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In the world of Harry Potter, George passed by the castle's grand hall in the morning, and he noticed a crowd of young wizards gathered around the bulletin board, passionately discussing something.
As he got closer, he saw that a new piece of vellum had been nailed to the bulletin board.
The contents of the parchment read that at 8 pm tonight, the school would be restarting the dueling club in the grand hall, teaching all the young wizards how to fight more effectively with magic.
The dueling club used to be very popular at Hogwarts, and it was said that now Ravenclaw's Head of House, Flitwick, was a constant winner when he was a student in the club.
In one-on-one duels, even senior wizards couldn't defeat Flitwick.
Later, due to the frequent injuries of young wizards during duels, the school medical office was unable to cope with it and had to cancel it.
Now, it seems that the re-opening of the dueling club is probably because of the opening of the hidden room and the attacks on young wizards. Some teachers proposed to re-open the dueling club to enhance the fighting skills of young wizards so that they could have more self-defense abilities when facing dangers.
"It's actually a good opportunity for observation and learning."
George naturally had a positive attitude towards the reopening of the dueling club.
His magical techniques are mostly self-taught and not very standardized.
In combat, he mostly relied on his innate abilities, with magic only serving as a secondary function.
However, later on, he would have to rely more on magic in combat. Therefore, learning and observing some magical combat techniques are of great importance.
At 8 pm, when George arrived at the grand hall along with the first-year Slytherin wizards, they found that the hall had transformed.
Four long tables had been gathered together to form an extravagant gilded stage, illuminated by hundreds of floating candles from above.
The grand hall's ceiling became as dark as velvet, with almost every young wizard from the school present, packed tightly together. Each one held their wand and wore an expression of excitement.
As everyone was talking about which professor would be instructing them in the art of magical dueling, Professor Dumbledore, in his resplendent purple and red robes, and Severus Snape, dressed entirely in black with a stern expression, walked out.
Pompous and boastful, Dumbledore started off by flaunting his magical dueling skills, then went on to praise Severus Snape as his helper to inflate his own ego, making Snape's expression even colder.
George estimated that, among all the teachers in the school, Severus Snape was definitely one of the most disliked by Dumbledore.
If it weren't for the school, and if he hadn't reformed, George believed that Severus Snape would now be more than happy to cast the three Unforgivable Curses on Dumbledore.
The most critical thing was that Dumbledore had no self-awareness and wanted to engage in a duel with Severus Snape right then and there to demonstrate to the young wizards.
Dumbledore and Snape stood face-to-face across the stage, and as the three loud starts went off, they simultaneously raised their wands above their shoulders.
"Disarm!"
Before Dumbledore could finish his spell and complete his wand motion, Severus Snape's Disarmment Curse had already been cast.
A beam of red magical light struck Dumbledore directly, sending his wand flying from his hand, and he himself was thrown backwards, colliding with the wall of the stage and sliding down.
"What a fast speed!"
George couldn't help but let out an exclamation as he saw Severus Snape cast a spell below.
The Disarming Charm is a second-year spell and a spell of considerable difficulty. It is one of the most commonly used spells in wizard combat, capable of forcibly removing an opponent's weapon while also knocking them off their feet.
He had been self-taught this spell before and had recently completed it over the past two days, allowing him to release it normally.
However, when compared to the Disarmament Charm that Severus Snape had just released, George's spell was far inferior.
Not only was the power of George's spell inferior, but more importantly, Severus Snape's action in casting the Disarming Charm was simplified by more than half, and the speed of reciting the spell was incredibly fast. It seemed that the entire process was completed in less than a second with great fluidity.
That's why, when both of them released the Disarming Charm, Dumbledore was sent flying out of the way in the very first attempt.
Moreover, he noticed that at the same time Severus Snape completed his Disarming Charm, he did not stop moving. His wand waved slightly, clearly already preparing for a second spell.
It's just that Dumbledore was too inept to block even a single spell, so there was no need for him to cast a second one.
"This is a Disarming Charm, as you can see, I lost my wand."
However, Professor Snape, I'm not trying to offend you by saying this, but your intentions were too obvious just now.
If I wanted to stop you, it would be effortless, but I thought it might be a good idea for them to see this as well, so they can gain some knowledge and understand the consequences of being hit by the Disarming Charm."
Dumbledore struggled to get up, quickly straightened his appearance, and then stepped back onto the stage without a trace of shame, explaining once again.
Hearing Dumbledore's attempts at justification, Severus Snape lifted his wand, nearly wanting to cast a death curse on this fool.
As if sensing the danger from Severus Snape's aura, Dumbledore quickly changed the subject.
"Alright, now pair up and practice against each other. We will correct some errors in your dueling technique with Severus Professor."
When Dumbledore spoke, most of the young wizards didn't question his words and raised their hands to step onto the stage, including George among them.
He didn't believe Dumbledore's nonsense and didn't expect Dumbledore to correct anything for them. He was thinking of sparring with older wizards and hoped to get Severus Snape to help him refine his magical combat skills.
Dumbledore and Snape walked among the young wizards on stage, pairing them off in pairs.
George was also paired up, but his opponent was a small first-year Ravenclaw wizard.
"George, I'm Mathew Flitwick. I admire your learning abilities and Quidditch skills. I think I'm far inferior to you."
"However, in this duel, I have to apologize to you in advance."
The young wizard was quite confident, even facing the star of Slytherin before him, he didn't think he would lose in the dueling.
As a member of the Flitwick family, he inherited the family's natural talent for combat and had consulted his great-uncle multiple times about the techniques of wand fighting.
Even when his fellow first-year wizards were still practicing the Charm of Levitation, he had already become very proficient in using the Full BodyBind Curse for combat.
"Hmm... Good luck to you then."
George smiled without saying much.
That's a joke. Even without casting any spells, George could easily dodge most magical attacks due to his exceptional physical fitness and dynamic capture ability, which was comparable to that of a cat.
Added to that, the amount of magic he has learned and practiced regularly.
Let alone a first-year wizard, he wouldn't necessarily lose to a seventh-year wizard on the brink of graduation.
He mainly wanted to refine his skills, not that he was really bad at magic combat techniques.
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