Chapter 11: The Duelling Club
It was the middle of March and so far Harry's army still didn't reveal itself yet after being ordered not to wear the uniforms. Harry decided to finally allow them to reveal the new army. The reason was because that day would be the duelling club so they could show Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff they mean business. Also in defence against the dark arts Perla would finally be teaching with Tonks and Lockhart present. Harry woke up bright and early and got into his uniform and walked down to the common room where he met Ginny.
When everyone was down the portrait would not open because Harry jinxed it to not open for certain reasons. Harry walked to the portrait and lifted the hex and told them all to follow. After Harry sent a message to Draco about them wanting to create an impression on the enemies of the Royal Guard(which was the original guard).
They all began walking to the great hall. They met up with all the Slytherins and Harry and Ginny met up with Daphne and Draco. Together they with all the Gryffindors and Slytherins walked towards the great hall. Harry opened the door wandlessly and led the Gryffindors to their table while Draco led the Slytherins to their tables. The Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs were extremely shocked at what they saw. Almost every single Gryffindor and Slytherin was in their Royal Guard uniform.
Harry looked up to the head table and saw every single teacher staring in shock. Perla and Tonks were looking at him and Ginny in pure pride and amusement. The other houses were scared as they did something that they still didn't know. The leaders of the other two houses, Cedric Diggory and Michael Corner were looking at each other in worry. The two instantly knew that they had to train harder.
Harry was eating some porridge and some fruit when a black owl flew down to him and dropped a letter on his lap. Harry saw the name Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff on the envelope and he quickly realised what it was. Harry was confident that they would win the conflict as everyone was getting very powerful and strong magically and physically.
Harry quickly opened the letter to read its contents. When Harry opened it he quickly pulled out the letter and began reading.
Dear Prince of Gryffindor,
Cedric Diggory and Michael Corner, leaders of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, declare war against the house of Gryffindor.
Harry quickly took a piece of parchment and wrote a note about what it was about to Draco for him to read. He gave the note to Draco and he began reading.
It has begun.
Draco quickly took out a piece of parchment out of his pocket and began writing.
Dear House of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff,
I, as Leader of the Slytherin house, declare war on the House of Ravenclaw and the House of Hufflepuff. Any enemies of Gryffindor are my enemies, if you dare attack
them.
You awaken the Griffon and Basilisk
Beware the Royal Guard.
Draco Malfoy
Draco copied then banished the note to appear on Diggory and Corner. When the two notes appeared on their lap they nearly jumped in surprise. They both picked up the notes and began reading. They both finished reading at the same time and they looked at each other then Harry and Draco. They quickly began to become extremely pale as if they had seen a ghost. In fact Corner's hands were shaking like white paper in the wind.
After about 10 minutes the 2nd graders stood up and left to go to their classes. The Gryffindors and Ravenclaws left to go to double DADA for the day. When the students arrived Harry, Ginny, Isaac and Abigail sat at the front of the class. After 2 minutes Perla, Tonks and Lockhart walked in and began the class.
"Welcome class, this is Professor…" Lockhart greeted with a smile.
"Tonks." Tonks said
"Potter." Perla said as she strolled by Harry and ruffled his hair then walked to the front. Many of the students were shocked to say the least. The girls were all wondering how she did her make up while the boys were all drooling over her.
"Ok, Harry can you please come up? We are going to be acting out my fight with a werewolf." Lockhart said as he grabbed Harry by the arm and led him to the front.
"Alright, act like a werewolf." Lockhart instructed.
Harry turned into a white Tiger then quickly turned his hair a deep grey. Harry stood on his hind legs which made him about the same height as Perla. Harry quickly got tired so he changed into a Lion as it used less energy as a Tiger. Harry stood on his hind legs again and lunged at Lockhart biting him in the shoulder. To make a joke Harry stopped biting and jumped off of him and spat out before turning into a human.
"You taste like shit!" Harry said as he changed back and scratched Lockhart on his cheek and he ripped up his clothes.
Harry bowed down so Perla could put Lockhart on his back. When Lockhart was on his back Harry stood up and began walking out to the hospital wing. Harry walked through the doors of the hospital wings and he threw him across the room then ran away from the scene of the crime.
Harry was walking with his friends after lunch in the courtyard outside. There were a few members of the Royal Guard who were talking nearby but there were also some Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws as well. Harry, Ginny, Draco and Daphne were talking together about classes and quidditch.
Meanwhile in an unused classroom
Michael Corner, Cedric Diggory and Cho Chang were talking in an unused classroom about their war against the Royal Guard.
