Chapter 181 The Four Stages of Wizards - Andy's Personal Views

Whoosh!

Two magic beams came towards Andy at an extremely fast speed.

Andy lightly waved his wand and the two magic spells were directly dispersed by Andy.

This was actually considered a high-level usage of the Shield Charm.

It could also be said to be a kind of show-off skill.

Andy raised an eyebrow at Hermione, little one, come on!

Hermione gritted her teeth and waved her wand again.

"Avis!"

A large group of canaries emerged around Hermione, and with Hermione's wand pointing at Andy, all the canaries were like bullets, crashing towards Andy at an extremely fast speed.

Cho Chang was equally unwilling to show weakness and once again, she fired out a magic spell.

"Expelliarmus!"

Andy lightly waved his wand, and all the canaries turned into fireballs in a flash, and then quickly coalesced together, coalescing into a six-meter-long fire snake that looked down on Hermione from above.

Andy then waved his wand again, dispersing Cho Chang's disarming charm.

The two sides exchanged blows back and forth a few times.

Andy mainly focused on defence, occasionally attacking a few times, and he was able to bring great trouble to Hermione and Cho Chang.

After all, the purpose of organizing a duelling club was to practice duelling, not to compete. Winning was not the goal, growing in the process was the most important thing.

After five minutes had passed, seeing that Hermione and Cho Chang were already a bit tired, Andy held his wand and gently flicked it, and Hermione's wand suddenly flew out of her hand.

"Ah!" Hermione exclaimed.

Andy jerked up his wand and pointed it at Cho Chang.

Cho Chang quickly defended.

"Protego!"

Unfortunately, it was useless.

A crimson magic beam instantly tore through Cho Chang's Shield Charm, Cho Chang took two steps back, and the wand in her hand flew out.

Andy made an apologetic expression.

"After not seeing you for a summer holiday, I didn't expect you to have become so powerful." Cho Chang said at the first breath.

Although in the first year, she and Hermione were likewise no match for Andy when they joined hands. But it was never as easy for Andy to cope with it as it is today.

At that time, both sides could at least fight back and forth.

But today ... Andy did not even move from his position.

Andy also felt slightly emotional, after a year of hard practice, he had finally widened the gap in strength.

The strength here refers not to magic attainment.

Rather, it was the strength in PK.

According to Andy's observation, many wizards were still only at the stage of 'knowing how to use' when it came to the application of magic.

Such wizards were certainly not worth mentioning.

The ones that were a bit stronger would be the wizards of Helen and Kyle's era.

At that time when Voldemort was ravaging the magic world, they could still enjoy Dumbledore's protection in school, and even if they went home on holidays, the Death Eaters wouldn't make things difficult for Hogwarts students.

But what about after graduation?

So the young wizards of that era were desperately trying to improve their strength, and they were generally very strong.

Meanwhile, the strongest regular wizards in the wizarding world were the professionally trained Aurors, the professional wizards who made a career out of duelling competitions, and the dark wizards who were always hovering on the edge of life and death.

Their daily routine is practising magic, as well as training duelling skills.

Further up, there were the super-specialized wizards such as Professor McGonagall and Flitwick.

Then, finally, those at Old Man Dumbledore and Voldemort level.

To put it simply, those who can use magic, who have had some training, who have been trained in specialized areas for years, as well as those at the level of Dumbledore and Voldemort.

Of course, this description wasn't always accurate.

After all, every wizard's talent was different, and there were always some gifted wizards who could become very strong as long as they could use magic.     

According to Andy's estimation of his current strength, even if he was placed amongst the Aurors, he was not considered the weakest of the bunch.

Maybe Andy hadn't studied magic for a long time, but Andy's talent was high!

"I didn't relax my practice during the summer holiday, either!" Andy responded to Cho Chang.

Cedric rubbed his nose.

It couldn't be said that he didn't study at all during the summer break, but playfulness was the nature of those at their age.

Living in the magic world, the pressure of life as well as the social pressure was not as great as in the muggle world, so wizards were actually quite carefree.

"That's so unfair."

Hermione said defiantly, "Why is Andy the only one who can use magic outside of school."

"I have a relationship in the Ministry of Magic!" Andy teased.

Cedric rubbed his nose again.

Although it was a bit embarrassing that he couldn't beat the second-year junior, Cedric didn't particularly care about it.

He neither wanted to be an Auror nor did he want to participate in duelling tournaments. After graduation, Cedric had clear career plans.

"During the summer holiday, if you want to practice magic, you can come and stay at my home for a couple of days." Andy directly exposed his 'plan'.

Cho Chang looked at Andy and Hermione with a playful face, while Cedric was somewhat envious.

This junior schoolmate is capable!

Hermione's face turned red, and she held her tongue for a while, but finally whispered back, "Let's talk about it when the time comes."

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At 5:30 pm, the four of them stopped practising and after tidying up the classroom, they walked towards the great hall in pairs.

Andy was in a good mood.

During the last duelling practice, Hermione, Cho Chang, and Cedric had teamed up, and none of them had been able to put too much pressure on Andy, who had disarmed all three of them in turn with just a little bit of effort.

Andy never had a moment so clearly to realize that he had really become stronger.

Last school year, Andy's magic attainments had already surpassed Cedric's, but when it came to duelling, there was always a feeling of not being able to use his full capabilities.

But now it was different.

The small advantage that had been accumulated little by little in the past had finally ushered in a qualitative change at this moment, turning into a huge advantage that was enough to widen the gap in strength.

'But this is not enough!' Andy warned in his heart.

What Andy wanted to surpass were great wizards like Dumbledore and Voldemort, the reason why their strength was so strong was never just their high magic attainments.

The secret of Voldemort's power was magic transfiguration.

But why was Dumbledore so strong?

Andy never found the reason.

'Maybe, I can test that one next school year.'

Andy had speculated that Lady Ravenclaw's path to magic might be combination-type magic.

Combining different magics to achieve the effect of one plus one is greater than two.

Or even achieve what the heart desires.

Andy's current magic attainments were definitely still far from Lady Ravenclaw's, but when the [Charms] talent was raised to [7] points, it might be possible to give it a try.

If the combination magic could be successful, Andy felt that by the time he was in his third year, his strength might usher in a drastic change.

'If the Animagus succeeds by then as well, perhaps it will be possible to try Magic Transfiguration.'

'And the Patronus Charm ...'

Andy organized the things he currently needed to learn and found that he really had a long way to go.

Especially since learning these things also required extra points.

And that wasn't even counting dark magic, alchemy and such.

'Difficult!' Andy sighed.

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