Wind and Eagle Wings at Hogwarts

Chapter 289 289. Positive Change in Two Courses

Hogwarts was very efficient this time, or in other words, Dumbledore was very efficient when he became serious.

The morning after he announced his decision, the two assistant coaches appeared in front of everyone.

A young witch, a middle-aged wizard.

The young witch has short light gray hair, a full round face, and a smile on her face that looks very lively.

The robe she wears is open, revealing her long legs in tights and boots, and the lit pipe in her hand makes her look a little different.

The middle-aged wizard looked much more downcast.

His light brown hair was mixed with gray, he was wearing a tattered robe that had been patched several times, wrinkled leather shoes, and he had a sickly face with a tired expression.

Dumbledore, who was standing between the two, introduced loudly, "Wilmina Graplan! Miss Graplan agreed to be a teaching assistant for the course on the protection of magical animals. Before that, she was a member of the Department of Magical Beast Management and Control of the Ministry of Magic. a member."

"Hi everyone!" Graplan said to the students in a cheerful voice. "It's a great honor to meet you, or rather, I'm glad to be back here after a few years of graduation! I want to say, I love Hogwarts!"

The students started applauding spontaneously, and everyone liked this young and energetic teaching assistant, especially the boys.

"Thank you, thank you."

Graplan performed a wizard salute, and the smile on his face became more cordial.

"I must say that I resigned after only one month in the Department of Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures at the Ministry of Magic. I can't accept that kind of step-by-step life."

While speaking, she raised the pipe in her hand and took a puff.

"And, this is the tobacco I made from sage, it can give me some help, of course, it won't affect my health, whether it's mine or yours."

Applause broke out again.

"She must be a Ravenclaw!"

Scott heard the students around him say this.

Amid the applause, Graplan turned and walked to the teacher's bench, sat beside Hagrid and started talking with him.

At this time, Dumbledore began to introduce another teaching assistant, "Remus Lupine is also an excellent wizard, he will be the subject of Defense Against the Dark Arts..."

Before he finished speaking, Black, who was sitting on the teacher's seat, began to applaud vigorously.

Dumbledore was stunned for a moment, then smiled and applauded.

Driven by him, everyone started applauding.

Lupine was a little surprised, and quickly saluted everyone.

But Black's enthusiasm was more than that. He even rushed out of the teacher's seat, laughing and hugging Lupine.

"Oh, it seems that they know each other, and Professor Black has welcomed his helper!" Eddie said while applauding, "Will their enemy, Professor Snape, also apply for a teaching assistant?"

Roger nudged him and said gruffly, "You really want them to fight again?"

"That's right." Eddie said with a smile, "But to be honest, Professor Snape's face is really ugly."

Scott has been watching too.

When Black and Lupine embraced, Snape's face turned livid, and his loathing eyes seemed to ignite Fiercefire.

"Thank you everyone, it's a pleasure to be back at Hogwarts."

The applause stopped, and Lupine saluted again.

He turned his head and glanced at Dumbledore, "Thank you Professor Dumbledore for trusting me, I hope I can help everyone in study or life."

"Oh! You can, of course you can Remus!" Black put his arms around his shoulders affectionately, "I didn't expect you to help me, there is nothing better than this!"

"Humph!"

Snape, who was sitting on the teacher's bench, snorted coldly, and put down the cup in his hand heavily.

"I hope so," he said. "It's better so that there are no accidents."

"You bastard!"

Black turned his head to look at Snape angrily, as if ready to throw himself into another fight at any moment.

Lupine hastily grabbed him.

"Hi, Severus." Lupine greeted Snape in a friendly manner.

But Snape didn't appreciate it, and just casually looked away.

Black looked even angrier, and Lupine had to pull him back behind the teacher's bench, away from Snape.

In the next period of time, the two newly appointed teaching assistants did bring positive changes to the two courses they served.

The first is the Protection of Fantastic Beasts class, and the arrival of Graplan has greatly improved the status quo of this class.

Hagrid seems to have regained his enthusiasm for magical animals under his suggestion, and students have also begun to be able to come into contact with some dangerous and exciting types of magical animals in class.

Scott and the others rode the Hippogriff as they wished.

I have to say that it was indeed an exciting experience full of fantasy and adventure.

The pairing of Graplan and Hagrid works well.

Hagrid can always find some uncommon magical animals, and Graplan can always carefully arrange the classroom in an orderly manner.

