Chapter 208 Defense Association

"Lu Yunkai, listen to me..."

"I know!" Lu Yunkai waved his hand to Padma, who looked a little embarrassed, and signaled her to stop talking.

The atmosphere in front of the tapestry was a bit tense, and several people here didn't know what to say for a moment.

Lu Yunkai's expression did not look good. And when they saw Lu Yunkai arrived, it was Padma who greeted him instead of her sister who was next to her. Dean Thomas and Lavender Brown, who had arrived here in advance, had already guessed why Lu Yunkai was here. .

Why hasn't Harry come yet? !

Several people looked at each other.

fine.

The awkward silence didn't last long, and a few more people arrived.

Harry took Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Luna to the eighth floor.

"Yunkai? Why are you here?" Hermione was startled when she saw Lu Yunkai appearing here.

Lu Yunkai glanced at Padma.

"I invited him here." Padma could only admit it in embarrassment.

Hermione's expression was certain.

As her sister Parvati's roommate and best friend, Hermione knew what happened between Padma and Blaise...

"Okay, let's go in first." Harry also felt the awkward atmosphere here, but he didn't intend to say anything more. He just hurriedly came to the tapestry and introduced the method of entering the Room of Requirement.

I walked back and forth here several times thinking about the place where I would learn spells.

"three times."

Lu Yunkai said a number very accurately next to him.

Let Harry, who was chatting there, be sure.

However, he quickly recovered and continued to demonstrate how to enter the Room of Requirement.

Three times, the wall opens and you enter.

It was the room suitable for practicing magic that Lu Yunkai discovered a few years ago.

There are magic dolls, as well as various other training equipment, and even spell books to consult.

Everyone who entered the room was amazed. Only Lu Yunkai sat on a stool in the room naturally.

After walking around, everyone in the room found a place and sat down in twos and threes according to their relationship.

At this time, several more people came in from outside one after another.

Most of the people who came in were muttering, "When did such a room exist here? Why didn't I know?" Among them, the most excited ones were the twin brothers from the Weasley family...

Among this group of people, Lu Yunkai did not see a single Slytherin.

So, in the empty room, he seemed particularly lonely.

Just like that, I waited for nearly ten minutes.

"It's almost time to start. Those who haven't come yet probably won't come today."

Hermione looked at the time and then signaled to Harry loudly.

"Yes. Everyone." After hearing Hermione's words, Harry, who was chatting with Ron, stood up, glanced around, his eyes stopped on Lu Yunkai, then jumped away, then clapped his hands, and everyone His attention was gathered: "I'm glad to see you all here. Today we are here to learn some real knowledge against black magic, so that we can protect ourselves from black magic and black wizards. . Although I can’t say I’m an expert…”

Having said this, Harry glanced at Lu Yunkai, who was sitting beside him.

"...But I will try my best to communicate with everyone what I know."

Following Harry's gaze, almost everyone present turned their eyes to Lu Yunkai.

Lu Yunkai tried his best to stay calm, suppressed the irritability in his heart, and smiled.

"So, if you have any questions to ask me, I will answer them seriously." Harry continued to speak loudly, trying hard to draw everyone's attention away from Lu Yunkai and back to himself.

Then the room fell silent.

The atmosphere was a bit awkward.

Although Harry had tried to appear calm and confident, in reality he still looked panicked. And having never been a teacher, he had no idea how to teach in the classroom.

Question?

If these people who come here knew what they wanted to learn, they wouldn't come here! ! Isn't it good to check the books yourself and then find a place where no one is around to practice the spells? Is it necessary to risk getting caught and punished by running here?

Lu Yunkai complained silently in his heart.

"Harry...can I ask something?" At this moment, someone finally broke the silence in the room.

Everyone's eyes turned over at once.

Lu Yunkai also looked over.

Dean Thomas.

"What?" Harry suddenly became excited when he saw his Gryffindor classmates coming to the rescue.

"That... the dark wizard you just mentioned... are you talking about the mysterious man? Is he really still alive?" Thomas' question suddenly made the atmosphere in the room tense.

Everyone's eyes also turned to Harry.

"...Yes." Harry took a deep breath and nodded.

