But when he thought about the absurdities he had heard, Flitwick felt a little outrageous.

Lockhart had also studied at Ravenclaw more than a decade earlier, and Professor Flitwick had some impressions of him, given that he had been a member of his own college.

In his opinion, Lockhart is narcissistic and narcissistic, but his test results are quite impressive, and according to common sense, he will never be able to solve the Cornish elf.

The duel in the ring continued, Lockhart and Snape were evenly matched, colorful spells collided in the air, the scene was extremely gorgeous, many spells even flew out of the ring and attacked the students, the three professors cast the iron armor spell in time, and the spell hit the transparent barrier and caused ripples.

The boss of Malfoy's mouth in the audience is estimated to be able to stuff an egg, not only him, but most of the students, including Joel, can hardly imagine what they do on weekdays Lockhart, who is the first place in narcissism, has such strong dueling skills, many students don't like Snape, but they never deny Snape's strength.

Joel knew that Snape's combat level was also among the best in the two major organizations of the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix, and few people could draw with him, but he didn't expect it......

He looked at Lockhart with a little more meaning.

Snape in the ring was horrified, at first he thought like everyone else that Lockhart just had a good skin, but in fact he was a timid and afraid of things, and as soon as he took over, he realized that he was very wrong.

At the beginning of the duel, he was paralyzed and carelessly used a disarming charm, giving away the first mobile phone meeting, and Lockhart suppressed it steadily and step by step, not getting carried away at all, and did not give Snape a chance to fight back at all.

Snape was helpless, the ring restricted his area of action, and the crowd of his fellow students watching, leaving him unable to perform his best dark magic.

Lockhart finally lured Snape into defending with a dance step charm, then dodged to the side and returned a disarming charm, sending Snape flying to the edge of the ring, his wand flipping in the air and falling into Lockhart's hands.

The audience was silent, Professor McGonagall's brow twisted into a twist, and Professor Sprout looked glazed-eyed, as if he had seen some kind of spectacle.

This Lockhart seems to have torn the script apart.

After the astonishment, the Hogwarts girls erupted in enthusiastic cheers and a few piercing screams, and they blushed and looked adoringly at Lockhart, who was in the center of the ring.

"Harry, did you see that?" Hermione excitedly tugged at her friend's arm, "I'll just say that Professor Lockhart is definitely not what you and Ron said he was!" ”

"He is the man I admire the most, and even Professor Snape can't beat him." Hermione's eyes sparkled and sparkled.

"How is that possible!" Malfoy couldn't believe his eyes.

"Aha, Severus," Professor Lockhart walked over to Snape and handed him back the wand, "you're being careless. ”

Snape snorted, took his wand, ignored Lockhart's outstretched hand, and got to his feet.

Lockhart didn't care, and didn't withdraw his hand, but held it up and shouted to the students below, "Okay students, now you should give Professor Lockhart a round of applause!" ”

This time, not only the girls, but also the vast majority of the boys did not hesitate to applaud and cheer, everyone worshiped the strong, and this victory directly reversed the image of Professor Lockhart in their hearts.

"Professor Lockhart!" The Gryffindor first-year student holding the camera raised his hand and said, "You are so strong, why are you ...... in class?"

He didn't say the second half of the sentence, but everyone present understood what he meant.

Lockhart responded with a charming smile, "Didn't you learn how to deal with all kinds of dark magic creatures in my class?" ”

Only then did everyone in the audience react, they never expected that Lockhart would pursue a sheep-herding management, only put black magic creatures in the classroom, and all the methods of subduing were all up to them?

Several of Lockhart's fans couldn't hold on to themselves anymore and screamed in a low voice, "I'll just say how could the respected Mr. Lockhart ...... I see, he went to great lengths for us. ”

Joel was really dumbfounded.

"Really?" Eddie muttered behind him, "Why don't I believe it?" ”

Joel didn't believe it either, but most of the students present now thought that Lockhart was exercising their abilities, and they all turned into Lockhart's fans and sisters, and the auditorium was like a star-chasing scene.

