Chapter 223 Persistence is victory (5,000-word chapter)

Unknowingly, the remaining ten days passed by in a blink of an eye, and March also passed.

The severe cold of winter gradually recedes, and spring comes quietly. The melted snow water flows downwards along the soil, awakening all the creatures sleeping in the ground. New young grasses emerge from the ground one by one, dyeing the land near the castle. Into a piece of green.

The first weekend of April is here.

With a smile on their faces, Wright and Chang Chu finished their day in Hogsmeade and returned to school hand in hand from outside. On the wide lawn in front of the castle, they met Gran who came to look for them. The Fendo trio. Standing with Hermione and the others was Verita who had been waiting here for a long time. Almost every Hogsmeade weekend at school, she would wait here quietly for Wright to return to school.

Villita silently walked behind Wright as usual, and Hermione also began to ask Chang Chu her questions.

"So, do you three want to consult about selecting courses for the third grade?" Chang Chu let go of Wright's left hand, stepped forward and took Hermione's arm.

The group of people walked towards the entrance of the castle while talking.

"Well, yes." Hermione nodded, "Yesterday, Percy sent a course selection list to our second-year students. It lists some elective courses that we will take in the third grade. Give it to him in a few days."

"That's right. After all, Easter is coming soon. Last year, we only received the course selection notice two days before the Easter holiday." Chang Chu shook his head seriously.

"Although we got some advice from Percy, I feel that course selection will affect our entire future. We should get guidance from other experienced people, so I wanted to ask Chang Chu for your opinion. "Hermione said to Chang Chu with a sincere face.

Chang Chu pinched her ears strangely. Why did she feel that Hermione's words sounded familiar? The choice of courses will affect the entire future, as if someone had once told her.

"Chang Chu, can't we really give up some other courses when choosing these elective courses?" At this moment, Harry suddenly spoke.

"Such as Potions class," Ron interrupted, "Of course, if possible, it would also be very good to eliminate the Defense Against the Dark Arts class altogether."

"But those two are very important courses!" Hermione scolded her two unlucky friends, "You can't just not go to a certain teacher's class just because you don't like him/her! And you can't go to his/her class just because you don't like him/her!" , I think the quality of Professor Lockhart’s teaching is very, very good!”

Hermione directly used two very words to describe her love for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Of course, what she liked more was probably a certain blond man who taught this course.

"Lockhart must have the same opinion as you." Ron shrugged, and he vividly imitated Lockhart's tone, "He will always have only one evaluation of you, and that is 'Her. Min, you are the best student in the whole grade!”

Hermione's face suddenly turned red.

Fortunately, Chang Chu quickly brought the topic back on track without letting it go too far, and also stopped a possible quarrel between Hermione and Ron in time.

She asked: "I wonder, Hermione, what subject do you want to choose?"

"I marked all the subjects." Hermione raised her head proudly, indicating that she was different from the two salty friends next to her who didn't seek to improve but just wanted to get marks. "Divination class, arithmetic divination class, Care of Magical Creatures, Muggle Studies, Ancient Runes, I took them all!”

Chang Chu turned his head in disbelief, looked at Hermione's side face and said, "All of them?"

"Yes!" Hermione, who was not aware of it, nodded directly and said in a more serious tone, "All of them!"

"Actually, this request for advice is mainly what I asked for." Harry said dryly, "You know, my family...my relatives don't care about anything I do in school. , and had no idea what these courses taught. Although Percy gave us guidance very enthusiastically, I felt that it seemed a bit one-sided, so I asked Ron and Hermione to come together."

Chang Chu secretly suppressed the idea of ​​opening Hermione's skull to see what was going on in her little head, and turned his face to Harry who spoke.

"I wonder what Percy's advice is to you?" Chang Chu asked.

"Percy said," Harry recalled Percy's words a few days ago, "He said that we must make plans for the future earlier, so it is necessary to learn a little bit of divination; in addition, he said that wizards should have a role for the entire society. A relatively comprehensive knowledge, so he recommended the Muggle Studies course; finally, he also said that if I like extracurricular activities, I can also choose a Care of Magical Creatures course, which would be very interesting. "

"But if there is no problem with the brain, who would choose more than three courses?" Ron said with a hint of irony, "Even the school only recommends that we only choose two elective courses."

Hermione glared directly at Ron.

At this time, Chang Chu had already recalled who had told her about course selection before—Senior Penello. Of course, what Penello said at that time was completely different from what Percy said now, and the two courses she suggested were Care of Magical Creatures and Magic Texts.

what is this? Chang Chu suddenly frowned. She secretly compared Penelo and Percy. Their almost completely different course selection recommendations reflected the difference in consciousness between wizards and Muggles.

Hermione gently pushed Chang Chu's hand because she suddenly fell silent, but Harry had been waiting for her answer.

