Chapter 98 The first Defense Against the Dark Arts professor to be re-elected

Harry quietly slipped out of the Borgin Burke antique store, put his cracked glasses on his nose, and looked around.

In front of him was a dirty alley, seemingly lined with black magic shops. Borkin Bock seemed to be the largest, and some shrunken human heads were eerily displayed in the window of the store opposite. Separated from the two facades, a large cage was filled with huge black spiders.

In a dark doorway, two ragged wizards were looking at him and whispering, and some non-humanoid creatures were licking their lips at him.

Harry felt horrified and wanted to leave this weird place as quickly as possible.

He trotted along, holding on to his broken glasses from time to time.

...However, two minutes later, he still sadly found that he had lost his previous direction.

"Aren't you lost, my dear?"

Suddenly, an old, unpleasant voice sounded in Harry's ears, startling him.

An old witch stood before him, holding a dish of what looked like a dead man's fingernail. She looked at him grimly, showing teeth that looked like they were covered with moss.

Harry shivered and backed away hastily.

"I'm fine, thank you." He said tremblingly, "I just..."

At this moment, Harry suddenly felt something grabbing his shoulder and flying up.

The old witch below stretched out her sharp nails and tried to pull Harry down from the sky, but his body rose too quickly, and the hunched-back old witch couldn't reach him at all.

Harry's feet were off the ground now, and he was flapping his legs in panic, trying to break free from the air, but he was afraid of falling and becoming the prey of the old witch again.

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So Harry bravely turned his head and took a look, just hoping that the thing grabbing him had learned it in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class... As the first-year Defense Against the Dark Arts final exam, he might be able to find the answer solution!

Turning his head, Harry saw a huge bat grabbing his back and flapping its wings continuously.

This bat seems to look familiar...

Like...

Like the one that caught him on the Quidditch pitch!

Harry's anxious heart suddenly relaxed, and he was even in the mood to start admiring the scenery seen from above.

He saw the unwilling expression of the ugly old witch, saw many shady-looking wizards on the narrow streets looking at him in the sky in surprise, and saw a window so luxurious that it was incompatible with the entire alley...

A silver-haired man was sitting inside the window, elegantly holding a crystal glass and tasting wine.

The beating speed of the bat's wings slowed down, and it hovered next to the window. Then, he suddenly accelerated and threw Harry's thin body towards the wall next to the window.

"Ah..." Harry looked at the wall getting closer and closer in front of him and screamed in horror.

The moment Harry was about to collide with the marble wall, the silver-haired man in the window glanced sideways at him.

The next moment, the marble wall seemed to turn into liquid, with waves of spiral ripples appearing.

Harry went straight through the thick wall and fell heavily onto the soft sofa.

"Mr. Potter, I think you need to explain to me why you appear in a dangerous place like Knockturn Alley?" Dracula's dull voice came from next to Harry, "I'm curious about this place, secretly. Sneaked in?"

"Professor Dracula!" Hearing this voice, Harry's heart was completely relieved, and he shouted in a hoarse voice, "I'm lost... I used floo powder for the first time today, and I sucked soot into my throat. Here...so I may have pronounced the wrong word..."

"The words "diagon" and "kno" don't seem to be very similar. How much soot have you inhaled?" Dracula said with a playful smile.

Immediately, he discovered that Harry's body was indeed covered with soot, and the soot even stained the cushions of the luxurious sofa in the compartment.

Dracula frowned.

"Well, it can be seen that you really suck a lot of soot."

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers. The soot in the compartment disappeared instantly, and even Harry's glasses were repaired and looked brand new.

"Thank you, Professor..." Harry said weakly, "Why does this Knockturn Alley not feel like a place where serious people would come... Ah, no, Professor, I didn't mean to say you are not serious."

Dracula's face immediately darkened.

"Do you know who the old witch who stopped you just now is?" He sneered and asked maliciously, "This is the content that will be taught after the second grade starts. As long as you prepare well at home, this question shouldn't be a problem. Difficult to answer.”

