Study Days at Hogwarts

   Chapter 687 o. w． Ls Roller

   After breakfast, the four of them carried their schoolbags and headed to the potions classroom in the basement. To be honest, going to Potions class right after eating is not good for the digestion of the food in the stomach.

   "The door is not open."

  Fred reached out to push the door and found that the door of the Potions classroom was locked.

  George looked at the timetable in his hand, raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "Did we take the wrong timetable?"

   "Should not be, should I..."

   "Wait a while." Albert stopped them from opening the door without authorization.

   After a while, there were more and more students in the corridor, and everyone was waiting outside the Potions classroom for Snape to come and open the door.

   "It seems that we are not late." Angelina and Alia came in a hurry, their eyes stayed on Albert for a moment, and they teased: "You don't have a prefect badge?"

"forgotten."

   "Do you sometimes forget?"

   Albert noticed that the girls were looking at the boy next to him, so he knew that the two were not teasing themselves, but the Ravenclaw prefect who wore the prefect badge.

   "I think you should wear it all day, it's more dignified, just like Percy, in case others don't know that he is the president of the student union." Fred said bad things about Percy without any pressure. They also apparently noticed that only Ravenclaw's prefect Selwyn wore the prefect's badge here.

  Selwyn's face was a little gloomy when he heard that, he turned around and secretly took off the prefect badge pinned to his chest, and stuffed it into his pocket.

   Aliya noticed Albert's questioning gaze and explained: "You didn't see the way that guy taught us just now with arrogance."

  Albert raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn't care about it.

   After a while, the whispers around him gradually disappeared, and Albert turned his head to look at both sides of the corridor, only to see Snape coming towards this side with a sullen face.

  The potions professor took out the key from his pocket and opened the door of the potions classroom.

"Before the class starts, I must remind you of one thing." Snape walked quickly to the podium, turned around and glanced at everyone with stern eyes, "Next June, you will take the o.w.ls exam, I hope You can barely 'pass' your o.w.Ls, or I'd be pissed."

"Of course, after this year, many of you won't be able to take my classes anymore." Snape glanced over the students and pouted slightly, "I only pick the best students Come into my N.E.w.Ts potions class, which means some people will have to say goodbye."

"We have another year to go before we can say goodbye," said Snape softly, "so, regardless of whether you plan to take the N.E.W.TS exam or not, I suggest that you all concentrate on studying well. homework, to the high passing level of o.w.Ls that I require of my students."

  Fred and George were winking at Albert, as if they were celebrating that they would finally not have to take Potions class next semester, and they would not have to see Snape very often.

  Of course, the Weasley brothers are not the only ones who have such thoughts.

   As we all know, Snape's N. E． w． Ts Potions class, as long as students with excellent grades, are the most demanding of all professors, so every year N. E． w． Ts Potions class is usually difficult to have more than double digit students.

"Today, we are going to prepare a potion that often appears in ordinary wizarding level exams: Easement. It can calm down and relieve the irritability and anxiety, and can relieve your stress before the exam. I have seen many students who can't bear it o.w ．The pressure of the Ls exam caused emotional breakdown, so I suggest that you learn how to prepare a palliative, and give yourself or others a copy when necessary."

Snape turned a deaf ear to the joy on the faces of the other students, and continued: "Of course, if you are sloppy in placing the ingredients, it may cause the user to fall into a deadly and sometimes irreversible lethargy, so you You need to pay extra attention when configuring the moderator, the ingredients and preparation method are on the blackboard, you have an hour and a half... let's get started."

  After Snape finished speaking, he waved his wand, and the door of the storage cabinet opened automatically.

   The difficulty of the moderator is actually not high, at least in Albert's view.

  Just add the ingredients to the crucible in strict order and quantity, stir the mixture step by step, maintain the temperature at a certain stage when the crucible boils, and keep it for a certain period of time, and then add the last ingredient and you are done.

   Rigorousness and standards have always been the key factors for successful potion brewing, but for most students, this seems to be difficult to achieve.

When Albert added two drops of hellebore syrup into the cauldron, Snape suddenly appeared behind him and said softly: "Professor McGonagall should have mentioned to you about the Potions Championship, you need every weekend afternoon Come here at three o'clock for temporary training."

   Albert did not answer, still focusing on the crucible in front of him.

  Snape definitely did it on purpose just now.

  If my hands were shaking just now and I added a drop of hellebore syrup, God knows what the pot of moderator will look like.

  However, the current results are quite satisfactory. A faint, silver-white steam is emerging from the cauldron, which is consistent with what Snape just described.

  Albert put half of the medicine samples into a short-necked bottle, labeled with his name, and put the other half into his own medicine for storage.

   After doing all this, Albert had time to look around. Except for him, no one else was able to configure it successfully. Some of them had some problems with the details, and the color of the steam was different from what was expected.

   “What a mess of shit!”

  Lee Jordan cursed in a low voice as he looked at the crucible that was continuously emitting clouds of dark gray gas.

