HP Polar Night

The next day, Professor Snape asked another senior Slytherin who stayed in school to bring the note to Agares.It reads: Beginning today, perform your labor service with Professor Quirrell for a month.

Quirinus Quirrell, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

It is said that since the mysterious person cursed this position, no one has been able to serve as the Dark Defense Professor for two consecutive years.Last year, Professor Leonard Grosvenor, because he wanted to have a wonderful time in the last class, he used a curse-like black magic, but it accidentally bounced back on himself. Later, Dumbledore The principal saved his life.But that black magic made him grow a third hand, and he's still living in St Mungo's trying to get the extra hand off.

Professor Quirrell in this school year, judging from the files, is indeed a suitable candidate.He was born in Ravenclaw, and his grades have always been excellent when he was studying. Later, because he wanted to accumulate practical experience, he took a year off from school and traveled around the world.

It is said that he was frightened by vampires during his travels, so that now he has a stammering and timid appearance.

Professor Quirrell's class was a disaster, everyone who took his class said so.

I don't know if he is really afraid of vampires so much, he always smells of garlic, and the classroom is also filled with smog.When it takes a lot of courage to stand in the classroom, let alone the students will have extra attention in his stammering lectures.

Agares has a good impression of Professor Quirrell. He thinks that the other party has real materials, but he is very bad at giving lectures.In addition, for some reason, the other party deliberately concealed his ability, which was a bit too low-key.

The courses of Defense Against the Dark Arts are inherently more difficult than other courses. To learn these defensive or offensive spells requires a high level of precise control of the wizard's magic power.Such as disarming spell, petrification spell, unconsciousness, armor protection, etc., are all things to learn in the anti-darkness course.But often students can only master a few of them in one semester.

Professor Quirrell's office is on the third floor. When Agares knocked on the door, he seemed to have just finished taking a shower. He hurriedly wrapped himself in a robe and ran out to open the door, while his conspicuous turban was still firmly piled on his head.

"B... Black... what's the matter with you?"

"Professor Snape asked me to do labor services." Agares handed him the note.

Professor Quirrell took the note and looked at it. The expression on his face seemed a bit embarrassed, but he didn't say anything, and let Agares come in sideways.

"You... sit down... sit down."

Agares guessed that the other party was going to go in and adjust his clothes, and said with a smile, "Okay, professor, please go ahead."

Professor Quirrell squeezed a strange smile at him, turned around and entered the room, and the door was closed.

Agares looked at the outfit in the office.

A silver dagger hung in the middle of the wall, supported by a pair of elk antlers, and below it stood a table piled with a strange handful of feathers.Next to it is a bookshelf, which has a very rich collection of books, with thousands of books.Agares was sure that the bookshelf must have used the spell of expansion.

Judging from this bookshelf, Professor Quirrell really deserves to be from Ravenclaw.

In the center of the room is a desk, on which there are stacks of students' thesis assignments.

Agares noticed that one of the papers at the top of the stack was his "Similarity of Magic, Oblivion and Cleansing."

Judging from the folding of the corners of the paper, it seems that this has been paid attention to by the viewers, and even after repeated reading, the edges of the parchment are curled.

This thesis begins with the description of forgetting everything and clearing it up, but there will be some conjectures that should not be known or written into the thesis by a Hogwarts student, such as the effect of cruciate bone on the five senses and Soul, it is likely to come from the same source as the Rejuvenation Charm, but in opposite directions.

Along with this thesis, which was handed in as a semester assignment, there was also the Transfiguration paper "The Origin of Matter Is the Key to the Success of Transfiguration—Understand the Origin, and Food Turned into Stones Can Be Eaten", and the Charms class paper "Levitation Curse and Conjecture on the Coordination Effect of Magic Patterns" and so on.

Agares has always been very confident in knowledge, so he was not surprised that his thesis was not given the same attention by the professor.

So when Professor Quirrell changed into a robe from the living room and came out neatly dressed, he calmly withdrew his gaze from the bookshelf and bowed slightly to the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. "Professor Quirrell, what is the content of my labor service?"

"Oh, oh, you can...help...help me sort out...the textbooks for...classes..."

"Stunning spell? Is this what we will be teaching next class?" Agares noticed the spell written on the lesson plan.

Professor Quirrell seemed to be nervous all the time. He rubbed his hands and stammered: "Yes...yes...according to the textbook...you...should learn, learn...this..."

Agares continued to read, and the teaching plan listed the spells to be learned in each lesson by category, the origin of the spell analyzed for the spell, the syllables and characters, the commonly used scenes, and the dangers of this spell to the magic world. Creatures will have a significant effect, and which creatures will have a counterproductive or less obvious effect.

Seeing this perfect teaching plan with a complete structure, rigorous logic and covering almost all other courses and textbooks, Agares once thought he had come to the wrong office.To be honest, he wouldn't be surprised if he saw such a lesson plan in the offices of Professor Snape, McGonagall, Flitwick, or Sprout.

After all, every wizard who becomes a professor at Hogwarts and imparts experience here is a well-known leader in his field.They have a very precise grasp of their courses, and they can well demonstrate this precision in their respective classes.

But Quirinus Quirrell?This sorcerer named after the god of war obviously didn't show any deeds worthy of his name during his teaching period. His performance only made people feel that he was a loser who was scared out of his wits.

