[Comprehensive HP colleagues] That year

The beginning of the third grade also means that everyone has to take different courses.

When choosing courses at the end of last semester, Lynn chose ancient runes without hesitation because he wanted to study the bloodline tracker. Most of the team members in Avalon also took this course. Sirius and Lily were Because they want to study the bloodline tracker with Lynn, and the other four are because they are interested in the runes on magic equipment.For the rest, because of the contact with Hagrid, the Gryffindor four also took the Protection of Magical Creatures class, Peter, Lily and Lynn chose Muggle Studies, and Lily and Lynn also chose Arithmetic Divination (Jane Tom and Sirius also took this course, Snape was very dissatisfied with this result, except for Muggle studies, he would never take it, and the other two electives that could be taken with Lily actually had that damn Black and Potter).

In addition to various subjects, the Gryffindor four are practicing Animagus as soon as possible except Remus, Lynn, Lily and Sirius continue to study the blood tracer, Snape is practicing Occlumency ( He was still brooding over the accidental discovery by Lynn last semester), while Shaklin pulled the two Ravenclaw sisters to step up their research on soul magic.Therefore, everyone's life in the new semester seems particularly busy.

Lynn's first elective course was Muggle Studies. The professor of this course was a half-blood wizard who grew up in the Muggle world. Slytherin, other houses are basically half and half.The second elective course is arithmetic and divination. The professor Setima Victor is an extremely serious witch. Lynn originally thought that this course should not be difficult, but in the first class, Professor Victor asked them to try to use My own name and simple numerology divination of my character, but the answer Lynn got was quite different from my own character, so embarrassing.

What really made Lynn feel like a fish in water was the study of ancient runes.The teacher of this course, Professor Batheda Babling, is said to be over 50 years old, but looks very young and beautiful.The third-year students who took this course accounted for less than one-third of the total number of students. They were taken by the four colleges together. Ravenclaw had the most students, followed by Slytherin. Gryffindor only had Sirius and Lily, Hufflepuff is the worst, and Croy is the only one.

"My friends in our college say this course is not very useful," Lynn heard sisters Croy and Alma sitting behind her say helplessly. It is almost an impossible task to be proficient. No more than 7 students pass the OWLs exam every year. It's rare for Niwen to be converted into magic runes. Most of us Hufflepuffs think that there is little point in learning another foreign language."

These words made many Slytherins, even Marceline, who was sitting next to Lynn, roll their eyes in their hearts.

The news that Croy heard was basically true, because as soon as the class started, Professor Babling gave everyone a vaccination: "Generally speaking, there are no more than three reasons for choosing my class. I didn't know, so I chose it randomly. Second, because the word "ancient" in this course sounds more high-end and elegant (she glanced at those with silver and green ties when she said this), and third, she was really right. People who are fascinated by magic runes. For the first two, I advise you to change your mentality as soon as possible, or to quit the class early and choose another one, because with your mentality, it is absolutely impossible to pass the OWLs exam. And the third one, I also recommend Just to remind you, being able to read runes and translating runes into magical runes are two very different things."

"To understand runes, what you need is a super strong memory and perseverance to work hard. This is not much different from learning a foreign language. But the variety of runes is definitely more than that known today. Any language in European history. Therefore, in the OWLs exam, if you can accurately translate the given rune articles, it is already very remarkable. If you are lucky enough to enter my improvement class, you will Grades learn to write runes. Yes, 'writing', 'spelling' and 'writing' are never the same thing in the world of runes. Don't think writing is easy. Runes are a precise down to simi (1 simi = 0.1 mm) of writing, if you can't achieve that level of precision, even if you infuse it with magic, the runes won't do what you expect them to. It's a long process, I see How many students have given up halfway, only to end up using runes as a common foreign language. And if you succeed..."

Professor Babling drew a golden symbol in the air with his wand, then waved the wand, and the golden symbol slowly flew to a section of vines that were about to wither outside the window, and then the golden color slowly turned into turquoise, and the vines went up It started to grow green and fresh leaves, and in less than 1 minute, it was already full of life.

Croy made a sound of admiration.

"Perhaps you will think it's nothing, but what if I tell you that this vine man, which originally only had a lifespan of less than ten years, can live at least 300 years?" Professor Babling asked with narrowed eyes.

Croy was not the only one who gave out admiration this time.

"Spells made with magic runes are at least ten times stronger in terms of timeliness and stability than ordinary spells with the same amount of magic power output. The more tacitly the fluctuation of the magic power output and the strength of rune writing, the more this multiple will be. High. There are hundreds of times and thousands of times. Of course, there are very few people at the master level. Among the people I know, only Principal Dumbledore can do it. And my hope for you is that you can persist come down."

In the following time, Professor Babling began to teach everyone to learn the runes that represent numbers, and everyone studied very seriously, which made Professor Babling very satisfied.Before the end of get out of class, she asked all the students to copy all the words learned in this class on parchment and hand them in. She also assigned homework, asking everyone to memorize these words, and she will dictate them in the next class.

Lynn could predict that this class would be very easy for her before moving on to the advanced classes.After all, compared to the age in which she grew up in her previous life, runes simply cannot be used as the adjective "ancient".When this class was first introduced, memory was very important, so Lynn, who had a reborn cheating device, and Sirius, who had a superb memory, quickly came out on top in the class.However, to the surprise of many students who looked down on Hufflepuff, it was Croy who became Professor Babling's favorite.She always unabashedly praised Croy's amazing talent for this subject, because she was able to 'write' those new words with exceptional precision without being taught by herself.

