[HP] Astringent

Early on Monday morning, Snape and Vanessa walked back to the castle along the edge of the Forbidden Forest. This is the little date they created under limited conditions. Although there are no flowers and candlelight dinners, there are only a few bags of hedyotis picked at random .

They chatted about the Horcruxes again: "Sev, I know you don't believe the reports around 1945, but I still urge you to read the briefings I collected. You never thought why the saint's symbol Is that so?" Because after they reported Voldemort to Dumbledore, he still wanted to keep the ring and study it for a while longer.

"If one day you tell me that Nagini is the Dark Lord's girlfriend, I will accept it a little more." Snape was a little shaken, but he refused to admit it—it was hard for him to doubt Dumbledore.

Vanessa patted Snape's arm and almost died laughing: "Don't be kidding. Speaking of the Deathly Hallows, do you know how special Harry's invisibility cloak is? It's an invisibility cloak that never fails. "

"how do you know?"

"I wrote to Sirius."

As soon as the name was uttered, Snape's face became long: "You can still let him borrow your trick cloak for two days."

"It's not easy for me to borrow their things. But it's a good idea of ​​yours, so we can do whatever we want when we go for a walk." Vanessa blew a kiss while there was no one around .

Vanessa was still making Snape jealous and coaxing him, never tired of it.At this time, Umbridge walked over by accident, "Good morning, Professor Weasley, Professor Snape."

Vanessa immediately restrained her expression: "Good morning. Is there anything special you can do to stop us?" Her pink cardigan and big pearl necklace made her dizzy.

"I think you should have heard that I have been appointed as the first senior investigator."

"What? First what?" Vanessa couldn't believe her ears.

Snape didn't like Umbridge because she was an idiot, but he didn't want to pay too much attention to the person when it didn't get in his way.Seeing that Vanessa obviously didn't like her attitude at this moment, she also felt that she was disgusting.So he said sarcastically, "It was the first High Inquisitor. The Ministry of Magic apparently felt that a small teacher could not control the whole school."

Umbridge didn't recognize his tone, and said cheerfully, "Congratulations, you will be my first investigation subject." Then she walked away with small steps and swayed.

"Is the Ministry going crazy?" Vanessa whispered to Snape.

It was the three of Harry who arrived in the Muggle Studies classroom first, and Ron spoke first: "Where have you been this weekend? We can't find you anywhere."

"My lord has adult affairs to attend to." Vanessa gave him a sideways glance, "Seeing how happy you are, do you have any good news to announce?" She quickly changed the subject.

Ron blushed all of a sudden: "No, no..."

Harry hurriedly said: "Ron has been selected as the goalkeeper for the Quidditch team!"

Vanessa was so surprised that she didn't know what to say. In all fairness, Molly's children are all excellent.Ron was in the middle of a group of brothers. At first glance, he was inconspicuous, but when he thought about it carefully, everything was good enough.

"That's great, what position do you play?"

"Goalkeeper. In the summer, Fred and George practiced and always asked me to be the goalkeeper."

"You must be fine, I can't wait to see you play together!"

The last to enter was Umbridge.She stepped on pink patent leather high heels, with a hypocritical and excited smile, and walked in with a clipboard in her arms.

The classroom has been arranged by Vanessa to look like the Wizengamot. There is a black high-backed chair in the center surrounded by three circles of seats. The judge's seat is facing the high-backed chair in the center. Next to it is the clerk's seat.

Umbridge found that he couldn't find a suitable seat and almost sat in the judge's seat.

"That's Miss Granger's place." Vanessa stopped her. "It was decided by lottery in our last class."

She moved her butt, trying to get to the side, but Vanessa stopped again: "This is my place."

"So, where can I sit?"

"Jury? Or..." Vanessa pointed to an extra row of chairs at the back of the classroom, "There."

Umbridge walked to the last row of the classroom angrily. As soon as he touched the chair, he began to write quickly. Seeing the way she gritted her teeth, she probably wrote bad things about Vanessa.Vanessa didn't care, and ordered the students to start mooting in an orderly manner.

Hermione was well prepared, she cleared her throat and announced the opening of the court, and then the students who played the members of the Wizengamot presented the case.

"Cough, cough."

The classmate just paused for a while, and then continued to speak—the statement was prepared in advance by him, and he had to recite the previous sentence when it was interrupted.

"Cough, cough." Umbridge coughed louder.

