becoming more serious has made him less serious about battles, so he’s willing to slightly hurt their chances of winning in order to make the battle more awesome and fun
he’s especially willing to let Neville be awesome, since Neville’s development is one of his projects
Harry & Neville don’t really have to defeat the entire Sunshine army, they just need to stall them while the rest of Chaos defeats Dragon (this is conveyed through Draco’s thoughts), so pausing for a dramatic duel might actually help Chaos’s chances
Sunshine was probably glad to have a chance to defeat half of the army that they were facing while only putting one soldier at risk.
I would have assumed that the bulk of the Sunshines as whole would have at least kept trying stuff (and maybe hit one of them in the face with Somnium) rather than become passive so quickly.
The Knights of Chaos are covered from head to toe in the gray cloth, while the rest of the officers in Chaos are only wearing breastplates. It’s probable that their faces are not protected, but Sunshine lacks the visual clues that Dragon Army has to make that leap.
Besides, they’re wee ickle firsties. Their magical reserves are tiny, it could be that many of them aren’t attacking in hopes that someone will figure out the trick and then they wouldn’t be useless because they blew all of their magic. Or they’re currently scared sheep terrified of the invincible Knights of Chaos. Who knows?
From Harry’s POV,
becoming more serious has made him less serious about battles, so he’s willing to slightly hurt their chances of winning in order to make the battle more awesome and fun
he’s especially willing to let Neville be awesome, since Neville’s development is one of his projects
Harry & Neville don’t really have to defeat the entire Sunshine army, they just need to stall them while the rest of Chaos defeats Dragon (this is conveyed through Draco’s thoughts), so pausing for a dramatic duel might actually help Chaos’s chances
Sunshine was probably glad to have a chance to defeat half of the army that they were facing while only putting one soldier at risk.
I would have assumed that the bulk of the Sunshines as whole would have at least kept trying stuff (and maybe hit one of them in the face with Somnium) rather than become passive so quickly.
The Knights of Chaos are covered from head to toe in the gray cloth, while the rest of the officers in Chaos are only wearing breastplates. It’s probable that their faces are not protected, but Sunshine lacks the visual clues that Dragon Army has to make that leap.
Besides, they’re wee ickle firsties. Their magical reserves are tiny, it could be that many of them aren’t attacking in hopes that someone will figure out the trick and then they wouldn’t be useless because they blew all of their magic. Or they’re currently scared sheep terrified of the invincible Knights of Chaos. Who knows?