Study Days at Hogwarts

After breakfast, the four of them headed to the potions classroom in the basement carrying their schoolbags. To be honest, going to potions class right after eating is not conducive to the digestion of food in the stomach.

"The door isn't open." Fred stretched out his hand to push the door open and found that the door to the Potions classroom was locked. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly. It was rare that the Potions Professor didn't open the door in advance.

"Did we make a mistake?"

"Wait a moment." Albert stopped them from opening the door without authorization.

After a while, there were more and more students in the corridor, and everyone was waiting outside the Potions classroom for Snape to come and open the door.

A few minutes later, the Gryffindor girls also came over, looked at Albert and joked: "You don't have a prefect badge?"

"forgotten."

"You also forget sometimes?"

Albert knew that several people were not making fun of him, but of the Ravenclaw prefect who wore the prefect badge.

"I think you should carry it with you all day long, that way it will be more impressive, just like Percy, for fear that others will not know that he is the president of the student union." Fred said the bad things about Percy without any pressure. They all obviously noticed it, here Only Selwyn of Ravenclaw wears the prefect badge.

Selwyn looked unhappy, turned around and secretly took off the badge pinned to his chest and stuffed it into his pocket.

Aaliya noticed Albert's gaze, shrugged and said: "You didn't see that guy's arrogance just now."

The whispers around him suddenly disappeared, and the corridor fell into an eerie silence. Snape was seen walking towards this direction, his face so gloomy that he almost dripped water. Snape took out the key from his pocket and opened the door to the Potions classroom.

"Before class begins, I must remind you of something."

Snape walked quickly to the podium, turned around and glanced at everyone with a stern look, "Next June, you will take the o.\\nw.\\nLs exam. At that time you will prove how much you have learned. I hope you will I can barely pass the o.\\nw.\\nLs exam, otherwise I would be very angry."

"Of course, after this year, many of you will no longer be able to take my classes." Snape glanced at the students and pouted slightly, "I only select the best. Students are joining my N.\\nE.\\nw.\\nTs Potions class, which means some of them will have to say goodbye."

"We still need to hold on for another year before the happy farewell comes." Snape said softly, "Therefore, regardless of whether you plan to take the N.\\nE.\\nW.\\nTS exam, I recommend that you all Concentrate on learning your lessons well and achieving the high passing standards I require of my o.\\nw.\\nLs students."

Fred and George were winking at Albert, seeming to be celebrating that they finally didn't have to see Snape again next term.

Of course, the Weasley brothers are not the only ones with this kind of mentality. As we all know, Snape's Potions class is very difficult. As long as the students in his N.\\nE.\\nw.\\nTs Potions class have excellent grades, they will be N.\\nE.\\nw.\\nTs Potions classes usually have a hard time getting over double digits.

"Today, we are going to prepare a medicine that often appears in ordinary wizard level exams: the demulcent. It can calm and relieve irritability and anxiety, and help relieve your stress before the exam. I have seen many students unable to bear it.\\ nw.\\nI am overwhelmed by the pressure of the Ls exam, so I suggest you master how to prepare a palliative, and if necessary, you can prepare one for yourself or your classmates."

"Of course, if you are careless when putting the ingredients, it may cause the person taking the medicine to fall into a dead and sometimes irreversible lethargy, so you need to pay special attention. The ingredients and preparation methods are on the blackboard. You have a Half an hour... let’s get started.”

After Snape finished speaking, he waved his wand, and the door of the storage cupboard suddenly opened.

The demulcent was not that difficult, at least in Albert's mind.

As long as the ingredients are added to the crucible in strict order and quantities, the mixture is stirred for the specified number of times. When the crucible boils, the temperature of the flame must drop to a specific standard and maintained for a specific period of time before the last ingredient can be added. Plant the ingredients and you’re done.

Rigor and standards have always been the key factors for the success of potion brewing, but for most students, this seems to be difficult to achieve.

When Albert poured two drops of hellebore syrup into the crucible, Snape suddenly appeared behind him and said coldly: "Professor McGonagall should have told you about the Potions Championship. Every weekend." Be here at three o'clock in the afternoon."

Albert didn't answer, still focusing on the crucible in front of him.

Snape definitely did it on purpose. If his hands were shaking and he had dropped more hellebore syrup just now, God knows what the pot of demulcent would have become.

The result was quite satisfactory. A faint, silvery white steam emerged from the cauldron, exactly the same as what Snape had just described.

Albert put half of the medicine sample into a short-necked bottle, labeled it with his name, and put the other half into his own medicine for storage.

