It's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Chapter 123 Seventh Grade Classroom
The first contact with Lupine at the dinner party made Sherlock feel that this person is not bad.

Logically speaking, if he didn't show up, then he should be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts this semester.

Judging from the current contact, Sherlock didn't see any ulterior motives for Lupine's coming to Hogwarts.

I also can't figure out why such a person with a good-looking personality didn't continue teaching in the end.

But it doesn't make much sense to think about it now.

The dinner ended normally, and after the night of the first day of school, it officially entered the class time.

The appearance of Lupine helped Sherlock divide his task by two-thirds.

Five, six, and seven grades, the fifth grade is the one with the heaviest exam pressure, because everyone has to take the ordinary wizard level exam, and every student feels oppressed.

After entering the sixth grade, although they will face the ultimate wizard level exam, which is more difficult and stressful than the ordinary wizard level exam.

But this test is optional.

You can choose to take the exams in several subjects that you are best at.

So the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the sixth and seventh grades is a big class, that is, students from the four colleges take it together.

In addition to the two classes per week in the fifth grade, Sherlock only needs to take four classes a week for this semester's tasks, which is undoubtedly much easier than last semester.

And the more advanced the class, the easier it is to take it.

Sixteen or seventeen-year-old children already know a lot of truths, and it is easier to manage than children.

On the first day of school, Sherlock has a big seventh grade lesson.

A veritable class.

Because all the graduates who took the Defense Against the Dark Arts class last semester passed the Ultimate Wizard Examination successfully, and the excellent rate was extremely high, so most of the sixth and seventh graders who just rose this year took his course class.

When Sherlock came to the classroom, it was already full of people.

Sherlock glanced at the phenomenon of two or three students crowded at the same table in the back row, and couldn't help shaking his head.

"It looks like I'm going to apply to Professor Dumbledore for a bigger classroom next class."

The people sitting here have already taken Sherlock's defense class for a year, and many students are close to him.

"I think you can apply to Professor Dumbledore to take classes in the auditorium, Professor." A student answered.

The students below laughed, and Sherlock laughed too, and then tapped the blackboard with his wand.

"Okay, let's not talk about joking, since this class has already started, let's get on with it first."

"Students who have already taken electives in the sixth grade, after class, hand over the twelve sets of test papers I assigned to you during the summer vacation to Percy, and he will collect them all for me to see the results of your vacation study."

"As for the new students who are taking this class this year, come to me after class to count the list. You also have to make up the twelve sets of test papers after class. I will give you enough time to hand them in before Halloween."

"I hope you don't finish it in a foolish way. These are new questions I made up based on the classic sample questions from the Ultimate Wizard Level Examination in previous years."

"The boss of Lihen Bookstore asked me to pay [-] Galleons to buy the copyright of this set of topics. I thought he gave too little. So remember, don't plagiarize and don't deal with it. After Halloween, I will specially draw out These topics will be covered in six lectures."

"If you can understand all the questions in these twelve sets of test papers, then basically there will be no more difficult questions for you in the theoretical part of the Defense Against the Dark Arts part of the Ultimate Wizarding Level Examination."

The students below listened very carefully.

Students who have already entered the seventh grade, since they chose this class, they really hold that they have to pass the ultimate wizard level exam.

Moreover, the ultimate wizard test score of Defense Against the Dark Arts is especially important in the magic world, and many professions will pay special attention to the test level of such a subject.

Aurors who want to apply for the Ministry of Magic are required to have at least an O rating.

Sherlock tapped the podium lightly with his wand, turning the podium into a chair and moving it to the side, making a bigger space for himself.

"Let's put the theoretical knowledge at a later stage and then concentrate on explaining it. As for the first course, let's talk about the actual combat exam first."

"It's different from ordinary wizard level exams, where the examiner will randomly select a not-too-dangerous black magic creature and ask you to use magic to solve it. The actual combat assessment of the ultimate exam focuses on the duel between wizards, not wizards. Wizards and magical creatures."

"After all, more advanced and dangerous magical creatures are not suitable for the examination room. If you are a little careless, accidents will easily occur. I think most of you have already known who your opponent is in the actual combat assessment."

"Every year, the Ministry of Magic will let two or three Aurors be the examiners of the ultimate wizard level exam. The content of the exam is to let you have a wizard duel with them."

"Listen clearly, it's a duel, not a duel of wizards. A battle scene like a duel of wizards under the most ideal circumstances usually doesn't appear in normal conflicts. So your assessment is in a large venue, with a A wizard duel with an experienced Auror."

"In this duel, there are no civilized dueling etiquette. As long as the examiner announces the start of the exam, it is considered to be in a state of combat. On that field, you can use any means you have learned to try to defeat your examiner."

"Of course, basically no one will be able to defeat a well-trained Auror in the actual combat of the level test. Therefore, these Auror examiners will not have a serious duel with you. A kind of magic to test your coping ability, as well as your understanding and cooperation with the spell."

Since it is a practical class, there will naturally be a hands-on part.

But because there are too many students in this class and the classroom is too small, Sherlock can only choose one student to come up and perform a duel demonstration with him.

"It's a pity that there are no records left in the actual combat exams every year. Let us have some effective reference."

Sherlock called Wilson, a Hufflepuff student, and asked him to stand opposite him, and then continued to speak to the students in the classroom.

"But during the level exam last year, I went to observe a few exams. During this summer vacation, I asked my Auror friend who had been an examiner several times about the specific details of the exams, so I summed up some , A little trick that can be used in the exam."

