Before dinner that day, Scott and his roommates noticed a new piece of parchment plastered on the bulletin board in front of the auditorium.

"Dueling Club?"

Eddie glanced at the notification a few times and couldn't help but gloat.

"What's the matter, now Lockhart must regret it!"

Roger laughed out loud too, "Oh! I'd love to see Professor Lockhart's face. ”

Contrary to Lockhart's expectations, judging from the content of the notice in front of him, the initiator of the Dueling Club appointed by Dumbledore was Snape.

And Lockhart probably only got the position of an assistant because of his "initiation work".

Even though Lockhart's signature on that parchment was several times larger than Snape's, that didn't change that.

"I'm looking forward to a demonstrative duel between the two professors," Scott said. ”

When he finished speaking, several people laughed out loud.

After all this time in school, it was already clear that Lockhart was a real bale and that he would never be Snape's opponent.

Even Rimbaud, who was standing on Scott's shoulder, laughed along.

At this time, more and more students gathered around.

They seem to be interested in the activities of the dueling club.

"If only the promoter wasn't Snape."

Scott heard more than one person say that.

Snape's usual performances made him unpopular.

In the eyes of the students of the other three houses outside of Slytherin, he has always been the least popular professor at Hogwarts.

Even the Ravenclaws felt that Professor Flitwick, who had won the Duel Tournament, was the best candidate.

The Slytherins present were clearly supporting their headmaster.

They all showed proud expressions, and glared viciously at those who were not optimistic.

"Oh! It's horrible! ”

Scott hears Ron Weasley's voice.

He turned his head and saw the other man staring at the bulletin board with a frightened expression.

"It's horrible, Harry." Ron Weasley's eyes widened and he said to Harry next to him, "Snape plus Lockhart? It's nothing short of a disaster! Nightmare! ”

Harry looked approving.

"Don't say that about a professor!" Hermione Granger glared angrily at the two boys.

Scott retracted his gaze and asked his three roommates, "How's it going, are you guys going to attend?" ”

"I'll participate!" Eddie said without thinking, "My gut tells me that there must be something to see at night." ”

Roger and Milton nodded as well.

After dinner, they went their separate ways.

Scott arrives at the owl shack at Hogwarts and spends a handful of nuts to hire a school-raised public owl to deliver letters for him.

Of course, the owl could not fly across the European continent and the Mediterranean to distant Egypt.

The school's public owl only offers a short delivery service.

Scott only commissioned the Owl to deliver letters and expenses to the Owl Post Office in Hogsmeade, where there was a special long-distance mail service.

Just before eight o'clock in the evening, Scott arrived at the auditorium on time.

At this time, the auditorium was already packed, and it seemed that the whole school had already arrived.

Scott stood on tiptoe and looked.

The four long tables in the auditorium have all disappeared and have been replaced by a gilded stage.

Hundreds of candles were still burning in the sky, but the ceiling, which normally displayed the canopy, turned into pitch black.

"Scott, here!"

In the crowd, Roger raised his hand high and waved.

Scott walked through the crowd.

It was only when he got closer that he found that Roger was standing with his girlfriend.

"Hello, Scott."

The girl standing next to Roger offered to greet him.

"I'm Caccini Strotzi, call me Caccini."

Caccini, with her long black hair, is a girl who looks intellectually generous.

"Hello, Caccini."

Scott smiled and nodded.

"Oh, Scott." Eddie leaned over and smiled, "Look at Lockhart's face." ”

Scott looked up and saw Lockhart standing next to the stage in a bright purple robe, along with Snape, who was dressed in a black robe.

Snape, as always, kept his face cold and didn't say a word, not all glancing at Lockhart, who had an embarrassed smile on his face.

"How will they start?" Eddie said, "I'm really looking forward to giving us a demonstration like you said." ”

At this point, Snape stepped onto the stage as if he were gliding on the ground.

The auditorium fell silent.

Snape scanned the crowd with his dark and hollow eyes, and said in his characteristic silky tone, "The reason for the Duel Club is because there are so many troll-like students at Hogwarts that they can't even do the stupid waving of their wands." ”

Speaking of this, he curled his upper lip and sneered, "Not to mention understanding the ancient and elegant traditional project of wizard duels. ”

"Yes! Yes! ”

Lockhart hurried onto the stage and interjected loudly.

"I'll train you all so much in case you need to defend yourselves one day with the methods I've used countless times!"

He grinned brightly and winked at the group of girls under the stage who were obsessively watching him, causing them to scream in a suppressed manner.

"For more information on this, see my published work." He pretended to be playful.

The girls screamed again.

"They're so daring." Milton said with some trepidation.

Scott could see that Snape's face had darkened several degrees to the naked eye.

He let out a sneer that anyone could hear, and the screams of the "Lockhart girls" stopped abruptly.

They looked at Snape with wide eyes and horror like a flock of hens who had been suddenly choked by the neck.

"Deliberately disrupting a public place and disturbing a professor's speech impolitely." Snape patrolled through the group of girls with an icy gaze, "Gryffindor and Hufflepuff deduct 30 points each. ”

Then he turned his head back to look at Lockhart with the same eyes.

The smile on Lockhart's face had completely stiffened.

"Thank you to my assistant, Professor Lockhart, for your statement."

Snape deliberately reread the word "assistant".

"According to himself, he is also very good at dueling. Now, I'm going to invite him to join me in doing a demonstration for everyone. ”

Eddie said excitedly like a narrator, "Is it finally coming?" Will Lockhart say yes? ”

"If I were him, I would definitely turn around and run away." Milton looked at Snape, who was under low pressure on the stage, and his face turned white with fright.

Scott affirmed, "I think he'll say yes." ”

On stage, Lockhart laughed as naturally as he could.

"Of course, I can accept your invitation, Severus."

Then, he turned to the stage and shouted, "Don't be afraid, I'll get your Potions professor back intact!" ”

"Oh! Lockhart is really courageous, isn't he? Eddie let out a gloating voice, "How is he not a Gryffindor?" ”

Everyone around was amused by his words.

"Good." Snape smiled meaninglessly, "Let's get started." ”

Lockhart and Snape turned to face each other and bowed to each other.

Or rather, Lockhart bowed, his hands churning with bells and whistles.

Snape nodded symbolically.

Then, they all held their wands to their chests.

"As you can see, we'll hold the wand in a dueling position,"

Lockhart spoke to the students again.

"Then count to three, and we'll cast the first spell. Of course, none of us will take each other's lives. ”

Scott felt that Snape must be very eager to take Lockhart's life at this moment.

"One, two......," Snape shouted impatiently.

Lockhart quickly stopped talking and raised his wand over his shoulder.

"Three!"

The two waved their wands almost simultaneously.

"Expellirarma!"

A dazzling red light flew from the tip of Snape's wand and struck Lockhart first.

Suddenly, Lockhart's expression went blank.

His wand instantly came out of his hand, and his body flew backwards, over the stage, and against the wall.

And then—

“…… He slowly slipped off like a chocolate frog squashed against the wall, and curled up on the floor like a Phelobert caterpillar squeezed out of slime! ”

- Live commentary from Eddie.

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