"Are you really going to compete with Malfoy, Harry?!"

Hermione turned sideways and glared harshly at Harry, "I have to warn you Harry, don't leave anything to chance, if Professor Bryan found out about this, he'd have kicked all the participants out of his class. He always does what he says! ”

Hermione raised her voice to make sure the three Malfoys across from her could hear him, and her warning did have some effect.

Standing behind Draco was a quiet, blonde-haired, blue-eyed little witch from House Greengrass, who and her sister Daphne Greengrass were both students of Slytherin House, and Astoria was much weaker than her sister's usual aggressiveness.

After following Draco into the classroom, Astoria had been silent and quietly watching the situation unfold, and after hearing Hermione say this, she couldn't hold back the worry hidden in her heart,

"Think about it again, Draco?"

Astoria, dressed in small black leather boots, stood on tiptoe to reach Draco's ears,

"If you and Potter, or one of them, are seriously injured in the duel, Madam Pomfrey will definitely inform Professor Snape or Professor McGonagall, so that even if you want to hide the duel, the matter will definitely reach Professor Blaine's ears."

Draco's gray eyes flashed with hesitation, but this was, he noticed that there was a provocation in Potter's cold eyes, and his uncertain determination immediately hardened,

"It's none of your business, Astoria alright!" Draco raised his head and said arrogantly, "As you say, Potter, the duel is between the two of us. I swear in the name of Slytherin House that no matter what the outcome of this duel is, I promise that including Pansy and Astoria will keep it a secret! ”

"What Malfoy says never counts, Harry, don't be fooled!"

If it was to use his fists to decide the victory, Ron would probably have already made a real move, but he had heard the rules of physical education class for a long time, and he definitely didn't want to see Harry be expelled from physical education class because of him, and many people wanted to enter but had no way to do it.

"That family of yours trampled on the glory of the pure-bloods, Weasley--"

Draco said, with a sinking face,

"But that doesn't mean that other people of noble birth don't care!"

"I swear in the name of Gryffindor House—"

An inexplicable agitation raged and collapsed in Harry's blood, and he was now more and more anticipating what was to come, Ron and Hermione muttered in front of him that he didn't listen to a word, but pulled out his wand and pointed it to the ceiling,

"I swear in the name of Gryffindor House that no matter how the duel is combined, Ron and Hermione and I will never leak the fact that this duel happened!"

"Oh, don't even think about it, Harry!" Hermione said fiercely.

However, Harry had broken free from her restraints and was the first to walk towards the center of the classroom, with a sense of determination and determination in his back and steps.

Hum--

Draco snorted, he turned his head to look at Pansy and Astoria, and after a moment's hesitation, said to Astoria,

"Go and keep watch outside the door, and if anyone comes near this classroom, come in and let me know--"

Without waiting for Astoria to speak, she took off her robe and threw it into Pansy's arms, and walked forward.

At this point, there's not much more to say.

Harry and Draco stood in the center of the classroom, lined up on the left and right, about sixty or seventy feet apart, their eyes staring at each other.

"Do you think Harry can win, Hermione?"

If it was the first and second years, Ron knew what the level of Harry and Malfoy was, but now, he didn't know anything about the strength of the two who had been trained by Professor Brian himself, and Harry and Hermione rarely showed off anything in front of him in order to take care of Ron's mood, and many things, Ron still heard from Fred and George's mouths.

"Can't tell, Ron--"

Looking at the two in the confrontation, Hermione frowned, she recalled Draco's performance during her usual practice,

"But Draco is not easy to deal with, his team has been at the top of the list for as long as it has lasted under Professor Bryan—"

The red remnant sun gradually disappeared below the ground line, struggling with the last rays of afterglow. Sensing the darkness coming, the torches on the walls of the classroom lit up in unison, and the light of the fire reflected in Harry and Draco's eyes, as if they had torches burning again in their pupils!

