Chapter 15-Dueling mistakes – there will be no duel
Staring down at Ron, both Harry and John looked as if he was crazy, before they looked at each other and then Harry looked at Draco saying, "Mr. Malfoy, skills and abilities are not defined by the kind of wizard you are, but your commitment to studies, if you spend more time studying and less time bullying others you would be better than you are, there for I have no need to defend my skill level, against a lazy person," before turning towards Ron and said, "Ron I am not dueling against Draco and you have no right to accept challenges on my behalf, and I'll be reporting this incident to Professor McGonagall," before both Harry and John moved off to talk with Minevra.
Within hearing distance, Professor Dumbledore overheard the failed attempt of Draco and when the Potters had moved off follow threw with their report, he panicked and walked over to the a panel on the wall, tapping the panel a door way appeared and then Dumbledore went threw, using the shortcut to the corridor of the Deputy Headmistress, with the thought of forcing Harry and John to accept the duel. Too late, Dumbledore arrived in the corridor just as the Potters were accepted into the Professors office.
In Professor McGonagall's office, the Potters and Minevra where sitting in the latters sitting area, while the latter had just being informed by the formers of Draco's Challenge and Ron acceptance on their behalf. While Dumbledore seeing his stalling attempts fail, stalked back to his office and went back to plotting. Within Professor McGonagall's office, after she was told of the illegal attempt to demand a duel for because their skills were better than others and after dismissing the 2 with a reward of 10 points each for their maturity and logic, Minevra had a house elf deliver notes of detention to Draco Malfoy and Ronald Weasley, while she herself wrote a letter to their parents highlighting the incident involving their children.
Back with Dumbledore as he puts his finishing touches on his newest educational degree, of which he had made 3 before now and the decree read:
[Educational Decree #04:
All students henceforth must accept any and all request for Duels of honor, any student not complying will find themselves in detention for the rest of their schooling at Hogwarts and are not allowed to transfer to another school, as well as permanently banned from visits to Hogsmeade Village.]
Smiling at his plan, Dumbledore made several copies and portkeyed them to the 4 Houses commonroom notice boards which no one checks regularly.
2 days later: on the opposite side of Great Britain, in manor surrounded by peacocks, a beautiful silver eyed black haired woman had received a postal owl from her son's deputy headmistress, which said:
[To Lord or Lady Malfoy,
It has come to my attention that your son Draco Malfoy has been attempting to challenge a student named Harry Potter to a duel, his reason being that he feels he has been insulted by mister Potter, who reported this incident to me and according to him: the insult is caused by: Mr. Malfoy not taking his studies seriously and is falling behind in his coursework.
Now don't get me wrong, Mr. Malfoy is performing admirably is his studies, as his rank as the third best student in most of his studies. But his belief in the fact he is worst than he is, is causing him to obsessively antagonize Mr. Potter and from what I have heard, Bully other students in the school.
Please speak with him, Your Sincerely,
Professor Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress]
Sighing at the letter, Lady Malfoy made a note to speak with her husband and her son, about the latter's commitment to his studies and his stupid decisions. As Lady Malfoy was making her note, Lord Malfoy had just arrived threw the floo network and was pleased with himself: he had just successfully blocked a bill which would remove the ability to give Mudbloods seats on the Wizengamot and removed the rights of impure wizards and witches inheriting wizengamot seats, but when he saw the expression on his wife's face and the letter in her hands, dread began to fill his high and asked, "Narcissa Dear, what is wrong?" only to be shown the letter.
Three days after the duel request from Draco, Hermione had now notice the new rule and was flummoxed; it was a stupid rule and knew it will cause a lot of problems. In the Potters dormroom, the Potters getting themselves ready for their joint class of: Herbology and once they packed their Wyvern-Hide gardening gloves, the boys set off to the greenhouses. Meeting Hermione on the way, she filled them in on the new rule she found and they shared the same sentiments as her: the rule was dumb and dangerous.
Herbology was quite boring really, mainly theory work and a little bit of practical on the care of: Dragonfruit trees (the magical variant is a spicy/savory fruit that is a good food substitute for dragon hatchlings), which consisted on feeding the plant a dragon dung based fertilizers. After Herbology, the Ravenclaws had charms, while the Gryffindors had Defense and that was where Harry saw the look on Draco's face, knowing that he was waiting for a chance to challenge him, Harry steers clear of him and sits on the opposite side of the class, where he is joined by: Pavarti Patil and the Slytherin girls: Tracey and Daphne.
The defense class was once again: annoying, since you could barely understand the teacher: Quirrinus Quirrel threw his stutters and occasional yells in fear of his own shadow. While charms class was pretty fun, magical helped fun but fun none the less, as Professor Flitwick was teaching the class basics on the cheering charms, which was forcing the students into a heavy laughing as some of the students had overpowered their casting and the net result was: a class of Laughter,
After second period was lunch and the whole schools operations, ground to a halt in their studies as all the students headed for the great hall and gorged themselves on the delights of the house elves work.