Harry Potter: A Different Tale

"And the next match" Flitwick said out loud "Al...Albus Dumbledore challenges H...Harry Potter" All eyes in the hall alternated between looking at the headmaster who had just stepped onto the platform and Harry who was looking at Dumbledore with a massive smile.

"Oh, I'm not missing out on this" He grinned before turning to Daphne "besides, this will make things more interesting"

"Fine" She pecked him on the lips "I love you, stay safe"

"Love you" Rose hugged him and pecked him on the cheek

"Love you two too" Harry smiled as he stood up and made his way to the platform, he stood in front of Dumbledore.

"Now" Flitwick said, he figured with these two that he had better remind them of the rules before someone gets hurt "hand to hand combat is not permitted, no unforgivable curses, weapons are not allowed, no stepping outside of the platform, the duel will end when one of you is unable to compete, is that clear?" To be fair, these rules were mostly made for school children with barely any combat training, they might not do much for these two

"Crystal" Harry replied

"Yes it is" Dumbledore nodded. He had chosen to fight Harry for multiple reasons, the first being he was not about to let Adrian's comment about Harry being better than him slide. Harry may be the boy-who-lived but he was Dumbledore, defeater of Grindelwald and greatest light wizard ever to exist. The second reason would be it would help remind people why Dumbledore was such a great wizard, after all, defeating the defeater of Voldemort would be impressive to anyone. Thirdly, he hoped that beating Harry would teach the boy some respect and hopefully allow him to see how brilliant he was.

"Very well, get ready" Flitwick ordered, Dumbledore and Harry brought their wands up to their faces

"You know, I want to thank you" Harry said

"Why is that?" Dumbledore asked

"Because now I have an excuse to hurt you" Harry smiled evilly as the two brought their wands back down to their sides.

"We shall see" Dumbledore replied as they turned away from each other and took ten paces away from each other then turned again so they would face each other. Both took their duelling stances.

The air in the hall was tense, Harry potter, the boy-who-lived, war duel champion, defeater of Voldemort and accused muggle hunter was about to face off against Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, defeater of Grindelwald and leader of the light. Both looked confident, both knew the other was dangerous and both were too stubborn to give up.

"Ready?" Flitwick asked "on the count of three, one...two...three!"

Dumbledore started the fight off by throwing a lightning fast stunner at Harry, who effortlessly swatted it away with his wand. Harry returned fire with a metal spike that was aimed for Dumbledore's right knee, Dumbledore blocked it with a shield before sending the spike back at Harry. Harry reflected it back at Dumbledore like a tennis ball and Dumbledore vanished it with a wave before firing a blue spell at Harry.

Harry ducked and fired a purple spell followed by a yellow acidic spell, Dumbledore dodged the purple one then with a wave of his wand turned the acid into water before sending it right back at Harry. Harry deflected the water away, by mere coincidence it happened to land on Draco Malfoy.

"Come on Dumbledore, is that the best you have?" Harry taunted "Perhaps old age is catching up to you...or maybe you're just overrated"

"We shall see" Dumbledore fired a spell at Harry which resulted in multiple ropes shooting out of his wand, Harry with a quick bit of wand work turned the ropes into snakes and banished them towards Dumbledore.

"Attack!" Harry hissed out in parsletounge

Dumbledore began waving his wand and quickly got rid of the snakes, he looked up when he saw a cutting curse heading towards him. He jumped to the side and the curse just grazed his right arm, it hurt but there was no serious damage caused. Harry flicked his wand at Dumbledore and a bunch of razor wires leapt out and shot towards Dumbledore, Dumbledore felt sad about the fact that Harry chose to resort to such harmful spells when simpler and safer spells would do.

Dumbledore put up a shield to block the wires, he then vanished them before Harry could use them against him. He jabbed his wand at Harry, sending a wind blast towards him, Harry didn't move. He stood there, unaffected by the artificial gust of wind that Dumbledore sent. Harry returned fire with his own wind blast and Dumbledore was shoved back and landed on his back. He was surprised but quickly got back to his feet, he fired a body bind spell at Harry who dodged it.

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