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Chapter 64 - Duelling Lessons
Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 2nd September 2001 AD
Country: Britain - Scotland
Location: Hogwarts - Staff Quarters
Time: Evening
"It can't be, it just can't be." Exclaimed Buffy as she paced up and down the length of her room.
"It can and it is." Tonks stated from her position against the end of Buffy's bed. The Auror had made fast friends with the Slayer Witch. Buffy had been fascinated by the way Tonks could change her appearance at will, and had broken down in hysterics the first time Tonks had done her pig nose. Currently though Buffy was on the verge of breaking down.
Her strength, though still greater than that of a normal human was severely diminished, though she was not as weak as she first appeared, it had just taken time for her Slayer power's to return to their current strength, she could now hit someone without crying out in pain but they didn't fly quiet as far as they used to.
"I know it can, but it still can't." ranted Buffy "I mean, what does this mean for me, how am I supposed to fight demons when I am barely stronger than the average human."
"Is that so bad?" Asked Tonks.
"It is when you have had many times that level of strength for over five years." Returned Buffy "I mean if a wand gets knocked out of my hand I now become almost defenceless."
"You still have your speed."
"It's no good being fast if you can't actually hit your enemies across the room."
"I seem to manage." Tonks replied raising an eyebrow "You just need to get used to fighting with what you have now; I could help you with that."
Buffy turned to her, looking hopeful.
"Would you?"
"Outside of the Department of Mysteries I have the best combat training that Britain can provide and as a Level Two Auror, Detail Leader, I have the experience and ability to fine tune the training of others."
"You don't mind training me?" asked Buffy.
"Of course not." Returned Tonks "Why by the end of the month I could have you 'dusting' vampires with nothing but a wand and a spell."
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Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 4th September 2001 AD
Country: Britain - Scotland
Location: Hogwarts - Duelling Classroom
Time: Morning
The first Tuesday of the term rolled around and Harry was nervously waiting for his first Duelling Class to begin.
He knew most of the Gryffindor's had been eagerly awaiting this class and had been excitedly discussing it since they had received their timetables the day before. Some of them had enquired about his lack of a timetable and he merely smiled knowingly, not answering their questions. He had spent the rest of the days leading up to Tuesday taking his exams, to facilitate his skipping of the lessons.
He had loved the look on the face of the examiner doing his Defence practical, you were required to duel the examiner and disable him and he had managed to do it five times with each test lasting less than twenty seconds. Of course, he managed an O for both aspects of his Defence OWL.
Professor's Flitwick and McGonagall were equally as surprised when he had passed both their classes Practical Exams with O's and managed to get high E's for both the written, averaging both results out as O's,
The best part of the day had been when he had come out of his potions exam and shown Snape his ten perfect potions, the look on his face would stay with him forever, but at the moment though, thoughts had deserted him.
So there he was, anxiously awaiting the sixth years as they made their way to him from Transfiguration, the class was large at around thirty five from all four houses, though there were very few from Slytherin, he guessed that the number of students would drop when they got serious about duelling, he doubted Crabbe and Goyle would last.
He tried to distract himself by thinking back to the draft copy of the Quibbler article about his summer that Luna had written:
HARRY POTTER'S CONTINENTAL CAPPERS
Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived, today revealed to a Quibbler reporter exactly what he has been up to this summer.
According to Mr Potter he was rescued from the abuse of his relatives and the near fatality of the Wizarding Flu by none other than Fleur Delacour, the Beauxbatons Triwizard Champion, Under Eighteens Duelling Champion, quarter Veela and daughter of the eminent Dimitri Delacour, the man touted as the next French Minister of Magic.
Miss Delacour had dropped in to visit Mr. Potter, a good friend since the Triwizard Tournament, and had discovered him beaten and very sick. She rushed him to her doctor in France, stating that she didn't at all trust the English doctors.
When he recovered after several days of healing Miss Delacour informed him that he could stay as long as he wanted, Mr Potter expressed a desire to stay hidden for a while and took up Miss Delacour's offer willingly, as well as her following offer to use their family lawyer to get his 'guardians' imprisoned for their treatment of him during the summer, it is not known whether his relatives treatment was limited to this school year or if Mr Potter has always been treated badly by his 'guardians'.