"Ah?" Harry was stunned, "Isn't she an old witch with a weird appearance and personality?"

"It seems that you haven't previewed the following content at all." Dracula showed a pleasant smile, "If you observe carefully, you will find that the old witch has many warts on her face and neck, similar to Fungus or solid blisters on the skin.”

"If you observe more carefully, you may also be able to find that the front end of her feet is much narrower than ordinary people, because this creature only has four toes."

"That means...that old witch just now was not a wizard?!" Harry asked in shock.

"Yes, she is a dominatrix." Dracula chuckled. "Dominatrixes like to eat raw livers the most, especially the livers of children. If I hadn't happened to find you nearby, you would be very happy at this time. He may have had his heart and liver stolen by that dominatrix, and he won’t even leave his whole body behind when he dies!”

Harry broke into a cold sweat and felt frightened. He swore that he would never come to this ghost place like Knockturn Alley again!

"Well, since you didn't prepare properly at home, you will have twice as much homework as others in the first two weeks after returning to Hogwarts." Dracula glanced at Harry, whose face turned green with fright. , said casually.

"Professor, there is a reason why I didn't preview my lessons!" Harry quickly explained, "After returning to the Muggle community, my uncle and aunt hid all my magic-related things, so I had no chance to preview my lessons. ah!"

"What a poor child," said Dracula.

When Harry heard this, a hint of joy appeared on his face, thinking that his homework would not need to be doubled.

"But what does this have to do with me?" Dracula's next words broke Harry's joy, "And how would I know if this was your excuse?"

"I assume that what you said is true, but since you used Floo powder to come to Knockturn Alley, it means that you must have left a Muggle family and lived in a wizarding family for a while, eh , I guess it’s Wes coming home.”

"So when Wes came to stay at our house, did you just focus on having fun and completely forget about your homework?"

Harry stared blankly at Professor Dracula's long speech, and finally understood——

It didn't matter whether he had previewed his homework or not. This petty professor simply wanted to take revenge for the word "irregular" he just casually said!

He stood up indignantly, stared straight at Dracula, and said loudly:

"Professor, I am willing to accept twice as much homework!"

Seeing Professor Dracula's half-smiling expression in front of him, Harry decisively chose to surrender.

There is definitely no way to resist, so it is better to agree quickly to prevent the workload from tripling. Anyway, Professor Dracula doesn't assign much homework to begin with... Well, the premise is to stop Hermione from reminding him!

"Professor, you are right, I do live at Wes' house now." Harry said, "I mispronounced the word and came to Knockturn Alley, and now I am separated from them, they must be very anxious. So... Could you please take me to Diagon Alley?"

Dracula glanced at him and placed the crystal cup in his hand casually on the table.

"Then let's go. It's time for me to leave." He stood up, walked to the window of the compartment, and lifted the closed window.

In fact, when this compartment was first built, in order to ensure the privacy of the compartment, this luxurious window could not be opened.

But Dracula thought that the process of going around the middle hall, passing through the many booths, and then walking down the stairs from the entrance of the White Feilong Bar on the second floor to the entrance of the Black Wizard Tattoo Shop on the first floor was too cumbersome. It's better to jump out of the window faster.

So in order to take care of Dracula's preferences, the proprietress of the Bai Feilong Bar ordered someone to transform the window into a form that could be opened and closed.

At this time, Dracula opened the window and jumped down from the building.

Because Harry had previous experience in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he just gritted his teeth and jumped out of the window with Dracula.

Sure enough, just before landing, a bat flew lightly under Harry's feet, providing enough cushion for his landing, allowing him to land smoothly in this dark, narrow alley.

After the two left, the luxurious window of Bai Feilong Bar also closed automatically, returning to its previous tight state, not giving any chance for curious people to pry.

Dracula crossed his arms and led Harry leisurely through the twists and turns of the narrow alleys, heading towards Diagon Alley.

Harry noticed that the evil looks in the alley that had ulterior motives towards him changed.

