"Well, I have good news and bad news about the dueling club, which one do you want to hear first," asks Professor Flitwick."The good news, I guess," I say.
"Well, the good news is that the Headmaster has allowed me to start the dueling club, so we will be starting right after the Christmas holiday also Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape," said Professor Flitwick with a smile on his face.
"So what is bad news you are talking about since the dueling club will be opened," I ask with a questioning look on my face.
Professor Flitwick sighs, "sorry Mr Lovegood, I know how hard you worked to get this club started but you cannot go to it this year, all first cannot enter the dueling club."
I try to sway Professor Flitwick, but he does not give in and says, "first years do not know that many spells and can easily hurt each other even if we taught them useful spells since they still need to learn the basic."
Professor Flitwick walks away, and I am left standing there by myself, in my head I am cursing the stupid rules and want to shout out to Professor Flitwick that I am not a child that cannot take care of himself and if anybody is worthy of learning anything it should be me since I am 27 years old.
I walk back to the Gryffindor common room dejectedly, sighing to myself I think what else could I do then to wait half a year, but if I stop and look at it from an optimistic point of view it"s not so bad since I was able to get Professor Flitwick, the duelling champion, to teach us and I have six years with him, Professor McGonagall, and Professor Snape, who are powerful wizards and witches in their own rights.
Anyways I will be having my mother over the Christmas holiday and the summer break teaching me much more other stuff.
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Time pa.s.ses, and the Christmas holiday is fast approaching and the first term will be over before we go on our Christmas holiday.
With the first term drawing near to an end our Professors decide to load us full with homeworks and all day you would see no one messing around or taking it easy.
Defense Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration have become my favorite cla.s.ses and my strong points when it comes to magic. In Defense Against the Dark Arts, we have learned many Jinxes and I have come across summaries of powerful hexes and curse and I cannot wait to learn them, so far in Defense Against the Dark Arts, we have spells like; the Knockback Jinx, the Impediment Jinx, and the Jelly-Legs Jinx. The twins instantly fell in love with Jinxes and all term they scoured the library for more Jinxes spells, I also joined them too and we learned Jinxes like; the Trip Jinx, the Pimple Jinx, and I also was able to teach myself the Tempest Jinx.
In my Transfiguration cla.s.s, we learned a few Transformation spells; like the match to a needle that we learned in the first week, then the stick to torch, and gla.s.s to mirror. All basic stuff but as the years go by we will learn more and more advance Transformation spells like furniture to animals and humans to animals. In our second year, we will learn how to Untransfigurate the second main branch of Transfiguration, then in our fifth year we will learn Vanishment the third main branch of Transfiguration, and finally, we will learn Conjuration in our sixth and seventh the fourth main branch of Transfiguration.
Charms is very useful, but it takes a lot of discipline and practice to get it down, unlike Transfiguration where you need visualization to use it. In Charms we learned spells like the Levitation Charm we learned in the first week, the Wand-Lighting Charm which produces light at the tip of your wand, the Unlocking Charm which unlocks and opens doors, windows and objects that are not protected by magic, and the Softening Charm which softens a targeted area or object, making it rubbery and bouncy.
Potions have been a breeze for me so far since I already make the potions with my eyes closed, so far we have covered the Antidote to Common Poisons which is a potion that counteracts ordinary poisons, and the Cure for Boils which we covered first in cla.s.s, on my free time that I could squeeze in I have been working on the Polyjuice Potion in my lab, this is a potion that allows the drinker to a.s.sume the form of someone else after a failure at it I now believe I have perfected it and can produce a few more this year.
Then there is History of Magic which is taught by Professor Binns whose cla.s.s is regarded by every student at Hogwarts as some of the most boring, I surely have no idea he does it, making history about goblin movements, giants wars, wizarding battles, amazing witches and wizards, and different wizarding communities boring. Anyways I do most of the learning about the History of Magic by myself in the library, in cla.s.s me and the twins spend most of the time chatting and planning some pranks to do, and we even have gone as far as to have duels in the back of the cla.s.s when we heard the dueling club will not allow first years to enter and while we are doing that Professor Binns continues to go on and on not even noticing us.
My other cla.s.ses go well and with that, the term ends, and the Christmas Holiday just begin.