During his time in France, Mr Potter spent some time studying for school and became even more proficient at Defence than he had been before, as well as greatly increasing his skill in his other classes.
At one point during the summer, after Mr Potter's disappearance had been revealed to the world, Madam Maxime, the Headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy Of Magic visited the Chateau and seeing Mr Potter there requested his assistance in teaching her students Flying and Duelling (Beauxbatons has a different term system to Hogwarts).
Mr Potter agreed and under the protection of a second legal identity, acquired from the French Ministry Of Magic, taught the Beauxbatons students, earning two Double EAGLES in the process by teaching both OWL and NEWT classes in both subjects.
The rest of the article had yet to be written but was to describe his new position at Hogwarts, he has no doubt the information about the Duelling Competition would be revealed soon, but he wasn't going to be the one to tell the papers about it.
He was currently garbed as Daniel so only four members of the class would know who he was but that still did not make him feel any better.
As the class filled into the large padded room he exchanged looks with Hermione, Ron, Neville and Luna before addressing the class.
"Welcome to Duelling, I am sure I do not need to explain to you what this class is about so lets go straight ahead with a demonstration to prove that I know what I am talking about."
He paused for a moment before continuing.
"Last year there was a club called the DA, in which many of you were taught to duel while that fool Umbridge had you just reading books."
There were various nods from around the room.
"Right, so let's start with a duel, can I have Miss Granger and Miss Lovegood out here in the duelling circle as well as Mr Weasley, Mr Longbottom, Mr Malfoy, Mr Crabbe and Mr Goyle."
The group moved out onto the mat, those who knew who he was looking surprised, he couldn't be planning what they were thinking. Malfoy and the other Slytherins on the other hand just looked smug as they thought he could never possibly beat all of them.
"Ok I want all of you to attack me," there were several gasps from around the class "And I am going to try to defeat you all, this way I can also compare the skills of those of you who had the DA training against the skills of those who do not, you are out if you are disabled or thrown out of the ring."
He moved to the centre of the circle as most of the others spread out around him, stupidly the Slytherin's did not; they would pay for that mistake.
"Begin?"
He didn't even wait for the first spell to be fired as he flipped backwards towards the Slytherin's, several hexes and jinxes flying through the space he had previously been occupying. Several of the DA members had positioned themselves badly and had to dodge each other's spells, that was not a mistake they would make again.
Twisting and dropping to his knees at the end of his flip, he fired a blasting hex at the Slytherins at less than a meter range, he watched as Malfoy's eyes flew open, he barely had time to dive sideways as but both of his bodyguards were blasted out of the circle.
Harry smiled.
Strike two. With his first shot as well.
Instinctively rolling to the side, Harry dodged the curses landing where his feet had been before spinning and firing a pair of stunners towards Ron and Neville, aiming them just to one side of each of them so that they dodged in the direction he wanted.
Ron did exactly as he hopped and dived to his left, Neville unfortunately didn't and tried to block the spell with a shielding charm, Harry watched the surprise on Neville's face as the stunner blasted straight through his shield and threw him out of the ring, sending Ron who had dived behind him out as well, he had intended for them to go flying into each other, but this worked too.
Strike four.
Standing he turned and fired of a pair of spells at Hermione and Luna, both of whom sidestepped his curses and quickly repositioned themselves to fill the gaps in the circle so that Draco was on one side of him and they were standing at the four and eight o'clock positions of the circle, which ensured that that their attacks would not hit each other and that Harry was surrounded.
He heard Draco behind him cast a rather nasty but unfortunately completely legal hex, Hermione and Luna synchronized their attacks to his.
Time to finish the duel.
Dodging Malfoy's spell he raised both his arms and raised shields with both his wand and empty hand, reflecting their spells back at them. Hermione, not expecting this was knocked out leaving Draco and Luna.
Malfoy getting annoyed fired another nasty spell at him and again Luna synchronized her attack.
What happened would have looked wonderful if it were shown in a movie in slow motion.
