Chapter 7: The Dilemma
His fears were not unfounded. Just on the first day of school, he was successfully cheated by two good friends he knew. Although Brandi knew that Harry was a celebrity from Miss Granger, she didn't expect Harry to be so ...... in the wizarding world Catch someone’s eye.
Because Brandi cleverly set the alarm last night, the three of them were able to barely catch up with breakfast, but unfortunately when they left the Gryffindor common room, the three-person team was shrouded in all kinds of strange sights, and the seniors of various houses stopped to watch and whispered next to them. And the focus is all on Harry, the legendary savior who defeated the worst dark wizard of the century at birth. It's embarrassing, and he and Ron are awkwardly like extras who set off the protagonist's aura.
And the savior Harry himself certainly doesn't like to be looked at like this, so the three of them almost hit it off after enduring dozens of meters of eye killing, and fled without hesitation.
And then, of course, the result was predestined...... Desperate to escape, they got lost!
At this time, I want to praise the brains of the Hogwarts builders back then, not only to delay the castle during the offensive and defensive battles, but also to tease the guests in the castle just because of the liver pain. The whole of Hogwarts is like a collection of traps, bait, and pranks! A statue that moves, armor that walks around, a staircase that changes a pose when you're in a bad mood, and even a door doesn't necessarily stay in the same place all the time.
Naturally, Brandi was reluctant to take the risk of choosing a random door to try, and he proposed to betray Harry's hue and find a gentle and lovely young lady to lead the way for the three of them. But Harry wasn't happy, and Ron pointed to a door carved with ravens and vowed that they would be able to get to the cafeteria to drink hot milk......
As a result, the two who believed in him accompanied him around the corridors that were similar everywhere for nearly ten minutes, and then climbed up the long spiral staircase until his legs were sore, and finally he was told by a kind portrait on the wall that there was an observatory ahead, and that you could go up to the sky and the sun at this time......
So after many tests, the three people who finally rushed to the classroom with the help of countless 'well-wishers' had to apologize to the old woman McGonagall who had been in half the class in frustration. Of course, an apology won't solve anything...... Fortunately, even after half a class, half of the classroom was still empty! (About half of them are lost in life!) )
Brandy's opinion of Professor McGonagall was correct! She's a serious neurotic menopausal old woman!
As soon as they sat down for their first lesson, she gave them a dismissal.
"Transfiguration is the most complex and dangerous spell you'll ever have in Hogwarts classes." "Anyone who wants to be naughty in my class, I ask him out and never let him in again," she said. I warned you. ”
Then, with a flick of her wand, she turned her lectern into a pig and back again. The freshmen had never seen such a scene, and their eyes lit up, and they couldn't wait to start learning right away, but they soon understood that turning furniture into animals was not an easy job even in the fifth grade. After they had painstakingly taken down a large number of intricate notes, McGonagall gave each of them a match and began to make them try to turn into a needle.
By the end of the lesson, there was only one person who made the match change! Hermione Granger didn't live up to the name that Brandy had given her, and although she didn't turn into a needle all at once, Miss Granger made her matches thinner. Professor McGonagall didn't seem to expect anyone to make progress in the first experiment, so she gave Gryffindor two points very simply. And Brandi ...... After looking at the outrageous success rate, in order to ensure that he would not lose his kidney due to the overdraft of his magic power, he simply waved his wand there to make a show, and he actually fished in troubled waters and touched the first class.
The spell was taught by a surprisingly small wizard, Professor Flitwick, who had to stand on a stack of books to reach the lectern during class. Although he himself said that he was one-sixteenth of his dwarf blood, Brandy had always been stubborn about Professor Flitwick as a failed product of the experimental shrinking potion! Professor Flitwick seemed to be the head of Ravenclaw, but he didn't seem to have the slightest sense of being a headmaster, and when he started his first theory class, he took out the roster and read Harry's name, he screamed with excitement and fell to the ground and disappeared.
