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It was chilly in the arena this time in the morning, but the fires flickering in the braziers, scattered in the corners of the room, should warm it up quick enough. Frosty looking windows with morning sunlight shining through them gave an almost enchanting glow to the place. Familiar to most students, miniature desks were placed evenly apart on the ground, though the pillow styled mats would have been a new sight to take in. In different colors, they sat right next to their partnering desks, looking quite comfortable to sit on. The professor herself was sitting, lotus style, on her own deep burgundy colored pillow-mat, with two bags of pixie crisps and phoenix crackers sitting next to her, awaiting the arrival of the students.
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Minerva listened as they talked about the code, she wasn't sure of the answers so she just wrote notes on her parchment. She thought about if it was a rule that your wand becomes the other person's if you are disarmed, but decided not to ask since they seemed to be moving on. Oh so many notes to take, Minerva started writing some more.
Then she put her hand up, "Professor there was Nymphadora Tonks vs. Bellatrix Lestrange. Bellatrix ended up killing Nymphadora during that duel." Minerva frowned thinking about when she read this information. Nymphadora Tonks being a Hufflepuff and all.
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Alyssa quickly picked up her quill and started taking down notes in her journal.
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General Rules:
- Each duelist may bring a second to take his/her place in the duel if necessary [unless decided otherwise].
- Each duelist may bring a witness(es) to ensure fair play in accordance with the agreed upon limits.
- Each duelist may bring a healer in case of injury.
- Each duelist will bow to one another and take five paces in opposite directions [unless decided otherwise].
Limits Include:
- Physical contact between opponents
- Dark magic including unforgiveable curses
- Location of the duel
- Length of time a duel may run for
- Use of other weaponry
- Specific list of spells
- Specific number of casts [in general or for specific spells]
- Allowance of replacement wands
- Use of surroundings
- Clothing
Completion Points:
- Disarming the opponent
- Disabling the opponent
- Injuring the opponent
- Death
As she wrote, she listened to Professor Romanos’ question. She finished writing and listened as some of the other students gave their answers. ‘Goodness gracious, is that Lion going to give all the answers? She reminds me of someone I know.’ Alyssa laughed to herself.
Even the she had mentioned the duels during the Battle of Hogwarts, Alyssa still raised her hand, “Professor the duel between Molly Weasley and Bellatrix Lestrange during the Battle of Hogwarts. She really taught Bellatrix a lesson. One should never try to kill another person’s family members.” Alyssa nodded.
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''Richard Turner's wishes to sleep versus this boring classroom duel. Shall be a big one in history.''
The Slytherin murmured as he eyed the professor woman with lazy gray eyes. He leaned back on the thing he was sitting on and tapped a finger on the small desk nearby. There was an empty parchment and a quill before him, waiting for him to take notes but he was not feeling like taking notes either.
Yawning a bit, he looked at his watch. Eh...it looked like there was still a long time until this class would end. Not that he did not find duelling interesting. It indeed was interesting. But when one just had failed to get enough sleep during the night and was forced to join a class early in the morning, the result was this; he wanted to sleep.
Or maybe if he actually thought of an actual duel maybe the class could win the duel in him.
...
...
...
Then suddenly an idea came to him
''Professor...all those duels...'' the ones people just mentioned ''...were fights for power, were not they? Is there any person in history who duelled for love? Like...over a pretty girl?''
*grin*
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Sophie was still taking notes because of homework. Dueling. Hm...
Oh, she knew of a famous duel. She raised her hand before speaking. "There was this big duel between Dumbledore and the Dark Wizard Grindelwald in... 1945, I think." Thank you, Chocolate Frog Card!
Laura looked at the Professor. "The duel between Me and your Wall Professor that was epic, it took three of us to get things right and then I accidently destroyed your door and had to mend it, that was really awesome and I had loads of fun." Did that class as a duel. "If that doesn't class as a duel, there was the one between Tom Riddle and Harry Potter, at the battle of Hogwarts, though it wasn't as awesome as mine."
