As it turned out, the sweet unassuming Hermione Granger that could chatter on for hours about the minutia of magic turned out to be a vicious tiger on the dueling platform. Her wand movements were spot on and precise with a minimum of flourish, her spell repertoire was extensive, and her spell chains inspired. Her opponent, Theodore Nott, was unprepared for the assault she unleashed upon him with a flurry of "dilato visu, aud magna musica, multiloquium, and charta scalpere’ (delayed vision, hear loud music, babbling hex, and a paper cut hex) He was down and out within a matter of moments.