After seeing Dracula next to Harry, their eyes showed fear and awe. Their eyes didn't even dare to stay on the two of them, and they quickly looked away after taking a brief look.

"Professor, the people in this alley seem to be afraid of you?" Harry asked curiously, "Have you ever found an opportunity to deal with these people before?"

Dracula casually glanced at the various dark wizards and dark creatures on both sides of the street, and sneered disdainfully, "Just them? I don't even bother to deal with these people."

Regarding Professor Dracula's extremely confident words, Harry could only silently give a thumbs up, because he had no way to refute...

The real reason is actually not complicated.

In an alley like Knockturn Alley that is filled with the aura of black magic, a source of darkness like Dracula, even the slightest hint of darkness, can have a huge impact on the dark wizards and dark creatures here.

The people or animals who can survive here are not fools, at least their senses are much more sensitive than ordinary people, so even if they have never met Dracula, they can deeply understand that this silver-haired man... is not easy to mess with!

After walking for about five or six minutes, the light in front of Knockturn Alley became brighter and brighter, gradually dispelling the haze and darkness in the alley.

The two finally walked into the bright sunshine outside, and Harry saw a familiar snow-white marble building in the distance: Gringotts Bank.

"You don't need me to take you the rest of the way, right?" Dracula stopped and asked.

He glanced at the sunlight shining into the alley with disgust, moved a step to the side, and stood in the shadow under the eaves of a shop.

"Yes!" Harry nodded heavily, "Thank you for your help today, Professor Dracula!"

As he spoke, he ran towards the direction of Gringotts Bank, because he had already seen Hermione standing on the white steps of Gringotts, waving happily to him.

Dracula looked at Harry's leaving back, and then caught a glimpse of the Weiss family hurriedly coming from a distance. He chuckled and shook his head.

The next moment, his figure disappeared into the shadows under the eaves.

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In the Great Hall of Hogwarts, the faculty and staff are almost here.

There is a very strange phenomenon in this magic school - that is, many Hogwarts professors live in the school.

For example, Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, etc. can all be regarded as older single wizards. None of them have family burdens and do not need to go back to spend time with their families after work.

In other words, the students at Hogwarts are their family.

Therefore, these professors basically stayed at Hogwarts throughout the summer vacation when they had no other academic research to go out for exchanges.

At this time, Snape was lying in Dumbledore's ear and secretly whispering something to him, Professor McGonagall was busy sorting out the list of new students and the process of the opening banquet, and Professor Flitwick was happily chatting with Professor Sprout. Chatting...

Suddenly, the light in the auditorium seemed to dim.

"Hey, is it going to rain?" Professor Flitwick looked curiously at the enchanted ceiling of the auditorium, "There don't seem to be any clouds in the sky?"

"It's also possible that Professor Dracula is here." Professor McGonagall said to Professor Flitwick while writing on the parchment with a calm expression. "As long as the students are away, he will often do this. kind of thing."

Sure enough, the next moment Dracula appeared on the professor's seat and sat elegantly on his chair.

Dracula has never been very fond of the enchanted ceiling in the auditorium, because it would allow him to feel the sun shining indoors.

So he used the title deed of Hogwarts to figure out a good way - that is to change the light transmittance of the ceiling by controlling the magic supply of the castle's magic nodes to the ceiling of the auditorium.

In short, it is to adjust the brightness of the ceiling!

However, this is not appropriate when there are too many students. On the one hand, it will affect the mood of the little wizards when eating in the auditorium. On the other hand, it will easily expose Dracula's identity as a vampire who doesn't like sunlight.

Of course, Dracula himself never cared about his identity being revealed, it was just Dumbledore who was paying attention to him...

Therefore, due to various reasons, the sky suddenly darkened.

Seeing Dracula take his seat, Dumbledore sent Snape next to him to his own seat, and then took the lead in applauding.

"Let us congratulate Professor Dracula! He has become the first Defense Against the Dark Arts professor to be re-elected for a second year at Hogwarts in decades!"

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