Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 128 The Missing Elf
Snake was lecturing while gliding around the circle where the students were sitting.

"Kaba likes to eat... fresh and juicy... small cucumbers, after eating... it will let you go..."

When Snake talked about this, Peter opened a paper bag full of gherkins. Snake swam over quickly, swallowed the cucumber in one gulp, chewed it, and the juice flowed down its mouth to the floor.

"This is for Kabbah...well, forget it..." Peter waved his hands helplessly.

Ernie McMillan giggled, and the basilisk jumped up in front of him, staring at a pair of yellow eyes, showing thin and sharp fangs like daggers, "Don't laugh!" Ernie hurriedly looked serious, lowered his head and took notes seriously.

The basilisk touched the second box, and there were three dark green creatures with horns on their heads crawling inside. Their hands had thin and long fingers, like the arms and legs of an octopus.

"This one is... Grindylow, don't get caught by them... Their claws are fragile... Shake your scales quickly... Shake hard—"

Snake's body stretched and stretched quickly, and the scales of the snake rubbed against each other, making a metal-like scraping sound. It opened its mouth proudly, as if satisfied with its perfect demonstration.

"Sorry, let me add that for a small number of wizards without scales, the withdrawal spell works better." Peter said with a smile.

"This is a Shinkpunk... I forgot to mention...Grindyllo doesn't taste like meat...smells like fish...Sinkpunk, they like to guide people in... swamps... ...bring people into the mud...they can't eat..."

The students looked at the third glass cage that held Hinkpunk, a one-legged creature that seemed to be congealed from smoke. It looked quite fragile and harmless in appearance, but it had a vicious heart.

"Do you understand everything?" Snake raised its neck and hissed sternly. It circled around to examine the students, and everyone was taking notes seriously, "I understand everything!"

The snake crawled back to Peter's feet and entangled one of his legs. Peter stroked the feathers on its head and said, "It's very good, but it hasn't spoken for 1000 years, and it's inevitable that it will stumble when it speaks." .”

During the rest of the assembly, Peter led the students to practice the Patronus Charm. In order to prevent the accident from happening again, the four Slytherin students who were often exposed to black magic were taken aside by Snape alone to practice dealing with Grindylow's draw. From curse.

"Professor Peddie Road," said Harry a little sheepishly, "may I learn the Pulling Charm too?"

"I want to learn too!" Hermione and Ron raised their hands almost at the same time, and they looked at each other for a moment. Hermione wanted to give Ron a look, but she found that Ron's face was completely red.

"Of course." Peter said, "Harry must be well prepared for the second event of the Triwizard Tournament."

"Professor, how did you..."

"Severus told me, well, go!" Peter said with a smile.

Harry glanced at Cedric Diggory, who was seriously practicing the Patronus Charm. Harry felt a little guilty, and he should have reminded Diggory, but when he saw Cedric and Zhang Qiu whispering At that moment, he began to hope that Digory would be caught by Grindylow and fall into Myrtle's bathroom...

Ron and Hermione accompanied Harry to join the Slytherin team. Seeing the three of them, Snape didn't say much.

The seven students practiced the withdrawal spell for 10 minutes. To be honest, this spell is much more boring than the Patronus Charm. At the other end of the classroom, several silver semi-formed Patronus have already rushed out.

"Very well, Miss Clearwater, very well, everyone is practicing well," said Peter at last, "but as I said at the last meeting, there is a complete difference between a comfortable classroom and a bloody battlefield. I hope you can also summon the Patronus when facing real dementors, well, everyone, this is the end of today's meeting."

Peter waved his wand, the fluorescent balls in the room fell one after another, the chandelier and the fire were lit again, the students reluctantly stopped practicing, and left the classroom in twos and threes, the basilisk stared at everyone who went out with yellow eyes. Students, whenever a Muggle student slips past its eyes, it will spit out the letter and show its sharp fangs aggressively.

Christian Evan left the classroom first, and he always gave the impression of being a loner.Nott had gone out with Zabini too, Luna stayed to ask Peter a question, and Draco stood aside with his hands in his pockets, anxiously waiting to talk to Peter.

Soon, all the students in the classroom were out, leaving only Harry, Ron and Hermione, and Luna and Draco.

"Professor, do you think there is a berserk werewolf hidden in our castle?" Luna asked seriously.

"I don't think so, Miss Lovegood," said Peter.

Draco stood aside, frowning impatiently, Peter knew very well - Draco knew the secret that Snape was a werewolf.

"Oh." Luna nodded slightly, she seemed a little disappointed, "Thank you, Professor Peddie." After she finished speaking, she also went out, holding a copy of "The Quibbler" in her arms. An entertainment magazine with reliable news, many of Luna's whimsical ideas come from here.

In the far corner of the room, Snape was whispering to Harry, Ron, and Hermione, a rare sight because few students dared to ask Snape questions after class.

"...the key and the lock, I've thought about it for a while these days, but I still don't understand the meaning of the lyrics." Snape spoke in an uncertain tone, and he touched his own with a slender finger Mouth, it looks like it's trying to think hard.

"I see," said Harry gratefully. "Anyway, thank you, Professor Snape... um, are you well?"

"It's okay," Snape said in a more enthusiastic tone than usual, "it's all right, Potter, go to bed, and if you don't understand anything, you are welcome to come to my office to find me at any time."

Harry, Ron, and Hermione thanked them again, and Snape waved his hand, urging them to go, but when Ron turned, Snape grabbed him by the robes.

"Wait a minute, Weasley, your homework sucked last time."

Ron blushed again. After dating Parvati, his mind was elsewhere, and Hermione didn't help him revise papers anymore.

After Harry, Ron and Hermione left, Snape went out too. Finally, only Peter and Malfoy were left in the classroom. The basilisk climbed onto Peter's shoulder and rubbed its flat head against Peter's Face.

"What's wrong with you, Draco?" Peter asked reassuringly.

"Professor Peddie, have you ever seen a strange house-elf? His name is Dobby, and he has disappeared in the past few days..." Draco trembled.

Peter vaguely remembered a house-elf who had suddenly appeared to him one night and then apparated out of him.

(End of this chapter)