Chapter 125 Duel Demonstration

The straw seemed to be the symbol of the murderer.

Wherever this thing fell, it must have been here.

"The backyard of a bar, what is it doing here?" Sherlock frowned.

Hilke did not answer his question, but began to patrol the yard, but there were too many messy things piled up, and it was difficult to find anything at a glance.

She drew out her wand, tapped the air lightly, and cast a silent spell.

The next moment, all the old barrels and tables, chairs and benches around floated in the air, and the original scene of the whole yard appeared in front of them.

There seemed to be nothing special around, and Sherlock took Sirius around, but didn't find anything strange.

At this moment, the back door leading to the main hall of the bar in the backyard was suddenly opened.

An old man with a dirty body and a long messy beard on his face stared at them.

"What are you doing!"

This is the owner of the bar and part-time bartender. He was obviously alarmed by the movement of Silk's spell just now.

"Sorry, sir, we have found something in your yard about the attack a few days ago."

Faced with this situation, Sherlock and his friends had no good explanation. The old man with a sheep-like smell didn't listen to what they said at all. He pulled out his wand and yelled at them.

"Are you Aurors from the Ministry of Magic? If not, then now! Immediately! Get out of my yard!"

"Okay, don't get excited, we'll leave now."

Sherlock led Sirius and Silk out of the backyard of the bar. They stood in an alley, looking at the shabby and dirty bar from a distance.

Sherlock touched his chin, staring at the bar and thinking about something else.

Silk was also looking at the building. They seemed to have the same idea. Sherlock spoke first.

"If there is no problem with the backyard, then there is something wrong with this bar itself."

"This town seems to have been occupied by goblins."

Silk's words reminded Sherlock of something, and he said with a look of realization.

"I remember that the most famous thing about Hogsmeade is that when the goblins rebelled, they occupied this place and built a headquarters here. The headquarters seems to be located in this bar!"

The murderer came to the backyard of the Pig's Head Bar, which happened to be the headquarters of the goblins.

Things are too coincidental, and people have to associate the two things together.

Sherlock thought.

"Maybe what it wants to find is related to the goblins occupying Hogsmeade back then."

Silk finally took a deep look at the building and said softly.

"I will find someone to verify these things."

The sky has completely darkened, and they don't plan to stay here any longer, and are ready to return to Hogwarts.

Before leaving, Sherlock stared at the big black dog on his hand. He thought the dog was very smart and wanted to take it away as a pet.

"If you don't want to continue wandering, you can follow me in the future."

Sirius only thought about it for a moment and decisively rejected this idea in his heart.

Following Sherlock into Hogwarts seemed to provide him with convenience, allowing him to move around the castle openly.

But in fact, he didn't need this convenience at all.

He knew every secret passage from Hogsmeade to Hogwarts.

On the contrary, if he followed Sherlock, any of his actions would be restricted, and he would be exposed if he was not careful, so Sirius showed resistance.

Seeing that he was unwilling to follow him, Sherlock did not force it, and canceled the transformation of the dog leash, allowing Sirius to return to freedom.

Sirius, who was untied, ran away directly. He was afraid that Sherlock would suddenly change his mind and catch him again.

But since Sherlock had let him go, he naturally wouldn't force him.

They returned to Hogwarts in the night.

While having dinner in the hall, Sherlock also heard about Hagrid's accident in the first Care of Magical Creatures class today.

Out of concern for his friend, Sherlock went to Hagrid's hut to visit him.

When he entered the door, Hagrid seemed to have just cried, his eyes were red, and he was blowing his nose with a tissue.

"Don't be sad, Hagrid, everyone has a first time, and no one is born to teach students." Sherlock comforted.

But Hagrid was not relieved by this, he said depressedly.

"I prepared for a long time, thinking that everyone would like those little guys. But I didn't expect Malfoy to be scratched in the first class. His father is a school director and has always hated me. His family will definitely not let me go!"

Sherlock already knew the whole story.

To be honest, Malfoy was partly responsible, but Hagrid, as a teacher, was more responsible for letting these students come into contact with Hippogriffs, a magical creature of this level, without any protection in the third grade class.

But as a friend, Sherlock couldn't blame him directly, after all, Hagrid helped him get a lot of dark magic creatures to use as teaching cases last semester.

He could only say it euphemistically.

"In the later classes, you can choose some less dangerous magical animals for teaching. I think as long as the class is interesting enough, students should not care much about whether the animal is strong or not."

That's all Sherlock could say. As for whether Hagrid listened to it later, it was not up to him to decide.

A week passed quickly.

In the first week of the new semester, Sherlock's assistant Lupin's class also received a good response in the lower grades. The students found that his teaching was not worse than Sherlock's, and soon accepted him.

Such news would probably make Hagrid even more sad for a while. Of the two new professors who joined this year, Lupin was well-received, but he injured a student in his first class.

After returning from Hogsmeade that day, Silk returned to the room on the fifth floor. It is unknown how she got the information about the goblins setting up their headquarters in the Hog's Head.

With the beginning of a new week, the second class of the seventh grade also came.

Dumbledore agreed to Sherlock's application and moved him to the largest classroom in the castle.

This should be an old potion classroom, three times the size of a normal classroom, which can accommodate all the seventh-grade students and leave enough space for Sherlock to teach.

"I know some of you can't wait, but I hope you can still remember the two key points I emphasized to you in the last class."

