Hogwarts Melting Ice Journey

Wednesday is always the busiest day at Hogwarts, as there are always a bunch of owls bringing letters to the dining hall in the morning.

When Lockhart was at school, the number of owls would be much greater than before he came to Hogwarts, or after he graduated from Hogwarts.

Fortunately, since the last time he ordered a large number of love letters for himself on Valentine's Day, causing owl poop to fall all over the restaurant, he has calmed down a little.

The first-year students were lucky enough to escape a rain of feces because they arrived in September.

Stephen watched a bunch of owls flying towards Lockhart and couldn't help shaking his head. It seemed that Lockhart was still the same, always doing his best to enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by stars.

A public owl flew up to Stephen, dropped a letter to him, and then flew away again. He picked up the letter and looked at the sender's signature. There was no signature.

"Strange, who could have sent it to me?" Stephen was a little curious. Usually, the Tonys would only ask Holmes to bring a letter back to him when he wrote a letter home.

He opened the envelope and read the contents.

While Stephen was reading the contents of the letter, several owls also brought some packages to Rowan.

Inside the package were several books, as well as letters sent to him by Rowan's parents from the forest farm. Rowan put the reply he had prepared a long time ago on the feet of the owl that sent him the letter, and asked him to bring the reply to his parents.

Stephen stuffed the letter he had read back and continued to deal with the breakfast he had just finished, but his brows furrowed for a long time and did not relax until Rowan asked him what happened.

After breakfast, the two rushed to the Transfiguration classroom. Professor McGonagall first checked the little wizards' process of turning matches into needles, and then taught them how to turn needles back into matches.

The process of restoration is more complicated than the process of transformation, because not only do you have to think about how to change it back, but you also have to think about how it changed in the first place.

One class passed quickly, and Martin and Ben took the lead in completing the restoration, adding two points to their respective colleges. Stephen and Rowan talked for a while before completing the process behind the two of them, followed closely by the others.

Stephen and Rowan put away the textbooks and notes and prepared to take the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. It was said that Professor Keyes brought a small surprise to the first-year wizards. The others walked together in twos and threes, talking about what was going to happen later. What will Professor Skye teach?

Ben saw the two of them planning to leave and hurriedly followed them. He walked quickly to Stephen: "Stephen, can I take some of your time?"

Stephen looked at him curiously, but nodded quickly: "Sorry Rowan, I think you have to go to the classroom alone first. Ben, do you have anything to do with me?"

Ben hesitated: "I...I...I have something to tell you."

Stephen was in a daze thinking about the content of the morning letter, but he reacted: "What's the matter? If there is anything I can do to help, I will be happy to help you."

Ben seemed to have summoned up the courage, but after hesitating for a long time, he still couldn't hold back a complete sentence: "I used to... I thought... I felt that my Potions class score was... ...My grades are very poor, and I want to ask you to help me, because...I heard that your grades in Potions are very good."

Stephen nodded: "Of course, no problem, Ben, I can lend you my notes."

Ben thanked him and ran away in a hurry, leaving Stephen walking alone in the corridor.

Stephen looked at his back as he left in a hurry and murmured: "Is it just a matter of poor grades in Potions class? I hope it's just that."

Today's Defense Against the Dark Arts class has been slightly adjusted. After Professor Snape's "suggestion", Gryffindor will be arranged with Slytherin in subsequent classes. I don't know why Dumbledore agreed.

Stephen arrived in the classroom before class. He sat next to Rowan: "Rowan, isn't Professor Keith here yet?"

"Not yet. There are no books of his on the desk."

It was time for class, and Professor Case quickly walked into the classroom. He stopped at the door and said loudly: "Little guys, we have to change our class today. Come on, follow me."

On the way to change classrooms, Professor Keyes led the little wizards and said: "I know many of you complained about me, saying that I am boring in class and only follow what is taught. But what I consider is that in the classroom without sufficient theoretical support, Under such circumstances, even the easiest dark creatures may frighten you."

He led them to the door of a classroom: "So today I will take you to face a real dark creature. Don't worry, it is easy to deal with and there is no danger."

Professor Keyes opened the door of the classroom. It was very empty inside, except for a large cabinet and the lamp that illuminated the classroom, there was nothing else. He asked the little wizards to line up and prepare to start explaining and asking questions before class.

"Can any of you tell me how to deal with a Boggart?" Obviously, today they are facing a Boggart, one of the safest dark creatures in the magical world.

"The best way is laughter, Professor Keyes," Rowan replied. "Also, it confuses boggarts in large numbers."

"Very good, two points for Ravenclaw. What I'm going to teach you today is a funny spell to deal with Boggarts. Come on, follow me..." Professor Keyes waved his wand slowly. , so that the little wizards could see his movements clearly, and then explained what they should pay attention to later.

After confirming that everyone could do it, Professor Case clapped his hands and signaled everyone to calm down: "Okay, little guys, I will release the Boggart from the cabinet later, and you will have to face it one by one. , now who plans to come first?”

A Hufflepuff student came out. Based on Stephen's vague impression, the person who came out should be named Jones Dylan.

He stood in front of the crowd. Seeing that he was ready, Professor Keyes opened the cabinet with his wand. A middle-aged woman came out and shouted to him: "Jones, why are you... again today?"

It seems to be his mother, and her nagging energy is indeed quite scary. Jones waves his wand: "Funny"

Boggart turned into a slumping old lady, leaning on a crutch and trembling. The others looked at the boggart, wondering what was so funny about this.

"This is probably the best joke of the week." Stephen whispered to Rowan, "Rowan, what do you think you are afraid of?"

"Oh, I guess the book I was going to read was destroyed." Well, that's very Rowan.

"What about you, Stephen, what do you think you are most afraid of?"

"I don't know either." Stephen thought of the ghost movies he had watched before, but he felt that what he was most afraid of now were not those. "We'll find out later."

"That's right." Rowan agreed with this view.

"Okay, now who wants to be next?" Professor Keyes used the wand to stuff the Boggart back into the cabinet and looked at everyone.