Harry Potter and the Order Of the Phoenix [103]
“I can’t believe I lost to him,” grumbled Malfoy. Harry didn’t say anything.
“Our next competition will be… Mr. Harry Potter!”
“Not Cho…” thought Harry again.
“Against… Miss. Hermione Granger!”
“Oh no,” thought Harry, that match up wasn’t much better. How was he going to fight one of his best friends? He and Hermione looked at each other, and walked into the middle of the circle. They walked to opposite ends, and bowed.
“Red light… yellow light… green light… go!” squeaked Professor Flitwick.
“Kano Micro!” yelled Hermione.
“Kooverta Maximus!” yelled Harry. A large and clear shield popped up in front of him, and it absorbed the curse. Harry had expected she would try and use a spell to disable him, so he was ready for it.
“Expelliarmus!” yelled Harry.
“Engorgio!” yelled Hermione, pointing her wand at herself.
Hermione did a quick little trick to avoid the Expelliarmus spell: as soon as the spell hit her, she threw her wand up in the air. Since she wasn’t holding a wand, the spell didn’t affect her. When she caught the wand again, she was five times her original size: a Hermione version of Hagrid.
“Ballano!” boomed Hermione. A massive, gray ball sprouted out of her wand, and started rolling towards Harry. If he didn’t move quickly, it was going to crush him. Harry quickly jumped out of the ball’s path, but the ball didn’t give up that easily, it started following him.
“Oplo!” yelled Harry, aiming at the ball. But when the yellow sphere hit the ball, it just bounced right off. Harry had to get rid of the ball before he could worry about Hermione… but then he got an idea. What if he got rid of them both at the same time. Harry stopped running, and turned to the ball.
“Wingardium Leviosa!” he yelled. The spell hit the ball, and he directed it right into Hermione. The ball hit her in the face, and knocked her out before she had a chance to react. Harry ran up to her, and plucked her wand out of her massive hand. When he did, she turned back to her normal size.
“Harry Potter wins!” said Professor Flitwick, still flying around the room.
“Ennervate,” said Harry, pointing his wand at Hermione. She opened her eyes, and shook herself. Harry helped her up, and gave her back her wand.
“Good game,” she said, trying not to sound too disappointed. Harry smiled, and walked back to the perimeter of the circle with her.
“Will… Mr. Tci and… Mr. Aylar Dumbledore please report to the center of the circle please?” piped Professor Flitwick.
“Oh, this should be a good match!” said Ron. “The greatest first year ever against the awesome exchange student!”
The rest of the group must have been thinking the same thing as Ron, because they all started talking excitedly. Tci and Aylar, however, didn’t look happy at all about this match up. They both looked worried and scared.
Tci did his same entrance as before, and stood in position with his Swand. Aylar just kept his wand held up high. Then, Harry might’ve imagined it, but Tci winked at Aylar. It looked very out of place, for a serious dueler to wink at his opponent, but then Aylar nodded.
Before Harry had much time to think about this, Professor Flitwick started the countdown for the match.
“One fish… two fish… red fish… blue fish!”
“Expelliarmus!” both Aylar and Tci yelled at the same time, their spells meeting in midair. But, to Harry’s and everyone else’s surprise, one spell did not overpower the other. In fact, the beam of light connecting the two wands started to turn a deep gold. Aylar and Tci did not seem to care about this, thought. They were both still staring at each other, as if waiting for something.
Just then, something even more unexpected happened: Aylar and Tci started to float off the ground. Higher and higher the hovered, until they were above everyone’s heads. Then, at that moment, Harry thought he saw Aylar nod to Tci, and Tci nodding back. Tci said something, and the beam of light then turned a violent red, and there was another huge explosion. Red light was everywhere, flooding the room. Everyone collapsed to