"Oh, course selection, yes!" Chang Chu came back to her senses. She was too lazy to think about the differences between Percy and Penello for the time being. Anyway, although they were both outstanding student representatives of their respective colleges in the school and He is a student prefect, but he behaves indifferently on weekdays. Instead of thinking about the differences in concepts between the two of them, it would be better to return to Harry's problem.

But I didn’t expect that I would still have the day to be a senior! Chang Chu thought with some pleasure, this feeling is really amazing!

"Harry, let me tell you this. Based on my experience in the third grade, I personally strongly recommend that you take two elective courses, Care of Magical Creatures and Magic Texts. The professors of these two courses are The two most responsible teachers in the elective course. But I also heard that Professor Kettleburn of the Care of Magical Creatures class is retiring next semester, and I don’t know who will take over his responsibilities,” Chang Chu said emotionally. Said, "In addition, if you feel that you do not have any special divination talent, try not to take divination classes."

At this point, Chang Chu lowered his voice: "Based on what I learned before, Professor Sybill Trelawney is an out-and-out magician. She has no real skills. Her usual homework is You can get by just by fooling around. As long as you describe yourself badly enough, you can get a very good evaluation. The worse you are, the higher your score will be."

Ron, who was standing aside, had a flash of light in his eyes. He liked this kind of professor very much!

"If you are not sensitive to numbers, don't take the arithmetic divination class. Although the homework in that course is very small, it usually uses a lot of mathematical formulas, which is very complicated." Chang Chu said.

Harry nodded thoughtfully.

"As for the Muggle Studies class, if you want to get mixed grades, go ahead." Chang Chu said, "As far as I know, the tutorial material for this year's Muggle Studies class is "My Muggle Life", written by Daisy ·Ms. Hookham introduced in great detail her personal experience of living in ordinary society for a year without using magic."

"These include how to distinguish the difference between pounds, shillings and pence, and how to use them for shopping, how to use tap water and natural gas, how to use electricity and household appliances that rely on electricity, how to take trains and taxis , buses and other ordinary means of travel..." Chang Chu went on to say a lot of content. In fact, this book "My Muggle Life" is a real annual bestseller. At that time, she looked at the interesting title of the book and was surprised. I bought a copy, but after flipping through two pages, I knew directly from the catalog what it was about.

"Anyway, for us ordinary wizards, this course is to give us points." Chang Chu ended the topic about the Muggle Studies class, "Of course, if you are born in the wizarding world, then this course This course is indeed an enlightening one, and it can open up a new perspective on understanding, treating, and experiencing the world. ”

Harry nodded gratefully to Chang Chu. Her unreserved guidance was really valuable.

"Hermione, I must remind you that although you may seem very serious about choosing all the courses, you can't pass the most basic level." Chang Chu said earnestly to the little sister he had shared the same bed with. "Class times conflict, but you can't go to class separately. If you go to a classroom, you will definitely miss another course that is being taken at the same time. As for elective courses, it is better not to take more than three at most. Otherwise, even after-school homework will be too much to make your scalp tingle.”

Harry and Ron looked at each other with lingering fear. They both finished almost every after-school homework on the last night before it was handed in, and most of the time they had to rely on Hermione's help.

Thinking of this, Ron suddenly regretted that he had been trying to squeeze Hermione.

What if, and Ron meant just what if, Hermione didn't lend him the Potions and Transfiguration homework tonight to copy - no, for reference -? There was no way that he and Harry could complete so many and difficult assignments alone.

At this time, Ron couldn't help but start to help: "Yes, Hermione, I think what Chang Chu said is very reasonable. It's better for you not to choose too many courses at once."

Hermione ignored Ron's dissuasion and said a little stubbornly: "I believe that since the school has listed all the courses on it and there is no upper limit on course selection, then we have the right to choose all the courses together. , Teachers must also have ways to solve the problem of class time conflicts.”

"I'm not sure," Hermione's tone suddenly became a little expectant, "When a student chooses all the elective courses, there's no telling what hidden rewards there will be?"

"For example?" Harry asked tentatively.

"For example, Lockhart taught—cough!" Hermione quickly changed her tune, "For example, allowing students to borrow books from the restricted area."

Chang Chu, Harry and Ron looked at each other with strange expressions. From the word Lockhart, you could guess what Hermione was thinking about. It was either Gilderoy Lockhart's praise or him. autograph, or some other super fan treatment, it’s all about Lockhart anyway.

"What about Wright?" Harry suddenly remembered that Wright had been taciturn all along the way, and couldn't help but ask him, "Wright, do you have any suggestions on course selection?"

