Chapter 280 280. Defense Against the Dark Arts Practical Course

"It's a pity that I wasn't able to see the actual duel exam you had in June at the end of last school year."

Blake flipped his hair freely.

"Everyone knows that I was still imprisoned in Azkaban at that time."

Scott thought he might have made a mistake in mentioning Azkaban in a nonchalant tone, because he underestimated the curiosity of the Ravenclaw students.

If Black hadn't mentioned it, the students wouldn't have looked at his scars without blinking, but after he showed that he didn't care, more than one Ravenclaw student immediately took the initiative to ask questions——

"Professor Black, is Azkaban really as scary as the rumors say?"

"Professor, what kind of monster are dementors? Are they magical animals or real demons?"

"If the Dementors are as scary as the legend says, how did you persist for 12 years?"

As several Ravenclaw students asked questions, the Hufflepuff students also stared at Black with curious eyes.

But Scott noticed that Blake was clearly confused by the students' questions.

He clearly saw Blake's embarrassed expression for a moment.

But the new professor obviously wanted to leave a good impression on the students.

He forced himself to speak, but seemed to suddenly fall into terrible memories.

"Well, Azkaban... I have to say, it's definitely not a good memory."

He spoke intermittently, a look of pain flashed across his face.

"Dementors... yes, they are a group of devils. They only bring coldness and darkness, but they can easily take away all happiness and leave people with endless pain..."

Judging from his performance, just two months after being released from prison were really not enough to free him from the impact of 12 years of prison life.

Seeing that something was wrong with him and the classmates around him also showed surprised expressions, Scott quickly stood up.

There was no way around it. In the past, he could just watch with a cold eye, but now as a prefect, he had to take care of it.

"Thank you for your answer, Professor Black."

He smiled at Blake.

"This makes us look forward to the next practical lessons even more. I really hope to hear more about your past experiences of dueling with dark wizards."

Scott deliberately slowed down a lot when he spoke.

"A wizard with experience in combat like you is the right professor for this course. I think maybe Principal Dumbledore finally made the right choice for once."

After Scott spoke, the students surrounding Blake immediately fell silent.

And as Scott slowly finished a long sentence, Blake also calmed down.

He glanced at Scott gratefully, and put a calm smile on his face again.

"I heard from Professor Flitwick that you formed your own dueling club last semester."

He took the initiative to mention the Duel Club, looked around among the students, and shook the parchment with the student list in his hand.

"Who can tell me who among the students here performed best during the Duel Club activities?"

"Scott!"

"Cedric!"

The Ravenclaw classmates elected Scott, while the Hufflepuff students shouted out Cedric's name.

"Oh, very good! Mr. Trollope." Black glanced at the parchment in his hand, "And Mr. Diggory."

He glanced at Scott and said, "I would like to ask these two gentlemen to have a demonstration duel for us so that I can know the level of the outstanding students among you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the other students from the two colleges immediately took a few steps back, leaving only Scott and Cedric standing there.

Cedric looked back at his classmates in surprise.

"Sorry, Professor Black." He said to Black, "Compared to Scott, I am obviously not good enough."

"There's no need to be modest, Mr. Diggory, your grades are pretty good too."

Blake waved the wand in his hand, causing the other students to retreat to the edge of the classroom, and began to direct Scott and Cedric to their positions without any explanation.

Scott and Cedric could only cooperate and stand facing each other at a distance.

Black announced the start of the duel crisply.

"Expelliarmus!"

"Smokey!"

Cedric started with a disarming spell, and after Scott easily evaded his spell with magic perception, he immediately hid himself in the thick smoke.

Although Cedric used the hurricane spell, he failed to blow away all the smoke.

As the smoke continued to spread, it soon enveloped the entire classroom.

Scott heard many complaints from his classmates.

They won't be able to see this duel either!

After Cedric lost his vision, Scott ended the duel with a petrification spell.

after awhile. Blake's voice sounded.

"Tergeo!"

Subsequently, a constantly rotating wind produced a siphon effect in the classroom, and the volume of the smoke continued to shrink, and finally condensed into a ball and dissipated with the wind.

Everyone regained their sight.

"The curse stops immediately!"

Blake waved his wand and freed the petrified Cedric.

"Unfortunately, Mr. Diggory, you did not use the appropriate spell."

he said to Cedric.

"In the face of Mr. Trollope's smoke screen charm, a cyclone sweep for cleaning the room is obviously more effective than a hurricane charm that can blow away the wizard."

He looked at Scott again.

"Well done, Mr. Trollope. The use of the Smokescreen spell fully utilized his expertise in magic perception. But please note that this spell is easier to remove when used indoors."

Scott and Cedric both thanked him for his teaching.

Scott really didn't expect that this tactic would be restrained by a cleaning spell when used indoors.

But this is also the interesting part of magic.

Many seemingly powerful spells can be restrained by some neglected life spells or mischief spells.

But this requires some experience or ingenuity.

Just like Scott once used the Brainpaste spell to destroy the spatial magic of the house elves, and used the Happy Spell to make Brandon Yaxley lose control of the Fiery Spell.

In the following time, Blake asked all students to form pairs and start dueling practice at the same time.

He shuttled through the huge practice classroom, giving students some advice from time to time.

Scott and Cedric were abandoned by their classmates and had to form a group again.

At Cedric's request, the two began to compete with Transfiguration.

Cedric learned Scott's good habits and also brought some materials for transformation.

Neither of them used magic, but each of them controlled two products of transformation to fight. The battle was a bit stalemate for a while.

"Congratulations, you have made great progress." Scott said.

After not seeing each other for a while, Cedric can already control two animals very flexibly, which shows that he has worked hard during the summer vacation.