Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 49 Open Lessons

At noon on Tuesday, a crowd gathered in the foyer, reading a new notice.

The large font title on the parchment attracts everyone's attention——

Open class on Defense Against the Dark Arts.

In just a few hours, the news spread throughout the school, igniting the interest of all students.

A black arts attack in a basement corridor that left a professor seriously injured shows that Hogwarts is no longer safe.

In this dangerous special period, it is very important to learn to protect yourself.

Even those students who were willing to believe that this was an accident were curious about the lectures given by Professor Peddie, who had witnessed the attack himself.

The Defense Against the Dark Arts courses in the previous years were all scripted, and it was the first time that the students had the opportunity to experience such an exciting practical course.

It took a lot of effort for Harry, Ron, and Hermione to push their way through the crowd to where they could barely see the sign.

Neither Harry nor Hermione was tall enough, and only Ron could pass over the heads of the crowd. "Time: [-] o'clock on Tuesday night, location: Hogwarts Great Hall, reference book: "Wizard's Combat Guide." He read the notice on the notice Character.

"Are there any other professors with him besides Professor Peddie?" asked Hermione.

"It's not written on it," said Ron.

"Professor Peddie is definitely not the only one. What he wants to teach us is practical skills," Hermione said wisely. "I think he will ask Professor Flitwick to join him. A wizard duel champion."

"And maybe Sirius," said Harry. "Didn't Sirius work in an underground dueling ring?"

"But Sirius is going to stay with Kreacher at home these few days, so he probably won't come." Hermione said.

"Professor Peddie will ask the white wolf in the Forbidden Forest to be his assistant," said an erratic voice, "there is an invisible mad werewolf in Hogwarts Castle, who attacks on the night of the full moon. Professor Peddie Road, so the professor wants to teach us the skills of fighting werewolves."

Hearing these outrageous rumors, Hermione frowned, she pursed her lips, and looked around for the source of the voice.

She saw a girl with dirty blond hair standing at the outermost circle of the crowd. Everyone else was in high spirits, but she held up a gaudy periscope calmly, as if the noise outside had nothing to do with her.

"Look, it's Luna, the crazy girl from Ravenclaw. I really don't know how anyone would believe such illogical rumors." Hermione tugged at Harry's shirt.

"Yeah, Ravenclaw girl, she's really—what did you say?" Harry hurriedly looked away from the front left as if he had just woken up from a dream. Just now, he caught a glimpse of the Ravenclaw Seeker Zhang Qiu's beautiful profile.

Hermione looked in that direction suspiciously.

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Six o'clock in the evening, Hogwarts Great Hall.

The long four-house dining table had disappeared, and a golden stage had been erected in the middle.

Hundreds of candles are suspended in the air, the fire is burning in the fireplace, and the center of the auditorium is decorated brilliantly.

Surrounding the stage was a three-story stand made by Peter using transfiguration, ensuring that nearly [-] students in seven grades of Hogwarts could clearly see what was going on on the stage.

Almost all the students in the school had arrived, and the stands were crowded with people, and the students were discussing enthusiastically.

Madam Pomfrey stood in the shadows beside the stage, looking bored.

The time was almost up, and when Peter and Snape walked onto the stage together, the discussion stopped abruptly and was replaced by a silence of doubt.

Few of the students would have guessed that the Defense Against the Dark Arts open class assistant that Professor Pedillo had found would be a Potions teacher, and their eyes were fixed on the two new professors on the stage curiously.

Peter made a small circle around the stage, his eyes sweeping over the students in the stands.

He saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and the other Gryffindors, grouping themselves into a small group, away from the Slytherins across the way.

Harry and Ron were whispering to each other, while Hermione on the side was concentrating on reading the "Wizard's Combat Guide". She planned to learn all the content in the reference book before class.

In the Slytherin area on the other side, Peter paid special attention to Draco Malfoy. His face was still pale today, and he was quietly hiding behind Crabbe and Goyle.

"Severus?" Peter turned back to Snape, asking politely if Snape wanted to say something first.

Snape shook his head expressionlessly, and impatiently tapped the stage with his cane. He was still dressed in black today, and his scarred neck was covered with bruises.

Peter stepped forward, tapped his throat with his wand, and the magic would amplify his voice.

"Welcome to the Defense Against the Dark Arts Open Class!"

There was warm applause in the auditorium, but the students in the Slytherin area sat there coldly, unmoved.

After the applause subsided, Peter continued: "Before the class starts, we need to clarify three things."

"First, you know that there has been danger in the school. You will learn the magic skills to protect yourself here. I hope you will stand up for others within your ability. Only by helping each other can we tide over the difficulties."

There was a booing from among the Slytherin students, who, like Snape, saw Peter's thinking as "incurably Gryffindor-minded" because the credo of Slytherin house was to play it safe.

Peter was unmoved, "Second, due to the large number of people, only some basic teaching can be done in the public class. I will set up a Defense Against the Dark Arts club in the future and select students with outstanding performance to join. The selection will be done in the form of points ranking. The specific details will be notified separately.”

There were discussions among the students, everyone was curious about the Defense Against the Dark Arts club.

"Third," he raised his voice, "the school with the best performance will receive 300 extra points, and the scores will be counted at the end of the school year. Individual students with the best performance will also be rewarded."

The Slytherin students became more energetic, straightened their bodies and listened carefully to his words, and the discussion in the auditorium became more heated.

"Okay." Peter clapped his hands, motioning the students to be quiet, "Please take your duel badges—"

He whipped out his wand, and hundreds of badges flew towards the stands.

On these badges, a bright red "0" shines.

"Please don't wear duel badges casually. Putting the badge on your chest means that you want to have a wizard duel with other people," Peter explained, "The duel badge will record your victory and defeat, and automatically add and subtract points. At the end of the period, I will rank the points."

His design for the dueling badge was inspired by Malfoy's "Support Cedric Diggory, Potter Stinks" badge, and with this, the workload of selecting students was greatly reduced.

"Of course, in order to avoid affecting the normal learning order, the badge can record scores up to three times a day, and there are other rules and restrictions..." He caught a glimpse of Madam Pomfrey's green face with anger.

(End of this chapter)