Owen Montezor was to be his first dueling opponent and other than knowing his name and vaguely remembering a face to it, he did not know much else. Mason was nervous for his first duel though. As an ex-Durmstrang student, he was not very good with Defensive magic but the talk he had had with his Head of House and after giving a list of spells he could practise, the Ravenclaw was determined to find out how much he had learned from self-practises.

Entering the arena from the other entry way and seeing Owen , who, memory getting slightly better now at seeing him in person, was a Hufflepuff. This was going to be easy. Or not…

The moment Mason had bowed as well, he tried to think of a spell to cast at him when his opponent cast the first one swiftly. He wanted to jump out of the way but was too late. The spell hit him right in the chest and he flew backwards due to the wind of the spell and fell on his back a few feet away.

Gasping as he had just got the wind knocked out of him, Mason set upright quickly. He didn’t compliment the other on his first hit but instead, pointed his own wand towards Owen and casted the Rose Growth spell.

Immediately, the rose bush grew rapidly at its attempt to trap the Hufflepuff inside its thorns and the Ravenclaw used this opportunity to get back up on his feet and ran to the other side of the room , trying to get behind the fourth year. There was nothing in the rules about not using your surroundings right?