The first Quidditch match in November was a fierce battle between Gryffindor and Slytherin, which ended in a victory for Gryffindor, but there was no celebration in the saloon, but a dead silence like a winter night.

There were expressions of frustration and anger on everyone's faces, and most of the players sat around the fire in a dejected manner, except for Ron, who had disappeared after the game and had not yet returned to Gryffindorta.

"Banned ......," Angelina said in a hollow tone, "how can we continue playing without a Seeker and no Batsman?"

"It's so unfair, I mean—" Angelina continued to ask with a numb look, "What about Crabbe?" Didn't he attack Harry with a Bludger after the whistle? Did he get a suspension?"

"No," said Ginny sadly, as he and Hermione sat next to Harry, "he was only given homework and he laughed happily when I heard it at dinner."

"Fred didn't do anything at all, and he was banned." Angelina said bitterly,

"If you hadn't stopped me, I'd have beaten that little piece of waste to the ground." Fred said with an ugly face, and then he grabbed Angelina's hand that was pounding her knee,

"Lawrence, why did you come back so late?" George looked at Lawrence, who had just entered the saloon from the entrance of the portrait, and he felt that something seemed to be missing from Lawrence,

"I've been stripped of my duties," Lawrence said quietly, and everyone looked up, only to realize that Lawrence didn't have a badge on his chest representing the president of the student union, "so I went to the Room of Request and moved my personal belongings from the student council office in first."

"What? That's," Hermione shouted at a higher volume, "What did Professor McGonagall say?" What about Professor Dumbledore?"

"Article 25 of the Education Order." Lawrence said, and then he silently recited the contents of the terms,

"'The Inquisitor has the supreme power to decide on all punishments relating to Hogwarts students, as well as to approve and revoke student privileges, as well as to change the punishment plans issued by other faculty members, as well as to approve and revoke student privileges.' 」

"Her reasoning was that I wasn't a good example of a student council president and let my friends do what they wanted," Lawrence said, "and she asked me to hand over the male student council president."

Fred and George's expressions were stiff, and then the two opened their mouths slightly almost synchronously, Lawrence beckoned, and a silver light flew out of the boys' dormitory and fell into his hand,

"She did let me keep my prefect badge," Lawrence laughed to himself, "and this is the result of Professor McGonagall's fierce protests."

"I'll give you a gift in advance, Harry," Lawrence fumbled through his backpack for a moment, handing Harry the photo of James and Lily as Student Council President, "I was hoping to find a way to reproduce it and return it back to the Student Council office, but it seems that there is no way around it at the moment."

Harry took the photo, if it was a normal time, seeing the smiling couple on the photo, Harry would silently feel excited, but he couldn't lift his spirits today, he could only say thank you,

The mournful crowd of the saloon faded away, and Lawrence, Fred, and George walked up the stairs together, all the three of them silent all the way, until they were all lying on the soft beds, and listened for a while to the words of Lee. Jordan's regular snoring, George's dull voice only sounded in the dormitory,

"We're having enough, Lawrence."

"I know." Lawrence didn't close his eyes, he knew that Fred and George were the same,

"During the Christmas holidays, we're sure to find a shop in Diagon Alley." Fred said,

"Hmm." Lawrence said,

"If that happens...... I mean, when we were going to leave school," George said slowly, "we didn't want you to leave with us."

"Wait until we're done," Fred quickly stopped Lawrence as he was about to speak, "You don't say anything, but we all know you're interested in being a professor, right?"

"If you do go back to school and become a professor in the future, you can't tell students that you didn't graduate, right?" "Hagrid is the exception, after all, and you know, a lot of students don't really like the way he teaches."

"So, we all want you to graduate safely." Fred said, "Also, we're sorry."

"We never thought we'd lose your student council pin badge." George said,

"There's no such thing," Lawrence denied, "just a student council president."

"You haven't heard Ron, have you?" Fred said, "Percy wrote to warn Ron that getting too close to Dumbledore or Harry, or being on the other side, would cost Ron his prefect badge."

"We always thought it was a joke." George explained,

"But today the joke came true." Fred summed it up, and then there was a long silence in the dormitory,

"You know what? …… Actually, since Fleur started working for the Order of the Phoenix, and I could only go back to school...... I don't want to stay anymore."

Lawrence muttered to himself, his voice was small, but he believed that both Fred and George had heard, and this time no one said anything else until everyone in the dorm had fallen asleep.

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December is coming, one of the prefects' heaviest tasks is to assist with the Christmas decoration work at Hogwarts, Lawrence completed the area in charge, and after returning to the student council office, he met Diggory, who had also finished his work,

"What do you think Umbridge did not appoint a new male student council president?" Diggory asked in a low voice,

"Dumbledore? Or," Lawrence quipped, "she doesn't think the prefects are as useful as she thought they were."

"Ha," Diggory laughed, then lowered his voice and changed the subject, "You know our last meeting before the Christmas break, right?"

"Harry, they mentioned it to me." Lawrence replied,

"Will you come, then?" Diggory asked, "I mean, a lot of people are expecting you to show up."

Lawrence thought for a moment, then nodded,

"Can you teach us something, then?" Diggory asked, "Harry and I were only going to brush up on some spells that day, but if you came, maybe you could teach us something different?"