On Wednesday nights, they would join all the first-year freshmen of the house and climb the observatory to observe the starry sky with a telescope and learn the names of different stars and the trajectories of the planets, which is fun...... The definition of planets in the Muggle world is completely different from that in the wizarding world. Wizards and some sapient beings in the wizarding world insist that there is some mysterious connection between the movement of the planets and the rotation of fate, and Brandi, who is not familiar with the world, is of course convinced of this...... He did everything he could to accurately predict the next Mark Six draw when he came home from vacation, and of course, he honestly gave up after getting a D (very poor) on his first astronomy assignment.
In this regard, Harry, the only good score in the trio, said of Brandi, "A wizard who can see the moon as Mars still has a certain reference value, as long as the next time you go to buy the Mark Six lottery, I will remove all the numbers you chose and choose again, and it will almost be won." ”
…… Of course, two hours after saying this, he honestly chose to be hung from a small tree by the lake to sincerely repent of his mockery.
Three times a week, they were taken by a stocky witch named Sprout to the greenhouse at the back of the castle to study herbs, learn how to grow these exotic plants and fungi, and learn what they were used for. Ms. Sprout is probably the most appropriate dean Brandy has ever met...... Gentle and unpretentious, she was able to look at her classmates in class with tolerance and serenity, and then stare at the person himself who lowered his head in shame and remained silent. Herbology is also a very interesting subject, with the ability to see the light of the Lolo grass, the Scottish fire vine that is not afraid of fire, and the Monceau leaf, which has a strong pain-relieving effect...... These plants, which no one knows about in the real world, grow unscrupulously in the greenhouse, completely covering the roof of the greenhouse.
Defence Against the Dark Arts, the name sounds like a course that makes the boys' blood boil and full of fighting spirit. It was born to the new Professor Quirrell and became a lengthy and boring shopping ad for 'Silver Scale Breastplate Hardware' on TV. As a course that sounded like a real fight, Professor Quirrell's first words on stage extinguished everyone's enthusiasm.
"Put all the wands away, classmates, I don't think you'll need it yet."
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Then he straightened out his big smelly scarf and stammered through the prologue to the first chapter of "The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Defense" word by word, not even missing the table of contents and page numbers. In the later questioning session, when asked what the aunt towel on his head was for, he only explained that it was the African chieftain who gave him metaphysical items to improve his good luck in order to thank him for defeating the zombies, but once he asked the details, he would change the topic and say incoherently, "Xuan does not change his wrong, Krypton does not change his life...... Single draw out the miracle ten consecutive MMP" these incomprehensible sentences. It made everyone suspicious of his story.
Probably the most annoying course for Brandi was the history of magic, the only one taught by a ghost. I think Professor Binns fell asleep in front of the fireplace in the faculty lounge, and when he went to class the next morning, he forgot to bring his body, completing the world record for the quietest death in that century. During class, Professor Binns would try to speak in one tone from beginning to end, while the students scribbled in a way that seemed to be a magic sound. But it's not this that Brandi is tired of, no matter how monotonous it is, at least he can sleep, and he is tired of Professor Binns's homework!
"Look at this! On the impact of the Argentine goblin civil strife on the wizarding world of Europe, two pieces of parchment! Two sheets! Brandi is going crazy, "This thing also needs to be written on two pieces of parchment!" Argentine goblins fight and us! Hermione, please let me copy my homework......" Of course, no matter how much Brandi cried, he could only get a roll of his eyes, Hermione was a good boy who followed the school rules, so for the whole night, Brandi cried silently in the library......
Through the past few days of lessons, Brandi found that he and everyone were only fifty paces and a hundred paces, so he was greatly relieved. He had always thought that the children of the wizarding family should have received a magical education very early, and that he should be much behind others, but he did not expect that many people here would come from Muggle families like him. And they had so much to learn, that even someone like Ron who came from a wizarding family and someone like Harry who had an innate advantage wasn't necessarily much ahead of them. At least Brandi can touch his conscience and declare that he is definitely better than Ron!
But when the second Charms class began its formal hands-on session on Thursday, the most serious problem came to light, and he found that he couldn't keep up with Professor Flitwick's teaching anyway...... Especially when Professor Flitwick asked everyone to practice the most basic magic tricks of releasing over and over again, including moving, bouncing, and spinning the ball in front of them, and to check their results, Brandy was completely blindsided.
Because he can only complete one spell cast at most in a matter of minutes!