Chapter 35 Duel in the Courtyard

One day during the Easter holidays, Schelling received an owl challenging him to a duel.

Schelling was confused when he first received the letter of challenge. After inquiring from various parties, he finally figured out all the details of the Slytherin faction dispute. "It turns out that there is such an undercurrent in Slytherin. These are plots that have never been mentioned in the original book. I started to think that campus life is quite interesting."

When encountering a plot that was not planned, Xie Lin smiled happily, as if he had encountered something very happy.

There are two challengers - one of them is the former Slytherin Seeker who was replaced by Draco with a money offensive - third-year Terrence Higgs, who is not satisfied with the fact that he has been manipulated in a black box and lost his ability. He felt unconvinced that he was the Seeker, so he wanted to challenge Schelling to a duel. If Schelling lost, he hoped that Draco could return the Seeker position.

The other challenger is Gallup Lestrange, a fourth-year student. He regards the Malfoy family's first choice to protect themselves after the fall of Voldemort as a betrayal of the pure-blood family, so he does not allow the Malfoy family to The children easily established popularity and fame in Slytherin.

The cautious Xie Lin asked Daphne to help investigate the strength of the two challengers from the family, and then decided to go to the appointment to accept the challenge. Schelling originally had the idea of ​​establishing a force that would follow him within Slytherin, so this challenge was just a good opportunity to establish his own prestige.

Xie Lin does not want to be like those pedantic pure-blood elements, trapped by the narrow pure-blood ideas. He hopes that the force he has established can appoint people on their merits and use them on their own merits - Xie Lin values ​​a person more than blood. character, temperament, strength and talent.

As the saying goes, if you fight against the outside world, you must keep the inside at bay. Only by subduing the entire Slytherin can he go to other colleges to recruit talents with peace of mind.

This challenge had already been widely known by someone's deliberate publicity. The moment Xie Lin signed the challenge letter to accept the challenge, the little wizards who witnessed this scene in the lounge were immediately in an uproar. Everyone was looking forward to this duel, and some even invited Dean Professor Snape to be the referee on the night of the duel.

The duel was scheduled for two nights in the Slytherin common room.

On the night of the duel, when Xie Lin stepped into the common room at the right time, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became quiet and strange.

Professor Snape was seen standing expressionlessly in the center of the lounge. Every corner of the lounge was crowded with young wizards. Schelling glanced quickly and found that almost all Slytherin students were present. .

Draco looked at Xie Lin with a somewhat worried expression. After all, Xie Lin's opponents were all students a few grades above Xie Lin. Daphne and Meredith were full of blind confidence in Xie Lin and looked forward to it with excitement at this moment. He looked at Xie Lin with his eyes.

Just as Snape was about to start speaking, Sherrin hurriedly interrupted, "I'm sorry, Professor, but I wish I could say a few words before tonight's duel begins."

Snape's cold poker face showed no expression, and Schelling took his lack of objection as tacit approval.

He cast a loudspeaker spell on himself, "Good evening, fellow Slytherin students. I believe everyone knows the meaning behind tonight's duel. Before that, I want to explain one thing. Today I have an appointment. Coming here is my personal decision and has nothing to do with the Malfoy family to which I belong!"

After saying this, the whole place was in an uproar. The little snakes in the lounge were whispering to each other, making it as noisy as a vegetable market.

Xie Lin then said loudly: "On the first day when I was sorted into Slytherin, I was extremely satisfied. I was ambitious, shrewd, valued honor, assessed the situation, protected myself wisely, and won first. This is what I cared about. But I did not I don’t look down on any student from Gryffindor, Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff, because today I discovered that Slytherin House is not perfect!”

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone in the audience was shocked. To say this in a Slytherin who values ​​glory and has a higher priority than anything else, is this a way to commit suicide?

Except for Snape, who was still expressionless, everyone was stunned by the shocking words from Schelling's mouth, and the atmosphere suddenly became silent.

