A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 646 A fulfilling vacation

More than [-] students came to the courtyard in a long line. The temperature outside was freezing cold, but there was no wind. The students exhaled white air and looked up at the bright and bright moon in the sky.

"Full moon," muttered Ron.

Needless to say, Harry knew he was thinking of Lupine, and he couldn't help thinking about it. At this time, Lupine should have taken the wolfsbane potion and hid himself in a secret place.

Harry knew he didn't want anyone to see him transformed.

"...From the beginning of the full moon to the end of the next full moon, if you fail in the middle, you have to start again. I don't want you to make fun of your health." Professor McGonagall said loudly, pausing for a moment majesticly, "Everyone come up to get Man Della blade."

The students stepped forward one by one, and then retreated to the side to whisper excitedly.There was nothing in front of Harry, he stepped forward, Professor McGonagall nodded to him, and handed him a green leaf, Harry took it and watched it shimmer faintly in the moonlight.

Just as Harry was about to leave, he suddenly felt someone poke him. He raised his head. Professor Haip held Varen in his arms, and Varen held a stack of parchment in his arms. "Precautions, and recipes." Felix Remind him to say.

Harry took the parchment from Warren, stepped aside, and read the words on it by the light of his wand.

He already knew most of the content, but a few were marked in red ink alone, and he read the third: In the next month, their dining place will be changed to No. 11 classroom on the first floor of the castle, and there will be a dedicated The house-elves prepare food for them.

Harry's heart sank.

Ernie MacMillan once made a nasty joke about his uncle trying to learn Animagus transfiguration by sticking a funnel down his throat with every meal to avoid swallowing mandrake leaves Take liquid food.Ernie described it so vividly that a group of people couldn't bear to surround him before he admitted that the story was made up. His uncle really wanted to learn Animagus, but he gave up after only a week.

"Check it after you get it. The edge of the mandrake leaves will emit white light when the moon is full, similar to the sap plant... Well, if there is no problem, put it in the mouth." Professor McGonagall ordered.

Harry checked again and again, and after confirming that it was correct, he stuffed the mandrake blade into his mouth. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth after eating the Christmas dinner. He saw Draco on the opposite side frowning and looking away .

Sirius had told him about the Malfoy family the night before.To put it simply, it is good and bad, because the mid-term betrayal allowed him to avoid being liquidated like his "despicable friends", and he also attracted a group of remaining pure-blood families, and still retained his influence; but it also caused trouble. Come grudges from some one-time Death Eater allies like Crabbe and the Goyles.

Sirius also cited the example of a few weeks ago.

Lucius Malfoy, who had been keeping a low profile after the war, suddenly stood up and accepted an interview with the "Daily Prophet", talking about the danger and contribution of his undercover work—"Some newspapers said that Potter, Weasley and Granger were in the cemetery That night, I used the Ouroboros Ring to ask for help... Actually, it's not entirely accurate, because I also risked my life to inform Mr. Haipu, but because of the heavy responsibility on my shoulders, I couldn't disclose my achievements to the outside world..."

"The Ministry of Magic is counting meritorious service recently," Sirius explained, "he wants to run an Order of Merlin for the Malfoy family, but he is wasting his time, what he has done is only enough to avoid prison..." He was vague Said: "Snape may win a big prize. Now we all know how he got the information..."

After hearing these words, Harry suddenly realized, and instantly understood why Professor Slughorn's former student—Elder Walpple, who wrote "Blood Brothers: I Live Among Vampires"—had been pestering Slughorn at the dinner party. Snape, he obviously wanted to write a book based on Snape's experience, but Snape refused with a cold face.

……

In the dormitory, Harry looked at Ron and Neville shrewdly.

"Then what should I do?" he exclaimed dissatisfied.

"At least you don't snore." Ron said irritably, closing his eyes with a generous expression, "Hurry up, I made up my mind with difficulty."

Harry looked at him, then at Neville, who was too nervous to speak.

"Ok."

Flashes of the Petrifying Charm and the Stunning Charm alternated.Ron and Neville fell to the ground stiffly. Harry used the Levitation Charm to move them to the bed, covered them with quilts, and got into the warm and comfortable quilt himself. The cold wind was blowing outside the window, and Harry felt chills in his heart.

