Chapter 23 - Hogwarts Annual Festival part 3 (2/2)

While everyone is happy, Wood, on the other hand, frowned, ”I guess, we might face a difficult opponent in the future if he ever joins the team”. While everyone just concentrated on the match or mistakes he made, Wood saw how Neal drastically improved from the first time Neal caught the Quaffle to the last goal he made.

Unfortunately for Malfoy, Harry and their team, they were eliminated on the first match as their opponents turned out to be Weasley brothers Fred and George. Unlike others, they weren't randomly put as they look so identical that teachers get their name wrong every time. That's why they were put on the same team or so, Neal thinks that way.

Everyone knows in Hogwarts that Weasley's twins love to bully his brother, every time. So, how can his team win? not to mention, Harry is a seeker. He never trained as a chaser”. They were mercilessly thrashed by the twins to 80-0.

As all the matches are over, the sunset and everyone returned to their dormitories. After he returned to the common room, a Slytherin congratulated him for making into finals in Debate. The next day, after breakfast, while he and his gang were going to return to their dormitories, Cho Chang called him.

He stopped and turned back, ”what happened?”. She replied, ”can I talk to you for one second?”. Neal nodded, ”sure”. Then he looked at others, ”you guys go, I'll come”. As they nodded while Daphne is frowning for some reason, He said, ”ok, tell me”.

She replied, ”well, the others want to have a meeting to discuss the debate. The topic was just posted”. Neal nodded and went with her. Meanwhile, Daphne asked, ”who is that girl? I think I saw her somewhere”.

Malfoy replied, ”oh, her? Didn't you see her during the Quidditch game? She's his teammate. her name is Cho chang. A 2nd year. She's also Ravenclaw Quidditch team's seeker”.

After the discussion was over, he returned to the common room and spent his time there and later went to the Gaming hall and played Gobstones Finals.

Too bad that he lost and end up as a runner up. He can't do anything but accept his loss as fair because his opponent is a sixth-year Gobstones club captain. While he was invited to join the club, Neal refused as he already has too much on his hand.

Then, he went to the debate classroom where many students are standing outside of the classroom. As he saw the other three teams, he sighed as two of them are complete Ravenclaw teams. He spoke, ”no matter who wins, your House will get points, Cho”. Cho Chang smiled but didn't reply anything and waited for others to arrive.

As everyone sat, prof. McGonagall said, ”well, I guess everyone prepared very well. ok, as you know, the topic is about Dark Magic. The time limit is 2 hours. Who wants to start?”.

While one of the opponents began to say about the unforgivable curses, Cho Chang argued, ”to kill a person, you don't need dark magic. Even normal Fire magic can kill someone if used correctly. Forget about magic, if you want to just kill, even with the help of a normal knife, club or some poison, you can kill. There are a lot of ways. So, it isn't which tool it is or which curse it is, that important, it is the intent that's very important”.

Then one of the opponents argued, ”but, constant use of Dark arts will corrupt your mind. Wouldn't it? Not to mention, powerful spells of Dark magic also require malicious intent to be successful. So, if one wants to learn that particular spell, then wouldn't he go down into a dark path eventually to get stronger?”.

Then, Neal stood up and replied, ”I think people need to understand the exact definition of Dark Magic and Ministry has to revise it again and split it into two branches as Dark Magic and Dark Arts instead of calling it as Dark Magic/Dark Arts”.