Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 30 The Duel: Neville vs. Malfoy
Lockhart returned to Hogwarts, the noon sun was still a bit basking, but the grass around the castle was full of students flying in mid-air, some of them were flying alone, and some were in groups. Arranged into individual characters, and then arranged into a single character in a while.

It has been two weeks since Lockhart taught the flying spell for the first time, and many young wizards have mastered this simple and interesting spell.

Flying spells are not difficult, but if you want to fly, maintain balance, and then achieve stable control, in addition to certain requirements for spell mastery, it also requires physical fitness such as coordination and reaction speed.

Lockhart emphasized this point in class, and the young wizards at Hogwarts also began to pay attention to physical exercise under the influence of this flight frenzy.

Lockhart noticed that the few wizards who flew better were members of the Quidditch team.

Lockhart's originally somewhat gloomy mood was infected by the youthful vitality of these young wizards. He leaped over and joined the ranks of the flyers in the sky with his heart.

When encountering little wizards who are a little scared, Lockhart encourages them to try boldly; when encountering little wizards who can't fly, Lockhart will give them some pointers; when encountering little wizards who fly very well, Lockhart praises them And encourage them to compete with each other.

Being a teacher by example, entertaining and teaching is the greatest fun.

Lockhart found that although there were many familiar faces in the crowd, the few people he paid most attention to were not here.

He gradually left the flying crowd, stepped into the Hogwarts castle, and asked the surrounding ghosts for the location of the trio of Neville and Harry.

But accidentally saw the janitor Filch walking towards Professor McGonagall's office with a piece of parchment full of words. Lockhart saw the words "forbidden", "corridor", "flying" with his excellent eyesight. Curse", "school rules" and other key words.

After hanging out with the wolves last night, when Lockhart saw Filch's face, he almost couldn't help saying "The North will never forget" to him.

When Lockhart passed through the foyer and entered the auditorium, he finally saw four familiar figures.

On the ring in the center of the auditorium, Harry was confronting Neville, Ron was gesticulating with Neville with his wand, and Hermione was talking to Neville while flipping through a book.

Lockhart did not move closer to disturb, but chose to observe the four little wizards from a certain distance.

He saw that the book in Hermione's hand should be his new book "I Know Magic", which introduced a lot of dueling skills. While flipping through the book, she kept emphasizing some dueling skills for Neville .

Ron was more straightforward, he kept encouraging Neville: "Malfoy is a coward, he can only move his mouth, Neville, you are better than twelve of them, teach this disgusting man Malfoy a lesson." guy."

Harry was simulating a duel with Neville. He released the Disarming Charm time and time again, and kept telling Neville the key points and techniques of releasing the Disarming Charm.

Lockhart left after watching for a while, he was happy for his disciple, he gained friendship, and it was because of his bravery and integrity.

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At seven o'clock in the evening, tonight's auditorium was full of gongs and drums like last week, with firecrackers going off, red flags waving, and crowds of people, but the protagonist was no longer Lockhart.

The duel between Neville Longbottom and Draco Malfoy has been warming up for a week. Although most young wizards don't think that Neville Longbottom has any chance of winning, the heat of this duel is still on the rise. sky.

The crowd was no longer randomly distributed in small groups in twos and threes like last time, but consciously gathered according to the colleges, and the little wizards of Gryffindor even held up banners.

"Longbottom is stronger than twelve Malfoys!" Gold letters on a red background, shining with magical brilliance, and a lion symbolizing Gryffindor kept wandering between the words.

The Slytherin students didn't react too ostentatiously, most of them just looked at the Gryffindor banner with cold eyes.

Lockhart flew into the air, Malfoy and Neville were also ready, Lockhart announced the rules, no use of the Unforgivable Curse, no use of weapons other than wands, voluntary abandonment and loss of mobility when falling into the ring will count as a loss .

Subsequently, Lockhart announced that the duel had officially begun.

Neville bowed to Malfoy according to the dueling etiquette, but Malfoy stood still, just sneered and said: "Don't rush to beg for mercy, you will have a chance to bow your knees later."

In mid-air, Lockhart felt it was understandable that the boy was hated.

Lockhart and Mrs. Malfoy often corresponded by letter. It was hard to imagine that Mrs. Malfoy, who was always polite and good-natured, would raise such a child with no manners and lack of family upbringing.

The mantra is: my father xxx.The daily fun is to deliberately laugh at others, and it is extremely bad, mocking the poverty of the Weasley family, calling Hermione a mudblood, and making jokes about Harry's dead parents several times.

