Chapter 113: Dracula: The Disarming Spell really doesn't work
"Before the first class at the Dueling Club begins, we might as well have some appetizers." On stage, Dracula glanced at Snape with bad intentions, and the corners of his mouth hooked slightly, "I'm going to give you a little demonstration with Professor Snape."
Since you're taking Dumbledore's place, don't blame me for being unkind!
The little wizards below the stage looked a little wicked in their smile.
However, given that Snape had never had much popularity among the young wizarding community, the young wizards of the other three houses, with the exception of Slytherin's young wizard, were cheering for Dracula loudly, hoping that he would help them teach the annoying Potions professor a good lesson.
"Professor Dracula, help us beat Snape hard!" Ron joined in the fun.
However, I don't know if Snape was special to him and Harry, even though there were not too few little wizards who shouted like this, but when Ron shouted this sentence in the noisy crowd, Snape's sharp eyes still swept over with precision.
Ron shuddered and looked at Harry with a shudder.
"Oh no, Harry, Snape has found out once again that I'm speaking ill of him......" His mouth formed into a bitter trapezoidal shape, and his whole face wrinkled, "What to do?" Am I going to be disposed of by him in the name of a duel in a moment?"
Harry gave Ron a sympathetic look and patted him on the shoulder, "Good go, Ron!"
Ron's expression became more bitter.
He could only stare at the stage in the center of the auditorium now, hoping that Professor Dracula would beat Snape directly unconscious, so that he might survive......
On stage, Dracula, who had high hopes for Ron, was already facing Snape at the front and back ends of the stage.
"Duel is a traditional activity in the wizarding world, and it doesn't involve two people pulling out their wands and fighting each other, but there are many rules and restrictions." Dracula told the young wizards in the audience, "For example, now, before the duel begins, the wizards on both sides bow to each other as a sign of politeness."
He smoothed the black and red cloak and bowed gracefully towards Snape.
Snape, on the other hand, bowed solemnly, and then clenched his wand tightly to his chest with a serious expression.
Harry and the other young wizards who knew Snape were very surprised by this scene.
Originally, they thought that with Snape's personality of never looking at people squarely, it was likely that he would not honestly bow to his opponent.
Today, however, Snape had changed his usual nonchalant expression, his face was serious, and even his bowing movements were upright.
They had never seen such a deliberate Potions professor!
Under the astonished gazes of the young wizards, Dracula and Snape had finished saluting each other, and then they raised their wands to their chests like swords.
"As you can see, both sides of the duel will hold their wands in a certain position," Dracula introduced to the crowd that had gradually quieted down, "and if it was a formal duel match, the referee would count them next; If it's a private duel like ours, it's okay for both sides of the duel to be counted together."
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"Count to three, and we'll cast the first spell as soon as possible. Of course, in a friendly duel like this, neither side will use those extremely damaging curses to take people's lives."
Hearing Dracula's words, Ron in the audience showed an extremely disappointed expression.
"I'm still waiting for Professor Dracula to finish Snape with a lethal spell!" He whispered.
On the edge of the stage, a very active little Gryffindor wizard had volunteered to be the referee of the duel, standing next to him and counting the two professors aloud—
"One-two-three-"
The moment the number "three" fell, Snape raised his wand over his shoulder.
"Get rid of your weapons!" He shouted.
Suddenly a dazzling red flashed on the stage
The light instantly hit Dracula.
Dracula, who had been hit by a spell, remained motionless and did not seem to react to the spell at all, but the wand in his hand was thrown high and fell straight into Snape's hand......
"Huh? Professor Dracula's wand has been lifted?!" Seeing this scene, the audience was in an uproar.
The young wizards could not have imagined that Professor Dracula, who had been pinned on by the three academies to squeeze Snape, would be disarmed with his wand and turned into a bare-handed fist after only one move with Snape.
How can you duel without a wand?
After a brief silence, several other Slytherin students, led by Draco Malfoy, burst into cheers and began to applaud excitedly.
"That's the end of the duel?" Ron stared blankly at the two professors on the stage, and the huge gap made his heart empty.
Harry's mouth opened wide, "No...... No......
Hermione, who was standing next to her, was holding a notebook in her hand, and was about to record the main points of the duel on the table, seeing such a result, she also raised her head blankly, put down the quill in her hand and picked it up again, but she didn't know what to record.
"I don't think it's right."
At this moment, the voice of a nice boy sounded around several people.
Harry turned his head and saw the Hufflepuff fourth-year, Cedric Diggory had come closer to the stage and stood beside the three of them.
He also had a notebook and a quill in his hands, just as Hermione had in mind when he took notes.
Cedric's side, the fiery red-haired Fred and George winked at Harry's trio.
"Harry, listen to Cedric's analysis." Fred said, "He's a pretty unkind man, and he often goes to Professor Dracula alone to make him a small stove."
"So he definitely knows more about Professor Dracula than we do." George picked up the conversation and said, "That's why we asked him to be our technical advisor!"
"Technical advisor?" Harry asked, confused.
"That's right." Fred lowered his voice and said, "We made a bet with the Slytherin gang on who would win between Professor Dracula and Snape, and how long it would take for Professor Dracula to beat Snape."
