Chapter 64: Honor Duels!
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Daphne seemed to nod to my statement, "Yes I forgot that you weren't raised in our world for a moment, that's another set of lessons we'll have to cover." She said before humming to herself, as I mentally groaned.
"Well generally speaking insults that are just words are generally responded to in the same manner, your statement and the article proving your claim to the heirship disproves his insinuations and makes lord Malfoy look the fool."
"So there isn't really anything to answer back to this time, unless of course the house of Malfoy doesn't recognise their faux pas and apologise publicly, generally three days is the waiting time for something like that to avoid embarrassment...."
"....but if they don't most would demand right of satisfaction to get one, then one would have to be given or an honour duel would be the result, and then the loser would have to back down."
"If house Malfoy lost that then not only would they have the embarrassment of the lost but would still have to openly apologize and recognise their faux past."
I listened intently and started to nod, "I see, I seem to recall something about honour duels." I said as I remembered them from the various fictions I had read about them, along with some of the things I had read in the Black family library.
"Am I right in assuming that I could call for another to fight in my sted given that I don't have any experience duelling?"
Daphne nodded again, "Yes, it's called choosing a champion, usually its when either party can not fight for themselves. Insults to a house are usually fought between the current lords, or a member of the house is chosen to fight if the lord cannot."
"Champions can also be outside of the house or an allied house but it's very rare as most don't like to get involved with houses other than their own."
"So I would have to duel lord Malfoy then or my champion would if it went to an honour duel?" I asked as I frowned a little, duelling a death eater this early wasn't what I had in mind I didn't have enough duelling practice under my belt yet to try anything like that.
Daphne shook her head, "No honour duels can be fought between heirs as well, so you could face Draco if you wanted to, but he could pass the challenge to his father and then it would be up to you if you wanted to continue or choose a champion instead."
"Though if Lord Malfoy accepted the challenge it would look very poorly on him for doing so considering your age, but I wouldn't put it past him, my father has had dealings with him in the past and he's the kind to do things like that regardless of the image it presents."
I nodded, "I see, thanks for the info, I'll have to do a bit more research before I go any further into the matter, I'll contact my law wizard to ask his advice on the matter." I thanked her as we continued to walk on.
We weren't far now from the grand hall where most of us were heading, we had just over two hours of a free period before our next class which was charms with the Gryffindors.
I was actually looking forward to it, as it would give me an opportunity to observe the golden trio in class. I figured that seeing as I was already on the old man's radar now there was no point in trying to fly under it.
I may as well see what I can do to shake things up a little, as long as I didn't mess with anything major I figured things would remain on track.
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The great hall:-
After another couple of minutes of walking the trio of Ravenclaws had finally navigated the staircase and made their way down and into the great hall followed by a couple of their year-mates.
Upon entering the great hall Magnus gave the tables a quick once over to see who was there, and he smiled slightly as he spotted Harry Potter sitting at the Gryffindor table.
'Hmmm, well no time like the present,' Magnus thought to himself before glancing over to Daphne and Tracey, "Hey, I'm just going to go and have a quick word with someone at the Gryffindor table, I'll catch up with you both after."
Daphne raised an eyebrow at the statement, "Oh, who are you…" she began to ask as she glanced up the Gryffindor table before stopping as she spotted Harry as well, "Potter?" She said softly, "What are you planning?"
Magnus shrugged, "Don't know yet, figured an apology for the part my uncle played in his parent's deaths is a good place to start, if he still wants anything to do with me after that then I'll see."
Daphne nodded, "I suppose that would be ideal if you want to start changing people's opinion of House Black. Alright, we'll be watching from the Ravenclaw table, hope things go well." She said before she and Tracey broke off from their group and moved towards the table with the other claws.
After they were gone Magnus took a deep breath and sighed as he tried to relax his breathing before he started forward heading towards Harry.
Internally he knew he actually didn't have to apologize for Sirius's actions given that the man was actually innocent, but he also knew that to the rest of the magical world at that time the man was guilty, the fact that he didn't even have a trial didn't even seem to matter.
But right now public opinion was all that really mattered and in the eyes of the public Sirius Black a member of his house....
....Regardless of his banishment, had betrayed house Potter and a matter such as that needed to be addressed and his stance on the matter made clear if he was ever going to improve house Black's standings in the eyes of the rest of the magical community.
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