Chapter10:
DADA classroom:
Quirrell continued his class.
"DADA is a practical oriented subject. Your theatrical knowledge on DADA is not enough in your real life; you need practical skill to become truly knowledgeable person on this subject. Therefore, we will give more importance to the practical aspects of this subject in this year." Quirrell told the students.
Harry was again surprised by that behavior of Quirrell. Personally, he agreed with Quirrell about DADA being a practical oriented subject. Harry realized that, Quirrell would be a competent teacher.
"First, we will learn about stunning spell, it's a primary level of spell; however you should know even a simple primary level of spell may become your life savior in a fight. It can also be used as a surprise element during a duel." After telling the student, he performed the spell elegantly. Students were sensing powerful aura from Quirrell when he was performing that spell.
"As you can see it is not so difficult to cast the spell and I am expecting that, all of you will be able to perform the spell at the end of my class." Quirrell told the student.
Most of the students were able to perform the spell within one hour, especially students who were raised in pureblood houses. Harry was able to perform t spell very quickly within 1 minute, which again stunned the other students. Daphne was next; she was able to perform it within 6 minutes. After that, Harry gave some suggestions to Blaise and Tracy and both of them were able to perform the spell after 10 minutes of Daphne.
"I am very much pleased that, majority of you are able to perform this spell. It seems like majority of you were studying and training in your house. I think a test of your ability on this subject should be done. Therefore students, I am proposing series of duels among the students." Quirrell told excitedly. Students had also become excited about the prospect of participating in a duel. At first, Quirrell assigned Harry with Goyle, Daphne with Crabb, and Tracy with Millicent, Blaise with Su Li, Draco with Boot, Nott with Patel, Moon with Anthony and Parkinson with Chris Black.
Harry defeated Goyle within one minute by using a simple disarming charm. Harry always believed in finishing the duel quickly. Daphne was also able to defeat Crabb within two minutes, Millicent was able to give Tracy some trouble, however Tracy was quicker than Millicent in her movement, and therefore she was able to defeat Millicent within ten minutes of their duel.
Su Li was proven to somewhat challenging to Blaise. That skinny girl was competent in her spell casting and she was relatively quick in her movement. Nevertheless, the Zabini scion was able to surprise that girl by casting disarming and stunning spells in quick succession. Terry Boot was giving Draco a fight of his life. They were dueling for more than 25 minutes with no sign of ending that duel. Draco then casted a family spell on Boot in desperation, Boot was clearly not prepared for that types of spell, therefore he had been defeated by Draco at the end.
Patel defeated Nott; despite the fact, it was Nott dominating the duel most of the time. However, his overconfidence and arrogance gave Patel the chance to cast tickling charm on Nott's legs. After that, Patel casted a disarming spell on Nott.
Moon was victorious against Anthony after 20 minutes of the duel. In all Slytherin duel between Chris Black & Parkinson, Chris Black defeated Parkinson easily. He showed his talent in duel by casting a perfect disarming spell to Parkinson.
"Excellent performance from all of you, you have made me proud. However, I want to test your skills further and for this purpose, I will participate in few friendly duels with some of you now."
Students were little surprised to hear that, the DADA professor wanted to participate in duel with some of them. Nevertheless, they were also equally excited to fight a real battle with a teacher.
Quirrell first asked Chris Black to duel with him. Quirrell easily defeated Chris Black. After all, Chris was just a first year student compare to him. Quirrell was clearly not applying himself fully in that duel; he was just toying with his student.
The next was Draco Malfoy. Malfoy had a good defense as a first year student; however, it was not enough to protect himself from a mild stunting spell of Professor Quirrell. That duel also lasted for a very short period.
Quirrell continued his winning streak against Patel. Patel was also unable to cause any trouble for Quirrell in that duel.
Blaise started his duel with Quirrell with an attacking hex. However, an impressive shield from Quirrell confronted it. Soon, Blaise found himself at the receiving end of Quirrell's impressive spells. Quirrell casted a stunning spells, a disarming spell, a tickling charm all within quick succession. Blaise was able to make a weak shield that somehow protect himself from the effect of stunning spell, nevertheless it was not enough to protect himself from losing his wand to Quirrell.
