Became good friends with the Boy Who Lived

Later, after the Care of Magical Creatures class, Aeris, Harry and the others came to Hagrid's hut. Hagrid looked a little lost and kept drinking.

I didn't see Norrington. He must be patrolling the Forbidden Forest in place of Hagrid.

"Oh... it's you!" Hagrid said drunkenly, "The school's administrators have learned in detail about my first day of teaching. They all agree that I am too radical, and that the Hippogriff is too... dangerous. The students should be allowed to learn about it slowly later..."

"But...really," said Ron, "there weren't any accidents, were there?"

"It will be too late when an accident happens..." Hagrid said slurringly, "That's what the supervisors say..."

"It's really making a fuss out of nothing," said Harry indignantly. "It's not fair to implicate Hagrid because of Draco's carelessness."

"Hagrid, you can't drink anymore!" Hermione took Hagrid's tankard.

Hagrid smiled bitterly and said, "I did drink a lot..." He stumbled to his feet and staggered out. Aeris and the others heard loud splashing sounds outside.

When Hagrid entered the room again, he was obviously much more sober. He wiped the water droplets off his face with his big hands like a palm leaf fan, and then looked at Aeris, Harry and the others in disbelief, as if he had just noticed that they were here.

"Why are you here?" Hagrid roared, making Harry and Ron almost jump.

"It's almost curfew," Hagrid said loudly. "What on earth are you thinking about? You're still wandering outside the castle after dark. Come with me, I'll take you back to the castle. And you're not allowed to visit me after dark. I'm a professor now, and I can't turn a blind eye to your violations of school rules anymore."

A few days later, in an ordinary Potions class, Gryffindor third-year students attended class with Slytherin third-year students. After Professor Snape had caused trouble for Harry several times, he turned his target to Neville.

"Orange..." Professor Snape said in a mocking tone, scooping out some of the potion brewed by Neville with a spoon and pouring it back into the crucible little by little so that all the students can see it.

"Did I ever tell you that the normal color should be bright green, Mr. Longbottom?" Professor Snape said teasingly. "I am now certain that in your little head, the skull accounts for a much larger proportion than your brain capacity. How can I accurately transfer the correct knowledge to your thick skull, Mr. Longbottom?"

Neville stood aside with a flushed face, trembling all over, and at a loss.

Hermione whispered, "If you allow me, Professor, I can help him..."

"Miss Know-It-All, are you trying to show off in my class?" Professor Snape said darkly.

Hermione lowered her head, her face seemed to be even redder than Neville's.

"Mr. Longbottom," said Professor Snape, "before the get out of class ends, I will give your toad a few drops of the potion you brewed. Perhaps this will encourage you to pay attention in my class in the future."

Professor Snape walked away, leaving Neville alone, at a loss.

"Please help me..." Neville moaned softly to Aeris and Hermione.

Aeris and Hermione both tried their best to help Neville finish his potion, and Neville was sweating with nervousness.

When the get out of class was about to end, Professor Snape walked slowly to Neville's side. "Everyone gather around," Professor Snape said, his sinister black eyes sparkling. "Let's try the potion made by Mr. Longbottom. If this potion is fed to toads, the toads will turn into tadpoles. But I'm curious about what effect Mr. Longbottom's potion will have, so let's wait and see."

Under Neville's horrified gaze, Professor Snape used a small spoon to feed some of the potion in Neville's cauldron to Neville's toad: Lefou.

Radford's cheeks puffed up twice, and with a "poof", he turned into a tadpole. Professor Snape glanced at Hermione with a sinister look, took out a crystal bottle from his pocket, poured a few drops of liquid on the tadpole, and the tadpole turned back into a toad.

"Five points deducted from Gryffindor!" said Professor Snape. "Do you think you are helping him? Miss Know-it-all, I don't think you can help Mr. Longbottom's grades by doing this. get out of class dismissed!"

"That old bat!" Ron said indignantly after leaving the basement. "The potion worked correctly, but he deducted points from Gryffindor? What on earth was he thinking? Hermione... Hermione?"

Hermione, who had just walked behind them, disappeared. "Where is she?" Ron looked around. "She was clearly following us..."

Hermione came over breathlessly, stuffing something into her collar. Ron looked as if he had seen a ghost. Aris said faintly, "Do you want to fight like this?"

Hermione glared at Aeris and strode towards the restaurant. It was almost lunchtime.

In the afternoon, Aeris and his classmates were going to attend Professor Lupin's first Defense Against the Dark Arts class. When the Gryffindors arrived at the classroom, Professor Lupin was not waiting in the classroom. The students all found their seats, took out their quills and parchment as usual, and started chatting.

When Professor Lupin walked into the classroom, everyone fell silent and looked at the new professor curiously. Aries noticed that although Professor Lupin was still wearing the old robe, he looked much better and no longer looked as dusty as he had on the train.

"Good afternoon!" Professor Lupin said, and then took out the roster and began to call the roll. After confirming that no students were absent, Professor Lupin continued: "We have a practical class today. You only need your own wand. Put the rest of your school supplies back into your schoolbag!"