He looked at his opponent, the Hufflepuff student named Wilson.

"First of all, if you want to get a high score in the actual combat test, you must learn a spell-the Iron Armor Curse. I remember you took my class last semester, so you should be able to use this spell, yes Is it Mr. Wilson?"

The freckled student, Wilson, looked nervous, but after hearing Sherlock's question, he nodded. At the same time, he pointed the wand in his hand at his body and uttered a spell.

"Armor protection!"

A layer of colorless mask rippled around his body.

Sherlock said appreciatively.

"Very good. Being able to use this level of Iron Armor Charm is enough to prove the effort you usually spend on defending against spells."

"Just like student Wilson, if you successfully used the Iron Armor Charm to protect your body at the beginning of the exam, then you have already completed the first step to get a high score."

"The Iron Armor Curse is not a common spell for wizards. Even most of the employees of the Ministry of Magic, not everyone can use it, but it is a spell that every Auror must know."

"So remember the first point now. In the actual combat assessment, the first spell used must be the Iron Armor Curse. If there are still people who don't know this spell, then come to me alone after class, and I will guide you to learn it. .Because I already taught it in the sixth grade class last semester, so we won't take up class time to learn this spell."

With that said, Sherlock also raised his wand and looked at Wilson opposite.

"If the examinee doesn't use the Iron Armor Curse for protection in the first place, then the examiner will usually use the Disarming Curse to make a probing attack first, and if you use the Iron Armor Curse, you will generally suffer this test first."

Sherlock tapped his wand lightly, but no spell came out of his mouth.

But Wilson's attention was always on him, and he didn't notice that under his feet, there were already countless chairs that had turned into vines, spreading from front to back, left to right, and to his body.

Because it is not a magic spell, the entanglement of the vine man did not activate the defense and protection mechanism of the Iron Armor Curse, but spread directly to Wilson's waist.

Finally, under the horrified gaze that he had just reacted to, it suddenly tightened, trapping him firmly!
The exclamation of the students below rang out along with the applause.

Sherlock released Wilson and continued to explain.

"This is the second key to getting high scores, never ignore Transfiguration!"

"I know that most of you value magic spells more than transfiguration. I don't comment on whether this idea is correct, but no matter when, don't forget transfiguration."

"Whether it's used during the duel or discovering the examiner's transfiguration in time, no matter which point will add points to your actual combat exam."

A class passed quickly. In the first class of the seventh grade in the new semester, Sherlock talked about the two main points of the Iron Armor Curse and Transfiguration, but every student who came to listen to the class felt that they had learned a lot .

It is still very novel for them to conduct classroom teaching only for the content of the exam.

These students didn't know what the usual Seventh Grade Defense Against the Dark Arts class was like.

But in the classrooms of other subjects, the professors will talk about very complicated things, and they can't wait to put all the knowledge into their minds, and finally only a small part is tested in the grade test.

Most of the students are very painful when they start class. They are often full of doubts when they are studying, and they always doubt in their hearts whether they can pass the exam.

So in general, those who can finally get O evaluations in many subjects are the best of the best.

These people basically keep all the knowledge they can learn in their minds, and it is easy for them to take any test questions.

But such people are a minority after all. Most students still don't have enough energy and brain power to memorize so much knowledge, so they can only try their luck during the exam.

Then within a few days after the exam, most of the knowledge is completely forgotten, and only a small part can really be used in future work and life.

Sherlock's purely exam-oriented teaching method is the gospel for those students with mediocre talents.

It doesn't matter how good your brain is, as long as you work hard to learn, you can basically get good grades.

After the class was over, Sherlock packed up his things, and at the same time told Percy to collect all the homework for the holidays and send them directly to his office.

After returning to the office, Sherlock put away his things and came to the auditorium for lunch.

There were quite a few students in the auditorium, and Sherlock was chatting with Hagrid on the teacher's seat, and Hagrid was excitedly chatting to Sherlock about his preparations for the first class this afternoon.

At this moment, most of the students who were having lunch suddenly became quiet. Their eyes were all looking at one place, and everyone was in the same place.

It was a witch who walked in from the door of the auditorium. She was wearing a black robe different from normal students, with a wide hood on her head, revealing only the lower half of her delicate face and long gray hair.

The students had never seen her in the castle, and the aura she exuded was obviously impossible to be a student, but no such person had ever appeared among the professors at Hogwarts.

Under the gaze of most of the students, Silk walked up to Sherlock and said coldly.

"I saw something, and now I'm going to Hogsmeade."

Hearing her words, Sherlock was stunned for a moment, then stuffed the remaining sausage into his mouth in two or three bites, and then stood up from the dining table.

"Let's go then."

So under the watchful eyes of everyone, Sherlock and Silk left the auditorium together.

After a brief silence, a much more heated discussion broke out in the auditorium than before.

The most talked about is naturally who is the witch with the hat.

"Who's that woman?" Ron asked Harry, blinking.

Although Harry spent almost a month with Sherlock during the summer vacation, he hadn't seen Sherlock either.

"I don't know, and I've never heard Professor Forrest mention this person."

Hermione, distracted from a bad Divination class this morning, was thinking.

"Professor Dumbledore said that Professor Forrest has other things this year, which may be related to this woman."

While they were talking about various speculations, Harry suddenly remembered an important matter, and he lowered his voice and said to Hermione and Ron.

"During the summer vacation, Professor Forrest's crow mouth suddenly failed!"

(End of this chapter)