Bab 68: Honor Duel

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"Lord Black I challenge you to an Honor Duel!!" Goyle Seniors voice echoed in the chamber.

Andromeda stood there with a calm face but on the inside she was shocked 'Just like Harry said. Someone would challenge Lord Black to a duel. Are we wizards that predictable? Harry called wizards monkeys with sticks. But lately I have been thinking he actually believes it. Talk about having your world view broken'

Several houses had different reaction. But the most common one was curiosity. What will the House of Black do now? In cases like this Andromeda as Regent has no authority to accept this on behalf of her Lord. She has to go back to Lord Black and notify him. But in doing so she will lose all the momentum she has gathered up until now. And the other houses can rally together to gang up on the House Black to force them to wave off the debts.

But contrary to their expectations Andromeda just closed her eyes and nodded or murmured something. She then opened her eyes and turned to Lord Goyle.

"Lord Black accepts your challenge, and as the one who was challenged he can chose the time. The Honor Duel will take place immediately"

To say that the Lords and Ladies were shocked would be an understatement. Everybody watched with their jaws dropped.

"Regent Black are you sure you have the authority to accept this Honor Duel. I know that you said Lord Black has given you full Authority. But this is a serious matter." Dumbledore's voice cut through the noise calming down the situation slightly

"You are right" Andromeda addressed the Headmaster "I don't have the right to decide that for myself. Which is why I contacted my Lord and he came to a decision." she then turned to Harry who had an amused expression on his face.

"Contacted? So your Lord can reach you, despite all the protections here and the distance. Fascinating. Some sort of Soul Magic perhaps? Ask your Lord if he is up for an exchange. I'm quite interested in this particular magic"

And 'Harry' wasn't the only one. With the technology in the wizarding world. The only way for information to be shared is with Owls Letters or Patronus Message. Instant communication like this is unheard of.

And it doesn't even exist. Harry just placed a Legilimency probe in Andromeda and linked their minds somewhat. Its only possible due to the close distance between them. But the wizards didn't know that. And now Lord Black was becoming a bigger and bigger threat. As only a great wizard could accomplish something like this.

"Lord Potter, Lord Black has a proposition for you. It would take quite a while for my Lord to come to Britain for something so small and insignificant so much so that it would be a waste of time. So my Lord asks of you to take his place in the Duel, fight as his champion. If you do so he will wave all debts to the House of Potter and is willing to negotiate for the Magic you are interested in"

'Well done Andromeda' Harry praised through their link.

' You are one manipulative bastard. You are going to fight, but without anyone actually knowing your identity. Honor Duels are often fought to the death with Magic as the witness. Champions are rare since magic might reject them.

And conveniently, Magic will accept Harry Potter as a champion since you are the real Lord Black. Further proving that our side is right. Without anyone knowing that you are the real Lord Black.' Andromeda felt pity to anyone who decided to provoke Harry Potter.

He would kill them and take everything they own before he is finished.

Harry stood up "I accept. I hate it when I'm indebted to anyone. So this is a good and simple opportunity to clear the slate. And I get the chance to learn new magic. I call that a win. So where do we fight"

"Lord Potter. Perhaps you should be so eager to accept to fight in Lord Black's place. After all you yourself seem to know so very little about him" Dumbledore said calmly. Truthfully he would rather the boy fight right now but he isn't sure that Harry would survive against an experienced wizard like Lord Goyle who had fought many aurors during his days as a Death Eater.

The boy needs to live so that he could die under Riddle's wand. Fate truly was fickle and you did not want to mess with her and her prophesies.

" Thank you for your concern but it isn't necessary. Quite frankly I don't know any of you. And if this Lord Black, tries to go back on his word. I'll just kill him" Harry says casually as he started to stretch lightly

"You think you can defeat me?" Lord Goyle said with a bit of hostility in his voice

"Yes. Quite easily in fact" Harry answered with a bored tone. "Well lets get this thing started. How about we fight here there must be some large chamber where we can fight"

"Lord Potter. There is a special chamber for Honor Duels in the Ministry" Amelia Bones answered calmly. She knew there was no stopping this so they might as well get it over with. Either way there was going to be a scandal after this.

"Well lets go on then" Harry said with a smile as the door of the chamber opened. And the Ministry staff started to guide Harry to the room.

After a few minutes of walking they entered the 'Duelling chamber'

Which was a small arena, contrary to the Duelling arena Harry was thinking about There were seats only on one side and there were many runes drawn on that side with Aurors ready.

'Hmm most likely protection against stray shots and Unforgivables. Since everything is allowed in Honor Duels.' Harry mused as everybody slowly filled the seats. He was also watching the Dark Faction.

During their walk to the chamber Dumbledore, the Ministry and other Lords tried to convince Harry to stand down. As it isn't his fight and killing a National Icon is just bad news.

But the Dark Faction saw this as a chance. They knew Voldemort was still alive thanks to Harry Potter. If they take care of him now. Their Lord will be very pleased

'For a bunch of 'pure-blood' Lords their Occlumency Shields aren't that good. They can hold up against brute force attacks. But when someone tries a subtle approach they can easily get through. I kind of regret even doing it. It was a waste of effort. And I didn't learn anything new.' Harry just withheld a sigh.