The students all looked at Professor Lupin in disbelief, because previous Defense Against the Dark Arts professors had never let them practice, and the few practical experiences they had were "terrible."

After everyone quickly packed up, Professor Lupin said, "Are you all ready? Come with me!"

The students followed Professor Lupin out of the classroom with great interest. They walked along the empty corridor. On the way, Professor Lupin cleverly solved several prank traps set by Peeves, which made the students more interested in the upcoming practice.

Professor Lupin led everyone to the door of the staff lounge. He opened the door and said, "Come in. This is our practice site today."

Once everyone was inside, Professor Lupin walked in and saw Professor Snape sitting in a low armchair.

"Severus!" Professor Lupin greeted and was about to close the door.

Professor Snape said quietly, "I have no plans to visit your classroom, Remus, but I want to remind you that if you don't want any accidents to happen in the staff room, don't let Mr. Longbottom try any difficult spells."

Neville lowered his head somewhat awkwardly. Professor Lupin patted Neville on the shoulder, raised his eyebrows and said, "I plan to let Neville be my assistant. I believe he will perform well."

"That's a pity!" said Professor Snape, "It looks like we have to move to another staff room." After that, Professor Snape walked out of the staff room quickly and closed the door tightly.

Professor Lupin waved and led the students to the end of the room, where there was a large wardrobe where professors kept their extra robes.

Professor Lupin came to the side of the wardrobe and faced the students. The wardrobe shook suddenly, which made many students shrink.

"Don't be nervous," said Professor Lupin. "There's only a Boggart inside. They like dark and closed spaces, such as wardrobes, cupboards, and even empty boxes. This one was just moved in yesterday afternoon. I asked the principal and obtained permission from my colleagues to let it stay in this wardrobe temporarily so that my third-year students can have a chance to practice. Next, who can tell me what a Boggart is?"

Hermione raised her hand, and at Professor Lupin's signal, Hermione said, "They are magical creatures that can transform. They can transform into any image they think will scare others."

"I couldn't have interpreted it any better!" said Professor Lupin approvingly.

Hermione blushed, and Professor Lupin continued, "Right now, the Boggart in the closet has no image, because it doesn't know what it looks like to scare people outside the closet. No one knows what the Boggart looks like when it is alone, but when I let it out, whoever of us stands in front of it will become that person's most feared... thing."

"Harry!" Professor Lupin said suddenly, "What are our advantages in dealing with Boggarts now?"

"Well... there are so many of us," Harry said. "Even if he could detect what we all fear, each of us has our own fears, and he'd have a hard time choosing."

"That's a great answer!" said Professor Lupin. "The easiest way to defeat a Boggart is to have more people. This will confuse it, make it entangled, and make it at a loss. A Boggart cannot scare more than two people at the same time."

"It's very simple to defeat the Boggart. Just laugh," Professor Lupin said happily. "Use the spell to turn it into the most ridiculous image you think. Be firm in your belief. The spell is: funny funny ~ Let's recite it together... funny funny ~"

The students all recited the spell loudly. Professor Lupin patted Neville on the shoulder and asked, "What scares you most, Neville?"

"S…S…Professor Snape." Neville whispered.

The whole class burst into laughter, Neville also laughed shyly, Professor Lupin said thoughtfully: "I remember you lived with your grandmother, Neville!"

Neville said with a horrified look: "I... also... don't want... the Boggart to become like my grandmother..."

"No, you misunderstood me," Professor Lupin said with a smile, "Try to imagine Professor Snape wearing the clothes your grandmother usually wears." Professor Lupin said and winked at Neville.

"Everyone line up," Professor Lupin said loudly, "Neville, please stand first. Everyone, think carefully about what you are most afraid of, and then imagine how to make this fear funny... Are you ready?"

The students were pushing and shoving to line up. Neville was the first one in line. He clenched his wand nervously. The wardrobe shook even more violently. Professor Lupin said, "Three... two... one... start!" After that, Professor Lupin pointed his wand at the door handle of the wardrobe, and the door slowly opened.

A slender hand slowly pushed open the closet door, and Professor Snape walked out of the closet, looking at Neville with sinister eyes.

"S- ...

There was a crisp "crack" sound, like the sound of cracking a whip, and the Boggart in the form of Snape staggered. The original black wizard robe on his body disappeared, and it was replaced by a retro lace witch robe. He also wore a tall hat on his head, and there was a worm-eaten old eagle specimen on the hat.

The students burst into laughter. "Excellent!" said Professor Lupin. "Next!"

Neville walked aside, and several classmates high-fived him. Ron walked forward, and the Boggart turned into an eight-eyed giant spider, showing its fangs and claws at Ron. Ron shrank back, waved his wand and shouted, "Funny, funny~" The eight long legs of the eight-eyed giant spider were each equipped with roller skates, which made it unable to stand and it fell directly to the ground.

The students' laughter became louder, "Next!" Aeris stepped forward. Boggart was silent for a while. The students' laughter gradually died down. They were a little confused. Why did it stop laughing?