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"The duel will be over only when one side has surrendered to the other or is unable to continue due to either being unconscious or dead."
"If at any time either of you breaks the unforgivable rule the duel will be over, and I will have the personal pleasure of snapping your wand and carting you off directly to Azkaban myself, understood."
Magnus nodded in response at the same time as Draco did, while Moody looked them both over seriously for a few moments longer before nodding himself.
"Good, now you will both about-face and pace ten paces when myself and the Professor here are outside of the pillars, only then will you draw your wands and take your stance."
"Once the shields are in place you may begin, either of you casts before then and you automatically forfeit the duel"
Both Magnus and Draco nodded again before they both turned on their heels and counted ten paces before turning to face one another both still well within the boundary the pillars marked out.
Looking at them both one last time both Professor Flitwick and Moody quickly began to make their way out of the boundary before moody drew his wand with a call of, "Wands at the ready!" at the same time as both Magnus and Draco drew their own and moved into their stances.
Draco took the same stance that Magnus recognised from the second book when he had duelled Harry, with his body turned to his left, his left arm outstretched and fingers pointed out, his right arm up above his head with his wand held firmly in his hand.
Magnus shifted to his right, holding his wand in his right hand, with his left arm behind his straight back, his right foot forward as he stood as tall as he could while providing as little target space as possible, a stance that Andromeda had taught him in their lessons.
There was a three-count before Moody moved again as he flicked his wand towards the four pillars and the air between them rippled and shimmered for only a second before the shields were in place.
The second they were Draco made his move fast, clearly desperate to win quickly.
"Expelliarmus!" He called as he moved to bring his wand around to launch his spell at Magnus who was more than ready for it.
Magnus moved to the left raising his wand hand to avoid the spell as it shot wide and hit the shield behind Magnus.
But he paid no attention to it as he used the movement to his advantage and brought his wand arm down again as he hissed out, "Bombarda" as he aimed his spell low.
The result was exactly as Magnus had wanted, the ground a few feet in front of Draco exploded and the force knocked the blond off his feet and back as the resulting debris from the shattered stone exploded and shot everywhere.
The shields lit up as the small stones were prevented from passing outside their boundaries as many outside let out gasps of shock from the clearly advanced spell work from Magnus.
Over with the students Harry and Ron were watching in a group of Gryffindor first years, Harry was wide-eyed seeing Magnus make the ground in front of Malfoy explode like that feeling a little queasy as he thought about what that spell could have done had it hit Malfoy and not the ground.
"What kind of spell was that?" Harry asked in shock.
Ron snorted from beside him, "probably something dark." He said sneering at both Malfoy and Magnus.
"Hardly," Hermione said from a bit over from them, "it looked like what I read a low powered Bombarda spell would look like, it's mostly used for demolition, but it's not supposed to be taught until our fourth year."
"Then how do you know about it then?" Ron said glaring at her.
Hermione huffed, "because unlike some people I read ahead to prepare for my classes," she said not really seeing a problem with reading so far ahead in her classwork.
Ron turned red at that and was about to snap back when there was more commotion inside the pillars.
Magnus strode forward toward Malfoy closing the distance between them just as Malfoy managed to get up and thrust his wand forward.
"Stupify!" Malfoy called as he fired his stunner with a panicked voice.
Magnus stopped in his tracks as he brought his wand up and the tip glowed, "Protego!" and the red spell splashed harmlessly against the invisible shield that Magnus creates before he twisted his wand and flicked it toward Malfoy again with a chant of "Depulso!
But Magnus hadn't been aiming at Draco, he had been targeting one of the pieces of stone his blasting spell had broken from the floor.
The small piece of rock shot at Draco just skimming by his face clipping him as it passed.
Draco gave a yelp as he stepped back, his hand going up to his cheek as he did so only to his in pain, and to his shock when he took his hand away from his face it was wet with blood.
The stone had cut his cheek just an inch or so below his right eye and he stared at it in horror.
Magnus gave Draco a hard look, "what's wrong Draco, you seemed so confident when you were standing next to daddy not a short while ago, what's wrong is the little dragon all talk and no bite? Depulso." He said as he flicked his wand again vanishing another piece of rubble at Draco which the Blond only just managed to dodge.
Malfoy panicked, his eyes wide he couldn't lose, if he did he would lose everything, he was not going to let Black take what was his from him.
"Afflicto!" Draco snapped using the first spell that came to mind.
Magnus stepped to the side as what he recognised as the bone-breaking curse shot by him and he scowled, "Perforo!" he snapped back.
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