Deulling Club!

[alt_padma]

We've just had Defence and Professor Lockhart says he's going to start a DUELLING CLUB!!!!!

It's going to be utterly, completely, and in all other ways WIZ-NIFT!

He said he'll have sign-up sheets out by the middle of the week. Oh, I can't wait! When d'you suppose we'll start?

This is going to be so much better than AK ever was! And with Professor Lockhart, who's just perfect to teach us all about duelling, too


(I hope it's not on Wednesdays. But even if it is, we'll change round History Club so that everyone can go!)

Comments

[alt_ron]

Yeah, like AK only better.

It'd be pretty funny if Jones ended up being the best at duelling in our year!

[alt_padma]

Don't be daft; Jones only won by default because she jumped at every shadow.

If our Defence marks from last year are any judge, it'll be Malfoy and Marvolo, for sure. But that's alright. It'll still be wizard to learn how to really duel.

[alt_pansy]

Let's hope Professor Lockhart is handier with duelling than he is with healing on the fly.

[alt_ron]

Yeah, I wonder if Harry'll want to join. I don't think I'd want to get close to Lockhart's wand after what happened to him on Saturday!

[alt_padma]

I don't think that was his fault. I'm sure he just slipped because it was so muddy, or someone jostled him. You know, trying to get to Marvolo.

[alt_harry]

Padma come on, the only bad thing about DUELLING is going to be having to see his smarmy face.

Do girls really really like him?? Really?

[alt_padma]

If you were a girl you'd understand. He's so dashing! And clever!!

[alt_harry]

Of course I want to join, are you daft?! Duelling! Real duelling!!

[alt_padma]

I know, right? It's so amazing!

Who wouldn't want to go?

[alt_harry]

Someone who isn't good at duelling I suppose?

[alt_hydra]

I don't want to duel.
Do you think I will have to?

From,
Hydra

[alt_harry]

I think that's why they call it 'duelling club' Hydra.

[alt_hydra]

Well I might have to anyway, if Mummy wants me to.

From,
Hydra

[alt_harry]

Maybe. You always have to do what your Mummy wants you to. I guess it's lucky I like duelling cause Father would make me even if I didn't too.

[alt_hydra]

I think it will make her happy if I say I will do it without her telling me to.
Is that the sort of thing that makes your Father happy?

From,
Hydra

[alt_harry]

Well it makes Father happy, but he sometimes doesn't notice, so it's best to wait till he asks. But your Mum might like it if you wrote her and told her about it. I don't know. Maybe she's reading this.

[alt_padma]

Oh, but it's ever so much fun.

Last year we played a game called AK where each person had someone they had to sneak up on and hex, and your cousin was brilliant at it, he would have won except Jones was parinoid.

Deulling is nift, you'll see.

[alt_hydra]

We won't duel to the death, will we?

From,
Hydra

[alt_padma]

Of course not!

[alt_hydra]

Oh, that's good.

From,
Hydra

[alt_sally_anne]

That would be a pretty short-lived club wouldn't you think?

It'll be fun Hydra. Don't worry.

[alt_ron]

Heh. Y'know, you'd have made an ace Gryffindor, mate.

Hope I get to duel you! It's going to be dead wizard!!!

Even with Lockhart. I mean, can you believe it? He'd better let us actually duel--not just listen to him tell stories about himself!

[alt_harry]

Okay.

But I'm sure we'll get to duel!! And we'll get to do it in front of everyone too. I don't think Lockhart could get away with not letting us duel. It's a CLUB for STUDENTS.

[alt_padma]

Yes, of course we'll really get to duel!

But maybe not straightaway. Aren't there lots of, y'know, arm positions and protocols one learns first?

[alt_ron]

Well, sure there are, but the important thing is the spells! And getting them off fast. And protection charms and stuff, and you can't learn that just standing around, hearing about it.

[alt_padma]

Well, obviously, but the point is that you have to learn it all without the duelling, first, so that when you actually get about to duelling, you know what you're about.

Honestly, Weasley, do you pay no attention at all in Professor Lockhart's lessons? He's always talking about how important preparation is.

Besides, anyone you duel is sure to win. With that wand of yours, you'd like as not hex yourself for them and spare them the trouble.

[alt_ron]

Oh, come on. All of Professor Lockhart's lessons are exactly the same.

Today we'll hear about how I brilliantly defeated the six-tongued Tongos of BoraBora while treading water in a pool of pirhanas. First I stunned one of the Tongos, fed it to the pirhanas, levitated out of the pool, and whilst twirling around to a perfect landing on a very dodgy rope bridge above the gorge, I cast an utterly devastating Stupefy, catching the remaining seventeen hundred Tongos in their broad, tattooed chests. I finished just as the first of the reporters arrived to take down my story and record it all for posterity in this photograph. It captures me at a particularly rakish angle, if I do say so myself.

If it's not Tongos, it's Hula Horries or Prussian Banshees or Chilean Sea Wolves. Whatever.

It's all talk and talk is BORING. So if it's just going to be a bunch of stories, it might as well be History Club, if you know what I mean.

[alt_padma]

Oh, honestly. Could you have won out against the Wagga Wagga werewolf or any of them?

If you listen to how Professor Lockhart says he did things, you can be prepared for how to do things yourself.

Well, some of us can, anyway.

[alt_ron]

Right.

I'd still rather be practicing the spells than listening to him jaw on and on about it all.

[alt_pansy]

Oh, but you forgot the most important part! You forgot to describe what he was wearing!

[alt_ron]

Ha!

I couldn't tell that part without blushing. It's just too girly, y'know, when he goes on about what colour robes he was wearing and how they were cut... eurgh.