10. Competition
Becoming a Dark Wizard seems to have become the target of new members of the Sherlock Club during this school year, while regular students are aiming to join the Sherlock Club, which has become a cycle that can continuously replenish the Dark Wizard Army in the later stages.
Sherlock also left a very complete training magic policy in the Room for those new members of the Sherlock Club.
During this time, there was no news of Dumbledore, Harry Potter had asked Professor McGonagall about Dumbledore's whereabouts many times, but all he got from the other party's mouth was no comment, McGonagall's strict words were even a little ruthless, and Harry Potter was very helpless to think that maybe McGonagall really didn't know where Professor Dumbledore went.
The matter of training the Dark Wizards and the members of the Sherlock Club seemed to have drifted to Ellie's ears, and now whenever it was time for Defence Against the Dark Arts class, the students had to endure Ellie's scrutiny.
Many times in class, I asked students if their teaching standards were really poor.
Of course, the students sent words of encouragement to Professor Ellie, much to Ellie's disappointment, encouraging her to receive encouragement from the students when one of her Defence Against the Dark Arts professors asked about her education level.
And Ellie also figured out a little, maybe it was the uncomplicated studies in ordinary time that made these young Hogwarts wizards too leisurely, and Ellie chose to do her homework in Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
It is also justified that in order to better cooperate with the implementation of Education Order No. 24, as long as students are busy doing homework all day long, then there is no free time to be busy with love.
The students were very helpless about Ellie's statement, but when they thought about it carefully, it made some sense, and when it was even more excessive, Ellie also mobilized professors from other disciplines to ask students to give more homework.
When communicating with other professors, Ellie described that the crisis in the wizarding world is coming, after all, Voldemort has been resurrected, and there are only two people in the wizarding world who can deal with Voldemort, Dumbledore and Sherlock, and how Dumbledore grew up Ellie is not very clear, but how Sherlock grew up Ellie has a very absolute right to speak.
Ellie shows that Sherlock's growth is completely early in preschool education, and Ellie will assign him a lot of learning content every day, although Sherlock has a little more transcendent talent, but the acquired effort is also very important.
Congenital insufficiency, acquired to make up.
In China, there is a saying that a talented man is born under a stick, and any intelligent scholar is not unusually hardworking, and it is uncomfortable to think about it.
Look at the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, ancient China was simply full of talents, but they all died in battle.
Professor Ellie fought for this, and she also said loudly to the other professors, "We want to be the Chinese Confucius of education, not Van Gogh, the free artist of education." ”
The professors were very moved after hearing this, and felt that what Ellie said was very reasonable.
Ellie then added, "Let's learn to be Confucius, not Van Gogh, because Van Gogh is painting, we can't learn it." ”
The other professors felt that such a down-to-earth description was already very straightforward.
The first to be persuaded by Ellie was Snape, who gave a lot of homework in Potions class, leaving the students lamenting.
Sherlock is helpless, feeling that the impact of Ellie is no less than that of Umbridge in the original book.
The harsh cold weather hurried in, and the heavy snow dressed Hogwarts in delicate silver landscape paintings, and the sky was faintly bright, and the snow gradually weakened.
Walking out of the Slytherin common room with a green flame burning in the fireplace, the snow had stopped, and as far as the eye could see, a thick layer of snow covered the lawn outside the castle, and the lake at the edge of the forest was already covered with hard ice.
After breakfast in the hall, Sherlock walked out of the castle alone, and the first session of the morning was a lesson in protecting magical creatures.
The snow on the grass had already crossed the calves, and as we walked forward, deep and shallow footprints left clusters of distinct marks on the pure white snow, frost hung on the treetops, and not far away, there were already many Slytherin and Gryffindor students waiting for class.
