019 - Exploring the Restricted section

As Ivan spoke, suddenly as if thinking of something, he spoke again.

"Also, Malfoy, you still owe Hermione a thank you for saving your life, don't forget about that!"

"Halls! That was a despicable and shameless sneak attack on me!" Malfoy drew out his wand and pointed it at Ivan, his white cheeks flushed red.

"I, Malfoy, even if I fell from the sky and fell to death even if I was imprisoned in Azkaban... I would never thank a Mudblood!"

Crabbe and Goyle also drew out their wands, but they instantly gathered the attention of many Gryffindors who looked at them with a surprised look. This reminded the three of them that this is Gryffindor's long table. If they dared to start trouble here they will be beaten badly...

Hearing the word 'Mudblood', Ivan involuntarily frowned, Ron even jumped up and shouted.

"Malfoy! We accept your challenge! I will teach you a lesson tonight!"

"Okay, then I'll wait for you tonight..." Malfoy raised his eyebrows and turned away with a smirk.

"Duel, what is a duel? Do two people stab each other with swords?" When Malfoy left, Harry asked, confused.

"Of course not, how could we be as stupid as those Muggles?" Ron said proudly of the rules he knew.

"En... you first need to stand opposite each other and then bow to the opponent. Both sides hold up their wands and use magic to perform a glorious duel. If one party dies, the wizard's second must step up until one side is defeated!"

Ron got more and more excited as he talked about it. It was more fun to do duels than to read a book in the classroom every day. Besides, he will get to see Malfoy upset.

"Dead?" Harry swallowed.

"Ron is exaggerating it a bit too much, this is a regular wizard duel. At best, we use some magic such as disarming curses and leg-locking curses, not much different than using fists." Ivan shook his head and explained to Harry...

"Ivan, will you come tonight?" Ron expected.

"No, as I said before, there's still something I need to do tonight, I don't have time to pay attention to Malfoy and his delusions." Ivan shook his head.

In Ivan's opinion, this kind of silly face-to-face magical duel with wands was too stupid. It doesn't fit the image as a wizard at all. It's not as interesting as watching a fencing performance, at least that has a certain level of fun to it.

Given Ron and Harry's unceasing temperament, Ivan kindly reminded them.

"We still have to figure out whether Malfoy will even come tonight, maybe he just wants to fool us and then let Filch come over and catch us all..."

"That shouldn't be true?"

Ron and Harry looked at each other, thinking that Malfoy shouldn't be so shameless. This is an honorable wizard duel!

Seeing the look of Harry and Ron, Ivan knew that he couldn't persuade them. After sighing, Ivan turned over "The basics on flying" on the table.

Anyway, according to his memory, the actions of Harry and others tonight would lead to them learning more about the Sorcerer's Stone.

Even if there was an accident, Dumbledore will be responsible for the cleanup, and the Headmaster will not let his appointed savior have an accident.

"Ron, are we really going to a duel against Malfoy tonight? What if Malfoy doesn't come at all, as Ivan said?" After eating, Harry, who returned to his bedroom with him, expressed worriedly.

"Of course he'll come, this is a duel! Malfoy will have to show up. Imagine he comes and finds that we didn't go, how embarrassing would that be?" Ron desperately tried to involve harry into going with him, after all, he had agreed.

"But without Ivan, there are only two of us, how could we beat Malfoy's group of three!" Harry said.

"We can call Neville together, so we will also have three people!" Ron thought for a while.

It made a lot more sense. Although Malfoy's two followers were a little stupid, they were physically much stronger than them, they would have suffered too much at fighting. "Neville?" Harry opened his mouth, trying to say something, and then swallowed back after a while.

Why did he suddenly feel more worried?

Otherwise, two people should be fine...

...

At midnight, in the Gryffindor common room, Ivan put down the "The basics on flying".

In order to avoid the embarrassment of the previous flight class, Ivan borrowed the books related to flight technique as soon as he got out of the class. After a few hours of reading, plus an excellent grade in one flight class, the flight technique is almost close to the second level.

At this time, the bedroom was already empty, and Harry and Ron had sneaked out with Neville ten minutes ago.

Ivan can only wish them good luck, but the three-headed dog had a lot of temper.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Ivan crawled out of the cylindrical passage. Looking back, the opening of the passage had automatically closed.

The fat lady who was in charge of guarding the passage didn't seem to be there, maybe she went somewhere.

Hogwarts at midnight was a bit more deserted than usual, and it was frighteningly quiet. The entire corridor was pitch black, and only the dim candlelight that lit up every ten meters made Ivan barely able to see the way ahead.

Fortunately, in the wizarding world, even ghosts are not terrifying existences. Ivan had also chatted with some of them, so he didn't panic at all, just complaining about the rewards given by the system in his heart.

This is too hard-core, the reward actually requires him to go to the restricted section to get...

This is not systematic at all!

Ivan went straight through the long corridor and encountered an annoying spiral staircase on the way to the restricted area.

At night, these stairs seem to be more random than during the day, there is no visible pattern at all. Whenever Ivan arrived toward them, they suddenly turn to the other side. I don't know but I felt like this was done on purpose, so the students who came out to wander around in the middle of the night had to face more difficulty.

Fortunately, Ivan has not been learning magic for academics results. Using the levitation charm you can make yourself float for some moment, relying on this borrowing force to float to the place where you want to go, and using the petrification curse can block the connection between the stairs so they cannot move...

With the help of some magic that was not too advanced, Ivan's journey went very smoothly.

There were a large number of portraits hung around the spiral staircase. A few old scholars with white beards watched Ivan jumping up and down with interest, and a few portraits even greeted Ivan enthusiastically.

As Ivan walked downstairs, he responded politely to everyone, then turned away from the auditorium on the way to the library.

"Alohomora!" Ivan opened the closed library door with the unlocking spell. For safety's sake, he closed it as he moved into the library, then waved his staff and used the Lumos charm.

"Lumos..."

A bright white light flashed from the tip of the wand, and when it stabilized, the light had already dimmed a lot, but it was enough for Ivan to see his surroundings.