Love Me Till The End. || D.M

Chapter 11, Year 2

"Gather around! Gather around!" Professor Lockhart yells as he walks up on the stage like platform. "Can everybody see me? Can you hear me? Excellent. In light of the dark events of recent weeks, Professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to start this little Dueling Club to train you in case you ever need to defend yourselves, as I, myself, have done on countless occasions. For full details, see my published words," He said arrogantly.

Adelaide scoffed, "What even is so great about him?" She looks at some of the girls, who have caught Lockhart's cloak, fawning over him.

Professor Snape walks stage and joins Lockhart. "Let me introduce my assistant, Professor Snape. He has sportingly agreed to help me with a short demonstration," Lockhart announces, "Now, I don't want any of you youngsters to worry, you'll still have your potions master when I'm through with him."

"I hope we still don't have him when Snape's through with him," Adelaide whispered. Blaise snickered at her comment.

The two Professors eyed each other with their wands ready as everyone watched. They stood prepared for each other's movement. Lockhart held a cocky grin, "One, two, three."

"Expelliarmus!" Snape shouts and a flash of light bursts forth and hits Lockhart, knocking him off his feet. Everyone laughed at Lockhart who was on the ground.

"An excellent idea to show them that Professor Snape, but if you don't mind me saying, it was pretty obvious what you were about to do," Lockhart said, denying the fact that Snape won. "If I had wanted to stop you, it would have been easy," he adds.

"I swear this fool will be the death of me," Adelaide groans.

"Perhaps it would be prudent to first teach the students to block unfriendly spells Professor," Snape states. "An excellent suggestion Professor Snape!" Lockhart turns and looks around, "Let's have a volunteer pair." His eyes land on Harry and Ron, "Potter, Weasley, how about you?" Harry starts to make his way up.

"Weasley's wand causes devastation with the simplest spells, we'll be sending Potter to the hospital wing in a matchbox," Snape said. "Might I suggest someone from my own house? Malfoy, perhaps?" Snape then turns around and points at Draco, telling him to get on stage.

"You can do it Draco," Crabbe and Goyle whispers to him as Draco makes his way up. Once Draco is on stage, he and Harry meet in the middle of the stage. "Wands at the ready!" Lockhart yells out.

"Scared Potter?" Draco spats. "You wish," Harry glares at him. They both walked back to the opposite ends of the stage. They took their stances. "On the count of three, cast your charms to disarm your opponent, only disarm. We don't want accident here," Lockhart tells them.

"Draco isn't going to listen to Lockhart," Adelaide whispers to Blaise. "Nope," Blaise shakes his head.

"One, tw-" Before Lockhart said three, Draco sends Harry flying back. "Ouch," Adelaide comments and the Crabbe laughs. Snape smirks as he watches. Harry gets back up and points his wand at Draco, "Rictusempra!" He sends Draco flying back, landing on his bum.

Adelaide winced at the sight and sighed. Snape gave him a disapproving look and grabbed his robe, shoving him back on his feet. "I said disarm only!" Lockhart yells. Draco ignores Lockhart. "Serpensortia!" He yells as he shoots out a snake from his wand.

Everyone gasped in terror, as the snake slithers towards Harry. Draco grins as Snape walks towards Harry, "Fear not Potter, I'll get rid of it for you." "Allow me Professor Snape," Lockhart interferes. "Alarte ascendare!" The snake gets sent flying up in the air and lands back down.

Harry starts to murmur in a strange language. The snake turns and starts to slither towards a Hufflepuff. Everyone looked at Harry and the snake in terror. Snape stood on the stage observing Harry. Harry walks closer to the snake, still murmuring in the strange language. The snake hisses at the Hufflepuff boy and turns to Harry.