He hesitated for a long time whether to cast a stun spell on himself. After all, not everyone has the courage to face two stiff bodies and fall asleep peacefully. He tossed and turned on the bed for a long time, and finally took out a roll of magic from under Ron's bed Tape to seal your mouth.

The whole time Harry forced himself not to look at Ron's stiff face in the moonlight.He climbed back into bed and stared at the ceiling to count the numbers. After an unknown amount of time—but it must have been the middle of the night—drowsiness struck, and he fell into a drowsy sleep.

When he woke up, he could feel the mandrake leaves still there with his tongue, but the bitter taste in his mouth was stronger, as if seeping into his teeth, but his mood was generally happy, and he couldn't wait to wake Ron and Neville, share your method with them.

"That's great, I'm a little more confident." Ron said with a stiff neck, "But there is one problem, I seem to have a stiff neck..."

For the next few days, Felix paid little attention to the students.

He himself is also very busy——Tom Riddle in classroom [-] has graduated for two years, but he still can't master the Patronus Charm, but Riddle recently got inspiration from Peeves. The mood of the students in the school has acquired a plausible patron saint.

Felix is ​​happy to see the result, which means that Riddle can't leave the school even more.

Felix also found information from Snape about how he and Damocles Belby improved Wolfsbane Potion, and prepared to give him a good understanding of werewolves. Snape generously gave him some werewolves blood and hair.

"You'll find that—some scholars' point of view: 'Werewolves are just beasts in human skin' is actually not too much, their blood is completely tainted."

Felix shrugged, "I'll scare you when you say it. Compared to me, werewolves are normal."

Of course Snape didn't believe it, it can be seen from his hypocritical proposal to study 'him', Felix scoffed at this, mentally classifying his former headmaster as a 'stupid wizard'...

"Practice your acceptance speech more! Lupine said that the promotion of magic TV is not satisfactory. Most wizarding families still rely on magic radio to listen to the broadcast of the honorary ceremony. They will take unnecessary pauses in your speech as stuttering .”

"Think about it, how uneconomical it would be to have students' parents question the teaching level because of this problem..."

Felix's kindness failed to repay him—instead, he was rejected for several days. The former Potions professor and current Defense Against the Dark Arts professor refused to talk to him, and always put on a cold face every time they met. When Felix asked the other professors to comment, only Dumbledore expressed sympathy.

"Severus is really reticent, for the sake of Hogwarts' image—" When he said this, Professor McGonagall and Grindelwald stared at him expressionlessly. "—at least persuade him to change his clothes, change his hair, and so on."

Felix didn't know how Dumbledore did it, but anyway, on the day of the award ceremony, although Snape was still dressed in black, he finally changed into a suit instead of the wizard robes that have remained unchanged for thousands of years. A high-necked white shirt was added inside.

Snape was awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class. "For him to go undercover for the second time, and bring a steady stream of intelligence advantages to the righteous side." Ms. Burns announced loudly.Followed by Harry, also a first-class medal, the reason for his award is directly related to the downfall of Voldemort, although no one knows the details, but with the testimony of Dumbledore and Felix Heap, no one ask a question.

Of course, Ron and Hermione didn't win the award, and they still held the second class medal of the Order of Merlin for courage.

"It's all because the war ended so quickly," Ron muttered under his breath.

"Oh, shut up you!" Hermione snapped.

With a mandrake blade in his mouth, Harry's speech was particularly refined, and he was in a trance because of the special recipes these days. When he came down, Ron and Hermione heard someone next to him questioning in a low voice: "This The child doesn't seem to be very bright, so it won't still have the influence of the Cruciatus Curse?"

His words made a group of wizards who didn't know the truth blow their noses emotionally.

That night, the Ministry of Magic held a grand dinner, and Harry left early depressingly, and went back to eat his tasteless dinner-cheese jelly cut into small pieces and vegetable meatballs made with special techniques, which are said to be rich in nutrition , and it will give people a strong feeling of fullness after swallowing it into the stomach.

The most important thing is that the entire meal process is compressed to less than 1 minute, which fully reduces the possibility of various accidents.

This caused the students to lose a lot of fun.

