The Admiral of Hogwarts

After Professor Sprout said that, everyone showed vigilant expressions and subconsciously moved away from those plants.

When everyone had walked to the center of the greenhouse, Professor Sprout was already standing behind a workbench in the middle of the greenhouse, waiting for them, and on the bench were two rows of glasses with silvery reflective lenses.

Seeing that everyone was in their seats, Professor Sprout said, "Today we are going to repot the Dormant Ferns. Now, who can tell me what the characteristics of the Dormant Fern are?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Venetia raised her hand first. After receiving permission, she lowered her arm and said to Professor Sprout, "Dormant Fern, also known as Dancing Fern, Fairy Light Fern, is a plant with extremely strong hypnotic abilities. Their spores, after being processed, can be used in the preparation of various potions."

"Very good, ten points to Ravenclaw," Professor Sprout said. "Dormant Ferns are an important component of most potions related to sleep or tranquility. But it is also a relatively dangerous magical plant. Who can tell me why?"

Hermione raised her hand quickly at this moment, and after Professor Sprout nodded, she said, "Because the spores on the back of this plant's leaves emit light of a certain special frequency, and people who see those lights may fall into a deep sleep. If they cannot be woken up in time, they may die of dehydration or starvation."

"Absolutely correct, another ten points," Professor Sprout said. "Of course, there are so many of us here today, so there is absolutely no need to worry about not waking up. But I still hope that everyone here can take good precautions, after all, falling directly on the floor is not a comfortable thing."

In the following time, everyone put on goggles and began to repot the Dormant Ferns. Compared with the Mandrakes that the Gryffindors needed to repot in the morning, these Dormant Ferns only had leaves that would shake, so the difficulty of the work was slightly easier.

However, the degree of ease was only a little bit, because these Dormant Ferns looked like sago palm seedlings about one and a half meters tall, and they were not light. For second-year students, even if they had four people working together to move one, it was a rather physically demanding task.

Moreover, the leaves of this tree would move non-stop after someone approached. Although the strength was not very great, it was enough to cause various discomforts on their skin.

Especially in this situation, the back of the Dormant Fern leaves would also turn over to reveal the spores, exposing everyone present to the light that could cause them to faint.

In this situation, the little wizards had to put in all their energy and spend a lot of effort to successfully repot these Dormant Ferns. Even so, a Slytherin unlucky fellow accidentally knocked his goggles askew with the leaves in this situation, and then unknowingly saw the flashing light of the Dormant Fern spores and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, Professor Sprout had been observing the situation in the greenhouse, so she used magic to wake him up from his coma in time.

By the time class was over, almost all of the little wizards were covered in sweat, with aching backs and muddy bodies. Only Hugo's group was the exception, because for Venetia, who could shatter a giant's kneecap with a wooden stick, repotting these 30kg plants was simply too easy.

So, when repotting, she only needed to gently grab those Dormant Ferns that might require two or three people to lift, and she could lift them up. Under this premise, they could naturally repot these ferns according to the most standardized process.

Also because of this, Professor Sprout gave the last ten points of this class to their group.

In other words, Hugo's group took all 30 points from Professor Sprout in this class. Because of this, although the Ravenclaw students were as tired as the Slytherin students, everyone's face showed a rather joyful and encouraging smile.

"It seems that some of the guesses in our memory should be wrong," Hugo said to the ship girls through the Admiral Network on the way back to the dormitory after class. "For example, the statement that the Mandrakes introduced this year are to facilitate rescue after students are petrified by the Basilisk."

Because he learned during lunch that Professor Sprout would take out some dangerous plants for everyone to get close to in the first class of each second year, and through this method, let the students understand the dangers of some magical plants, so as to carry out the teaching work in the next stage.

So it is not so strange that Mandrake seedlings appear in the classroom, at least a sixth-year senior told him at noon that he also did the work of repotting Mandrakes in the first Herbology class of his second year.

It's just that because Mandrakes are relatively rare, these plants do not appear in the classroom every year.

"That's normal," Firefly's voice rang in the Admiral Network, "Professor Dumbledore is, after all, a qualified headmaster of a magic school, and also a very experienced old wizard. So how could he put all the teachers and students of the school in a fatal crisis in order to train Harry."

While chatting, Hugo and the others returned to the castle to prepare to go to Ravenclaw Tower. As a result, on the way, they unexpectedly found many second-year Gryffindor students running down the stairs in a mess, looking as if they were fleeing for their lives.

"What happened on your side?" Seeing Harry and Ron rushing down from upstairs, Hermione stopped them and asked in confusion.

"I remember you should be in Defense Against the Dark Arts class now, why do you look so embarrassed now, as if you have been around in the Forbidden Forest,"

"Actually, there is no difference between being in the Forbidden Forest — no, it should be said that it is worse. At least we didn't suffer any harm when we were in the Forbidden Forest last year."

Harry said, cracking his mouth, then raised his hand to cover a bruise on his face and said to Hugo and the others.

From Harry and Ron's descriptions, Hugo learned that perhaps because the first class went smoothly, Lockhart directly brought Cornish Pixies to the classroom in the second class to prepare for a show, but the result was a complete disaster.

Then those out-of-control Cornish Pixies not only chased Lockhart into the office, but also made trouble everywhere in the classroom. They either grabbed all kinds of things and smashed people, or tried to destroy everything they could see.

"Fortunately, Professor Halsey was passing by our classroom door at the time, so after hearing the noise, he directly came in and used a spell to fix all those troublemakers in the air, and then put them back into the cage, otherwise we would have been in big trouble today."

When he recounted the end, Ron's eyes showed a color of admiration. "Compared to Lockhart, Professor Halsey can be regarded as a real professor."

"You are right, Lockhart is not worthy to be a professor at all." Harry and Ron's narration immediately aroused Hermione's resonance. "In my opinion, any faculty member in this castle is stronger than Lockhart in Defense Against the Dark Arts."