The Lonely Dragon of Hogwarts

Moody is undoubtedly a cunning man.

Although his series of actions today seem inconsistent, they are actually logical.

There is only one thing he wants to do, and that is to conquer the students.

The method he used was very simple: hit a stick and give a sweet date.

When he first came to class, he made the students fear him through his terrifying appearance and deliberate language.

Facing someone like Draco who has been wary of and disgusted with him from the beginning, the verbal blow will be increased and sufficient pressure will be applied.

Immediately afterwards, he continued to add points to Slytherin and fed him sweet dates, which made this pressure suddenly disappear and turned into a positive emotion.

It also reveals some real talents and knowledge, as well as touching battlefield stories, providing some buffering.

Under the influence of these multiple emotions, many students who have never seen the dangers of the world are easily fooled.

Just like Draco.

In just one class, this guy's perception of Moody has improved a lot.

Moreover, Moody's main target is not him, but John.

This can be seen from the fact that Moody always only gives extra points to John, and that he specifically talks to John after class.

In a separate conversation with John, he also repeated this routine.

First, he used the topic of Snape to stir up John's emotions.

After seeing that John was still wary of him, he immediately changed his tune.

He began to persuade John sincerely.

Finally, give me a sweet date to add a wave of points.

His only fault was that he applied too much pressure in the persuasion process.

This caused John to activate Occlumency at full power.

And [Occlumency] caused John's originally guided emotions to dissipate, and he quickly entered a state of near-absolute sanity.

In this state, John instantly jumped out of the emotional trap created by Moody and then thought everything through.

John estimated that Moody wanted to conquer all the students through this method first.

Earn the respect of your students and become one of their favorite professors, making it easier to do certain things.

For example, investigating Lucius Malfoy's criminal evidence.

Investigate Snape's crimes and send the two to Azkaban.

John had to admit that Moody was really powerful.

He is worthy of being a heroic Auror who successfully led all the Aurors who became Death Eaters back to the right path without using the Unforgivable Curse.

Not only is his fighting ability extremely outstanding, he is also proficient in the superb skills of controlling people's hearts and guiding emotions.

John could even predict that it wouldn't be long before Moody would be able to complete the first step of his plan - to conquer all the students.

After all, he has used the method of "beating a stick and giving a sweet date" to the extreme, which sounds simple but is actually quite complex.

And most students at Hogwarts have a natural affinity for Aurors.

They had no ability to resist the stories Moody told about Auror war heroes.

"call--"

John took a deep breath, ignored Draco who was still mumbling, and turned around to go to the Potions office.

In any case, he should first inform Snape of what he observed today.

However, after listening to John's story and his speculation.

Snape didn't get angry or show signs of compromise.

He just remained silent for a long time and then said:

"I understand, John. It seems that he doesn't intend to target you too seriously. This is a good thing. If he continues like this, you don't have to do anything. I will be responsible for other things."

John understood that Snape meant not to let him get involved in this matter anymore.

Although I don't quite understand what Snape means by doing this.

But considering that Snape also had Dumbledore's support and was not afraid of Moody because of his own strength, he agreed.

And in the following days, things did begin to develop as John expected.

In just over a month, Moody used almost the same method to impress the entire Hogwarts students, making him one of the most popular professors.

In terms of style alone, the students love him even more than they love Lupine.

After all, Lupine was not favored by the Slytherins at the beginning.

Now, not only do the Slytherins have no ill feelings towards Moody, some students have even begun to be jealous of Moody.

Draco is a typical example.

This guy complained to John more than once that Moody was too biased towards Gryffindor.

The reason is that Moody will add a lot of points to Gryffindor every time he goes to class.

This situation was also deliberately created by Moody's.

The purpose is to enhance competition among students through differences.

John didn't try to persuade Draco.

Because he knew that Draco couldn't be persuaded at this stage.

What's more, it might not be a bad thing for Draco to suffer some losses and learn a lesson.

Anyway, with him on guard, Draco couldn't really do something stupid like selling Lucius away.

Of course, another reason why John didn't pay attention to Draco for the time being was that he was a little busy recently.

After swallowing the 'Lopez Gem', not only was the third magic pool born in John's body, but his 'chewing' ability was also greatly improved.

This resulted in a significant increase in the upper limit of the amount of magic power he could consume every day.

In the more than a month since he entered Hogwarts, John has been frantically 'chewing' the magic power of a large number of wizards in the school every day, and at the same time, he has to refine a huge amount of potions and drink them.

This full-power devouring mode caused another surge in the magic talent in John's body. In terms of magic level and quality alone, he could almost catch up with elite professors like Snape.

But at the same time, it also consumed a lot of John's time.

However, John could not continue in this devouring mode with all his heart and soul.

Because there is always something that disturbs him.

For example, on this day, John had just walked out of the Slytherin dungeon and found that the entire entrance hall was blocked.

A large number of students were crowded around a large notice erected at the foot of the marble stairs, and they were chattering incessantly.

John is already very tall.

Therefore, his eyes easily went over the heads of the people in front of him and he could clearly see the contents of the notice.

【Triwizard Tournament】

[Representatives from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will arrive at 10pm on Friday, October 30th]

[The afternoon classes will end half an hour early. At that time, students are asked to return their schoolbags and textbooks to their dormitories, gather in front of the castle, greet our guests, and then attend the welcome banquet. 】

"Only one week left!"

Draco emerged from nowhere, clenched his fists and said, "John, you will definitely become a warrior of Hogwarts!"

John said somewhat speechlessly:

"There's an age limit, Draco. There's no way I'd be chosen."

"Isn't there Alice?" Draco said proudly, "She has been studying this matter with Michelle recently, and it is said that she has found several feasible solutions.

I just asked her yesterday and she said she would be happy to share the method with us as well.

And it's free.

Let me tell you, Alice has really changed her ways this time..."

Draco was still chirping, but John's expression turned cold.

He waved his hand to interrupt Draco's words and said almost word for word:

"You mean, Alice has been pestering Michelle during this period, researching ways to circumvent the age limit?"

"To be precise," Draco explained, "it's Michelle who is pestering Alice. I can see that Michelle really wants to be a warrior."

Hearing this, John's eyes instantly became colder.