Harry Weasley
Chapter Twenty Nine: The Dueling Club
"Welcome second year Gryffindor and Slytherin to another day of Defense Against the Dark Arts. I Gilderoy Lockhart am going to be teaching you about dueling today. We will be starting a Dueling club this year, and it will involve every year. You will be going against your own year, and the best male and female from each year will be going up against each other to see how they do. Now put your books away, and get up from your tables, so I can put them against the wall so you can practice." As soon as the class got up, the professor waved his wand, and the tables went to the side of the room. "Ok team up two to a team."
The class broke up into teams of two. Harry teamed up with Hermoine, Ron with Neville, Draco with Pansy and of course Crabbe with Goyle. They had gone to one end of the room to do their practices, and work on their shield spells that they were working on that day. There was Protego's and other spells being cast left and right. When the class was over, the class were pretty much able to cast and protect themselves.
"The dueling club will be meeting in the great hall after dinner tonight, you will all be required to be there, for it is part of your grade. You are dismissed now." As he said this the bell rang ending the class. The whole class picked up their books and bags leaving the classroom happy but tired. They all headed down to the hall for lunch.
That night after dinner, they all met up in the great hall for their first club meeting. As they sat down, they were set up to team up for the class. Harry was set up against Draco for the first duel, and they were sitting there getting ready for it. They were watching Dean Thomas go up against Blaise Zambini in a duel, and Blaise had just cast a Serpentisa spell, sending a rather large snake at Dean. Dean being afraid of snakes, was shaking at the sight, and couldn't move when it came toward him. Harry seeing this, jumped up and onto the stage and started hissing at the snake to leave him alone. The snake looked at Harry a second, and then headed back at Blaise. Blaise passed out, and everyone was looking at Harry wondering why he had sent the snake back at Blaise. Hardly anyone noticed that the Snake went back into Blaise's Wand and didn't hurt him at all.
"Parselmouth." Was heard throughout the hall, and everyone was looking at Harry with a combination of Awe, Fear, and respect. They all knew what he was, and they weren't sure that they should fear the one who is supposed to be the hero of the wizardring world.
"Harry how were you able to do that? That is supposed to be an ability of only dark wizards. Your not one are you?" Ron was getting excited for his brother, and wondering what was going on. "Why didn't you tell us you were able to talk to snakes?"
"I don't know how I did it Ron, it just came out. No, I am not a dark wizard, and I wish that you wouldn't spread around that I might be. Let's get out of here, before everyone else starts looking at me with more weird looks." They all left the hall and headed up to their respective dorms. They thought hard and long that night on what happened. Dean had been thanking Harry for saving his life, and hanging around him more and more.