Casually sidestepping Luna's spell he moved to the side as Malfoy's spell past him, extending his wand the tip touched the flying spell.
Bending over backwards he brought his wand with the spell attached around in an arc before throwing it back at the astonished Slytherin, blasting him backwards as mushrooms started to painfully sprout up all over his face.
With a very quick hand gesture he summoned Draco's wand from him as he flew out of the circle, spinning around he dodged Luna's next attack before firing a pair of powerful disarmers at her.
He watched as Luna grinned as both spells flew at before blasting her out of the match sending her wand flying into Harry's outstretched hand.
He slowly turned to the surprised and astonished looks on the faces of most of the class; there was a short pause before a revived Hermione stared to clap, shortly followed by most of the rest of the class, Crabbe, Goyle and a mushroom faced Malfoy unsurprisingly did not.
"Thank you." He bowed, trying to make it look like he wasn't breathing hard, the fight had taken a lot out of him, all his spells had been a lot more powerful than normal "Five points to all those who duelled, and now that I have proved I can duel, lets analyze that duel, the DA members started well by spreading out. As you saw with Mr Crabbe, Mr Goyle and Mr Malfoy as well were nearly all knocked out with one shot. Secondly the DA members proved that they are not perfect either by almost knocked each other out by not being observant of each others positions. The third is a mistake, underestimating your opponent. Mr Longbottom assumed that I was no more powerful than any of you and so assumed that a normal shield would stop my attack, I pushed more power into my attack so that his shield proved useless. Next I want to caution you of the risks in Mr Weasley's next move, as he dodged my spell he dived behind Mr Longbottom so he was protected while he regained his feet, unfortunately doing so means that you can not see what your enemy is doing, you could for example be hit by an attack that the person in front of you dodged but you do not see in time, or alternately what happened in our fight could happen, lastly I want to praise Miss Granger and Miss Lovegood for timing their attacks to coincide with Mr Malfoy's as it decreased my chance of dodging them all."
He paused for a breath before continuing.
"Now for my own tactics, if you noticed I defeated each of my opponents in groups. Firstly I aimed to take out the Slytherin group as they were the least trained and skilled." He could hear several of the other House members trying not to laugh "As was proved by my first spell when I took out two of them within seconds of the beginning of the match, Mr Malfoy proved that he was more skilled than either of his Housemates by avoiding my curse, secondly I turned my attention to the DA male combatants, more skilled than the non-DA members, I attempted to trick them by carefully aiming my spells, so as to force my opponents to dodge towards one another so I could push them both out at once, although this did not work, my powerful spells allowed me to disable them both at the same time. That left the DA ladies and Mr Malfoy, Mr Malfoy, giving his powerful family connections; I guessed that although not strong on duelling strategy that he was skilled in a wider variety of spells as was proved correct. Miss Lovegood and Miss Granger's grades have shown that they were the strongest opponents, both were DA members, both were at the Ministry and both get good grades in class." Hermione blushed at the compliment "Meaning that they would not be the easiest opponents to take out, but thanks to my elimination of my weaker opponents I could now focus on them and sprung my two surprises, I was able to defeat Mr Malfoy and Miss Granger, leaving only Miss Lovegood who I overpowered and thusly won the match. Now I am going to point out that although the two of my final three opponents are highly intelligent it does not always mean that they will be harder to beat, sometimes even the best trained fighters freeze but a good combination of skill and knowledge can be deadly, the worst opponent to have is a clever opponent."
Harry then proceeded with the lesson for the remaining hour and a half of the class, he set up small one on one or two on two duels between the students, gauging the standards of the various students in the class, much to the pleasure of Hermione, Ron and Neville who all defeated Draco multiple times.
What was even better was the look on the faces of the students when at the end of the class he cancelled the spells on himself and revealed himself for who he really was.
Most of them gasped, several exclaimed, a couple fainted and one shouted.
"Potter," shouted Malfoy "What in Merlin's name are you up to, what have you done with the real Professor."
"I am the real Professor." He replied calmly.
"A student can't be a Professor, Potter. Dumbledore will hear of this."
