Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 229 Duel Club

On the evening of the day Lockhart left again, Bourne was about to go through the hall to have something to eat in the Great Hall when he suddenly saw a group of people gathered around the notice board, reading the words on a piece of parchment that had just been nailed up. .

The Weasley twins looked very excited and kept calling people around to come and take a look.

Seeing Bourne approaching, his other roommate Seamus Finnigan greeted him, and then introduced what the parchment on the notice board meant like "tap water".

"They are going to open a dueling club! The first meeting is tonight. I am not opposed to learning some dueling lessons. It may come in handy one day..."

At this time, Ron and Harry also came over, and he also read the notice with great interest.

"Hey, the duel club organized by Lockhart is great." He said with a smile.

And this sarcastic remark was still met with a shudder from Hermione.

"Have you not heard that Professor Lockhart used an exquisite banishing spell after class and banished Peeves in one go?"

It can only be said that fans are always the best informed about idols. Although she didn't see it with her own eyes, Hermione still knew it clearly.

At this time, the twins also came over.

"Do you want to participate in the bet?" George asked the lower grade students with a smile, "As long as 6 copper Knuts, you can bet on the outcome of the duel. We accept buzzer bets before the duel begins."

"Professor McGonagall knows you are doing this, she will definitely ask you to clean the toilet." Ron did not agree with the bold behavior of his two brothers, and these words also made Fred kiss him with his arms. The ground held his neck.

"Don't listen to his nonsense, this is just a small entertainment event. Besides, doesn't Professor McGonagall only return to Hogwarts next week?" Fred said.

"Are you going to this event? I think we may have underestimated Lockhart's abilities," George took over. "Fred and I witnessed with our own eyes the scene where he subdued Peeves. He did use two very amazing 'repelling spells' - how should I put it - I couldn't understand it at all. Just by saying the right spell, But the casting gesture is completely wrong. In this case, how did the professor successfully release the spell?"

"This is called professionalism." Hermione said seriously.

She even raised her mouth happily when she said this when she had the opportunity to rectify her idol's name.

"Bourne, are you going to take a look?" Fred looked at Bourne, "I think the duel spell will always come in handy."

Bourne thought about it and felt that there was nothing to lose in going to take a look, so he agreed.

Harry and Hermione both agreed to go. Even though Ron was a little reluctant, he ultimately chose to go with the crowd.

At eight o'clock in the evening, after sorting out some books in the library, Bourne first asked for a half-day leave from Mrs. Pince, and then returned to the auditorium.

The long dining table disappeared, replaced by a gilded stage along one wall, lit by hundreds of candles floating above.

The ceiling was once again velvet black.

Moreover, almost all the students from the school came, crowded together, everyone holding their own wands, their faces full of excitement.

The twins, with a few little wizards, squeezed sideways into the chattering crowd.

Bourne heard several young wizards from Ravenclaw saying: "...Someone told me that Professor Flitwick was a dueling champion when he was young. Maybe it was our dean who taught us."

However, it turned out to be very wrong.

When the time agreed in the notice came, Professor Flitwick did not appear in the auditorium at all, and not even the other professors came.

Only Gilderoy Lockhart walked onto the stage, resplendent in a purple robe.

Lockhart waved the little wizards to calm down and stay quiet for a few minutes: "Come around, come around! Can everyone see me? Can everyone hear me? Great!
Is such that--

I have reported to Headmaster Dumbledore, and he has allowed me to open this small dueling club to fully train everyone in case you need to defend yourself one day. Protect yourself in the same way that I have used countless times - if you want to know this For details, please see my published works..."

After a brief introduction of 10 minutes (tears, he only gave himself so much advertising this time), Gilderoy Lockhart got down to business.

He introduced the basic rules of wizard duels to everyone, and then explained to the young wizards present one of the most commonly used spells in wizard duels - the "Disarming Curse" - and also taught its gestures. , casting mentality, and a series of other precautions.

When it comes to professionalism, although it is definitely not as good as Professor Flitwick, who specializes in teaching Charms classes, he can quote from many sources about a spell and tell young wizards its origin, development, and some related examples and counterexamples, but it is relatively good. Compared with his previous performance in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Lockhart really showed off his skills this time and taught a lot of useful information.

After the explanation was completed, he even found a seventh-year Slytherin student, Fanet, who is now the student union president of Hogwarts, as a "model" to demonstrate this spell to him.

"one two three--"

Standing on the long stage, while counting down, Lockhart and Fanet simultaneously put their wands close to the tip of their noses and performed a duel salute.

Immediately afterwards, the two men suddenly raised their wands over their shoulders almost simultaneously. Lockhart shouted: "Expelliarmus!" Suddenly a dazzling red light flashed, and Fanet was struck unsteadily. He flew backwards off the stage, hit the wall, then slid down and curled up on the On a soft cushion that had been placed there beforehand.

Except for the sullen Slytherin students, many students clapped and cheered excitedly, and Hermione also jumped up and down on tiptoes.

"How do you recite this incantation? Damn it, I forgot an important point of the professor's lecture." She covered her mouth with her fingers, feeling excited and nervous at the same time.

"who cares!"

Harry and Ron said at the same time.

They had secretly learned the Disarming Charm last year. Ron was pretty good at using it, and Harry was even better at it, so this spell didn't interest them.

On the contrary, it was Bourne who saw something different.

"Is this open?"

Bourne noticed that when Lockhart was casting a spell, one of the "pearls" hanging on the tail of his wand flickered unnaturally.

Although the flicker was very weak and difficult to detect with the naked eye under the lighting provided by the candlestick, Byrne believed he was right.

