Live and Let Duel

[Ben Berenson]

"Perhaps," Ben said with a shrug. "No one would argue against less violence overall, surely."Not that he thought duels as they existed now were particularly violent. Most people had sense, after all. Or enough sense not to behave exceptionally badly when dueling tournaments tended to attract quite a lot of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, anyway. "Combative spells are more useful, but it's not really a competition of usefulness, is it?"