Wizardry System - Chapter 43

They soon arrived at Hogwarts and were greeted by the 4 statues in the Entrance Hall.

“Well there are our answers for this riddle. As long as we can get the tool of immortality, we’ll be able to go in,” Kristine said.

“Well we’ll have to figure out what that tool of immortality is before being able to do anything,” Chris said.

‘Well I have an idea of what it is, but I have time. I do want to personally see the events go down after all,’ Chris thought.

Classes went by normally and at the end of the class, Professor McGonagall called the three over.

“Activities resume today. Please do stop by,” Professor McGonagall said.

“Yes ma’am,” Chris said.

“Off you go now,” Professor McGonagall said satisfied with his answer.

…

After Quidditch practice, Chris met up with Hermione and Kristine to go to the Dueling Club room. Surprisingly, the room was empty with no teachers or students in sight. The three looked at each other, shrugged, and took their seats.

Once they sat down, Chris noticed Hermione squirming in her seat.

“Are you that impatient to take that test Hermione?” Chris asked.

“Well, the only thing I’ve heard from Professor McGonagall was that my shield wasn’t good enough. Now that I feel that it’s good enough, I have to get it approved or else it won’t feel right,” Hermione said.

“Luckily Father said he’ll cover for us and allowed us to practice magic while we were in New York or else you two would’ve still been stuck on the Shield Charm,” Chris said.

“Yes and because of that I can finally feel right again,” Hermione said.

“Hello there you three,” Chris called out.

“Hello,” Harry said with a somewhat fake smile.

“Hello,” Ron and Se-yeon said afterwards at the same time.

‘I suppose even with the changes, he saw the Mirror of Erised,’ Chris thought.

“Do you feel alright there? You don’t look quite happy. I suppose break being over has saddened you quite a bit,” Kristine said to Harry jokingly.

Harry chuckled a bit hearing this.

“On the contrary, I feel kind of glad it’s over,” Harry said.

The room was silent for a bit before Hermione broke the silence.

“You think that as well?!” Se-yeon asked. “I’ve been telling these two that it’s never too early to study and they haven’t been listening to me,”

“It’s 6 months before the exams. We’re just going to forget what we studied since we’re still learning,” Ron said. “Simply put, there’s really no point in studying right now,”

“It’s always good to study early. Nothing has ever gone wrong after studying early,” Se-yeon said.

“Except for my brains needlessly feeling like they’re going to be turned into putty,” Ron said.

The two argued for a bit and Se-yeon continued to ask Hermione for her opinions much to Ron’s displeasure. Minutes passed quickly and the room was starting to become full. After all the students came in, the professors followed.

“Good evening students,” Professor McGonagall said. “It’s a pŀėȧsurė seeing all of you for the winter term. I’m sure that all of you are enthusiastic about challenging the captains, practicing the Shield Charm more, and moving on to the next spell. However, we’re going to start off a little differently for today,”

Everyone looked at each other with confusion.

“On the first day of the club, we have allowed all of you to duel to let everyone have a little feel of dueling,” Professor McGonagall said. “Now, as the first day of the club for this term, we shall show you what a duel between high-leveled wizards and witches will look like. Professor Flitwick and Professor Snape will duel right now and after the duel, we’ll explain what happened in further detail,”

Everyone started excitedly talking to each other.

“Agreed,” Kristine said. “Who knows when we can properly study a high leveled duel,”

“I hope Snape gets hurt somehow,” Chris heard Ron say. “That’ll be the best time of my life,”

“Mine as well,” Harry said.

“Please students go to the left side of the room,” Professor McGonagall said. “I will be casting a Shield Charm to encase all of you,”

Everyone huddled to one side making it a bit cramped.

“Protego Totalum,” Professor McGonagall chanted. A barrier quickly appeared in front of all the students, but disappeared shortly.

Professor Flitwick and Snape then walked towards the center of the room and were now around 9 feet away from each other.

“Whenever you are ready Severus,” Professor Flitwick said.

Snape didn’t say anything and lifted his wand

A blue barrier appeared in front of Snape and he soon flicked his wand letting out an opaque light.

Professor Flitwick quickly blocked the spell and flicked his wand to let out a blue light.

The two were rapidly shooting spells and Chris could bȧrėly follow up let alone tell what spells they were using.

However, Chris saw that Professor Flitwick was slowly casting more spells while Snape was defending more and more by the second.

‘Snape’s going to lose,’ Chris thought. ‘Without his Dark Arts, it’s simply impossible to beat Flitwick,’

Sure enough, Snape’s defense started to be filled with holes and Professor Flitwick cast a spell emitting red light and Snape’s wand shot out of his hand.

“That was an excellent duel,” Professor McGonagall said. Everyone started clapping and Snape went to pick up his wand.

“That was an excellent duel Severus. It’s been a while since I had that much fun,” Professor Flitwick said extending his hand.

Snape reluctantly shook his hand quickly and walked back to where he was standing previously.

“Now who can tell me what the two Professors did?” Professor McGonagall asked seeing that everyone was now seated.

“I believe those were non-verbal spells Professor,” A girl sitting on the opposite side of Chris said.

“Excellent Miss Ballard,” Professor McGonagall said. “Indeed those were non-verbal spells. This is an advanced technique taught in your sixth years. They have a lot of advantages such as adding an element of surprise for the spells that you are using. However, there are clear disadvantages as well such as the spells being weaker than when chanting the spell. While we will not teach you how to use non-verbal spells since no students here will be able to accomplish it anyways, it is still good to know about it before you all enter your sixth year. Well now that we have shown everyone here a proper duel, let’s go back to what we do regularly,”