And the targets of the Hardening Charm that Lockhart used were precisely them—these birds immediately became rigid after being shrouded in the Hardening Charm, turned into plaster statues one by one, and smashed them down at Snape.

Snape shrank his head subconsciously, and wanted to use the flying technique that turned into black smoke.

, escape the area.

But he immediately remembered that this was not only a silent spell, but also an out-and-out black magic, which was very unsuitable for showing in front of students.

He had to take a few hard hits, and then chanted the best protective spell he could think of for the situation.

\"All protection (Prteg_Ttalum)!

Although he couldn't prevent all the "plaster birds" in time, Snape's basic skills were not bad, and he finally changed the blue protective shield to cover his whole body before he was seriously injured.

After taking a few blows for no reason, Snape is now in a real fire.

He quickly raised his wand and aimed at the position where Lockhart was half-squatting just now, but found that it was enveloped by a cloud of fog again, and after his Hurricane Curse stopped, the fog on the field was even thicker than before. Not a lot.

He thought too much, how could Lockhart do nothing while he put the shield on?

"Come out! Let me see what tricks you have!" Snape yelled angrily.

Lockhart's voice came out of the fog: \"You'll see, Severus, I promise."

Chapter 52: The Gaze of Despair

Although Lockhart and Snape have only fought for a few rounds since the opening, the process has already opened the eyes of the students.

They could see clearly that from the beginning of the game until now, Professor Lockhart had been pressing Professor Snape to fight, and Professor Snape had suffered a lot.

Gryffindor's Weasley twins expressed regret: "If Professor Lockhart used a Thunderbolt instead of a hardening spell to attach to those pigeons, then we can go up and help Snape clean up now. Broken corpse in pieces.oo what a pity."

This made Slytherin's little snakes glared at them.

There are also some fourth graders who can't understand Lockhart's first move: "I remember, can't the Flying Spell be used against living things? Except for the brainless Flobber caterpillar? Could it be... Snape The professor also..."

Hermione just heard this sentence, so she replied excitedly: "It's not true, but the target of Professor Lockhart's spell should be Snape's robe, as long as Snape did not cast the robe on the robe. Anti-stealing spell, it can be caught by Flying Spell

The senior suddenly realized: \"I see... It seems that we also need to put an anti-stealing spell on our clothes before our duel."

Unlike the little wizards who were still talking about spells, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick who were on the sidelines were down-to-earth masters, and they could see more things than those little wizards.

"Looks like that kid Lockhart really gave up Transfiguration... The actions he just did can actually be solved with Transfiguration." Professor McGonagall said with a melancholy expression

Teaching a good student is the pride of all the professors at Hogwarts, but if this good student doesn't learn anything from him at all, the teacher will probably not feel much better, just like seeing him in the past. A student who fails a class wins a Nobel Prize.

Flitwick disagreed: "But the perfect rhythm makes up for the inefficiency. In a duel, strength is a must, but rhythm is often more important than strength."

After all, Lockhart also came out of Ravenclaw, and he needs to help his own people both in public and in private.

Watching Lockhart hide in the fog, throwing two flaming flames at Snape's shield from time to time, Flitwick's approval far outweighed the disparagement.

"Look, from the very beginning until now, the spell he used has never been longer than 3 syllables... I remember when the duel started, the flying spell he used even had only one consonant, which gave him the upper hand. .

After occupying an early advantage point, he did not rush to expand the advantage, and gave Severus a chance to solve two spells with one magic spell, but started at the node where Severus exerted his strength... Now he can obviously pursue the victory. , but he chose to hide himself first. Even in those days, this opponent was the type of opponent that I had a lot of headaches for.

Severus fell behind from the start, so he's just getting tired of playing tricks right now.oo if he can't get out of Guidro's rhythm sooner, then he'll only get deeper and deeper" even if he stronger. "

Professor McGonagall shook his head: "The winner is stronger, not the stronger one wins."

As if to confirm Professor Flitwick's statement, Lockhart used a weather spell while Snape was clearing the fog—and it was the longest spell he had ever recited.

He summoned a dark cloud, which continued to release against Snape's shield

Lightning.

Now everyone can clearly see the difference in magic power between the two: although the thunder and lightning of the weather spell is not weak, the bombardment on Snape's shield failed to break it immediately, just made it flash for a while and became dim. a lot.

