moment.

Snape still had a poker face, standing quietly, making it impossible for anyone to guess what he was thinking at the moment.

Some outstanding seniors from senior years, such as Hufflepuff's Cedric Diggory and Ravenclaw's Penelope Clearwater, as people who know the goods, have learned something in this duel. They are amazed by the various fast casting skills and curved shooting skills shown by Schelling. At this time, they are carefully understanding how to apply them in actual combat.

Three days later, the first half of the semester ended.

The third attack did not happen as described in the original book.

After thinking about it for a while, Xie Lin realized that it was the butterfly effect caused by himself.Because he replaced Draco and Harry in the duel, thus avoiding Draco's spell to summon the magic black snake to attack, and the subsequent event that Harry used snake language to prevent the magic black snake from attacking Justin, Justin did not fear Harry and hid alone on the fifth floor where he was attacked by the basilisk.

In view of the current situation of Hogwarts, most of the young wizards chose to go home for Christmas, and the castle was as thick and silent as snow on the ground.

Before the holiday, Daphne and Meredith got Schelling's spell-casting technique notes from Schelling after a lot of hard work, which included Voldemort's spell-casting techniques, as well as some techniques such as fast casting and curved shooting that Schelling had comprehended himself.The two girls had to go home during the Christmas holiday because of family affairs. They planned to learn Schelling's spellcasting skills during the Christmas holiday so that their strength would not fall too much.

On Christmas morning, Schelling woke up early and was surprised to see presents piled up in front of his bed.

After unwrapping presents all morning, he realized that his popularity was far better than he had imagined.Draco gave him a notebook, Daphne and Meredith both gave him a family collection of magic books, Dobby gave him a new set of socks, and even Kreacher didn't forget to send him a bag of homemade pickled treats.

What surprised him the most was a set of black and silvery broad-shouldered cloaks sent by his mother Narcissa. This set of cloaks has a rather romantic name called "Night Star".

The silver dots on the cloak are actually because a famous ancient alchemist used alchemy to fuse the ground magic crystal powder with dragon skin, so it has a high degree of physical defense and anti-magic power. This production process has long been lost in modern times, making this cloak even more precious.

"Mother is worried that I will be involved in the storm in the secret room and get hurt, so she specially sent me life-saving equipment?" Sherring suddenly understood her mother's feelings for him, and was moved. She couldn't help but think that her mother probably never thought that the safest student in Hogwarts might be herself.

["Night Star" cloak obtained! 】

Of course, Xie Lin didn’t forget to return gifts to his friends one by one. Xie Lin gave Draco a set of broomstick maintenance tools; gave Daphne a beautifully styled sleeve cover, which was sewn with a secret pocket for storing the wand, so that Daphne could pull out the wand at a faster speed; gave Meredith a shape-shifting lizard leather suitcase with a non-marking stretching spell to expand the inner space...

In addition to the gifts mentioned above, there were more than 40 gifts left, all of which came from female classmates he didn't know, most of them were junior Slytherin students, but there were also a small number of female students from other colleges. The gifts included various chocolates, gloves, scarves and so on.

It was only then that Schelling realized how popular he was among the girls at Hogwarts. It was probably due to his impressive performance in the Dueling Club that he had successfully left a deep impression on the students.

　Harry was a kid in Years 1 and 2 who liked attention, he just didn't like being noticed because of the scar on his head; he enjoyed the attention of the Quidditch field, and he chose to fly to school instead of writing to inform the school because of this mentality.But after the third grade, because he had seen the disadvantages of fame from Lockhart (this was actually one of Dumbledore's development plans), Harry also grew up slowly.

　　
　
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