059: Post-exam
Walking over to Joel's desk, Snape leaned over to look at his papers.
The handwriting was neat, the answers were written in detail and easy to understand, and Snape glanced at them and found that the answers on the paper were beyond reproach.
If there were no problems with Potions practice, Snape was certain that Joel Taylor would be a pretty O in Potions class this year.
After seeing Joel's perfect test paper, Snape's previously angry and manic heart was suppressed, as if he had eaten a large basin of ice cream on a sweltering summer day.
Silently approving in his heart, he remained silent on his face and continued to walk forward.
Immediately after reading Sergei and Allen's exam papers, Snape's mood finally brightened, like a hot summer day outside.
It doesn't seem to be his problem as a teacher, you see, isn't there so many students who fill in the test papers perfectly?
Sure enough, it was the poor students themselves who didn't care about potions, and it had nothing to do with his own teaching methods.
Snape comforted himself.
In fact, in the eyes of most students, including Joel, Snape was really not a good teacher.
favoring Slytherin students - he only gives Slytherin students extra points, not deduct points; Cynicism at students in class, sometimes describing them with insulting terms such as "trolls"; The steps of potions brewing are unclear - in Snape's opinion, these steps are too simple to be described, but not all students are potions geniuses, and they need the careful guidance of their professors to get further down the road.
Snape's approach was undoubtedly discouraging the students' interest and enthusiasm for learning, and their dissatisfaction with Snape could easily be transferred to Potions, and passive slacking was common.
This happened not only in the wizarding world, but also in Joel's previous life, how many people in their school days became dissatisfied with the subject because they were dissatisfied with their teachers?
After climbing the tower in the evening and drawing a chart of the stars in front of the telescope, their week-long final exams finally came to an end.
Because the 5th and 7th graders had finished their grade exams this afternoon, by the time Joel and his classmates returned to the Ravenclaw common room, it had already turned into a sea of joy.
Before they even had time to put down their school bags, several people were pulled into the crowd, and on the sofa coffee table in the center of the common room, all kinds of snacks and chess cards were placed, and many people gathered together to have fun.
There was a cacophony of voices around him, a scene in the Ravenclaw common room that he had never seen before, Sergei frowned tightly, his lips pursed tightly, and Joel always felt that he was going to flip the table in the next second.
"Don't be so nervous, come try this," Eddie came back with four bottles of Butterbeer, "the signature drink at the Three Broomsticks Bar in Hogsmeade Village." ”
Joel took it, unscrewed the cap and took a sip of it.
Alan was stunned for a moment, "Isn't this beer?" We're still too young......"
"Oops, it's not real beer, it's just a drink!" Eddie explained, a little impatient between his eyebrows.
Alan opened the cap and sniffed it twice, and found that there was no smell of alcohol before drinking it with confidence.
"Who's paying for this?" Sergei took the butterbeer from Eddie's hand and did not open it, but asked such a question first.
Eddie shrugged, "Why are you asking this, it's not my money anyway." ”
Joel glanced at Sergei as if he had noticed.
Hearing this, Sergei immediately put the drink bottle back, but Eddie refused to drink it no matter how much he persuaded him.
Allen, who was as careful as a hair, also understood what Sergei was thinking, and looked at the butterbeer that he had drunk a long time on, and his face turned a little red.
"The candy and drinks were bought by my sister Toketherin in Hogsmeade," Haylis chuckled as she heard the conversation between them, "Don't worry, I don't put a diarrhea potion in my food like Professor Snape did." ”
Perhaps because of the end of the final exams, Joel noticed that the girl was extraordinarily lively tonight, and she looked embarrassed when she was tutoring her a few weekends before.
Eddie laughed cooperatively, and Professor Snape threatened them every time he was in class, "If I find out that your diarrhea potion is not up to standard, I'll add enough diarrhea medicine to your plate to let you know how it works."
Sergei found the owner, he fumbled in his pocket, took out a few silver siko, "How much is this bottle of butterbeer, I'll pay you." ”
"No, just have fun." Haylis smiled shyly.
She wanted to relax after the exam today, and thanks to the set of teaching materials that Joel gave her for Christmas, she felt that her final exam must have done quite well.
Going home like this can be regarded as an explanation, and thinking that she can make her parents happier when she goes home, Helis is especially happy tonight.
"No," Sergei said with a serious expression, "I can't let you spend so much. He handed the silver in his hand out.
Helis was stunned for a second, she looked at Joel at a loss, obviously not knowing what to do with the situation in front of her.
Joel pointed at himself and then at Haylis, in a very subtle motion.
Hailis's mind was spinning rapidly, "That's right, Joel helped me with my homework before, and I haven't given him a decent thank you gift yet, how about these snacks and drinks as if they were invited by Joel?" ”
As she spoke, she gestured at Joel, trying to get him to help her.
What Haylis meant sounded clear to Joel, it was normal for him and Sergei to share a drink with their roommates, right?
Sure enough, Sergei was silent, and Joel remembered that the first time they had gone to Tumbledown Alley to sell books, and when they came back, they bought candy at Duke Honey's candy store, and Sergei had given it to his roommate.
Seeing that Sergei had given up on giving her money, Helis relaxed a little, and was called away by Qiu Zhang, who rushed from the side.
The four of them fell into the embarrassment of having nothing to say, and no one took the initiative to say anything anymore.
Joel felt that Sergei had just spoken quite inappropriately, but he had almost gotten used to Sergei's low emotional intelligence for a year, and fortunately he didn't offend anyone.
He took a sip of the butterbeer, the butterbeer made by the Three Broomsticks Bar was a must, the caramel cream sauce on the surface of the drink was added with a little salt to neutralize the sweet feeling, the lemon juice was refreshing, and the cream soda as the main body of the drink gave the butterbeer the taste of real beer when it entered the mouth.
After a while, Marietta leaned over and pulled Alan away, and saw that Eren was obviously a little relieved when he left.
Eddie stayed with the two for a while before getting bored, and ran to watch a few seniors fight the landlord.
Sergei watched his roommates leave one by one, and couldn't help but clench a few silver coins in his hand, and the rounded edge of the silver coin was turned into a needle and pierced into his heart by a force.
Joel shook the bottle and craned his neck to pour the little remaining butterbeer into his mouth.