And because of the sharp lack of entertainment methods——Harry was surprised to find that he had finished all his homework in less than a week, and had nothing to do in the remaining days. It was not until the beginning of school that Professor Haip finally seemed to remember them, bring them together.

"How many people are still not left behind?" Felix asked.

Raising a bunch of arms, Harry turned his head and found that there were quite a few of them. "Fifteen people, not bad." Felix nodded and said: "It seems that the practice of the previous two weeks is indeed effective. Today I will let you come here to summarize, um... Give full play to the collective wisdom."

The students—including those who failed—all glared at Professor Hemp.

Felix raised the parchment in his hand, "Do you still remember the form that you were asked to fill out in the duel class from the second grade? Of course, the duel class is only available in the second to fourth grade now, which happens to be the same as that of the first grade. The flying class and the fifth grade OWLs exam are staggered, and combined with the content of the spell assessment..."

"It records everyone's speed of learning spells, preferences, learning methods, etc. Now four years have passed, and the accumulated data is piled up in a cabinet on one wall."

"There is no doubt that it is an undiscovered treasure trove."

Felix said sternly.

"You should have experienced group discussions. We use a similar method to talk about the problems you find difficult and think about solutions together."

The students looked at each other in blank dismay, but after thinking about it carefully, it was indeed a good idea.After a while, a student finally took the initiative to stand up and mentioned that he was depressed and groggy all day long.

Students around kept nodding, and they also had the same symptoms.

"Yeah, you can't do anything that makes you happy, you can't eat well, you can't sleep well, you can't even talk aloud." a Ravenclaw girl said high-pitched. "It's just a nightmare."

The other students set their eyes on Felix.

"Don't look at me, I said, let you discuss it yourself." He said with a straight face.

"How about using a potion? Like a euphoria?" Ron suggested.

"Oh, no," Ernie said disappointedly. "I asked Professor McGonagall, and she said that the potion may contaminate the leaves of the Mandrake."

Everyone began to think divergently, and the answers they gave gradually became outrageous, but Felix didn't intend to stop them. Instead, they asked Hermione to record them all. In the end, it was Neville who came up with the solution.

"I - er, I tried a method," Neville whispered, teeth clenched, afraid to let the mandrake blade fall off as he spoke, "Using the Daydream Charm."

"Daydream Charm? What's that?" a student asked.

"Hey! I know—" exclaimed Ron excitedly.

"The Daydream Charm can construct a real dream, and I only thought of it yesterday... In short, I talked heartily for a long time in it, and it came out much better." Neville introduced his own experience.

"Talk to yourself? What are you talking about?"

"Uh...recite the herbal medicine textbook aloud." Neville said reluctantly, and everyone laughed, but when Professor Haipu encouraged him to try it on other people, everyone immediately changed their minds.

Felix also experienced it for himself.

After Neville chanted the spell, he found himself on top of a peak in the mountains around Hogwarts Castle, surrounded by emptiness and silence. From his professional point of view, there were still many flaws in this dream, but at least—

He tried to shout twice, the sound can be heard far away, and the echo effect is also quite good, which can indeed play a very good role in venting emotions.

Discussion continues.Harry also raised his own question. He hoped that he could speak loudly in a relatively safe way. You must know that he was the captain of the team. Whether he was explaining tactics or correcting a player who made a flying error, he would inevitably shout at the top of his voice.

But to his surprise, the problem in his mind received feedback almost immediately.

"Use the Amplifying Charm—" said Hermione, who was recording aside.

"Cover your mouth with a scarf!" said Susan Bones.

"Put them both together," suggested Ron.

Harry's eyes lit up.The eyes of other students also brightened. This method seems to be better, and they are going to go back and try.

Of course, the discussion process was not all smooth sailing. On the issue of "how to curb the bitterness of mandrakes", there were too many methods, which led to the issue of food taste preference, and a group of students quarreled.

One of them accidentally sprayed out the mandrake leaves while shouting, everyone was stunned, the audience was silent, even the student himself stared at the leaves on the ground in a daze, as if he couldn't believe his stupidity .

"Ahem—Perkin gave us a wrong demonstration just now." Felix said uncomfortably: "This reminds us to keep calm in the next time...

Personally, I recommend wearing an amulet that calms the nerves.Just let it do the bare minimum. "He added another sentence.

(End of this chapter)