"Wright can't speak for the time being. Just last night, he started practicing the magic of Animagus again." Chang Chu glanced at Wright with a smile, "So he still has a piece of Animagus in his mouth. Mandrake Leaf, in order to avoid making mistakes, he had to stay quiet."

For some reason, Chang Chu always felt that Wright, who couldn't speak, seemed to be exuding a strange, uh, charm? Anyway, it's very attractive.

Ron gave Wright a sympathetic look. If he had to be unable to speak for more than a month in order to practice a certain magic, he would definitely rather die! You know, if you don’t say something, it will stifle people to death! What's more, it's even worse for someone like Wright who hasn't spoken for two months.

Wright saw the strange expression on Ron's face, and he couldn't help but smile and wave his hands.

To be honest, Wright was in a very happy mood today. Although it took more than half a month to wait for the weather to clear up and the second full moon, it was finally the first step to take the Animagus again. This was already a huge success!

"Let's not talk about him. Chatting with someone who can't speak is still very boring. After all, if you can't see what his expression is saying, it will be even more boring." Chang Chu shook his head and showed off invisibly. A wave of affection, "Let's get back to you, Harry."

"Me?" Harry pointed to his nose strangely.

"Yes, it's you!" Chang Chu nodded firmly, "And your other Quidditch team members! You must defeat the Hufflepuff team, and then defeat those cheating Slytherin broomsticks. them!”

In March, one of the major events that Wright believed could be compared with his failure to take the first Animagus step was Ravenclaw's experience during the intramural Quidditch match against the Slytherin team. There was a tragic score massacre, because that game directly caused Chang Chu's three-day emotional disorder.

Although Chang Chu and Roger tried their best to use some game strategies within the rules to win, this kind of competition of wisdom on the court ultimately lost to the seven invisible Nimbus 2001.

The members of the Slytherin team did not spend any effort thinking about formations, techniques, pre-war preparations, etc. The seven brand-new and shiny Nimbus 2001 were enough to provide them with enough speed to kill them directly. competition, and the mentality of victory and resistance that completely destroys the enemy.

Chang Chu almost cried in anger after the game, but it was not because she failed to catch the Golden Snitch in the end. Although Draco has a Nimbus 2001, his flying skills and competition experience are still slightly inferior to hers. Moreover, the flying speed of the new broomstick provided by Wright is also very good, and the distance is not even close to that of the Nimbus 2001. Not too big.

What Chang Chu was angry about was that even if she finally won the competition with Draco and successfully caught the Golden Snitch, the Ravenclaw team's goal had long been like a rag, being used by the people of Slytherin. The Quaffle was shot into a sieve! The score between the two was so miserable that even the Golden Snitch with a full 150 points could not save it!

It was precisely for this reason that Chang Chu had the courage to give the Slytherins the nickname Broken Broomstick, and was welcomed by the other three houses except the Snake House.

Villita, who had been following Wright, did not express any objection to Chang Chu's words, even though Chang Chu was now complaining about members of her own academy.

Because Villetta, like Wright, believed that Quidditch was a poor sport with simple rules and was very easily affected by factors outside the game. And to be honest, Villita also thought that the methods of the Slytherin team members were indeed a bit despicable. What made her even more speechless was that this was actually within the rules.

While Chang Chu and Harry were chatting, they unknowingly passed through the gate of the castle and walked into the auditorium on the first floor.

It was dinner time, and the auditorium was extremely busy at this time. Most of the senior students heading to Hogsmeade Village had already returned to school. After walking around outside the school for nearly a day, they were already so hungry that their chests were glued to their backs. The sound of clinking cutlery and plates kept coming.

Just when the three Wrights were about to say goodbye to the three Harrys, Wood, the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, suddenly walked up to them.

"Harry! I've been looking for you for a long time!" Wood said loudly. He glanced at Chang Chu covertly, as if to express his disdain for the Ravenclaw team's previous loss to the Slytherin team. You must know that they won Those broken broomsticks!

"Remember to gather at the Quidditch pitch at six o'clock. Our evening training is about to begin." Wood said loudly.

"Evening training?" Harry glanced at the ceiling. At this time, the afterglow of the setting sun reflected the transparent dome glass red. He couldn't help but wonder if Wood was dizzy from the sun today and was talking nonsense.

"Yes, training! Evening! After dinner! Training!" Wood said loudly, "The game is coming soon! We must get serious!"

"But isn't the game between us and Hufflepuff not until May?" Harry said with some difficulty. Today is the weekend, and he will have to do homework with Ron later in the evening. Woolen cloth!

"I know you will inevitably find it difficult to face such training, but no matter what, we all need to face it with a smile." Wood said enthusiastically, he showed a bright smile to Harry, showing two neat rows of White Teeth, "The best way to eliminate fear is to face it, persistence is the victory!"

Wright suddenly felt uncontrollably wanting to shout out those three words.