Ivan kept complaining in his heart, but Tom Riddle surprised him by his interest in Defence Against the Dark Arts class.

After a long time of getting a reply from Ivan, Tom Riddle didn't care, complaining in his diary.

[How could Dumbledore find such a person to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts class?] 】

Tom Riddle, who followed Ivan and had contact with Lockhart a few times, naturally easily saw through the reality of this new professor.

Hypothetical and keen to express himself, he is completely arrogant and incompetent fool...

The only thing that made Tom a little strange was how the other party was able to write those best-selling books and still achieve public recognition.

"I think you're better at teaching than this guy...," Tom wrote at the end of his diary.

This is not only a joke, but also Tom's recognition and emotion of the little wizard in front of him.

In the process of discussing and learning in the past, Tom consciously figured out the details of the other party, and Ivan was not inferior to a normal adult wizard in the understanding of basic spells.

Although there is still a big gap from the level of the professor, no matter how you look at it, it is better than Lockhart's straw bale...

Ivan didn't agree with Tom's remarks at all,

He knew who held the position and who was unlucky, and he felt that Tom must be trying to secretly harm himself.

Just as Ivan was thinking this, the system's prompt sounded in his head.

[Ding, activate the mission: The Dark Lord's Wish.]

Objective: Tom Riddle teaches Defence Against the Dark Arts class, either directly or indirectly

Reward: Legendary Points*1

Mission Description: One of Voldemort's wishes is to be a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. However, when he made this request, Dumbledore, who was the headmaster at the time, refused him without hesitation!

Annoyed and enraged, Voldemort turned this obsession into a curse, and after that, any teacher who taught the class could only teach for a maximum of one year! 】

The sudden hint of the mission surprised Ivan, who had never known that Voldemort had such a desire.

When he watched Harry Potter in his previous life, Ivan thought that Voldemort wanted to teach in the school, intending to spread his evil ideas there, or to steal all the relics of the Big Four to make Horcruxes to satisfy his collecting habits.

But it never occurred to me that the Dark Lord really had the idea of being a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.

But if Ivan thinks about it, it seems that this is really the case, and if it weren't for the fact that he has a deep grudge against the position of this Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, there is no need for Voldemort to use this powerful curse here.

And the goal of the curse is clear, to get rid of a professor a year, but the process of "driving away" is a bit intense, causing some casualties ...

Could it be that he was planning to think of the day when Dumbledore would have no one to recruit and be able to think of the snake-faced young man he drove away?

Ivan kept maliciously guessing in his mind, and what made him even more puzzled was why Voldemort didn't continue to use this curse since he had it.

Wouldn't it be better to curse the headmaster position, the school to go out of business, or even Dumbledore himself?

Ivan thinks maybe this curse has the conditions to be activated?

Can only be activated once in a lifetime? Or do you have a strong obsession with something?

Looking at the diary in front of him, Ivan's heart moved, and he asked me directly, wouldn't it be good?

Thinking of this, Ivan picked up a quill pen and dipped it in ink, and wrote on it.

[I heard from the senior students that the Defence Against the Dark Arts class was cursed, Tom, do you know anything about curses?] 】

For the little legendary point of the reward, Ivan still wants it very much.

If there was a way to break the curse, Ivan wouldn't mind applying for the position of an assistant in Defence Against the Dark Arts class, and then having the Horcrux assist him in preparing for the task.

And this powerful curse magic, Ivan is also very interested, it seems that even Dumbledore has nothing to do with this curse, otherwise it would have been solved long ago.

Unfortunately, after Ivan waited for a while, Tom replied in his diary very modestly.

[Cursed? I don't dabble much in this... So I can't teach you. 】

Ivan didn't believe it at all, but he couldn't do anything about Tom for a while.

The last time I asked about Fierce Fire, Tom also kept his mouth shut, and directly said no, I don't know if he was worried that after he learned Fierce Fire, he would use this to destroy him...

Unable to lift the curse, Ivan had no choice but to leave this task behind.

He can't give the Horcrux to Lockhart and let Tom control Lockhart to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts class, right?

Although Lockhart's recent behavior has annoyed Ivan, Ivan does not intend to deliberately trap him.

What's more, this behavior leads to some unforeseen consequences, and it is not good to accidentally bring Tom back to life...

All these concerns made Ivan look at the diary more and more unpleasant.

Fortunately, the Horcrux is now less and less useful to Ivan, and he has a new study plan, so he immediately decided to refrigerate Tom for a while to keep the bastard sober...

Thinking of this, Ivan put the diary in his pocket, took out the tattered "Advanced Potions Making" and flipped through it, and within two minutes of watching, the system's prompt sounded in his head...

【Ding, after a period of study, your potions proficiency has improved... Current Potions Level 4 (1467/1600)]

Ivan was stunned, then looked at the book in his hand with a little more eagerness, he felt that maybe after reading this book, he would be able to improve Potions to level five.

......

After half a day's lessons, Ivan returned to the hall for lunch.

Harry complained about the boring morning lessons. "Lockhart wouldn't do anything other than tell a story?"

"Yes!" Ron said as he chewed on a piece of shortbread. "I've heard from people that Lockhart got a cage of Cornish elves in another class for everyone to catch."

"The result?" Ivan put down the textbook in his hand when he heard this, and asked curiously.

"It got out of hand, and Lockhart was hung from the ceiling by a group of elves, but Professor McGonagall, who arrived in time, put him down!" Ron shook his head regretfully, thinking it must have been funny, but unfortunately he didn't see it in person.

"No wonder," Ivan muttered, and he said how Lockhart hadn't been making trouble lately, and instead told the story, which turned out to be a loss of face.

Ron was going to continue to tell some interesting facts about Lockhart, but seeing Hermione walking towards her, Ivan told him to shut up or else they would have to quarrel again...

(PS: In Part 6, [Dumbledore says to Harry: Since I rejected Voldemort, no Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher has been able to teach it for more than a year] This shows that the curse should be real.) ）

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