"I already know Mr Malfoy." Replied Dumbledore from the doorway, his face carrying a light smile, a smile Harry knew was forced.
"You're allowing this?" demanded Malfoy.
"I have no choice Mr Malfoy, I saw Professor Radcliffe at Beauxbatons over the summer and asked him to come and work here, not knowing that he was really Lord Potter in disguise, he signed a contract with a legal second identity and therefore I can not remove him from the position without reason."
Most of the class were looking at Harry in surprise.
"If you can find a good reason for me to give up my position please let the Headmaster know but I have shown him my qualifications and you have personally seen my duelling skills, so legally there is nothing you can do."
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Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 4th September 2001 AD
Country: England
Location: Unknown
Time: Evening
In a dark room many miles away a man in a black cloak walked into a dark room and dropped to his knees, crawling forward he kissed the robes of the snake like creature that sat before him before standing up.
"My Lord, I have news from Severus Snape and my son."
"Speak." Hissed the creature.
"Potter has tricked Dumbledore into making him a Professor, he is the schools new Duelling Master and according to my son he has developed rather significant skills in the area, he managed to defeat four of those present at the Ministry last year as well as my son and Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle very efficiently."
The snake creature hissed out a short laugh.
"Perhaps your son is not as competent as you always tell me Lucius."
Malfoy flinched before continuing.
"My son was merely surprised My Lord by Potter's vast increase in skill, I assure you My Lord he will prove to be a very effective spy and an excellent Death Eater."
"We shall see Lucius, we shall see. Dismissed."
Lucius bowed low and backed out of the room, as he left, James emerged from the shadows accompanied by Nagini who slithered her way over to her master and coiled herself up by his side.
"What do you make of that?" his Voldemort.
"Young Harry has decided to play with the big boys, after some tutelage from my brother no doubt. He's trying to take control of his own destiny but to what end?"
"Indeed, to what end, this should be interesting."
AUTHOR NOTE: Sorry it took so long, the last three weeks have been quiet frankly terrible. Works been hectic, my beta's life's been so busy he's realized that he can not continue to beta for me, my dads been made redundant and my grandfather has been very bad and has just passed away.
Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 2nd September 2001 AD
Country: Britain - Scotland
Location: Hogwarts - Staff Quarters
Time: Evening
"It can't be, it just can't be." Exclaimed Buffy as she paced up and down the length of her room.
"It can and it is." Tonks stated from her position against the end of Buffy's bed. The Auror had made fast friends with the Slayer Witch. Buffy had been fascinated by the way Tonks could change her appearance at will, and had broken down in hysterics the first time Tonks had done her pig nose. Currently though Buffy was on the verge of breaking down.
Her strength, though still greater than that of a normal human was severely diminished, though she was not as weak as she first appeared, it had just taken time for her Slayer power's to return to their current strength, she could now hit someone without crying out in pain but they didn't fly quiet as far as they used to.
"I know it can, but it still can't." ranted Buffy "I mean, what does this mean for me, how am I supposed to fight demons when I am barely stronger than the average human."
"Is that so bad?" Asked Tonks.
"It is when you have had many times that level of strength for over five years." Returned Buffy "I mean if a wand gets knocked out of my hand I now become almost defenceless."
"You still have your speed."
"It's no good being fast if you can't actually hit your enemies across the room."
"I seem to manage." Tonks replied raising an eyebrow "You just need to get used to fighting with what you have now; I could help you with that."
Buffy turned to her, looking hopeful.
"Would you?"
"Outside of the Department of Mysteries I have the best combat training that Britain can provide and as a Level Two Auror, Detail Leader, I have the experience and ability to fine tune the training of others."
"You don't mind training me?" asked Buffy.
"Of course not." Returned Tonks "Why by the end of the month I could have you 'dusting' vampires with nothing but a wand and a spell."
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Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 4th September 2001 AD
Country: Britain - Scotland
Location: Hogwarts - Duelling Classroom
Time: Morning
The first Tuesday of the term rolled around and Harry was nervously waiting for his first Duelling Class to begin.
