HP Polar Night

After another storm in Potions class, Harry left the classroom with Ron in a ghostly manner.In the last class, Harry was ridiculed and ridiculed by Snape for various inexplicable reasons. Just because Harry was concentrating on his cauldron and didn't notice Neville's operation error, he was deducted another point.God knows there are still two people between him and Neville, and he doesn't have a third eye on his head to stare at Neville.

Harry would suffer every Potions class, praying frantically that the class would pass quickly.

Once get out of class was over, Harry and Ron would leave the Potions classroom as quickly as possible, as if they were being pursued by a troll.

After leaving the basement and returning to the foyer, Harry told Ron that he was going to the library.Ron felt uncomfortable when he heard the library, and decided to go back to Gryffindor Tower to rest by himself.The two walked up to the fifth floor together and then separated, Harry went to the library, and Ron continued to go up.

The library is always full of people, but first-year students are rarely in it.Firstly, the study tasks of the first grade are not heavy, and secondly, the freshmen often have no idea of ​​studying, and I am afraid that they spend all their free time exploring the castle.

It is estimated that in addition to Ravenclaw's freshmen, Hermione Granger, a little witch who was born in Gryffindor but loves to learn, will appear more often in the library.

After entering the library, Harry found Agares in the crowd very quickly.

He was standing in front of the bookshelf closest to the door, holding a "Primary Potion Book" in his hand, reading it quietly.

Harry walked over, subconsciously softening his footsteps.

"Hi, Agares."

A shy voice sounded from behind, and Agares looked away from the book and turned around. "Hi Harry, long time no see."

Harry scratched his head, not knowing what to say.

Fortunately, Agares never embarrassed others, leading Harry to an empty table to the side.

"Come on, let's sit here and be quiet."

Sitting down, Harry noticed that Agares had used his wand to cast two spells around him, the Silencing Charm and the Ignoring Charm.He had seen these two spells in the Encyclopedia of Spells, both of which were learned in the upper grades.But Agares is only a second-year student, and his friend is really good.

"I've been busy recently, and I don't have time to see you. How are you, are you still used to life at Hogwarts?"

"It's great, Hogwarts is simply amazing, I'm afraid I have to give her all the admiration since I was a child! I never knew that magic and wizards really existed in this world before, if I hadn't received Hogwarts Maybe I'm still at Stonewall High School!" Harry's eyes lit up when he said this.It can be seen that he really likes this place very much, and is deeply fascinated by Hogwarts.

Yeah, who doesn't love Hogwarts?Every wizard who has lived here has no dislike here.Especially Harry, who never enjoyed the warmth of a family, seems to have found his own home after coming to Hogwarts.

Agares kept looking at Harry with encouraging eyes, keeping him excited, telling about life in Gryffindor, his lessons, his love of Quidditch...

Harry didn't know how much he'd talked, but when he stopped, he felt smoke coming from his throat.Harry was a little embarrassed when he realized what he had been talking about just now. "Am I talking too much?"

Agares said: "I'd love to hear you say this, after all, I was about the same when I first entered school." He put a cufflink on the table, and used transfiguration to turn it into a glass with beautiful patterns cup, and then summoned a cup of water with a spring of clear water, and pushed it in front of Harry.

"Wow." Harry subconsciously exclaimed.

"After you learn these two spells, you can easily do it."

"I heard from Hermione that you are the only student who has mastered the knowledge of the fifth grade in the first grade, and the professors think that you can even take the OWLs in the second grade." Maybe the boy in front of him didn't know, He was well known in Gryffindor.At least Harry himself has heard the seniors talking about Black in Slytherin more than once in the Gryffindor common room. They said that he was assigned to the wrong house and should be in Ravenclaw. People at Eagle Academy are obsessed with learning.And the seniors also "hate" Blake very much, because the professors would always use him as an example in class, "You can't even compare to Blake in the first grade, you should be ashamed of yourself", and words like this gradually became professors. mantra.

"Hermione?"

"Hermione Granger, she is the smartest girl in Gryffindor, she is always the first to finish every class, there is nothing she doesn't understand." Although Harry sometimes felt that Hermione's The attitude is too arrogant, but he still recognizes the other party's learning ability very much.

Agares nodded. "What about you? Studying should be good, right? It is said that you are the youngest Quidditch player in a century. You know that when Draco talked about this, he wanted to chew you like a biscuit Chew it and swallow it." He smiled lightly.

Harry's face hardened for a moment.He suddenly remembered that the person across from him was related to the Malfoy who often troubled him. It seemed that Malfoy and him were quite close, and they were always seen sitting together at meals every day.

Seemingly seeing Harry's mental activity from his expression, Agares said: "Although Draco and I are relatives, we don't need to be the same as friends."

Harry smiled, somewhat relaxing.

He didn't want the friend he liked to alienate him because of Malfoy.

When it comes to studying, Harry feels guilty.His grades have nothing to do with his flying skills, no matter how good his flying is, he cannot be made to play the role of the magic spell in class.

"Actually, my homework has always been bad." Facing his friend's concerned eyes, Harry had no choice but to explain his situation.If Agares thought he was good at his homework, but learned about his poor performance in class through Malfoy, then their friendship would definitely come to an end.

Agares heard him talk about his inexperience with spells, his ignorance of herbal medicine, and his fear of potions classes, and he couldn't help interrupting the other party's self-disgust.

"Harry," he called the other party's name, and when he saw those green eyes looking at him with melancholy, he said softly, "You have to know that your current homework progress is normal for a first grader. Every young wizard who has just entered school is similar, you can't use someone as an example."

In view of this "individual", the most prominent one is Agares himself, so he said: "But if you really want to improve your performance, I may have some tips that can help you."