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Laura looked at the Professor. "The duel between Me and your Wall Professor that was epic, it took three of us to get things right and then I accidently destroyed your door and had to mend it, that was really awesome and I had loads of fun." Did that class as a duel. "If that doesn't class as a duel, there was the one between Tom Riddle and Harry Potter, at the battle of Hogwarts, though it wasn't as awesome as mine."
Yes...Medea remembered that particular event.
"I'm glad you had fun, Miss Hyde." Her wall certainly didn't. Neither did her door.
...Or her cats.
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Then suddenly an idea came to him
''Professor...all those duels...'' the ones people just mentioned ''...were fights for power, were not they? Is there any person in history who duelled for love? Like...over a pretty girl?''
*grin*
Oh?
"That is a good question. Does anyone have an answer for Mr. Turner?" she asked, looking out to the entire class and just a peak at Mister BoG Candidate to see what he was up to or even if he was still there.
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Still lying face first on the ground, Airey smirked into the cold stone floor at all the talk about blowing him up. Ha! Nice try Medea, but he wasn't about to believe that she would allow students to perform that. And all the other talk about things being on his suit and pouring water and what not...nice try too kids. He could feeeeeeeeeeel the lies vibrating in their voices. Going to have to do a lot more to trick this man. Heh.
And then he was totally falling asleep and would have actually appreciated someone shooting a spell or two in his direction. Blah blah blah...theoretical lessons were boring even if the topic was dueling. Maybe Medea would have a heart and use him for demonstration purposes...
One student's question caught his attention - the one about what happened when you died in a duel. Yes yes, Medea gave a nice thought out and long response to the boy...but Airey thought the answer was rather obvious and one that the dark haired professor had missed. When you died in a duel...then you were dead. The end.
THERE WERE CRUMBS ON THE FLOOR IN FRONT OF HIM WHICH MEANT THAT CRUMBS HAD ALSO FALLEN ONTO HIS SUIT WHICH MEANT HIS SUIT WAS CONTAMINATED! Oh...you are an evil mastermind, Medea, AND you play dirty. But no, he wasn't going to give in. Nope. Going to stay right as he was until the end of the lesson.
And some kid had dueled a wall?! Probably a Hufflepuff. He knew a fair few Puffs that couldn't duel their way out of a wet paper bag...soooooooooo....
And he was starting to get drowsy again...history was SO not his cup of tea.
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There was another moment of silence before Medea continued. "Lets focus on duels in general for a moment. Does anyone know of any notable duels that happened in our history?"[/color]
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"That is a good question. Does anyone have an answer for Mr. Turner?" she asked, looking out to the entire class and just a peak at Mister BoG Candidate to see what he was up to or even if he was still there.[/color]
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Well West had ALL SORTS of amazing duels to talk about but he changed his mind about what to say when the professor said love stuff. His hand went up and he volunteered, "I read this in the latest edition of Hogwarts a History, about how Professor Truebridge --not our Headmistress now, but her husband before he was her husband-- duelled the legendary Professor Kazimeriz in an honor duel like ten years ago over the love of Alessia Lupa, who was Kazimeriz's goddaughter and that Truebridge crippled Kazimeriz, who was old so it was lucky he didn't die or anything." Paaaause and just to let this information sink in he added, "And later Truebridge went to Azkaban for killing someone." So their headmistress, totally married to a criminal. Just sayin'. Also omitting, because the story was more interesting without the next part, the whole thing where actually he didn't kill anyone and just got blamed for it and whatnot. Shrug.
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Alyssa considered the question that Professor Romanos posed courtesy of Richard before raising her hand. "Professor what about that duel between the Jets and the Sharks in that movie West Side Story. It was about love." 'Yes even though it's a movie it could still be real...like some stories are.' Alyssa thought to herself.
"I guess Tony, one of the Jets, falls in love with Maria, the sister of the leader of the rival gang, the Sharks. Like Romeo and Juliet, they were forbidden to be together. So the leader of the Jets ends up having to duel it out with Bernardo, and of course both of them end up dying and Tony gets blamed."
Rawdon had his head in the clouds as he thought about enemies dueling each other to the death. But the professor said something that snapped him out of it.
Dueling over a girl.
Really? Who is that stupid?
He didn't know of any wizarding duels involving love, just Muggle examples from history and from the Muggle motion pictures and novels. It was worth a shot and he raised his hand.
