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Beauty Duel
"Okay, if Thomasina... No, sorry it is still Thomas yet. And if you are not going to announce this, I would do it." Snape's lip curved into an evil smile, as Tom staring him in sheer horror. "I would like to invite you all to our... Duel!"
Harry gasped, his wand fell onto the ground.
"In this duel, we would try our best to make the other one look like woman, and, yes, if I or Professor Salamair lost this duel, then I or he would have to transform himself into a woman for one whole week!"
Harry simply felt like rolling on the ground, gasping for air (because he laughed too loudly). The other students were in no better condition... Yet the teachers' table was horribly quiet. Only a little voice of a certain teacher was heard: "It... it is just a joke! Snape cannot be this serious!"
"I am warning you, I would not let you have me... embarrassed!" Professor Salamair was hissing loudly now. So it was the sentence Tom wanted to say when he was lame on the floor in his office. His face was very very red, not because of anger but of embarrassment as some girls started to claim that Tom would look good in his woman form (and positively looking foreward to it)... Harry was now worrying that his brother might not be able to resist the temptation to cast an Avada Kedavra on Snape...
"We are sorry, Professor Snape, please don't insist in the duel, we don't mean it... you see, the joke..." A certain teacher tried to speak up from the table.
"In fact, Professor Salamair also agreed that we should duel --"
"But not in the public!" So, that's explained why Tom had to be pulled onto the stage.
"Say, it never hurts... so why not?" Snape said mischievously, it seemed that he had much confident in winning. He must had lost his mind... winning Tom in curses? Someone who was formerly called Voldemort? No way, unless...
He must has some really special charms and curses. Harry suddenly wanted to warn Tom about this.
"And as I believe that we had asked the Headmaster's permission, we would have the duel now."
Students screaming excitingly... (yes, most of the students would like to see Snape's "downfall", and others were hoping to see either Salamair or Snape becoming a woman...) With a snap of the finger, Dumbledore conjured a pitch to their aid. Harry watching over them seriously, hoping that this duel would not hurt the friendship between Tom and Snape. It is so uneasy for Tom to have a friend that knowing how he really feel...
Suddenly Tom turned to make an announcement. "Whatever we do, the consequence would be on the one..."
"...who started the joke." Snape finished for him. It was clearly that they would plan a revenge against anyone who set them up for this by the joke. So they would be still be friends afterwards. Suddenly Harry realized that he didn't know Snape well enough in order to understand he would not blame Tom but the one who truely caused these all. As there seemed to be not many things he could worry about now, Harry sat back and got ready for a good show.
They strode out onto the pitch and met with Dumbledore. He looked at the teachers calmly then started an announcement, "Professor Salamair will duel today with a thirteen-inch yew wand, core of phoenix feather. Professor Snape with a ten-inch willow wand and a unicorn-hair core." He waved his wand, and a protective energy field appeared to keep the curses from the students,"Let the duel begin."
Snape moved to shake Salamair's hand, whereas Salamair returned the shake with a hug. Salamair eyed Harry with a smile. Then Dumbledore started to count. "Three, two, one." Dumbledore said, and the game had started.
Before Snape had drawn his wand out completely, Salamair drew his and shouted, "Omnia volat!" Immediately, all the things in the hall flying towards Snape's direction. While Snape was busy ducking and blocking the flying objects, Salamair shouted another, "Stillantibus ocellis!" Snape just managed to block this out, then was hit by an flying object. "Glacio!" Snape shouted with a wave of his wand, all the flying objects were frozen like ice. Then, "Dissolvio!" and all objects were melt.
"That is brilliant, Severus! And I would like to send you something I just got yesterday..." Salamair smiled slightly before chanted another spell, "Flore coronatus!" Then, all of a sudden Snape was crowned with flowers of different colours! Everybody laughed.
"Purpuratum floret pratum!" Starting with the flower curses, Snape turned one to Salamair too, but Salamair quickly blocked the spell and gave Snape his own spell. "Wengel roete!" Snape reflected this spell but quite unfortunately, Dumbledore was hit by this spell and now his faced was red like having a really heavy make-up. All the students laughed uncontrollably. Salamair casted Dumbledore a worry eye then all of a sudden -- "Got you! Cantent ut angelio!" Salamair started uncontrollably singing Christmas carols. He furiously turned his wand to himself and singing spells but with no result. "No, there's no counter-spell for this, Salamair! Reieo!"
