Chapter 79: Basement Cleaning
As soon as Professor Snape appeared, he threw a "Freeze All!" at the panicked little wizard and the snakes wandering around.
The panicked little wizard was motionless for a moment, and so was the snake. Everyone seemed to be frozen into a photo.
Snape walked to the snake, observed it carefully for a few times, and said: "The cabbage snake, this is a non-venomous snake, often appearing in the vegetable garden."
He frowned. How could the cabbage snake appear here?
If it appeared in Professor Sprout's greenhouse, it would be almost the same.
Lin Xia took this opportunity to walk to the front and observe, and couldn't help but be stunned.
Wow, seven of them!
Is Mikel secretly adding something again?
Snape glanced at Lin Xia, ignored it, and threw another "Remove Freeze" at the frozen scene!
The little wizard moved again, but this time he was no longer nervous.
Even if they were frozen, they could hear what Snape said. These snakes were not poisonous!
"Now, immediately, go to the potion classroom!" Snape said indifferently.
"Lin Xia." He changed the subject, "This potion class is for self-study. Please help me manage the classroom order. As an excellent student, it shouldn't be difficult for you to manage so few students. Don't tell me you can't do it."
You said so, even if I think it's difficult, I will say it's not difficult.
Lin Xia thought so in her heart, and said calmly: "Yes, professor."
The little wizard followed Lin Xia to the potion classroom. Lin Xia deliberately glanced at Mikkel. His expression was a little pale, as if he was frightened by those snakes.
Nothing else to say, but this acting is really good.
When they came to the potion classroom, everyone still prepared sobering agents this time.
But this class is the final class of sobering agents, and Professor Snape will definitely come to check.
So Lin Xia thought about it and didn't let the little wizard take action first, but used "marking to show" to write out the difficulties of making sobering agents in the air.
These difficulties can be noticed by the young wizards when they make potions, but they lack a way to summarize and generalize, so they make mistakes repeatedly.
Lin Xia said: "You should write more class summaries. Don't think it's a waste of time. If you write more, you will find that many mistakes made during configuration can be avoided."
The young wizard hurriedly lowered his head to take notes.
After they were all ready, Lin Xia asked them to make potions.
Not only did she summarize the difficulties, but she also asked Draco and Hermione to go on stage to make potions.
"If you don't understand anything, you can look at the two people's methods of configuring potions and learn from them."
As for Lin Xia herself, she was responsible for putting out fires everywhere and responding to the little wizards' questions from time to time.
Mikkel was not interested in Lin Xia's teaching method.
If he were to do it, he could do better.
Not only could he summarize the difficult points, but he could also give everyone a set of test papers, and repeatedly memorize them through the tactics of the sea of questions to ensure that the young wizards would not make mistakes again.
But Ron and Harry seemed to like Lin Xia's teaching method very much.
While preparing the potion, the two praised Lin Xia for being a better teacher than Snape.
Mikel couldn't help but said, "Have you never read a book? If you have been to a good school, the teacher will mark the key points of the class!"
Ron's eyes were blank, "Reading, what is that?"
Harry shook his head in confusion, "The teacher will not give the key points in class, but will let us experience it ourselves."
Mikel: ...
This damn happy education!
On the other side, Professor Snape did not choose to deal with the matter alone, but sent a message to Professor McGonagall.
After Professor McGonagall arrived at the scene to investigate, he asked all the professors who were not in class to gather in the basement.
Soon, all the professors came except those who were teaching.
Some professors checked the lively cabbage snakes, some checked the terrain and temperature of the basement, and some ran to other empty classrooms...
McGonagall asked, "What do you think?"
Sprout affirmed, "There is no reason for a cabbage snake to appear here."
Snape looked at her, "Could it have run out from your vegetable garden?"
She shook her head, "Let's not talk about whether the snakes outside can break through the first screening of Hogwarts. Even if they really ran out from my vegetable garden, they can't be this kind of non-toxic cabbage snake."
Snape was silent for a while.
He thought of the herbs planted by Sprout, only a few of which were intermediate, and the rest were all advanced.
Indeed, even if there was a snake, it couldn't be a cabbage snake.
Other professors also asked: "The temperature in the basement is not suitable for hatching. Could it be that other students put it in as a prank?"
McGonagall: "I heard that some students found snakes in the basement on the weekend."
Professor Flitwick immediately said: "Could it be a student's pet?"
Administrator Filch also arrived and said: "Impossible, according to the Student Pet Registration Form, no student at Hogwarts keeps a cabbage snake."
Snape thought of something, "Before, a student stopped me and said that he heard the sound of a snake crawling in the basement, but he didn't know where it was."
Professor McGonagall thought for a while and said: "It is estimated that someone brought it in deliberately. Although I don't know what it means to bring in a non-venomous snake, in order to protect the safety of the students, clean the basement immediately!"
