Chapter Twenty-Three: Ilvermoni (II)

"The magician's welcoming ceremony has no future, except to eat is to eat!" Daphany complained.

Ilvermorny threw a small welcome ceremony – it was just the two of them, after all. Then came the luncheon. Barely interesting, it was to give the two of them an Ilvermoni sorting ceremony.

Ilvermoni also has four branches. They are the Horned Water Serpent, the Cat Leopard, the Thunderbird, and the Pukeki – a magical creature that resembles between goblins and goblins.

The Sorting Ceremony at Ilvermorny is a stone statue of magical creatures representing each of the four houses. When facing a new student, the statue will be assigned to which house it will be assigned to.

Hermione was assigned to the Longhorn Water Serpent Academy, while Daphne was assigned to the Cat and Leopard Academy.

After the simple sorting ceremony, it was time to eat, and Daphany had this complaint: "It's the same with Hogwarts, and it's the same with you here!" ”

Those who can complain like this are, of course, acquaintances. And the only acquaintance that Daphany can count as an acquaintance in Ilvermoni is, of course, Meng Yuchen.

"Haha, yes, that's it. In terms of play, the wizard can't be compared to the No-Maji at all! Meng Yuchen smiled very happily. If Daphany says how Ilvermorny is, and then it's not as good as Hogwarts, it's definitely going to be a fight. But Daphine's two schools complained together with the wizarding world, so it doesn't matter at all!

"Speaking of which," Meng Yuchen said vaguely as he stuffed a squid leg into his mouth, "Why do you suddenly have to set up an exchange student system." When I found out about this yesterday, the personnel were all confirmed. I was still depressed at the time, there was no me! ”

"Hehe, so are we." Daphany pouted frantically: "I knew about it at eleven o'clock at noon, and I left here at two o'clock in the afternoon, can you believe it." I even had a plane accident! ”

"By the way, last year's tournament, how did you deal with that last incident?" Meng Yuchen changed the topic and asked with some curiosity: "I heard that the Australian side is in a hurry and has sent a lot of Aurors to Europe to arrest the dark wizard who killed Verharun. ”

"I don't know, we don't have any news about this!" Dafanie shook her head: "On our side, we are more concerned about the resurrected man." ”

"It's called Voldemort, isn't it? I saw this character when I looked at History of Magic - Contemporary Times. But isn't it more than ten years old? Why did it pop up again all of a sudden? "Voldemort's deterrent power naturally cannot be extended to the United States, so Meng Yuchen has no scruples.

"This evil sect is powerful, although it has been hit hard, but it has always been on the verge of life and death. Don't say it, I've dealt with him more than once in the past few years in school! Daphany laughed.

In their first year, Daphany and Harry confronted Voldemort's remnant over the Philosopher's Stone. When he was in his second grade, he faced Tom Riddle, who was raised by Voldemort's largest soul fragment, in the Chamber of Secrets. and then witnessed the resurrection of Voldemort in the fourth grade, which can be described as fate.

"It sounds so dangerous, why don't you just stay in the United States!" Meng Yuchen laughed and said, "According to what you say, your country's magic is simply a pig teammate!" ”

"Well, that's not good!" Daphany said solemnly, "How can you insult a pig like this? ”

The luncheon was followed by a short break before the afternoon classes began. Daphany and Hermione are exchange students, so they don't participate in the end-of-semester exams here. The exchange period is only one semester, and in the second half of the academic year, he will return to Hogwarts to take the general wizarding level exams in the United Kingdom. As a result, they can choose their own courses. As long as the number of lessons reaches a certain number, it is fine.

Ilvermorny's classes are slightly different from Hogwarts.

There are a total of nineteen courses on the list of recommended courses given by the Wizarding Federation.

They are: Charms, Potions, History of Magic, Transfiguration, Basic Dark Arts, Defense Against the Darkarts, Guardian Magic, Alchemy, Astronomy, Magical Creatures (Magical Beast Protection), Magical Plants (Herbs), Ancient Runifin, Ritual Magic and Magic Circle, Muggle Protection, Divination, Astrological Divination, Arithmetic Divination, Flying and Quidditch, Magical Combat and War (Magical Combat).

Colleges that belong to the consortium of colleges can choose at least eleven courses as teaching objectives. The school's students are selected for the General Wizard Rank Exam and the Ultimate Wizard Rank Exam, which are based on the subjects chosen by the Academy.

Hogwarts chose Charms, Potions, History of Magic, Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Astronomy, and Herbology as compulsory, as well as Magical Animal Protection, Muggle Protection, Ancient Runes, Divination, and Arithmetic Divination as electives. There is also a flying lesson, but only in the first year.

Ilvermorny is a little different, not astronomy and Muggle protection, but alchemy, astrology, and magic practice. In addition, flying and Quidditch have become optional courses for all grades. There are only three compulsory classes in Ilvermorny, which are Charms, Potions, and History of Magic. All other courses are elective, as long as there are nine credits for courses before the fifth grade (inclusive), and seven credits for the sixth and seventh grades. You can graduate with 7 E's (good) or higher in the Ultimate Wizard Rank Exam!

