ANOTHER BOY?!

First Carl, and now Jaemin! Both of them were so incredibly nice for boys, but she couldn't afford to think that way for now. This was A DUEL, and she absolutely had to think on the offense and defense! Besides that, she'd also heard Jaemin was an incredible dueler. With a soft sigh, she got her head in the game and put her focus only where her focus should be for now.

Defeating Jaemin.

She stepped up to the platform, drew her wand, and gave the Slytherin boy across from her a bow. Now. Time to begin. Her thoughts flickered to her duel with Mel at the beginning of term, when the Gryffindor girl hadn't even shown. Some of those same tactics she'd been prepared to use were beginning to come back to her. Her brain jumped right to the 'F section' of the spells she'd memorized, and she knew just which one she wanted to start with. Actually, which ONES she wanted to start with. Heh.

"Furnunculus!" she exclaimed, directing her spell toward Jaemin. She quickly followed that casting with a Feather-light Charm cast on herself. Please work! Oh, please work!

So far this second chance for the dueling club was not going well at all. His confidence had already been bruised last year after he'd had it fully demonstrated to him that he was terrible at magic when compared to his peers; with Olivia not even bothering to show up for a second duel with him, he was ready to just ask Hirsch to please cut him out. What would the point of his being here be, if people knew he was so bad at it that they didn't even feel it worth it to duel with him?

At least Ariadne had turned up. Jaemin squeezed his wand absently, biting his lip and returning her bow; hopefully he'd learned enough things between last term and this term to at least put up a decent fight this time. Hopefully Ariadne wasn't miles better than he was, like everyone else seemed to be. He held his wand up, tensing a little and waiting for the girl to start.

And there it was. That spell was an absolute nope, and Jaemin had at least been ready for it. The small boy lifted his wand and cast, loudly and clearly. "Protego!"

His nervousness had the shield flickering, even as the spell ricocheted off of it; Jaemin frowned, clearly not impressed with himself, and immediately answered her spell with one of his own. Since she seemed so eager to use that charm that everyone seemed to know except him... he'd stick her to the floor. Then she couldn't take advantage of it. "Colloshoo."

Ariadne was already thinking ahead and filing through the list of spells she was confident she could do. At the same time, she trying to think about what Jaemin might do, while at the same time watching to see what her spell resulted in.

THIS WAS A LOT OF STUFF TO DO.

Disappointingly, her first spell resulted in a successful shield on Jaemin's part. She kind of figured that one anyway. No student with any decent amount of dueling training would allow themselves to become covered in boils and pimples this early on in the duel. She might repeat that one a little later, though.

...and the spell he countered with was a BIG NOPE for her, too. Being stuck to the floor? Yeah, that'd be cool if she wanted to end the duel soon. As in...NOW. As it was, though, she'd cast the feather light charm on herself earlier in the duel, and she was moving was a much greater speed than she'd been moving in during her previous duels. She was super fast (in her opinion, at least) in raising her wand and protecting herself with a strong, "Protego!"

Ariadne had already been thinking ahead and had a mental catalog of spells ready to go for when the timing was right. There was one she was particularly anxious to try out, and so she decided to go for it. It was actually her first go at this spell in the midst of a duel, but there HAD to be a first time for everything. Plus, it just might work out in her favor, so YEAH. Anyway...

"Ventus!" she called out, her wand waving about. The blast of air shot from her wand and began to blast its way forward. She doubted it was TOO strong, because she wasn't that experienced of a caster. She couldn't wait to see if it'd affect Jaemin, though!

Ohhhhh no. Jaemin wasn't even focused on seeing if his own spells hit; the small boy was tensed, waiting, because the only chance he had at doing well with this duel and even having a tiny hope of winning was not getting hit by anything particularly... bad. He called out "Protego" as the wind came toward him, and while it did push him back a bit when it hit his shield... it didn't manage to sweep him off his feet or send him flying. He gritted his teeth and waited for it to stop, arms held up defensively in front of his face just in case.

As soon as the shield dropped, he was tossing a Stinging Hex in her direction. He followed it up with a rather loud Trip Jinx, voice coming out a bit strained because three spells in a row was so much effort. So much. Holy Merlin, he needed to practice more.

This was going to be an interesting duel, wasn't it? Two determined second years, both of whom hadn't faced each other before.

And, when the duel started, Hirsch wasn't disappointed. In fact, he was rather impressed with the reflexes shown here; the fact that both of them were able to bring up shields quickly enough and avoid being hit by spells so far was something that made him smile. He pushed his glasses further up his nose as he concentrated on the two due-

Oh, no. Really? That was the time already?

Letting out a tiny grumble, the man struck up the shield, which engulfed the Stinging Hex and the Trip Jinx that Jaemin had sent. Maybe, considering what the boy's voice was like now, this was a good thing? "Well done, both of you. Really well done," he said, stepping out of the shadows and towards the two duellers, "There can only be one winner, I'm afraid, and Miss Greingoth seemed to have taken that title. Congratulations, Miss Greingoth, and well done on putting up a great fight, Jaemin."


Stats:
Ariadne Greingoth: 112.11%
Jaemin Song: 94.43%