"What should we do about them?" Chang asked them.
"We should tell someone to attack them so that they will quickly surrender." Cedric said
"Alright, I'll leave you two to snog and I'll go have it done." Cedric said as he got up and left the two lovebirds alone.
10 minutes later
"Uh oh." Ginny said as she pointed behind Draco and Harry.
"Oi Potter, you think you're so tough?!" a 6th year Ravenclaw said with a large group of twenty people making the group have 21 people.
"Shut up." Harry scowled
"What if I don't want to," he said with a smirk.
"Diggory really told you to hurt me? Think this war makes you tough?" Harry said then he punched the 6th year in the stomach then he threw a right hook to his jaw breaking it.
They all pulled their wands on him which he responded by pointing two wands at them and the other three also pulled out their wands. The first spell was thrown by a 3rd year he didn't know the name of, then he shot a powerful silencing charm on them all so they couldn't say a spell. A large 7th year Hufflepuff pulled a knife on Harry which sliced his arm which quickly healed completely. Harry's dagger shot into his hand and he drove the dagger through his shoulder blade which cut through one of his arteries.
He stumbled back and fell to the ground while holding his shoulder. One of the older kids used a nonverbal spell to counter the silencing charm then removed it from the other kids. Dozens of stunners, and disarming spells were sent flying towards them. They either dodged them(more for Daphne and Draco), batted them away or blocked them.
More of the Royal Guard showed up and they fought with new found vigour. Ginny pulled her dagger out after someone nearly hit her in the nose. She hit her attacker in the nose with the handle of her dagger then she stabbed him in the leg causing him to fall on two younger students.
Malfoy seeing Ginny almost get hit gave him a strong rage. He shot a bone breaker curse to his ribcage breaking it. Draco threw a large, strong punch to his jaw breaking it then he threw a second punch to his ribcage making him scream out in pain.
Daphne was exchanging many spells with her target. She sent jelly legs then kicked her in her side and used expelliarmus to launch her into a wall. Knocking her unconscious.
After a few minutes they were all down on the ground. Harry zapped everyone out of there then he zapped back and cleaned up the evidence of the fight with his wand. Harry zapped back to the room he found and created it into a hospital for enemies and allies. They were all fixed up so he quickly obliviated everyone to remove the memories of the fight. His favourite part about obliviating people he fought was that he only removed the fight but not the pain so they only knew they felt pain but they never remembered how they got the pain.
Harry checked his watch and realised that it was time to go to the duelling club that Lockhart created. Harry, Ginny, Daphne and Draco zapped into the entrance hall then they entered the great hall to find most of the school already there. Apparently Lockhart and Snape would be teaching the club so they went up to the front.
"I bet you 10 galleons that Snape knocks Lockhart with one spell." Harry said to both Draco and Daphne.
"Deal." Daphne and Draco both said as they began counting galleons.
After a few minutes of instruction Snape and Lockhart had a vote to see which student could defeat him. Much to Harry's dismay they voted on him to beat him.
"God damn it! Alright change the bet. 100 galleons from all three of you if I knock him with a single spell." Harry demanded with a grin much to everyone else's shock at the amount of money poured from the four.
"Deal."
"Deal."
"Deal."
"Alright, bow." Lockhart instructed
"How many times have you been knocked out from bowing? Learn CONSTANT VIGILANCE." Ginny yelled
"Don't mention that constant shit. Please, Moody has carved that into my brain." Harry pleaded with a shudder causing many people to laugh.
They both bowed although Harry bowed slightly. When the duel began Lockhart barely put his hand in his pocket before Harry silently shot expelliarmus. Lockhart went soring in the air and when he landed he landed with a splat of blood gushing from his nose. There was also a crack and his arm snapped in a very weird way.
After he was brought to the hospital wing it was time for duels.
"Who wishes to duell Mr. Potter?" Snape asked with a smirk.
"I do!" Ron, Cedric and Michael said immediately.
"I'll take all three of you." Harry said with a nod.
"Very well." Snape said as they all walked up to him.
They all bowed then they pulled their wands except Harry who remained wandless. They all sent multiple spells which Harry dodged very quickly. It was only after a few minutes of messing with them did he actually shoot something. Harry pulled his Holly wand and shot a falcon out of his wand that Cedric banished quickly. Harry pulled out his Potter family wand and a large Griffon made out of fire came out of his wand. They mainly ducked other than Ron who was launched back. Harry shot two stunners at the two left and they fell unconscious.
After that everyone left to head for their dorms. Harry and Ginny both fell asleep dreaming about playing pranks on Dumbledore and him alone.
