Harry wakes in the hospital wing and is discharged by Madame Pomfrey - he heads out to find Ron and Hermione and is intercepted by Percy Weasley who is excited about the quidditch win Harry procured for the house. Harry goes to Myrtle’s bathroom to find R&H working on the polyjuice potion and fills them in about Colin’s petrification and Dobby’s visit. The trio returns to the G common room and finds out a dueling club will be starting that night and decide to check it out. Led by Prof’s Lockhart and Snape - the students are shown the disarming charm before being split into pairs to try it out. Harry and Draco are placed together. The two hit each other with non-disarming spells and are then chosen by Snape to act as demonstrators in front of everyone. After some worthless advice from Lockhart - the two boys square off and Draco produces a large snake with Lockhart fails to get rid of. The now irritated snake heads toward Justin Finch-Fletchley and Harry calls out to the snake for it to ssssstop. The snake turns and makes eye contact with Harry - and everyone else stares, too. Snape deals with the snake and Harry is quickly led from the Great Hall by Ron with everyone shocked and staring. Confused, Harry learns that he is a parselmouth and can talk to snakes - which is highly uncommon and was last known to be a trait of Salazar Slytherin himself. The next day Herbology is canceled and Harry feels that Justin deserves an explanation and wants to clear the air. So Harry heads to the library and overhears a group of Hufflepuffs discussing how Justin is hiding from Harry and believes him to be the heir of Slytherin. Harry confronts the group to explain himself but leaves them frustrated. After a brief run-in with Hagrid, Harry discovers that NHN has been petrified - along with Justin and Peeves catches Harry “in the act”. Harry is taken by McG straight to Dumby’s office.

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