The improvement of the curriculum made the students like Graplan even more, and they called the Miss Teaching Assistant "Magic Graplan".

And the magical Graplan lived up to expectations.

In a recent class, she successfully lured a colony of unicorns out of the Forbidden Forest, allowing students to get up close and personal with these beautiful and majestic creatures.

Of course, only girls.

Unicorns don't like boys approaching, they are too proud.Even Hagrid, who has tamed thestrals and three-headed dogs, cannot tame this magical animal.

By the creek in the quiet forest, the lively girls, led by Graplan, play with the beautiful unicorn by the water.

This is a very beautiful picture.

It's a pity that Scott and the boys could only squat in the distance with Hagrid, watching this scene with envy, and listening to Hagrid's excited yelling.

Scott crouched with Roger and the Weasley twins.

"Maybe we can pick up some unicorn tail hair after class." George's eyes lit up. "I think Mr. Ollivander would be happy to buy it!"

Poor George didn't notice, his twin didn't listen to him at all.

Fred's eyes kept chasing Angelina, the tall, fit, dark-skinned girl who was playing with the unicorn.

All in all, Care of Fantastic Creatures became more enjoyable after Graplan arrived.

Hagrid often praised his teaching assistant, and Graplan often praised Hagrid's ability to tame those dangerous animals.

The professor and teaching assistant for Care of Fantastic Creatures got along very well, and the class became popular again.

Speaking of Defense Against the Dark Arts class, this class has also undergone significant changes with the arrival of Lupine as an assistant teacher.

It has to be said that the old friends Black and Lupine are obviously more in harmony with each other than Hagrid and Graplan.

Compared with the enthusiastic but carefree Black, Lupine is more calm and careful. He can always fill in the gaps for Black in time in class.

He can treat Slytherin students more fairly, and he can dissuade Black, who is not emotionally stable.

After Lupin took office, the number of points deducted by Black from Slytherin House has begun to decrease significantly.

Obviously, though, Snape didn't appreciate him for it.

The Potions Professor still blatantly used his words and deeds to express his dislike for Black and Lupine on any occasion.

What really made the Defense Against the Dark Arts class more popular was the more than one brilliant duel demonstration between Black and Lupine in the actual combat class.

This is almost a newly opened course. Hogwarts had no previous experience in the past, and there were no relevant textbooks. Both professors and students could only grope for teaching and learning.

And the way to learn is to practice.

Even so, in actual operation, everyone will find that progress does not come from actual combat.

Little wizards living in peaceful times are far away from fighting, and they cannot receive various messages through many channels like Scott did in his previous life. Many times their duel practice is like a game.

Including Scott too.

Since the students in the same grade did not have any classmates who could fight against him, he could not try his best to show his true level in the actual combat class.

Lupine's arrival changed the combat lesson.

He and Blake, two wizards who have experienced real wizarding wars, let young wizards understand what real battles between adult wizards are like through dueling demonstrations.

Unlike the games between students, where you come and go, the battle between them is a real dangerous game where life is hanging by a thread.

The degree of tension, excitement, and intensity is incomparable.

Such a demonstration more intuitively sets goals for the students, allowing them to understand the gap between themselves and the two outstanding adult wizards, and also allowing them to find the direction of their efforts.

In addition, because Black and Lupine often served as Scott's dueling opponents in person, Scott also really became familiar with them during this time.

Of course, Scott is not the opponent of these two in a frontal battle, mainly because of the gap in magic power, combat awareness and combat experience.

Although Scott had "remarkable achievements" in the past, in truth, he basically used sneak attacks and assassinations.

The only opponents he really defeated head-on were Jasmine Travers, the now graduated Idrik Strielner, a few Slytherin students, and the thief Fletcher.

The enemies that Scott encountered in the past and needed to fight head-on, their strength is much inferior to that of Black and Lupine.

Especially the thief Fletcher, as an adult wizard, although he is very cunning and has many methods, his real strength is actually not as good as Strylner.

In short, magic power can only grow naturally, not to mention, Scott is also lacking in combat awareness and combat experience.

Scott feels that the biggest beneficiary of the arrival of Lupine's assistant may actually be himself.

Because of the additional manpower in the actual combat class, Black and Lupine can also take time to be his practice opponents, helping him develop combat awareness and increase combat experience.

(End of this chapter)