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Magnus spell shot from his own wand with speed and Malfoy only just managed to raise his shield in time to deflect it, the spell bounced and cut a straight thin furrow in the stone floor.
"Eviscero, Depletura! " Malfoy cast the second his shield was down after seeing the damaged Magnus' own spell had done he was getting desperate to end this as he started casting the darkest spells he knew one after the other.
Magnus sidestepped again as the sickly yellow of the entrail expelling hex shot by him and he banished another piece of rubble into the path of the next one that he recognised as the bloodletting curse which would have had him bleeding out from every oraphis he had, not pleasant.
Before he had to move again to dodge another spell and raise his wand to catch the fourth and deflect it before the next came seconds after.
The staff that had gathered to watch the duel were watching on wide-eyed as they saw the Malfoy heirs spells getting darker and darker as the duel progressed.
Needless to say, none of them was one bit impressed by what they were witnessing, they had all witnessed what those spells could do to one inflicted by them.
Snape was grinding his teeth as he watched the duel grow longer, he wanted to smack some sense into his godson, what was he thinking using such clearly dark spells.
Sure they were technically permitted in this duel but he didn't have to use them so openly. He had recognised the effects of Blacks last spell, the piercing hex, not exactly dark but not light either.
He at least had the sense to keep his voice low when casting questionable spells so as not to attract attention, a lesson he would be sure to drill into his godsons head after this whole mess was over.
Lucius gripped his cane tightly as the duel continued, he as well was displeased with his sons open use of such dark spells, not for the reasons others would have thought.
It was because with every dark spell he used he could see Moody glaring at him harder from where he stood while his magical eye watched the match.
No doubt the mad old man knew just where Draco had learned his dark arsenal from, though he would never admit such in public, or ever.
Both Daphne and Tracey stood with the rest of Ravenclaw House as they watched the duel, in the opening shots of it they had all been impressed with Magnus' advanced spell work and his creative use of a normally destructive spell and were even more impressed with how he was using the rubble as weapons.
But now every one of them was openly glaring at Malfoy for his use of what were clearly dark spells against one of their own, there was no tact in his spell work he was just throwing magic blindly.
Andromeda was watching on as well feeling utterly helpless to help Magnus as the duel went on.
When it had first started she had felt pride seeing him start off so strong and hold himself so well, he trusty was a Black with how he took control of the duel at the start and set the pace.
But she had clearly underestimated the level of dark arts that Lucius had taught his son as he flung spell after spell at Magnus.
She was just glad she had taught him what she could in what time she had as he held his ground against the assault that Draco was throwing at him.
Magnus was getting annoyed as he deflected the twelfth spell that Draco threw at him, a whipping spell if he wasn't mistaken, before tossing it aside and into the boundary shields above the heads of the watchers.
He could see Draco was tiring but so was he, it took a great deal of concentration and focus to be able to deflect spells with the tip of his wand like he was doing and he was reaching his limit after doing so with the past three spells in a row.
He needed to end this now before one of Draco's spells actually connected, but he needed a distraction to do so.
Draco paused to get his breath back after another spell and that was when Magnus struck.
"Lumos Maxima!" Magnus shouted the second after he took a risk and closed his eyes, and the next second the tip of his wand burst into light and Malfoy gave a cry as his vision was momentarily taken from him in the burst of light.
"Nox," Magnus said cancelling the spell before he flicked his wand at a piece of rubble and hissed "sicas argenteas," before he had to spin to his left to dodge a blindly fired bludgeoning curse that Draco threw in his direction.
"Depulso! " Magnus cried as he came to a stop with another flick of his wand just as Malfoy blinked the spots out of his eyes.
Only the second Draco got his vision back it was taken from him again by a blinding white pain in his upper right thigh.
The pain was so bad that he collapsed to the ground, he looked down to see the source of the pain and gaped to see a solid silver dagger sticking out of his thigh buried a good three inches into his muscle.
The next second his brain caught up to him and he realized his situation as he looked back up to Magnus as he pointed his wand at him, he didn't have time to act.
"Stupify!" Magnus said with force as he overpowered the stunner and it flew from his wand faster than Draco's had and hit the blond hard knocking him back and sending him sprawling unconscious as his wand clattered from his hand.
Almost instantly the hall filled with applause from the students seconds before Moody brought down the shields and Magnus slumped exhausted only to be surrounded by his housemates congratulating him on his victory and his excellent strategizing, needless to say, they were impressed.
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