The years of welding at Hogwarts

1. What is Gilderoy Lockhart’s favorite color?

2. Gilderoy Lockhart's...

Uh, what the hell is this?

Draco threw the parchment in his hand to the ground and looked at the desks and chairs next to him. He had no intention of sitting down, but just looked at Lockhart in front of him with a provocative look.

He drew his wand slowly and gracefully, and bowed slightly to Lockhart in the manner of an elegant aristocrat.

"Professor, if you want to test our defense against the dark arts, then a teaching wizard duel is the best way to test it, don't you think?"

"This one……"

Facing Draco's challenge, Lockhart quickly responded, "This is indeed a very clever idea."

"However, there is a huge gap in strength between students and professors. Please don't mind what I say. Even if I just use the disarming spell, it may cause great harm to you..."

"So I personally think that for your safety, it would be better to replace the wizard duel between professors and students with an absolutely safe quiz."

Straightening up little by little, Draco took out a pair of white gloves from the inside pocket of his clothes, staring at Lockhart in front of him seriously, a provocative arc appearing at the corner of his mouth.

"Isn't that the purpose of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class? To let students experience danger and learn how to protect themselves in danger..."

As Draco spoke, he threw the white gloves in his hand towards Lockhart.

Lockhart had not expected Draco to do this at all, and was caught off guard by the glove thrown by Draco and hit in the face.

"Draco!"

Lockhart had a murderous look on his face, "You must respect your professor in class. Five points deducted from Slytherin!"

"As you wish," Draco responded fearlessly, and threw the other glove in his hand towards Lockhart's face.

With a slight "pop", the second white glove, thrown with greater force, made close contact with Lockhart's face.

Even the most cultured person cannot tolerate this kind of repeated provocations, not to mention that Lockhart actually has no culture and all his personalities are just a disguise.

Lockhart drew out his wand with an angry expression. Although he looked furious, he still remembered his identity as a professor and attacked directly without losing his professorial demeanor.

Instead, he stood there, trying to calm his anger, pretending to be calm and tolerant, "Since you insist..."

"First of all, I want to make it clear that if

It would be easy for me to knock you down."

"But since Mr. Malfoy is so eager to duel with me, I don't mind letting you gain some experience. I will try my best to control the strength of my attack and ensure that Mr. Malfoy is sent off the duel field safely."

As Lockhart took the initiative to walk towards a boxing ring-like venue standing in the center of the duel classroom, many students revealed a gloating smile.

The smile was not directed at Draco, but at Lockhart.

Poor Lockhart, he still hasn't realized that the opponent he is facing has strength that cannot be judged by the appearance of an ordinary second-year student.

Although Draco, who is both incompetent and pretentious, is the weakest among the five giants of Kamar-Taj, this kind of weakness depends on who he is compared with.

Don’t you even take a look at who the original five giants of Kamar-Taj were?

They are all great gods!

Even if Draco is the weakest one among them, he is still something that these mortal wizards can never reach.

So, there will be a good show to watch.

Standing on the dueling arena, Lockhart performed many fancy moves with his wand-holding hand. "Well, as you can see now, we hold the wand in the normal dueling posture..."

However, Draco, who was standing opposite him, just casually hung his wand by his leg, not even holding the wand in any of the standard wand-holding gestures that Professor Flitwick had taught them when they were learning Charms.

He showed his students his classic signature smile with eight teeth showing perfectly, "When we count to three, we will perform the first magic."

"Of course, before that, one thing we have to do is..."

Facing Draco, Lockhart bowed and said, "Bow to your opponent. This is the etiquette of a wizard duel."

Draco, still with an elegant smile on his face, slowly tilted his body. Standing up again, Draco tilted his head, with a hint of disdain for this vase professor in his eyes.

"Which one of them do you think will win?"

Gently patting Shirley's arm, Hermione looked at the two people on the ring with curiosity.

In response, Shirley just yawned loudly, "I don't know, and I'm not interested in knowing."

"That's Lockhart!" Hermione shook her best friend's arm in dissatisfaction. "Lockhart is a famous master of Defense Against the Dark Arts. Draco's ability is only considered average."

