❝𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘱
𝘪 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰 𝘨𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘬
𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘩, 𝘪 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪 𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴
𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘢𝘵, 𝘮𝘮𝘮
𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘬
𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘶𝘱
𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰 𝘨𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘬❞
一 𝘨𝘰𝘰 𝘨𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘬, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘴
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EVERYONE NOW GATHERED AROUND A LONG WOODEN, BROWN STAGE WITH A DEEP BLUE COVER TIED IN THE MIDDLE OF IT DECORATED WITH THE MOON'S PHASES ON IT, ALONG WITH A FEW STARS.
your were, annoyingly, mashed between hermione and some random kid.
you groan as lockhart steps up onto the long platform, he had a cape just hanging off his shoulder, and clothes you would see one wear to fencing.
"gather round!" he bellows, catching everyone's attention. you roll your eyes in annoyance as he continues to speak, "gather round. can everybody see me?"
god i wish i couldn't. i'm barely lucky my eyesight is worse than the average person
"can you all hear me?"
not if i block my ears
"excellent" he grins.
you stare blankly.
"in light of the dark events of recent weeks.. professor dumbledore has granted me permission to start this little dueling club.."
fucking idiot dumpydoor
"to train you up in all case you ever need to defend yourselves.."
you scrunch your face up, questioning whether if he's really the right person for the job.
"..as i myself have done on countless occasions. for full details, see my published works." he grins charmingly and pulls the string from his odd shoulder cape, pulling it off and chucking it towards you and hermione.
hermione was distracted, but you grimace visibly and step aside, letting the green cape fall to the ground. going as far as to nudge it away with your foot.
lockhart stares between you and the cape, catching your unimpressed eyes.
feeling very embarrassed, he coughs loudly and straightens himself up, continuing with a slight wobble in his step.
"let me introduce my assistant.. professor snape" he holds out a hand.
you blink.
everyone leans forward on the stage to see snape walking up with crossed arms and his usual montonious face and all-black outfit.
"he has sportingly agreed to help with a short demonstration" he puts his hands on his hips, "now, i don't want any of you youngsters to worry.. you'll still have your potions master when i'm through with him. never fear" he winks.
you shudder in disgust.
he steps towards snape, whisking out his wand. they stand face to face, about two feet between them, arms by their sides.
they both whip up their wands in front of their faces, before back down beside them, except at about a 30 degree angle. they bow the top halves of their body to each other, which snape clearly does not want to do, and look back up. turning around and taking five steps apart from each other before spinning around and readying their wands.
"one. two. three!" lockhart chants.
"expelliarmus!" snape fires a charm at him, "woah!" he screams as he falls back, painfully hitting the floor.
a smirk rises on your lips.
mostly everyone laughs out, but a few look genuinely worried. including hermione.
lockhart rolls his tongue around in his mouth, slowly sitting up.
"do you think he's alright?" hermione asks worriedly.
"who cares?" ron grins.
"for once i agree with you" you hum and he frowns.
lockhart breathes heavily and stands back up, "an excellent idea to show them that, professor snape" he says, looking more aggravated than he probably would have liked.
"..but if you don't mind me saying, it was pretty obvious uh, what you were about to do. and if i had wanted to stop you, it would have only been too easy" he chuckles.
"perhaps it would be prudent to first teach the students.. to block unfriendly spells, professor"
lockhart smiles annoyingly, snape gives back and odd sort of smile, though obviously forced.
"an excellent suggestion, professor snape" lockhart turns back around, walking towards the other end of the stage again.
"uh- let's have a volunteer pair. uhm.. potter, weasley, how about you?" he smiles, harry nods and goes over to walk up.
"weasley's wand causes devastation with the simplest spells. we'll be sending potter to the hospital wing in a matchbox. may i suggest someone from my own house?" he puts both his arms up, "malfoy, perhaps?"
you sigh.
he spins around, pointing at malfoy and gesturing him to come on stage.
lockhart looks to harry nervously, walking over his direction and off the stage, "good luck, potter"
"thank you, sir"
you shake your head and rub your eyes, groaning and questioning why you were even there.
both harry and draco approach each other, harry with a neutral face and draco with a cocky grin.
they stop about two feet from each other, "wands at the ready."
they both flick their wands in front of their faces.
"scared, potter?" draco raises his eyebrows.
"you wish"
you raise your eyebrows slightly.
they both swish their wands down, spiralling around and taking five steps outwards.
they both turn to each other and ready their wands, "on the count of three.. cast your charms to disarm your opponent. only to disarm. we don't want any accidents here. one. two."
and before he reached three, draco was already at it, "everte statum!"
harry gets sent flipping backwards, hitting the hard floor with a painful thud.
everyone gasps slightly, draco smirks smugly as a few of the slytherins laugh at harry.
snape holds back the smirk tugging at his lips.
harry gets right back up, readying his wand once more, "rictusempra!"
draco is spent spinning back, landing flat on his butt.
you roll your eyes.
draco looks up to snape who harshly grabs him from the back of the collar, pulling him up and pushing him back towards harry.
draco readies his wand again.
"i said disarm only!" lockhart scolds.
well, obviously no one listened
"serpensortia!" he waves his wand, shooting out a snake.
your lips part slightly, eyebrows raising as well.
kaburamaru poked his head from your uniform, hissing.
the snake glanced your way.
"don't move potter, i'll get rid of it for you" snape announced.
you paused,
get rid of it?
snape walks forward, not showing any signs of fear from the snake.
"allow me, professor snape"
you sigh in slight relief, for once relieved by the mans presence. under his watch, the snake would not get injured nor killed, only because he was so miserable at magic he would fail horribly.
"alarte ascendare!"
what shocked you was that the spell actually worked. but he obviously didn't pick the right spell, as it just flung the snake into the air for a moment before dropping it right back down where it was.
you wince slightly, frowning.
and this only seemed to aggravate the snake more as it gets back up, hissing at the students.
you blink at it.
but harry narrows his eyes at the snake, taking a step forward, and starts speaking to the snake, telling it to stop.
you blink,
huh..? the snake can understand him, too?
everyones eyes widen and you wonder why.
well.. it's normal, isn't it? i've always been able to understand snakes, specifically kaburamaru..
the snake turns to you and you blink, shuffling forward slightly while kaburamaru flicks his tongue at the snake.
the snake leans forwards, hissing a bunch while harry still talks to it. everyone seemed confused and scared.
the snake turns to harry, hissing again. harry shakes his head slightly.
"vipera evanesca" snape shoots out a spell, also looking rather perplexed.
but as the spell shot out, it hit the ground instead of the snake.
in some stupid and reckless mindset, you had snatched the snake away from the spell, it looping around your neck and coiling with kaburamaru.
you freeze slightly.
shit. now the attentions is on me
snape looks at you with a questioning look, you just stare back at him.
he stares for a moment longer before turning away, likely dismissing it.
you already had one snake, did one more really bother anyone?
"what are you playing at?" the kid who was next to you shouts to harry, obviously having thought the snake was after him.
you roll your eyes, bringing your finger to stroke both kaburamaru and the new snake who you new now, thankfully, to also be male.
harry looks at him confused as the boy looks at him in fear.
harry looks around at both teachers, who looked equally as shocked as the rest of the students.
many also stared your way, looking disturbed as you carelessly hold the snakes.
your face, however, was nonchalant as if nothing had just happened.
date posted ; 5/06/23