Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 766 Hogwarts Cram School

  Several people appeared in a remote corridor on the seventh floor of the castle, and came to check the location of the secret passage that Fred mentioned last time.

   "The entrance is here."

  The four of them stopped in front of a portrait of a middle-aged wizard. After Albert confirmed that there was no one around through the map, Fred immediately stepped forward and said the password to the portrait: "Sneak."

  The wizard in the portrait raised his index finger to his lips, made a shush gesture towards several people, and then rotated the frame to reveal the secret passage hidden inside.

  The entrance is very secret. It is hidden behind the portrait of Edgar Stroug. A special password is required to open the secret passage, which fully meets Albert's requirements.

   "This password is like what we do now." Lee Jordan joked.

   "You are the only one who talks too much."

  The three of them looked at Albert, waiting for his further action.

  Albert put a heavy book in his backpack on the ground, took out his wand from his pocket, and tapped the front of the book three times.

  The book suddenly unfolded, and a door rose slowly in front of everyone's eyes, just embedded in the passage, as if there really was a secret room here.

   "That's cool, when did you make this thing?" Lee Jordan reached out and tapped on the door in front of him, and no one else could have guessed that it was actually a book.

   "This is just an experiment, similar to a wizard's tent." Albert said simply, "I call this a fairy tale house."

   Several people couldn't wait to push open the door, and what greeted them was... darkness.

   "Close your eyes, I'm going to light the lamp." After Albert reminded, he raised his wand and released a few **** of light. The whole room lit up instantly, and the space inside the door was much larger than the classroom.

   "The traceless stretching spell can always bring us unexpected surprises." George said with emotion, when they were at home, they also used the traceless stretching spell to expand the space for the development of joke props.

   "It's just empty," said Fred, looking around. "We have to move something in there."

   "It's been prepared a long time ago, everything is here."

  Lee Jordan smiled and put down the box in his hand, which contained the items they had transferred from the Room of Requirement a while ago.

"when?"

   "When you were practicing Quidditch."

  Albert took out his pocket watch from his pocket, glanced at the time on it, turned to George and said, "Please go outside and wait for others, so that they don't know how to get in."

   "No problem, leave it to me!" George took the map that Albert handed over, and asked doubtfully, "Why don't you make the map more detailed?"

   "It's enough if it can be used. It will take a lot of time to make it like the Marauder's Map." Albert signaled Fred and Lee Jordan to come over and help arrange the scene.

  The room was quickly filled with a large number of cushions, a blackboard and armchairs, plus a few magic figures for the students to practice magic.

   "I think everyone will be surprised." Fred arranged the armchair in an arc around the blackboard.

   "This is really nice, George said this is your secret base?"

  After Shanna walked into the room, she immediately looked around and complained to Albert, "You should have told me earlier, I am worried that I will not find a suitable meeting place."

   "After all, this is our secret base." Lee Jordan said with a smile, "At first we didn't want others to know about it, but later we decided to use it as a meeting place."

   "I didn't expect there to be such a place in the school." Angelina sighed softly.

   "There are many secrets hidden in Hogwarts school. As long as you dig, you will always find some unexpected surprises." Fred blinked and said, "There are actually other secrets in this secret room."

   "What secret?" Angelina was also aroused curiosity.

   "Only at a specific time, this secret room will appear."

   "Liar."

   "You will know later."

   "A specific time?"

"What magic are you going to teach us today?" Aliya walked to the magic doll, fiddled with the fake wand in the doll's hand, turned her head and asked Albert who was setting up the scene, "By the way, where did you get this?" For fun?"

"This is a teaching tool of a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor." Albert paused, and continued, "After that professor left, the things were thrown into the Hogwarts storage room. We found the storage room at the beginning. When I was young, I discovered that these magic dolls can just be used to practice magic.”

   "The storage room? Do you mean the dungeon?" The girls were all surprised, they had never heard of such a place in Hogwarts Castle.

"no."

   "Actually, I think it's more appropriate to call it a garbage dump. Most of the things that Hogwarts don't need are thrown there." Lee Jordan said, "The things over there are piled up like a mountain, and many of them can't be used."

   "Actually, I'm more curious about what that is?"

   After Cedric greeted Albert, he looked up at the luminous objects hanging in mid-air. There are several similar objects in this room, providing sufficient light for the entire room.

   "A magic prop that can be used to provide lighting, you can call it: magic lamp." Albert introduced.

  Cedric seemed to have guessed something, looked at Albert in shock, and said in admiration, "I think this is a great invention."

  George closed the door of the room at the end, and said to Albert, "Everyone is almost here, we can start."

Albert counted the number of people. About a dozen students came. In addition to the fifth-year students of Gryffindor, some fifth-year students from Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff also came, but the number was very small. Some of them are acquaintances Albert knows.

   "Okay, take your seat!" Albert motioned for everyone to sit down.