"There was this insane duel between two Muggles - they were French, of course, and it was 1808," he began. "Their names were Monsieur de Grandpre and Monsieur de Pique, and they both had the hots for this gorgeous French lady named Mademoiselle Tirevit. But being French and all, they decided to duel with Muggle hot air balloons which were, back then, the latest invention. They used pistols and not wands, and de Grandpre won the duel when he shot at and busted the balloon of de Pique who fell 2,000 feet to the ground."
There you go, he thought, an example of two idiots dueling over a girl.
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"That is a good question. Does anyone have an answer for Mr. Turner?" she asked, looking out to the entire class and just a peak at Mister BoG Candidate to see what he was up to or even if he was still there.
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Oh! Melody grinned at this this was something she knew! "I believe that William Shakespeare wrote a muggle tragedy called Romeo and Juliet. But if I remember my history correctly it actually originated from the wizarding world, before Lor...er Voldemort's time. When pure bloods and mudbloods where really at each others throat. Romeus Perrywinkle, a mudblood and Julieta Cartwrite, a pure blood, where the star cross lovers and Romeus had a dull with Juielta's husband to be... by force before they both died in each other's arms."
OOC: sorry if I insulted anyone by not giving 'credit' to Shakespeare. I'm actually a fan.
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"Alright, it's about time for us to start." she spoke up, waiting for the talking students to hush down. "I hope you all had a good summer. Today will be more theoretical based than practical to wake up those sleepy minds of yours." Ahem, they fall asleep on these pillows, they were going to have a cold wake up call. "We'll be covering a topic that we have gotten to in the past with spell practice, but never really talked about." Pausing for a moment, she sighed as her gaze unwillingly landed on the Astronomy Professor.
"We do have a guest with us today. You may recognize him as your Astronomy professor; Professor Flamsteed. He's...erm..." Just WHAT was he doing!? She bit the inside of her cheek, trying to figure that out. Invading her lesson, that's what he was doing. With a flick of her wand, a chalk board in the corner of the arena rolled it's way to the front of the class and stopped behind her. The chalk on the board floated up, beginning to write seven letters:
DUELING
"Can anyone tell me the definition of this word?" Just ignore Professor Flamsteed for the time being.
Dueling. FIGHTING. That was totally what it meant, right? Or.. or combat? With a wand? Or any other things. Basically, dueling was fighting with weapons. Alice was going to raise her hand and state that, but the whole class was filled with geniuses who answered way too quickly, so she just carefully took notes of their answers on her parchment. Who knew? They might have loads of details that she didn't. Scratch. Scratch. Scratch. If she asked for the definition again, SHE was ready, and SHE would answer. Of course, she probably wouldn't do that.
But it was always nice to be prepared.
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[color=#bd6d6d]"So, a duel is an encounter between two people in the manner of combat using matched weapons and may occur for various reasons. There are two types of duels. One, being most common, is when a duel breaks out without the use of rules and customs that define how a proper duel is performed. Usually these duels won't end until an opponent cannot move due to injuries sustained during the combat or death. The second type is a formal duel, where there are rules and limits that one follows. These are, unfortunately, rare to see out there in world, but they are a common method when it comes to practice duels; developing your skill with magic in offensive and defensive ways." Medea paused for a moment to let that sink in.
"With formal duels, the object is to disarm, injure, outdo, or even kill your opponent. How to decide this is between you and your opponent before the duel begins. We call these rules and limits Code Duello, which establishes this type of combat to be the more customary route to go when it comes down to one's honor. It helps prevent duels from turning into feuds."
"Does anyone know what else results with Code Duello? Or what some of these rules and limits could be? One answer per person please."
Code Duello? That sounded strangely familiar. It became much clearer when Professor Romanos went on to describe it. It was still a bit difficult to think of examples, though. She wasn't one of those people who could just recall something in a couple seconds, y'know. It took a few minutes of listening to the answers of her classmates and taking more precise notes to come up with a proper statement. "If someone doesn't show up, they kind of forfeit." And that was basically all she knew. BUT at least she had answered this time, right?