"But the Ministry of Magic said he was dead..." The person who answered this sentence was a Ravenclaw student who seemed familiar to Lu Yunkai, but whose name he couldn't remember.

"But he is indeed alive." Harry didn't seem to know how he could make the half-doubtful (actually half-doubtful) students in this room believe this, so he could only say it firmly.

But his argument was really unconvincing.

The room was buzzing.

When some students looked at Harry again, their expressions were already filled with doubt.

"Even if Tom Riddle is gone, learning some methods to deal with dark magic will not harm everyone." Lu Yunkai said loudly, "God knows if you will accidentally encounter some dark magic somewhere, and then provoke an inexplicable curse, and harm yourself and your family."

With one sentence, the noise in the room stopped.

Everyone looked at Lu Yunkai, and then they all stopped talking.

There was nothing wrong with what Lu Yunkai said.

Last year, he asked Fleur to investigate the ritual. Although it was claimed to be a secret, Fleur also told some classmates in Beauxbatons. In addition, Daphne was injured, and Astoria's participation in the Christmas ball for her sister was known to everyone in Hogwarts. The "wrong conclusion" obtained by Dumbledore and Madame Maxime also spread throughout Hogwarts with the curse of Daphne's family.

Yes! Can you guarantee that you won't encounter such bad luck one day?

So it's always good to learn something. Even if the mysterious man is gone, it is still valuable.

And this can be regarded as helping Harry out. Harry looked at Lu Yunkai gratefully.

"Tom Riddle? Who is that?" A girl took over Lu Yunkai's words.

Lu Yunkai took a look and saw that it was also an oriental face.

The "campus beauty" of Ravenclaw College, Zhang Qiu.

"Voldemort's real name... Well, I know you dare not mention his name, so I said his real name." Lu Yunkai sighed, "I am also very strange, if you all believe that he is dead, why don't you dare to mention his name?"

A rhetorical question made the room silent.

"I think the first thing for your group is to learn to face fear first, and then talk about defeating it. Until now, you still dare not mention Voldemort's name. When facing real dark magic... Can you still expect those dark wizards to bow to you first or raise their wands in front of their faces before making a move?" Lu Yunkai smiled and looked at Harry.

Harry laughed.

Even most of the people present laughed.

Ron and Hermione laughed the happiest. As people who had duelled with Lu Yunkai, they knew too well how much Lu Yunkai despised dueling.

"Yunkai, today's first class... how about asking you, the champion of the Triwizard Cup, to teach us?" Harry saw that the atmosphere in the classroom was quite good, so he brought the topic to business.

"Well... I can say a few words, but you should teach the class. After all, I didn't use many spells in the Triwizard Cup." Lu Yunkai laughed helplessly, "Basically all I used were potions."

Hearing Lu Yunkai's words, the laughter in the room got louder.

"But since Harry wants me to say a few words, and Padma has spent so much effort to call me here... then I will say a few words." Lu Yunkai glanced at Padma and nodded with a smile, "In fact, as ordinary wizards, we have very few spells to use when facing dark wizards, such as the Stunning Spell, the Disarming Spell, the Petrifying Spell... I think Professor Moody demonstrated the three unforgivable spells in class last year, right? Compared with that kind of spell, the power of these spells is really limited."

"Do you mean that we have to learn those spells too?" Parvati said.

"If I say this, you will definitely say, look at that evil Slytherin!" Lu Yunkai smiled and waved his hands and shook his head, "What I mean is that our spells are less powerful, but it does not mean that we can't defeat the enemy. We must first understand that the enemy is stronger than us. If we want to defeat them, it is not enough to rely on brute force alone. We must pay attention to strategy. And in my personal experience, the most common strategy is to dodge and increase the speed of casting spells."

Lu Yunkai's words made the whole audience quiet instantly.

"So." Lu Yunkai glanced at Harry beside him, "If this is a group prepared for the OWLS exam, what you need to do is to learn a variety of spells, but if the goal is actual combat... the most important thing is to train everyone's ability to dodge spells and the proficiency of the spells they already know."

"Yeah." Harry nodded, signaling Lu Yunkai that he would accept the suggestion.

