Hogwarts: Who uses a crowbar in wizard duels?

Today is Lockhart's Defense Against the Dark Arts class again.

"Because of the horrific events of recent weeks, Headmaster Dumbledore has permitted me to host a small dueling club."

"Let me train everyone so that they are able to protect themselves when facing danger."

Lockhart stood on a platform for wizard duels, walking back and forth like he was on a fashion show.

Harry, standing in the stands, also met a Hufflepuff student named Justin Finley.

The victim in this episode.

"Next, please welcome my assistant, Professor Snape."

Next, they will demonstrate a standard wizard duel.

The two professors walked to the center of the dueling platform and exchanged a dueling salute.

Then, like cowboys, they turned around, walked forward to opposite ends of the dueling platform, and looked back at each other.

Count to three, and release the spell together.

However, Snape was clearly much faster than Lockhart, and he took Lockhart down with his first move.

However, Lockhart was proud and saw through Snape's moves at a glance, but he just let him have his way. Snape, however, didn't tolerate him and interrupted Lockhart, saying that the students should come up and learn in person.

"Kevin, come up here."

Snape directly named Kevin.

"what?"

Kevin was stunned. Shouldn't you have chosen Malfoy?

However, Kevin still stood on the dueling platform, and then he saw that Snape had no intention of leaving the platform.

Huh? I'm going to fight Snape?

Am I going to become the victim?

"Professor Snape, isn't this a bit...?" Lockhart also wanted to dissuade Snape, but Snape didn't say anything and walked to the center of the stage.

Kevin had no choice but to obediently walk up.

The two performed a duel salute together.

Hermione and the others watched Kevin with concern. Although they knew he was learning spells from Professor Snape, they didn't think Kevin could fight.

After the two were in position, Lockhart had no choice but to take charge.

"Three, two, one..."

"The Divine Blade is Without a Shadow!"

"The Divine Blade is Without a Shadow!"

Kevin and Snape chanted the spell and swung their wands almost simultaneously, but Snape was faster than Kevin.

The two spells collided in front of Kevin, creating a gust of wind that repelled the surrounding young wizards.

Kevin was also affected.

However, he kept moving his hands.

"Moving at high speed!"

Just as Snape cast a buff, his next Disintegration Spell came crashing down.

Kevin simply used his magic to envelop his wand and flicked it away, sending the shattering spell flying.

Then Kevin rushed up like a gust of wind!

Lockhart, who was watching the battle, swallowed hard. How could they use such deadly moves?

This dueling arena is a straight, high platform, making it virtually impossible to avoid face-to-face spells.

Snape knew that Kevin was skilled in combat and could usually deflect spells, so he decided to take advantage of the terrain of the dueling ring.

"The flames are raging."

A fiery spell that covered the entire dueling platform erupted directly from above.

Kevin had to stop his approach and use his modified Water Shield spell.

Summon a stream of water, which gathers and swirls in front of you.

Snape's flames rushed toward the water shield, but were directly diverted by the water flow, and the high temperature was also blocked by the water shield.

But the next moment, a divine blade pierced through the flames and the water shield without a trace.

Kevin was sent flying.

As Kevin cast Water Shield, he immediately cast Iron Armor on himself.

Snape immediately followed up with a Divine Strike after the flames blocked Kevin's vision. Kevin, having just cast a water shield, certainly didn't have time to unleash a new attack.

Snape had the rhythm completely under his control.

If the court were more spacious, Kevin could use his physical attributes to move around and launch counterattacks.

But on this wizard dueling arena, he had no space to move around.

Kevin lost; he only lasted four moves.

Even so, the young wizards below were still amazed.

Hermione rushed to Kevin to check on his injuries.

"Professor! Kevin is still a student, how could you hit him so hard!" Hermione shouted at Snape as she helped the weak Kevin up.

"He was faking it."

But Snape coldly uttered a single sentence and then stepped down from the stage.

Hermione was taken aback, then looked at Kevin, only to see Kevin wink at her playfully.

Hermione blushed, angrily abandoned Kevin, and left the stage herself.

"Hermione, Hermione, don't be angry, it was just a joke."

Kevin quickly got up and followed Hermione around, showing no signs of injury whatsoever.

The young wizard was startled again; Snape's few moves on stage were enough to kill several of them.

He was completely unharmed.

However, to Kevin's surprise, after he chased Hermione out of the classroom, Snape suddenly said, "Potter, Malfoy, you two go up and have a match."

Although these two have a good relationship now, they are no pushovers when it comes to a real fight.

Then, much like in the movie, Draco released a snake, and Harry, in an attempt to stop the snake from harming Justin, spoke Parseltongue, only to be misunderstood as having been instructed by Harry.

Harry's Parseltongue story quickly became known throughout the school.

......

"Huh? Harry and Draco fought again later?"

Kevin was stunned as he listened to Ron's description.

It's lunch break time, and the four little ones are hiding in a secluded spot.

Ron told Kevin and Hermione what had happened after they left.

Kevin thought he was the victim this time and that he wouldn't continue the match after it was over, but it seems that his match with Snape wasn't that important.

Instead, they abruptly stopped the dueling club session after Harry spoke Parseltongue.

