Duelling Classroom ((Daniel & Seth))

[Professor Amaryllis Hardy]

A new year, a new start. And what a way to start. It was all wrong. Students were subdued and frightened because the Hogwarts Express had been attacked. A Hufflepuff had died. Kris Graas was in a coma. Many more students were injured. And it was Amaryllis that had been charged with keeping those students safe. But yet what more could she have done? She should have locked the doors of the compartments, she should have done that. But both Kris Graas and Laura Pennington had come from adjacent carriages. How could she have warned them? The Death Eaters had come with no warning, and it had been all she could do to hold them off causing havoc in the rest of the carriage, just holding them up there. She'd been powerless to do much more to help the students. And then the carriage had derailed and started sliding down the slope. She hadn't been prepared for that. All that broken glass. So many people hurt. Her fault for not having done more to prevent it. But not her fault that they possessed such incomprehensible evil. How could they kill a poor innocent girl like Laura Pennington who had done the world so much good and not wrong?

Amaryllis let out a heavy sigh and immediately doubled over, clutching her side. Poppy had been very reluctant to let her go. The glass cuts, they were nearly all healed now thanks to her skills. But her stomach was still very painful. It would heal, eventually. But it was going to stay painful for a good long time, because that damage had been caused by a very nasty spell. And Amaryllis hadn't wanted to stay laid up in bed. She had the duelling club to oversee and, this year, Muggle Studies lessons to teach. And she had a duel to oversee on the first Monday of the year. She was rather pleased about that, and she forced herself to focus on that positive thought as she sat down at her desk in the newly painted duelling classroom to wait for the third year Gryffindor Daniel Liversidge and second year Slytherin Seth Johnson.

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Daniel had ended the beggining of year feast quite pleased since he found all his former friends and got to say hello to all his teachers. The first teacher he said hi to was Professor Professor Amaryllis Hardy, who would be letting Daniel and one of his few slytherian friends, Seth Johnson have a duel.

Daniel awoke the first monday of term bright and early since he was excited about his first duel of the year. Daniel asked one of his roommates if he could help him practice which he did. Daniel practiced all kinds of charms of which his favorite was expelliarmas, which disarms and if used to powerfully can knock someone off their feet.

Daniel decided to skip breakfast and go directly to the classroom in which he was to duel in. he opened the door to his proffesors room and saw her sitting at her desk presumeably waiting for him and seth. Daniel walked in and asked if she knew when seth would be here and she had no reply except fo good morning. Daniel sat down in one of the few chairs since their was a huge dueling platform in the middle of the room. Daniel then began to wait for seth by practicing little defense charms by himself. Daniel wished that seth would hurry up and get to the class already since he was so anxious to get the duel started. Daniel now wished he had gone to breakfast since seth to probably had.