Chapter Twenty-Eight: Hufflepuff
Defence Against the Dark Arts class the next morning.
Originally, there were Defense Against the Dark Arts classes in other grades and other houses yesterday, but due to Harry's accident in the first class of their second year, Xiao Han was temporarily suspended.
This relieved the other students.
However, after the same round of confrontation last night, Lockhart's classes resumed, much to the dismay of the other students who learned the news, especially the Hufflepuffs.
Fortunately, with yesterday's Gryffindor thunder, coupled with their Sprout Dean making up classes overnight, although these Hufflepuff badgers were still very nervous, most of them had some confidence and relaxed a little.
As a teacher of herbal medicine, Dean Sprout naturally knows many herbs that can repel bees.
Overnight, she taught the badgers about the habits of various herbs and how to process them for their use.
He took out some herbs from the greenhouse overnight and gave them to the students to process and make them themselves.
So, today, the little badgers of Hufflepuff are each armed with potions and powders to repel bees, as well as ointments to relieve bee venom.
Looking at the Hufflepuffs below, who were a little uneasy, but not too scared, Xiao Han naturally knew that after yesterday, he would be targeted by various deans.
And the head of Hufflepuff, as the teacher of the herb class, teaches nothing more than herbs to repel bees.
Although his dismount was cracked so quickly, Xiao Han didn't care, after all, these deans were not vain people, and for real wizards, bee swarms were not too difficult to deal with.
As long as you can make your wand shoot fireworks, you can expel bees, which even first-year students can do, but no one thought of it.
Xiao Han didn't think that with these tiger bees, he could control the students of Hogwarts, and many things that were very dangerous and terrifying for ordinary people were not too troublesome to put on wizards.
He had already prepared it, and the bee colony was just an appetizer.
Looking at the Hufflepuffs below who were becoming more and more confident, Xiao Han showed a Lockhart-like smile, but now this smile has changed in the eyes of the students.
"You think you've got peace of mind? No, No, No, the game, it's just getting started. You made up for the night's lessons, and I didn't rest, so get ready for surprises! Xiao Han thought very happily in his heart.
The Hufflepuffs, who were quite confident at the bottom, suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of fear.
……
As you might expect, this lesson was not held in the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom.
However, to the Hufflepuffs' surprise, Lockhart did not take them to the meadow, but instead to the basement of the castle.
Some smart people already have a hunch that today is not good.
Some of the more sluggish ones are still wondering, why don't they go out for breakfast? They also deliberately ate less at breakfast.
Because according to Gryffindor, those desserts that Lockhart gave yesterday were delicious.
However, these foodies, looking at the smarter ones in the same class, began to look bad, and slowly, they also realized that something was wrong.
Walking to the basement classroom, Xiao Han stopped, turned to face the ugly Hufflepuffs behind him, and showed his Lockhart-like smile.
"Today, let's change the course project, yesterday was too easy, for you, there must be no difficulty.
I thought about it, changed some things, and set up the underground classroom overnight.
Of course, it's not very difficult, and with your current level, it should be easy to pass if you want to.
Finally, I would like to give you a piece of advice, unity is strength. ”
Leaning sideways to the entrance to the classroom behind him, he waved them in.
"Your mission today is to get in from here and get out the back door, it's easy, isn't it? Go, lads and girls. ”
In the face of Xiao Han's rhetoric, the little badgers of Hufflepuff are just honest, not stupid, obviously there is nothing good waiting for them inside, where is the courage to enter.
Originally, they thought that today, like yesterday, was just dealing with the swarm, but with adequate preparation, they had been relaxed before class.
Unexpectedly, this insidious Lockhart would change his mind on the spot? This nullified all the means they had to stay up late to prepare.
The ghost knows what is hidden in this underground classroom, and even some clever ones are ready to run away.
"Tut-tut, skipping class is not allowed, don't hesitate, boys and girls, let's all go in."
Xiao Han saw that someone was scared and ran away, and shook his head, is it so terrible? Drawing his wand, he threw all the students into the underground classroom with a levitation spell.
Inside, he used an expansion spell to enlarge the space of the classroom last night, and it won't be very crowded for these students to go in.
Besides, it's not them who are the main ones in it.
……
After everyone was thrown in, the classroom door behind him was closed by Xiao Han.
The Hufflepuffs who were locked in reacted, crying and banging on the door to get out, and even some students directly pulled out their wands and slammed at the door.
It's a pity that this door, which was specially reinforced by Xiao Han's defensive magic, is not something that these students can open.
"Woo woo woo~"
In the dark, Hannah Abbott, who had always been timid, squatted directly on the ground, hugged her head and cried.
Everyone else listened to her cry, and their hearts were also a little panicked.
"Hannah, please, don't cry, everyone feels bad when you cry." Hannah's friend, Ernie McMillan, was on the sidelines to persuade.
"But I'm afraid." Hannah whispered with a sob.
“… Who isn't afraid! Ernie McMillan looked around in the darkness and muttered quietly.
"Fluorescent Scintillation"
At this time, Justin Finchrie waved his wand and used a lighting charm to illuminate the surroundings.
When the others saw him do this, they remembered that it was pitch black in the underground classroom now, and that the Illumination Charm came in handy.
They all drew their wands and used lighting spells to light up their surroundings, and even Hannah Abbot, who was crouching on the ground, stopped convulsing and took out her wand and recited a fluorescent flickering spell.
The entire underground classroom had completely changed, the desks and chairs of the past were gone, and in front of them were four dark passages.
The Hufflepuffs looked at each other, a little at a loss, one of these four passages must be able to get out, but which one would be the real exit?
Everyone looked at each other, as Hufflepuff students, these people had completely inherited the qualities of Hufflepuff, and none of them could take up ideas.
"Why don't we just wait here? At lunchtime, Professor Lockhart can't stop us out, right? Justin suggested.
When the others heard him say this, they thought it was a really good idea, and when it was time for lunch, their Dean Sprout would definitely come and save them.
Then he sat down on the floor with peace of mind, ready to stay like this, waiting for the dean's rescue.
Outside the classroom, through the monitoring magic arranged before, Xiao Han couldn't help but smile when he saw that these students chose to stay put, putting hope on the rescue of others.
"I've been guarding against you guys for a long time, hehe, surprise, but in the back."