"Even if you are not the fastest learner now, you will definitely be the best learner in the advanced class. This is really a talent!" Professor Babling said.

These few courses that Lynn took are not considered popular, and the really popular one is the protection of magical creatures.This course has the largest number of students in all elective courses, so it is not the same as the four schools, but the combination of Gryffindor + Slytherin, and Ravenclaw + Hufflepuff.The course's professor, Sylvanus Kettleburn, a feisty Hufflepuff, lost an arm thanks to his job, but it didn't affect his care for him in the slightest" Little rascals" love.

"I must emphasize that this is not a Defense Against the Dark Arts class. What you have to do is to take care of these animals, not kill them." Professor Kettleburn emphasized.

"Take care? Are you kidding? Does that thing need us to take care of it too? We will be kicked to death." Carlo pointed to a group of people with the body of a horse, the head and wings of an eagle tied to the edge of the woods in the distance Dude, muttering softly.

Professor Kettleburn's hearing is very good. Hearing this, he said a little unhappy: "Miss Carlo, even if they are dangerous creatures, it doesn't mean that they are not worth protecting. Hippogriffs are indeed They have fierce temperaments, but there are many wizards who have successfully made friends with them, not to mention that they are often hired by wizards to guard treasures, and feathers can be used as ingredients for potions. Of course, the premise is that you have enough patience with them And respect, but judging from your current performance, not all of you have this ability."

Carlo was a little embarrassed by what he said, so he shut up and stopped complaining.

In that class, Professor Kettleburn showed everyone the Moon Crazy Beast. This kind of animal can perform charming dances under the moonlight, and often inspires dancers.If their silvery droppings are collected before sunrise and sprinkled later on magical herb beds and flower beds, the plants will grow rapidly and become extremely strong.But they are very shy, generally only come out of their caves at night when the moon is full, and are extremely sensitive to human emotional perception.

When get out of class was over, Professor Kettleburn asked everyone to adopt a cub of the Moon Crazy Beast to take care of, and asked them to record the growth and changes of the Moon Crazy Beast. "This is the first step in developing your patience with magical creatures," said Professor Kettleburn.

Marceline took this course as an elective, so Lynn was fortunate enough to watch the little guy's dance on the night of the full moon half a month later.It was really... an extremely complex and charming dance. Lynn felt that if anyone could imitate this dance, she would definitely become a Duncan-like master.

Then, as if appropriate to the occasion, Avril looked at the Moon Crazy Beast, and began to dance lightly. The movements were almost the same as the Moon Crazy Beast, and even a little more elegant and elegant than the Moon Crazy Beast.

Lynn opened her mouth wide: "God, Marceline, I just realized that you are a natural dancer. This is really beautiful."

So Avril pursed her lips and smiled, accepting Lynn's compliment.

It is also worth mentioning that the third grade students began to learn the Love Charm in Charms class, and the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Brandon Summerby is a descendant of the inventor of this spell.Professor Summerby is a tall Slytherin. Unlike his happy ancestors, Professor Summerby is as severe as Professor Pinkston before him, making the black Lynn and Marceline, who were not good at magic defense, couldn't stand it, but Sirius and James were still good at this subject as always, so that Professor Summerby couldn't find fault with them.

Another Slytherin-born professor's class, Potions, began to teach how to brew a shrinking potion.The brewing process of the shrinking potion itself is very cumbersome, but the enthusiasm of the Slytherin students to learn it is very high.This is mainly because there is a story behind the shrinking potion that is very appetizing to most Slytherin students: Once, a wizard named Samuel Plunkett was persecuted by the villagers of a Muggle village, so He poured the shrinking potion into the village well, and spent all day on his birthday chasing shrunken villagers in hobnail boots.

Speaking of potions, I have to mention potions professor Slughorn's "recruitment" gathering.Every year, the chubby Slytherin head selects some talented students from the third year and above, or the children of famous and successful people, and introduces them to each other.Because of Professor Slughorn's name, the group was nicknamed the Slug Club by the students.Early in the semester, Lynn would often hear people in the break room discussing who would be lucky enough to be drafted this year.In early October, Slughorn finally issued his first invitation. Surprisingly, Snape was the only one who received the invitation in Slytherin, but Gryffin, who had always been at odds with Slytherin. Many, three people were invited at once: James, who is extremely talented in transformation, Lily, who is extremely talented in potions, and Sirius, who is very talented in various subjects.

This caused many Slytherin students to complain that their dean didn't take care of their family members. Lily, a witch who was born as a hemp seed, was especially ridiculed by everyone.This made Lynn, who was Lily's friend, very sad.

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The third grade also means that Snape can join the "Dark Wings".

Since the summer vacation, the wizarding society has been in an atmosphere where the rain is about to come and the wind is full.Voldemort's method of violent blood cleansing has gradually moved from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, giving speeches everywhere to stir up emotions, while Voldemort supporters everywhere are causing trouble everywhere, slogans such as "Mudblood get out" appear on the streets every now and then, and it is too late to tear them up .Those people, proudly calling themselves Death Eaters.

And on campus, small groups like "Dark Wings" also form groups to bully Muggle-born students who are alone from time to time. Although no major vicious incidents have occurred, Muggle-born students are still in danger.

And Lily, who has always been cheerful, gradually became taciturn under this situation.