However, this is the case, breaking the defense is a matter of time. For the sake of caution, Snape had to temporarily withdraw from the shield's shrouded range - and he used it.

Neither Apparating nor turning into black smoke made Snape feel very aggrieved.

As if to anger him on purpose, Lockhart pointed to the dark cloud above his head and cast another copy spell.

"Copy Double (Gemin)!"

Snape couldn't bear it any longer, and swung a stun spell in the direction of the voice--"Stupefy!

However, after the spell was submerged into the cloud, there was no response, just like a pebble thrown into the sea

There was a sound of "dong", which was the sound of the curse hitting the field shield.

Clearly, Snape's spell had failed.

- The spell was cast but it didn't have the desired effect, and Snape lost - a piece of magic power, and the time to cast the spell.

Lockhart immediately fell to the ground: \"Cnfund!

Hearing the chanting of the Confusion Charm, Snape's heart rang loudly, and he immediately raised his spirits and activated his Occlumency.

It's just that the expected attack didn't come, and Snape didn't notice anything unusual while holding his breath.

This is... a spellcast failure? Snape couldn't help thinking.

Before he could think about it, he suddenly realized that the fog in front of him had actually changed.

I saw that the fog gradually solidified and transformed into the face of a woman—the face of a woman Snape was thinking about.

"Severus..." the misty face opened his mouth, "I beg you...ha

Benefit...protect..."

Although these words were intermittent, Snape, who saw this face, was shocked and stood there, unable to move.

The students in the audience were baffled - they didn't understand why Snape, who had been fighting Lockhart back and forth, suddenly stopped his movements.

The two small thunderbolts worked together and finally shattered the protective shield released by Snape. The two dark clouds then slowly floated towards Snape from the air with the roar of victory.

Slytherin students in a hurry: \"Professor Snape! Be careful!\"

At this moment, Lockhart thought he had won the duel. But Snape took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, there was something different in his eyes, and the mist in front of him seemed to have returned to its original appearance, which could no longer cause a wave in his heart.

"Impedimenta" Snape called, pointing to two dark clouds in the air.

The advancing trend of the two dark clouds came to an abrupt end, like a marshmallow held by an invisible big hand, unable to move.

"So that's it...not from outside the brain, but to detonate the memory deep in the brain with hints...very good..."

Seeing that his Confusion Curse was broken by Snape, Lockhart simply confessed.

\"Do you like it? I call it \"Unnerving_Gaze) His slightly frivolous voice came out.

Dumpling fruit is very good. Snape said, "I'm pissed. "

Chapter 53 Site Blockade

The Obstruction Charm could not block the Weather Charm for too long. Looking at the two dark clouds approaching in the sky, and Lockhart, who was hidden in the clouds again, Snape found himself in a predicament.

Although the copy spell is just a simple spell, as long as the caster does not voluntarily end it, then theoretically, it can continue as long as the supply of magic power is not interrupted.

He also realized that if he continued like this, Lockhart would only have more and more spells "left behind" on the duel arena, and his room would only be less and less, and he would never be able to hit directly with spells. other side.

If he wants to win, he must use a powerful spell to shatter Lockhart's "field" and fight back with it.

So far, almost all of Snape's reactions have been expected by Lockhart, and Snape was forced into such a situation as a result of his careful design.

In order not to lose face, he carefully "recalled" all of Snape's achievements, and found that he was not invulnerable.

It is undoubtedly stupid to attack directly with the spiritual magic that he is good at, not to mention Snape's excellent Occlumency level, he is no stranger to Legilimency and memory extraction. Even if he was mortally wounded, he could extract his own memory and give it to Harry - if such a person is not good at mental magic, Lockhart himself would not believe it.

As for facing the enemy Lockhart, he didn't even think about it. In "Half-Blood Prince", Harry faced Snape head-on, but was forced to attack even an effective attack by Legilimency and the early release of the spell. He couldn't fight, but in the face of the siege of Mag who "no one could fight during the day" and the "Duel Champion" Flitwick and others, Snape could still slip away calmly.

If Roha Jugua and I Wenzhong Khan face the Umbrella ability head-on, then he will

Not worthy of being called Ravenclaw.

But Snape is not without weaknesses, and this also gives Lockhart an opportunity.

For example, his physical fitness is not good, he lacks exercise, his reaction is slow, and his vision is not enough H—

JaL/

Although he has an outstanding record in frontal combat, he is often more vulnerable to sneak attacks from other directions because of his concentration on one thing.