Well, I wanted to stop Harry from speaking Parseltongue, but it seems there's nothing I can do now.

Harry sat listlessly to one side. Ron explained Parseltongue to him, and now everyone suspected that Harry was the heir to Slytherin and that he was the one who attacked his classmate.

Kevin covered his face in regret, wishing he hadn't tried to fool Hermione.

......

For the next few days, Harry endured the suspicious looks from his classmates.

During a self-study period, Harry noticed that people around him were staring at him with indifferent eyes.

Harry was about to lose it, and even Ginny was looking at him coldly.

However, Kevin knew that Ginny had been brainwashed.

Harry couldn't study anymore and got up to leave.

Kevin also got up and told Hermione and Ron to come together, so that Harry wouldn't be left to act alone now.

As he passed a long table, those people were still staring at Harry indifferently.

Kevin couldn't take it anymore and walked straight over: "What the hell are you looking at! Haven't you ever seen a handsome guy before?!"

Then Kevin kicked over their table, and the students sitting there fell over as well.

The students in the classroom were startled. Just as the professor in charge was about to say something, Kevin led them away.

"Kevin, you don't need to do this. You'll be punished." Harry knew Kevin was standing up for him, but Harry didn't want Kevin to be punished for it.

"I don't care. I'd love for Dumbledore to come knocking on my door. I want to question him about why he's been doing nothing and letting public opinion fester." Kevin's tone was also very dissatisfied.

This is no longer a process of growth for Harry; it's a form of torture for him.

He was only 12 years old, yet he had to endure this kind of cold violence and condemnation from everyone. Kevin felt that it was because of these repeated occurrences that Harry's temper began to become irritable.

Harry and the others fell silent for a moment, also wondering why.

As they walked, they encountered Hagrid.

He was carrying a dead chicken in his hand.

"Hello, children. Hmm... what's wrong? You all look so worried."

Hagrid's cheerful voice rang out.

"Hello Hagrid, it's nothing, just that something bad happened." Hermione shook her head.

Kevin looked at Hagrid and a sudden idea popped into his head: maybe he could avoid following the movie plot so closely and try to get some clues in advance to speed up the opening of the secret room!

"Uncle Hagrid, you've heard about the recent attacks. Do you know anything about the locked room?"

Kevin remembers Hagrid's locked-room mystery from fifty years ago, where he was wrongly accused of opening the locked room.

Hagrid was taken aback by Kevin's sudden question, as were the three little ones.

"Kevin... first I have to tell you, locked rooms are extremely dangerous..."

"But Uncle Hagrid, do you know what's been going on lately? People who don't know the truth are doubting Harry, and that doubt will deeply hurt him. If we don't solve the Chamber of Secrets problem soon, Harry will become the target of everyone's criticism."

Harry looked at Kevin with deep emotion. He could feel Kevin's sincerity towards him, whether it was helping him get revenge or helping him find information about the Chamber of Secrets.

Hagrid also fell silent. He looked at Harry and noticed that Harry looked rather dejected, indicating that he must have been having a hard time lately.

Hagrid hesitated for a moment, then finally said, "Actually, Kevin, fifty years ago I was accused of opening a secret chamber, but I didn't open any secret chamber at all. Then they captured me and took me to Azkaban, where many unpleasant memories occurred. Now, I don't remember much about what happened back then..."

Perhaps Hagrid felt sorry for Harry, who had suffered a similar fate to him back then, being suspected and wronged, so he spoke out.

"What!?" The three children were all shocked, not expecting that Hagrid was actually a person involved back then.

"Okay, I'm sorry, Uncle Hagrid, I brought back unpleasant memories for you."

Kevin bowed his head and apologized.

"Oh, it's alright, so much time has passed. If you want to know about the secret room, perhaps my pet Aragog remembers something. I'll ask him for you then."

"Really? Hagrid!" The three little ones were extremely excited; they finally had a new clue.

"What kind of pet is so amazing? It's lived for fifty years and can still remember things from fifty years ago," Kevin complained. Of course he knew about the eight-eyed spider, but he couldn't help but complain.

"Aragok is a magical creature."

"Where is he? Let's go ask him now."

"No, children, I know you're in a hurry, but Aragog lives in the Forbidden Forest, and you can't just go in. Besides, you don't know him, and you might get hurt."

Hagrid gave them another warning, telling them to behave themselves for now, and that he would find out the truth as soon as possible.

After saying goodbye to Hagrid, the group went to find Dumbledore to report the recent incident of someone strangling his chicken.

"Kevin, thank you." Harry suddenly hugged Kevin. Now, Kevin was like family to Harry, always willing to stand up for him and share his burdens.

"Alright, alright, two grown men hugging like this, what kind of behavior is this?" Kevin quickly helped Harry away, mainly because he saw Hermione's dangerous gaze.

After Harry was helped away, Hermione immediately squeezed in and glared at Harry, as if to say, "Don't try to steal my man!"

Harry scratched his head awkwardly.

Ron is once again the "womanizer who neglects his friends."

Kevin smiled helplessly.

The atmosphere among the four boys finally lifted, and they left together, chatting and laughing.