"Well done. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Professor McGonagall nodded, finally telling the students to stop first. Watching the students with their hands on their knees, panting breathlessly, she praised without hesitation.

"Neville's protective charm just now worked well, and it needs to be maintained. When you can cast that spell anytime, anywhere, you can protect yourself from the first attack and look for opportunities to fight back. ”

"The real battle is not about standing on the dueling table and throwing spells at each other," she emphasized. The use of spells in running is the basic training you need to complete. Whether it's offensive or defensive spells, you'll need to be comfortable in all sorts of unfavorable situations. ”

She waved a pack of Newfoundland hounds and gathered around her.

The terrible hounds crouched around Professor McGonagall, grinning at the students, causing them to take a few steps back.

Professor McGonagall touched the heads of the Newfoundland Hounds and said calmly, "Transfiguration is very common in combat. ”

Her tone was serious, "As you just saw, a pack of nimble and ferocious hounds is enough to make a group of wizards untrained in combat scramble. ”

"It would be better if we could fight back with a spell. Dean Thomas whispered.

The scene of passively letting the hound chase just now is not convinced by all students.

"That's a good point. Professor McGonagall said disapprerovingly, "Simply being chased won't convince you, so Thomas, you can try to fight back with a spell." ”

"Really?"

Dean Thomas said eagerly, he took out his wand, and with a look of anticipation, the process of being chased just now had already accumulated a lot of resentment.

Everyone else dispersed. ”

Professor McGonagall directed the students to disperse, giving up a wide field to Thomas and the hounds.

"Thomas, you can strike first. ”

Professor McGonagall and her classmates stood aside, quietly watching the battle between Dean Thomas and the Hound Dogs.

"Come on, Dean, don't lose to a pack of hounds. ”

"It's just a few hounds, you're a powerful wizard, you're in the fifth grade. ”

"We're not going to lose to a few hounds. ”

The Gryffindor students are cheering for Dean Thomas.

The cheering of his classmates made Dean excited, and he took a deep breath of excitement. He pointed his wand at the hounds, and he was about to use his best spell to attack the hounds.

What kind of spell to use, he began to think in his head.

Then, he froze.

When Dean faced these hunting dogs alone, he suddenly realized that fighting against a group of hunting dogs was not as easy as he imagined.

He remembered all the spells he knew, whether it was an exorcism, a sleep, a levitation, a fire spell, a frost spell...

He couldn't find a spell that could attack all the hounds at once.

"Why didn't Dean make a move?"

There was no expected battle, and the silent scene made the students very uncomfortable.

"What about him?"

Looking at Dean Thomas's silence, the students' excited minds also sank.

"Armor protection!"

Dean couldn't find a solution to all the hounds at once, and at the urging of the students, he finally cast his first spell, the Iron Armor Charm.

With the Iron Armor Spell unleashed, the hounds were no longer quietly crouching on the ground, waiting for Dean's attack.

The hounds were running fast, they were running around Dean at a fast pace, spinning in circles.

With an iron spell in hand, Dean finally had some confidence, and he summoned the flames and threw them at the hound.

"Wise choice. ”

Seeing Dean Thomas' choice of spells, George nodded slightly. Ordinary wizards, lacking a wide range of destruction spells, face multiple enemies, and the first thing they need to use is always a protective charm.

However, all an Iron Armor Spell can do is give the wizard a few more chances to make mistakes.

These wizards trained in the Hogwarts tradition are always vulnerable to the enemy when they have not gone through real battles.

The battle was not as the students imagined, in their minds at the beginning. They are powerful wizards, and they wield a lot of spells.

Their wands are frost and flame.

Their mantra is to attack, to destroy.

They are such powerful, such proud wizards, and it is not yet a game to deal with a few hounds.

They never imagined how embarrassed and vulnerable they would be when they really met their opponents.

The hounds circled Dean Thomas, swooping down again and again in the gaps between his attacks, causing Dean Thomas to stumble.

And the attacks that Dean summoned, those flames, those frosts, were easily dodged by the hounds.

Those hounds tease young wizards like cunning old cats tease mice.

Their running, their rampage, exhausted Dean Thomas.

When Dean's spell was thrown, the cunning hounds scattered in a hurry. In the gap of his attack, the hounds immediately swarmed up again.

He was like falling into a sea of hounds, attacking from all directions, making him dizzy and dazzled. In the midst of the scramble, those spells frequently fell into the air.

"Pounce!"

With a pounce, Dean was already knocked to the ground by the hounds, and the battle was over.

The battle didn't last long, and within a few minutes, Dean's armor was broken by the hounds.

Besieged on all sides by the hounds, he could hardly even take a step on his own.

Without the protection of the protective charm, the average wizard is not much stronger than a Muggle.

"Does anyone else want to try it?"

Professor McGonagall ignored Dean who had been lying on the ground and had not gotten up.

She looked at the other students and continued. "Is there anyone else who is not convinced?"

"I'm going to try. ”

Seamus Finigan took out his wand and stepped forward, he had come up with a different approach in the battle he had just had, and he was going to give it a try.

Neville stepped forward and helped Dean Thomas to his feet, who was lying on the ground.

From Dean Thomas's biting lower lip and red eyes, it could be seen that the blow just now was very big to him, and he certainly did not expect that he would lose to a group of hunting dogs.

Seamus Finigan also learned from Dean and initially added protection from the Iron Charm.

When the hounds raced around him, he didn't immediately cast the spell to attack.

He tapped his wand to the ground, and a white light spread around him, summoning a layer of ice around him.

It immediately dawned on the other students that they had already reacted.