Hogwarts: Harley from The Witch Way - Chapter 429

c413 Don’t be superstitious, believe in magic!

Although Harley “struggled to escape”, she was still easily captured and brought to justice by Professor McGonagall.

Who kept Hermione waiting outside and gave Harry a hard time?

Professor McGonagall criticized the “wrong way” that Harley was studying from many aspects, and vowed to correct Harley’s transfiguration soul and let it go on the right path.

After writing down numerous formal guarantees, Harry reluctantly slipped away from Professor McGonagall.

As o.w.l.s approaches, the atmosphere in the school becomes increasingly restless.

Many students have inexplicable weird behaviors, as if they would be sorry for their hard review time if they don’t engage in some performance art.

Ernie MacMillan began to enjoy his review time grilling people.

Whenever he asks that someone else has taken longer to review than him, he will start to question it repeatedly, trying to find loopholes in the other person’s words to prove that the other person’s review time is not that long;

And when he asks that other people’s review time is shorter than his own, McMillan will feel happy and even a little excited, and start to show off his perfect review time.

He even made a special list on which he listed how many hours he studied every day, and said it over and over again.

Some people are at the other extreme. For example, Hals Stephen has been sighing, saying that if he does not do well in the exam, he will go back to inherit the family industry in Diagon Alley.

But soon he heard the lamentations of Susan Burns.

Susan said she didn’t know if her aunt would be willing to let her intern as the Assistant Minister of Magic for a period of time if she could only get six certificates.

After hearing this, Stephen shut his mouth completely and never mentioned his shop in Diagon Alley again.

In addition to these weird behaviors, various black market transactions have also begun to flourish in Hogwarts.

In the school hospital, Madam Pomfrey began to provide a series of soothing potions such as calming potions and tranquilizing potions early on.

Those students who were too anxious because they were worried about their review came here and drank a bottle. They immediately felt that their waists were no longer sore, their heads were no longer aching, and all their anxious emotions were gone.

But this also has a small negative effect:

The students’ brains and desire for review also disappeared. The students who drank the potion just wanted to lie dead in bed.

After the effects of the drug wear off, they will jump out of bed eagerly and continue studying with an even more anxious attitude.

Soon, after realizing that these two potions were not very effective, the fifth grade students chose to change their goals.

The students began to privately exchange various so-called “high-quality magic potions” with each other, such as intelligence enhancers, dragon claw powder, and Buffy’s brain-refreshing potions.

The sixth and seventh grade students are more experienced in this regard. They have long known that the potions in the school hospital are not effective, so they have prepared a large amount of goods in advance.

Harry once bumped into Eddie Carmichael, the sixth-year Ravenclaw senior, trying to sell Dean and Seamus a bottle of Buffy’s Brain Refresher, claiming that he got nine “excellent” grades in the O.W.L.S. exam last year. It all depends on this bottle of stuff in my hand.

At the same time, the price he gave buyers was extremely low, with a pint selling for only twelve gold galleons, which was only half the price of the official authentic store.

After seeing the expressions of embarrassment on the faces of the two potential customers across from him, Carmichael quickly changed his lines and expressed his willingness to lower the price again. Buying three pintos together only costs thirty-five gold galleons and sixteen silver sikols.

At the same time, Carmichael’s expression was extremely uncomfortable, as if he had made a huge concession and suffered a huge loss.

This made Dean and Seamus so excited that they wanted to buy it on the spot.

However, Harley decisively chose to confiscate it and dumped it all into the toilet in the girls’ bathroom.

When Carmichael saw it was Harley, he originally wanted to defend himself, but suddenly he remembered Harley’s status as the champion of the Potions Competition at the Magic School, so he hurried away.

On the contrary, Dean and Seamus looked unconvinced and wanted to argue.

This made Harry want to curse. Did these two people have any wrong understanding of their potion level?

As a high-end magic potion, Baffy’s brain-reviving potion needs to be brewed for a full two hours, and a large number of steps must be experienced in the process, so no mistakes can be made in any step.

