duelduelduelduel

[alt_ron]

I wish study hall would end.

bat bogey hex
jelly legs curse
leg locker curse
 
rubber fingers hex
pantsing hex? or curse?
 
 
blimpy blubber jinx
sponge knees curse
    knee reversing hex
snout snogger curse
snug nubblies jinx
 body bind
fur face hex
knuckle locker jinx


evanesco? could vanish somebody's wand, maybe

Comments

[alt_hydra]

Why've you written down the names of jinxes and hexes and things?

From,
Hydra

[alt_pansy]

For duelling club!

I'll bet your mum knows loads of good ones, being an Auror and everything.

[alt_hydra]

Oh, I see!
I don't think she uses any of these ones, though.

From,
Hydra

[alt_ron]

Oh. I was just thinking about the hexes and jinxes I know or know other people know that might be good in a duel.

[alt_hydra]

That's what Pansy said.
Which of the spells makes a person belch slugs, though?

From,
Hydra

[alt_pansy]

I desperately want to try out the fur face hex in combination with the fish-fin one. Any volunteers?

Are you done with classes yet? I'm horrifically bored, and can't wait to learn some of these.

[alt_ron]

Oh, yeah. I totally forgot the fish fin one. That was dumb.

[alt_ron]

Hey, fish-fins!

Harry says he wants to get together after dinner, and I bet we can find a place then. I can't believe all the rooms we tried this afternoon had people in. Anyway, it'll be great. We can all try out stuff.

I'll look for you when we're done eating.

[alt_pansy]

Ace.

And I know some places we can go. Pirate showed Hydra and me all sorts of little out of the way rooms I bet hardly no-one knows about.

[alt_padma]

I asked Professor Lockhart today when we might start actually duelling, and not just reading up on the hexes and all, and he said that right now he's busy putting together our exams, but maybe toward the end of next week, or in the last week before the holidays, he can get us properly started.

He said that we have to be very careful not to try out any of the stuff we're learning until we have supervision because bad things can happen if we do that. He told me about two boys he knew who went duelling when they didn't know what they were doing yet and one of them lost his knees.

[alt_pansy]

Killjoy.

We weren't going to actually try them on each other, Patil. Just practise the wandwork and what to say, and look up tips. Honestly. I was joking.

[alt_padma]

I never said you were (although it looks like Weasley thought you were).

I was just telling you what Professor Lockhart said. If you want to go and blow yourselves up, of course, it's no business of mine.

[alt_harry]

Couldnt they fix their knees?

[alt_padma]

No, they were missing. That kind of lost.

[alt_ron]

Yeah, that's just dumb. Madam Pomfrey could fix them right up. I mean, it's not like they lost all the bones in their arm or anything.

[alt_padma]

No, not that kind of lost. They couldn't find them. Their feet and calves were lying on the ground and their legs ended just above the knees, and the knees themselves where gone.

[alt_harry]

I don't know any pantsing curse but I know one that will turn you upside down. And if your Father makes you wear old fashioned robes it's the same thing.

[alt_ron]

Hahaha!

Really?

[alt_harry]

Well I'm not teaching you it now!!

[alt_ron]

Do you know that one that causes somebody's ears to grow?

[alt_harry]

No but I bet I can find out!!! I know somebody whose really good at finding things like that out.

[alt_neville]

The thing is, there's a difference between dueling like a formal duel, I mean with bows and what-do-you-call-'em, flourishes and everything and maybe you're trying to do something really fancy to impress people, and the kind of duel where you're really defending yourself. Like you're fighting for your life. That'd be a different kind of training, and I bet you'd use different kind of hexes and curses.

I mean, Professor Lockhart talks a lot about the second kind. But I dunno---he strikes me more like the kind of bloke who'd spend more time trying to get good at the first kind. The, uh, flashier sort.

Which kind do you want to learn, really, do you think?

[alt_ron]

Well, yeah, you're definitely right about Lockhart. And I really wish it was some other teacher who was the adviser--cause, for one thing, I'd bet we'd have been practising for real for a month already--but I think they're not completely different things. I mean, yeah, there are rules and stuff for formal duels, but once it starts, you've got to think fast and be accurate and cast again before you have time to recover and it takes sharp instincts and knowing what you're about. So, I guess, just fighting wouldn't teach you how to duel, but I bet duelling makes you better at all kinds of battling. Anyway, it can't hurt, can it? And it's dead nift.

Um. Except for when your spell bounces back at you off a torch and sets your sleeve on fire. That wasn't so nift. And I think Pansy forgave me for making a piece of the ceiling almost drop on her head. Or, yeah, it fell, but only almost on her head.

Are you thinking of dropping out of the club before we even have a proper chance to duel?

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

And Hermione?

I'm really sorry that one spell went pear-shaped and caught you in the, well, yeah. It looked like it stung, and I didn't mean it.

You're really sure there's no way to fix my wand, then? I mean, I don't guess I could get enough money to pay for it anyway, but I was sort of hoping I wouldn't have to go all year like this. Actually, I may just have to keep this one, y'know, until I can afford to buy one of my own, but I don't know how I'll be able to do that if I can't pass my OWLs to get a job.

Sorry. That's not what I meant to talk about. Just, I hope you're not going to have an enormous bruise tomorrow's all.

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good

[alt_neville]

No! I'm not thinking of dropping out at all. It's just that I wish we had someone decent to teach us.

I mean, my own mum and dad were aurors, remember? They trained for years and years to learn that stuff. To use it seriously, in a fight. I bet if--well, they'd have taught me. If things were different, I might have come to school knowing more about dueling than anybody.

Blimey, did you really almost drop part of the ceiling on Pansy's head? No offence, Ron, but with that wand in your hand, you're really sort of a menace. And I don't mean that in a dueling way. Have you talked with Professor Acton to see if she can figure out some way to mend it? If Spellotape doesn't work good enough anymore, I mean?