Chapter 242 Snape’s Defense Against the Dark Arts Lesson

The game Cedric was talking about was next Saturday, Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff.

Mike actually already knew about this.

After all, if you have a Quidditch fanatic like Franklin around you, it's hard not to know these things.

Originally, as the first important game at the beginning of the season, Gryffindor's opponent should be Slytherin.

However, when Slytherin's Quidditch captain knew that there would be a storm on the day of the game, he did not hesitate to submit an application to avoid the game on the grounds that their Seeker Draco's arm injury had not healed yet.

Mike was surprised when he heard the news. Of course, what surprised him was not that the captain of the Slytherin team knew the weather on the day of the game so many days in advance.

The study of astrology combined with divination can easily predict the weather for many days in the future, and the accuracy is far more accurate than the weather forecast in Muggle society.

Mike was surprised that Draco hadn't taken off his disguise until now. It seemed that he didn't even listen to his warning last time.

Mike will naturally be there for Cedric's first game this semester. After all, Cedric has brought so many people to support him, so he should also go as a courtesy.

So he encouraged all the people he could call to come together to cheer for Cedric and Harry. Among these people were Penello, Franklin and other students who were relatively talented in the Patronus Charm.

Although these people are still far from being able to release a physical version of the Patron Saint, they can still release some weak light, but it is of little use.

Mike summoned these people not expecting them to help defend against the dementors that would invade the stadium, but just to show off and let everyone know that he is an excellent teacher, and as long as you follow him and study hard, you can learn the Patronus. curse.

This is the best publicity. When more people come, Mike will be able to set a higher threshold.

As for what you said if the dementors don't come?

In the original book, they attacked Harry during this game, so they will come this time too.

Even if they don't plan to come, Mike will find a way to make them come!

After finishing these things during a lunch break, Mike led a large group of Ravenclaw students to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

Now Mike has become the undisputed king of Ravenclaw Academy. Not only the students in the same grade and lower grades look up to him, but even the senior students respect him very much.

This resulted in a large group of people following him wherever he went.

Mike now finally realized how Cedric felt. This kind of pomp looked very majestic, but in fact it was very troublesome.

He basically has no privacy now, and he can't do anything private if he wants to, because even when he goes to the toilet, several classmates will go with him!

He would even look at Little Mike secretly, and then show an expression of inferiority complex!

When Mike and others came to the classroom, the professor waiting in the classroom was not Lupin, but Snape.

Mike was not surprised by this. The time coincided with the full moon in the past few days. Lupine, as a werewolf, would transform at this time, so it would be inappropriate for him to come to class.

But since Dumbledore invited Lupine to be a professor, he was naturally fully prepared. After all, werewolves are not incurable diseases.

Wolfsbane potion!

This is the magic potion to cure werewolf disease!

This potion is actually just a potion that inhibits werewolf transformation and cannot completely cure werewolf disease.

But the difficulty of making it is so difficult that it makes one's scalp numb. It is said that the number of people in Europe who can make this potion cannot exceed the number of hands!

As luck would have it, Snape happened to be one of them.

Every time the moon is full, Snape will prepare Wolfsbane potion in advance and give it to Lupine to drink. Due to the side effects of Wolfsbane potion, Lupine will fall into a very weak period.

At this time, the kind-hearted Snape will help others to the end and help his former classmate take a few Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons.

Naturally, Snape would not be so kind. He and Lupine had a big feud, and asking him to help prepare the Wolfsbane potion was already the limit.

Mike even suspected that Snape had added something to the Wolfsbane potion, which made Lupine extremely weak.

Because Mike checked all the information and found no record of such serious side effects of Wolfsbane potion.

"Okay, Professor Lupine is not feeling well, so I will take over the class today!" Snape looked at the clock and saw that the time had come and started teaching. "Before this, I have learned about your current progress through students in other classes. , I think poor Lupine seriously underestimated you! After all, I was able to deal with the red hat independently at your age!"

The students in the audience looked at each other, and they all had doubts about Snape's words.

The red hat is a level 4x dangerous creature and is extremely good at sneak attacks. They didn't think Snape would be so strong in his third year.

Mike didn't think so. Snape was a fierce man who invented the Shadowless Curse when he was a student. It was not difficult to deal with a red hat in the third grade.

"Quiet!"

Snape roared when he saw everyone in the audience was noisy. When everyone shrank their necks like quails and stopped talking, he continued:

"Now, please turn the book to page 394!"

The sound of turning pages was immediately heard from the audience, and when everyone turned the book to the designated position, they looked at each other again.

"Werewolf? Isn't this right? How can we possibly deal with this?"

"Yes, Professor Lupin is better. According to the curriculum, we were supposed to learn about the Black Fairy today! Damn it! I've been looking forward to it for a long time!"

"Who says it isn't?"

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Mike saw all this, and Lupine was indeed a good teacher. This became especially obvious after his predecessor ruined the reputation of the Defense Against the Dark Arts course.

He is very good at allowing students to learn knowledge while having fun, allowing students to overcome their fear of dark magical creatures and deal with them in a more calm and interesting way.

Boggarts are like this, water monsters are like this, and red hats are like this.

But Snape is different. Having taught obscure potions for a long time, he doesn't have much patience. His teaching method is to instill as much knowledge into you as possible in the shortest possible time.

As for how much you can understand, this is not within his consideration.

If you can't keep up with your studies, it means you don't have enough talent, and you are a troll with shit in your head!

And Snape never had the slightest fondness for idiots.

But today was different. Snape showed another side of him, patiently introducing werewolves and werewolf disease to everyone.

In order to prevent everyone from being confused about the difference between werewolves and ordinary people, he even repeated the key points several times until he was sure that everyone could easily distinguish the difference between werewolves and ordinary people.