"Shh!" Shirley raised a finger to the little beaver's lips, "The show is about to begin."

As the countdown ended, Lockhart on the ring suddenly raised the wand in his hand high above his shoulder, but at the moment he raised his hand, a dazzling red light bloomed between him and Draco.

He didn't even see Draco raise his wand before he was knocked into the air by a silent and wandless repulsive spell cast by Draco.

Lockhart, whose body was suspended in the air, looked completely confused.

Before his slow-witted brain could react, Draco's next move perfectly demonstrated the value of the Duel Arena Rankings and the top spot in the second-year division.

The dueling field at Hogwarts was only opened to students below the third year in the last month of the previous school year.

Excluding the military training month of this school year, Draco only had a little over a month to show off his skills in the dueling arena.

But in just one month, he had an astonishing number of duels reaching more than 600, and the dueling arena was not open every day.

This also means that every time the duel arena is open, he has to go through more than thirty or forty duels.

What is the Duel Arena Veteran King?

That's it.

Of course, this is only because the other four giants of Kamar-Taj are too disdainful to participate in the duel, otherwise Draco would not have been able to sit at the top of the ranking list.

Draco, who hated Gryffindor so much, had become obsessed with studying the rules of the dueling arena in order to inflict greater damage to the Gryffindors in a duel.

Fall protection?

A levitation spell is inserted in the intervals between three or four low-level evil spells. When the floating opponent is about to fall out of the ring, the flying spell is used to pull the opponent's clothes back to the battlefield.

As long as the opponent remains in the air, he will not be protected by the knockdown rules!

In order to prevent his opponent from randomly casting spells while floating in the air and giving him a chance to counterattack, Draco even created a dueling technique called Shadow Step without any instruction.

Simply put, it means hiding in the blind spot of the opponent's field of vision and launching an attack, making it impossible for the opponent to capture your exact position and make an effective counterattack.

This kind of high-level dueling technique can basically only be used when bullying a weak opponent. I didn't expect to see it today during a competition between a professor and a student.

Hermione looked at the one-sided slaughter on the duel field speechlessly, and then glanced at the "Traveling with Ghouls" in her hand with disgust.

Originally, Hermione wanted to throw the broken thing away, but her instinct to protect books made her unable to do it. After struggling for a while, Hermione could only

He silently threw this broken book into his schoolbag.

I usually read this stuff as a piece of amateur literature, as a pastime when I'm bored.

Hermione comforted herself.

"Let's go, there's nothing to see anymore."

Under the influence of a certain third-generation reserve, the little beaver, who no longer cares so much about school rules, took her best friend's hand and walked out of the duel classroom.

Instead of complying with school rules and wasting your precious time watching a duel between two noobs whose outcome is already determined and the process is boring.

It would be better to spend your precious time learning more new knowledge.

The ocean of magic is so vast that it is impossible to learn all the magic in the world with a limited life. In this case, every second of time is precious.

Five minutes later, when Hermione sat down in the study room of the library contentedly holding a thick tome, poor Lockhart was let go from the air by Draco, who was still not satisfied.

From the arena in the dueling classroom to the hospital bed in the school infirmary next door, Lockhart's body never touched the ground for even a second. He received a one-stop service from fighting to hospitalization.

I have to say that although the little Slytherin snake sometimes looks bad, it is actually kind-hearted.

Chapter 325 Dream Walk

In an endless pure white void, a figure that was almost as solid as a real person stood in the void. There was endless white extending under his feet and above his head, making it impossible to tell up from down, left from right.

Noah placed one hand horizontally in front of him and supported his chin with the other hand, his expression slightly distressed.

"As expected, it still doesn't work..."

Although the mysterious underground palace where he is now can also be connected to the hazy fantasy, no matter how Noah moves forward, the spatial coordinates he left behind are still at a very far distance.

Without the burden of his body, Noah in his spiritual state could move forward at an extremely fast speed that was unimaginable for ordinary people. In addition, he also performed several ultra-long-distance space teleportations in the middle.

Even so, Noah did not feel that the spatial coordinates had any tendency to get closer, so the only explanation was that this mysterious underground palace and the world where Hogwarts was located were not in the same dimension.

