Chapter 029: Battle Dance Duel (Part I)

"I'm going to learn the war dance, and Blaise can't teach me." Catherine said in as calm a tone as she could.

"War dance?" Pansy screamed in surprise, stared at Catherine for a moment of silence, and suddenly raised her head and said defiantly, "Do you dare to duel with me with a war dance?" ”

The other three were dumbfounded, but Catherine smiled and asked, "What rules?" ”

"Can only be offset with the same magic."

"How do you win or lose?"

"Whoever misses ten loses."

"When and where?"

"Here tomorrow afternoon."

"Good!" The two girls quickly worked out the details of the duel.

"Pansy!" Draco angrily asked, "Is it necessary?" ”

The black-haired girl hesitated for a moment, then nodded firmly.

Draco flicked his wand violently, and a silver glow shot out of the tip of his wand, sending a long scratch on the floor.

Pansy tried to walk over and explain, but Draco turned his back to her and walked to the window, she froze, hesitated for a moment, stomped her foot hard, and turned to leave the ballroom.

Catherine waved at Brace and walked over to Draco, peering out the window with him.

"Why bother?" Catherine's tone was calm, as if what she said had nothing to do with her, "This is a status struggle between me and her, and it is absolutely inevitable." ”

Instead of answering questions, Draco began to narrate the history of the Parkinsons' family.

"Pansy's great-grandfather is one of the few remaining old-timers in the wizarding world, and his generation can only be compared to the author of the History of Magic, the famous historian of magic Bathilda Basshat, because he was a famous dark wizard when he was young, and he had some unknown skills, so he didn't have a lot of action against the Parkinsons."

"Because the battle with that old lady consumed too much energy, so after his disappearance, his body began to weaken, and he knew that he could no longer protect the Parkinsons' family, so he began to pave the way for the family, and Pansy was sent to me at that time, with the intention of marrying the Malfoy family."

"My parents didn't approve of the marriage, but they didn't say no, after all, it's not easy to find a suitable partner in the wizarding world. But at that time, I didn't know any of this, and I just treated Pansy as a sister and protected her from being bullied by other boys. ”

At this, Draco couldn't help but glare fiercely at the other boy in the ballroom.

"Then you're angry because ......" Catherine asked softly, looking at Draco's side face.

"She's changed!" Draco thumped the windowsill hard, "She's not the girl she was anymore who needed my protection." ”

"Every child grows up!" Catherine clasped her elbows and leaned against the windowsill, "Because adults can't hold up the sky for us forever, we must learn how to take responsibility while they can still stand upright, so that we can take the burden off their shoulders when they are tired, so that they can relax for the rest of their lives." ”

"What about you?" Draco couldn't help but ask.

"How to survive—" Catherine clenched her hands and closed her eyes, "this is the only thing I must learn!" ”

"Catherine—" Draco held out his hand in shock, trying to comfort the red-haired girl, only to hear her say this.

“I－needn’t!” Catherine suddenly opened her eyes and stood up straight, "Comfort can't help me live better!" So—" She turned to stare at Draco, her eyes fierce like never before, "keep teaching me the war dance!" ”

"Yes!" Draco quickly withdrew his hand, involuntarily standing up straight in response.

Catherine ignored him and turned straight to the place where she had just trained.

Draco looked at her back for a moment before he quickly caught up with her.

The next afternoon, all the party members gathered in the ballroom, including Greengrass, Mother and Daughter, and Theodore, as well as Lucius, the owner of the manor, Pansy's father, Mr. Parkinson, and Snape.

When Catherine told Snape about the duel, he was instantly furious, but all he kept scolding was their recklessness and impulsiveness, but he didn't have the slightest idea of stopping the two girls from dueling, and he even found a lot of spells for Catherine overnight that might be used, and prepared a lot of potions just in case.

This is Slytherin, no matter how heartache and pity is, it will not prevent its children from coming into contact with the real reality, but will only provide them with protection and prepare for the worst. That's why Slytherin can survive isolation for a thousand years, because their love for future generations is not blind spoiling.

Therefore, although the duel was fought by two twelve-year-old girls, and the war dance sounded a somewhat unreliable, the witnesses maintained a strict atmosphere, and Lucius, as the presiding officer, explained the matter to both sides in earnest, and the elders of both sides gave them a final check.

"Please both sides in place!" Following Lucius's command, Catherine and Pansy walked to the middle of the ballroom and stood facing each other while nodding to each other.