Moreover, the medicinal materials used in Bafei’s brain-refreshing potion are extremely precious, and many of them contain highly toxic substances. If it is not cooked carefully, it may cause injury or even death to the wizard.

After being brewed successfully, the undiluted original solution of Bafe Brain Refresher has a probability of permanently improving the wizard’s thinking ability; the diluted Bafa Brain Refresher can also greatly enhance the wizard’s thinking ability in a short period of time.

Even a low-quality Bafe brain-refreshing agent can improve a wizard’s memory and reaction ability in a short period of time, but it is likely to cause permanent damage to the wizard’s brain afterwards.

Therefore, this kind of potion has always been a key concern of the Ministry of Magic, and it is also priceless on the black market in Knockturn Alley.

Even if one or two bottles were occasionally placed in the famous black pharmacies in Knockturn Alley, few wizards would dare to buy them.

After all, who can be sure of the quality of the Bafe brain-refreshing agent? Even going one step further, is it actually Baffy’s brain-reviving agent? No one dares to gamble with his life.

How could an ordinary sixth-year Ravenclaw student with no background produce such an extremely rare and precious potion?

Harley herself was the first to not believe it, and felt that anyone with any brain would not believe Carmichael’s lies.

But Dean and Seamus are still arguing. For the sake of their own test scores, they dared to debate even if they were the prefect and the hero who killed the mysterious man:

“Harry, Buffy’s brain-refreshing potion is particularly useful! And we’ve inquired about it. Carmichael did get nine outstanding awards last year…”

“Don’t be stupid.” Harley interrupted Dean without hesitation.

“The reason why Carmichael was able to get nine excellent grades last year was because he was ranked in the top three in his grade since the third grade, and he studied every night until after twelve o’clock, and got up at 5:30 in the morning to continue working hard. study.”

“Besides, the content here is not a Bafe brain-reviving agent, but an intelligence-enhancing agent, or a diluted inferior product.”

“The best this thing can do is make you react very quickly when studying tonight, and then your brain will probably completely freeze and be unable to function for the next five days.”

“Do you believe in your own judgment or mine?” Seeing that the two of them were still unconvinced, Harley shook her head.

“By the way, the two of you copied my paper this time, and you were able to copy a P. I am very convinced.”

It was only then that Dean and Seamus realized that Harley’s potion skills seemed to be n times better than their own, and they completely gave up the idea of ​​buying potions.

And the two guys with bad brains in front of them are not even classic cases of being deceived. There are many students who have poor grades in potions but are still blindly confident. They can’t recognize the fakes and still hand over the money to their seniors without hesitation. It’s just a typical example of having to help others count their money after being cheated.

I don’t know what Professor Snape will feel after seeing this. Maybe he will just sigh that he is finally out of the sea of ​​suffering and no longer has to teach Potions. He has been teaching these for five years, but his eyes still reveal clear stupidity. student.

Two months is not a short time, but it is not a long time.

When the numbers on the counting board at the back of the Transfiguration classroom turned into single digits, all the students panicked.

Professor McGonagall stopped giving lectures in the last Transfiguration class of the fifth grade, and instead handed out the exam timetable, student seating order and specific requirements.

“As written on the parchment in your hands,” Professor McGonagall said with severity in her voice.

“Your O.W.L.S exam will last for two weeks. The morning is the theoretical part of the written exam, while the afternoon is to test the practical ability.”

“Of course, given the special nature of astronomy, its practical exams will be arranged at night.”

“What if there is bad weather?” A student immediately raised his hand, “Will the astronomy practical exam be postponed?”

“No, so don’t try to pray for bad weather using Muggle’s miscellaneous knowledge of praying for rain.”

Professor McGonagall glanced at the student and said, “Remember, we are wizards. Don’t be superstitious and believe in magic.”

“Your seniors and sisters have personally practiced various methods of praying for rain, and none of them have been successful.”

“By the way, even if there is bad weather, professors can use weather spells to solve it, so don’t expect the exam to be postponed.”

Professor McGonagall paused, glanced at the whole class, and her voice became a little more stern.