It is not like what Noah thought at first after he learned the true identity of the Hive, that this haunted place is on a distant alien planet like the one in the next movie universe.

Ten minutes later, Noah opened his eyes again in the mysterious underground palace.

After his soul returned to his body, the first thing Noah did was to check whether all the defensive magic he had set up before leaving had been activated.

Looking into the distance, although the hive had disappeared, Noah could still sense its existence and did not pay much attention to it.

With his brain working rapidly, Noah searched through all the spells in his memory, whether forbidden or not, in a very short time.

A bold idea gradually emerged in Noah's mind.

"I don't know if it will work..."

With no other options available, this forbidden spell seemed to be the last solution Noah could seek.

After using Transfiguration to transform some stones scattered on the ground into candles, and then arranging the candles around himself to form an irregular circle, Noah raised his eyebrows.

"This is my first time trying this kind of forbidden spell that violates the rules..."

His voice sounded a little bit excited about breaking the rules.

Standing in the strange circle of candles, Noah made a casting gesture with his hands and silently recited the long and complicated ancient spell in his mind.

As the magic power surged, the candles around Noah were ignited by the invisible magical fluctuations, and his robes began to move without wind.

Chaotic black and red spheres appeared around Noah like the cores of dying stars. They were actually miniature projections of parallel universes.

The strands of red and black magic extending from the sphere are like a dense neural network. On some unknown level, they make the directions of these worlds closely related within a certain range, but the accumulation of every slight difference makes these different worlds seem plausible.

As if he was manipulating a super-large holographic projection, Noah's hands kept flying in the air.

Theoretically, the spell of sleepwalking should require a counterpart of the caster living in the parallel universe he wants to travel to.

In this way, the caster can project his consciousness and occupy the body of his own counterpart, thereby moving freely in the parallel universe.

However, there are always a few mystics who break the rules. For example, a junior brother of Noah who did not want to reveal his name had pioneered the feat of dreamwalking with the help of corpses.

Although this feat brought some not-so-good consequences, such as being hunted by the undead.

However, the Supreme Sorcerer basically does not follow the rules.

Bald Qiang relies on absorbing power from the dark dimension to maintain his long life.

Although Strange is not the Sorcerer Supreme of Kamar-Taj in the movie universe, he is obviously more like the Sorcerer Supreme than Fatty Wang as he possesses a magical artifact like the Eye of Agamotto.

And Noah, the Kamar-Taj branch princess in the Harry Potter world...

Well, he can barely be considered a Supreme Sorcerer.

Now Noah wants to return to Hogwarts, even though there is no equivalent of himself in that universe, nor a dead body from a parallel universe that he can borrow for a short period of time.

But Noah had a slightly less reliable solution in mind.

The same phoenix blood as Fox's flows in his veins. This blood connection has established an extremely close connection between Noah and Fox.

Although this blood relationship is not as close as that of a homologue, it is enough for Noah to go online briefly.

Now he just hoped that the particularly greedy fat turkey would not be ungrateful.

Relying on the distant but very clear spatial coordinate positioning, Noah quickly locked onto a familiar figure in the distant world.

His body slowly floated up under the support of magic, and Noah slowly closed his eyes, feeling his consciousness being projected into the distance under the effect of this mysterious ritual.

In the infinite multiverse that seemed like a huge neural network system, a stream of light quickly shuttled through this intricate system, ignoring the layers of dimensional walls between different universes, and soon landed in a castle standing between snow-capped mountains.

……

On the eighth floor of Hogwarts Castle, the headmaster's, oh it should be called the vice-headmaster's office now.

Unlike Scarlet Witch's feeling of discomfort during her first sleepwalking, perhaps because Fox's mental strength was far inferior to Noah's, Noah's replacement process was quite smooth.

The moment Noah opened his eyes again, what he saw was a huge dinner plate on the desk in front of him. On it was a roasted whole cow, half of which had turned into a skeleton, while the other half was still emitting hot steam.

Well, he could guess with his toes what this fat turkey was doing hiding in the office every day.

Eat, eat, eat. All you do all day long is eat!