Chapter 113 Dracula: The disarming spell is really not easy to use
"Before the first lesson of the Duel Club officially begins, we might as well have some appetizers." On the stage, Dracula glanced at Snape maliciously, with a slight curl in the corner of his mouth, "I will be fighting with Snape. Together with Professor Pu, we will give you a small demonstration."
Since you want to take Dumbledore's place, don't blame me for being rude!
To the little wizards below the stage, Dracula's smile looked rather evil.
But given that Snape has always been unpopular among the young wizards, except for the young wizards of Slytherin, the young wizards of the other three houses were loudly cheering for Dracula, hoping that he could help them teach this man a lesson. The annoying potions professor.
"Professor Dracula, help us beat up Snape!" Ron also joined in the fun and shouted.
However, I don’t know if Snape paid special attention to him and Harry. Even though there were not too many young wizards shouting like this, when Ron shouted this sentence in the noisy crowd, Snape Pu's sharp eyes still glanced over accurately.
Ron shuddered suddenly and looked at Harry tremblingly.
"Oops, Harry, Snape once again found out that I said bad things about him..." His mouth formed a bitter trapezoid, and his whole face wrinkled up. "What should I do? I won't do it in a while." Will he be dealt with under the guise of a duel?"
Harry gave Ron a sympathetic look and patted him on the shoulder, "Have a good trip, Ron!"
Ron's expression became even more bitter.
Now he could only look helplessly at the stage in the center of the auditorium, hoping that Professor Dracula could beat Snape unconscious, so that he might still survive...
On the stage, Dracula, who Ron had high hopes for, was already face to face with Snape at both ends of the stage.
"Dueling is a traditional activity in the magic world. It is not just two people taking out their wands and fighting each other, but it has many rules and restrictions." Dracula told the little wizards in the audience, "For example, now , before the duel begins, the wizards from both sides must bow to each other to show courtesy."
He smoothed his black and red cloak and bowed gracefully towards Snape.
Snape, on the other hand, had a solemn look on his face. After bowing properly, he clutched his wand tightly to his chest with a serious expression.
Harry and other young wizards who knew Snape were very surprised by this scene.
Originally, they thought that given Snape's character of never looking directly at others, he would probably not bow to his opponents honestly.
However, today's Snape changed from his usual careless expression, his face was serious, and even his bowing movements were correct.
They have never seen such a cautious Potions Master!
Under the surprised gazes of many young wizards, Dracula and Snape had already saluted each other, and then they raised their wands in front of their chests like swords.
"As you can see, both parties in the duel will hold the wand in a specific posture," Dracula introduced to the crowd who gradually became quiet in the audience. "If it is a formal duel competition, there will be a referee counting; If it’s a private duel like ours, both parties can count together.”
"On the count of three, we will cast the first spell as soon as possible. Of course, in a friendly duel like this, neither party will use those extremely lethal curses to kill people."
Hearing Dracula's words, Ron in the audience showed an expression of extreme disappointment.
"I'm still waiting for Professor Dracula to use the killing curse to completely defeat Snape!" he whispered.
At the edge of the stage, a very active little Gryffindor wizard had volunteered to act as the referee for this duel. He stood nearby and counted loudly to the two professors——
"one two three--"
The moment the number "three" fell, Snape suddenly raised his wand over his shoulder.
"Expelliarmus!" he shouted.
Suddenly a dazzling red light flashed on the stage, hitting Dracula instantly.
Dracula, who was under a spell, remained motionless, seemingly not reacting to the spell at all. However, the wand in his hand flew high into the air and fell directly 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 was highly expected by the three colleges to defeat Snape, would actually have his wand removed after just one move with Snape, leaving him bare-handed.
How can you duel without a wand?
After a brief silence, several other Slytherin students, led by Draco Malfoy, suddenly cheered and began to applaud excitedly.
"Is the duel over like this?" Ron stared blankly at the two professors on the stage. The huge gap made him feel empty.
Harry also opened his mouth, "No...it can't be..."
Standing next to her, Hermione held a notebook in her hand and was preparing to record the key points of the duel on the table. Seeing this result, she also raised her head blankly. She put down the quill in her hand and picked it up again. She just didn't know what to record. thing.
"I don't feel right."
At this moment, a nice boy's voice sounded next to several people.
Harry turned his head and saw Hufflepuff's fourth-year student, Cedric Diggory, who had also arrived near the stage at some point and stood beside the three of them.
He also held a notebook and a quill in his hands, mirroring Hermione's idea of taking notes.
Beside Cedric, red-haired Fred and George blinked at Harry.
"Harry, you are right to listen to Cedric's analysis." Fred said, "He is quite unkind. He often secretly goes to Professor Dracula alone to give him some advice."
"So he definitely knows more about Professor Dracula than we do." George took over and said, "Because of this, we specifically asked him to be our technical consultant!"
"Technical advisor?" Harry asked doubtfully.
"That's right." Fred said in a low voice, "We started a bet with the big guys in Slytherin on who would win between Professor Dracula and Snape, and how long Professor Dracula would be. Time beats Snape."
"In order to prevent you from attacking us like you did at the end of last semester, we specially found a consultant to start this gambling game to ensure that it is foolproof!" George also said in a low voice.
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Harry was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that he had been out of control from time to time some time ago.
Seeing the performance of Fred and George, Cedric smiled helplessly at Harry.
Cedric is a very upright model student. He was originally unwilling to join Wes in the twins' gambling business...but he couldn't stand the two nagging two people who grew up in the same village, so he finally agreed. Be their bettor.
