Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 35
One day during the Easter break, Schelling received a challenge to a duel from an owl.

When Schelling just received this letter of challenge, he was at a loss, and only figured out the details of the Slytherin faction dispute after many inquiries. "It turns out that there is such an undercurrent in Slytherin. These are plots that have never been mentioned in the original book. I began to think that campus life is quite interesting."

Encountering a plot that was not originally planned, Xie Lin smiled happily, as if he had encountered a very happy event.

There were two challengers—one of them was the former Slytherin Seeker who was replaced by Draco with a money offensive—Terrence Higgs in the third grade. He was dissatisfied with losing the Seeker position due to the black box operation, so he wanted to challenge Schelling to a duel. If Schelling lost, he hoped that Draco could return the Seeker position.

Another challenger is Gallup Lestrange, who is in the fourth grade. He regards the Malfoy family's first choice to protect their lives after the fall of Voldemort as a betrayal of the pure-blood family, so he does not allow the children of the Malfoy family to easily establish popularity and fame in Slytherin.

The prudent Schelling asked Daphne to help investigate the strength of the two challengers from the family, and decided to go to the appointment to accept the challenge.Schelling also had the idea of ​​establishing a force to follow him in Slytherin, so this challenge was just a good opportunity for him to establish his prestige.

Xie Lin didn't want to be like those pedantic pure-bloods, trapped by narrow-minded pure-blood thinking. He hoped that the power he built could appoint people on their merits and use them on their merits. Compared with blood, Xie Lin paid more attention to a person's character, heart, strength and talent.As the saying goes, one must be safe within one's home, and only by subduing the entire Slytherin first, can he go to other colleges to recruit talents with peace of mind.

This challenge has long been known to everyone under someone's deliberate publicity. The moment Xie Lin signed the challenge letter to accept the challenge, the young wizards who witnessed the scene in the waiting room were full of enthusiasm. The young wizards were all looking forward to this duel, and some even invited the dean, Professor Snape, to be the referee of the duel night.The duel was scheduled for two nights later, in the Slytherin common room.

On the night of the duel, when Schelling stepped into the common room on time, the atmosphere in the lounge suddenly became quiet and weird. I saw Professor Snape standing in the middle of the lounge expressionlessly. Every corner was crowded with young wizards, and with a quick glance Schelling saw that almost all the Slytherins were present.

Draco looked at Schelling with a worried expression. After all, Schelling's opponents were all students who were a few grades higher than Schelling; Daphne and Meredith were full of blind confidence in Schelling, and looked at Schelling with excited and expectant eyes at this moment.

Just as Snape was about to start speaking, Schelling interrupted hastily, "I'm sorry, Professor, but I wish I could say a few words before tonight's duel begins."

There was no expression on Snape's cold poker face, and Schelling took his no objection as tacit approval.He cast an amplifying spell on himself, "Slytherin students, good evening, everyone must know the meaning behind tonight's duel. Before that, I want to explain one thing first. It is my private decision to come here today, and it has nothing to do with the Malfoy family to which I belong!"

After saying this, the audience was in an uproar, and the little snakes in the lounge were whispering to each other, making it as noisy as a vegetable market.

Schelling then said loudly: "On the first day I was sorted into Slytherin, I was very satisfied. I was ambitious, shrewd, valued honor, judged the situation, protected myself wisely, and put victory first. This is what I care about. But I didn't look down on any student from any house in Gryffindor, Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. Because today I discovered that Slytherin house is not perfect!"

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone in the audience was startled, except for Snape who was still expressionless, everyone was stunned by the astonishing words from Schelling's mouth, and the atmosphere suddenly became silent.

Seeing that the effect he wanted had been achieved, Schelling continued his efforts: "Students here, do you know the purpose of Salazar Slytherin's establishment of the academy? Do you know why he insists on pure blood?"

He paused, and only continued when the Slytherins were all looking at him suspiciously. "It's strength! It's unity! It's a unified will!" Xie Lin looked at them with piercing eyes. "Of course, there are also interests that continue and intertwine!"

"A real Slytherin should be composed of excellent students. Intrigue and trickery are not the best words to describe us. The correct narrative should be solidarity and mutual achievement."

"A real Slytherin doesn't care about the excellence of blood, but the real talent and strength."

"The real Slytherin regards resourcefulness as a means, not an end. It no longer makes people feel disgusted, but makes people feel elegant."

"In a real Slytherin, everyone can happily say to their families on the day they join, look, I entered the best house in Hogwarts, and bow deeply to the Slytherin badge on the day they leave, thanking themselves for being here every day."

"Look at you again, think about what you have done today. When you are holding the mentality of aristocrats, the brave Gryffindor is improving your defense against the dark arts. When you are complacent about the success of your schemes The wise Ravenclaw knew one more spell than us. While you were fighting for some interests, the mandala grass planted by the industrious Hufflepuff has come to the harvest season."

"Why do we think we are superior to others? Is it just a blood that can't bring us any power? Is it just a conspiracy that only thinks about petty gains?"

"So I hope everyone here can forget that I am a Malfoy tonight, and remember that I am a Slytherin!"

It has to be said that Xie Lin's impassioned remarks moved quite a few young wizards.

Prefect Gemma Farley stood up and applauded first, then Draco, Pansy, Daphne, and Meredith also stood up and applauded, and then more and more young wizards joined the applause. Slowly, more than half of the students in the audience applauded, especially the little wizards from weak families or from mixed-race families.