Even though it wasn't.. like.. a proper answer. But she tried. Effort. It should count.
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The piece of chalk writing on the board finally settled down from scribbling furiously, pausing in mid-air, waiting. Medea paused for a minute, letting those who were taking notes to do so and let others have a moment for the information to sink in. Moving the two bags of pixie crisps and phoenix crackers in front of her, she opened each and scooted them over Professor Flamsteed to two students who sat in the front. "Feel free to take some and pass them around please."
There was another moment of silence before Medea continued. "Lets focus on duels in general for a moment. Does anyone know of any notable duels that happened in our history?"
HISTORY.
It wasn't even History of Magic. Were all the classes switched around? The were doing Muggle Studies junk in History of Magic and history stuff in Defense Against the Dark Arts. It made Alice's head spin thinking of it. "Are wars kind of like duels, except between countries instead of two people? 'Cause there have been wars fought over girls, I think." Was that a stupid question? She honestly couldn't tell, though. It made sense, considering the fact that they still fought with weapons and things. So war should count. Maybe possibly.
And because it was easier to name wars than duels. She knew loads of those. But it probably wasn't legal for Professors to ask questions that were actually answerable, for a change. And she wouldn't want Romanos to get fired for holding and easy class or something.
But STILL. It made zero sense.
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"That is a good question. Does anyone have an answer for Mr. Turner?" she asked, looking out to the entire class and just a peak at Mister BoG Candidate to see what he was up to or even if he was still there.
Fighting over a girl? Or fighting to save a girl? Or fighting to protect the honor of a girl? Those were all different things, and they weren't all equally appropriate to Mo's mind. Like fighting over a girl was dumb, because the girl was going to choose who she wanted anyway.
"This one time, the house elves put love potion in the cookies and people all fell in love with each other and it was awful." Or so said his Auntie Anj, although his mother's version of the story was different. "And my Auntie Anj got hit with the potion and fell in love with the Potions professor, and my mum thought she must have had the potion too, 'cause she was also in love with him. And they had a duel, 'cept it was mostly just Auntie Anj being crazy like she does."
To the point? "But my mum wasn't really under the potion and she married the Potions professor. That's my dad. And Auntie Anj got better, and I don't think she's dueled my mum since then." The End.
Belle heard the professor's next question. It was a question about what duel was most famous. Well Belle did imply the famous battle of the Dark Lord and Harry Potter in the Triwizard Tournament but she had a different idea.
Belle smiled and raised her hand, "Professor there was a famous duel between Lord Voldemort and Dumbledore. Two great wizards of the age." Belle wished she could have seen it. That was amazing. Then she saw the professor eying the candidates in the back of the classroom and students. She could feel somewhat of the tension from the officials being in the room.
Duels fought basically over love? He politely raised his hand. "To my knowledge, I read some books in where a man named Paris who was from Troy, took a man named Menelaus's wife, Helen, in which if I'm correct, Professor, it led to a 'duel' that became known as the Trojan War, in the Greek Mythology."Seth answered as his forehead wrinkled once again second guessing if he was correct or not.
Seth was a perfectionist sometimes.
Nervous? Yeah there was something in the Professor, Seth found interesting. Probably the idea that she most likely knew, how to handle a wand. Yup, that was very, interesting.
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There was another moment of silence before Medea continued. "Lets focus on duels in general for a moment. Does anyone know of any notable duels that happened in our history?"
Jory raised his hand after a while of writing notes. "There's the duel when Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald,'' he said. That was the most fascinating duel he had read about.
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Nerida smiled, her grandma had told her about one of those duels...The ones for love. Though she wasn't sure if she had heard of any historical ones.
She raised her hand and began telling her story. "My grandma told me a story about how two men wanted to marry her. So her dad made the two men duel. Who ever won got to marry her. My grandpa almost killed the guy. My great grandfather almost didn't let my grandma marry him but my grandma said he proved his love. It was such a romantic story...She tells it better than I do though!" A lot better than she did.. She hadn't been told that story since she was seven when she apparently out 'grew' it...
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Duels... Uggh! Why do people have to fight? Can't they just discuss to solve their problems? Alex doesn't understand the reason behind duelling. He has read that people either die or got injured while duelling.
