Chapter 292: Finger Phoenix

The subsequent meeting was completely devoid of nutrition. Aberforth seemed a bit depressed by the rumors, and he almost didn't say a word. Doge's mind had also drifted from the Horcruxes to his new position—the leader of the Order of the Phoenix! Although it was acting, it was enough to make him infatuated.

In the end, after hurriedly setting a conclusion of "keep working hard," this meeting ended in a tiger's head and a snake's tail. Harry, who returned to school, seized the time to start writing his homework. He knew that the first gathering of Deng Buliduo's Army would be welcomed in the evening, but that was something he was confident in and had under control—everyone was saying Harry was the leader of Deng Buliduo's Army, saying it until he believed it himself. In contrast, Harry felt that this essay on the Draught of Peace was more challenging.

After spending an afternoon, he modified the essay to a level where Snape wouldn't lose his temper. This was still some distance from Harry's psychological expectation, but it was already quite good. If he wanted to strive for perfection, he was afraid he wouldn't make it to the Deng Buliduo's Army gathering.

When Harry hurriedly arrived at the Room of Requirement, he found everyone surrounding a circle, and Cleist was standing in the middle, saying something loudly.

"Look!" his previous topic stopped abruptly. "Let's talk about the first thing, and that is, who is the leader of Deng Buliduo's Army?"

Dean Thomas, who was closer to the door, immediately shouted: "He's here!"

"Oh, Harry!" "We've been waiting for you!"

Amidst the cheers, Harry walked to Cleist's side with a thick skin and stood with him in front of the crowd.

"We just mentioned that Lu Na designed a ring for everyone," Cleist held up a golden little thing, which had a small bird head on it. "Phoenix... Finger, what was it called again."

"Phoger," Lu Na stood out and said. "It's a combination of Phoenix and Finger."

"Great," Harry examined this exquisite little thing. The material looked like gold, and there was a small ruby inlaid on it. The shape was very perfect, but he was worried that this ring was too expensive for students.

"Bone powder of a Dragon was added inside," Lu Na said in a light voice. "That is a kind of spirit dragon that never gets lost."

Everyone just nodded in cooperation. "The Quibbler" has always had the habit of fabricating magical creatures, and this bad habit taught Lu Na crookedly.

"This ring also has a function. When you press your finger on the phoenix's eye—that is, the ruby, and hold it for three seconds, it will start to heat up," Cleist said. "At this time, other rings will have a reaction, heat up together, and the phoenix's little tail will point to the direction of the seeker. If several people ask for help together, the little tail will point to the one closest to you."

"Members who perform excellently in training and are willing to join Deng Buliduo's Army can get a Phoger for free. If you pay one more Galleon, I can help you make it pure gold, and Harry's one is pure gold," Cleist put the ring in Harry's palm, heavy. "Only three spots per week."

Looking at the eager gazes of the students, Harry had to admit that Cleist still had some means.

"Very good, then shall we start practicing?" Harry looked at this Auror.

"Yes, then tonight, I will tell everyone about the Disarming Charm. This sounds very basic, but do you know that the Disarming Charm has four forms?" Cleist said seriously. "Their power is gradually increasing, but relatively, the consumption and casting time will also gradually increase."

"There is such a saying?" Some wizards who didn't have much contact with dueling widened their eyes.

"Harry, do you know?" Cleist asked.

"It's like this, when we usually learn and use the Disarming Charm, we often use the weakest one," Harry had heard these things from Sirius, and at this moment, he began to introduce them very naturally. "The casting is the fastest, the consumption is the smallest, but it can only remove the wand or sword in the enemy's hand; and if the enemy is holding something like a mace, we need to slightly increase the consumption to remove any weapon in his hand."

"Even, if the enemy is holding something that doesn't count as a weapon, but objectively can still pose a threat to us—for example, the evidence of your cheating on the exam, then slightly sacrificing a bit of casting speed, you can still use the Disarming Charm to remove it. Finally, the most powerful Disarming Charm can extremely broaden the concept of 'weapon'. If your magic power is strong enough, the Disarming Charm can even pull out all the sharp teeth of a dragon."

In the amazed and admiring gazes of his classmates, Harry finished the popularization, and he felt great.