'I can't wait to finish with this shit. I have so much stuff to do it isn't even funny. First of all I need to get the Philosophers Stone to heal Bella and return Melinda to her youth.

Then I have to go to China. The lack of a good cauldron is slowing down my other experiments. Which is unexceptable. If I slow down I start to stagnate. Until I am Ultimate Class I just can't allow myself to slow down.

Then I have to go to France. The Pots there have exploded in popularity. But that is to be expected. France has the most wizarding Alchemists. Since Flemel left clear instructions on how to begin in the craft at Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. The thing is Alchemy doesn't only require rare materials. It requires rare plants as well. And since the Pots grow those. They were immediately sold out. I have to go and fix that mess. Or just knock down those arrogant pieces of shit down a bit. Just because they are rich and influential they think they can order me around. 'Give us more pots they said'.

Then I have to go back to Salem for a day or two to hold a conference to 'inspire' new students. Of course I'm getting paid for this. Then I need to kill the Basilisk. The Rite of Conquest ritual on a 1000 year old Basilisk should increase my strength by quite a lot. That is currently the easiest way for me to get stronger. And if I went all out. I should be able to easily kill it. Since its probably malnourished and most likely insane from being alone for so long. Doesn't matter how strong or magical it is. Its still an animal. Even True Dragons get lonely. And whatever Voldemort did to it probably made it worse.

The Basilisks only purpose was to protect Hogwarts. it was raised for that single reason. And yet Tom Riddle forced it to kill a student. Who knows what he did to the snake to make that possible'

"Ehem" A high pitch throat clear snapped Harry back to reality. Dolores Umbridge was standing there in her pink outfit that made people want to look away with how painfully bright it was. Her toad like face didn't help at all.

"We will now begin the Honor Duel between Lord Goyle and Harry Potter, Lord Black's champion. I whom wish the best of luck." she said with a small grin making Harry frown.

'These people never learn. I swear its like a den of snakes and scorpions here. If the people were stronger this would be acceptable. Using every opportunity to gain any advantage. But with me being so much stronger than them its just annoying. Is this how Dumbledore felt for decades? No wonder the old man went senile. I would have just left these people to kill each other'

"Its Lord Potter. If you can't even remember that you don't deserve to be a secretary of any position. And if you don't fix your attitude I'm calling an Honor Duel against you the next time you say any snide remarks against me"

Dolores gritted her teeth but just smiled 'What use is getting angry. The boy will be dead soon, just like he deserves, filthy son of a mudblood'

Fudge coughed in his fist " Right, for the last time are you sure you wish to continue this" he said with a serious tone 'Please say no, please say no! I can't afford to lose our National Icon. My ratings will go into negative. And I paid so much money just to get him here.'

"Lets get this started already. I have already wasted enough time." Harry said with a bit of annoyance. Making the members of the Wizengamot frown. Harry's arrogance and actions just rubbed them the wrong way. He was looking down on their society and traditions. They felt little pity for the boy. Another genius was going to die young because he couldn't keep his pride and greed in check

(A/N. 'IRONTY!!! Pride and Greed? Wizards practically live for both of those.' I saw what I wrote and couldn't help but think of this.)

"Very well. Then let the Honor Duel Begin" As soon as Fudge called the start of the 'duel' a translucent barrier appeared around the spectators.

"Hahaha. Today is the end of The-Boy-Who-Lived. You know I'm feeling a bit benevolent today. How about I give you the first shot" Lord Goyle laughed out loud. He had prepared his most powerful defence. He had planned to humiliate the boy.

Destroying his image and increasing his. His Lord would surely reward him for this.

"Sure I'll take you up on that." Harry just raised his wand and pointed it at his head.

The crowed shook their heads, the boy was way too inexperienced. By pointing his wand he revealed where he had planned to shoot his spell. Lord Goyle could just use a small version of his shield to completely block the spell.

When he saw Harry take a breath Gotle just raised his wand and whispered "Protego Maxima" it was the simplest solid shield spell. He didn't require to add any suffixes like 'Duo' or 'horribilis' after all Harry Potter wouldn't know any advanced spells

Harry saw this and smiled as he opened his mouth $ Ventus Terebrare $!!! (Wind Pierce)

As soon as he said those words the whole chamber shivered and got goosebumps. as Parseltongue was disturbing for humans to hear. It activated their survival instincts.

And in the next moment.

Crackk. Pluchh

The spell drilled through Goyle's shield and into his head, right between the eyes.

SIlence. The entire Chamber was deathly silent.

A split second. A single exchange. That's all it took. Goyle Senior was no more. A powerful and well known Death Eater. Someone who has experience in fighting with aurors was brought down by a eleven year old child.

Harry put a lot of magic in the spell. The same amount as a 7th year Hogwarts student had. The piercing spell left his wand. As soon as it left is started to twist and quickly gather the air around it to enhance itself and speed up even further.

He looked down at the corpse on the ground as blood was pooling around the head. Harry then turned to the spectators. "So are we done here?"