The Lonely Dragon of Hogwarts

Lockhart's mobility is still very strong.

Just a week later, John was leading Draco and Pansy through the hall when he suddenly saw a small group of people gathered around the bulletin board, reading the words on a piece of parchment that had just been nailed up.

Senior Sister Taylor was also on the side, smiling and calling them over.

"They are going to open a dueling club, saying it is to improve our defense capabilities." Senior Sister Taylor said, "Tonight is the first meeting. I am not opposed to learning some dueling lessons. It may come in handy one day..."

"Oh! Of course it works! John and I have proven this with Pote as early as the first grade!"

Draco said with joy.

Several students nearby couldn't help laughing when they heard this.

Through the publicity of "The White Bird Song", the fact that Harry was defeated by John and Draco in the first grade has now spread throughout Hogwarts.

Draco also laughed for a while, and then said to John cheerfully:

"Shall we go too?"

John thought for a moment and agreed.

Mainly because he knew that Draco had learned [Upside Down Golden Bell] from Lucius during the summer vacation.

He was very curious about what would happen if Draco faced Harry this time.

So, at eight o'clock in the evening, they hurried back to the auditorium.

At this time, all the long tables in the auditorium had disappeared, and a gilded stage appeared along one wall, illuminated by hundreds of candles floating in the sky.

The ceiling was once again as dark as velvet, and several rooster-shaped iron trumpets hung from it.

There are many such trumpets in Hogwarts. Dumbledore asked Professor McGonagall to use Transfiguration after accepting John's proposal.

Under the magical control of Professor McGonagall, these trumpets emit a shrill rooster crow every hour.

In addition, Dumbledore also asked the prefects of each college to organize their own manpower to patrol throughout the school.

And they themselves are continuing to investigate the Hogwarts sewer system.

Although the crowing of roosters was disturbing to the residents, the prefects' patrols and sewer system inspections also caused a lot of trouble for the students.

But these measures do give students a greater sense of security.

And this time the Duel Club obviously has the same effect.

So tonight, almost all the students from the school came, crowded together, everyone holding their own wands, their faces full of excitement.

The Slytherins had the best position.

John was surrounded and pushed to the front of the team again, standing at the leader's position with Senior Sister Taylor.

"I don't know who will teach us," Senior Sister Taylor said. "Maybe it will be Professor Flitwick. I remember that he was a dueling champion when he was young. He seems to have taught you dueling skills, John?"

"Yes, Professor Flitwick's dueling skills are superb."

John said calmly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lockhart, who was wearing a colorful robe, had already walked onto the stage, followed by Snape, who was still wearing a black robe.

The clothes of the two are completely different.

In comparison, Snape was almost like Lockhart's follower.

"Come around, come around! Can everyone see me? Can everyone hear me? Great!"

Lockhart shouted excitedly, "That's it. Professor Dumbledore allowed me to open this small dueling club to fully train everyone in case you need to defend yourself one day. Protect yourself in the same way that I have used countless times." ——For details on this, please see my published works.”

"Let me introduce my assistant, Professor Snape," said Lockhart, with a wide grin, "he told me that he knew a thing or two about dueling himself, and that he was generous Promise, help me with a small demonstration before class. I said, I don't want to worry about you little guys - when I'm done demonstrating with him, I'll return your potions teacher to you intact ,do not be afraid!"

The crowd immediately erupted into a wave of deafening laughter.

Normally everyone would not be so supportive.

But today the person Lockhart was joking about was Snape, so the situation was different.

Especially now that Snape seemed extremely angry, his eyes fixed on Lockhart, as if he wanted to eat someone.

Draco couldn't help but moved closer to John and said:

"I bet Professor Snape will give him a good beating later!"

It turns out Draco was right.

Snape and Lockhart stood at opposite ends of the stage and began to salute each other according to the ancient dueling etiquette.

Lockhart's movements were extremely graceful and he came up with many tricks, but Snape just shook his head impatiently.

They then held their respective wands like arrows to their chests.

"Three seconds to count!" Lockhart said excitedly, "After three seconds we cast the first spell. Of course, neither of us will take the other's life."

"3...2...1..."

They both jerked their wands over their shoulders at the same time.

"Except your weapons!"

"boom--"

A dazzling red light suddenly imprinted on Lockhart's chest.

It was knocked out and hit the wall, then slid down and curled up on the floor.

Cheers rang out from the Slytherin team, and Snape stared at Lockhart and snorted disdainfully.

Lockhart staggered to his feet, his hat off and his wavy curls standing on end.

"Well, you all saw it!" he said, stumbling back onto the stage, "This is a disarming charm - as you can see, I lost my wand - ah, thank you You, Miss Brown. Yes, Professor Snape, it's a great idea to show them this move, but don't mind if I say this. Your intention to do this was obvious just now. If I want It takes no effort to stop you. I think that in order to increase their knowledge, we might as well let them take a look..."

At this point, Lockhart seemed to finally notice Snape's increasingly unfriendly expression, and immediately changed his words:

"This is the end of the demonstration! Now I will come among you and divide you into groups of two. Professor Snape, if you are willing to help me..."

Snape didn't refuse.

The two of them walked through the crowd and began to match everyone up.

But Snape was obviously more targeted.

He immediately came to the Gryffindor team.

Ron said coldly to Ron, who had been standing with Harry early:

"The dream team should be broken up. I think, Weasley, you can form a pair with Finnigan. As for Poto..."

"Me! Let me go! Professor!"

Draco's voice suddenly sounded.

He rushed to Snape and screamed excitedly.

Seeing this, Snape frowned slightly. He glanced in the direction of John. Seeing that John had no intention of getting closer, he nodded and said:

"Okay, then let you try it first."

Draco smiled provocatively at Harry:

"It's not too late to admit defeat now, Po! Special!"

Harry didn't show any anger after hearing this.

At this moment, he looked thinner than a week ago, and his complexion was also very pale.

But his eyes shone with confidence.

Riddle's training on him was magical, it was completely carried out in a memory illusion.

There, the flow of time slows down a lot.

A week in reality turned into more than a month in fantasy.

After such a long period of special training, Harry felt that he had become truly powerful.

'Let's try Malfoy first. '

Thinking this, Harry sneered:

"Malfoy, you are the one who should admit defeat!"