Seeing that the effect he wanted had already been achieved, Xie Lin continued his efforts: "Students here, do you know the purpose of Salazar Slytherin in establishing the academy? Do you know why he insists on pure blood?"

He paused, and when the Slytherin students all looked at him in confusion, he continued. "It's strength! It's unity! It's a unified will!" Xie Lin looked at them with bright eyes, "Of course, there are also interests that continue to continue and intertwine!"

"The real Slytherin should be composed entirely of outstanding students. Intrigue and intrigue are not the best words to describe us. The correct description should be unity, mutual help and mutual achievement."

"What a true Slytherin cares about is not the excellence of his bloodline, but his true talent and strength."

"The real Slytherin treats resourcefulness as a means, not an end. It no longer makes people feel disgusted, but makes people feel elegant."

"A true Slytherin, everyone can happily say to their families on the day they join, look, I entered the best house in Hogwarts, and on the day they leave, they will be deeply attached to the Slytherin badge. I bow deeply and thank myself every day for being here.”

"Look at you again and think about what you have done today. While you are holding on to a self-proclaimed aristocratic mentality, the brave Gryffindor is improving your defense against dark magic. When you are complacent about the success of your conspiracy At that time, the wise Ravenclaw was more familiar with a spell than we were. While you were fighting for some benefits, the datura planted by the diligent Hufflepuff had reached the harvest season."

"Why do we think we are superior to others? Just because we have a bloodline that cannot bring us any power? Just because we are only thinking about petty gains and intrigues?"

"So I hope that everyone here tonight will forget that I am a Malfoy and remember that I am a Slytherin!"

It must be said that Xie Lin's impassioned remarks moved many young wizards.

Prefect Gemma Farley was the first to stand up and applaud, then Draco, Pansy, Daphne, and Meredith also stood up and applauded, and then more and more little wizards joined the applause, and slowly More than half of the students in the audience were applauding, especially the little wizards who came from a weak family or a mixed-race family.

Their status in Slytherin is generally not high. The positions of prefects, positions on the Quidditch team, and even superior resources in the common room are usually not available to them. They regard themselves as inferior to others in the academy. The taste has long been dissatisfied, and the vision Schelling describes at this moment resonates most with them.

Opponent Terrence Higgs was also moved by Schelling's words.

He himself comes from a small mixed-race family with a humble background. He was able to gain a foothold in the cutthroat Slytherin thanks to his father, Bertie Higgs, and Rufus Scrimgeour, the director of the Auror Office.

But despite this, he clearly has excellent talent in flying, but he still lost his position as Seeker. This time he became the leader because of the strong family hiding behind the scenes. He was forced to stand up and be taken for granted. Gun user.

The ferocious look on Gallup Lestrange's face flashed, and he sneered: "As expected of the Malfoy boy, he is really eloquent, and he seems to make a lot of sense. The problem is - you want to change the situation." Laitlin, do you have that strength? "

Xie Lin made a sound with disdain, "Whether you have that kind of strength is not just talk, we will know soon!" Without waiting for Gallup's reply, he said to Snape: "Professor, I'm going to Okay, let’s start the first duel today with me challenging Higgs!”

Terrence looked at Xie Lin's confident expression without any fear. He saw no hesitation or fear in the eyes of this boy who still looked immature, only determination and confidence. He sighed secretly, stared into Xie Lin's eyes and said: "I was moved by your words, and I hope you can remember what you said today - Professor, I'm sorry to waste everyone's time tonight, I decided to abstain!"

Snape's expression did not show any change, and he just nodded slightly to express his acceptance of Terrence's abstention.

Then Gallup stood up, walked to the center of the lounge, and stood opposite Schelling.

Although he despised Schelling in words, he didn't look down upon him in his heart. After all, Schelling's performance in the Duel Club was obvious to all, and during the Christmas period, he even wiped out Harry and Ron one against two.

