Chapter 233: New tricks

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Chapter 233: New tricks

"Expelliarmus!" The flash of light left Ginny's wand.

Harry gave his own wand a flick. This made the light return to where it came from, hitting Ginny's wand and sending it flying away.

"Try not to make it so obvious. You need to chain several spells together so your opponent can't just deflect your disarms or stunners that easily," Harry explained.

"Sorry…" Ginny lowered her head in shame.

"It's fine." Harry brushed it off. "You are still doing great for a second year. Much better than my sister."

"Hey, I can hear you!" Lyra was a short distance away, fighting against a dummy. "I can't believe you are making us practice on a Friday afternoon!"

"I-I don't mind…" Ginny said softly.

"Dismembra!" Luna's spell hit the dummy, and it was immediately ripped apart.

Luna started to laugh maniacally. "Did you see that, Tori?!"

Astoria glanced at the remains of the training dummy as it tried to put itself together. "Scary…"

"Harry, why would you teach Luna something like that?!" Lyra exclaimed.

"Luna, remember what you promised me?" Harry asked her.

"I will only use it on the bad guys!" Luna said with excitement while waving her hand around.

"See? No problem," he told his sister.

"I see a huge problem!" Lyra replied.

"Harry…" Daphne walked past Lyra and stood in front of Harry with her wand in hand.

"Want to practice?" he asked, and Daphne nodded.

Harry moved to the middle of the room and stood there. "You can begin…"

 He hadn't seen much of Daphne since she came back from her training with Morgana, but he could tell that she had improved a lot in such a short amount of time.

Daphne moved her wand in a quick immersive motion. "Incarcerous!" A dozen ropes shot towards him at great speed.

But she was not done yet. "Aguamenti." A cascade of water came from above. "Glacius!" The water transformed into spikes made of ice.

"Protego." A shield appeared around Harry, blocking both the ropes and spikes from reaching him.

"Lapis…" Daphne kneeled down and touched the stone floor.

"Transfiguration?..." Harry was surprised to see this. He had not taught her any elemental transfiguration.

"Spica!"

Harry jumped backward before a spike made of stone managed to pierce his body.

"Not bad," Harry remarked.

"I'm not done!" Daphne moved forward and aimed her wand at the stone spike itself. "Depulso!"

A concentrated gust of air broke the spike into small pieces and shot them at Harry like bullets.

He conjured a shield in front of him to block the shrapnel while starting his counter-attack. 

"Avis." A dozen birds made of paper made their way to Daphne.

While she considered how to deal with them, Harry had already cast two more spells.

A group of spiders had been summoned and were moving at fast speed towards her. When Daphne attempted to move back, she noticed the floor was extremely slippery.

"Evane-" She attempted to vanish the creatures around her before it was too late.

"Silencio."

But found herself unable to speak.

A tripping jinx sent her tumbling down on the ground while birds landed on top of her head and the spiders started to climb across her legs.

"Do you yield?" Harry pointed his wand at her.

Daphne nodded vigorously, so Harry dispelled the summoned creatures and removed the silencing charm on her.

"Ahh! I hate spiders!" Daphne exclaimed.

"Daphne, that was amazing!" Lyra approached.

"Yes, where did you learn to do all of that?... did Harry teach you?" Ginny could not hide her jealousy at this point.

"Daphne… great!" Astoria tapped her shoulder.

"Well… I have been doing some extra practice during the break." Daphne said. She could not mention where she had been. Only her parents had a vague idea of what was going on.

"How was it?" Daphne stood up from the floor and got closer to Harry.

"Good, but you got easily distracted with those summons and stopped paying attention to what I was doing. You should have been able to avoid that silencing charm with ease," Harry explained.

"Why did you have to summon spiders?! Even a snake would have been fine…" Daphne wanted to complain but she knew she should have done better. "Let me try again!"

"Take it easy...why don't you practice a bit with Ginny and Lyra?. I have to go check on Luna and your sister," Harry suggested, but seeing her face of disappointment, he decided to add, "Fine, just give me twenty minutes. Then we can do it again."

He then approached Luna and Astoria.

"How did I do?" Luna pointed at the targeted dummy with missing arms.

"Great, but remember that against a real person, you will have put a lot of power into that spell. Real bodies are a lot more resistant than you imagine."

Luna nodded vigorously.

"I see...it needs more power"

"Harry..." Astoria looked at him.

He glanced at the girl. She was still not talking much.

'I guess it's hard to break old habits...'

"Teach me!" Astoria demanded while making an expression that was probably the closest she could get to a pout.

Harry found it amusing that she was probably being jealous of her sister Daphne.

'The only problem is that I still don't know if there is any type of magic that she stands out on. She seems to be decent at everything.'

"Is there anything in particular you want to learn?" He decided to ask.

Astoria shrugged. 

"Mmm...well, is a bit early but if I teach you the basics of silent casting?." She seems to dislike speaking so learning to use spells without having to say anything will probably benefit her more than most.

Astoria smiled. 

Apparently, she loved the idea.

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