In the air, scorching heat and depression coexisted, and the two people who were bent down and were ready to attack suddenly had a strange thought in their hearts - although there had been several conflicts between them in the previous years, and there were no longer a few wands with their fists, but this time. It's as if he's actually getting his hands dirty for the first time. There is a sense of fateful duel.

Harry and Draco were like the armor behind them, their attacking posture motionless, their eyes firmly locked on each other.

"What's going on, why are they not moving like statues?"

Ron had expected the battle to break out immediately, but in reality, neither Harry nor Draco had made a move, and remained petrified, and they didn't even seem to blink except for the light in their eyes.

"Be quiet, Ron, the duel has begun—" Hermione said in a low voice, "they're looking for their own flaws, you know, Professor Bryan said that people believe in striking first, but a lot of times, the first striker is more likely to get caught--"

Ron pursed his lips, he wanted to shout 'I don't know!' But at least it was clear to him now that Harry and Malfoy were already fighting each other in a weird way!

It was only when the confrontation really began that Harry and Draco really realized the trickiness, they were both students of Professor Blaine, and Professor Blaine had the same experience passing on to them, and in this case, it was very difficult to get a head start.

Harry's eyes flickered, and he didn't want to admit it, but the reality was that he couldn't find a single flaw in Malfoy's defensive posture, and he believed that the reason why Malfoy didn't do it must have been in the same trouble as him.

But are they going to keep facing each other like this?

Click!

At that moment, the door to the gym classroom was suddenly pushed open, and everyone in the classroom looked at the door except for Harry and Draco.

He had just been ordered by Draco to go out on guard, Astoria Greengrass.

"Longbottom is here, he's on the other side of the hallway, and I didn't let him spot me!"

As soon as these words came out, Hermione suddenly smiled, she thought that this duel was going to be unfought, but--

The two people who confronted each other didn't expect to choose to shoot at the same time at this moment!

Harry was quicker, and he raised his hand to shoot, and a red bolt of thumb-thick with an electric lock attached, shot out, spanning a few dozen feet in the blink of an eye, aiming at Draco's arm.

Bang!

Unexpectedly, Draco didn't choose to attack, he flashed Harry's disarming charm sideways, and at the same time, his wand pointed at the void in front of him, and with a bang, a thick black mist squeezed into everyone's vision from the void.

In the midst of the violent churning, the black mist expanded rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, not only completely obscured Draco's figure from Harry's vision, but also spread in all directions, as if it was about to cover the entire classroom!

The sight in front of him made Harry stunned for a moment, in his usual training, he had never seen Malfoy use such magic, but in an instant, Harry immediately understood Malfoy's intention - to close his vision!

Staying still was the foolish option, Harry's figure flickered for a moment, and then, like an arrow from a string, he swerved sideways, away from the expanding black fog, and watched for a surprise attack in the black fog, and Harry's guess proved correct.

His flicker did induce Malfoy, and in the black mist, which had thinned slightly from the expansion, a black shadow burst out like cold lightning, breaking through the black mist and rushing viciously towards the place where Harry had just stood.

Unable to turn around in mid-air, the black python slammed into the armor beneath the side wall, and in annoyance, it quickly coiled up and bounced up again like a spring compressed to the extreme, and rushed towards Harry. At the same time, on the other side of the defensive line, Leng Buding once again swam a ghost.

Two black pythons attacked from two directions in a flanking trend, one in the sky and one underground!

Harry knew in an instant that he couldn't be faster or more agile than Malfoy's python. He can use the Iron Charm to fend off the first wave of attacks from the two black pythons, but then he will fall into a state of decline, because the Iron Charm will not be able to kill the two pythons, and can only block the frontal attacks, if they then surround him and fight him. Don't forget, these two black pythons can move on their own without Malfoy's control, but they will move much slower, and Malfoy will definitely attack again while he is being held back by the black python!

Thank you very much for your company in 2023, and I wish you all good health and a happy mood every day in the new year!

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