“I must also remind you that each test paper is personally produced by the Wizarding Examination Authority, and has various anti-cheating spells attached to it.”

“Stop playing cheap tricks like auto-answer quills, memory balls, cheat sheet sleeves, and self-correcting ink. Your seniors have also tried it for you.”

“In recent years, new regulations have been added, prohibiting the engraving of important knowledge points on the holder of the quill pen, or writing knowledge points on the thigh so that the professor will not look at them. There are female professors in every examination room, just to make it easier to deal with this kind of problem. Condition.”

When he said this, Professor McGonagall gritted her teeth, as if some Gryffindor student had made such a stupid mistake.

“Of course, those caught cheating will also bear corresponding legal consequences and be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of less than three years in Azkaban or criminal detention, and will be fined a certain amount.”

“The most serious case was even sentenced to seven years in Azkaban and a hefty fine.”

“I hope there won’t be such idiots in our class. Can you promise me that?”

The students all sat upright and answered in unison: “Yes!”

“That’s good,” Professor McGonagall nodded, “I hope you can all strive for your future and achieve good results.”

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The first O.w.l.s exam is the Theory of Spells, scheduled for Monday morning.

On the day the exam started, Hallie chose to sleep a little longer and didn’t get up until seven o’clock.

After all, big exams are big fun, small exams are fun, if you don’t take exams, you don’t have fun.

After changing her clothes, she opened the curtain and saw that, good fellow, Lavender and Parvati, who had been lying in bed for thousands of years, actually got up early.

After one year of living at Hogwarts, except for a few particularly hard-working students, all the other students will basically become old fools.

At night, I would hang out in other dormitories until 2 a.m. before coming back. I would sleep until 10 a.m. and not wake up until 10 a.m. I would not even eat breakfast until 8 a.m. and enter the classroom on time.

If there is a rare student in the dormitory who can get up early, he can directly transform into the dormitory dad and enjoy the “adopted father” from his roommate.

And Parvati and Lavender are the best among them. If it’s on a weekend, you can even sleep until three in the afternoon and save breakfast and lunch.

It would be incredible no matter how you think about it, for such a veteran to suddenly wake up early! (Yes, that’s the author’s roommate. The author has never understood, is there a difference between going to bed at 2 a.m. and waking up at 10 a.m., and going to bed at 11 a.m. and waking up at 6 a.m.?)

But if you look at the books in their hands, it’s okay.

The two of them each held a thick copy of “Magic Achievements” and were asking each other questions.

In the Gryffindor common room and on the tables in the cafeteria, students were frantically reviewing knowledge points from the previous semesters.

No, the word “review” is not used rigorously. It should be said that it is preview. After all, they have never seen these knowledge points.

In response to this situation, Harley could only wish them good luck. I usually study all the time, so I don’t need to review like this.

But soon, Harry stopped laughing, because Hermione also sat next to him with a thick stack of parchment.

“The last time before the exam should not be wasted.” Hermione said to Harry seriously. “This is the key point of Charms that I summarized. I think we should memorize it again.”

“I don’t think you need to memorize these at your level,” Harley fought hard, fighting for her due rights.

“What we need before the exam is to relax, listen to music, and change our minds…”

“You can wait until the exam is over to do these things.” Hermione was obviously upset, “Besides, I have summarized the key points.”

So Harry was forced to assist Hermione in starting the last round of surprise review, until Professor McGonagall arrived to rescue her.

“Harry,” Professor McGonagall stood behind Harry at some point.

“The examiners have arrived. Professor Marchban and Professor Tofodi are the examiners this time. They invite you to come over.”

“Okay, Professor, I’ll go right away.” Harry hurriedly stuffed all the parchment into Hermione’s arms, showed a naughty smile, and then followed Professor McGonagall out of the position.

Hermione was stunned for a moment, but when she realized what she was doing, Harry had already disappeared.

She gritted her teeth fiercely, and the parchment in her hand was crumpled into a ball.

“hateful!”

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…(End of chapter)