For Merlin's sake. The smokescreen had worked, he'd thought – but the knockback jinx shot straight through it and Moony was launched backwards out of the smoke, for all to see. (Could Tybalt pretend he hadn't noticed that? Could he maybe Confound the whole audience and still give Moony the point?)

"Mr. Urquart takes the first round, and may begin the next," he announced instead, begrudgingly.

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