Harry was happy that, Blaise started the duel with an offensive spell; Harry truly believed that, attack is the best form of defense. Surely, he knew that, Blaise would not survive more than few minutes against their teacher in the duel. Harry was also impressed by the performance of their DADA teacher. Quirrell was using very limited amount of spells, nevertheless, he was showing his power in those spells.
His friend, Tracy Davies had also become a loser in the duel against Quirrell. She was impressive. Nevertheless, like Blaise, she was not a challenge to Quirrell in a duel.
Daphne was the first student who proved as a challenge to Quirrell in a duel. She was faster than other students were in her spell casting and she was quick to react against spells that were coming towards her. She performed few excellent charms and transfiguration in the duel.
Quirrell had to apply himself more in that duel compare to others as Daphne was showing some impressive spell work. Quirrell conjure a powerful shield to prevent the spells that were coming from Daphne and casted a disillusion spell on him and then moved himself faster towards Daphne. When Daphne was finally able to see him, he was inches away from her and she had no chance to protect himself from the disarming spell of Prof. Quirrell.
Daphne felt little dejected for being disarmed that way; however, she was pleased about her overall performance in the duel. She knew that, she was the first student who was able to make some trouble for her teacher in the duel. She at that moment wanted to see her cousin's performance against Professor Quirrell in the duel.
Harry started his duel with Quirrell by defensive spells, Quirrell decided to test Harry's ability at first by throwing simple stunning spell toward Harry. Harry decided to move away from the spell, which was coming rapidly toward him, for Harry moving away from the path of spell was better than casting a shielding charm. He wanted to preserve his energy.
Harry was moving at faster rate, his classmates were once again surprised by seeing how quickly Harry could move at left, right, and center to save himself from the spell.
10 minutes had been passed since Harry started duel with Quirrell. Harry did not cast a single spell until that time. On the other hand, Quirrell was finding his duel with Harry little frustrating. He started with simple stunning spell then he moved to disarming spell, then trickling charm, then some low level hexes.
However, Harry did not cast a spell retaliation of his spells. Quirrell was deeply surprised by seeing the mobility of that boy while avoiding his spells. The boy was trying to preserve his energy to last longer in the duel. According to Quirrell, it was a good strategy for a first year student while dueling with him. Until that time, Quirrell had used only third year spells against that boy. He was not ready to use upper level spells against Harry to win in that duel. It would not look good if a teacher used sixth or seventh year spell to defeat a first year student.
Harry knew that, it would raise a lot of question if he had won in a normal way as at the end of the day he was just a first year student. Nevertheless, Harry could not accept defeat; he was too much competitive for that. Therefore, he decided to move away from the spells of Quirrell.
Quirrell decided to apply the same method that he used to defeat Daphne; he applied a dissolution charm on himself and tried to appear at the left side of Harry. However, when He moved at the spot , everyone heard continuous long pitched sound and it made everyone include Quirrell was feeling surprised and they got themselves distracted.
Harry was waiting for that and took advantage of distracted Quirrell and casted a powerful disarming spell wordlessly at Quirrell from a close distance. Quirrell could not even able to raise his wand arm before he was disarmed and fell on the ground due to impact of Harry's powerful disarming spell.
The outcome caused a shockwave among entire population of students who were present in that classroom. It was beyond just upset for them that, a talented DADA professor defeated by a first year student. They were looking at Harry with a funny face.
Quirrell was also feeling the shock of his unexpected defeat. However, more than the shock, he was feeling greatly embarrassed by getting defeated in a duel with a first year student. He was regretting for underestimating Harry.
Harry picked up Quirrell's wand from the floor and moved close to Quirrell who was standing up from the floor.
"Please! Take your wand sir." Harry gave Quirrell wand to him while speaking to him at a modest voice.
"Thank you, Harry. I must say you have a very good talent in DADA." Quirrell told him.
"I just enjoy the subject sir and I also have to say, we are very much privileged to have a talented teacher like as our DADA professor." Harry praised his DADA teacher.
Daphne was shocked because of the result of the duel between Harry and Quirrell. She knew that, her cousin was a genius; however, she did not expect him to beat their talented DADA teacher. Daphne did not know from where those sounds came and how Harry was able to spot Prof. Quirrell immediately and casting one of the most powerful disarming spell that lifted Prof. Quirrell on the air for sometimes.
