Chapter 31: Final Battle with Harry

The chaos of the duel reached this point, and Snape and Lockhart knew that they could not continue, so Lockhart proposed that Neville Longbottom and Justin Finch-Fletchley take the stage as a demonstration of the duel.

"This is a bad idea, Professor Lockhart." Snape glided across the stage like a big, vicious bat. "Longbottom can wreak havoc even with the simplest of spells. We will put Finlay Put the remains in a matchbox and send them to the hospital ward." Snape then said with a grin, "How about Malfoy and Potter?"

"How wonderful!" Lockhart motioned Harry and Draco to the center of the Great Hall, and people stepped back to make room for them.

Snape shook his head and said: "Draco, I am not talking about you Malfoy; Sherrin, come here!"

Xie Lin did not expect to be called up. After a moment of surprise, he shrugged and walked slowly to the stage. He couldn't help but feel a trace of expectation in his heart, "Okay, let me see how capable this savior Harry is at this time, right? Snape probably saw me defeating Ron easily and wanted to use me to attack Harry." ”

Harry's face didn't look good either. Although Schelling kept a low profile last semester, his excellent academic performance, especially in the two major subjects of Transfiguration and Charms, was praised by Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall. He attaches great importance to Xie Lin, which shows that Xie Lin's strength is definitely stronger than his brother who yells all day long.

A familiar saying from the British Muggle world - a dog that bites, never barks - came to Harry's mind, and he suddenly felt a heavy pressure in his heart.

Sherrin and Harry stood on both sides of the stage. Lockhart whispered beside Harry, seeming to teach some fighting skills, but Snape said nothing and just allowed Sherrin to do whatever he wanted. This made the Slytherins in the audience roar with dissatisfaction, and whispers of unfairness came one after another.

Sherrin gave Harry a polite smile and performed a very solemn duel ceremony. This duel ceremony was completely different from Lockhart's previous fancy moves. The movements were smooth and full of sacred and solemn artistic conception. Not many people know that this is an ancient dueling ceremony that is only mentioned in ancient family documents.

Harry grew up in a Muggle family and naturally knew nothing about the ancient dueling etiquette. At this time, he looked at a loss because he didn't know how to deal with it. Sherlin smiled and said: "Don't be nervous, Harry. This is just an ordinary duel of a learning nature, and it does not involve any personal grudges. Let’s make an agreement now and not intentionally hurt each other. Do you think this is okay?”

Harry nodded. As for what he was thinking, Sherrin didn't know and didn't bother to guess.

Harry took the lead in casting a full-body binding spell. In Shellin's eyes, Harry's spell casting technique was rough and unfamiliar, the spell's flight path was straight and too obvious, and the speed of releasing magic was too slow. With Shellin's body He only needed to slightly turn to the left to easily dodge Harry's attack. While dodging, Xellin waved his wand upwards and shouted: "Besieged from all sides!"

Suddenly, four transparent magic barriers rose up from the ground around Harry - it was a barrier spell, as if a box trapped Harry tightly in the middle. This spell was learned by Sherrin from the family's collection of books and was not at Hogwarts. It was within the scope of the professor, so Harry didn't know how to crack it.

Seeing that he had no escape, Harry immediately shot a fire spell at one of the barriers. Sherrin nodded in recognition of Harry's adaptability. Unfortunately, with Harry's pitiful magic power, the weak flames he shot could only turn into scattered sparks when they hit the barrier, without having any impact on the barrier.

Xie Lin secretly thought "It's over" and quickly made a cross with his wand. Without chanting any spells, the end of the wand shot out a dim and obscure white light, aiming at Harry's face in a tricky curve. The door flew away, and several women's screams rang out from the audience, with Hermione and Ginny's screams being the loudest.

Even Snape had an expression on his face. Just when he was about to pull out his wand and wanted to intervene, Sherrin, who had everything under control, raised the corners of his mouth slightly. The hand holding the wand shook slightly, and a white light was less than ten centimeters in front of Harry's forehead. Suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Although he felt that Schelling was unlikely to use lethal magic in public, being forced to see this mysterious and unknown magic made Harry uncontrollably fall into a state of confusion due to fear.

"Accepted!" Schelling did not show any pride because of his victory. His face was as calm as if victory was a matter of course. He once again performed the ancient and solemn duel ceremony to Harry, and then politely bowed to the two professors on the platform to thank him. , walked down the stage slowly with elegant steps, and left without looking back.

The whole audience was shocked!

Although Schelling was famous for his excellent academic performance in the first grade, his opponent defeated Voldemort and the famous Harry Potter when he was a baby! Moreover, at the end of last year, Harry and his friends broke through the restricted area of ​​the corridor on the fourth floor, cracked the professors' many obstacles, and finally defeated the dark wizard Quirrell who had sneaked into Hogwarts as a professor! These stories are all proven - Dumbledore added 170 points to Gryffindor in one go.

Before this, except for Draco, Daphne, and Meredith, the young wizards had never thought that the famous Harry would lose to a student of the same class, let alone such a crushing defeat. Miserable failure!

The entire audience was captured by Xie Lin's explosive momentum and fell into silence.