The professors took their location as the center and then walked in four directions: southeast, northwest, and northeast. Two professors formed a group to clean the classrooms on the left and right.
They all used highly lethal black magic. Once used, all creatures could not survive.
Few snakes were cleared out, but a lot of rats, cockroaches, spiders, etc. were cleared out.
After cleaning each classroom, the professor would use "clean up" to sweep out the garbage inside.
In just one hour, the basement was cleaned.
But the professor did not leave, there were still some things to deal with.
Snape returned to the potion classroom first because he had a class.
After he went in, he found that the young wizards were very efficient, and most of them had completed the preparation of the sobering agent.
Although a small number of people were still preparing, they had reached the last few key steps. If nothing went wrong, they would succeed.
Professor Snape looked at Lin Xia, his voice still full of arrogance.
"It seems that you are not just an excellent student in name only. Hufflepuff +1 point."
Lin Xia said modestly: "I just made some summary and induction, but the little wizard was smart and listened to everything."
Professor Snape sneered, "No wonder, the food was already fed to their mouths. If they still couldn't do it well, I would have doubted their IQ."
...
After the potions class, Mikel quickly ran out of the classroom and glanced at the empty classroom where the snakes were released.
Nothing could be seen.
He only released three cabbage snakes on the first day, but later felt that it was not safe, so he quietly added four more on the second day.
But he didn't expect that these cabbage snakes would gather together instead of scattering everywhere.
He prayed in his heart: The professor must find the troll!
This way he would have a reason to show off in front of the professor, as he was the first little wizard to discover something unusual in the basement!
But for some reason, Mikel didn't hear any announcement from the school until noon.
He couldn't help but ask Ron: "Will the professor clean up all the snakes in the basement?"
Ron nodded as a matter of course: "Yes, I'm afraid the professor has already cleaned it up!"
Mikel asked: "Then why didn't you send a notice?"
Ron looked confused: "Why send a notice? It's just a few non-venomous snakes. Sending a notice is too much of a fuss."
Mikel realized at this time that he had fallen into a misconception!
Even if the school found a troll this time, it might be kept secret from the students. After all, no students found the troll.
Mikel's mind was full of thoughts, and he suddenly got up and walked out.
No, he had to get this credit!
On the other side, Quirrell was also panicking.
After he finished his class in the morning, he heard the news that there were snakes in the basement, which was nothing strange.
But at noon, when he had lunch with other professors, Quirrell heard them talking about the big cleanup of the basement, and his face suddenly changed.
"Big, big cleanup?!"
Quirrey asked stutteringly, panicking.
The other professors felt very strange when they saw him like this.
"Yeah, who knows how those non-venomous snakes were brought in, is there any conspiracy, let's just clean up the basement."
Snape specifically asked: "Why, does Professor Quirrell have any unique insights?"
Quirrel pulled the corners of his mouth stiffly and forced a smile: "A big, big cleanup is also good, very good, just, we should do a big cleanup!"
Voldemort said that he could seek Snape's help, but Quirrell never mentioned this to Snape.
He knew that when Voldemort was still there, Snape was his most loyal servant.
But now Snape is doing well in Hogwarts, much more respectable than other Death Eaters. Who knows what Snape thinks?
Quirrel was also scared by Snape before, and he didn't dare to confess to him. When he saw him, he was like a mouse seeing a cat.
After finishing lunch absent-mindedly, Quirrell quickly got up and left.
Unexpectedly, Snape also stood up, and an arrogant voice sounded from behind him: "Professor Quirrell, I have something to ask you, please come to the office with me."
Professor Quirrell lowered his head and responded timidly: "Okay, okay."
Quirrel came to Snape's office, feeling extremely anxious, and wanted to go to the basement to see the situation of the troll.
Will the troll be killed by them?
What should he do if Voldemort's mission is not completed?
Will they find Voldemort? !
No matter how anxious he was, Quirrell had to stay in Snape's office and accept his "interrogation".
Ever since he was reported by Filch for stealing the student's talisman, although he proved that he was innocent, Hogwarts still supervised him.
Snape was the person sent by the school to monitor him.
Snape noticed Quirrell's abnormality and suddenly asked: "Professor Quirrell, you look very anxious, do you want to go out?"
Professor Quirrell shuddered and shook his head: "No, no."
Snape: "In that case, then stay in my office. I'll just see how you will teach the Defense Against the Dark Arts class next."
"What?" Quirrell was not able to hide it for a moment and reacted strongly.
Snape raised his eyebrows: "Why, you are not happy?"
Quirrel immediately shook his head, "No, not really."
This chapter is 3,000 words, and every chapter will be 3,000 words in the future. Has everyone returned home for the New Year? ps: This chapter randomly drops 20 recommendation ticket red envelopes and 6 password red envelopes. The password is: Quirrell can't hide it anymore
