Chapter 412: A Different Kind of Witch
"Expelliarmus!"
James was fast and accurate. Red light tore toward Lily's chest.
She didn't try to block it. Her eyes were locked on his wand tip, and the instant the spell left it she twisted aside. The light skimmed her shoulder and struck the stone wall behind her, throwing up a spray of sparks.
His eyebrows lifted. Missed. She'd dodged. Quick reflexes.
Her wand came up and an Impediment Jinx flew straight at his front.
He knocked it away with a flick, and it burst against the wall in a scatter of silver shards.
Before his arm finished the motion, her second spell was already coming. A Leg-Locker Curse streaked low along the floor toward his ankles, timed for exactly the moment his balance hadn't recovered from the parry.
James made a sharp noise and sprang backward, heels shrieking across the flagstones. The curse passed under his boots by a hair.
He wobbled on landing, steadied fast, and cocked an eyebrow at her.