Hogwarts Passer-By Professor

Whoosh—

A flash of light suddenly appeared, and when he looked up, he could see a transparent phoenix flying in front of Eisen.

This is - Dumbledore's Patronus? After realizing what the thing in front of him was, Eisen suddenly understood. Looks like Dumbledore has something to do with him.

"Professor Eisen, please come to my office!" After Dumbledore's voice came out, the Patronus dissipated.

A few minutes later, when Eisen came to Dumbledore's office, he found that besides Dumbledore, Professor Snape was also here.

However, to Eisen's surprise, Snape stared at Dumbledore with a disgruntled expression, as if Dumbledore had done something wrong to him.

"Professor Dumbledore, what can I do for you?" Eisen glanced at the two silently, and looked at Dumbledore calmly.

"Professor Eisen, I need to discuss something with you!" Dumbledore said solemnly to Eisen, then glanced at Snape.

Snape nodded, turned and left Dumbledore's office without saying anything.

"What's the matter?" Although Snape's action was a bit strange, since it wasn't about Eisen's business, he didn't ask too much. But seeing Dumbledore's solemn expression, Eisen was still a little strange.

"Gilderoy is no longer the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor—" Dumbledore said, glancing at Eisen.

This made Eisen feel weird, and it seemed that Professor McGonagall had said something similar before. However, Eisen did not speak, but looked at Dumbledore, waiting for him to continue.

Seeing that Eisen nodded and said nothing, Dumbledore continued: "Severus wanted to be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, but I didn't agree."

Hearing this, Eisen was stunned. No wonder Snape pulled the elder's face. It turned out that the application for Defense Against the Dark Arts class was rejected.

"The school will cancel the Defense Against the Dark Arts class?" A thought flashed through his mind, but Eisen said so.

"No, Defense Against the Dark Arts is one of the core subjects at Hogwarts, and it cannot be cancelled!" Dumbledore shook his head with a resolute tone.

Hearing Dumbledore's words, Eisen resisted the urge to roll his eyes, and kept complaining in his heart: "Yes, this course is indeed core enough, and the core has been the same for decades, and the professor changes every year. It's really too much. Demented!"

However, Eisen still didn't understand why Dumbledore kept rejecting Snape's application to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts.

One must know that Snape was not only effective in the research of potions, but also had a unique insight into the research of Defense Against the Dark Arts. This point can be seen from the fact that he was able to create the Shenfeng Shadowless Curse alone.

In a way, Snape was very suitable for the position of professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. But unfortunately, Snape applied every year and was rejected every year.

So, why did Dumbledore reject Snape's application? Thoughts swirled in his mind, and Eisen already had some guesses.

Judging from Snape's experience, he surrendered to Voldemort because of his obsession with black magic. But unlike other Death Eaters, Snape was always thinking about Harry's mother, Lily.

That's why Snape had to betray Voldemort and go undercover for Dumbledore when Voldemort wanted to kill Lily. Unfortunately, Lily was finally killed by Voldemort.

Of course, Dumbledore was well aware of Snape's fondness for the study of the Dark Arts, even though Snape had turned his back on dark arts. So, if Snape continued to indulge in the power of the Dark Arts after serving as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, sooner or later he might show his darkest side again.

Dumbledore himself had turned down the position of Minister for Magic several times, why? Because he was worried that he would lose himself if he had too much power. Therefore, he felt that if Snape had too much exposure to black magic, he might fall back on Voldemort again. That's probably why Dumbledore would reject Snape's application to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts.

However, what Dumbledore doesn't know at the moment is that Snape has always loved Lily deeply, so he can cast the same patron saint as Lily - the doe. As for the patron saint, a wizard needs a strong happy emotion, or a positive emotion from the heart to drive it.

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Logically speaking, it is impossible for the Death Eaters of the villain camp to cast the Patronus Charm, but Snape did it with his love for Lily. So, in theory, if Snape was the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, as long as he still loved Lily, he wouldn't be in deep trouble.

But Dumbledore didn't know all this, so he never made Snape the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

"So, you mean—" After a moment of hesitation, Eisen asked directly.

"I want you to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor temporarily!" Dumbledore was expressionless, unable to see clearly what he was thinking.

Dumbledore said this very calmly, but Eisen couldn't help raising his eyebrows, feeling a little outrageous. Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, such an important position, is he able to hold such an important position?

"No, Professor Dumbledore, to be honest, I'm not suitable to be a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at all—" Eisen waved his hand directly to show his attitude, and then continued to explain the reason, "You see, I don't have an in-depth study of black arts , and I don’t know how to deal with vampires, werewolves, and magical creatures like Lockhart, and in my case, I’m not qualified to be a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at all!”

"Look - Gilderoy can be a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and I don't think you have a problem!" Dumbledore's solemn expression subsided, and he said with a little relief.

"Uh, even if Lockhart's adventures are fake, he still needs to study it if he wants to remember it on himself, right! But obviously, I haven't done any research on these." Eisen was slightly taken aback, Continue to refute.

"Yes, I understand that, so what I mean is not that you will be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor next year, but that you will be acting as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for the rest of the year." Dumbledore nodded , and then said something surprising.

"So that's the case!" Eisen nodded, but remembered what he had said to Professor Maoge before, and felt that things became weird, "Didn't other professors know about this?"

"No, it wasn't made public." Dumbledore shook his head.

"There is a key question. The final exam of this school year is less than three weeks away. What am I going to teach them?" Eisen asked a new question.

This is indeed a problem, you know, the Defense Against the Dark Arts class usually teaches students how to deal with dark magic and jinxes, and how to deal with dangers such as vampires and werewolves. But in less than three weeks, what can Eisen teach?

After all, Eisen is currently good at Charms and Transfiguration, plus a little research in Alchemy, but these are certainly not things that Defense Against the Dark Arts should teach.

Moreover, even if Eisen intends to teach the second-year little wizard some knowledge, how will he be tested in the exam? Don't forget, the second grade little wizard has been studying for almost a year. If the exam was based on what Eisen taught, then wouldn't it be a waste of time for them to study for a year.

Well, in fact, they have learned from Bai for almost a year, but at any rate, the experiences in Lockhart's book, the means and methods of dealing with werewolves, vampires, female ghosts, etc. are not fake.

But if the content in Lockhart's book is still tested, wouldn't it be a waste of time for Eisen to teach others.

"That's up to you!" Dumbledore threw the question back straight away.

"Okay, I see." Eisen nodded without saying anything more.