He knew most of the Gryffindor's had been eagerly awaiting this class and had been excitedly discussing it since they had received their timetables the day before. Some of them had enquired about his lack of a timetable and he merely smiled knowingly, not answering their questions. He had spent the rest of the days leading up to Tuesday taking his exams, to facilitate his skipping of the lessons.
He had loved the look on the face of the examiner doing his Defence practical, you were required to duel the examiner and disable him and he had managed to do it five times with each test lasting less than twenty seconds. Of course, he managed an O for both aspects of his Defence OWL.
Professor's Flitwick and McGonagall were equally as surprised when he had passed both their classes Practical Exams with O's and managed to get high E's for both the written, averaging both results out as O's,
The best part of the day had been when he had come out of his potions exam and shown Snape his ten perfect potions, the look on his face would stay with him forever, but at the moment though, thoughts had deserted him.
So there he was, anxiously awaiting the sixth years as they made their way to him from Transfiguration, the class was large at around thirty five from all four houses, though there were very few from Slytherin, he guessed that the number of students would drop when they got serious about duelling, he doubted Crabbe and Goyle would last.
He tried to distract himself by thinking back to the draft copy of the Quibbler article about his summer that Luna had written:
HARRY POTTER'S CONTINENTAL CAPPERS
Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived, today revealed to a Quibbler reporter exactly what he has been up to this summer.
According to Mr Potter he was rescued from the abuse of his relatives and the near fatality of the Wizarding Flu by none other than Fleur Delacour, the Beauxbatons Triwizard Champion, Under Eighteens Duelling Champion, quarter Veela and daughter of the eminent Dimitri Delacour, the man touted as the next French Minister of Magic.
Miss Delacour had dropped in to visit Mr. Potter, a good friend since the Triwizard Tournament, and had discovered him beaten and very sick. She rushed him to her doctor in France, stating that she didn't at all trust the English doctors.
When he recovered after several days of healing Miss Delacour informed him that he could stay as long as he wanted, Mr Potter expressed a desire to stay hidden for a while and took up Miss Delacour's offer willingly, as well as her following offer to use their family lawyer to get his 'guardians' imprisoned for their treatment of him during the summer, it is not known whether his relatives treatment was limited to this school year or if Mr Potter has always been treated badly by his 'guardians'.
During his time in France, Mr Potter spent some time studying for school and became even more proficient at Defence than he had been before, as well as greatly increasing his skill in his other classes.
At one point during the summer, after Mr Potter's disappearance had been revealed to the world, Madam Maxime, the Headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy Of Magic visited the Chateau and seeing Mr Potter there requested his assistance in teaching her students Flying and Duelling (Beauxbatons has a different term system to Hogwarts).
Mr Potter agreed and under the protection of a second legal identity, acquired from the French Ministry Of Magic, taught the Beauxbatons students, earning two Double EAGLES in the process by teaching both OWL and NEWT classes in both subjects.
The rest of the article had yet to be written but was to describe his new position at Hogwarts, he has no doubt the information about the Duelling Competition would be revealed soon, but he wasn't going to be the one to tell the papers about it.
He was currently garbed as Daniel so only four members of the class would know who he was but that still did not make him feel any better.
As the class filled into the large padded room he exchanged looks with Hermione, Ron, Neville and Luna before addressing the class.
"Welcome to Duelling, I am sure I do not need to explain to you what this class is about so lets go straight ahead with a demonstration to prove that I know what I am talking about."
He paused for a moment before continuing.
"Last year there was a club called the DA, in which many of you were taught to duel while that fool Umbridge had you just reading books."
There were various nods from around the room.
"Right, so let's start with a duel, can I have Miss Granger and Miss Lovegood out here in the duelling circle as well as Mr Weasley, Mr Longbottom, Mr Malfoy, Mr Crabbe and Mr Goyle."
The group moved out onto the mat, those who knew who he was looking surprised, he couldn't be planning what they were thinking. Malfoy and the other Slytherins on the other hand just looked smug as they thought he could never possibly beat all of them.
"Ok I want all of you to attack me," there were several gasps from around the class "And I am going to try to defeat you all, this way I can also compare the skills of those of you who had the DA training against the skills of those who do not, you are out if you are disabled or thrown out of the ring."