"So, what we need to focus on practicing is the first and second types of Disarming Charms," Cleist took over the conversation. "As Harry said, you can hold another weapon to avoid having your wand knocked away by the Disarming Charm, and if you choose a mace as the other weapon, then it can also take into account the effect of increasing the opponent's magic consumption."

"Ah, but," Zacharias Shi Misi hugged his arms and widened his eyes, "I think the Death Eaters might not necessarily use the Disarming Charm, right?"

"If they use the Killing Curse—as far as I know Tang Tang Nade has trained you for this," Cleist said. "But they won't do this to the members of Deng Buliduo's Army. You are all students. If they don't want to be hunted down by professors and parents together, they will use the Disarming Charm, Stunning Spell, Full Body-Bind Curse at most. Let's practice from the Disarming Charm first."

Especially, there were several children of the Death Eaters brought by Malfoy in the room, and they were looking at Shi Misi with a teasing and disdainful look at this time.

"Next, I want to talk about the key points of Disarming Charm practice. First, ensure accuracy, and second, be as fast as possible," Cleist continued. "Many ancient magics have extraordinary power, but why did the Disarming Charm become the best dueling spell? It is because its casting gestures and incantations are very short, can be cast at the fastest speed, and there is almost no trajectory."

"Now everyone start practicing in pairs," Cleist nodded, and then began to wander around, explaining and correcting those who were not proficient in casting spells. And Harry should have done the same, but he soon noticed—in school, quite a few people had already mastered this technique proficiently.

Neville and Luo En started to disarm each other, but soon they were wrestling together. Although Luo En learned some French dueling techniques at Beauxbatons, such as using the Summoning Charm, it seems that he still prefers his physical fists to the Mage's Fist.

Lu Na was used to the dueling style of a guardian. After showing a bunch of fancy Transfiguration, she sat on the ground because of magic exhaustion, becoming the first member to pause training.

Malfoy and Pan Xi seemed to have a secret technique for flicking away spells. The two of them kept shooting Disarming Charms at each other, and then flicking them away—looking like they were playing badminton.

Jin Ni did the most standardly. Harry couldn't help but encourage her, and pointed out that Ivy's wand-waving action was too big, which was the main reason she lost to Jin Ni.

Harry walked around the room a few times. He noticed that for those who needed to learn, they were indeed practicing well. But for some people who had been designated as formal members, or whose strength was already quite strong, Cleist's first lesson was a bit too simple.

After patrolling twice, Harry felt he could almost go see what Zhang Qiu was doing. She came with a roommate named Marietta, a shy girl with reddish-brown curly hair. Perhaps Zhang Qiu was prepared to let her go a bit, she put her hands behind her back.

Marietta's wand was aimed at Zhang Qiu, but her hand seemed to be shaking a bit. Harry walked closer before he heard what Zhang Qiu was saying.

"I can bet a Galleon with you that the Disarming Charm has no effect on me," she said with a indifferent expression, using a very confident tone. "You might as well try to utter the spell, maybe it won't take effect?"

"But I have a habit. If someone casts a spell on me, even if it doesn't take effect, I will definitely kill her," she paced, saying with a half-smile. "How about it, do you want to try? If you win, I'll give you a Galleon, but if you lose, what you lose is your own life!"

Marietta's hand loosened, and her wand fell to the ground. Zhang Qiu then revealed a smile again, confidently saying: "You are very smart."

Harry's mouth twitched, and he walked up to say hello: "It seems, you are playing a kind of very new thing?"

"This is the psychological warfare taught by Arnold," Zhang Qiu shrugged happily, while Marietta was staring at her resentfully.

"Very good," Harry said barely.

"Oh right, I think it's necessary to remind you," Zhang Qiu lowered her voice. "Cleist gives me the feeling that he is very similar to Tang Tang Nade, or rather, their dueling philosophy is also very similar."

"Hmm?" Harry frowned. Could it be that things are not simple?

"I can only say that this is a guess. The main thing is, I don't quite understand what is the use of the White House sending people to this place."

"They have cooperation with the Ministry of Magic, perhaps they are preparing to cultivate me and Deng Buliduo's Army into a new deterrence," Harry stroked his chin and said.

"Deterrence?" Zhang Qiu was stunned. "Wizard deterrence, similar to nuclear deterrence? This is a very novel saying."