Moreover, because he can also use the disarming spell, his intuition about magic told him that the magic wave that Lockhart emitted when he cast the spell just now did not seem to be the magic wave that "Expelliarmus" should have. "Stories are stories, reality is reality." Byrne thought to himself.

In fact, when Bourne realized that he had traveled to the world of Harry Potter, he had a full understanding that his appearance would inevitably affect the plot of this fairy tale.

Therefore, when the duel club organized by Lockhart did not greatly embarrass its organizer - but even made a small appearance - Bourne actually did not find this kind of thing unacceptable.

"The key is... what factors caused this change?" Bourne thought for a while, then turned his head and looked in one direction.

Percy also came to the dueling club, and he was accompanied by two girls: one was his girlfriend Penello, and the other was Ginny, the youngest child and only girl of the Weasley family.

Because there was a lot of fun to watch, the little girl looked very happy and looked very good on her face.

"Ginny doesn't look like she has been drained of energy and her body has become sick." Bourne made a judgment, and then looked at Ji who was standing on the stage and was greeting Fanet, trying to create a "persona" of caring for students. Dro Lockhart.

But before the professor could finish his performance, and before Byrne could figure out his reasoning, the door to the Hogwarts hall was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

A huge figure, Rubeus Hagrid, the Forbidden Forest Warden of Hogwarts, stood nervously at the door.

"Attention all young wizards, follow your prefects or senior students and return to your common room now, immediately, immediately."

Hagrid had a voice proportionate to his size, and after deliberately raising his voice, it was impossible for anyone to ignore his voice.

Bourne noticed that Filch was tugging on his clothes behind Hagrid, but the janitor was tightly blocked by Hagrid - to be fair, by normal people's standards, Filch, who was just over 1.8 meters tall, was He wasn't too short - he was holding a mop in his other hand and was kicking Hagrid's calves, as if he was angry that the big man had made the school floor dirty.

After notifying the little wizards in the hall, they didn't dare to leave because they saw so many students gathered here.

He stood at the door of the hall, turned around (making Filch fall to the side) and looked towards the stairs, as if waiting for someone to come.

At this time, Bourne also came to him and asked: "Hagrid, what happened?"

Seeing that it was Bourne who was asking the question, out of trust, Hagrid tilted his head and covered his mouth with his hand (trying not to let the sound reach the ears of other little wizards) and told him the truth.

"A group of bird snakes broke out of the Forbidden Forest. They crossed the blockade from the sky, broke into Greenhouse No. 3 of Hogwarts Castle and began to wreak havoc. Among them, one bird snake was raised by Professor Sprout. The poisonous tentacles stung them to death, and the remaining birds and snakes must have fled back to the Forbidden Forest, but it’s not entirely certain whether they escaped into the castle.”

Commonly found in the Far East and India, the bird snake is a snake-like creature with feathers, wings, and two legs.

They can reach 15 feet in length, but according to legend, the largest bird snakes can even grow to the size of a fire dragon.

Bird snakes generally feed on insects, mice, and birds, but they sometimes prey on monkeys.

Bird snakes are extremely aggressive towards humans who approach them. In particular, if they protect their eggs—their eggs are made of pure silver and are therefore highly sought after, making their nests easy for hunters to loot—the bird snakes will even take the initiative to launch a rather deadly attack on the wizard. .

The reason why their attacks are so deadly is that the birds and snakes can expand and contract at will. It can be large enough to fill any space, or it can shrink according to the available space. If he is attacked by a bird or a snake in a confined space, when it begins to expand its body, the wizard may be squeezed into a meat pie before he can save himself.

"Professor Sprout is tidying up the greenhouse. There are some dangerous plants planted in Greenhouse No. 3, so she has to make sure that they are all buried in the soil and not sneak out and run into the castle."

Hagrid said quickly: "So, I can only inform Flitwick and Professor Snape and let them take charge of the situation in the castle..."

"Don't worry, I'm here at Hogwarts."

Hagrid was interrupted, but it was not Bourne or the other two deans who said this, but our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Gilderoy Lockhart also came over and stopped Hagrid with just one sentence.

However, sometimes once a person sets a flag, the slap in the face will come particularly violently and quickly.

Gilderoy Lockhart had just finished speaking, when something like an "earthworm" suddenly floated down from the ceiling of the hall of Hogwarts Castle, and then turned into a very huge body with a beak and a snake in mid-air. and a pair of magical creatures with wide wings. Because its legs are always curled up and extremely short, it doesn't look like a bird at all, but more like a big snake with wings.

"Merlin's beard!"×N
Many little wizards were frightened by the sudden appearance of this bird and snake. They either yelled or were frightened and ran around.

This bird snake has a long body, and naturally, it also has a particularly long tail. When its body began to expand and become larger, its tail also became extremely long, so much so that even though the bird snake was still in the air, its tail had already been dragged to the ground.

"Snapped!"

With lightning speed, the bird snake rounded its tail and suddenly hit Gilderoy Lockhart.

"Except your weapons!"

Gilderoy Lockhart roared.

Red lightning spurted out from his wand, hitting the body of the bird and snake in the air before it was whipped by the tail.

Immediately afterwards, the tail of the bird snake was bounced out by the magic spell, grazing Lockhart's hair and hitting the carved lintel of the Hogwarts Great Hall. Along with a "crash" sound, an antique with a history of hundreds of years was broken with one blow.

Lockhart was showered with splinters of wood.

And this seemed to trigger a certain switch on this man, and he suddenly became very angry, and even uttered a series of curse words in front of everyone.

"You son of the beach!"

"Damn bugs!"

"..."

While he quickly brushed away the sawdust in his hair, he used his wand to continuously cast spells on the bird and snake.

Moreover, he seemed to be going crazy, using the "Expelliarmus" spell from beginning to end? !

(End of this chapter)