Harry was so successful and instructive as a teacher that some of the students he had taught fought well against experienced Death Eaters in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. He started off easily with practising the Disarming Charm and told the group, especially a disbelieving Zacharias Smith, that the charm actually saved his life during his first duel with Lord Voldemort. The following year, Harry began teaching duelling techniques as part of his Defence Against the Dark Arts student organisation, Dumbledore's Army. Harry Potter teaching Dumbledore's Army how disarm their opponent Harry, who had learned to resist the Imperius Curse, used the moment to duck for cover, although he later successfully defeated Voldemort using the one spell he learned from Snape during Duelling Club - the Disarming Charm. Voldemort used the Imperius Curse to force Harry to bow and obey the other niceties of duelling. Harry found himself, two years later, facing Voldemort in a desperate duel to the death. Professor Lockhart taught the formalities of duelling: bowing, holding the wand in a certain way, and flourishing the wand in the attack. The first and last meeting of the Duelling Club at Hogwartsĭuring the 1992–1993 school year, Albus Dumbledore allowed then Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, to start a Duelling Club at Hogwarts, perhaps in part because he saw dark times coming in the wizarding world and therefore the need for training students in the art of battle. The club presumably ended sometime before 1992.ĭuring the 1990–1991 school year at Hogwarts, Professor Cuthbert Binns had his seventh-year History of Magic research famous and historical duels for his class, with students having to research the subject in the Hogwarts Library and then produce a written essay in class. In response, Albus Dumbledore formed the Hogwarts Duelling Club, under the supervision of Professor Flitwick and Jacob's sibling's Head of House, to allow students to practise in a safe and supervised manner.
They had previously learnt how to duel from a secret duelling book found in the Artefact Room. Duelling outside of this environment was strictly forbidden and grounds for expulsion.ĭuring the 1984–1985 school year, Jacob's sibling and Merula Snyde were caught duelling over Merula's bullying of Ben Copper. The marks on the walls from various spells were left as a visual reminder of the dangers associated with the practice. Sometime before 1984, a room was set aside at Hogwarts Castle to allow students to practise duelling. " - Harry Potter's and Voldemort's infamous final duel " The bang was like a cannon blast, and the golden flames that erupted between them, at the dead centre of the circle they had been treading, marked the point where the spells collided.