After the two men each performed an ancient dueling ritual on the other, the duel began after Snape counted to three!

Gallup knew how powerful Schelling was, and took action first, "Expelliarmus", "Collapse" and "All Petrified". In the blink of an eye, three offensive spells were shot out in turn, sealing off all places where Schelling could move. He actually mastered the rapid casting technique to the point where he can cast three shots in an instant!

Schelling estimated that with his casting speed, he could do two spells in an instant at most. After judging that he could not win with speed, he used the wand to send out a red curse at a tricky angle. The curse hit Gallup accurately. Among the three magic spells, the stun spell is in the middle.

The two magic spells collided with each other. Instead of melting each other, they rebounded vigorously like two rubber balls colliding, and flew in opposite directions at a sudden acceleration - while the red light magic spell knocked away the disarming spell on the left, The stun spell also knocked the whole body binding spell away from the attack trajectory.

Xie Lin used only one magic spell to neutralize the opponent's attack without moving away from his original position. This required great courage and absolute confidence in the accuracy of his own magic spell to achieve this.

Gallup didn't have time to admire Schelling's response. While Schelling resolved the attack, Gallup moved and ran around Schelling at an extremely fast speed. When he ran to Schelling's left back, he Once again, he issued the same three magic spells as before in an instant to attack.

Faced with the same offensive as before, Xie Lin chose to change his response strategy. Xie Lin used his rapid spell casting skills to issue two universal counter-curses "Surprise Stop" in succession, accurately hitting and neutralizing the opponent's two magic spells. While rolling to avoid the last spell, he directed a dim white light at the running Gallup from bottom to top!

Gallup, who was still running, tried to turn to the side to dodge, but the white light suddenly turned in a weird curve and hit Gallup in the chest, knocking Gallup into the air in an instant and then suddenly shot up from a high place. Landing!

A powerful crash was heard throughout the venue, and along with the sound of broken bones, Gallup let out a shrill scream!

Snape rushed to him immediately, first poured a bottle of potion into him, and then used magic spells to perform first aid before asking a student to take him to the school hospital.

Snape stared at Xie Lin, and Wannian Bingshan's face also turned very gloomy at this moment. Although this was a fair duel, it was still against school rules to cause such serious harm to a classmate with a curse.

Moreover, Schelling's attack was so fast that even Snape could not react. Otherwise, he could have used a counter-curse to prevent Gallup from being seriously injured. At this moment, as the referee on the scene, he also had to bear some responsibility for this.

Because Schelling had been casting spells silently during the duel, no one could figure out what the red light and the white light that Schelling emitted were exactly. Among everyone present, only Snape could identify the white light. It is an advanced application method of floating spell.

This spell is an improved work of the levitating spell by Schelling. It can make the target of the spell rise rapidly and then fall to the ground quickly, causing the target to fall due to the impact force. Schelling named it "Thousand Catties Fall" curse".

But even with Snape's knowledge, he couldn't identify what kind of magic spell the red light emitted by Schelling was, not to mention that he didn't understand the principle of how Schelling could turn the curse after it left the wand. . It has to be said that Schelling's various mysteries have successfully become his second priority in his mind.

As for who is the first priority to pay attention to, no need to ask? Naturally, it was Harry Potter, the son of his enemy.

To be fair, Gallup's strength is definitely not weak. The speed of casting three spells in one hand is enough to make most of the young wizards present feel ashamed. Schelling knocked him down within two rounds, which caused a strong visual impact on the little wizard present.

At this moment, Xie Lin's image of strength and ruthlessness suddenly penetrated into the hearts of every Slytherin student——

Terrence Higgs suddenly felt lucky for his decision to abstain earlier. Those students who originally had evil intentions towards the Malfoy family became in awe of the Malfoy family. The students who originally admired Xie Lin were in awe of Xie Lin. Lin's admiration became even more fanatical...

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