He moved to the centre of the circle as most of the others spread out around him, stupidly the Slytherin's did not; they would pay for that mistake.
"Begin?"
He didn't even wait for the first spell to be fired as he flipped backwards towards the Slytherin's, several hexes and jinxes flying through the space he had previously been occupying. Several of the DA members had positioned themselves badly and had to dodge each other's spells, that was not a mistake they would make again.
Twisting and dropping to his knees at the end of his flip, he fired a blasting hex at the Slytherins at less than a meter range, he watched as Malfoy's eyes flew open, he barely had time to dive sideways as but both of his bodyguards were blasted out of the circle.
Harry smiled.
Strike two. With his first shot as well.
Instinctively rolling to the side, Harry dodged the curses landing where his feet had been before spinning and firing a pair of stunners towards Ron and Neville, aiming them just to one side of each of them so that they dodged in the direction he wanted.
Ron did exactly as he hopped and dived to his left, Neville unfortunately didn't and tried to block the spell with a shielding charm, Harry watched the surprise on Neville's face as the stunner blasted straight through his shield and threw him out of the ring, sending Ron who had dived behind him out as well, he had intended for them to go flying into each other, but this worked too.
Strike four.
Standing he turned and fired of a pair of spells at Hermione and Luna, both of whom sidestepped his curses and quickly repositioned themselves to fill the gaps in the circle so that Draco was on one side of him and they were standing at the four and eight o'clock positions of the circle, which ensured that that their attacks would not hit each other and that Harry was surrounded.
He heard Draco behind him cast a rather nasty but unfortunately completely legal hex, Hermione and Luna synchronized their attacks to his.
Time to finish the duel.
Dodging Malfoy's spell he raised both his arms and raised shields with both his wand and empty hand, reflecting their spells back at them. Hermione, not expecting this was knocked out leaving Draco and Luna.
Malfoy getting annoyed fired another nasty spell at him and again Luna synchronized her attack.
What happened would have looked wonderful if it were shown in a movie in slow motion.
Casually sidestepping Luna's spell he moved to the side as Malfoy's spell past him, extending his wand the tip touched the flying spell.
Bending over backwards he brought his wand with the spell attached around in an arc before throwing it back at the astonished Slytherin, blasting him backwards as mushrooms started to painfully sprout up all over his face.
With a very quick hand gesture he summoned Draco's wand from him as he flew out of the circle, spinning around he dodged Luna's next attack before firing a pair of powerful disarmers at her.
He watched as Luna grinned as both spells flew at before blasting her out of the match sending her wand flying into Harry's outstretched hand.
He slowly turned to the surprised and astonished looks on the faces of most of the class; there was a short pause before a revived Hermione stared to clap, shortly followed by most of the rest of the class, Crabbe, Goyle and a mushroom faced Malfoy unsurprisingly did not.
"Thank you." He bowed, trying to make it look like he wasn't breathing hard, the fight had taken a lot out of him, all his spells had been a lot more powerful than normal "Five points to all those who duelled, and now that I have proved I can duel, lets analyze that duel, the DA members started well by spreading out. As you saw with Mr Crabbe, Mr Goyle and Mr Malfoy as well were nearly all knocked out with one shot. Secondly the DA members proved that they are not perfect either by almost knocked each other out by not being observant of each others positions. The third is a mistake, underestimating your opponent. Mr Longbottom assumed that I was no more powerful than any of you and so assumed that a normal shield would stop my attack, I pushed more power into my attack so that his shield proved useless. Next I want to caution you of the risks in Mr Weasley's next move, as he dodged my spell he dived behind Mr Longbottom so he was protected while he regained his feet, unfortunately doing so means that you can not see what your enemy is doing, you could for example be hit by an attack that the person in front of you dodged but you do not see in time, or alternately what happened in our fight could happen, lastly I want to praise Miss Granger and Miss Lovegood for timing their attacks to coincide with Mr Malfoy's as it decreased my chance of dodging them all."
He paused for a breath before continuing.
