181: Lupin and Yaksha
A copy of Hogwarts magazine costs only 3 sir, and two issues are sold every month.
The daily Prophet newspaper costs 5 nat, which translates to a similar monthly cost for the two newspapers, but Hogwarts magazine has a raffle, and Joel has come up with a strategy that is the magic weapon for winning.
The students are not stupid, the Daily Prophet can be borrowed from classmates and friends every morning to read, anyway, most of the news on it every day is the same, what neighbor Molly's puppy is lost, and Uncle White's garden is overflowing with goblins......
The quality of the news in the daily issue of the Daily Prophet is lackluster, and it really doesn't interest the students compared to Hogwarts magazine.
The first issue of 150 copies sold out quickly, and the enthusiasm of the Hogwarts students was beyond imagination, and Joel and his friends rushed to print another 100 copies.
Professor Flitwick trumpeted Hogwarts magazine in class, and he proudly repeated over and over again the company founded by the founders, Raven Faith, as a true Ravenclaw student entrepreneurial team that would definitely be encouraged.
Joel has been working on wandless spells lately, and progress has been very slow, or at least no new discoveries, and no matter how much he tries, the mental power in his brain can't make the magic manifest in the form of a spell.
The World Tree fell silent again, but Joel had a hunch that it would soon wake up again soon, as there were less than 60 days left before the end of the system's mission.
Lupin, the newly appointed Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, saved his poor impression among his students in just one lesson.
"I heard that Professor Lockhart started a fight club last year," said Professor Lupin, standing on the podium, dressed in a patched gray robe, looking tired and looking like a down-and-out scholar, "I'm not going to cancel this event." ”
One sentence won the hearts of most of the students in the audience, and the students did not have much hope for the Defence Against the Dark Arts professors who changed every year, as long as the professors could teach them the knowledge in the books without making trouble.
"Today we are going to learn to subdue a dark magic creature called the Dominatrix," Lupin said, standing on the stage, "I managed to find traces of this creature in the city during this summer vacation, and ......"
"Live up to expectations and bring it to the classroom." As he spoke, Lupin lifted a cloud of black cloth behind him.
In an iron cage hidden under the black cloth, a kind old lady shrunk in the corner of the iron cage, her hair was gray, and she looked harmless to humans and animals, but her limbs were firmly tied to iron chains, and she couldn't move, which was quite pitiful.
"Ah......" Some students in the audience couldn't hold back their mood and screamed.
"Professor Lupin," Marietta couldn't help but say, "is this what you call a dominatrix?" ”
Professor Lupin nodded, "That's right. ”
The students in the audience were in an uproar, and they got up and poked their heads forward, unable to detect the slightest trace of a dark magic creature in the old man.
"Dominatrix resembles a human," Lupin pulled out his wand and tapped the cage gently, and the dominatrix looked up nervously, "both in appearance and smell, it would be difficult for ordinary wizards to recognize them......"
"Look at your textbooks, they have how to identify them," Lupin said mildly, "they only have four toes......
He also tapped his wand on the blackboard, which emerged with a note of the nature of the dominatrix's life, "They feed on the young of other animals, including humans, and they prefer to move in human form." ”
"As for how to subdue this dark magic creature, it is the most important thing in our lesson." Lupin waved his wand again, and the chains on the dominatrix vanished into obscurity, along with the cage.
The dominatrix was stunned for two seconds before realizing that she had regained her freedom.
It had been indignant at the sorcerer's sneak attack in downtown London, its days in captivity, its movements restricted by enchanted chains, and the dominatrix thought that if she was ready to do her best, the sickly looking wizard would be no match for it.
This is a great opportunity, and the dominatrix will certainly not let it go.
A gloomy look flashed across its face, and it stood up, and with a slight lift of its right hand, a steel fork landed in its hand, stabbing it towards Lupin.
Lupin unhurriedly took out his wand and shouted, "Quickly appear!" ”
A white light struck the Dominatrix at a very fast speed, and the steel fork that was thrown was also blocked by Lupin's iron armor spell, and the white light scorched the Dominatrix's body like a fire, and it let out an angry roar, and its originally kind and kind face became hideous because of the pain.
The white light dissipated, and Joel and the others found that the dominatrix's body had changed: its body was much larger, close to the height of the ceiling, its two arms were slender and fair, its body curves were bewitching, its original old face had become radiant, its skin was smooth, and a little cinnabar on its eyebrows added a touch of charm.
It's like a beauty, but it's a little too tall, and Joel probably only Yao Ming can match it.
It carried a glowing steel fork in its right arm, as if it were grasping for leap earth.
Lu Ping did not panic at all about this steel fork that was much more inflated than before, and even had time to explain to his classmates, "Yaksha has two forms, and the 'Quick Manifestation' spell can make it show its original form, and the Yaksha in this case is extremely aggressive......"
"Can't we directly attack her body in human form?" Qiu Zhang raised his hand and asked.
"It's better not," Lupin dodged the steel fork in Yaksha's hand, and now there was a mess near the classroom lectern, "even if you kill its human form, it will still turn into Yaksha form and attack you, in other words, the human form is just a layer of skin for them." ”
The beautiful-looking Yaksha saw that Lupin didn't take himself to heart at all, and his heart was even more angry, and he jumped up directly and slashed straight down with the steel fork in his hand.
"It's all petrified!" Lupin's petrification spell hit Yaksha's long body, the effect of the spell was not very strong, Yaksha's body only stiffened for a moment before recovering, but Lupin was going to fight for this moment.
He turned to the side of the Yaksha and cast a spell with his wand - "Cosipoli! ”
The azure spell struck the Yaksha, who had just broken free from the petrification spell, and the Yaksha's movements stopped, and the steel fork in his hand cracked inch by inch, turning into a little silver light and disappearing into the air, and his long body gradually shrunk and shrunk...... until it reverted back to the old lady with kind eyes, but now it was gray and weak.
"See?" Lupin gasped and conjured an iron cage and filled Yaksha in again, "This spell...... Cosipoli can transform the Yaksha into the same body as a human for 48 hours, during which time various spells that are effective against the Yaksha are in effect. ”
The students in the audience spontaneously applauded, compared to Professor Quirrell's cowardice and incompetence, Professor Lockhart's sheep-herding teaching, Professor Lupin let them regain the long-lost feeling brought by Professor White.
"The First Evolution"
Joel clapped his hands, feeling the World Tree in his brain begin to sparkle again, and it looked like there was a new adventure waiting for him.