Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 48 Snape's Opinion
On Monday mornings, Peter taught a seventh grade Defense Against the Dark Arts NEWT class.

He deliberately rescheduled fifth and seventh graders to the first two days of the week.

For these two classes, he did not require the students to master the skills of creating magic spaces, but let them focus on taking the exams, because these two exams are likely to affect their future and destiny.

The content of his lectures is also closely related to the exam, and almost all of them follow the syllabus of the Ministry of Magic, without any special content.

A new thing happened in this class, Durmstrang Principal Andonova suddenly came to his class to listen.

She sat in the back row with a small black hardcover notebook, and took careful notes with a quill in hand.

But her appearance was completely different from when Umbridge was conducting teaching quality evaluations. She sat in a very humble posture, like an ordinary student. She never made a sound, and she didn't like to fake cough like the old toad.

In addition, her appearance is also very different from that of the old toad.

When Peter began to hand out test papers to the students to practice the written test content for the NEWT test, she quietly exited the classroom through the back door and closed the door lightly from behind.

Peter guessed that she might be interested in some of his magic theories, but when she found out that the main content of this class was to prepare for the NEWT exam, she lost interest.

He secretly wrote down this matter in his heart and wanted to talk to her when he had the chance.

In other words - check her out.

However, the problem of open classes is still to be solved first.

That night, after escorting Harry, Ron, and Hermione back to the common room at a short distance, he came to the basement.

He hesitated involuntarily as he passed through the foyer. To the left was the path to the basement, where he had stopped to listen to the eerie whispers.

He opened the magic space, and only felt a faint breath of black magic. It is safe here tonight.

Coming to Snape's office door, he knocked on the door, playing with the aspen wand hidden in his cuff with his fingers.

Snape pushed the door open and ushered him in with no expression on his face.

"Please sit down, Professor Peddie."

He stretched out his arms and invited Peter to sit down, his black robe showing the bright white cuffs.

"What do you want to drink? Red wine? Or tea?"

"No, thank you." Peter shrugged off without hesitation.

But he still put a goblet in front of himself and Peter, and filled it with red wine with a stiff movement. It seemed that his right shoulder hadn't healed.

Snape was very polite, but Peter wasn't very surprised, just a little uncomfortable. Peter knew that Snape knew how to be polite, but most of the time he was more inclined to undisguised malice.

Probably because he was about to teach his favorite subject, he was in a good mood today, so he had such a polite opening.

He walked around the desk slowly, sat opposite Peter, waved his wand casually, and a few parchments flew in front of them from the bookcase.

"Here are some of my—" He pushed the parchment toward Peter, "opinions."

Peter picked up the parchment and flipped through it briefly, "You are really bothering, you wrote more opinions than I originally planned."

"It never hurts to be well-prepared, Professor Pedillo, I remember 'always be prepared' is your motto." The mockery he was most familiar with appeared on Snape's face.

Peter raised his eyebrows and didn't speak.

He knew that Snape was back with a gun and a stick, yin and yang to the last basement attack.

Before long, he read Snape's comments carefully.

"Severus, you mean the club activities to be more confrontational?" he asked, putting down the parchment.

"Yes."

"But confrontation greatly increases the probability of accidents, which can lead to an uncontrollable increase in teachers' workload."

"That's your problem, after all you're the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor here." Snape drawled again on the word "your".

"But we don't need to be so troublesome at all. You don't know how poor the students' spell mastery is. Letting them fight will only turn into a mess."

"I don't need to tell you, I also know that magic education is almost completely wasted on them. I can tell a little bit from their performance in potions class." Snape said contemptuously.

"Then why are you letting them fight?"

Snape folded his arms, leaned back in the chair, raised his eyebrows, and shook his head.

"Your Gryffindor thinking is irredeemable," he said coldly. "According to your plan, you won't need to choose people soon—because few students will come."

"I would like to hear more about it." Peter became interested in Snape's words.

A few minutes ago, he had even thought that Snape would only be proposing the inclusion of the Dark Arts in the Defense Against the Dark Arts public class.

"Strength, wealth, glory, status, these are what most people pursue, but you actually think that 'being able to protect other students when attackers come' is a very attractive condition." Snape said in his tone Full of sarcasm.

"I can indeed empower them," Peter said.

"That's not enough, power is just a means, profit is an end, and no one saves some stupid Gryffindors will waste their precious rest time protecting other students - you have to add some kind of instant feedback, confrontation is The best means, such as the Academy Cup."

Indeed, simply adding points and deducting points cannot arouse students' enthusiasm for observing discipline and studying hard.

But with the Academy Cup, it will be different.

The College Cup is a college evaluation system that already existed in the era of the Big Four. Professors and prefects have the right to add points and deduct points according to the performance of students.

Students will value these scores in order to beat other colleges, which is about the glory of the college.

In the Hogwarts auditorium, the four college hourglasses are also placed in very obvious positions for easy comparison at any time.

Adding confrontation can really increase the enthusiasm of wizards to participate.

Peter nodded, "That is to say, group the students according to the colleges, conduct confrontational competitions, and reward the winners...Indeed, this can improve motivation...We can only allow them to use the Disarming Curse for the time being."

Snape let out his usual sarcasm, "Talking like they could learn something else."

Peter stayed here for an hour, working with Snape to finalize the time, format and process of the first public class.

To his somewhat surprise, Snape hadn't mentioned the Dark Arts at all.

He found Snape a desirable colleague, but he dared not take a sip of the wine the potions expert poured him.

(End of this chapter)