"Now for my own tactics, if you noticed I defeated each of my opponents in groups. Firstly I aimed to take out the Slytherin group as they were the least trained and skilled." He could hear several of the other House members trying not to laugh "As was proved by my first spell when I took out two of them within seconds of the beginning of the match, Mr Malfoy proved that he was more skilled than either of his Housemates by avoiding my curse, secondly I turned my attention to the DA male combatants, more skilled than the non-DA members, I attempted to trick them by carefully aiming my spells, so as to force my opponents to dodge towards one another so I could push them both out at once, although this did not work, my powerful spells allowed me to disable them both at the same time. That left the DA ladies and Mr Malfoy, Mr Malfoy, giving his powerful family connections; I guessed that although not strong on duelling strategy that he was skilled in a wider variety of spells as was proved correct. Miss Lovegood and Miss Granger's grades have shown that they were the strongest opponents, both were DA members, both were at the Ministry and both get good grades in class." Hermione blushed at the compliment "Meaning that they would not be the easiest opponents to take out, but thanks to my elimination of my weaker opponents I could now focus on them and sprung my two surprises, I was able to defeat Mr Malfoy and Miss Granger, leaving only Miss Lovegood who I overpowered and thusly won the match. Now I am going to point out that although the two of my final three opponents are highly intelligent it does not always mean that they will be harder to beat, sometimes even the best trained fighters freeze but a good combination of skill and knowledge can be deadly, the worst opponent to have is a clever opponent."
Harry then proceeded with the lesson for the remaining hour and a half of the class, he set up small one on one or two on two duels between the students, gauging the standards of the various students in the class, much to the pleasure of Hermione, Ron and Neville who all defeated Draco multiple times.
What was even better was the look on the faces of the students when at the end of the class he cancelled the spells on himself and revealed himself for who he really was.
Most of them gasped, several exclaimed, a couple fainted and one shouted.
"Potter," shouted Malfoy "What in Merlin's name are you up to, what have you done with the real Professor."
"I am the real Professor." He replied calmly.
"A student can't be a Professor, Potter. Dumbledore will hear of this."
"I already know Mr Malfoy." Replied Dumbledore from the doorway, his face carrying a light smile, a smile Harry knew was forced.
"You're allowing this?" demanded Malfoy.
"I have no choice Mr Malfoy, I saw Professor Radcliffe at Beauxbatons over the summer and asked him to come and work here, not knowing that he was really Lord Potter in disguise, he signed a contract with a legal second identity and therefore I can not remove him from the position without reason."
Most of the class were looking at Harry in surprise.
"If you can find a good reason for me to give up my position please let the Headmaster know but I have shown him my qualifications and you have personally seen my duelling skills, so legally there is nothing you can do."
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Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 4th September 2001 AD
Country: England
Location: Unknown
Time: Evening
In a dark room many miles away a man in a black cloak walked into a dark room and dropped to his knees, crawling forward he kissed the robes of the snake like creature that sat before him before standing up.
"My Lord, I have news from Severus Snape and my son."
"Speak." Hissed the creature.
"Potter has tricked Dumbledore into making him a Professor, he is the schools new Duelling Master and according to my son he has developed rather significant skills in the area, he managed to defeat four of those present at the Ministry last year as well as my son and Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle very efficiently."
The snake creature hissed out a short laugh.
"Perhaps your son is not as competent as you always tell me Lucius."
Malfoy flinched before continuing.
"My son was merely surprised My Lord by Potter's vast increase in skill, I assure you My Lord he will prove to be a very effective spy and an excellent Death Eater."
"We shall see Lucius, we shall see. Dismissed."
Lucius bowed low and backed out of the room, as he left, James emerged from the shadows accompanied by Nagini who slithered her way over to her master and coiled herself up by his side.
"What do you make of that?" his Voldemort.
"Young Harry has decided to play with the big boys, after some tutelage from my brother no doubt. He's trying to take control of his own destiny but to what end?"
"Indeed, to what end, this should be interesting."
AUTHOR NOTE: Sorry it took so long, the last three weeks have been quiet frankly terrible. Works been hectic, my beta's life's been so busy he's realized that he can not continue to beta for me, my dads been made redundant and my grandfather has been very bad and has just passed away.
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