Sherlock Holmes at Hogwarts

Following Sherlock's guidance, Hermione began to change her situation using her own methods.

In every class, she spoke more actively and with greater intensity than before, striving to earn points.

This action proved to be quite effective.

In just one month, professors other than Snape had awarded a considerable number of points to Gryffindor.

However.

Even though Hermione single-handedly earned nearly thirty points this season, becoming the top-scoring first-year, her treatment in Gryffindor remained unchanged.

This was not surprising.

Because, to some extent, what she was doing was all in vain.

In the eyes of the students, Hermione Granger was a good student, but she always nagged when classmates made mistakes, constantly stopped them from copying each other's homework, and liked to tattle to the teachers...

How should I put it?

Everyone knew she was right, but no one liked her.

Sherlock was helpless about this.

He had given his advice, but she didn't listen.

Others would not appreciate this kind of one-sided effort that you think is for their own good.

Moreover, others didn't need her to do this at all—in the eyes of the Gryffindor lions, Hermione was purely meddling.

When you focus on doing one thing, you feel that time passes very quickly.

Unknowingly, two whole months had passed since the start of school.

The atmosphere in the school also became cheerful.

The first-year students were about to welcome their first festival at school.

Halloween.

After a long period of evolution, this festival had long lost its original religious color and turned into a traditional festival mainly for celebration.

Halloween actually lasts two days.

October 31st is called Halloween Eve.

November 1st is called All-Saints'-Day.

Halloween in the popular sense refers to October 31st, which is also the day when the first-year students will hold a celebration banquet.

As for Halloween night, it is often called All Hallows' Eve or All Saints' Day.

Whenever Halloween comes, children dress up as various cute ghosts and knock on doors from house to house, demanding sweets, otherwise they will cause trouble.

It is said that various ghosts and monsters will also mingle in the crowd that night, so adults often dress themselves up as demons and ghosts.

In addition, there are also festive customs such as carving pumpkin lanterns, playing pranks, and apple bobbing.

In the Muggle world, Halloween is an important festival.

For example, Sherlock originally planned to go to school in Yorkshire.

The Halloween celebrations there are very famous throughout the UK.

Originally, Sherlock thought that the magical world would not celebrate this holiday.

But now it seems that he was narrow-minded.

The magical world celebrates four festivals: Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Easter.

Valentine's Day is the most out of place among these four festivals, giving people a feeling of sneaking in. At Hogwarts, only older students like it.

Christmas and Easter have holidays, which is a bit embarrassing—after all, the Vatican killed quite a few wizards back then.

On Halloween morning, Sherlock woke up to the smell of roasted pumpkin in the corridor.

It can be said that from this moment on, the festive atmosphere was already in place.

The last class before the event celebration was Charms, and the first-year wizards also ushered in new teaching content—the Levitation Charm.

Everyone was very interested in this.

Because Professor Flitwick used Neville's pet Trevor, which always liked to abandon its owner and travel alone, as a demonstration. Under the effect of the Levitation Charm, it achieved the achievement of flying winglessly in the classroom.

However.

The difficulty of the charm quickly dispelled their high enthusiasm.

Compared with the spells learned before, the Levitation Charm has as many as eight syllables.

Not only must the pronunciation be standard, but the requirements for the casting action are also very high.

It can be said that the difficulty has soared.

In the spell practice section, according to convention, it was still two-person group training.

Sherlock's partner was Harry, which made the latter very happy.

Because Seamus Finnigan had been trying to get his attention.

Compared to him, Harry would rather team up with Neville.

It's not that Harry looks down on Seamus, but Seamus has a magical ability.

As long as a harmless spell is cast by him, it will inexplicably cause an explosion.

This is especially obvious in Transfiguration and Charms classes.

According to Sherlock's scientific analysis, this may be related to heredity.

Seamus Finnigan was one of Sherlock's reasoning subjects when he was waiting for the train at Platform 9 and 3/4 before the start of school.

At that time, Sherlock's analysis of him was [new student, mother is a witch, father is an ordinary person engaged in the blasting industry, only learned of his wife's identity after marriage]

After the start of school, this inference was also confirmed.

So, besides the teacher, only a very few students like Sherlock can support him.

Harry obviously does not have this ability.

As for Neville, who is partnered with Seamus with a bitter face, he can only pray for good fortune.

Some people are happy and some are sad.

Harry was happy that he was matched with Sherlock, while Hermione was a little frustrated because she was not teamed up with Sherlock.

Her partner was Ron.

Regarding this matter, Ron was also unwilling.

He didn't like Hermione from the moment he met her.

Although during this period, because Hermione spoke out for Sherlock and Harry, he raised his favorability towards Hermione a bit.

However, Hermione's subsequent actions quickly caused Ron's favorability towards her to drop rapidly.

This situation reached its peak after Hermione lectured them that they should not duel with Malfoy and came to catch them late at night.

Even after Hermione was enlightened by Sherlock and tried to change the status quo in her own way, it still had no effect.

Recently, besides Sherlock and Neville, only Harry can barely say a few words to Hermione.

This is still Harry giving Sherlock face.

Neville is an introverted and timid character, so the only person who really doesn't reject Hermione is actually Sherlock.

But she didn't get to be with Sherlock—obviously, Professor Flitwick is not a good observer.

"Wingardium Leviosa!"

Ron waved his arms like a windmill and shouted the spell.

On the one hand, he brought his annoyance with Hermione into the practice, and on the other hand, he hoped to use this method to make the feather feel his determination.

He had heard Harry talk about his experience in flying class—the broom can see through the timidity in your heart.

Be confident!

It's just that he doesn't look confident at all when he is roaring, but more like he is threatening.

So it's useless.

Feathers are light, but they are not afraid of threats.

"It's Wing-GAR-dium Levi-O-sa. The 'ar' must not only be pronounced, but also said long and clearly."

After watching Ron try again and again without success, Hermione finally couldn't help but start lecturing.

"If you can do it, you do it!"

Ron was angry, and immediately changed the object of his roar to Hermione when he heard this.

Hermione waved her wand without saying a word and recited the spell in a standard London accent.

"Wing-GAR-dium Levi-O-sa!"

The feather floated up very cooperatively and hovered directly in the air above the table.

"Well done!"

Professor Flitwick looked excited. "Everyone, look, Miss Granger has also succeeded! Gryffindor gains one point!"

The reason for saying "also" is because Sherlock had already succeeded before Hermione.

This was not difficult for him.

Even Harry, who was with him, was encouraged.

After failing several times in a row, he successfully floated up.

So the two had already gained points before Hermione.

But.

Sherlock's score naturally won a round of applause.

Not to mention Harry, the cheers when he scored were far greater than Sherlock's.

This is the prestige of the savior of the magical world.

Only Hermione.

No one cares.