With no opening of the chamber of secrets Potter was relatively fine. But the bad luck of Potter reared its head up but in the form of Gilderoy Lockhart. He was a constant nuisance for anyone who had the misfortune of knowing and he was a complete moron.

Defence against the dark arts class became a total waste of time . I spend that class time practising my wandless magic by tying up the shoelace of Lockhart together or by casting illusions only he could see driving him mad.

To save face for his incompetence he announced the formation of a duelling club and asked everyone to be present in the great hall after lunch.

Since the quidditch victory, Daphne has been my partner in potions class while her usual partner Tracy Davies is paired up with Blaise Zabini. Because of this, I have been able to form a friendship with the three of them. So now I usually spent time with the three of them ditching Crabbe and Goyle.

"What do you think Lockhart will do with the club" Tracy asked us

"Hopefully the ponce will blow himself up. That would be satisfying to watch." I said

"Don't get your hopes up " Blaise

"One can only hope" I said as we entered the great hall.

It was packed with students from all the four houses and Lockhart could be seen standing on a raised podium strutting around like a peacock.

"Now can everyone hear me can everyone see me. I am Prof. Lockhart order of Merlin third class, member of the dark arts defence league. Now I am here to teach you how to duel and for this, I have an assistant for demonstration Prof. Snape. He tells me that he knows a little about defensive magic and fear not you will still have your potion master after I have done with him. Never fear." he said with a smile

"Oh, our dreams are coming true. Prof Snape is going to murder him." Blaise said

"If only looks could kill he would be a pile of ash by now." I said looking at the glare Snape was giving Lockhart

Lockhart turned to face Snape and both bowed. Well, at least, Lockhart did. Snape merely jerked his head irritably. Then they raised their wands like swords in front of them.

"As you see, we are holding our wands in the accepted combative position, notice how were stand sideways to each other to provide the smallest target profile to our opponent," Lockhart told the silent crowd. "On the count of three, we will cast our first spells. Neither of us will be aiming to kill, of course."

Snape bared his teeth at Lockhart.

"One — two — three —"

Both of them swung their wands above their heads and then pointed them at their opponent. Snape cried, "Expelliarmus!" There was a dazzling flash of scarlet light and Lockhart was blasted off his feet falling at the far end of the podium.

"Is he alright?" Granger asked

"Who cares " Ron said

A groaning sound was heard as Lockhart stood up.

"Well, there you have it!" Lockhart said, tottering back onto the platform, picking his wand up as he went. "The Disarming Spell. Of course, if I had wanted to counter it, it would have been only too easy…"

"Perhaps it would be prudent to teach the students how to defend themselves." Snape drawled. It was hard to tell if he was extremely excited to have blasted Lockhart off of the platform, or a bit upset that he didn't get to cast more than one simple spell.

"Correct you are Professor Snape!" Lockhart said

"Well we need a pair of volunteers for this, aha potter, weasely come abroad." Lockhart said

"Don't bother with Weasely Prof. we would be picking him off to the hospital if we let him cast any magic. How about someone from my own house. Draco come." Snape said gleefully

I climbed atop the podium and stood opposite to Harry.

"Now I don't want any accidents so only use disarming spells." Lockhart said

With that said he whispered to Harry about the shield charm and he waved his wand in a totally dramatic way but it slipped from his fingers and fell on the floor.

"Oops, my wand is a little extra excited today." said Lockhart

I was struggling not to laugh at the moron.

"Okay now both of you ready 1, 2, 3 Duel!!" he enthusiastically said

Potter fired off a 'Rictusempra' at me which I sidestepped and I cast a low powered 'Ventus' at him which produced a whirlwind which spun him around and blasted him off his feet.

"I said disarm only." Lockhart shouted but I paid him no mind as I was watching Potter slowly climb to his feet.

When he was steady he cast a 'Flippendo ' at me which I casually sidestepped and then I cast 'Serpentosortia' and summoned a snake which slithered over to Potter. As the snake reared it's head potter started talking in Parseltongue. I could understand it easily and he was saying to the snake to calm down. But the other students were looking at Harry in horror.

"Don't worry potter I will get rid of it for you." Snape said as he walked forward.

"Allow me, Professor Snape!" Lockhart strolled forward pompously, his wand at the ready. "Alectre Ascendare!"

Whatever spell that was it only made the snake madder than it was and reared itself to lunge at the nearest student which was a Hufflepuff muggleborn.

Suddenly I cast 'Incendio' and a jet of flame struck the snake and it got burned to death surprising everyone. Potter was looking around seeing all the horror-struck faces that were looking at him. He left in a hurry with the weasel and Granger but I knew the news that Harry Potter is a Parselmouth would be spreading all around Hogwarts.

I left with my friends to the Slytherin common room. Everyone was animatedly discussing how I threw around Potter like a rag doll.

Then Flint came over to me.

"Draco tomorrow we will be having a practice session. We will have to prepare for the Ravenclaw team." he said

"I will be there." I said

He nodded and left while I sat on the couch in the common room. The Slytherins Chamber had some interesting specimens for me to collect and the Basilisk is a possible threat so it will have to be taken care of soon.

So I planned to take out the Basilisk but only after the match with Ravenclaw. Time was on my side after all.