The Dueling Club

 The Dueling Club

The Dueling Club was a club started in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, (1992,) by Proffesor Lockhart and Proffesor Snape, approved by Proffesor Dumbledor, to teach the students how to duel. The club was starting during the height of when The Chamber of Secrets was open.

At the one and only meeting of The Dueling Club, after Proffesors Lockhart and Snape showed the students how to duel, Snape chooses Harry and Draco Malfoy to show thier fellow classmates how to duel. Although they were only allowed to disarm their opponents, Harry and Malfoy got carried away by shooting hexes and jinxes at each other until finally Malfoy shot a hex that shot a snake out of his wand. Harry started talking to the snake and telling it to get away from Justin Flinch-Fletchley, but many of his classmates thought that he was egging the snake on. At the end of the meeting, the whole school knew that Harry was a parselmouth - the ability to talk to snakes.

Only few wizards in the world have ever been parselmouths, including Salazar Slytherin and Lord Voldemort. Because of this, at the end of the meeting, most of the school thought that Harry was the heir of Slytherin and people thought that Harry was sending the Basilisk to kill muggle-borns.