Now, Agares felt that he should take a good look at the wizard in front of him.Under the strange appearance of the other party, there must be hidden carefulness and great knowledge of magic that are not known to the public.You must know that in just a quick glance at the lesson plan, Agares discovered no less than ten kinds of knowledge that are rarely known in the wizarding world, and only the profound and ancient magic books have the knowledge to dabble in.If he hadn't used the crazy supplementary knowledge in the Forbidden Books section during this period of time, I'm afraid he wouldn't even know what those proper terms that were understated or even briefly mentioned represented.

"Professor, what can I do for you? As far as I can see, your teaching plan is perfect. According to the above teaching, I am afraid that the students will benefit a lot." Agares' affirmation and praise seem to make Professor Quirrell very satisfied. For benefit.

The professor who always appeared in front of everyone with a tense and stuttering posture calmed down his expression a little, and seemed somewhat relaxed. "B...Mr. Black...you...you can help...I catch Mercia...the goblin...catch...into a cage..."

The Mercian goblin, originating in the middle of the country, looks very similar to the Cornish elf, but its destructive power is much smaller than that group of iron-blue fairies, and they only use abnormal attacks when they are angry. The sharp screams torment people's ears, but that can be easily resolved as long as there is a silence.Stunning spells are very effective at capturing them.

Agares helped Professor Quirrell divide the nearly twenty goblins scattered in a large cage into small cages one by one. These magical creatures locked in small cages will become the students' group exercises during class. Best props.

After finishing all this, Agares got the permission of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor to look through some of his private collections on the bookshelf.

This night is still very meaningful for Agares.

One is that he discovered that the submissive Professor Quirrell actually has a considerable reserve of magical knowledge. From his stuttering words, Agares learned a lot of knowledge that he had not learned, and many of them came from Quirrell. The experience of the professor's travel during the year when he was absent from school.

As a Ravenclaw, Professor Quirrell pursues all the magical knowledge that fascinates him, and he also has a certain spirit of adventure.It was known from his experience that no less than ten times he had entered areas that were considered dangerous off-limits by the wizarding world.Unlike the Gryffindors who are born to take risks, Professor Quirrell often enters these areas only to confirm a certain description in the book about plants or traces of ancient magic.

Another one is that he received a book about the origin of magic from Professor Quirrell, "Merlin's Gift-Magic for Wizards' Survival". This book was earlier than the establishment of Hogwarts. A wizard's manuscript, lost in time.

During Professor Quirrell's travels, he spent ten Galleons to buy a box that couldn't be opened from a down-and-out wizard.Later, it was opened by accident, and several very old manuscripts were obtained inside.Of course, the originals of these manuscripts were well preserved by Professor Quirrell, but he brought a few copies to Hogwarts, and Agares got the copies.

In view of this, Agares considered very carefully whether he would spend some time traveling in the future.And the result of his consideration is that this is very necessary.So he felt that the professor in front of him could also give him a lot of advice and inspiration in terms of traveling, which made him look forward to the labor service in the next month even more.

"Thank you for your careful teaching, Professor Quirrell, I hope I didn't cause you too much trouble tonight." Standing in front of the office door, Agares greeted the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor politely.

After getting along this night, the other party's unpleasant garlic smell and the surprisingly large turban are no longer things worth noting. He is a qualified Ravenclaw, there is no doubt about it.Agares judged in his heart.

Professor Quirrell still looked nervous: "No...you're welcome...Mr. Black...tomorrow...tomorrow you can...late, later...to..."

"Then it's 10 o'clock?" Agares guessed that the other party would prefer to take a comfortable shower in the morning, so he proposed a slightly more suitable time, which was agreed by the other party.

"Then I take my leave, Professor, and good afternoon."

After watching this excellent Slytherin student disappear from the corner of the corridor, Quirinus Quirrell closed the office door and returned to the living room.He placed several warning and protective spells in the room, and then he walked to the wall in the living room facing the bed, where a huge mirror hung.

Professor Quirrell slowly took off his hood in front of the mirror.

He turned his head and pointed the back of his head at the mirror. Strangely, a mirror appeared right in front of him at this moment. This mirror was obviously summoned by him with magic.

And a twisted and long face appeared in the two mirrors, and the red eyes looked particularly terrifying in the mirrors.

"Keep an eye on this boy."

That face, the face embedded in the back of Professor Quirrell's head, opened its mouth to speak!

His voice was hoarse and cold.

Professor Quirrell trembled violently, as if he was very afraid of the face attached to the back of his head: "Yes... yes... master..."

"A Slytherin, a Black, from his eyes, I saw ambition, yes, just like me back then, thirsty for power, and remained humble and gentle to anyone who could take advantage of him, a funny boy. It is said that he was with us The savior Harry Potter is closely related?"

"Master... he and Harry Potter are friends."

"Hmph!" A disdainful snort made Quirrell tremble more and more. "My friend, that's just another way of using it. Look, if we can't ask for more from Harry Potter, our little Slytherins will have stepped on each other and dismissed it. Typical Slytherin egoist, huh..."

"Teach him more knowledge of black magic, and let me see where this boy can go under the lure of magic."

"Yes……"

The conversation between the master and the servant ended here, and the living room returned to silence, but for the wizarding world, it might mean the calm before the storm.But all of this is currently not known to many people.

The author has something to say:

Quirinus Quirrell, an excellent Ravenclaw, has the courage of Gryffindor, travels alone, the pursuit of magic and higher power makes him go astray, and is bewitched by the Dark Lord~