witch mary bennet

Mary's last term at Hogwarts had begun for several days.

For the young witches who have just grown up, looking for a husband has been mentioned to the same level as their studies, so the courses Hogwarts prepares for the seventh-year witches are even the most relaxing in these seven years. In fact, According to Sophie, if it weren't for a Hogwarts graduation certificate that has become a powerful proof of witches' abilities, many witches might drop out of school.

At the end of the fifth year, Hogwarts' general wizarding courses came to an end, and all students were informed that they could choose whether to continue their studies.Among Mary's Gryffindor classmates, two had dropped out of school. As for herself, after confirming that the school would not unilaterally inform the parents of this news, she chose to hide this from her parents without hesitation.

The home economics spell course for sixth and seventh grade students is probably also to meet the needs of witches to run their families in the future. Therefore, although there is no explicit gender restriction, only young witches take this course.This year, it was the only subject on Fridays in the Gryffindor seventh-year girls' timetable.

"What a leisurely weekend," Sophie sighed. "If there is a dance somewhere on the weekend, you can even rush back to attend the dance and then come back."

"It seems that this class arrangement is to leave us more time to socialize," Mary flipped through the home economics spell textbook in her hand, "but it's completely useless to me."

"I'll be with you," Sophie hurriedly comforted, and she looked at Mary carefully again, "Honey, I see that you've always looked sad recently, is it because you haven't received a letter from Phippus Knight? "

Mary wouldn't admit it, but Sophie acted as if she had figured it out.Arguing all the way like this, when the two of them rushed to the classroom of the home economics spell class, they were almost late.

Mrs. Durham, the professor of home economics and spells, is an elegant woman from a famous family. She was unfortunately widowed a few years ago and was invited to teach at Hogwarts.She was wearing a starched very stiff dark green taffeta dress and a short cloak of the same color. She stood in the corridor at the door of the classroom, staring majestically at the last few girls who arrived.

"Ladies, I have already said that elegant ladies can maintain an elegant rhythm at any time. Seeing that your foreheads are sweating from running, can't you start earlier?"

The girls all lowered their heads and crept into the classroom from behind Mrs. Durham. Mary saw Miss Coneston sitting in the front row of the classroom, and she greeted them with a smile.

No sooner had Mary and Sophie sat down than the housekeeping spells began.

"Last school year, I introduced you to the Flying Needle and Thread Curse, the Whole Returning Curse, and even the slightly more advanced Delicious Food Curse," Mrs. Durham stood expressionlessly at a corner of the podium, "I hope you will be able to join us in this Summer is a chance to practice and not throw these mantras to the back of your mind. And now that you're getting closer to being a Real Housewife, I have to introduce you to the deeper mysteries of home gone."

"What kind of mystery can there be at home?" Sophie whispered to Mary with some disdain. She didn't want to take this course at first, but Mary took it, so she followed suit.

Mary didn't answer, Sophie poked her lightly again, "Tell me, did Diana Holden take this course? She doesn't look like she will become a housewife."

"As you all know, house-elves are absolutely loyal domestic servants, but they are never all-powerful..." Mary saw Mrs. Durham glance in their direction, and then she asked the question.

"Miss Windermere, can you tell me what is wrong with house-elves?"

Sophie was tongue-tied, she never did home economics spell lessons, Mary was nervous and she didn't know.

Fortunately, Mrs. Durham didn't continue to press her. She asked Sophie to sit down and ordered all the girls to open their "Virtues Under the Roof" and read Chapter 1 carefully.

House-elves are created by wizards, so some of the inherent shortcomings of wizards are particularly prominent in them. They are not very logical and not good at calculation. Even if your house-elves are full-time shopping, every transaction It is best not to give them more than one Galleon. In fact, giving them a handful of silver Sickles is usually less likely to go wrong than giving them change with one Galleon.

Of course, even if the house-elves do make mistakes, don't blame them, otherwise they are likely to punish themselves excessively. responsible person.

After reading the book, Mary already understood that the purpose of this class is to teach spells related to household account management. For wizards, this is a "complex and profound" art, so when Mrs. Durham opened her mouth to introduce , she realized that this month they had to stay on the issue of bookkeeping.