"Good morning, Mr. Sherlock." Femia smiled and waved at Sherlock, "Today's weather is good, in fact, in winter, the coldest time is often the process of snow melting, so there is no sunshine, but it will be much better." ”
Sherlock walked slowly and nodded slightly, "This winter's snow season has come a little early, and at this time in the past, there will be the last trace of residual heat in late autumn, but it's not bad, the snow is still relatively beautiful to a certain extent." ”
The crowd gathered in class was getting bigger and bigger, Sherlock glanced at it casually, probably the students from both houses had arrived, but the professor still hadn't arrived, and it stands to reason that the female professor usually arrives early.
Hagrid hadn't been seen since the beginning of the semester, and the Fantastic Beasts Conservation class was replaced by Professor Graplan, who had been teaching at the school for a while before leaving to find another job.
This woman had always been punctual, but she was nowhere near as interesting as Hagrid's in the lessons.
I hadn't seen Hagrid for half a year now, and the other Hogwarts students had missed it a little, and now I remembered that the big man was actually very popular.
"Hey, that's not going to be Hagrid." Lupo suddenly pointed to a tall figure at the edge of the forest, and Sherlock stared as Hagrid resisted a dead bull coming from the depths of the Forbidden Forest.
Looking at his current condition, it doesn't seem to be too good, there are obvious old wounds on his face, a yellow-green swelling under his eye sockets is very conspicuous, and some small wounds are still bleeding.
"Well, how do you feel like Hagrid has just returned from the battlefield, after saying that for so long, this Dumbledore's assistant, I don't know what secret mission he is performing, looking at the shape of the wound, it looks like he has fought with some beast." Femiaya clasped her hands together and asked curiously.
"We're here today!" Hagrid happily said to the students, swinging his head towards the black forest behind him, "It's a little dense!" They love the dark, though! ”
Hagrid's first class after returning seemed visibly absent-minded, and Hagrid indicated that he would continue to teach this semester, much to the amusement of the sixth-graders.
The news of Hagrid's return soon reached Harry Potter's ears.
He couldn't wait to stop over and say hello to his best friend, the semester was almost over, and it was the first time he'd seen Hagrid in the second half of the year.
"How do I feel like you're getting taller Harry?" Hagrid looked at Harry and muttered, then said with an even more incredulous expression, "I also just got the news that the head mother of the Mephisto family has become the defense of the dark arts professor at this school, and to be honest, I'm really worried that she won't be able to teach you lovely children." ”
Harry Potter was surprised by Hagrid's comments, and although Professor Ellie was not as popular with the students as he was at the beginning, because there was so much homework assigned, Harry still felt that Professor Ellie was a good person.
It's natural for students to ask for homework, and it's not enough to hate Professor Ellie.
"I know Ellie Mephisto very well, she was still named Bellavulf when I first met this troublemaker, and she was not married to Fourmond, and you know that I have been working at Hogwarts for over fifty years." Hagrid lowered his voice, "It's not an exaggeration to say that even Voldemort is my classmate." ”
"Wouldn't you have to be in your seventies?" Harry looked at Hagrid dumbfounded, to be honest, Harry knew the fact that Hagrid had been a classmate of that person when he was in his second year.
"That's not the point, what should I say...... Professor Ellie, I was very impressed with her when she was a little girl in the first year, and there were countless students at Hogwarts for more than 50 years, and there were few who could impress me as a forest farm manager, she was simply a combination of the meaning of the three houses of Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Gryffindor. ”
"What do you mean?"
"Gryffindor is just as brave but mostly troublemaker, has a pure-blooded family, is a Russian, and very intelligent like a Ravenclaw student."
Harry heard something else in Hagrid's words.
"There's no Hufflepuff kindness and morality, but I think Professor Ellie is a good person." Harry winked at Hagrid.
"Come on, that's just a little devil, known as the girl who gives Headmaster Dumbledore the most headache, the head of Ravenclaw has been Professor Flitwick for a long time, and Professor Flitwick has not planned to do it many times, but after Ellie graduated, they often exchanged letters, and the relationship was not bad."