Harry immediately perked up and nodded hastily, as if afraid that Agares would change his mind if it was too late. "Of course I want to!" He had heard from Gryffindor in the second grade that Agareth Black often helped other students master knowledge in class, and even the professor recognized his learning methods.

Many people are secretly envious of the students who can study in the same classroom as Agares, especially those in Slytherin. I am afraid that Agares spends more time tutoring them. No wonder the students at the end of last year's semester At that time, the results of the Slytherins occupied 9 of the top ten lists of the whole year, and the other was Eddie Carmichael, a friend of Agares in Ravenclaw.

"Okay, let me think about it. According to the progress of the first grade, you have now learned the transformation between dead objects and dead objects. There will be no more than three basic spells. Herbology should still be in the stage of understanding and reciting. Astronomy Started to identify stars and star trails, eh, and potions, probably still doing simple potions. I think we can review transfiguration and spells today, after all, the conditions here are poor. Harry, do you have your wand with you? On him? A wizard cannot leave his wand."

Harry produced his holly wand and smiled at his dark-haired friend.

Agares nodded: "Come on, let's see how far you have mastered Transfiguration."

"Just the . . . stone that turns matches into needles and stones into translucent cup shapes," Harry muttered.

"Then we still need some small props, wait for me." After saying this, Agares got up and walked away. Harry watched him disappear between the bookshelves. After a short wait, he came back with Take a box of matches and some rocks.

Harry saw that the other party put a match and a stone in front of him, he squeezed the wand in his hand, and thought: Dude, you have to work hard, I don't want to lose face in front of Agares.

Then, Harry concentrated [-]% of his energy, staring at the match, repeating the spell in his mind several times, swiping his wand, and with a swish, the match turned into a silver needle with the tip still glowing. glowing.

"Perfect!" Agares exclaimed, and he picked up the silver needle for a closer look.

Harry blinked, seemingly still not reacting.

"Harry, you should be very talented in transfiguration, both in terms of magic power output and speed, you are extremely accurate." Agares praised him greatly, and the other party's performance just now was indeed excellent.You must know that a spell does not mean that it has been mastered once it is used successfully. Only accuracy and speed are important indicators to measure ability.

The savior really has something extraordinary.

"Eh..." Harry scratched his head, "I seemed to be performing a little bit beyond normal just now, and I don't seem to be doing so well normally."

"Then remember how you felt just now, come on, let's try this." He pointed to the stone on the table.

Harry recalled how he had felt just now, concentrating, he said the spell and waved his wand.

The stone turned into a crystal clear glass, compared with the one that Agares deformed just now, there are only a few patterns.

"Successful?" Harry still couldn't believe it.

Agares smiled and said, "Of course, it was very successful. Professor McGonagall should give you a point."

Harry grinned too.Not a bad feeling, he said.

The two stayed in the library for a long time, and Agares helped Harry review the first-year lessons, and taught each other some small changes in his casting of spells, slight adjustments in gestures, and slight changes in intonation , psychological hints to oneself, etc., will actually have a very large impact on the success rate of casting the spell.

With the help of Agares, Harry succeeded in every spell he had learned in class, and there were even many that he hadn't learned, and Agares also taught him in advance.Harry thought he might be the first to finish the next class.

But in the process of talking about their homework, they couldn't help but talk about potions.

This was Harry's most painful and least favorite class.

Even though he knew Snape was the head of Slytherin, Harry couldn't help his whining.

When Harry said that he thought Professor Snape was always targeting him and always looking at him with disgust, Agares froze for a moment.He didn't know that apart from himself, Harry Potter also received "special treatment" from Professor Snape.

He subconsciously guessed that there must be some kind of necessary connection between these two things.

But he didn't say much, just smiled: "Harry, believe me, in terms of the list of students Professor Snape hates the most, I'm afraid you won't be in the top ten!"

Harry smiled sheepishly.He had heard from the seniors that Snape was always targeting Agares, punishing him for after-school labor service for any strange reason.Agares even became the first and only Slytherin whose points were deducted by Snape since he became the head of Slytherin.

Suffering the same injustice as a friend gave Harry a sense of sympathy.

"Well, Snape has to ask me all kinds of questions in every class, even if I have previewed the content of two or three classes in advance, it's useless, he will still ask me what I don't know."

Regardless of the disrespect towards the professor in the other party's words, Agares nodded empathetically. "In the first class, the dean almost asked about the entire book of "Magic Potions and Potions" and "A Thousand Magical Herbs and Mushrooms". In the end, because I 'read books that exceeded the class requirements without permission' , and fined me for after-school labor service." In fact, this just represented the other party's powerlessness towards him.So Agares doesn't feel wronged, he just finds it interesting.

Had the same experience as Agares, and it made Harry almost jump out of his chair with excitement. "Exactly! He asked me in the first class, what would I get if I added narcissus root powder to the wormwood infusion, and where to find bezoar, what's the difference between Aconitum acanthus and Aconitum chamaejasma... Cough cough, In fact, if I had previewed in advance, I could have answered at least two." After speaking, Harry felt a little embarrassed, after all, compared with his friends, he was far behind.

Agares was able to memorize the entire book of magic potions and magic herbs, which is amazing.

Harry didn't notice the thoughtful look on Agares' face.

In addition to the two questions of bezoar and aconitum, which are normal first-grade textbooks, the first question, a drink of water of life and death made of narcissus root powder and wormwood infusion, is the content of fifth grade.

Professor Snape asks students questions every class, but he never asks more than what he has learned in the first year.

"Daffodil root powder and wormwood infusion, was that the first question Professor Snape asked you?"

"Yeah, I asked Hermione later, it turned out to be a fifth grade question. Snape must have made it difficult for me on purpose." Harry didn't think it was wrong.

Agares silently wrote down this detail.

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