   "Aren't you planning to teach us magic?" A Hufflepuff boy next to Cedric found that Albert seemed to be planning to give them a lecture, so he couldn't help asking.

"Alger, the purpose of our gathering here is to enable myself to get better marks in the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam." Cedric gave his friend a look, signaling him not to interrupt and waste other people's precious time. time.

   "What I'm going to talk about tonight is the focus of the exam." Albert looked around the crowd, and suddenly had the illusion of becoming a professor. He continued, "Of course, Professor Lupine may talk about what he thinks is the key point in class, but this does not affect you to listen to me first, as it is to strengthen your memory."

   "Why not just practice it?" A Ravenclaw girl asked, raising her hand.

"The Defense Against the Dark Arts exam not only has practice, but also a written exam. Well, don't interrupt me anymore, we'd better hurry up." Albert ignored her and continued, "According to the exam papers I collected, The content of the ordinary wizard level examinations in the past has basically not changed much..."

  Albert shared his understanding of the ordinary wizard level exam and what he thought must be tested after reading the test papers.

  The so-called key points of the exam are not boring. Albert will always come up with the corresponding test questions after the lecture, and everyone can't help but put aside distracting thoughts and concentrate on listening to him.

"...the five characteristics of werewolves. Students' knowledge of werewolves will be tested in the Defense Against the Dark Arts written exams in the past. I think the reason for this question is more because the Ministry of Magic cannot determine whether werewolves are lurking around us. They hope that we Be able to distinguish and stay away from these dangerous dark creatures."

   "I'm curious, where did your test questions come from?" the Ravenclaw girl asked again.

"As long as you are willing to spend Galleons, it is not difficult to get the o.w.Ls test papers of recent years." Albert took out three pieces of parchment from his backpack and said to everyone, "Okay, today's party is over, I estimate that 80% of you don’t know how to write these things down with pens, so I organized them for you, and the contents are on the parchment, so you can circulate them yourself when you go back!”

   As he spoke, Albert handed the parchment to Cedric of Hufflepuff and Katrina of Ravenclaw.

   "Why only questions?"

"What I just said is in the "Dark Forces: Self-Defense Guide", you can draw it yourself and memorize it." Albert said calmly, "Actually, the scope of the o.w.Ls exam is "Dark Forces: "Self-Defense Guide", so far there is still no question surpassing this book, so you don't have to worry about the exam being too difficult. As long as the review direction is correct, you can definitely get a high score on the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam."

"At the next meeting, we will practice defensive spells and spell-breaking to ensure that everyone can pass the practical exam. Before that, I suggest that you memorize what I said today, anyway, you should start reviewing! After Albert finished speaking, he said, "I will let someone else inform you about the time of the next meeting."

   "Albert, do you teach other classes?" Shanna asked expectantly.

   "Only the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, well, let's leave this room in an orderly manner. Lee Jordan, make arrangements for them to leave in an orderly manner." Albert said to Lee Jordan.

   "It's very detailed, it's great." Katrina deliberately stayed behind to talk to Albert, "Have you considered coming to the school as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts in the future?"

   "I never thought about it. This class is very evil. I never thought I could resist that curse." Albert flatly rejected it.

"If you charge them for surprise tutoring, I think many students are willing to pay for it." Katrina knew the value of the parchment in her hand. She flipped through the test paper for so long, and Albert summed it up easily The key points of the exam are out.

   "Forget it, I never do things that are thankless." Albert shook his head and said, "And, I am not short of money now."

   "It's weird to say that from your mouth." Katrina rolled up the parchment and put it in her pocket, and said with a smile as she looked at the crowd leaving in front of her. "I think many people must regret not coming today."

   "At least, the Slytherin students won't come."

  After everyone left, Albert raised his wand and extinguished the light above his head. After closing the door, he turned it back into a book and stuffed it back into his backpack.

  In the corridor outside, everyone was still waiting to say goodbye to Albert.

   "It's better to hurry up next time, I can't wait." Cedric asked with a smile, "By the way, and you don't mind if I bring more people over next time."

   "I don't mind, as long as I don't come to make trouble." Albert said.

   "Goodbye, Mr. Albert."

   I don't know who spoke first, so everyone booed together, bid farewell to Albert in a slightly teasing tone, and gave him the title of teacher.

   "Mr. Albert?" Fred teased.

   "I don't want to be a teacher, and I'm not old at all," Albert said.

   "What does the teacher have to do with the boss?" George asked with raised eyebrows.

   "Albert is indeed a year older than us, so he is indeed older than us." Fred pointed this out clearly, and by the way, got off topic.

   "You will soon be envious, why aren't you a year older than me." Albert said mysteriously.

   "Oh, don't keep entertaining people!" Lee Jordan put his arms around Albert's neck and said, "Did you predict something again, and be honest."

   "Hmph, you will know next semester, just wait slowly!"

  (end of this chapter)