"Ready!" Both girls held their wands to their chests like swords at the same time.

"Let's go!" As the invitee, Catherine immediately threw a silent "disarming weapon", Pansy, who was obviously very familiar with the spell, immediately threw the same magic, and two red lights collided between the two, bursting into a red spark and disappearing without a trace.

Almost at the moment when the two red lights collided, Pansy also threw a silent obstacle spell, and Catherine's movements were slightly slower due to the interference of the bursting red sparks, but the two obstacle charms that collided together gave Pansy more interference.

This duel is a test of judgment on both sides: whether they can judge the magic used by the other party in the shortest possible time; Responsiveness: Whether or not you can perform the same magic; Control power: The ability to accurately concentrate the opponent's magic and cancel it out.

And because the sparks that burst out when the magic canceled each other out, the further the duel went, the more disturbance the two sides would be, forcing both sides to actively move their feet in order to see each other better, while at the same time trying to keep themselves in the blind spot of the other party's vision.

This is where the footwork of the war dance comes from, and Pansy, who has been trained in this area since childhood, naturally follows the rules summarized by her predecessors, while Catherine relies entirely on her combat experience and intuition accumulated over the years, and thoroughly uses every detail and opportunity.

The difference was not noticeable at first, but when Catherine deliberately delayed the time for the magic to strike and changed the range of interference, Pansy, who was still walking the same battle dance footwork, suddenly found that it was becoming more and more difficult to see the opponent's movements, which made her heart suddenly become flustered.

"She fouled!" Mr. Parkinson, who was a bystander, naturally knew the reason why his daughter had fallen into the wind, "She didn't use the correct footwork at all." ”

"I don't think so!" Snape said coldly, "This thing is meant to be used in battle, and the enemy is not set in stone. ”

"Vote on the witnesses!" Lucius looked back at his wife and children behind him, "Raise your hand if you think Catherine has fouled?" ”

No one raised their hand, not even Mrs. Parkinson, who desperately wanted Pansy to win, because she could not put her daughter's future in jeopardy for the sake of a momentary victory.

Mr. Parkinson, of course, understood this truth, so he saw that the results had come out, and he no longer objected.

However, this accident also reminded Pansy that after missing Catherine's three spells, she no longer stuck to what she had learned, but began to make correct judgments based on the situation on the scene, only in this way her reaction speed slowed down.

Since she found the gap in the other party, Catherine immediately accelerated the speed of the spell, forcing the spark of interference to get closer and closer to Pansy, she could only keep retreating to ensure her vision, but there were still mistakes one after another.

Soon the score of the two sides had reached 7-0, and Pansy could only be ruthless and use some family magic that he had not even mastered completely, and since he had not mastered it thoroughly, it naturally could not be a silent spell.

"Dhaka Tomani!" A green glow shot from the tip of Pansy's staff, a magic that Catherine hadn't touched, but she didn't give up.

The key to the success of a spell depends on three factors: the spell, the gestures, and the way the magic works, the most important of which is the last one. Now that Catherine only knew the first two, she had to be lucky to succeed in casting the same magic, and that was the last thing she lacked.

As one of Catherine's important hole cards, except for the time when Tracey's ability was realized, Harry and Hermione learned that she was in storage, she had always kept it a secret from others, so no one present knew that she had a pet except Snape, and since there was no ban on the use of pets, how could Catherine not take advantage of the good luck of the blue bird!

"Dhaka Tomani!" The same green glow shot out from the tip of Catherine's staff, startling the three members of the Parkinsons' family, and the shocked Pansy even forgot to cancel out Catherine's subsequent magic.

Pansy unconvinced throws another family heirloom spell, only to be counteracted by Catherine with the same magic, which makes her completely stunned, forgetting that she is still dueling, and letting the magic thrown by the other party whizz past her ears.

Catherine also stopped moving, concentrating on her opponent's every move, and although she didn't know how hard her actions had dealt to them, she knew that Pansy now had only one last chance left, and she was bound to launch the most violent attack.

When the distraction between the two girls was gone, Pansy began to whisper softly and flicked her wand sharply, and a black flame burst from the tip of her wand and threw herself at Catherine.

"Blazing!" Snape immediately rushed in front of Catherine, raising his wand to lay defensive magic to block the black flames that rushed in.

Mr. Parkinson also ran to his daughter's side, clutching his wand just in case.

Lucius drew his wand from his staff, shooting a silver light that covered the entire ballroom floor.

The ladies immediately took out their wands and led the children back to the ballroom.