At 6:15 the next morning, Ryan got up early to wash up and went to the common room. Hermione was already waiting for him here with her schoolbag on her back. This was because Hermione had made an appointment with Ryan to learn something related to combat from him.
This idea came about out of the protection of her parents when Miss Granger discovered that the wizarding world was not friendly to Muggles during the summer vacation.
The two of them came to an empty classroom on the second floor together. Ryan closed the door and began to speak: "Since you want to learn how to fight, then I can share my experience with you."
Hermione saw Ryan take out a book after he finished speaking. It was the standard Defense Against the Dark Arts textbook "Dark Powers: A Guide to Self-Defense" and an extracurricular book "Self-Defense Spells".
"If we want to learn, I think we should start with the most basic, simple and orthodox ones. Although these spells may be simple to cast, have a single purpose and have average effects, at least they can ensure safety when learning."
Hermione nodded in agreement.
Ryan opened the book, then pointed to one of the pages and said: "I think we should start learning from this: the disarming spell, one of the most basic but very effective spells. Of course, this thing should be useful to African wizards.
It’s useless because they cast it with bare hands. But at least in Britain it’s very useful.”
After Ryan finished speaking, he handed the book to Hermione. Hermione took the book and read it carefully several times. Then she waved her wand in the air and her lips kept moving. After a while, she stopped what she was doing and said to Ryan
: "I think I've learned almost enough theoretical knowledge. We should practice some sparring. Because magic spells can't be learned just by reading books."
"Of course, that's what I think too." Ryan said and took out the wand. He had to admire Hermione's intelligence, because it took him 20% longer to learn this spell than Hermione.
When the two people were about ten steps apart, Ryan raised his wand and said, "I'll count to three, and then we'll start together. One, two, three."
"Expelliarmus." As soon as Ryan finished speaking, Hermione recited the spell. The spell was accurate, and a red beam flew out from the head of Hermione's wand and hit Ryan. But because it was the first time to use it, Hermione
Something went wrong when the magic was cast, and the spell just made Ryan's hair stand on end.
Ryan's counterattack easily caused Hermione's wand to spin and fly out.
"Why didn't my spell work?" Hermione asked a little strangely.
"This is a problem of self-study only by reading textbooks. The textbooks only have magic spells and principles. They are used in conjunction with the teacher's classroom teaching. How to cast spells still depends on the teacher's demonstration. Fortunately, the key words are written in this "Self-Defense Magic Collection"
point."
After finishing speaking, Ryan showed Hermione a sheet about the disarming spell in the "Collection of Self-Defense Charms". Hermione took one look and discovered her problem. "It turns out that the sound of the letter p in it needs to be accented."
After reading it, Hermione closed the book and continued training. Now that she found the right method, her magic improved quickly, and it didn't take long for her to knock Ryan's hand away.
"I think I have mastered this magic. Can I learn the next one?" Hermione looked a little proud and said to Ryan.
"Have you really mastered it? Then let's really test it. After all, you have to know that in a real battle, it is impossible for two people to stand motionless and shoot at each other with magic spells. At your current level, I can do it without using magic spells.
Defeat you."
"I don't believe it. After all, you haven't been studying these magic spells for a long time. Even if your level is higher than mine, it won't be much higher."
After that, the two people started a new round of practice ten steps apart. Hermione fired magic spells at Ryan, but Ryan dodged them or used the desks in the classroom to block the spells. Finally, Ryan jumped over several desks and avoided them.
The curse closed in on Hermione, and the wand was pointed at her.
"When did you learn this? It looks a bit like parkour. But seriously, this skill should have some effect in combat."
"How do you know this? I remember that this thing is only popular in France now, and basically no one in the UK knows this. I just learned it by chance from a sailor who traveled around." Ryan asked.
"Because I have a French relative. He told me last time he came to our house that my distant cousin broke his leg because he participated in this sport."
"Sure enough, extreme sports are risky, and you should be cautious when participating." Ryan continued: "So I say you haven't mastered this magic at all. Or to be precise, you haven't mastered how this magic should be used in combat.
As a combat magic, this is the core."
"Indeed." Hermione admitted this. "But you must have been practicing this sport for several years. I think it is difficult for me to be as flexible as you."
"There is no need to be like me, but it is always good to exercise and improve your athletic ability. If you think about it, there are many spells in the magic world that are difficult to block, but you should have discovered just now that these spells need to be aimed before being launched.
So you can dodge these curses. Even the most terrifying death curse, as long as it can't hit you, of course it won't be able to kill you."
Afterwards, Ryan gave Hermione some methods of exercising athletic ability in the Assassin inheritance, and finally said to her: "Although it is very simple to treat common diseases in the wizarding world, it is better to avoid getting sick as much as possible.
Madam Pomfrey's potion really doesn't taste good. So it's not a bad thing to exercise to improve your physique."
Hermione nodded sadly. She drank Madam Pomfrey's potion last winter because of a cold. The taste was terrible, and steam kept coming out of her ears.
In the following time, Ryan took out a few small balls from his pocket and used the levitating spell to direct these small balls to rise and fall. He asked Hermione to use these small balls as moving targets to practice her disarming spell.
Soon, the time came to a quarter past seven. The two of them packed up the things in the classroom and headed to the auditorium to have breakfast.
On the way, Hermione asked Ryan: "When is our next practice time? I think this needs to be practiced every week to be effective, otherwise it will be easy to forget."
"Then let's just do it on Saturday or Sunday. When we are free, we will notify each other." Ryan thought for a while and said, after all, only during holidays can we have a lot of time for practice, like today.
The time to practice before breakfast is still too tight.
Then they discussed some tips on how to use the Disarming Curse, as well as what they should do when their opponents cast spells or attack moving targets.
They didn't stop discussing until they reached the hall at the entrance of the Great Hall, and headed to Gryffindor's long table to have breakfast.