"Okay, that's all I can say." Lu Yunkai smiled and nodded, "Let's leave it to Harry next! After all, everyone here is here for you... Oh, yes, I will give you one last suggestion. You can consider giving your study group a name. This way everyone will know more about what they are doing here. And everyone will not be able to talk about this place publicly in school in the future. It's good to have a name as a code name."

"Yeah. Yes." Harry nodded, "I was just about to bring this up. Let's think about it together. What name should we call it?"

"Umbridge Go to Death Group?" Fred interrupted with a smile.

"Unless you plan to come up with another code, this name cannot be used outside this room." Lu Yunkai reminded the twins with a smile, "Besides, what you need to learn is not to deal with Umbridge. Naming this group after her is too much of a compliment to her."

"That's right." Fred and George looked at each other and nodded.

"Defense Association?" Zhang Qiu mentioned a name next to him.

"Association? It sounds a bit strange." Ron shook his head.

"I think this name is good." Harry disagreed.

Ron was stunned, then looked at Zhang Qiu, and then looked at Harry.

Keep silent.

Zhang Qiu... As Harry's good friend, Ron seemed to have heard Harry mention her more than once, and thought she was very beautiful.

Yeah, I understand!!

"I think it's good too." Hermione smiled and continued, "We can also consider giving each member a brooch or something, just like the Potion Association that Lu Yunkai joined. And we can also cast a magic on the brooch. In the future, maybe we can use the brooch to notify everyone of the gathering time, so we don't have to notify everyone one by one like this time."

The room was quiet again.

The fact that Lu Yunkai joined the Potion Association was well known in Hogwarts (thanks to Malfoy), and Lu Yunkai also wore the association brooch in public.

Although it's not very eye-catching, it's really cool.

"That's good." Harry nodded quickly, "But the magic..."

"I'll take care of it." Hermione nodded, "I still have some brooches left from the House Elf Rights Association that I made last year... Well, I'll ask Lu Yunkai for advice on the notification spell later."

"No problem." Lu Yunkai agreed to Hermione.

"Then let's call it the Defense Association?" Zhang Qiu seemed a little excited when he heard that his proposal was adopted.

"In fact, I suggest that it's better to change it to the abbreviation, D.A."

"Abbreviation? What's the meaning?" Zhang Qiu was stunned for a moment.

She hadn't thought about that much.

"It can be the Defense Association you mentioned, or... Dumbledore's Army." Lu Yunkai smiled and reported a name with the same initials.

"Then let's call it D.A!"

Sure enough, after hearing Lu Yunkai's other explanation, Dumbledore's little fan Harry immediately agreed with Lu Yunkai's statement.

"By the way, there is one more thing..." Lu Yunkai suddenly remembered something and interrupted again, "I have another suggestion."

"What?"

"Well, I understand that this is somewhat disrespectful to everyone, but I still suggest that everyone can use the Confidentiality Charm when participating in the D.A." Lu Yunkai looked sincere, "It's not that I don't believe in your intentions, but..."

"That's not necessary." Harry shook his head, "We also hope that more students can join in and study together. If we use the Confidentiality Charm, then we will be the only ones?"

"...Okay! I am shallow."

Lu Yunkai simply admitted his mistake.

But in his heart, he didn't agree with it.

No Confidentiality Charm? Well, it's very Gryffindor.

But the problem is that your opponent is not Gryffindor! Umbridge is a standard Slytherin who will do anything to achieve his goals!

After this time, Lu Yunkai will definitely not come again.

This place is definitely very dangerous! !

…

Here I would like to reply to a comment from a book friend in the previous chapter. He asked why the hero didn't secretly give Umbridge a big melon bite and end the matter. This… the Killing Curse is not like eating a melon and losing the melon rind. The curse can be traced back from the wand! That would be the real act of renting a suite in Azkaban. Moreover, not everyone can really kill people with the Killing Curse (this is what Crouch Jr. said). If you take the risk and fail, wouldn't you lose a lot? It's not like you are forced into a desperate situation. There are other solutions. There is no need to cause yourself more trouble, right? I hope you will be satisfied with my answer!