Title: The Hazards of Dueling

Author: Sine

Disclaimer: - This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Summary: Malfoy challenges Potter to a Duel. The Headmaster gets invovled.


The Quiditch pitch has been the scene for many a victory and defeat. But never anything quite like this.

Everyone knew that Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy hated each other. So it was no surprise when Malfoy challenged Potter to a duel. What everyone did not know, was that there is a little known rule in the Hogwarts Charter. A rule that states:

...the current Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcrat and Wizardry can choose
the weapons for any duels on Hogwarts grounds or involving Hogwarts students.

The word of the duel grew far and wide. Potter and Malfoy's rivalry was renown. And when the public found out that the Headmaster was enforcing the dueling rule, everyone wanted to know what weapons he would choose, for Albus Dumbledore's - eccentricity - was also renown.

Thus taking us back to the Quiditch Pitch. The only place large enough to hold everyone who wanted to watch.

Dumbledore signals the duelists to begin. The both take their ten paces, then raise their fish.