"In order to prevent you from killing us like you did at the end of last semester, we specially hired a consultant to open this gamble, and we made sure that nothing went wrong!" George also whispered.
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[In other words, it is the best way to read aloud and listen to books at present, @
Fred leaned over and asked, "Could it be that Professor Dracula didn't use his wand well today, so he accidentally broke Snape's spell?"
"I don't think it's likely." Cedric said, "Look at the faces of the two professors on the duel table."
The rest of the group looked over and saw that Dracula looked calm, as if he had no extra feelings about losing his wand, as if it had been planned.
Snape, on the other hand, looked hesitantly at the ash wand in his hand and looked up at Dracula.
"Dracula, what are you doing?!" He clenched his teeth and spat out the words between his teeth.
However, Dracula did not answer his question, but calmly looked at the young wizards in the audience, and talked about the duel situation on the field unhurriedly.
"Did you see that? Professor Snape just cast a very beautiful disarming charm that disarmed me." He said briskly, as if he were not the one who had been disarmed.
"The Disarming Charm was invented by the 14th-century dueling master, Elisabeth Smachlin, and was used well in later dueling matches."
Dracula also just remembered that more than six hundred years ago, when he first met Nicol Lemay, there was a popular dueling master in the wizarding world.
The wizard used the disarming spell he had invented so well that few people in a duel match were able to pull out a second move in his hand.
At that time, Dracula was full of interest and went to fight with Smachlin, who invented the disarming charm, and later found that she also used the disarming charm better, and met Dracula, who didn't fight with a wand at all, and was quickly defeated by Dracula.
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In this Dueling Club presentation, Dracula happens to tell many young wizards about the origin of the disarming charm.
In addition, he also wanted to advise the young wizards not to rely too much on their wands, otherwise they would suffer a big loss if they encountered someone like Dracula who did not take a wand.
"As we all know, wizards in the wizarding world rely heavily on their wands, and even more serious wizards lose their sense of security without their wands." Dracula explained earnestly, "Therefore, the successful casting of the Disarming Charm can defeat most wizards."
"But there are exceptions to everything—"
After saying this, Dracula suddenly raised the index finger of his right hand at Snape-
"Remove your weapons."
In the next moment, a red light that was even brighter than Snape's disarming spell shot out from Dracula's fingertips and slammed into Snape.
Knocked to his feet, he flew towards the back of the stage, his wand thrown high and landed in Dracula's hands.
Snape's eyes tightened, and at the last moment, when he was about to fall off the stage, his figure suddenly turned into a black phantom, and landed abruptly on the edge of the stage.
The young wizards in the audience first let out a burst of amazement at Dracula's spell, and then, when they saw that Snape did not fall under the duel stage, they sighed in regret.
Among them, the three brothers, Fred, George and Ron, sighed the most.
"See? Even if the opponent is disarmed, it is still not to be taken lightly." Dracula curled the corners of his mouth and said to the young wizards.
"There are always wizards who are more skilled in using spells and can cast spells without a wand. Therefore, for opponents who have lost their weapons, I suggest that you make up for a petrification charm or stun charm in time, so that they are completely incapacitated."
"It's like this—"
As he spoke, Dracula raised Snape's birch wand, which he had just captured—
"Stupefy."
A crimson spell shot at Snape in the distance.
Snape gritted his teeth, flipped over the stun spell that had dodged the burst of fire, and then raised Dracula's ash wand, which he had just obtained with the disarming charm, and shouted—
"Petrifus totalus!"
Dracula didn't care about the petrification spell that Snape was about to cast, and even put down his wand and clasped his hands to his chest, watching him cast the spell as if he were watching a play.
Offstage, Fred and George watched Dracula's actions with some eagerness.
"Why didn't Professor Dracula move again, it's easy to overturn if he's careless!" George muttered urgently.
"We've smashed the rest of Garons in, don't let us lose all our money, Professor Dracula!" Fred was also anxious to stomp his feet.
However, the little wizards' prediction of Dracula being shot by the spell did not happen.
Snape uttered the petrification spell as his wand trembled, and then a spark flickered on the staff—
The light of the petrification spell suddenly shot out from the end of the wand!
"What?"
Snape's eyes froze, but his body reacted quite quickly, and almost as soon as the spell lit up from the end of his ash wand, he immediately threw away his wand and fell sideways to the ground.
Because of his timely reaction, he was able to dodge most of the magic that burst out of the petrification spell, except that his left arm was partially grazed by his own petrification spell and became stiff.
Snape, however, forgot that he was still on the edge of the stage, and fell to the ground, which meant that he fell to the bottom of the stage—
With a "winter" thud, Snape slumped to the ground below the stage.
The surrounding little wizards instantly retreated a large distance backwards, for fear that they would accidentally become the punching bag of the bad-tempered Dean Slytherin.
As a result, a rare vacuum appeared around Snape......
"That's another thing I'm going to tell you." Dracula looked at Snape's embarrassed image as he fell to the ground, and said happily, "Don't use someone else's wand after you seize it, maybe there will be some mechanism?"
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Hogwarts Bloodline Professor.
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