Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 46 Thinking
On Sunday night, after a good dinner, Peter took Harry, Ron and Hermione back to school.

This time he didn't bother to use Apparition, but directly teleported by the fireplace.

All three of them returned with a full load.

Peter was carrying two big bags of Kreacher's freshly baked strawberry, cranberry, blueberry and blackberry biscuits (that's a lot of biscuits).

In the inside pocket of his robe was the potion gifted by James and Lily, and in the cuff pocket was the wand given to him by Sirius.

Made of aspen wood with a dragon heartstring core, it was perfect for powerful magic and a natural duelist—indeed, according to Sirius, it was the weapon of enemies he had defeated in the dueling ring.

Peter appreciated the gift very much.

The last time he was attacked in the basement corridor, his wand was taken away by the werewolf Snape. If Snape really wanted to kill him, he would have died. This incident made him realize the importance of having a spare wand.

He thought to himself that he and Sirius were really close friends, and he was worried about how to get a wand that was not under the control of the Ministry of Magic, and Sirius just happened to deliver this desirable weapon to him.

Perhaps Sirius knew that Peter had been fatally attacked. Although he didn't mention it on the surface, he was always thinking about what he could do for his friends.

Peter led the children to his office first, and then he escorted them back to the common room.

The atmosphere of panic in the school has almost completely disappeared. Most of the students think that the attack in the basement corridor is just an accident, but Peter is one of the few people who knows the truth. He knows that Harry has been targeted by Voldemort.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked in front, talking and laughing, and Peter followed behind them, one hand resting quietly on the wand at his waist all the time.

He had to be ready at all times - the attacker was still at Hogwarts, he (or it?) wasn't going to move just because he didn't see Harry for two days.

Peter was eager to catch the attacker, and as soon as possible, preferably before the second game of the Triwizard Cup.

But who is this person serving Voldemort?
Gabriella Andonova, that was the first name that came to his mind.

She had been there on the morning of the attack, and killers often like to return to the scene of the crime, because many people believe that the most dangerous places are the safest.

And then there's Umbridge's Council on Magical Education.

He didn't suspect Umbridge herself, he knew she didn't have that ability, but each of her vague-faced Ministry of Magic staff might be related to the mysterious disappearance of August Rookwood.

There is also Draco Malfoy, he knows that this child does not have the ability to cast powerful black magic, but Draco's father Lucius is not so simple, maybe there is something inextricably linked between him and Voldemort contact...

"We're going back, thank you, Professor Peddie." Hermione's polite voice sounded in Peter's ear.

"Oh, alright."

Peter was immersed in all kinds of thoughts, and he didn't realize that he had arrived at the door of the Gryffindor common room.

He watched Xiao San crawl into the portrait of the Fat Lady. They were really three lovely children. The last thing he wanted to see was the next fatal attack on them. Of course, he didn't want any students to be in danger of their lives.

On the way back to the office, he was thinking about how to take the Defense Against the Dark Arts open class he had promised.

He first confirmed the ultimate purpose of his extra effort to teach the public class-he hoped that the students could protect themselves when they were attacked.

Then, purely theoretical research can be completely ignored, this kind of thing is of no practical help in combat.

He remembered what Snape had said in St. Mungo's, "Dark magic is the shortcut to power."

Of course, he couldn't teach students how to use the Dark Arts in public, but Snape was right about one thing: what the students needed was a shortcut.

Peter's original teaching plan was to allow students to learn to create a qualified magical space within a one-year cycle, and to be able to engrave some objects that are easy to use in battle, such as the magic stone statues left by the Hogwarts Big Four.

But judging from the current situation, Peter has overestimated the students' Defense Against the Dark Arts level. There are several desperate students in each class. can't do it.

It's no wonder, then, that the Defense Against the Dark Arts professorship at Hogwarts is said to be cursed, with no teacher able to teach the subject for more than a year.

Repeatedly changing teachers not only led to the extreme lack of system in the teaching of Defense Against the Dark Arts, but also seriously lowered the standards of teachers.

For example, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor in the 1991 school year, Quelnas Quirrell, used to be a Muggle studies teacher. He was originally a mediocre wizard, and his lectures were all based on scripts.

To make matters worse, he was possessed by Voldemort during his trip to Albania. On Halloween, he stole the Philosopher's Stone. As a result, the rest of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the 1991 school year was canceled because no teacher dared to take such an inauspicious class. .

In this extremely bad teaching situation, the students' foundation in Defense Against the Dark Arts is extremely poor, and a small group of seventh grade students can't even recite a decent disarming spell.

Mistake, should have tested it before the class started.

Peter really didn't expect that in the ten years since he graduated, the magical ability of the little Hogwarts wizard had degenerated to such a point.

Back when Peter was still in school, the slightly better classmates around him didn't take their homework seriously.

He, James, and Sirius were all self-taught Animagus, and Lupine was a master at casting spells without a wand.

Their nemesis Snape knew more Dark Arts curses than half of the seventh graders before he started school, and Peter never saw him follow the textbook in a Potions class, but he always survived Get the correct potion.

It was hard to imagine that a man as talented as Snape wasn't a member of the Slug Club, let alone a student at Professor Slughorn's College.

In this era of talent shortage, no matter how low-key Snape was, he would not have been completely unnoticed by his dean...

Peter was thinking about these things in his heart, and he had already walked to the door of the office before he knew it.

As he put his hand on the doorknob, an idea flashed through his mind.

Now that Professor Slughorn could start a slug club, Peter could start a Defense Against the Dark Arts club.

He can screen out the students with a better level, teach them from the basics, and train them to be qualified fighters. This is much more beneficial than calling the whole school to hold a chaotic event.

Once an emergency occurs, these trained students are sufficient to protect others.

So how do you select students?Is it sorted by their written test scores?

Peter thought of an interesting method. He walked to the desk and quickly wrote the calculation on a piece of parchment.

(End of this chapter)