In the afternoon of the fifth grade, there were three classes: Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Ancient Runes. All of them were lessons that Daphany thought were important, but the time was conflicting, and Daphany had to choose the spells that she thought were more important, and the ancient Runivenko.

Hermione, on the other hand, was curious about the Defence Against the Dark Arts class, so she gave up the Charms class.

Daphany had been in class all afternoon and felt like her head was going to explode. It feels like Ilvermorny is crazy to arrange the classes like this - both of the classes she took are notoriously difficult and very brain-burning! And as far as Daphne is concerned, Ilvermorny's homework progress is better than that of Hogwarts, and the things he talks about are deeper. Although she can still keep up with Daphany at her level, she still needs to be very focused if she wants to absorb everything that the professor teaches. It is also worth mentioning that the professors at Ilvermorny are of a very high standard! The teaching level of these two subjects is not in any way below that of Professor Flitwick and Professor Barburing!

Meng Yuchen didn't take the Ancient Rune, so he went to the Defense Against the Dark Arts class with Hermione. So when we met again, it was already dinner time.

Ilvermorny has a dedicated student cafeteria, and the auditorium is only used during banquets. The professors apparently have separate faculty cafeterias or small stoves. Anyway, Dafanie didn't see it in the cafeteria.

When Dafanie found Hermione and Meng Yuchen in the cafeteria, the food they ordered didn't move much, and they had obviously just finished discussing their homework. Hermione suddenly asked a question, "Meng, isn't Professor Fontana your Defence Against the Dark Arts professor?" ”

"That's right!" Meng Yuchen drank a large glass of milk, the milk was very thick, leaving a white circle on her lips.

"However, it wasn't Professor Fontana who taught us in the afternoon!" Hermione asked, puzzled, "Of course, her teaching skills are also very good!" ”

"Oh, this!" Meng Yuchen laughed when he heard this: "That's right, Professor Fontana is the professor of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and he is also the instructor director of the actual combat course. And Professor Immoline, who is also a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, we have more than one Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. ”

"Ilvermorny has more students than Hogwarts, so there are more professors. Of course, this is mainly due to the fact that Ilvermorny is in a better financial position than our Hogwarts! Daphany sat down next to them and smiled.

She had already discovered the problem in the afternoon. At the time of the Charms class, it was clear that another classroom not far away was also taking Charms, but it was another professor who was teaching. And that class looked like it was supposed to be second or third grade.

Daphany was also curious and asked the other students to find out that Ilvermorny's teachers were much stronger than Hogwarts!

Since Ilvermoni only has three compulsory courses, the others are elective. So the number of students is mostly about the same – the obscure ancient runi language is of course relatively small. There are a little more flying and Quidditch lessons that can fly all over the sky.

Ilvermorny did not have a professor in charge of seven years like Hogwarts.

They have three professors and two teaching assistants for each subject.

The three professors are responsible for the second and third grades, the fourth and fifth grades, and the sixth and seventh grades. Because the first year is a basic course, and the content of the second and third years is relatively simple, a teaching assistant is responsible for the first year course. The teaching assistant also assists the professor in charge of the second and third grade courses.

There will be a lot of homework in the fourth and fifth grades, and there will be a lot of students. Therefore, a professor is in charge, and a full-time teaching assistant is in charge of assisting.

The curriculum in the sixth and seventh grades is more difficult and obscure. However, like Hogwarts, the sixth and seventh years are all small classes in the Advanced Class. Some courses are not just something that students want to take.

The number of students in the course has been reduced, and the teaching pressure is relatively small. I won't assign teaching assistants to professors!

When Daphany first heard this, like Hermione at this time, she was surprised with a small mouth. Comparatively speaking, the Hogwarts faculty are simply working in a sweatshop~ Of course, this also has something to do with the number of Hogwarts students. After all, Hogwarts only admits students from the UK in principle. Ilvermorny, on the other hand, is recruiting students from all over the Americas.

After dinner, Hermione went to the library at the restaurant Ilvermorny, unsurprisingly. At the invitation of Meng Yuchen and several other students, Daphany joined the Quidditch team of the Cat and Leopard Branches, and had a friendly match with the Thunderbird Branch.

Daphany's superb flying skills were greatly appreciated by the students of Ilvermorny.

American Quidditch is very dish! At least it's more than a notch worse than the UK. Even making flying and Quidditch electives for all grades didn't change that.

Ten o'clock was Ilvermorny's lights-out time, and the lights were out except for the common rooms of the various branches, which were left for hard or night owl students.

Daphany and Hermione return to the bedroom. Although the two were not in the same branch, since they had come together, the college consulted them and gave them separate dormitories - Ilvermoni was usually a quadruple room.

Back in the bedroom, Daphany suddenly felt that something was not right. Because some of her magic experiments are not suitable for anyone to watch. She had her own dormitory when she was at Hogwarts, but here......

looked at Hermione, who was wearing cute pink and white pajamas and was holding a tome to gnaw on. After thinking about it, he finally asked, "Hermione, do you trust me?" Or, can I trust you? ”