Their status in Slytherin is generally not high. The position of the prefect, the position of the Quidditch team, and even the superior resources in the common room are usually out of their turn. They are inferior to others in the academy. Dissatisfied with their tastes, the vision Schelling described at this moment most resonated with them.

Terrence Higgs as the opponent was also moved by Schelling's words.

He was born in a small mixed-race family with a humble background, and he was able to gain a foothold in the brutally competitive Slytherin thanks to his father Bertie Higgs and the director of the Auror office, Rufus Scrimgeour, who had some friendship. But despite this, he obviously had a lot of talent in flying, but he still lost the position of the Seeker. This time he will become the first bird. In fact, he was forced to stand up and be used as a gun by some powerful families hiding behind the scenes.

The stern look on Gallup Lestrange's face flashed across, and he sneered, "My junior, you are really eloquent, and what you say seems to make a lot of sense. The question is—do you have the strength to change Slytherin?"

Schelling cut it disdainfully, "Whether you have that strength or not is not just a matter of words, we will know soon!" Without waiting for Gallup to reply, he said to Snape: "Professor, I am ready. I will challenge Higgs for the first duel today!"

Terence looked at Xie Lin's confident expression without fear. He didn't see any hesitation or fear in the eyes of this boy who still looked immature, only firmness and confidence.He sighed secretly, staring into Xie Lin's eyes and said: "I was moved by your words, I hope you can remember what you said today—Professor, I am sorry to waste everyone's time tonight, I decided to abstain!"

Snape's expression didn't change in any way, he just nodded slightly, expressing his acceptance of Terence's abstention.

Then Gallup stood up and came to the very center of the lounge, opposite Schelling.Although he despised Schelling verbally, he didn't underestimate him in his heart. After all, Schelling's performance in the Dueling Club was obvious to all. During the Christmas period, he even dealt with Harry and Ron cleanly with one enemy and two.

After the two performed the ancient dueling ritual to each other, the duel began after Snape counted to three!
Gallup knew how powerful Schelling was, so he shot first, "remove your weapon", "pass out" and "put everything into petrification". In a blink of an eye, three offensive spells were fired in turn, sealing off all the places where Schelling could move, and he actually used his quick spell casting skills to the point of three times in a flash!

Schelling reckoned that with his own casting speed, he could hit twice in one instant at most. After judging that he could not win with speed, the wand cast a red-glowed spell at a tricky angle, and the spell precisely hit the stun spell in the middle of the three spells cast by Gallup. , the Stunning Curse also knocked the Body Binding Curse off the attack track.

Xie Lin only used one spell to defuse the opponent's attack without leaving the spot. This requires great courage and absolute confidence in the accuracy of his own spell.

Gallup didn't have time to admire Schelling's response. While Schelling defuses the attack, Gallup moves and runs around Schelling at an extremely fast speed. When he runs to the left back of Schelling, he once again launches the same three spells in an instant to attack.

Facing the same offensive as before, Xie Lin chose to change his strategy. Xie Lin used his fast casting skills to continuously cast two universal counter-spells "Spell Standing" to accurately hit and neutralize the opponent's two spells. While avoiding the last spell by rolling on the spot, Xie Lin shot a dim white light at the running Gallup from bottom to top!

Gallup, who was still running, tried to sideways to dodge, but the white light turned abruptly with a strange curve, hitting Gallup's chest, knocking Gallup into mid-air in an instant, and then landing suddenly from a high place!There was only a burst of powerful impact spread throughout the audience, and accompanied by the sound of bones breaking, Gallup let out an incomparably shrill scream!
Snape rushed forward in an instant, first poured him a bottle of potion, and then used a spell to start a first aid before letting a student send him to the school hospital.Snape stared at Schelling, and Wannian Bingshan's face became very gloomy at this moment. Although this was a fair duel, it was still a violation of school rules to use a curse to cause such serious harm to a classmate.

Moreover, Schelling's attack was so fast that even Snape didn't react. Otherwise, he could have used the counter-curse to prevent Gallup's serious injury. At this moment, he, as the referee present, must bear some responsibility for this.

Because Schelling had been casting spells silently during the duel, so far no one could tell what kind of spell the red light and white light that Schelling emitted successively were. Among the people present, only Snape recognized that the white light seemed to be an advanced application of the Levitating Charm.This spell is an improved work of the floating spell by Schelling. It can raise the target of the spell rapidly and then quickly fall to the ground, causing the target of the spell to fall due to the impact force. Schelling named it "the falling curse".

But even with Snape's knowledge, he couldn't identify what kind of spell the red light from Schelling was, let alone how he couldn't understand how Schelling turned the spell after it had left the wand. .It has to be said that all the mysteries of Schelling have successfully become the object of his second priority in his mind. As for who is the first priority?Of course it was Harry Potter, the son of his enemy.

In all fairness, Gellep's strength is definitely not weak, and the casting speed of three shots in one hand is enough to make most of the little wizards present sigh.And Schelling knocked him down within two rounds, causing a strong visual impact on the little wizard present.

At this moment, the image of Schelling's strength and ruthlessness deeply penetrated into the hearts of every Slytherin student—Terrence Higgs suddenly felt grateful for his decision to abstain earlier, those students who originally harbored ill intentions towards the Malfoy family It was the students who were in awe of the Malfoy family and who originally admired Schelling became even more fanatical about Schelling...

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