Hagrid yelled at Harry, "Don't look at her raising a genius like Master Sherlock, but it's all because of Ellie's good life, and in the process, Funmond also accounts for half of the results, let her be a professor, I'm really afraid that she will teach you the talent for making trouble in school, if you are making trouble in her class, I would be happy to see how complaining it would be to let Professor Ellie have a headache in school." ”
"Ahem......" Ellie coughed softly outside.
He didn't see it because Hagrid had his back to the gate, but Harry did.
"Harry goes out...... I don't think you're done yet......" Ellie's face was very ugly.
Harry patted his head and remembered that today's homework was too much, and Hagrid was on the verge of crying.
"You weren't there before...... But as a Hogwarts Inquisitor, I still have a small amount of work to do, and it's about your evaluation, and if you qualify, you'll get a raise. ”
Hagrid grimaced, "Professor Ellie, if you don't just write it as unqualified, you can save some time." ”
"You must be unqualified, but there is still a process to be had." Ellie said.
The first snow of the winter returned with Hagrid.
The school is now lacking Dumbledore, but it's a pity that the old man is still out there and drifting with the waves, and he doesn't know where the waves have gone.
But just last night, Sherlock silently felt a wave of irritated magic in his body, like two people of the same kind who were looking at each other from afar.
"And an obscurity? What's going on? Sherlock was surprised, and the pull of the magic was transferred directly to the tower of Dumbledore's office.
This made Sherlock wonder if Dumbledore had returned, and he had found an Obscurity? It wasn't mentioned in the original book, but in fact, according to this time period, Dumbledore should have found Marvolo Gaunt's ring, destroyed it, and was cursed.
Could it be that the cursed Dumbledore quietly returned to Hogwarts for the first time, but did not mention it to anyone, then only Snape knew about this school.
After all, Snape had to use his superb potions skills to hang Dumbledore's life and renew his life.
But this feeling of silent restlessness in the body is real, can it be said that ......
Sherlock couldn't help but think that Dumbledore was also a silent person, because the fatal curse caused him to be weak now, and the silence may even be exposed for seconds, so he was noticed by the silence in Sherlock's body when he returned.
"It's a wonderful world......" Sherlock muttered! (I haven't seen Fantastic Beasts there when I crossed over 2: The Sins of Grindelwald)
However, although Dumbledore is back, not many people know, and another important thing came at the same time, and the next day, the Murphyllo match that can bring the most school talk will begin, last year because of the Triwizard Tournament, so there was no giant, even the traditional competition of the wizarding world, Quidditch, did not take place.
And in this year's Murphyllo competition, Sherlock did not participate, and it was not interesting to always let Slytherin win the championship, but even if Sherlock did not participate in Murphyll, Slytherin House still won.
With Voldemort returning and Dumbledore temporarily hiding himself, Murphilo largely relaxed the tense school.
Especially after the Murphyro match ended a week, it was the start of the Hogwarts Quidditch.
In fact, Sherlock has always been somewhat puzzled why the first Quidditch game was chosen in the cold winter, but the young wizards were not less popular anyway.
Ron Weasley also became a goalkeeper on the Gryffindor team.
It is said that there is another girl in Gryffindor House who seems to have a crush on Ron.
Fell in love with Ron...... Sure enough, Gryffindor's bravery was unimaginable.
It was the first time since the Triwizard Tournament that Quidditch had been held, Gryffindor vs. Slytherin, and after a year, both the students of the House and the Head of House were secretly determined to see their side win, although, on the surface, Snape and McGonagall showed an unworried manner.
Privately, McGonagall had already waived Gryffindor for a week's homework, much to Professor Ellie's outcry, but McGonagall was both Dean and Acting Headmaster.
Snape, on the other hand, has almost booked a daily pitch schedule.
Training sessions are often watched by Hufflepuff Ravenclaw Academy players. I have to say that for the first battle between the two teams this time, the entire Hogwarts is extremely important.