The Christmas vacation is over, and the little wizards have returned to Hogwarts, making the deserted school return to its usual lively appearance in an instant.
The first class after school starts is Care of Magical Creatures. On this cold, damp January morning, the last thing anyone wants is to spend two hours on the grounds tending to boring Flobber caterpillars. Unexpectedly, in order to make them happy, Hagrid made a bonfire full of salamanders.
This class was particularly interesting. The students collected firewood leaves to keep the fire burning. Those lizards that loved flames jumped back and forth in the crackling firewood. After some inquiring, Schelling found out that all the Flobber caterpillars had died because they had eaten too much lettuce.
Then came the alchemy class. The alchemy class has begun to become interesting. After the students have memorized the theory of the conversion of matter and magic, Professor Bock started his first practical class.
He found a large number of broken alchemical items in Hogwarts, such as old broomsticks, golden snitches with cracked surfaces, rusty pocket looking glasses, etc., and asked the students to take them apart to observe what was inside. In addition to constructing them, they also practice the art of repairing them.
The Repair Spell (Reparo) can only repair ordinary objects that have been physically damaged, and most alchemical items contain powerful or complex magic powers. If you use a normal wand to use the Repair Spell to try to repair it, although it can repair its physical form, it will not Damage on the magical level cannot be repaired.
Of course, there are exceptions to everything, and Schelling knew one of the exceptions - the Elder Wand. The repair spell cast by this powerful wand can repair other wands. If Schelling guessed correctly, other alchemical items can also be repaired by it. Repair, as long as it's not an overly large or complex item, such as the Vanishing Cabinet, the Mirror of Erised, etc.
The students all enjoyed the practical class of repairing alchemical items and felt that they had learned a lot of useful things. Professor Bock even moved the Vanishing Cabinet that was broken by Peeves last semester into the classroom. He said that as long as the students have mastered the basic skills of repairing alchemical items, they will be able to learn how to repair alchemical items in the next class. This disappearing cabinet is repaired.
On Thursday night, Harry also officially started his weekly Defense Against the Dark Arts tutoring class. Professor Lupine taught him the Patronus Charm.
Harry seemed very anxious because of the unsatisfactory learning process, and even doubted Professor Lupine's teaching level - this was different from the original work. After all, in the original work, Harry was the first student in his class to learn the Patronus Charm. , and in this book, there are at least 60 young wizards who can cast the unformed Patronus Charm, and there are also many people who can cast the physical Patronus Charm.
Harry heard about it from Hermione - Hermione had mastered it in one night under the guidance of Sherrin, and Harry's nemesis Draco had also done the same. Thinking that he was not as good as Draco in learning made Harry feel very unhappy. This emotion made him feel impatient, which affected his progress in learning the Patronus Charm, forming a vicious cycle.
In the Potions class on Friday, Professor Snape taught the knowledge about poisons for the first time in class, and just as he likes to choose a difficult style, he chose the "Undetectable Poisons" category. , these poisons are colorless and odorless, and cannot be detected by ordinary detection methods such as silver spoons, so they are difficult to prevent.
(Note: The People's News Agency translated Undetectable Poisons as undetectable medicine. The author has no strength to complain. Isn't Poison a poison that speaks English at the level of a primary school student?)
What is very surprising is that in this class, all the Slytherin students showed outstanding strength. Even Goyle and Crabbe, the worst in history, also showed that they can crush Hermione. .
This shocked the little lions of Gryffindor. Hermione showed an expression of disbelief and was even more shocked. Harry and Ron hated the Potions class even more. They thought it was Snape's conspiracy to suppress Gryffindor. They speculated that Snape was secretly giving trouble to the Slytherin students. Of course, Harry selectively forgot that he was also enjoying Professor Lupin's private tutoring.
Snape innocently took the blame. Slytherin's performance is, of course, due to Schelling's credit. After Schelling shared Snape's notes in September, the potions skills of all Slytherin's third-year wizards improved greatly. It's easy to make progress and crush Gryffindor hard.
On Saturday, Ravenclaw and Slytherin played a Quidditch match.
Under the leadership of Roger Davis, the overall strength of the Ravenclaw team is indeed extraordinary. Both offense and defense are very sharp and smooth. No wonder they can crush Hufflepuff. Unfortunately, it was not enough against the Slytherin team, which was known for being shameless and unscrupulous.
Under the constant fouls of Marcus, Cassius, and Montague, Ravenclaw had to take off two players due to injuries. Although they gained a 100-point lead with frequent free throws, in the end Draco was better than Zhang Qiu caught the Golden Snitch one step faster, allowing Slytherin to secure the victory, although the victory was very close.
Of course, this is also because Draco retained his strength. He chose to follow Schelling's advice and did not take out the Firebolt in this game, but continued to use Nimbus 2001.
According to Wood, this is good news for Gryffindor. If they also defeat Ravenclaw, they can be ranked second.
As a result, Wood increased the number of team training to five times a week. This meant that, including Lupin's Dementor-proofing sessions - which were more grueling than six Quidditch sessions - Harry only had one night a week to do all his homework.
Even so, he didn't act nervous like Hermione.
Hermione's heavy workload seemed to finally overwhelm her. Every night, Hermione was sure to be seen sitting in a corner of the common room. The tables in front of her were spread out with textbooks, Arithmancy charts, rune dictionaries, diagrams of Muggles moving heavy objects, and another book. A dense note. She hardly talked to anyone and always made nasty remarks when disturbed.