In Mary's conception, the Muggle family seems to be managed by the male master. For example, her mother gets the household from her father every month. Mr. Bennet can control the entire family just by sitting in the study. expenditure.Now it seems that the situation in the wizarding world is much better. If the witches really master the content of the course, at least within the family, they can also have a certain status.

In fact, the essence of spell-casting accounting is to form long-term effective continuous records. Although Mrs. Durham has repeatedly emphasized that her students should not behave worse than Muggle women, they must understand the principles of accounting, but After thinking about it carefully, Mary still felt that she only needed to know how to record income and expenses separately, and then cast arithmetic spells on the ledger.

But arithmetic spells are also a big trouble. If the level of the spellcaster is not high enough, the calculation results shown in the ledger may be wrong. For very few witches who can't write calculations, they can't even confirm whether their calculation results are correct.

So, when Mrs. Durham ordered the girls to start practicing, Mary began to practice arithmetic spells. She had learned some calculations before she was ten years old, so she used pen to verify the results of each arithmetic spell.

Mary was scribbling on the parchment, so she didn't notice when Mrs. Durham came behind her. After she calculated a result, she heard the female professor ask, "Miss Bennet, are you from a Muggle family?" born?"

Mary agreed in a low voice.

"Oh, I see you've been practicing the Arithmetic Charm," Madam Durham asked again, "Did you find anything?"

"It seems..." Mary replied cautiously, "whether the correct result can be calculated will also be affected by the number of numbers that need to be calculated."

"Indeed!" Madam Durham seemed very satisfied, "Give five points to Gryffindor, this is not written in our textbooks."

Sophie was very happy and kept poking Mary. As for Mary, she had never found Mrs. Durham so amiable as she is today. She has not been a conspicuous student all along. In the past six years, she has not even been alone. She added even one point to Gryffindor. From this perspective, she didn't know how to thank Mrs. Durham.

There was some slight commotion in the classroom. Several Slytherin girls sitting in the front turned to look at Mary. She even heard one sitting not far from them ask her deskmate, "Muggle kids?" , learned this since childhood?"

Mrs. Durham was back on the podium, and she repeated the arithmetic spell, re-emphasizing to the girls that house-elves should never be left to the task of keeping accounts, and finally homework was given, and everyone had until next Friday. A decent household accounting record must be called.

"Too bad I don't seem to get it at all," Sophie muttered.

"Don't worry, I basically understand everything," Mary said with a smile on her face, "I'll teach you when I get back."

Mary is not a good teacher. In fact, the Windermere family has a long history of education. Before coming to Hogwarts, Sophie already had all kinds of superficial knowledge of being a witch. Since the first grade, she has often helped Mary with tutoring. homework.

Even so, the current Sophie is not unhappy at all, she is also smiling, "Well, Mary, you have to thank Mrs. Durham, she not only gave us points, but also discovered your talent, maybe you would be a mathematician."

"This is too exaggerated," Mary lowered her voice. "I learned arithmetic before the age of 11, which is only the most superficial knowledge in mathematics. Scholars in the Muggle world have also mastered a lot of advanced knowledge."

"Oh," Sophie laughed, "then Muggles are not useless."

Muggles are useless is the innate view of most wizards, Mary never argues with Sophie in this regard, so she simply talked about the lesson just now.

When they returned to the dormitory, they saw a big barn owl that they had never seen before, waiting on the windowsill, flapping its wings towards Mary.

The letter was written by Phippus Knight, and Mary's face flushed red, and the hand that opened the letter trembled unnaturally, which made Sophie happy again.

"Hurry up and write back," she shouted, "tell him that Mrs. Durham gave you points today, and let Phipps Knight know that you definitely have the talent of a housekeeper."

Phipps Knight's neat and round handwriting looks quite pleasing to the eye, but this letter is less than a piece of paper. It just introduces his main activities this week, but at the end of the letter it is indicated that he is camping at XX Written in the same place, from this point of view, it is very good to have a letter.

Mary put all her homework aside and spent the whole weekend seriously thinking about writing a reply letter.The extra points must be written, because apart from that, there seems to be nothing worth writing.

She saw that there were several traces of obliteration on the letter of Phipps Knight, which was obviously written in a hurry, but Mary still made a draft, revised it several times, and copied it again.

She deliberately delayed for a few more days, and did not send Phoenicia to deliver the letter until the following Wednesday.