Of course he knows about some famous duels. His father told him a lot about it. Slowly and hesitantly, the boy raises his hand. "My dad told me... A few years ago that- That the good people from the Ministry had a battle with the bad guys. He said that B- Borr was one of the bad guys, s- so the good people from the Ministry doesn't want the bad guys in the Ministry and... They duelled..." his voice sank at the final word. Alex nervously looks down and his lap again.
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Duels... Uggh! Why do people have to fight? Can't they just discuss to solve their problems? Alex doesn't understand the reason behind duelling. He has read that people either die or got injured while duelling.
Of course he knows about some famous duels. His father told him a lot about it. Slowly and hesitantly, the boy raises his hand. "My dad told me... A few years ago that- That the good people from the Ministry had a battle with the bad guys. He said that B- Borr was one of the bad guys, s- so the good people from the Ministry doesn't want the bad guys in the Ministry and... They duelled..." his voice sank at the final word. Alex nervously looks down and his lap again.
Oh yeah!
"Hey I KNOW THEM Borr and Bole? They're both friends with my dad!" Which was funny really. "Borr didn't duel though, he just got his cane stolen which was sad I think. Its mean to steal canes off old men." Which come to think of it, the example he'd given, that had happened too.
Oh. Delayed, West stuck his hand up. You know, after he'd said things.
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Notable duels? Wait, seriously? All Selina could think of was the fact that if they were talking about this... they'd be DUELING soon. MERLIN, that was going to be awesome. You know, as long as no one died. Tate would have been really upset if he read about that in the paper and the redhead had a soft spot for that weird, old Headmaster. He was cool.
Raising her hand, she answered, "I think the most famous duel I can think of is Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore. That one is SUPER famous. It was in the 1940's I think." That sounded about right. Although her favorite duel was Harry Potter and Lord Voldermort. It was really the most famous!
Messer was about to mention Albus Dumbledore vs. Gellert Grindelwald but someone mentioned that first before the fourth year could even raised his hand. Darn!
Then one of the student asked Romaons about wizarding duels involving love. Ohh. He know one. Messer raised his hand up in the air. "There's this boy who cast as Sir Luckless in the Christmas production of 'The Fountain of Fair Fortune'and the girl who playing Amata is his girlfriend but before the play start, he broke up with her because he fell for the girl who playing Asha. This cause the two witches went to duel each other on the stage."
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Oh yes, she was hoping this was brought up. "Bowing and how many paces you take are just a small part of the duel but still are as important as the duel itself. Though bowing is more about respect than mutual acknowledgement of the rules. One can always take back their word if they so wish." However dishonorable it may be. "But it would indeed be dangerous to not follow the rules, not for just the duelists sake, but the onlookers as well."
"Not to mention, the less amount of paces there are, the more difficult the duel will be for the two opponents." she said, glancing over to West. "These duels usually end much quicker and with nasty results."
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There was another moment of silence before Medea continued. "Lets focus on duels in general for a moment. Does anyone know of any notable duels that happened in our history?"
To be honest...the only duels Dylan could tell of were ones that didn't involve wands. Ones in muggle history. Could he offer those up as acceptable answers?
Meh. He'd give a popular answer.
"Harry Potter and the Dark Lord?" Someone had already given that one, though, right? Erm...The Slytherin was tapping his foot against the floor, drawing blanks. Merlin, he couldn't think of anything.
Ugh.
And there was West being a Ravenclaw. Yes, he was proud...
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Then suddenly an idea came to him
''Professor...all those duels...'' the ones people just mentioned ''...were fights for power, were not they? Is there any person in history who duelled for love? Like...over a pretty girl?''
*grin*
EYES for you, Turner.
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If Elise was very very honest with herself, she hadn't studied on duels in a few months, and was getting a little rusty. As a result, she'd forgotten practically everything about them. Inclusive of their rules and their limitations and what happened during one. All she remembered what that they fought. Usually.
Anyway, since Elise obviously didn't know the answer she just continued to take notes. Scribble scribble. Take notes and observe and listen. Maybe someone'd come up with a really brilliant answer that she could learn and use in her OWLs.