Chapter 233: New tricks

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.

"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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