Hogwarts: Nagini captured at the start

Chapter 35 Duel Challenge

Malfoy's face flushed with anger, but suddenly, a glint of light flashed in his gray eyes. "I, Goyle Crabbe, am ready to duel you, Harry, and Ron one-on-one anytime. If you three aren't cowards, we'll have a wizarding duel tonight at midnight, in the prize room on the fourth floor. No brute force, only wands, how about it?"

"Alright! I hope you won't be crying and begging for mercy then!" Ron said.

"You're the one crying and calling for your mother, aren't you, you poor wretched thing!"

Malfoy pulled down his lower eyelids with his fingers, turned his mouth down, made a mocking face, and then left with his two lackeys.

"Ron, why are you talking so fast? I haven't even thought it through yet!" Harry said, frowning.

"Harry, based on what I know about you and Robin, after you think about it for a while, you'll eventually accept Malfoy's duel challenge. It's only been two weeks since school started, and we have very little magic at our disposal. At most, the other side will just launch fireworks during the duel."

"What should I do if I recite the spell but the wand doesn't react at all?"

Robin chuckled and offered a suggestion: "Then throw away your wand, clench your fist, and punch the enemy in the nose."

"But...didn't we say...we're not allowed to use brute force?"

"Harry, in the dueling arena, winning is all that matters, who cares what methods you used!"

"Exactly!" Ron chimed in.

Suddenly, Hermione, carrying a thick book, squeezed between the three of them, her brown eyes darting back and forth between them.

"Excuse me, just a moment. If you keep spinning like that, my face is going to break out in a rash!"

Chili's hair was so fluffy that every time she turned her neck, her hair would sweep across Robin's face like a broom.

"Feel sorry!"

Hermione's earlobes turned red. She took a few steps to the right, adjusted her breathing, raised her chin, lowered her eyelids, and pointed her nostrils at the three of them.

She spoke as if she were possessed by a headmaster: "Staying up at night and wandering around the castle is a serious violation of school rules! If the three of you get caught, Gryffindor will be even further away from the House Cup. You three can't be so selfish."

"If you deducted it, just find a way to add it back. Forgive me for being blunt, but this has absolutely nothing to do with you, Nate."

Ron's unspoken message: Mind your own business!

"Goodbye!" Harry said.

Watching the three figures disappear into the distance, Hermione stomped her feet in anger. She couldn't let it go like this, so she decided to think of a way to stop the three troublemakers from causing trouble.

It's 11:30 p.m., in the Gryffindor Tower!

Squeak!

Three figures slipped through the gate of the boys' dormitory and into the common room.

The room was dark, with the only light source coming from the embers in the fireplace.

Using the faint light of the fire, the three of them passed through rows of sofas and chairs and arrived at the entrance of the cave.

Just as Robin was about to push away the portrait of the fat lady, a clear, angry voice suddenly came from not far to his right.

"Luo Bin, I can't believe it! The three of you are actually going to break the school rules!"

puff!

A light came on!

In the bright light, Robin saw Hermione, dressed in pink pajamas, frowning and glaring angrily at him.

"You, you're not on the duel roster. Go back to sleep!"

"Ha! Not on the list is perfect for collecting your three corpses. Robin, I almost told Percy about this. He's our prefect, he has the right and the obligation to stop you."

"You didn't tell him in the end, did you?" Robin retorted.

"I...I wanted to give you guys a chance. Listen, the three of you go back to the boys' dormitory now, and I'll pretend this never happened."

"You live by the sea, why are you being so nosy? Let's go, let's ignore her!"

Ron pushed aside the portrait of the Fat Lady and quickly climbed into the cave entrance, with Harry following closely behind and Robin bringing up the rear.

Hermione, with her stubborn and inflexible temper, also squeezed inside. Like a mother goose whose chicks had been stolen, she roared at the group.

"Don't you guys have any sense of teamwork? All you know how to do is argue and duel to satisfy your own selfish desires. I don't want those Slytherin bastards to get the House Cup, and I don't want all the points I worked so hard to earn with the Conversion Charm to be taken away by you guys. I..."

While Hermione was talking, Ron and Harry climbed out of the hole, and Robin, with his feet firmly on the ground, spread his arms to block the hole.

"Miss Granger, Ron, Harry, and I are already on the eighth-floor corridor. We've broken the rules, so if you step back now, you won't be breaking the rules."

"No, I'm going to go out and then push you all back one by one. As long as I'm quick enough, no one will lose any Gryffindor points."

If you're given a chance but choose not to take action, then we'll all break the rules together!

Robin pulled his arm back and moved a few steps to the right. Hermione crawled out of the hole, grabbed his arm, and tried to pull him back into the hole.

"Go in, hurry up and go in! They both listen to you. Once you're in, things will be much easier!"

She strained with all her might, but the other person's feet were as if welded to the floor, unable to budge!

Looking at Little Chili's stubbornness, Luo Bin sighed deeply, then reached out and poked her chubby cheeks with his finger.

I must say, it feels pretty good to the touch, bouncy and smooth.

While she was still dazed and hadn't yet become angry, he raised an eyebrow, gesturing for her to look towards the cave entrance.

"The cave entrance? What's so interesting about the cave entrance? Oh, where did the Fat Lady go?" Hermione exclaimed in shock, staring at the empty painting.

"While you were frantically tugging at my sleeve, the fat lady swayed off to visit someone!" Robin said speechlessly, pulling his pajamas up a bit.

"Uh, the fat lady is as fat as a water tank, where does she get her waist?" Ron remarked.

"No, not a water tank. The Fat Lady may be fat, but she has a neck!" Harry said seriously.

"Oh my god! Is this the time to discuss the fat lady's figure? The biggest problem now is... how am I supposed to get back?" Hermione exclaimed in despair.

"Miss Granger, you can wait here for the Fat Madam to return. After you give her the password, you can go back to the girls' dormitory. Ron, Harry, let's go."

The three had just reached the end of the corridor and hadn't even started going down the stairs when Hermione came running after them, "I'll go with you!"

"This is a duel between us and Malfoy. Why do you have to get involved? Aren't you afraid of getting caught by Filch and causing the academy to lose 5 points?" Ron retorted.

"Hmph, I'll keep an eye on you so you don't cause any bigger trouble. If Filch finds the four of us, I'll tell him the truth: I'll say I'm trying to stop you from getting into trouble."

"Ha! Miss Granger, you're dreaming. Filch is a very fair man. He justly resents every student. He doesn't care why you're wandering around the castle in the middle of the night. He only has one thought in his mind, which is to hang the students upside down from the ceiling."

Robin glanced at Chili's face, which had turned even paler, and knew that his prank had succeeded.

"Yes, that's right, Fred and George said the same thing about Filch!" Ron agreed.

"You, you, I don't care, I'm going to follow you!"

"Go ahead and come, Ron, Harry, let's go!"

(End of this chapter)