If Nagini's sneak attack is excusable, then in the "Battle of the Seven Potters", it is completely unforced error that he can miss another target with a spell, let alone an unforced error. Hermione could sneak up on him in first grade and set his robes on fire.

In short, although it is powerful, it has not yet reached the kind of unsolved power. As long as the restrictions are in place, it is not impossible for him to win.

"Severus, admit defeat, I don't want to embarrass you." Lockhart's voice came from the fog, and the mirror was full of stubbornness! �/

But such "persuading to surrender" actually aroused Snape's competitive spirit.

Indeed, Lockhart still has a cloud spell and two weather spells left on the field, and the large iron armor he left in the center has been broken. If he wants to make a comeback, he must use a spell to unlock Lockhart. The three spells are enough, and it can't be black magic.

Unfortunately, I happen to know such a spell.

Thinking of this, Snape raised his wand.

"Enough of the demo, it's time for the students to see what happens with a little trick - Mbili-hasurus!"

In the gap before the Barrier Charm was blasted by the Weather Charm, Snape quickly got out of the crack and launched a counterattack.

With the sound of Snape's incantation, seven or eight thick chains emerged from his body, and twisted like a python. And Lockhart's weather spell quickly found

It reached two of the chains and bombarded it.

It's a pity that this happened to be Snape's wish - he was using it as a lightning rod.

The chains bombarded by small lightning hit the ground at one end, drawing down all the currents in the air, and forming two electric fields around them.

Although this also blocked Snape's retreat path in disguise, but Snape didn't care. Not to mention the limited power of the Weather Spell, and even his dignity would not allow him to retreat at this time, he just needed the chains to drag the two Weather Spells.

"Come in and find him!" Snape pointed at the voice Lockhart made just now in the mist.

Several iron cables seemed to have spirituality. After hearing Snape's order, they were like poisonous snakes, wandering in an S-shaped posture, and quickly forced them in different directions.

Snape wasn't stupid either, he knew Lockhart wouldn't stay where he was talking, so he split them up so that whichever chain met Lockhart would wrap him around and end fighting. Even if the chains were attacked, Snape could know the exact location of Lockhart.

- One spell to solve three, this is indeed possible.

Fortunately, when he was addicted to black magic, he obtained this chain dance spell from the Byzantine "torture cage" - Snape secretly rejoiced.

But to his surprise, several chains that penetrated into the cloud and mist did not find any trace of Lockhart—he seemed to have disappeared suddenly!

Did he sneak off the stage? Snape hesitated.

However, at this moment, the Slytherin students who were watching the battle all let out an exclamation.

"Professor, behind!"

Flint yelled, trying to remind their dean.

It was a pity that it was too late. A figure with lightning sparks all over his body suddenly jumped out from behind Snape, and before Snape could react, he put his wand on his back.

Snape's body suddenly stiffened.

Seeing this, Percy Weasley picked up his wand and rang the small clock beside him at one o'clock.

"The outcome is already divided! The first duel in the 1992-1993 season without discrimination of age groups was won by Gilderoy Lockhart, a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts."

Although a little embarrassed, Lockhart had a successful smile on his face at this time.

"Looks like you didn't watch my first-year class...that's what I covered in the first class." He said proudly, spitting out a string of black smoke rings from his mouth.

It's a pity that Lockhart's current appearance doesn't match his pride—his robe was torn to shreds by electric sparks, and his upper body was almost completely exposed, even his well-maintained blond curly hair was burnt. It was a mess, and the whole person looked embarrassed.

From the looks of it alone, Snape was more of a winner.

Looking at Lockhart's exposed muscles, most of the witches in the audience looked like ladies and covered their eyes politely, but the width of their fingers was almost ready to run.

It cost the injury, but that's okay, it was all worth it because Lockhart won.

According to the rules of the duel, if one side is pressed by the wand of the other side and has no obvious counterattack action, it is considered to have been subdued - because as long as it reaches this point in actual combat, basically any little curse can knock down a master, Snee Pu is no exception

Snape was unwilling, but Lockhart did win with dignity, and he could only raise his right hand and put his wand back in his robe to show his defeat.

I never thought you could do this. "He squeezed this sentence out of his teeth. "Have you been preparing for a long time?" "

"Don't say that, it's just luck this time, it's not bad to win once in ten times.