"Alright students," Lockhart waved his hand to calm them down, "My duel demonstration with Severus is over, and now it's your turn, losing the ability to fight, being disarmed, or leaving the ring." ”

The other three deans finally spoke, "Try to practice with your friends and peers to ensure that the strength of the duel is equal, everyone will go to the ring in groups, and we will carefully observe from the side to find out your shortcomings." ”

"Together?" Haylis looked at Joel and volunteered.

Joel happily agreed.

Alan was pulled aside by Marietta, Cho and Cedric got together, and the rest of Eddie could only team up with Sergei with a sad face, and he could imagine how embarrassed he would be when he was going to be.

There were only a dozen rings in the auditorium, but there were more than a hundred people on the scene, Joel and Haylis could only wait in line on the side, and the first to enter the ring was a seventh-grade Gryffindor couple, bowing to each other and glancing at each other, their eyes were full of love.

"Wow......" Haylis rubbed her big arm, "It's so numb." ”

"Joel, the two of us have a good game on stage, I don't want to flirt in front of others." Haylis looked at Joel.

"Of course, I'm not going to show mercy." Joel replied.

Professor McGonagall came to the ring at some point, and looked at the Gryffindor couple who were tired of me on the stage, and her eyes were full of fire.

"Mr. Carter and Miss Perry, if you two are here to show how much affection you have, I think you would be happy to speak at the Halloween dinner, right?" Professor McGonagall lifted her glasses, her tone cold.

"I repeat, this dueling club is to train you to deal with unknown dangers and emergencies, and several of our professors have sacrificed their rest time to teach and guide here, and I hope you are worthy of your efforts."

The couple, blushing from shame, glanced at Professor McGonagall, then shot two spells at each other, jumping out of the ring before they could even tell the winner.

Professor McGonagall's face stinks very really.

The speed of the duel was very fast, Joel and Haylis were dizzying, taking in the situation in each ring, most of the friends were waiting in line at this time, and Eddie, the only group to participate in the duel, was knocked off the stage by Sergei with two spells.

During the whole process, Joel found that most of the students' dueling skills were ridiculously poor, and many of the senior students couldn't even use disarming spells, which was an eye-opener for him, and most of the duels were sporadically cast a few evil spells, and even stupid people couldn't even move their feet.

He seemed to understand why Harry had been able to set up Dumbledore's military to teach his classmates dueling techniques in his fifth year, and the Hogwarts students were a piece of scum in that regard.

Ten minutes later, Professor McGonagall waved her wand to separate the two in the ring, and recited a counterspell to one of the girls who had been caught under the hair growth charm, and a few brief comments were made for Joel and Helis to prepare.

The two walked slowly to the ring, took three steps away from each other, bowed face to face, and then held their wands up to their chests.

Joel looked directly into Helis's eyes, and those clear dark eyes were full of seriousness.

"Three, two, one......" Joel clenched the holly wand in his hand, a heart lifted, and he adjusted his breathing and the magic in his body to try to keep himself in the best condition.

The countdown is over, and the two of them shot at the same time,

"There are many obstacles!" Joel shouted, a dark red light erupting from the tip of the staff, colliding with Hylis' obstacle spell in midair.

Joel moved his body quickly, he didn't plan to split the battle with Haylis in the middle distance, it was a great test of rhythm control and release sequence, and Joel was not sure of winning.

But by closing the distance and relying on his own magic compared to his peers, Joel didn't believe he would lose.

Helis looked at Joel's body getting closer and closer, her teeth clenched her lower lip, and there was a hint of panic in her eyes, but she was immediately pressed down.

Her grades were quite good, and she had a solid foundation of spells - Joel had taught her a lot of tricks in her first year, which made her cast spells quite methodical and the spells were very linked, which was not easy for a third-year student.