Vanessa raised her eyelids impatiently: "Are you going to the medical wing to check your throat, Professor Umbridge?" Most of the classmates had already disliked him, and now they all laughed softly.

Umbridge's face darkened, and he said in a sweet tone, "I don't need it." She glared at Vanessa dissatisfied.

"Oh, then do you want to ask me about the brand of the clothes? Made in France by Louis." Of course Vanessa knew what Umbridge meant, but she deliberately went around in circles in order to annoy her.

"Not at all."

"Oh." Vanessa followed Snape's example, raised her chin slightly, her eyes narrowed, "I thought you were finally planning to improve your taste." The students around laughed again.

Umbridge blushed, buried his head in writing for a while, then raised his head and said viciously, "Did you come to teach the year before last?"

"Yes. Questions?"

"Where do you think you are worse than the former professor? Why can you replace her?"

"It's probably a matter of luck, you will encounter dangerous things casually." Vanessa meant something, and Harry smiled at her knowingly.

Umbridge growled unbearably: "I have the right to stop your class, Professor Weasley."

"Really? I thought you were assessing the quality of teaching and not the teacher's... character?"

"I don't think people like you can teach students well."

"Don't talk nonsense, Professor Weasley is the best!" I don't know which student took the lead to shout out, and one after another followed suit.Umbridge was extremely surprised, and turned to Vanessa and said, "Obviously you have bewitched the students and made them lack basic judgment. For example, today's class, I don't think it is of any use? It's nothing more than playing around Every family's little trick, tricking children."

"First of all, law is their compulsory content, and second, I think this way can make them understand the legal provisions more vividly. Obviously I have the ability to make a boring class interesting, just like you can turn such a good class into Hypnosis class." At the end, Vanessa added a short sneer.

"You, you..." She pointed at Vanessa with her stubby fingers, "You are just an ordinary elective teacher, and you have no right to interfere with my teaching methods!"

Vanessa couldn't stand letting such a stupid person direct her work.She shrugged, closed the lesson plan, and flicked her magic wand, the moot court furnishings disappeared, and the classroom became an empty space: "Put the books and the wand in the schoolbag."

The students now acquiesced that Vanessa stood on the same front with them and obeyed her orders unconditionally.She pulled a slide from the bookshelf next to the podium.She drew the curtains and turned on the projector, and two people in black sportswear who were fighting against each other appeared on the screen.

"Since Professor Umbridge thinks my little tricks are useless, I'll teach you some practical ones." This was one of the course topics, but it was replaced later. Fortunately, the lesson preparation materials have not been thrown away.Along with the video, Vanessa explained: "Martial arts are very common among Muggles. Because without a wand, the body is the most primitive and best weapon for a person. Can anyone tell me why the movement for equal rights between men and women It has been going on for more than twenty years in the Muggle world, but this problem doesn't exist in the wizarding world?"

She ordered Jones of Ravenclaw to answer the question.Jones said without hesitation: "Because before the invention of weapons, Muggles relied on physical strength to sustain their lives, and men were inherently dominant in this aspect. As for wizards, relying on magic power, there is not much difference between men and women, so men and women Basically equal rights."

"Have the rights of men and women really been equal in the wizarding world? Mr. Longbottom, you can answer."

"No. It can be seen from the inheritance rights and surname inheritance that it is still a patriarchal society."

"Very good, five points each for Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. You will definitely achieve ideal results in the OWLs exam." Vanessa smiled encouragingly.

Ron muttered, "Stop worrying about the exam, we're already stressed enough."

"Don't worry, Mr. Weasley. I promise that the following content will help you decompress." Vanessa whetted the appetite of the children, and said slowly, "Now divide into two rows and stand facing each other."

There was just one more person, and she called Harry to the front: "Can you cooperate with me?" Harry readily agreed, and Vanessa continued, "We are going to start learning martial arts."

"Cough, cough." The annoying cough sounded again.Vanessa pursed her lips and looked at Umbridge with displeasure.

"As far as I know, this part is not included in the syllabus."

"If you investigate carefully enough in advance, the children have already learned the content required for the exam in advance, and I can expand freely this semester."

Umbridge sternly accused: "I have to suspect that both you and Mr. Potter suffer from persecution delusions, making you think that you will be in danger at any time."

"Of course not. Oh, look how ignorant you are." Vanessa said pitifully, "This film is about self-defense shown on British TV, and many people are learning it. Can you say that Britain is going to war soon?"

Umbridge was so angry that he could not speak, and buried his head in scribbling a few lines: "I will send you the results of the investigation within a week."