"The Shield Charm and Transfiguration are the key points of the practical test. In my class, everyone must master the Shield Charm. As for the application of Transfiguration, I will correct your spellcasting in the subsequent practical exercises and try to make you develop the habit of using Transfiguration more."

He cleared the front half of the classroom and asked the students below.

"So who wants to come up and do a duel demonstration with me?"

The students basically raised their hands in unison. Of course, they didn't want to give up such an opportunity.

Most people in the school knew that Sherlock had worked in the Auror Command of the Ministry of Magic before. In addition, he was very clear about the process of the practical test. Having a duel demonstration with him was equivalent to participating in a practical test in advance.

In the end, Sherlock chose Percy, which was a small reward for him to help him collect homework and notify the bottom.

The other students stood in the corners against the wall, leaving them enough space.

Sherlock and Percy each drew out their magic and held it in front of them.

"Are you ready, Weasley?"

Percy's hand holding the wand was slightly sweaty. When facing Sherlock, he naturally felt great pressure.

"I can do it, professor."

"Then I will count down to three, two, one, and we will start when the countdown ends."

"Three, two, one!"

The next second after Sherlock finished counting down, Percy and he raised their wands at themselves at the same time.

"Armor protection!" ×2.

The invisible shield wrapped Sherlock and Percy and protected them respectively.

In fact, if it was in a formal battle, when Percy used the Shield Charm, Sherlock could have tried to knock him down directly, but this was an assessment after all, and he had to follow the rules of the actual combat assessment.

After both of them used the Shield Charm on themselves, Percy immediately pointed his wand at Sherlock again.

"Disarm you!"

The first attack he made was still a spell.

Sherlock was not in a hurry. He waved a spell, still an armor spell.

"Armor."

But this time the armor spell did not wrap around his body to form protection, but directly formed a transparent barrier with the tip of the wand as the center.

Percy's disarming spell was accurately blocked by the armor spell. At the same time, the originally colorless barrier turned blood red after contacting the red spell of the disarming spell.

The next second, the spell bounced back directly!

Fortunately, Percy was well prepared. Sherlock had already told them in the sixth grade class that the advanced armor spell could rebound the spell caster's spell (actually it should have been taught in the fifth grade, but the fifth grade professor was Quirrell).

Before his spell was rebounded, Percy rolled over on the ground. Although it was a bit ugly, he successfully avoided the rebounded disarming spell.

While rolling, Percy used his body's big movements to cover up and waved his wand very cleverly and covertly.

A chair behind Sherlock suddenly changed!

Five slender poisonous snakes spread upward along his ankles, and they stretched longer and longer. When they were about to become five ropes, Sherlock gently tapped his wand.

"Stop the spell."

The poisonous snakes were instantly beaten back to their original form, and turned back into a chair and fell to the ground.

The next moment after using the universal antidote, his wand suddenly waved again, but no spell came out of his mouth.

Percy's heart tightened when he saw this scene. He immediately looked around himself, trying to observe what Sherlock had transformed.

However, there was nothing around him, nothing suitable for transformation!

At this time, Percy found that he had been deceived, but when he realized it, it was too late, because Sherlock's spell had been used.

"Expelliarmus."

The red spell crossed the narrow space, and when Percy had no way to avoid it, it hit the armor spell on his body head-on!

Invisible ripples swayed in front of him, and then a sound like glass breaking suddenly rang out!

Percy's Armor Charm successfully blocked the Disarming Charm, but Sherlock also successfully broke the armor.

Just as Percy was about to reorganize his offensive and find a chance to re-armor himself, two chains silently entangled his legs at some point!

Percy just reacted and had no time to raise his wand, and the two chains had already entangled his arms, tying him to death on the spot!

The duel ended here.

All the other students watching the game applauded sincerely.

The duel was very exciting. Although Percy lost, no one thought he would win at the beginning, and he was able to hold out for so long under Sherlock, which was beyond many people's expectations.

And Sherlock's ease in casting and removing spells left a very deep impression on the students.

Every time he swung his wand, it didn't seem like a battle, but more like an artist carving a most exquisite masterpiece, as beautiful as a masterpiece!

"Very good, Weasley."

Sherlock canceled the Transfiguration on Percy, and Percy only then realized that the object used for transformation was actually a chair.

It's just that the chair was far away from him before, and he had never paid attention to it.

Sherlock's silent swing of the stick was not a deception, but the object of the Transfiguration was far away from Percy, so he didn't notice it at the first time, thinking it was a feint, and then the armor-breaking disarming spell attracted all his attention.

In the end, when he found it, it was too late.

"Your performance is perfect enough. Except for lacking some experience, it is no worse than any adult wizard. If this is a real practical assessment, I will give you the highest score."

Sherlock did not hesitate to praise Percy.

Because his performance is indeed among the best students, there is no shortage of geniuses among the Weasley children, and Percy is undoubtedly one of them.

It's just that his utilitarianism and desire for power are a little too strong compared to his other brothers.

Just like he was easily bewitched by Tom last semester, psychological problems will put him at risk of going astray in the future.

But now it is a practical class, Sherlock will naturally not delve into his psychological problems.

His admiration made Percy blush, and he walked back to the students with his chest and head held high.

Then, Sherlock began to analyze the entire duel demonstration to the students.

"The most important thing about magic battles is to master the rhythm, or to expand it, to master the rhythm of casting and removing spells."