"Pulcher extiteram!" Knowing there was no counter-spell for Cantent ut angelio, Salamair sang a spell to Snape and block the Reieo spell while singing a counter-spell. Got really carried away by seeing that Salamair could still sing his curses out and regain his own control, Snape was hit by the Pulcher extiteram which made him look... beautiful! Now Snape was looking positively beaming and the way his dark long hair flowing in the battle casted a really eerie spell on the students.
"Oh... he looks wonderful..." Harry just couldn't believe his mouth.
"Just...gorgeous!" A Hufflepuff girl just gasped too loudy and everybody heard that. Snape (if you think that he wouldn't have the time to do this during a duel, you are wrong) shouted out really loud "10 points from whatever house you are in for paying no respect to a teacher!" without actually cared to see where the girl was sitting. Then everybody was quiet in the fear of losing house points. When Snape was busy deducing the house points, Salamair sang another spell, "Rufa tunica!" which resulted in Snape dressed in a red long dress.
"Cando tunica!" Snape shot a similar spell back and Salamair was now dressing in a white dress - one which looked really like a wedding dress...
"Ooooh...!" said the students, as Salamair actually looked good in this tunic.
As Salamair was disturbed, Snape shot him another spell: "Capillorum series!" And immediately Tom's hair started to grow and it only stopped as Tom sang quietly the counter-spell to himself, but his hair was now at the length of his waist already. Seeing that Salamair was not going to use any spell which really hurt, Snape decided to make this a good show. Obviously Salamair got Snape's look on the face, so he sang an incantation nicely with a tenor voice (which resulted in much laughter), "Tamquam rosula!"
Seeing this spell as nothing serious (though now he really looked like a rose by the effect of the spell...), Snape didn't bother to block it and at the same time he shouted "Rosenvarwer munt!". Salamair blocked this anyway and then he whispered something to Snape, having recovered from the Cantent ut angelio completely and smiling in quite a twisted way...
A jar of green light shot out from Salamair's wand and hit Snape.
"Isn't it the Avada Kedavra?" Harry silently shocked by the light. He turned to see Dumbledore was also quite shocked in the same way.
"What?" Snape never hit by anything like this before, and it hit him violently... "What happend...?"
And there was complete silence in the hall. Snape looked around, not really knowing what had happened. What he only knew was that the students were staring at him in a bewildered way.
"What--"
"See it yourself, Severus," Salamair smiled with a point of his wand to a certain direction, "Accio mirror!" Then Salamair gave Snape the mirror and Snape looked into the mirror and...
he fainted.
Salamair casually picked up Snape's wand and waved it in triumphant, then with a wave of his own wand he turned back from a long-hair white-robed bride into the normal self, with dark green and silver robe.
"Congratulations, Tom," Dumbledore came to Tom, saying quietly. "But Snape..."
"I know, Headmaster, he would be quite hurt... his image, I mean. May be I would make something about it."
"Tom-- Professor Salamair!" Salamair suddenly heard a voice, thus he turned around and saw Harry. "A minute please." He said to the Headmaster, and moved towards Harry.
Harry ran to his elder brother, "It is fanastic! But normally you won't take it that long... and that green light thing..."
"Ah, this is a rather long spell: 'Rose rubicundior, lilio candidior, omnibus formosior, in te glorior!' That is a very advanced spell which I created only 2 or 3 days before. Though I failed a couple of times before achieving this spell and it backfired on me, I'd say it worths the trouble. It is in fact a four-in-one spell. See?" He pointed at Snape, who was lying on the pitch like the Sleeping Beauty. "His lips redder than the rose, his skin whiter than the lily, his look lovier than all other girls, and shines in maiden glory! Isn't it great? And--" he reached into the pockets in his robe with an eerie smile, fishing out the wizard photos he took during the duel. "See what have I got here? If I finished the duel too early, there will not be as much fun."
"How could you do this? I didn't see you--"
"Well, I developed a spell for taking photos with wands. I created the spell for this duel only!"
~The End of Chapter Three~
Who do you think should be transforming into an image of woman next week? Guess and the Chapter 4 would come soon!