"Let's start with the simplest spell."
After they bowed to each other in accordance with wizard dueling etiquette, Osgilia raised his wand and smiled at Tris. "The Disarming Charm first?"
"Sure!"
Tris agreed, and the next moment, both of them swung their wands.
"Expelliarmus!"
Two streaks of red magic shot from their wands almost simultaneously, colliding in midair with a series of crackles and locking into a stalemate.
His magical power is decent-excellent for his age, but still below mine.
Osgilia made that assessment the instant their spells met. Durmstrang recruited from a wider area than Britain, and its pool of prospective students was broader than Hogwarts'.
Although they did not accept young wizards from Muggle families, they still had considerably more students than Hogwarts.
Though rare, there had been cases over Hogwarts' thousand-year history of newly graduated students being hired as teaching assistants or even professors. Professor Flitwick, for example, had become Hogwarts' Charms professor straight after graduation.
Professor McGonagall had originally had that opportunity too, but she had chosen a position at the Ministry of Magic at the time. Only after suffering heartbreak had she decided to come to Hogwarts.
At Durmstrang, however, Osgilia was the only person in the past several hundred years to become a teaching assistant immediately after graduation. The fact that he assisted with a course as formidable as Dark Magic was ample proof of his ability.
Born into a distinguished Northern European family renowned for Dark Magic, he had been unrivaled in magical proficiency during his school days. After graduating, he had continued studying under Durmstrang's experts while teaching.
Though still young, his mastery of magic already surpassed that of many elite wizards in their prime. Quite a few elite Aurors in the Ministries of Magic across Northern Europe were weaker than he