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

Chapter 30 Teacher Assemblies
Life as a professor at Hogwarts is hectic.

The lessons and after-school homework for the seven grades took up almost all of Sherlock's time, from getting up at 7 am to 11 pm without necessarily taking a break.

At the same time, he also had to set aside part of his time every day for self-study and enrich himself, trying to make himself reach the original magic level of the original owner as soon as possible.

After all, only the improvement of one's own strength can make people feel at ease.

Saturday of the first week of school.

In the morning, it was rare for Sherlock to have no homework to correct, and he escaped from the complicated knowledge of magic, and had a moment of leisure in his office.

Just when he was holding a book of fables "The Tales of Beedle the Poet" borrowed from the library, which is well-known in the magic world, he had just read the article "The Hairy Heart of the Wizard (Note)" which was very interesting. educational stories.

Suddenly there was a light knock on the door outside the office.

Sherlock closed the book of fables and put it in the desk drawer before speaking.

"Please come in."

The person who pushed the door in was not the student who Sherlock had guessed came to ask the question, but the dean of Gryffindor, Professor McGonagall.

"Do you have time, Sherlock? Every Saturday, some of our teachers who are free will make an appointment to go to Hogsmeade for a drink together."

Sherlock wanted to refuse subconsciously, but Professor McGonagall hadn't finished speaking.

"With us today is Slughorn. You haven't seen each other since your mother's funeral."

Hearing the name Slughorn, Sherlock was taken aback for a moment.

This name is very unfamiliar to him, but he vaguely feels that this person seems to have appeared in the original book.

Professor McGonagall saw Sherlock's expression, and then explained.

"You may have forgotten him, but your mother Sally was Slughorn's favorite student when he was Head of Slytherin at Hogwarts."

"You were just born, and Sally and your father even planned to ask him to take you in as a godson. He was very happy, but he gave up because of some other reasons. But Sally and his relationship have been very good until Sally's death, He went to her funeral when you were three."

"Afterwards, he went into seclusion. No one knew where he lived. Not long ago, I heard that you came to Hogwarts to serve as the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. Today he made a special trip to Hogsmeade to see you."

Professor McGonagall looked serious.

"I think you should meet Sherlock. He seems to have something very important to tell you about your parents."

Sherlock hesitated.

He didn't want to participate in this teacher's gathering, not because he was afraid of being exposed, and he had already figured it out during the week at Hogwarts.

There are actually only three and a half professors who are familiar with Sherlock in this castle.

Needless to say, Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore, there is also Professor Flitwick, the former dean of the main student period, and the other half is Snape.

The reason why Snape counted as half was because Sherlock hadn't figured out exactly what Snape's attitude towards him was.

According to the original book, Snape had also longed for the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, so it stands to reason that he was hostile to every defense professor.

But when Sherlock met him in the castle, he did not show such obvious disgust and hostility.

On the contrary. Sherlock even read a trace of guilt from the complicated eyes he looked at himself!

That feeling was so strange, sometimes Sherlock wondered if his brain was broken, how could he see guilt in the eyes of someone like Snape.

Because he couldn't figure it out, Snape could only count as half.

Even the three and a half professors who knew him well in the castle basically didn't know what the original owner really thought.

The original owner in the student days was like a vigilant hedgehog, protecting himself tightly with the thorns of indifference. No one knew what he was thinking except for his palpable admiration for Dumbledore.

Therefore, unless Sherlock committed suicide by exposing something, there would be no problems.

The main reason is that it is really rare for him to rest for half a day today, and he doesn't want to waste his energy on socializing.

It's just that after Professor McGonagall mentioned Slughorn and said that he wanted to see him because of the original owner's mother, Sherlock felt that he should go.

The biggest secret of the original owner came from his mother. Even the inexplicable crescent-shaped birthmark on his left arm, Sherlock had a premonition that it had something to do with that lunatic mother.

To find out about these things, he had to deal with these people.

So after having an idea in his mind, Sherlock nodded to Professor McGonagall.

"I'll be there."

Hearing that he agreed, Professor McGonagall showed a relieved expression on his face.

"At 10 o'clock in the morning, at the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade. Me, Felius, and Hagrid will be there too. We'll see you later."

After Professor McGonagall finished speaking, he left the office. Sherlock looked at the time. It was already 9 o'clock in the morning, and there was only one hour left before the appointment made by the professors.

He took out a few books from the drawer that he had borrowed from the castle library, and planned to use this hour to return the books.

Due to Sherlock's exam-oriented education plan for senior grades this semester, the library is already full before the end of the semester.

And the students who came here for self-study were almost all studying the opening examination papers of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

Because last year's defense professor was Quirrell, basically everyone's grades in the entrance exam were not satisfactory, and Sherlock intentionally made the exam questions a little deeper.

This caused some frustration among all the senior students taking the exam.

Students who pay more attention to grades even want to study that test paper in the library, and understand all the questions on it.

Seeing that the learning atmosphere at Hogwarts has improved significantly, Sherlock was very pleased after returning the book.

He left Hogwarts Castle and wandered around the Black Lake before going to Hogsmeade. He heard that there was a giant squid in the lake, so he wanted to try his luck to see if he could meet it.

As a result, Sherlock came here on a whim, but Squid didn't give him face.

Just as he was about to leave Hogwarts for Hogsmeade in disappointment, a sudden commotion from the Quidditch pitch caught his attention.

The Gryffindor team and the Slytherin team got together, and there seemed to be a quarrel over something.

　Note: Excerpted from the fable in "The Tales of Beedle the Poet" - The Hairy Heart of the Wizard

　　I think Rowling wrote a very interesting fable. Of course, people usually only pay attention to the story of the three brothers and the god of death in the stories of the poet Beedle.

　　Because the story is too long, I won't post it. If you are interested, you can search it.

　　
　
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