January turned into February without even realizing it, and the bitingly cold weather didn't change at all.
The match against Ravenclaw was approaching day by day, and Harry still hadn't ordered a new broom. Now, every time after Transfiguration class, he would ask Professor McGonagall for news about the Firebolt. Ron stood behind him hopefully, while Hermione turned her face to the side and hurried past.
On Thursday night, after Harry finished his fourth Dementor-resistant training class with Professor Lupin, he met Professor McGonagall on the way back to the lounge, and finally got back the Firebolt he had longed for from her.
Back in the Gryffindor common room, teammates who had heard the news excitedly surrounded Harry. Captain Wood even shouted: "With the Firebolt, Ravenclaw will definitely be out of luck. They are riding They are all sweeping the seven stars!" (Don't doubt it, the author is not wrong, in fact it was Wood, the big boss, who made a mistake. Zhang Qiu's broom is a comet 260)
People passed the Firebolt around, admiring it from every angle. After about ten minutes, the crowd gradually dispersed, and Harry and Ron finally saw Hermione. Hermione was the only one who didn't rush to their side, carefully avoiding their gazes as she buried herself in her homework. Harry and Ron walked towards her desk, and finally, she looked up.
"I got it back." Harry looked at her with a smile and raised the Firebolt high.
"See, Hermione? There's no problem at all!" said Ron.
"But - maybe then!" said Hermione. "I mean, at least now you know it's safe."
"Yeah, I thought so," said Harry, "I'd better put it upstairs -"
"I'll get it!" Ron said enthusiastically, "I just want to give Scabbers a strengthening potion."
He took the Firebolt and carried it up the stairs of the boys' dormitory carefully, as if it were made of glass.
While Harry and Hermione were chatting and trying to repair their friendship, Ron's screams came from the dormitory at an inappropriate time.
The entire common room suddenly fell silent, and everyone stared blankly at the stairs. The sound of hurried footsteps became louder and louder - and then, Ron jumped out, dragging a sheet in his hand with a large blood stain on it.
Then he angrily threw something at Hermione's rune translation homework. Hermione and Harry hurried up to take a look. A few long ginger cat hairs lay on top of those weird, pointy words.
Ron and Hermione had a big fight in public.
Ron suspected that Crookshanks had eaten Scabbers, and didn't give Hermione a chance to explain. He scolded Hermione to tears as if she was madly venting. He even said that Hermione had been brainwashed by Slytherin and had forgotten about it. It is my duty to be a Gryffindor.
This incident caused a great disturbance, and even students from other colleges, including Xie Lin, heard about it.
Because of this incident, Hermione became very sensitive and seemed to burst into tears at any time. This incident was a huge blow to her; she became even more lonely, often spending time alone in the library and less likely to go back to Gryffindor to rest. room.
Two days later, in the Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, due to Harry's outstanding performance and the superior performance of the Firebolt, Gryffindor easily won, and it was a 200-point lead. Unlike in the original book, Draco, who started to become a bit more stable and mature this semester, did not turn into dementors with his friends to try to interfere with Harry's game, and Slytherin did not lose face because of deducting points.
After the game, everyone hugged Harry and headed to the Gryffindor common room together, where a lively party continued into the evening. Fred and George disappeared for two hours and returned with arms full of bottles of Butterbeer, Fizzing Pumpkin Juice, and large bags of Honeydukes candy.
Only one person did not attend this joyful gathering. Hermione was sitting in the corner in disbelief, trying to read a large book called Life and Social Habits of Muggle Households in Britain.
When Fred and George started playing tricks with butterbeer bottles, Harry took the opportunity to leave the table, come to Hermione and ask, "You never went to the game?"
"Of course I have been there." Hermione didn't even raise her head to look at Harry, and her tone was a little strangely high. "I'm very happy that we won. I think you did a really good job, but I have to finish reading it before Monday." This book……"
"Come on, Hermione, come and have something to eat." Harry glanced at Ron, who was smiling happily. He couldn't help but wonder: Is Ron's mood good enough to be with Hermione? Min made peace?
"I can't, Harry, I still have four hundred and twenty-two pages to read! Besides..." Hermione's voice sounded a little hysterical. She also looked over to Ron and whispered: "I'm afraid he won't want me to participate."
This is obvious. Because Ron deliberately picked this moment and said loudly: "If Scabbers is not eaten, he can eat a few of these butterscotch flies, which he always likes to eat-"
Hermione burst into tears. Her nerves have been very tense recently, whether it is busy with courses and studies, or the things that happened with Ban Ban, it has always kept her in a state of depression... But Harry still didn't expect that she really said Just cry.
Before Harry could say or do anything, Hermione put the big book under her arm, sobbed and panicked, opened the door and ran out of the Gryffindor common room.
"Can't you let her have a rest!" Harry couldn't help but said to Ron, and then looked at the door, "It's already night, I think it's best to get her back as soon as possible..."
Ron also glanced at the half-open doorway. He hesitated for a while, but still had a stubborn face. "No," Ron said with a straight face, "if she shows she's sorry - but she never admits she's wrong, that's the way Hermione is! She still looks like Scabbers is on holiday or something... "
Harry hesitated, sighed, and then ran out of the doorway helplessly.