Mike knew what he wanted to do.

After recuperating at Hogwarts for so long, Lupine's body has returned to a healthy state. Not only has there been a lot more flesh on his body, but even his gray hair has returned to its original color.

This clearly annoyed Snape.

So Snape wanted the students to discover Lupine's werewolf identity on their own, so that Lupine could get out of Hogwarts, lose his well-paying job, and return to the quagmire.

Mike had to say that Snape was indeed a smart man, because when Snape proudly announced the end of get out of class and walked out of the classroom, Mike noticed that at least three people in the classroom had thoughtful expressions on their faces. .

"There are still many smart people!"

Mike sighed.

There has never been a shortage of smart people in this world. Objectively speaking, Hermione's IQ can only be said to be average, far from reaching the level of a genius.

If I had to say it, she was just a genius who worked hard. The rich knowledge resulting from reading poetry and books for a long time, coupled with the two people Ron and Harry as foils, made people think she was a genius.

In fact, the real genius is much better than her.

Take Harry's mother Lily.

She was once known as the most gifted genius in modern times. No matter what spell she was, she could learn it instantly, and no matter how profound the potion formula was, she could make it easily...

Do you really think that the ancient family charm that allowed Harry to survive the Death Curse was so easy to learn?

Rather than saying that Harry, the child of destiny, defeated Voldemort at his peak, it would be better to say that Lily and Voldemort perished together.

When I say this, you should be able to understand how strong Lily is, right?

The woman who can die with Voldemort!

Mike smiled and shook his head. After getting all these messy things out of his mind, he got rid of his large group of admirers and went to Lupin's office alone.

He had to remind Lupine to disguise himself, he still needed Lupine.

At this stage, no one will reveal the identity of Lupine werewolf, because everyone is still in the stage of careful verification.

In the next long period of time, there will be many pairs of eyes staring closely at Lu Ping. Once they confirm their suspicions, Lu Ping's expulsion will be inevitable.

After all, Lupine is a werewolf, and werewolves in the wizarding world are like AIDS patients in Muggle society!

When Mike arrived at the Defense Against the Dark Arts office, he saw Lupine lying on a deck chair like an old farmer who was tired after doing farm work in winter, fast asleep with a thick blanket covering his body.

Judging from his bloodless lips, he was in a bad state now. It was as if the adequate nutrition he had gained a while ago had been taken away from him overnight, making him turn back into the thin middle-aged man he was.

"Professor Lupine?"

Mike asked softly.

Lupine's sleep was very light, and Lupine's eyes opened a crack as soon as Mike made a sound.

"Ah, Mike."

Lupine gasped and weakly responded to Mike's call.

Seeing him like this, Mike was even more sure that Snape must have been drugged in the Wolfsbane potion, otherwise there would be no such serious side effects.

"It looks like you are very ill."

"Yeah, cough!" Lupine coughed twice and said, "How was your class today? Snape didn't give you a hard time, right? Ahem!"

Just after Lupine finished speaking, he started coughing violently again. Mike moved slightly away from Lupine, and waited until Lupine's breath stabilized a little before he said:

"It's very bad. He is hinting to us about your werewolf identity. And the worst thing is that someone should have already begun to doubt you."

"is that so?"

Lu Ping was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then became very disappointed. He lowered his head and said nothing for a long time. After a long time, he pretended to be optimistic and said:

"It looks like I have to change jobs again."

"Don't you hate him?"

"Hate? That's not even a question. After all, I owe him this." The expression on Lupine's face tightened at first, and then relaxed, "You know what? Don't look at Snape now. In this way, he was a doormat when he was young, and we called him a snot-nosed guy at that time..."

Lupine became more and more enthusiastic as he talked, telling all the stories about how they bullied Snape when they were in school.

Although to Mike it sounded like a story about a rich second generation kidnapping his childhood sweetheart and bullying him in school, Lu Ping told it happily, and even had a smile on his face after talking about it.

As he spoke, the smile on Lupine's face suddenly disappeared, and then he said with a heavy face: "Did you know? Snape almost died because of me."

Mike looked at him in surprise, waiting for the next step.

“I was already a werewolf at the time, and whenever I wanted to transform, I would go to an abandoned house in Hogsmeade through the secret passage under the Whomping Willow and vent my anger there.

Later, James found out, and he took Blake and Peter and turned into animals to accompany me.

Help me at the risk of contracting lycanthropy! "

Lu Ping burst into tears when he said this.

"But Snape, the snot-nosed man, discovered the clues to this matter. He wanted to follow us but didn't know how to open the secret passage. So, he was trapped under the Whomping Willow.

As you know, the Whomping Willow is a very aggressive magical creature, and those who are entangled by it are basically hopeless.

Fortunately, we found him later and James risked his life to rescue him, but he was still seriously injured and even punished by the professors. "

Mike's eyes narrowed unconsciously. He knew that there was a secret passage under the Whomping Willow, but he couldn't explain how he knew it, because it wasn't even marked on the Marauder's Map. This secret passage.

Now Sirius Black is hiding in the abandoned house that Lupine mentioned. Mike originally couldn't find a reason to find him naturally. But now, with today's conversation, Mike can be upright. Off to find Blake.

Having made the decision, Mike stopped spending time with Lupin and said with a smile: "I still hope you can cheer up. To be honest, your class is really interesting. We all hope you can continue to be a professor." .

So, please pretend as much as possible. The more you pretend, the better. Don’t let them find out. "

"Aren't you afraid of me?"

Lupine's trembling tone reached Mike's ears, causing Mike to smile lightly and say, "Of course, you won't bite me."

Lupine stopped talking, and big tears fell from his face.

"Then I won't disturb your rest. I wish you a speedy recovery!"