It's bad, and it's very low. The Malfoy family is said to have been aristocratic in the Muggle world. Why does Decora Malfoy behave like a little bastard?
Why is it rumored that all the good qualities of the British aristocrats are missing, and instead they become a cowardly, jealous, and vulgar person, or is this the demeanor of the British aristocracy?

After all, the pirates who legally plundered at sea were nobles, the robbers who destroyed the Parthenon were nobles, and the arsonists who burned the Old Summer Palace were also nobles.

Lockhart was thinking about this in mid-air. Below, the duel between Malfoy and Neville was in full swing.

Although Malfoy's quality was a bit poor, he was a wizard from a big pure-blood family after all. He had received a good magic education since he was a child, and fancy magic tricks poured out from the tip of his wand.

On the other hand, Neville's performance was very flat. He was dodging more often, and occasionally avoided a vital point to resist a spell if he couldn't dodge.

Lockhart could see that Neville wanted to rush up and give Malfoy a hard time, but he had been too tired to deal with Malfoy's constant spells and hadn't found a chance.

Suddenly, with a wave of Malfoy's wand, a flash of red light hit Neville.

"Drill the heart and gouge out the bone!"

Lockhart was taken aback by the curse, how could a second year Malfoy use the Unforgivable Curse, and how dare he?
But they saw that the red light hit Neville, but Neville's wand flew out of his hand and flew towards Mal, but did not cause any harm to Neville.

Lockhart found out that it was just a disarming spell, and Malfoy should have added "Cruciatus" after casting the spell in a low voice to cover it up.

"Scared, you little fool!" Malfoy stopped casting a spell, and he got Neville's wand, feeling that he had a chance to win, and started the attack mode.

"The Cruciatus Curse, it's really a good magic. I heard that your parents were tortured by the Dark Lord's men with this curse and became lunatics. If you ask me, they must have gone crazy a long time ago. Otherwise, how could you give birth to a little fool? ? Are you right, Longbottom?"

"It's so pitiful. My parents are still alive but they don't know me. I think it's worse than Harry's parents. They are dead. Are you right, Longbottom?"

Malfoy's vicious words made Lockhart almost unable to bear the desire to come down and beat him himself. Harry and Ron in the audience almost rushed to the ring to beat him up. The students stopped.

Neville looked up at Lockhart in mid-air, and Lockhart gave him an encouraging look.

Neville felt that he had never been so angry as he was now. His mind was full of his parents not recognizing him in the ward of St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Malfoy's vicious taunt just now.

From his waist pocket he took a new wand, which he called the Dragonfang Lance.

At this moment, Neville raised his Dragon Tooth Spear, and rushed towards Malfoy like a cavalryman launching a charge, letting the curses hit him one after another, and kept getting closer.

The sharp dragon teeth at the end of the wand were getting closer and closer to Malfoy's stinky face. He didn't pay attention to Malfoy's helpless cries and begging for mercy, and waved his wand directly.

In the end, Neville still avoided Malfoy's vital parts, and slammed his wand on Malfoy's upper arm, the sound of bones shattering could be heard even in mid-air Lockhart.

Malfoy was kicked out of the ring and fell hard to the ground. While crying in pain, he shouted: "My father will never let you go!"

Lockhart came down and brought him up with the Levitating Charm, asked the prefects and the student council president to maintain order for him temporarily, took Malfoy, and sent him to the school hospital.

Ignoring Madam Pomfrey's complaints, Lockhart quickly flew back to the auditorium. Lockhart was afraid that there would be conflicts among the students.

Fortunately, when Lockhart returned to the auditorium, he found that although the Slytherin and Gryffindor students had some quarrels, they hadn't reached the point where their swords were on the verge of breaking out.

After all, people's hearts are long, but Malfoy's ridicule just now was too much. Even Slytherin House supported him, and Malfoy's hand injury was not too serious. A few cups of medicine can be cured in two or three days.

Most of the discussion was centered on the Dragonfang Lance that Neville pulled out at the end, and Neville used it to cast a Luminescent Charm to prove that it was indeed a wand, just a bit bigger.

The little wizards at the side complained about Neville's "it's just a little bigger" while excitedly surrounded him wanting to touch his big treasure.

Lockhart breathed a sigh of relief, flew to the ring, and invited several senior students to the stage. Today he will teach how to use dodge to avoid the attack of the spell.

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