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"Now, Professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to start this little dueling club, to train you all in case you ever need to defend yourselves as I myself have done on countless occasions — for full details, see my published works." Professor Lockhart walked up and down the long table. "In today's lesson, Professor Snape will be joining us.
"We'll start off with a duel between myself and Professor Snape" Professor Lockheart walks to one side of the table. Severus stalked to the other side. "Ready, get set, go" Lockhart shot off his defensive spell, after falling into an accepted combative position. Severus easily overpowered Lockhart who was thrown into a wall, from his own disarming spell.
The students watched in awe, how powerful is Professor Snape? "I love our Head of House" Daphne whispered, eyes wide. "You should never underestimate Slytherin" Draco smirked watching his godfather. "Now, everyone, we're having a duel between two of our students. Who to choose?" Professor Lockhart looked over the students.
"Zeke Potter and Ron Weasley" the Professor energetically smiled, waving the two up. "I wouldn't like to see the catastrophic event that would happen if Mr. Weasley used that messed up wand of his" Professor Snape, gestured to the broken wand, being held together by tape. Ron glared, humphing, with anger.
"That's a good point, Severus. How about Draco Malfoy?" Lockhart motioned to the platinum blonde haired boy. "Of course, Professor" Draco walked onto the table. The two boys faced each other, bowing.
"Good. Good. You both know the knowledge of public dueling. Students, in a public duel you must bow towards your opponent before you start" Professor Lockhart walked off to the side. "This is a friendly duel. No maiming, no killing, and definitely no physical marks can be left" Professor Snape drawled as he swayed off the table.
"You ready to go down Potter?" Draco swished his wand out, taking a defensive stance. "Like you could take me down, Malfoy" Zeke takes the offensive stance. "On my mark, get ready to defend yourselves" Lockhart raised his wand in the air, signaling the duel to begin.
"Locomotor Wibbly" Zeke shot the spell off, as he walked forward. "Protego" Draco blocked the spell, shooting off another. "Flipendo" "Tarantallegra" Zeke started dancing wildly. His limbs were shaking waywardly as he did something with his feet.
Maria and the other students howled with laughter. "My, my, that was a magnificent duel. I'm quite surprised you were able to hit Mr. Potter with that spell. Thank you for that lovely demonstration" Professor Lockhart took the attention of the students.
Zeke turned red with anger, his cheeks were flushed, and his fists were clenched. "Serpensortia" he hissed, his voice becoming more snake-like. A black snake formed from the tip of Zeke's wand. It hissed, sliding towards Draco, before turning towards Justin.
"Stand back Finchley" Draco's voice was cold, the Hufflepuff confused, tried to take a step back. "Don't move Finchley. I'll take care of it" Professor Snape had his wand out, ready to strike.
That's when they'll hear it. "Ss. Sss" Zeke was speaking to the snake. The snake seemed to turn away from Justin, being hypnotized by his words? 'What is he even speaking?' everyone thought."Let me clean up your mess, Mr. Potter" Professor Snape, had his wand turned ready to shoot.
"Alarte Ascendare" Lockhart, shot the spell, causing the snake to fly into the air. It was becoming angrier, you could tell, as it hissed and slid towards Zeke with hostility. "You idiot" Lockhart was pushed out of the way. "Vipera Evanesca" the snake was gone, burning away, into black smoke.
Justin stood shaking, the snake disappeared. "Are you okay Justin? Did the snake hurt you?" suddenly Zeke was out of his trance, asking Justin multiple questions. "Stay away from me! Stay away!" Justin backed away in fear. "What's wrong?" Zeke questioned confused.
Nobody answered him, all looking away as his eyes ran over them. Zeke bolted from the Great Hall, nobody following after him.
"What the hell was that?" Maria asked her friends as they were forced out of the hall. "I don't... I don't know. That ability..." Daphne trailed off, she looked at everything around her in fear.
Maria looked ahead of her, watching her surroundings carefully "What's to be afraid of around here? I thought Hogwarts was the safe?" "Salazar Slytherin could speak to snakes, and he chamber, only he could enter" Draco paused.
"He wanted to only have Pureblood and Half-Blood wizards at Hogwarts but the other founders didn't agree, with him. They thought all wizards should be allowed to learn, magic no matter what blood they have. Do you understand where I'm coming from?" Draco questioned.
"I already know about Salazar Slytherin, why are you explaining this to me? What does it have to do with what's petrifying people?" Maria needed answers. "We're telling this to you because Slytherin had a pet basilisk" Daphne answered.
"What? Do you think someone is letting it loose? That's preposterous" Maria exclaimed. "That's what we could come up with. Anyway, Christmas is next week, we should get ready to go home" Blaise was off, heading back to the Common Room. "I'm with Blaise, I need to go back" Maria pushed past her friends striding to her dorm.
The Great Hall was packed with students, hours before they went home. Hugs, words of goodbye, and love were spread throughout the room. The four Slytherins sat at the end of their table sending glances towards one another.
They hadn't spoken much to each other since the revelation of a basilisk roaming around the school. "So who's coming to the Malfoy Christmas Party?" Draco broke the silence, eating some scrambled eggs. "The Zabini family will be coming. Mom has a new husband" Blaise sneered over the word husband.
"Another so soon?" Maria looked up from her pancakes. "Mom could never wait long to get money" Blaise answered. Maria nodded her head in agreement. "I don't believe I'll be able to attend this year. After all, I'm supposed to be going to the Black and Potter Christmas Party" Maria says looking over to her brother.
Since the Dueling Club incident, Zeke had been outcasted, talked about, and no one could stay near him. She felt bad for her brother, after all, he was only human. "Of course, duties after all" Draco looked away from his food. "Maybe we could be your guests, they should remember we're your best friends," Draco said. Daphne only nodded.
"Let's get ready. I want to find a great compartment so we can all play Poker~" her voice became more cheery as she walked out of the hall.
That's the end of this chapter. Next chapter will be Christmas and the parties. I'm so sorry for the long wait. I'll try to have the next chapter out today or tomorrow.
Anyway, thank you for reading! Keep reading and reviewing! Ja'ne~!
