Sixth year, probably the happiest time for Hogwarts students except for first and second years.

There won't be too much trouble in academics.

They have already gone through the OWLS exam, and the NEWTS exam will have to wait another year.

And the course suddenly became easier.

Except for a few like Harry, Hermione, and Ron, who have "O" or "E" in almost every subject, the vast majority of young wizards can only take a few courses after the start of the sixth year.

Professor Snape took over the Defence Against the Dark Arts class, and needed to get an "O" in the OWLS exam in order to continue with the advanced class.

The other professors weren't as demanding as Professor Snape.

But if you want to continue to go to the advanced class, just an owls certificate is not enough, transformation, spells, potions, and herbs all require "E" grades, except for the divination class, if it is not in the name of "advanced class", she is even willing to recruit those students below "A", but Dumbledore does not allow it.

Most young wizards can only get one or two "E" scores.

In other words, even if they were willing to pretend to love learning and enroll in divination classes, they went from at least nine in the third grade to at most three or four now.

They are free to explore Hogwarts at their own pace.

Go for a hearty relationship.

On the first day of school, the sixth-year students were given a timetable by Professor McGonagall herself, and she had to make sure that each of the young wizards had the required grades - the classes involved many dangerous and unfathomable magic, and they had to constantly ask the professor to borrow books from the forbidden area.

Harry's class schedule was no different from last year, except for the lack of a history of magic.

Hermione was a lot more streamlined.

Ron didn't give up on any of the courses, and he chose History of Magic, the only course that could be taken as long as he had an OWLS certificate, just like Divination.

Neville's owls are also excellent, and he is able to take all of his classes, including Defence Against the Dark Arts class, which requires an "O" grade.

After the first verse of the Ancient Runiwen, they ushered in the Defence Against the Dark Arts.

The classroom was changed, no longer on the third floor, and the location was changed to the original Potions classroom.

The basement level is dark and cold.

The air was filled with the smell of herbs and potions.

On the walls, the titles of those herbs and materials were no longer hung, but instead they were paintings, various portraits of wizards cursed by dark magic, and some examples of distorted dissections.

Students whispered discussions.

His eyes cautiously surveyed Harry.

Snape was the most convincing of what strength Potter had, but they didn't dare to ask.

After a while, there was a bang, and the door opened.

Snape hurried in, and the classroom immediately fell silent, a habit they had developed in the previous five years when facing Snape.

"Twelve." He looked around, recognized each person for each face, and with a wave of his wand, the roster on the podium opened, ticking the back of each name, "That's a bit more than I could have imagined. ”

"Professor McGonagall suggested to me that I should relax the requirements so that students with an 'E' could also participate in the Enhancement class. ”

"But you all know my character, and I've always had no patience for stupidity and rubbish."

"Twelve people, that's enough."

Speaking of this, he paused slightly.

"You're in luck, it seems to me that most of you don't qualify for an O', and only three and a half of you are actually skilled in Defence Against the Dark Arts. ”

His gaze fell primarily on Harry, then at Neville, then at Malfoy, and finally at Hermione.

apparently

Harry, Neville, and Malfoy were the three in his mouth.

Hermione was the half-human.

Only the three of them have confronted and fought the Dark Wizard and survived.

"Originally, I was going to teach you the Silent Curse." Snape pulled out his wand, "But like I said at the beginning, I've always had no patience for stupid people and crap. ”

"So, the first spell to learn is the Patronus Charm."

Many students were surprised.

As the most well-known ancient white magic that has shone in the hands of Harry and Dumbledore, they naturally know it well.

It's no surprise that Defence Against the Dark Arts refresher course is here.

It's just that

They didn't expect anything from Professor Snape to learn the magic.

Professor Snape will have the Patronus Charm?

Shouldn't he be a dark wizard with advanced magic?

Snape and the Patronus Charm, the words put together, are too inconsistent.

Snape glanced at the students, and the students immediately retracted their expressions, "I don't think I need to introduce this spell again." ”

"You've all seen Professor Dumbledore."

"It's a good spell to test if you're lucky to get the "O" or if you really have some talent. ”

"Idiots with no talent, like those Aurors at the Ministry of Magic, can only flick their wands and release a white mist of fox and tiger might."

He paused, then pronounced a name.

"Miss Granger."

