Harry and Ron, who were beside her, also fell into deep thought after listening to the conversation between the two, but they thought differently than Hermione.

"I don't want to go up..."

"My legs are weak now..."

Harry's expression didn't change, and he couldn't see what he was thinking. But Ron, who was sitting next to him, had tiny beads of sweat on his forehead, and it was obvious that he had been frightened by the crazy little wizards under the ring.

The silence of several people did not make the atmosphere in the dueling arena any better, and the negative emotions around the ring intensified, and the performance of the duelists in the third group, the fourth group, and so on became worse and worse.

There were a few seconds when the duelists were unaffected by these emotions and quickly defeated their opponents, but they didn't perform as well as the cheers of the young wizards under the ring as they used to be.

Under this general trend, they are like drops of water falling into the raging waves and disappearing in an instant.

"It's really funny, are the students so weak now, the magic duel is the same as playing at home."

"yes, a student couldn't even chant the levitation spell just now. I really laughed at it. ”

"I heard that this dueling arena was built by a new professor, except for the superficiality. What else can be done? Is there an amusement park? ”

"The professor who built this amusement park won't even be able to hold his wand steadily."

"This kind of professor, he should be told to hurry home!"

"Haha!"

While Hermione and the others were still silently cheering for the duelists standing in the ring, some discordant voices came into their ears.

The three of them looked angrily at the sound, and found several young Aurors with their arms on the wooden fence of the stands, looking contemptuously at the ugliness of the group of young wizards below.

"Apologize! Professor Graves, this dueling club was created to improve our dueling skills! I will not allow you to slander him! ”

Just as Harry and Ron were about to stand up and reprimand the Aurors, Neville, who was sitting five meters away from them, stood up with his pet toad Layman, and pointed at the Aurors in front of him, shouting at them.

Because of the few people in front of him slandering Professor Graves, Neville's face was already red with anger at this time.

Since Rick arrived at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, every young wizard has grown much earlier than he was in Aunt Rowling's books.

And to say that the most changed people, except for Harry, Hermione, and Ron in the protagonist group, Neville is the fastest improved among the Gryffindor students, not only has he reduced the use of memory balls, but he doesn't even want to be bullied by Malfoy like that.

He even rushed to Malfoy's coercion and shouted "I don't!" ”

Neville will never forget that it was Professor Graves who found him, comforted him, and enlightened him when he was alone in an empty classroom crying after being bullied by Malfoy.

In his mind, except for his family. Professor Graves was his closest person.

He will not allow anyone to denigrate Professor Graves!

Faced with the Aurors, who were many years older than him, he chose to stand up.

For the sake of his own Professor Graves, he forgot his fears!

"It turned out to be a Gryffindor waste fat man who didn't want to cry and go back to his mother. Just fuck off! ”

A long-haired Auror from Slytherin, who seems to be the leader of these Aurors. He looked at the lion cub who showed his milk teeth at them, and with a blank look of disdain, threatened Neville standing in front of him.

"Haha!"

Look at Neville who appeared in front of them, that "stupid" appearance. The rest of the Aurors also laughed loudly.

They have been stationed around the school for the past few months, and their busy patrol duties have not given them the opportunity to enter the school and relive campus life. I only knew that there was a new dueling club in the school, but I had only heard about it and had no chance to visit it.

This time they had the opportunity to enter this palatial dueling arena, also because of the heavy snow for three days, their captain, Mr. Hinkness, the deputy director of the Auror Office, gave them a day off.

"Don't pretend you didn't hear me. You people don't understand anything. He actually said such an excessive thing. Must apologize! ”

"Get out! Don't come in front of us. Be careful that I beat you! ”

Seeing that this little Gryffindor guy actually dared to ask for his own trouble. The long-haired Auror at the head threatened Neville with a menacing look.

He looked at the little fat man in front of him without a scared expression, and he was a little angry. Raise your right hand to give Neville a slap.

When Harry and the others saw Neville about to be slapped by the long-haired Auror, they hurried over to stop the Auror from bullying their classmates.

But they were a step too late, and the long-haired Auror's palm was already waving out.

"Neville get out of the way!"

Too late to stop, Harry shouted loudly, trying to get Neville to react quickly and dodge the slap.

"Nope! Professor! Look! ”

Hermione tugged at Rick's arm in a panic, trying to get Rick to stop the long-haired Auror from hurting Neville.

Rick on the side had actually noticed the behavior of these Aurors, but he thought that these Aurors were just talking too much to really do it. He began to plot how to make the Aurors who spoke ill of him suffer.

Herick Graves is a cautious man, and whoever says bad things about him will be duly punished.

But just as he was planning how to get these Aurors into the game, the accident happened.

He really didn't expect this long-haired Auror to be so bold as to bully a student.

Hearing Hermione's plea for help, he raised his fingers to let the long-haired Auror's palm hit him in the face, but he didn't stop just as he was about to say the incantation.

"This is Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and you dare to attack a student here. Aren't you afraid we'll tell the professors? ”

The long-haired Auror grinned as his palm was about to touch the disgusting cheek of the little fat man who knew nothing about the height of the sky, when a large, powerful hand locked his wrist.

so that his hand could not move any further.

He looked angrily at the person who stopped him, his pupils dilated, and his expression was a little surprised.

"It's you!"

"It's me! Senior Charles. No, despicable Aurors. ”

Neville was stunned by the sudden turn of events, and he fell backwards with his strong hands behind his back, and he looked back to see that Harry and Ron were already behind him.

The two of them held Neville with both hands, keeping him from falling.

Neville whispered a thank you and turned to look ahead, where a tall senior grabbed the long-haired Auror who was trying to slap him.

The yellow on the inside of the wizard's robe let Neville know that it was the Hufflepuff senior.