The next weekend, the six warriors gathered again.
Felix led them for a walk along the Black Lake, the lake sparkling under the warm sunlight, and several mermaids holding forks poked half of their ugly faces out and looked at them quietly from the gaps between the water plants.
"Did you gain anything?"
Felix's words were like a switch, and Hermione immediately muttered beside him.
"I looked up some information. Hagrid's dragon-raising books are useless. 'The Man Who Doted on Dragons' does introduce how to use magic to trim a dragon's nails, but they recommend buying their own oversized nail clippers instead of using magic... and how to treat festering skin... The book does mention that you can bribe them with two large barrels of fine wine, but I think doing so will only make their flames more fierce..."
"Harry's Disarming Charm is useless. The scales of those fire dragons are too strong. The best it could do was to blow off two scales, and then the angry dragon spewed blue flames--"
Harry pulled her sleeve at the side, and she blinked belatedly, "Well, to sum up, we think a few spells might be useful-Eye Disease Charm, Disapparition, Golden Flame, Disillusionment Charm... but we're not sure if Disapparition can be used in the final venue."
"And how to deal with the dragons that fall from the sky. I found that even without counting the flames, they are extremely terrifying when they fly down..."
She sighed, "It's too difficult to defeat a dragon."
After saying this, she found that Cedric, Roger Davis, Collins Foley and Professor Hep were looking at her at the same time, which made Hermione a little puzzled. Did she say something wrong?
Felix said strangely: "Miss Granger, what gave you the idea of defeating a dragon?"
Hermione subconsciously looked at Harry.
Harry scratched his head, "Isn't it? Mr. Bagman said it would be very difficult. We - mainly Hermione, she saw in the book that a chicken-bodied snake-tailed monster was rampaging uncontrollably, and three headmasters were injured... Our difficulty must be more difficult than this." Roger
Davis was shocked, "It can't be true?"
Felix shook his head gently: "This possibility is very low. Let me reveal a little bit, the Ministry of Magic picked female dragons that were hatching eggs in the dragon farm, maybe to let you get the dragon eggs under the protection of the dragon."
The six people thought about how to deal with this method.
"...Of course, it depends on the specific form of the game. It never goes wrong to make more preparations."
Felix said. Finally, they came to a huge willow tree, and he motioned for them to sit down. "Well, let's put aside the fire dragon for a moment and talk about the restraint and coordination of spells."
"As early as the first year of dueling class, Professor Flitwick demonstrated to you the coordination between spells. You may have tried it. Let me first talk about the restraint relationship between spells-"
"Generally speaking, if we want to remove the effect of a spell, especially a curse, it is most convenient to use a recognized antidote. For example, the Concealment Spell and the Apparition Spell, the Stunning Spell and the Resuscitation Spell, the Locking Spell and the Unlocking Spell, the Expulsion Spell and the Flying Spell..." "
Similarly, we can use 'Funny' to deal with Boggart, 'Expecto Patronus' to deal with Dementors, or 'Silence' to deal with the Evil Bird or the Silent Bird, and the Extraction Spell to deal with Grindylow..."
"But more often, when there is no fixed antidote, we need to respond flexibly - if we want to remove some liquids, 'Clean Up' and 'Whirlwind' can both work; or if we want to drive away some mosquitoes and small animals, the Repelling Charm is more suitable, and the Descaling Charm is a bit reluctant, unless you are facing a group of small spiders or dung beetles. In addition, although it has not been verified, I guess the Happy Charm should also be good for treating the sequelae of Dementors."
"Think more broadly! In a duel, if you want to break the defense of the Shield Charm, the most effective strategy is actually to use the Soft Legs Charm... Of course, this refers to novices with little experience. But no matter when, you can consider using Transfiguration to interfere with the opponent, or create an environment that emits a foul odor. Yes, I'm talking about the Dung Bomb."
Harry and Ron grinned.
Felix explained the characteristics of each spell one by one, and they were fascinated. They rarely had the opportunity to accept this kind of comparison between different spells. In class, they learned one spell at a time.
Felix continued to explain.
"Of course, spells can also be coordinated. Professor Flitwick's method is more advanced and requires certain magic control, but there is also a slightly more superficial method that achieves a similar effect by quickly chanting spells."
"For example, the snow-making spell and the flat slide can be used together to form a very smooth area, or three people can cast the trap spell at the same time to create a trap in an instant... Don't forget, there are three of you."
Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at each other. They had unconsciously coordinated in this regard.
In the third year, they used the Stunning Spell to sneak attack Peter Pettigrew at the same time and knocked him out neatly. At that time, Peter Pettigrew's companions took a long time to wake him up, but his condition was still not good after he regained consciousness, and his reaction was more than a beat slower. In the end, his accomplices ran away, but he was caught.
"Why do the people in the Ministry of Magic think that the three-person team should be more difficult? Just because there are two more people?" Felix looked at them and said seriously: "Remember the three key words mentioned by Mr. Crouch?"
"Courage, cooperation and fire."
"Each word is important. 'Fire' points out your dangerous direction - the fire dragon, 'courage' is your biggest psychological obstacle in the early stage, I am very happy to see that your mental state is good..." He glanced at Ron, Ron's psychological quality is relatively poor, but now it looks good.
"And 'cooperation' points out the trick to pass the project."
Each of the six warriors was thoughtful. In Felix's opinion, Cedric's group has gone further on the road of cooperation. At least they have a clear division of labor. Cedric's meteorological magic, Roger Davis's black thorns, Collins is not sure yet, but I believe he will definitely take on key tasks.
As for Harry's group, he doesn't know much. However, he will know in a while.
"Think about it carefully and see what you can do. In the afternoon, we will go to classroom 7 to actually touch the dragon. Although it is fake, it is also very meaningful for reference. I believe you will be surprised."
Felix said mysteriously, which made Cedric and the others look forward to it, but Harry and the others looked a little sick, especially Ron, who was pale.
He shook his head secretly, thinking that his psychological quality was still a little poor, and hoped that they would not be scared.