After doing all this, Albert looked around. Except for him, no one else had succeeded. Several of them had problems with the details, and the color of the potion was different from what was expected.

"It's just a piece of shit!" Lee Jordan stretched greatly when he left the classroom.

"I finally won't have to see Snape again next semester." Fred was not much better than Li Jordan. His pot of potion smelled like rotten eggs.

"I'm afraid you'll have to take potions class by yourself next semester." Lee Jordan didn't feel any pity at all. He thought maliciously, "I just paid attention to the level of potions in our class. I'm very suspicious of Snee." Can the general N.\\nE.\\nw.\\nTs potions class have enough students."

"I think five is very reluctant." George analyzed. "Generally, Slytherin and Ravenclaw are better at potions than us. Albert, Ravenclaw's Catri Na should be fine if she barely manages to do so. Whether Zanna can get an excellent exam is still debatable. Hufflepuff will do it again..."

"Digory is still very powerful." Albert reminded.

"Well, including that guy, we can barely make up four. There are a few outstanding ones in Slytherin. Do you expect Montague?" George sneered.

"Speaking of which, if you fail to take advanced classes, does that mean you can graduate early?" Li Qiaodan suddenly asked.

"As long as we can successfully open a store, it doesn't matter if we fail the exam." Fred and George actually didn't care too much about the exam.

"I think your family will definitely be very dissatisfied with your grades." Albert reminded, "then your summer vacation will be very sad."

"What class is this afternoon?" Fred asked, changing the subject.

"Professor of History of Magic and Defense Against the Dark Arts," Albert said.

"I just hope our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor can be more reliable than Lockhart." George complained.

Last semester, Lockhart was really no ordinary fool.

"Professor Lupine should be pretty good. The level of wizards who can use the Patronus Charm is not too low."

"I hope I learned something."

History of Magic was very boring in the afternoon, Professor Binns was talking about the Giant War, but most of the students were asleep within ten minutes.

Albert did not listen to the lecture, but took out another book from his schoolbag and read it.

As for exams and homework, he had asked Isobel to borrow the notes on the History of Magic in advance. Professor Binns always read from the textbook in class anyway, and the notes he took were basically the same.

The Defense Against the Dark Arts class is a bit of fun for everyone.

Professor Lupine did not finish the class, but spent a lot of time figuring out what they had learned from first grade to fourth grade.

"I'm very aware of the situation in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. You have changed four professors. It is difficult to really learn anything in this chaotic situation." Lu Ping said softly, "But don't worry, the situation is It's not as bad as you think. o.\\nw.\\nMost of the Ls exam content is in "Dark Power: Self-Defense Guide". Most of the actual combat assessment content you will face is just to expel some dark creatures, and as long as you master the methods to fight against them, you will be able to defeat them. Don't worry too much about not passing the exam. "

"Dark creatures, how should we deal with other dark wizards?" Fred raised his hand and asked, "For example, Black is at large."

"I think it will be difficult for you to encounter a dark wizard, at least not before you leave school." Lupine saw everyone's expectant eyes and said helplessly, "I heard Professor McGonagall mentioned that Professor Lockhart once I taught you the disarming spell, Mr. Dessen, do you mind coming up and showing it to everyone?"

Albert was pushed up by several friends around him.

Professor Lupine waved his wand to make room for both parties.

"How should we defend against most of the spells that other wizards use on us?" Professor Lupine nodded towards Albert and said, "We can start."

The tool man Albert raised his wand and used the disarming spell on Lupine very cooperatively. Before the spell could focus on Professor Lupine, the opponent used the Iron Armor Curse to block the spell.

Applause immediately broke out in the classroom.

"Very good, very good, Mr. Anderson." Professor Lupine said to everyone: "As you can see, I successfully performed Mr. Anderson's disarming spell. Does anyone know what spell I used?"

"Iron Armor Curse."

"Yes, it's the Iron Armor Curse, plus ten points for Gryffindor." Lupine continued, "The Iron Armor Curse can create a magical barrier that can deflect spells and physical entities to protect specific people or specific areas. It is a barrier that can resist Defense spells for many kinds of spells.”

"The spell of the Iron Armor Curse: Armor Protection?."

"Sir, are we going to learn the Iron Armor Curse in the next class?" someone asked expectantly.

"no."

"Why don't you teach me? I think the Iron Armor Curse is more useful." Someone asked dissatisfiedly.

"Because my current task is to let you pass the o.\\nw.\\nLs exam with as high a score as possible." Lu Ping said gently, "If after teaching the remaining content of "Dark Power: Self-Defense Guide", If there is still time, I can teach you some more magic, but for now you should be concerned about the o.\\nw.\\nLs exam."