"I...... Give it a try." Lawrence shrugged, Diggory looked happy, patted Lawrence on the shoulder, and then pushed open the door of the student union office and went in to report the progress of the work,

Two weeks later, with only a few days left before the end of the first half of the semester, the secret society called "Dumbledore's Army" also ushered in its last meeting before the Christmas holidays, and Lawrence and his twin brothers were almost the last to arrive.

"Alright, guys," Harry called attention, his humming voice stopped, "we were going to review some spells for the last meeting before the Christmas holidays—"

"Don't you learn a new one?" A tall, lanky Hufflepuff boy with yellow hair said he was whining to himself, but loud enough for everyone to hear, "I didn't come if I knew I wouldn't come."

"It's a pity Harry didn't tell you beforehand, Smith." Fred also replied loudly, and his words made several people start to snicker,

"But Lawrence came to this party, so Cedric and I felt it was an opportunity for Lawrence to teach us something different."

Harry's words caused the crowd to erupt into a buzz, and the people quickly found Lawrence, who was standing next to Fred and George, and they made a way for Lawrence to get to Harry and Cedric,

"Ugh." Lawrence faced all the members of Dumbledore's army, and he could see some of them with calm, curious, or disapproving expressions,

"I know Harry and Cedric have taught you a lot of useful spells," Lawrence said, "I've heard that you practice casting these spells, but I don't think you're learning them for schoolwork, so we're going to talk about 'wizard duels' today."

Fred and George moved out of the mats on which they practiced the Unconscious Charm, and the people began to sit on the cushions one by one, and Harry and Cedric crept back into the crowd.

"Wizarding duels, in the long history of magic, he can often be seen, most of the famous dark wizards are masters of duels, and those most famous duels can almost change the direction of the wizarding world, the closest and most well-known is Professor Dumbledore in the earth-shattering duel in 1945, defeating the dark wizard Gellert, who almost dominated Europe. Greenwald."

"When it comes to duels, you have to mention spells, spells usually play the main role in a wizard's duel, and the invention of a spell is accompanied by countless blood and tears of the sages, even now, the invention of spells is still a very dangerous thing."

Lawrence said this, his gaze subconsciously looked at Luna, and Luna also looked at him and smiled at him,

"And Miranda. Goshak's "Standard Spells" greatly reduces the difficulty of learning spells, so that people no longer need to understand the too complex principles behind a spell. Goshak's success has inspired countless magical educators and inventors, and one by one offensive spells have been simplified, and both Defence Against the Dark Arts and Dark Arts have improved considerably."

"As mentioned earlier, spells play an extremely important role in a wizarding duel, and everyone has heard that Professor Flitwick has won the crown of the duel competition, and there are endless spells that can make your opponent tired of defense."

A Hufflepuff girl raised her hand, leaving Lawrence stunned for a moment,

"Uh, who are you?" Lawrence raised his hand and asked her to speak,

"I'm Susan. Bones," the Hufflepuff girl said, and then she asked, "So if you're more proficient in Charms than your opponent, you'll have a big advantage in a duel?"

"So to speak." Lawrence replied,

"You only mentioned spells," Smith interjected, his expression visibly suspicious, "but Potter said that you had a few tricks with Voldemort and used the Transfiguration Charm."

Another Ravenclaw student raised his hand, and Lawrence recognized him as the fifth-grade prefect. Goldstein,

"I've heard from my 7th graders that you demonstrated a duel with that famous mad-eyed man in class last year, and you seem to have used a Transfiguration Charm as well." Anthony. Goldstein also asked,

"That's right," Lawrence nodded in agreement, then he thought for a moment before replying,

"The process of a duel is full of uncertainty, I don't want to pretend to be a dueling master, I would say that I can't match Voldemort in pure magical power, so I can only try to win him from somewhere else, but I still fail."

The name Voldemort shivered with shivers from most of the room in the Room of Requirement, but everyone listened attentively to Lawrence's explanation,

"Transfiguration?" Diggory seemed to understand something, "You are talking about form, state?"

"That's right, Transfiguration is not the same as normal spells, the transfiguration can allow for some minor mistakes, but the Transfiguration Charm must be completely correct to be successful, but the power gained is also powerful." Lawrence explains,

"When you change the state of a thing and give it other forms, you can use its new form to achieve your own goals, such as if you temporarily turn this striped cushion into a tiger, it will definitely bite those of you who are still sitting on it, although its true essence is still a cushion, but it is temporarily given the form and state of a tiger, it is a tiger at that moment, with the nature and power of a tiger, at this time, if you use a spell to give the tiger's claws or teeth some magic power, Then your enemies will have to be distracted to fight this tiger."

"I was facing Voldemort, and almost no one could beat him in a mere contest of spells, and he was so much more powerful than me," Lawrence said, glancing at Harry, who was looking confused,

"Well, as far as I am concerned, if I want to live in front of him for a long time, then I still use some transformation spells to cause some trouble for him, and I must recognize one thing, that is, the strength of the strength determines the direction of a duel to a large extent, and we all know that the iron armor spells cast by different people can provide different defensive powers."

"Finally, the magic skills of the duel competition, the method of casting spells, and the rationality of the use of spells, and everyone's magic power, on-the-spot reaction, and the strength of the wand they have are also very different, and in many cases, how to cast the magic you are best at will be the key point to win the duel."

Lawrence concluded with a brief summary in which people began to clap their hands, and then the applause grew louder and louder, with Fred and George blowing a few loud whistles, and even Smith clapping his hands.