Everyone's cheers pulled Adam's attention away from the House-elves and back to reality.
Seeing Harry, who had caught the Golden Snitch, fall from the sky into the muddy ground, Adam suddenly remembered something and hurried after the crowd onto the pitch.
Was it finally coming? The Wizarding World's greatest invention in the second year—even across all seven books—
Mixed in among the Gryffindors surrounding Harry, Adam watched with satisfaction as Gilderoy Lockhart squeezed through the crowd with an excited expression:
"Leave it to me—don't worry, I have plenty of experience dealing with this sort of thing!"
"No—wait... don't! Let me go to the Hospital Wing—"
Ignoring the noise around him, Adam carefully observed Lockhart, watching the path of his wand while memorizing every syllable he chanted.
As the spell took effect, Harry's arm drooped bonelessly like a rubber-hose cartoon character—every bone in his entire arm had been removed.
Deboning Curse!
With a spell like this, who needed techniques for deboning an entire chicken or fish?
Now this was magic improving everyday life!
He wondered whether it could remove fruit pits, too...
"Haha—!"
The spell had gone wrong, but Lockhart still wore a triumphant smile as he stood up awkwardly.
"Sometimes—yes—this does occasionally happen... but the broken bones are fine now! Aren't they? All right, Harry, off to the Hospital Wing..."
Lockhart did not dare meet Harry's furious, resentful eyes. Instead, he looked at the friends gathered around him.
"Mr. Weasley, Miss Granger, please accompany Harry there."
Although they were furious at Lockhart's actions, Harry's safety was clearly more important right now. After glaring at Lockhart, the two hurriedly helped Harry up and made their way to the Hospital Wing with practiced ease.
"Argh!"
Amid the chaos, someone stepped hard on Lockhart's foot.
With the star of the match leaving early,