Chapter 202 Fishing in troubled waters

After the two professors finished their "exhibition match", it was time for the teaching session.

Professor Flitwick first conjured a wooden man holding a stick, and then demonstrated how to use the disarming spell for the students.

"A very practical self-defense spell, and simple enough." Flitwick summoned another blackboard and wrote the key points of the disarming spell on it.

Professor Flitwick's explanation of the key points of the Disarming Curse drifted into his ears, but Rice recalled the history of the Disarming Curse.

He had read textbooks in the modern wizarding world and knew that wizard historians still debated the origin of the disarming spell. Some people believe that it was invented by Merlin, while others say that this spell was widely used in Madagascar in the 11th century. According to Miranda Gorshak, the author of The Book of Spells, the inventor of the Disarming Charm was a witch named Elizabeth Smaglin, based on the fact that she used this spell in a duel competition in 1379.

Rice prefers the last option.

In the era when he was active, there was no spell similar to the "Disarming Curse" because this spell was considered too useless by the wizards at the time - why would you bother to disarm the enemy? If you want to capture prisoners, why not use magic like a petrification spell?

The origin theories of Madagascar and Merlin are not very reliable. The former was still in a primitive forest state in the 11th century, and there were not many wizards settling on the island. Even if there were, they were only a few hermits. How could it be widely used? What's more, in such a harsh living environment, spells will only be more practical, and useless spells such as the Disarming Curse are unlikely to be widely circulated.

The latter is even more unreliable. Merlin was a legendary magician when Les and the others were young. If he really invented the disarming spell and passed it down to later generations, there is no way Les and the others didn't listen. Said.

There is a very small possibility that Merlin created a secret maze after inventing this spell, and then put the magic book that teaches the spell into the treasure chest of the maze as a "clearance" reward.

If this is really the case, Les can only say that he is too idle.

However, it would be incorrect to say that there was no "disarming" magic at all in that era. There are types of magic such as "magic that causes weapons to drop" and "magic that causes enemy weapons to fly", both of which have the potential to evolve into disarming spells later in life.

Many court magicians like to use "weapon-dropping magic" to check whether visitors have weapons. "The magic that makes the enemy's weapons fly away" is even more violent. As long as you can "convince" yourself that a certain part of the opponent is a "weapon", then this magic can knock the opponent's "weapon" away.

For example, if you firmly believe that the opponent's fist is a weapon, then if the spell is cast, the opponent's fist will be cut off by you. But it's still useless, because all your spells can hit the enemy. Wouldn't it be better to switch to more lethal magic?

By the way, there has been a rumor circulating in Slytherin House that Merlin once studied in Slytherin. Rice felt that this was a rumor. It is very likely that a student named Merlin once studied in the academy, and then a few centuries later, when the students of the Snake Academy looked at the past student rosters, they mistakenly thought that Merlin really graduated from Slater. Forestry College.

While Les was thinking wildly, Professor Flitwick had already begun to demonstrate the disarming spell for the students.

"Except your weapons!"

The stick in the wooden man's hand flew out, and the wooden man was knocked to the ground.

Looking at the effect of the disarming spell, Rice determined that this spell was most likely a combination of multiple spells. He saw the shadow of many spells on it.

After the principles have been explained and the demonstration has been done, the next step is the practical part.

Professor Flitwick motioned for the students to spread out in the auditorium, and then waved his wand to create wooden roly-polys equal to the number of students. Each roly-poly held a wooden stick about the same size as the wand.

Regarding the choice of teaching aids, Flitwick also put a lot of thought into it. He originally wanted the students to work in teams of two, but considering the actual level of the "little trolls", he quickly gave up this idea—— You can never underestimate the destructive power of little wizards.

Later, he discovered that the tumbler is really a good thing. Even if the spell misses, the tumbler is difficult to fly or knock down. It can effectively control the scene and prevent the scene from being too chaotic.

"Okay, listen to me count to three, one, two, three -" After each student found their own tumbler, Flitwick announced the start of the exercise.

As soon as he finished speaking, the auditorium suddenly rang with the sound of "Expelliarmus", and wooden sticks flew everywhere. It was obvious that many young wizards had mastered this simple spell. However, the accuracy of some people's spellcasting was obviously a bit poor. The missed spells either hit other people's tumblers, or accidentally injured the classmates standing in front.

Les yawned and pretended to use the "Disarming Curse" to knock away the wooden stick in the hand of the roly-poly opposite him. Professor Flitwick's tumbler also has a very clever little design: there is an elastic rope attached to the bottom of the wooden stick, and the flying wooden stick will fly back to the wooden man's hand, making it easier for the little wizards to cast spells again.

While Les was boredly observing the spellcasting abilities of the little wizards, he suddenly felt something strange. He subconsciously turned sideways, and a red light flew past the corner of his clothes, hitting the tumbler diagonally in front of him, and knocked the tumbler away. Staggered.

Rice looked in the direction of the spell and found that Malfoy, standing behind him, seemed to be taking a keen interest in the floor of Hogwarts.

Les raised his eyebrows, then turned his head and continued practicing the disarming spell, as if he regarded everything just as an accident.

Malfoy suddenly narrowed his eyes: Les was careless, his God-given opportunity had come! Les was lucky enough to dodge the disarming spell just now. He won't miss it this time.

Malfoy glanced at Marcus who was standing next to him. Marcus understood and aimed at Rice's back together with Malfoy. However, the tip of his staff was slightly misaligned, which could block Rice's "walking". Bit".

Daphne, who was not far away, saw all this in her eyes, and a glimmer of light flashed in her eyes: she also quietly turned the wand.

Rice seemed to know nothing about the two men with evil intentions.

"Weapons of destruction!"

Two red lights shot towards Les, one from the left and the other from the right. As a result, the spell magically disappeared when it was about to touch his back. Immediately afterwards, the two disarming spells appeared again, but they flew back in the direction they came from, knocking Malfoy and Marcus away at the same time. At the same time, a spell also hit Malfoy at a tricky angle.

After landing heavily on the ground, Malfoy felt his stomach churning. He reluctantly sat up and turned sideways, only to burp and spit out a huge slug.

The little wizards around him jumped out of the way with disgust on their faces.

Seeing this, Daphne smiled happily.

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