Of course, there are other reasons for this -
For example, he was planning to buy gifts for girls recently, and he didn't have enough pocket money, so he thought it would be good to make some extra money with the twins...
"Actually, in my opinion, this duel is far from over." Cedric analyzed, "Look at Professor Dracula's wand, which is now in Professor Snape's hand. Do you notice anything wrong? Place?"
Harry and Ron looked over blankly, then shook their heads blankly.
Hermione also looked over, and then her eyes widened in realization.
"Oh yes! Professor Dracula's wand is not this one!" she said excitedly. "When we were giving lectures, Professor Dracula's wand was pure black and very delicate, and we couldn't tell what kind of wood it was. But this The root is light brown, like ash wood, and looks a bit like Ron's broken wand!"
"But does this have anything to do with the outcome of this duel?" Fred came over and asked, "Could it be that Professor Dracula was not using the wand smoothly today, so he was accidentally struck by Snape's magic wand?" Has the curse been lifted?"
"I think it's unlikely," Cedric said. "Look at the expressions of the two professors on the duel stage."
The others looked over together and found that Dracula looked calm, as if he had no unnecessary feelings about losing his wand, as if he had planned it.
Snape looked at the ash wand in his hand hesitantly, then raised his head to look at Dracula.
"Dracula, what are you doing?!" He gritted his teeth and spat out such words through his teeth.
However, Dracula did not answer his question. Instead, he calmly looked at the little wizards in the audience and talked about the duel situation on the field.
"Did everyone see it? Professor Snape just used a very beautiful disarming spell to disarm me." He said briskly, as if the person who was disarmed was not him.
"The Disarming Curse was invented by Elizabeth Smachlin, a dueling master in the 14th century. This spell was put to good use in later dueling competitions."
Dracula also just remembered that more than six hundred years ago, during the time when he first met Nico Flamel, a popular dueling master appeared in the magic world.
The wizard used the disarming spell he invented so well that few people in the duel could pull off the second move in his hand.
At that time, Dracula was very interested in having a fight with Smachlin, who invented the disarming spell. Later, he found that she was also better at using the disarming spell. When he met Dracula, who didn't fight with a wand at all, he was immediately confused. He was quickly defeated by Dracula.
During this duel club presentation, Dracula happened to tell many young wizards about the origin of the disarming spell.
In addition, he also wanted to advise the young wizards not to rely too much on the wand, otherwise they would suffer a big loss if they encountered someone like Dracula who didn't hold a wand.
"As we all know, wizards in the magical world are very dependent on the wands in their hands. Even more serious wizards will lose their sense of security without the wand." Dracula explained seriously, "Therefore, the successful casting of the disarming spell can Defeat most wizards."
"But there are exceptions to everything—"
After saying this, Dracula suddenly raised the index finger of his right hand towards Snape——
"Expelliarmus."
The next moment, a red light that was more dazzling than Snape's previous disarming spell shot out from Dracula's fingertips and hit Snape hard.
He was struck to the point of losing his balance and flew towards the back of the stage. The wand in his hand flew high and finally fell into Dracula's hand.
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 suddenly on the edge of the stage.
The little wizards in the audience first marveled at Dracula's spell, and then sighed with regret when they saw that Snape did not fall under the duel stage.
Among them, the three brothers Fred, George and Ron sighed the loudest.
"Did you see it? Even if your opponent is disarmed, you still can't take it lightly." Dracula raised the corners of his mouth and then said to the little wizards.
"There are always some wizards who are more proficient in using magic spells and can cast spells without a wand. Therefore, for opponents who have lost their weapons, I suggest that you add a petrification spell or stun spell in time to make them completely lose their ability to fight. "
"like this--"
As he spoke, Dracula raised Snape's birch wand that he had just captured in his hand——
"Stupefy."
A pale red curse shot at Snape from a distance.
Snape gritted his teeth and dodged the stun spell on the spot, then raised Dracula's ash wand that he had just obtained with the disarming spell and shouted -
"Petrificus totalus!"
Dracula paid no attention to the petrification spell that Snape was about to cast. He even put down his wand, crossed his arms and watched him cast the spell as if watching a play.
In the audience, Fred and George looked at Dracula's actions with some eagerness.
"Why is Professor Dracula not moving again? It's easy to overturn if you are careless!" George murmured urgently.
"We smashed in all the remaining galleons. Don't let us lose everything, Professor Dracula!" Fred also stamped his feet anxiously.
However, the scene where the little wizards expected Dracula to be shot by a curse did not happen.
After Snape recited the Petrification Curse, the wand in his hand suddenly trembled, and then, a spark flickered on the wand——
The light of the petrification spell suddenly shot out from the end of the wand!
"What?"
Snape's eyes narrowed, but his body's reaction was quite fast. Almost as soon as the magic spell lit up from the end of the ash wand, he immediately threw away the wand in his hand and fell sideways to the ground.
Because of his timely reaction, he was able to avoid most of the magic power erupted by the Petrification Curse. Only his left arm was partially rubbed by his Petrification Curse and became stiff.
However, Snape forgot that he was still at the edge of the stage and fell to the ground, which meant that he fell to the bottom of the stage——
With a "Winter" sound, Snape fell heavily to the ground under the stage.
The little wizards around them immediately retreated a large distance, fearing that they would accidentally become the punching bag of the bad-tempered Dean Slytherin.
As a result, a rare vacuum area appeared around Snape...
"This is another thing I want to tell you." Dracula looked at Snape's embarrassed image on the ground and said happily, "Don't use other people's wands casually after you seize them. There may be some mechanism. Woolen cloth?"
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