Hermione stood up and answered him.

"How long did it take you to learn the Patronus Charm?" Snape asked.

Hermione recalled, and quickly replied, "More than two months." ”

Snape raised an eyebrow, nodded, waved his hand at her, and motioned for her to sit down: "A little witch in the third year, learning the Patronus Charm, can use the physical Patronus in just over two months. ”

"I don't demand much of you."

"Two classes, I only give you two classes, and I don't ask you to call out the flesh guardian god during this time."

"But at least see some progress, and if after the deadline, you can only foolishly wave your wand and not exert even the slightest bit of power in this spell, get out of here."

"Mr. Potter, and Miss Granger, you are not allowed to help anyone else."

"Oh, and Mr. Weasley."

His eyes were sharp, and the other little wizards were crying out again and again, and not being able to get their help was a great loss to them.

Snape tapped on the blackboard, and two lines of text emerged.

"The mantra is to call the gods to protect it, and there is no requirement for tone or gesture."

"The necessity of casting a spell is a happy memory and a guardian faith."

He read the two lines over and over again: "Now you know everything you need to know." ”

"Miss Granger, show them this."

Hermione raised her wand and took a deep breath.

"Divine Guard!"

As she spoke softly, a bright white light erupted from the tip of the staff, and a lioness leaped out deftly, rubbing Harry's calf affectionately.

"Let's start practicing." Snape waved his hand.

This concludes his teaching.

As he has always done, geniuses only need a little guidance, not a hand-holding, down to the smallest detail.

The disparity between people and people is thus revealed.

While the other young wizards were still finding pleasure, Neville was already able to make his wand react somewhat, spewing a thick milky mist.

Snape's main concern was Malfoy.

Regardless, Draco was by far the best student of Slytherin, and was recognized by Hogwarts to represent Slytherin.

And

He had always had a good relationship with the Malfoys, and Lucius and Narcissa had always taken good care of him when he wasn't strong enough to fit into Slytherin because of his half-blood.

The Malfoys had a lot of trust in Snape.

Although Snape did not reciprocate the same level of trust in the Malfoy family.

Draco was the only child of the Malfoy family, and Snape was reluctant to see Draco go astray.

Draco was just as good as Neville, and he was the only student who could make spells work like Neville.

Even.

By the end of the first lesson, the outlines of some entities could already be faintly seen in the milky white mist spewed out by his wand, and with diligent practice, and with some firm beliefs and the feeling of making a vow with himself, he would be able to cast the Patronus Charm smoothly.

Snape waved his hand, impatiently pushing them away.

The young wizards followed Snape's words, and even Neville didn't ask Harry for advice, taking advantage of his lunch break and rushing headlong into the library.

Harry, they were busy with their homework too.

The ancient runes left behind an extremely large amount of work, two fifteen-inch papers, and two translations of books, which they had to complete in a week.

In the afternoon, there were two Potions classes in a row.

Slughorn placed his classroom in the abandoned professor on the fourth floor, and he loved the environment.

As an old professor, he was very experienced, and although he was a little pompous, he would always show off his relationship with some high-ranking people, but the knowledge he taught was real, and unlike Snape's cold, strict book-based style of doing things, Slughorn encouraged his students to innovate.

In their first class, the potion they had to boil was life and death water, a very effective sleeping potion.

Slughorn promised that he would pick the best potion among the successful ones and reward him with a vial of Elixir.

As he said this, his eyes couldn't stop looking at Harry.

It was almost certain that Harry would be the last and the best.

End of two lessons.

Most of the students didn't succeed in boiling, some students followed the textbook exactly, but the advanced potions needed magic and emotional assistance, and they couldn't control that amount, and some students didn't have Professor Snape's constraints, and completely let themselves go - those students in the former could still see what they boiled, barely had something to do with the water of life and death, and the potions boiled out by the latter couldn't tell what it was at all.

As Slughorn expected, the best was Harry.

This was followed by Hermione, Neville, and then Ron.

Hermione survived the water of life and death more than once.

And those who are excellent in herbology will not be inferior in potions.

"Congratulations, Harry." He pulled out the vial of the elixir.

"Professor, I think we can talk about confinement." Harry took the elixir and got straight to the point.

Malfoy and Snape are not godsons and godfathers.

(End of chapter)