Elliot didn't even have a moment to feel any sort of pride from his own spell hitting his opponent if only because he was so confused he wasn't entirely sure just what where they were in the process of the duel. He knew he was in a duel, or at least was fairly sure he was in a duel. Blinking, he shook his head once, and gazed across the distance at Burke. Right. Burke. The Death Eater? Something like that, he was sure.

It was quite a bit like having a moment of severe deja vu when it came down to it. He couldn't seem to recall that the duel had actually begun, but the movements made by the other seemed so familiar he nearly sure that he'd seen them before in this room and with this wizard.

Having never been actually hit by a Confundus spell, it wasn't easy going with trying to make sense of just what his next step was, and without much more than instinct born of being nearly through his first year of NEWTs, he quickly flicked up his wand, hoping that he was using the right spell. "Protego!"