"No problem, then you can finally leave now and stop disturbing my normal teaching?" Vanessa rolled her eyes and said impatiently, "It's fine if you want to stay."

"No need." She closed her mouth after she finished speaking, and walked out of the classroom quickly on her patent leather high heels.

The class was silent for a few seconds, and Kent raised his hand hesitantly to speak: "You just looked like you were possessed by Professor Snape!" Harry, Ron, and Neville nodded frantically.Vanessa really wanted to say "Marry your husband and follow your husband", but unfortunately she couldn't say anything, only leaving them with an intriguing smile.

After the vignette, Hermione asked, "Should we continue studying law or fighting?"

Vanessa thought about it seriously for a while: "I don't know, children. Because of her troubles, I have a new idea. Although I don't think martial arts can help you overcome the spell, actual combat practice can improve your reaction Ability, it will be of great help when you avoid spells." She paused for a moment, "How about this, let's try to learn fighting today, and I will carefully study the syllabus for this semester in the next week."

"No matter which one, we are looking forward to it." A few students gently encouraged her, "And we will all like it."

This must be the most tiring class they have ever attended except Quidditch, especially the few students who usually do not exercise and only know how to study, slumped on the ground regardless of their image.

"I definitely sprained my ankle."

"You didn't show mercy with that punch!"

The children still have the strength to bicker, and it's no big deal if they think about it.They supported each other and walked towards the hall step by step in strange postures.Vanessa stopped Harry, who was at the end: "I noticed it just now, is your right hand hurt?" Harry pulled down his sleeve reflexively, and covered it up: "It's okay...it must have happened just now. Be careful. Did you, Ron?"

"Yeah, I'm too strong." Ron replied tacitly.

Vanessa looked at the three of them suspiciously, and grabbed Harry's hand. On it was a line of words that seemed to be scratched with a knife: I can't tell lies.The scar is brown and doesn't look light.

"How is this going?"

Harry knew he couldn't hide it anymore, so he admitted frankly: "Umbridge punished me with a week of confinement, that is, to write with a special quill, and every word will be automatically engraved on the back of my hand."

Vanessa was half distressed and half annoyed, she touched Harry's face: "Does it hurt?"

Harry had once told Hermione and Ron how uncomfortable the scar was, but he was embarrassed to say the same to Vanessa.He shook his head: "Don't worry, it's not serious."

"How could it not hurt, silly boy. I'll get you some painkillers this afternoon." Seeing him so sensible, Vanessa felt even more uncomfortable. Thinking of the instigator, a trace of disgust flashed in her eyes, "Umri Qi, I want to see how long she can be so arrogant."

Vanessa didn't go downstairs to eat with them, because Snape said he'd come find her after class.It's nothing special, just like the couples in school would send each other to and from get out of class.This worked out well for Vanessa, she already knew that Snape was the kind of guy where you didn't hear what was said, it was what he did.

Snape timed it well, just in time for all the students to leave.Seeing him, Vanessa asked, "Do you know any medicine that can relieve pain and remove scars?"

Snape immediately took Vanessa's hand, examined it for a while, and finally said worriedly: "What did Umbridge do to you?"

Vanessa burst out laughing, and she felt that Snape treated her like a glass doll that couldn't stand being bumped.She kissed Snape's fingertips lightly and explained, "It's not me, it's Harry."

Snape took her into his arms and said annoyedly, "He went on a night tour again?"

"No. You do have prejudice against Harry, Sev." Vanessa said earnestly, "You should look at his eyes, which are exactly the same as Lily's, and to be honest, his personality is more like Lily than Potter."

She was finally able to speak out about Lily calmly without feeling inferior.

Snape scowled, looking skeptical.Vanessa sighed lowly, and gave up persuading: "Harry was punished by Umbridge for talking about Voldemort in class again. And I hate her too, and she hindered my class!" She looked outside It looks like a pug who was bullied and waiting for his master to help him get revenge.

Snape pondered for a moment, narrowing his eyes - the way he always did when he was thinking of revenge on Potter.

"She sent me a note that she is coming to sit in on my class this afternoon..."

"Can I go and listen?" Vanessa looked up at him expectantly.

"I can't think of anything else to teach you."

"There are so many things I can teach, for example..." Vanessa had an idea, and found a pair of flat gold-rimmed glasses from the drawer, and deliberately pulled down the frame of the glasses to reveal her smiling peach eyes, "Sne Professor Pu."