But that's all, Joel had been in his first year against the Eternal Nights from the Soviet Union, and at the end of his second year, he had been instructed in dueling by Professor Quirrell, or the Noseless Man, and his dueling experience was far from comparable to that of ordinary honor students like Helis.

Joel didn't rush straight forward, but took a strange zigzag step, avoiding the spell while approaching Haylis from the side, Helis also knew that she must not let Joel get her wish, and took a few steps backwards, although it was hurried but extremely solid, and the wand in his hand waved lightly, and he was not in a hurry to attack, but only shot a few spells sporadically to save his magic as much as possible.

Professor McGonagall in the audience bowed her head slightly, she was very satisfied with the performance of these two, one had an excellent sense of fighting, the other was steady and not impatient, she had also watched a lot of duels tonight, and the strength of these two third-year students was definitely on the top.

There were already a lot of people around the ring, and few students were willing to look at the clumsy fighting skills, so they fell in love with the place among the many rings and hurried to watch.

Professor McGonagall said to Harry and Hermione, who had just come over, "See Mr. Taylor's footsteps?" This kind of pace is very useful in duels - of course, this is based on your lack of strength, and if your magic is very strong, it will be of rather small use, and you have 10,000 ways to crack it. ”

"But Professor McGonagall," Hermione was a little confused, "isn't apparition a better option?" You can adjust your own position angle......"

Before Professor McGonagall could answer, Harry picked up the topic, "Hermione, apparition takes so much mana that you can't use this high-level spell in battle a few times, I guess most of the time it's used to increase your tolerance for errors?" ”

Professor McGonagall gave her an approving look, "Mr. Potter is right, if you ignore the amount of mana that automatically recovers, an average adult wizard can only cast less than ten apparitions in a row at most - of course, you can cast a few more times if the teleportation distance is short, there is not much time left for you to rest in battle, every mana is precious, and there is no need to use spells if it can be solved by physical means." ”

"What's more, the difficulty of phantom transformation is not low, not to mention that in the high-intensity battle without the slightest respite, in the wizarding war fifty years ago, many students did not have professional training for the first time on the battlefield, and many people died from the split caused by hasty phantom transformation."

Harry and Hermione nodded thoughtfully.

In the ring, Joel finally got close to Helis after a few rounds of spell battles - this is mainly thanks to the ring, Helis has retreated to the edge, and if she retreats any further, she will jump out of the ring.

Helis met Joel's gaze, and to his surprise, there was no panic in Haylis's eyes, only indescribable calmness.

Between the lightning and flint, Joel didn't think much about it, and threw out the spell in his hand mercilessly, directly using most of the magic power stored in his body.

Haylis hooked her lips slightly, and Joel felt palpitations when she looked at her, he always felt that something was wrong, could it be that she had won some full set?

At the same time as the spell was fired, Joel stepped on the ring and wanted to jump up, when a wrist-thin vine suddenly drilled out of the sole of his foot, hooking Joel's ankle, and the spikes on it pierced his skin through a thin layer of fabric, and a tingling sensation surged up from his ankle.

His heart was beating so hard that he felt a little flustered.

The smooth ring under his feet was replaced by vines, and he couldn't move an inch.

The dozen small evil spells covered Helis's whole body, and she had used most of the mana stored in her body to set traps, but at this time she could only place an iron armor charm to defend it.

The sound of ping-pong sounded, and the iron armor curse was completely shattered, and two or three evil curses still hit Helis's body, and she was knocked out of the ring.

Joel's condition at this time was not optimistic, he had already used a spell to solve the vine trap on the ground, but the tingling sensation spread up his body little by little, and he felt that he was extremely slow.

"What a great showdown," Professor McGonagall said to the student, "you two did a perfect job. ”

She helped Haylis, who had been stung by the stinging spell, up and woke her up with a quick revival blow, and the two of them, who had just devoted themselves to the duel, found that the ring was full of students, and everyone's faces were full of incredulity.

Professor Flitwick led the applause.

"This is my student! Very good! ”

He and several colleagues on the side showed off, and their tones were full of pride and pride.