It was not until some time after Xielin left the Great Hall that someone started to inquire about Xielin's identity, and some girls with crazy characteristics were amazed at Xielin's appearance and strength.

Xielin was born in the noble Malfoy family. His appearance and temperament were noble and cold. With the background of showing super strength, his temperament was even more heroic. In addition, the two ancient duel rituals made him look elegant and polite. No wonder he could easily win the favor of many girls present.

Draco was very proud to tell everyone about Xielin's identity, and at the same time he did not forget to mention that Xielin practiced magic with him at home, as if Xielin's strength was Draco's credit.

Hermione covered her mouth with both hands and exclaimed in disbelief: "Oh my God! Silent casting! That's the level of NEWT, and it's the more difficult part. It is said that not everyone in the senior year can master it. He is only in the second year, how did he do it?"

Ron was unconvinced, but his good friend Harry was defeated by the opponent in public. Even if he was unconvinced, he could not refute the facts.

Harry's face was very bitter. He felt his ordinariness for the first time. He had always felt that he was different. Even when he was misunderstood as the heir of Slytherin, he was angry, but there was a little joy in his heart. After this duel, Harry found that he was actually nothing special. He was often noticed just because of a scar on his forehead.

Lockhart on the stage was still boasting about how he could break Schelling's magic, but at this moment, there were only a few little girls listening in the audience.

After watching the battle between Harry and Shearing, more people have a greater desire for strength because they realize the gap between themselves and the top level. At this moment, they are quietly immersed in recalling the details of the previous duel, and they don’t care about Lockhart’s chattering at this moment.

Snape still has a poker face and stands quietly, making it impossible for people to guess what he is thinking at this moment.

Some excellent seniors in the upper grades, such as Cedric Diggory of Hufflepuff and Penelope Clearwater of Ravenclaw, have learned something from this duel as people who know the goods. They are amazed at the various fast casting skills and curved shooting skills demonstrated by Shearing, and are now carefully experiencing how to apply them to actual combat.

Three days later, the first half of the semester ended.

The third attack did not happen as described in the original book.

After a little thought, Shearing realized that it was the butterfly effect caused by himself. Because she replaced Draco to duel with Harry, thus avoiding Draco's spell to summon the magic black snake to attack, and the subsequent incident of Harry using Parseltongue to stop the magic black snake from attacking Justin, Justin did not fear Harry and hid alone on the fifth floor and was attacked by the basilisk there.

Given the current situation of Hogwarts, most of the young wizards chose to go home for Christmas. The castle was as thick and silent as the snow on the ground.

Before the holiday, Daphne and Meredith got Schelling's spell-casting notes from Schelling after some soft and hard work. The notes included Voldemort's spell-casting techniques, as well as some of Schelling's own quick casting, curved shooting and other techniques. The two girls had to go home during the Christmas holiday because of family matters. They planned to study Schelling's spell-casting techniques during the Christmas holiday so that their strength would not fall too far behind.

On Christmas morning, Schelling woke up early and was surprised to see that his bed was piled with gifts.

After a morning of opening gifts, he found that his popularity was much better than he thought. Draco gave him a notebook, Daphne and Meredith both gave him a magic book from their family collection, Dobby gave him a new set of socks, and even Kreacher didn't forget to give him a bag of homemade pickled snacks.

What surprised him most was a set of black broad-shouldered cloaks with silver glittering from his mother Narcissa. This cloak has a very romantic name, called "Night Star", which is a shoulder cloak made by dyeing ancient dragon skin black.

The silver glowing dots on the cloak are actually because a famous ancient alchemist used alchemy to blend the powder of ground magic crystal with dragon skin, so it has a high degree of physical defense and anti-magic power. This production process has long been lost in modern times, making this cloak even more precious.

"Is mother worried that I would be hurt in the Chamber of Secrets, so she specially sent me life-saving equipment?" Sherin immediately understood his mother's feelings for him. While he was moved, he couldn't help thinking that his mother probably didn't think that the safest student in Hogwarts now might be him.

[Obtained the "Night Star" cloak! ]

Of course, Sherin did not forget to return gifts to his friends. Sherin gave Draco a set of broom maintenance tools; gave Daphne an exquisite sleeve with a hidden pocket for storing wands, so that Daphne could draw out the wand faster; gave Meredith a deformed lizard skin suitcase with the internal space expanded by the traceless extension spell...

In addition to the above gifts, there are more than 40 gifts left, all from female classmates he did not know. Most of them are junior students of Slytherin, but there are also a small number of female classmates from other colleges. The gifts include various chocolates, gloves, scarves, etc.

Only then did Shaylin realize how popular he was among the girls at Hogwarts. It was probably because of his outstanding performance in the Dueling Club that he successfully left a deep impression on his classmates. Even with his calm personality in two lives, he couldn't help but feel a little complacent at this moment.

Harry was a little kid who liked to attract attention in the first and second grades. He just didn't like being noticed because of the scar on his head; he enjoyed being noticed by thousands of people on the Quidditch field, and he chose to take a flying car to school instead of writing a letter to inform the school because of this mentality. But after the third grade, because he saw the disadvantages of fame in Lockhart (this was actually one of Dumbledore's training plans), Harry also slowly grew up.