   "Finally we won't have to see Snape again next semester." Fred was not much better than Lee Jordan, and his potion was emitting a smell of rotten eggs.

   "Next semester, I'm afraid you will have to attend Potions class by yourself."

Lee Jordan didn't feel any pity at all, and even speculated maliciously, "I just noticed the potion level of our class this year, and I doubt whether Snape's N.E.w.Ts potion class can make it. Enough for ten students."

"I think five is very reluctant." George analyzed, "Slytherin and Ravenclaw are better than us in terms of potions. Ravenclaw's Katrina should be fine, Shanna can It is debatable if you can't pass the exam as an excellent, Hufflepuff will come again..."

   "Digory is still very powerful." Albert reminded.

   "Well, after counting that guy, we can barely make up four, and Slytherin can produce a few outstanding students." George sneered, "Are you counting on Montague?"

   "Speaking of which, if you don't take advanced classes, can you graduate from Hogwarts in advance?" Lee Jordan asked suddenly.

   "Since we both plan to open a store, it doesn't matter if we fail the o.w.Ls exam." Fred and George didn't really care much about o.w.ls. w． Ls test scores.

"I think your family will definitely be dissatisfied with your grades, and your summer vacation will be very sad." Albert reminded, "Also, I think the o.w.ls exam is completely failed, and you may need to repeat the grade re-examine."

   "What class is this afternoon?" Fred changed the topic stiffly, obviously not wanting to discuss this matter.

   "History of Magic and Defense Against the Dark Arts." Albert warned, "You better not take chances."

   "I only hope that our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is more reliable than Lockhart." George complained, "I think our results in Defense Against the Dark Arts class will definitely not be too bad."

  Last semester, Lockhart was really not an ordinary trap, and he was not uncommon in the last semester.

   "Professor Lupine should be pretty good, and the level of wizards who can use the Patronus Charm is not too low."

   "Hopefully we can learn something."

  The history of magic in the afternoon was very boring. Professor Binns told the history of the giant war in class, but most of the students were not in the mood to listen to the class and fell asleep.

  Albert didn't attend the class either, so he took out another book from his schoolbag to pass the time.

  As for the exams and homework, he had asked Isobel to borrow the history of magic notes in advance. Anyway, Professor Binns always talked to the textbook in class, and the notes he made were basically the same.

  Another Defense Against the Dark Arts class for some fun.

  Professor Lupine did not give lectures, but spent a lot of time figuring out what they had learned from the first grade to the fourth grade.

"I'm well aware of the situation in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. You have already changed four professors. In this chaotic situation, it is difficult for you to use what you have learned to get satisfactory results in the upcoming exams." Lupine said softly, "However, don't worry everyone, the situation is not as bad as you think. Most of the o.w.ls exam content is in "Dark Forces: Self-Defense Guide", and most of the actual combat assessment content you will face is just Expel some dark creatures, and as long as you master the way to fight them, you don't have to worry too much about failing the exam."

   "Dark creatures? Then how should we deal with other dark wizards?" Fred raised his hand and asked, "For example, Black who is on the run."

"I think it's hard for you to meet dark wizards, at least you won't meet them before you leave school." Seeing everyone's expectant eyes, Lupine said helplessly, "Well, I heard Professor McGonagall mentioned Lockhart The professor taught you the Disarming Charm, Mr. Anderson, would you mind coming up and showing it to everyone?"

  When Albert was pushed up by a few friends around him, Professor Lupine had already waved his wand to make room for both parties.

   "How do we defend ourselves from spells that other wizards cast on us?" Professor Lupine nodded towards Albert, indicating that he could start.

  The tool man Albert raised his wand and used the Disarming Curse on Professor Lupine very cooperatively. Before the spell hit Professor Lupine, it was blocked by the opponent's Iron Armor Charm.

   Applause immediately sounded in the classroom.

   "Very good, very good, Mr. Anderson." Professor Lupine said to everyone: "As you can see, I successfully blocked Mr. Anderson's disarming spell. Does anyone know what spell I used?"

   "Iron Armor Curse."

"Yes, it is the Iron Armor Charm, and Gryffindor adds ten points." Lupine continued, "The Iron Armor Charm can create a magical barrier that deflects spells and physical entities, thereby protecting specific people or specific areas. A defensive spell for a spell, the spell is: Armor Protection."

   "Sir, shall we learn the Iron Armor Curse next class?" A student asked expectantly.

"no."

   "Why not teach it, I think the Iron Armor Curse is more useful." Someone asked dissatisfied.

"Because I now need to let you pass the o.w.ls exam with the highest possible grades." Lupine said gently, "if there is still time after teaching the rest of "Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Defense" , I will teach you some defensive magic, but for now you should be concerned about the o.w.Ls exam."

   This chapter has been reworked, and the content needs to be refreshed.

   I won’t post it until it’s revised next time, so as not to affect everyone’s reading.

   Well, so sometimes it will be updated later, or the next day.

  (end of this chapter)