Daphne also found it very interesting that, her cousin apparently casted no spell before casting disarming spell. He did not try to shield himself from the powerful spells that were coming from Quirrell, instead of that, he just move left , right, center ,up and down at inhuman speed.
Daphne had already seen father in the duel, even he could not move so fast in the duel. Daphne realized that, how much physical fitness could enhance your magic.
Daphne realized that, her cousin was still a mystery for her. However, she wanted answers of some portion of that mystery. She decided to grill Harry outside of the classroom.
Harry was now realizing that, maybe it was not a good idea to beat your DADA teacher in the duel when you were just a first year student. Those students were already impressed with a very much talented DADA teacher in a generation. When Quirrell beat them one by one easily in the battle, their admiration for that men grew several folds. Nevertheless, when they watched Harry was able to protect himself from powerful spells of Quirrell without casting a single shield and eventually beat Quirrell in the duel in a dramatic way. Therefore, Harry became something like next Merlin like figure for two dozens of 11 years students who were present in the classroom.
Harry was blaming himself for the whole situation, his desire for victory at any cost made the whole things difficult for him. Harry also knew that, he would have to explain himself to his friends, especially to Daphne.
His suspicion came true when after leaving the classroom Daphne grilled him about the duel.
"You are becoming more mysterious my dear cousin." Daphne commented.
"I told you all before that; I am little bit talented with my wand." Harry replied.
"Don't try to become modest now Harry, you are more than just bit of talented with wand, you are more than that." Blaise commented.
"Ok, what do you people want to know from me? Harry asked his friend.
"How you are able to defeat our talented DADA teacher? Tracy asked.
"I was suspecting little crush from you and Daphne for our young professor in the classroom, now I realize that, I was right in my suspicion." Harry commented.
"I don't have any crush on Prof. Quirrell." Daphne protested strongly.
"Yes, Harry Daphne do not have any crush on Prof. Quirrell, I suspect she only has crush on one particular blond haired green eyed handsome boy. As for me, I will plead guilty to you for my crush on handsome professor." Tracy replied.
Harry could see Daphne became angry with Tracy after hearing her comment, however, he was able to see slight blush in Daphne's face when Tracy implied that, Daphne had crush on him. Harry find that interesting.
"Harry, I won't let you to deflect the topic. You should tell us about how you are able to defeat our DADA professor." Blaise told Harry.
"I observed his previous duels, Blaise. I saw how he moved during dueling with you and Daphne and when he used the illusion charm against Daphne. I was suspecting that he would adopt same method against me & therefore, I made a trap for him." Harry replied.
"What kinds of trap?" Tracy asked.
"I transfigured several spoons into muggle alarm bells and placed them around me. Those alarm bells were sensitive to human contact and resulting high-pitched irritating sounds that can become a reason for distraction. Prof. Quirrell fell into my trap and got himself distracted and that was enough for me to seal the deal." Harry replied.
"I did not see any alarm bells and Harry as far as I know that, muggle device don't work in Hogwarts." Daphne asked Harry.
Harry knew he was now in a tough spot, he was again cursing himself for his big ego.
"You did not see those alarm bells because I applied my own illusion charms on all of them and to answer your second question, you have to remember that, those alarm bells were originally spoons not some muggle device. Therefore, Hogwarts rules did not apply here as those alarm bells were originally spoons and transfigured temporarily into alarm bells and getting power from my magic not from muggle battery." Harry replied
As expected, his friends were surprised by his magical ability, thinking, and cunningness.
"Harry you are Merlin of our generation." Tracy declared.
"Tracy you are making me feels shy, I am just 11 years old boy who is good with his wand and surrounding environment and you having to remember Prof. Quirrell underestimated me and he won't do it again. I do not want to become Merlin of our generation; I want to become Harry of our generation." Harry replied.
"I can see why you are placed into Slytherin, Harry. However, we are expecting to learn some tricks from you in ROR." Blaise told him.
Harry was going to reply but he saw a boy was coming towards them; the boy was young Black heir.
Chapter end