Chapter 14: The Midnight Duel
Recently, Augustus has been in an unprecedented busyness, in addition to reading a large number of books in various libraries every day, and answering all kinds of difficult questions for the Slytherin students who come to visit him, the daily work of the hidden prefect has also begun at the same time. In fact, the job of the hidden prefect is to deal with some Slytherin student disputes, and the workload is not very large, but Christmas is approaching, and the minds of all the freshmen are a little fluctuating, so Augustus and Lillian's tasks are also heavy.
Sitting in the Great Hall of Hogwarts, Malfoy stared in surprise at Harry, who was sitting at the Gryffindor long table. He had expected Harry, who had been taken away by Professor McGonagall yesterday, to be on the train back to the Muggle world.
"This Potter, who is lawless with a little teacher's affection, is fine for making such a serious mistake, and if I tell my dad that he will write a letter to the school board, he will soon have to go back to his Muggle home." Malfoy said with some sourness.
"Draco, you're not too young to rely on your dad for everything, since you have such an opinion about Harry, why don't you solve it yourself." Augustus amusedly corrected Malfoy, wondering where Malfoy's hatred for Harry came from.
"Solve it yourself?" Malfoy muttered to himself in confusion, then slapped the table in a sudden realization, "Yes, I'm going to duel Harry, a real duel between wizards!" Thinking of the fierceness of Augustus' duel, Malfoy's blood swelled a little, and before Augustus could speak, he couldn't wait to get up and walk towards Harry.
Augustus patted his forehead in despair, but he didn't expect him to inadvertently mislead Malfoy to think of a duel. It's a bit difficult to communicate with him.
After a while, Malfoy returned to the table with an excited expression: "Harry agreed, tonight, at twelve o'clock, in the prize showroom, I will have a real wizarding duel with him, can you come and be a witness?" Believe me, this duel will be over soon! ”
Looking at Malfoy with an expectant face, Augustus groaned slightly, then nodded in agreement, although he estimated that this duel must be boring, but this matter was caused by him, in order to avoid any accidents, it is better to go and see.
It was night very quickly, and at half past eleven, Augustus looked at the time, and walked out of the dormitory early, and came to the Slytherin common room, where he suddenly found two sneaky figures behind the chairs, Malfoy and Crabbe stood behind the chairs as if they were plotting something, and when they saw that Augustus had arrived, they stopped.
"Let's go." Augustus urged Malfoy lightly. Malfoy answered, and the three of them stepped out of the dark and cold underground lounge at the bottom of Lake Slytherin and walked up the airway up the staircase.
The three of them walked briskly along the corridor, moonlight pouring in through the high windows, one by one across the ground.
At every turn, Malfoy thought he was going to bump into Filch or Lady Loris, but luckily, they were lucky. They hurried up the stairs to the third floor and silently walked towards the prize showroom. The crystal glass case where the prizes are displayed sparkles in the moonlight. In the dark, trophies, shields, medals, and statues shimmer with silver and gold light. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville were crept into the prize room from the other side.
"Didn't you say that in addition to Augustus as a Witness, each person should bring only one assistant? How do you have four of you. Malfoy looked at Hermione and Neville with angry expressions on their faces.
"We met them halfway, and if they had to come with us, Ron and I couldn't help it." Harry shrugged helplessly.
"Alright, you two let's get started, it's not too early." Seeing that Malfoy wanted to say something, Augustus hurriedly interrupted him, and it was ridiculous enough to come out in the middle of the night to see the duel between the two children, and then listen to their bickering, Augustus didn't know if he could still be patient enough.
At Augustus's arrangement, Harry and Malfoy stood in an open space in the prize showroom, Augustus drew a fiery red circle of light on the ground with a flame spray, enclosing them in the circle, and with Ron's countdown shout, Harry and Malfoy took out their wands at the same time.
"Three, two, one. Begin! ”
"Tarantella." Malfoy was the first to attack, and after some occasional dueling instruction from Augustus, he naturally knew how important it was to have a head start in a duel, so he controlled Harry's legs first, and when he couldn't dodge, he fired another offensive spell that took a long time to prepare, a simple chain of spells, often to good effect. Yes, the chain of spells, this is a new term instilled in Malfoy by Augustus, and the right combination of various spells can form an effective chain of spells.
Harry was obviously fighting for the first time, and he didn't react at all, and was instantly struck by Malfoy's spell, and his feet began to dance irregularly in place. In a hurry, Harry barely raised his wand and cast a spell on Malfoy: "Flock of birds!" A flock of pitch-black crows screamed out of Harry's wand and surged towards Malfoy.
A large flock of black birds interfered with Malfoy's vision, making it impossible for Malfoy to take the spell chain and fire a second spell at Harry, Malfoy cursed secretly, it seems that Harry is still very talented, and Zhilu Dao has taken this approach to deal with the current predicament.
"Grinning hula!" In the confusion, Malfoy remembered where Harry had been, and tried to shoot a blind spell, and then the power of the spell chain was revealed, because Harry, who couldn't control his feet, was still dancing in place, and was hit by a second spell. The corners of Malfoy's mouth, sensing the impact on Harry, were already smiling triumphantly. This spell played a key role as the second link in the spell chain, and Harry's mouth opened and closed, and he could no longer pronounce a second valid spell.
Malfoy was about to start blindly firing the third ring of the spell chain to finish the spell and knock Harry out completely, when Augustus suddenly struck, and a silver-white light struck Malfoy and Harry like lightning, and the magic effect on their bodies disappeared in an instant. looked at Harry Malfoy, who looked dazed and confused. Augustus said calmly: "Filch is coming, and he is on the second floor now. Although it was unknown how Augustus could know Filch's location from such a distance, Harry and Malfoy still chose to believe Augustus unconditionally.
"Malfoy won the duel at the end of the show, right? The last time he released the spell and hit Harry, Harry lost. Although she objected to Harry's duel, Hermione was still attracted by the scene of the duel between the two of them, and as everyone retreated to the other side of the stairs, Hermione turned to Augustus and asked. Yes, that's true. Augustus was still somewhat satisfied that Malfoy was able to live and apply. Malfoy gave Harry a triumphant glance with a silent expression in his eyes.
They had barely walked a dozen steps when they heard the rattle of the spherical handle of a door, and something popped out of a classroom in front of them. It's Peeves. As soon as he saw them, he screamed with joy.
"Students don't sleep!" Peeves roared, "Students don't sleep, in the hallways of Charms class!" Augustus raised his wand, and a pitch-black light struck Peeves, as if he had encountered some fear, and Peeves screamed and turned and fled.
However, it was clear that Peeves' roar seemed to provide a beacon of light for Filch, and the footsteps on the stairs were getting closer. "Go this way." Augustus pointed to the end of the hallway, and the crowd ran away.