Chapter 35
The students were very excited.
"Argus, why are you sitting in the back row?"
"Of course, Professor Quirrell only knows how to read textbooks, and he even reads textbooks haltingly. Who wants to listen!"
"I really don't know what Dumbledore is thinking. Why did he invite a loser to be our Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?"
"..."
Argus listened to the discussions of his classmates around him and didn't explain anything.
Silently sitting in the back row, he picked up a book to block himself.
He knew that Quirrell was definitely not as simple as he appeared in class.
An excellent student from Ravenclaw, he had a strong desire to explore magic and dared to go to the Dark Forest alone.
If he was really useless, Voldemort would not have chosen him as his parasite.
Hogwarts' cowardly behavior was just a cover-up for him and a burden from Voldemort.
In the classroom, without Argus leading the way, Quirrell himself did not have a good reputation among students.
The first few rows were like public classes at a university, with no one to be seen.
Students squeezed back if they could, and students who came late could only sit in the middle with curses.
A strong smell of garlic heralded Quirrell's arrival.
The classroom suddenly filled with coughs.
Quirrell smiled awkwardly and walked to the podium.
"Classmates, please take out my...our textbook, the book "Dark Magic Self-Defense Guide."
"Turn...turn to the first page."
"Today we are going to talk about...Pu Rongrong."
He stuttered in just a few words, wasting dozens of seconds of class time.
As for the following narration, it was even more boring.
It is clear that Puffy is just a harmless magical animal, which is rated as XX level by the Ministry of Magic and is basically harmless to wizards.
If you want to expel them, you don’t even need to use magic.
Some wizard families even keep them as pets.
But even with such simple content, Quirrell talked about it with a hammer on the left and a stick on the right.
Not only are all the content in the textbook, but it is also confusing.
Originally, Agus was still puzzled. Even if it was just reading from the textbook, there shouldn’t be no one listening.
Now I finally understand!
It’s not that they don’t want to listen, but they can’t find the part in the book he is reading!
While reading the textbook, Quirrell tried to ask the students a few questions, but found that no one paid attention to him.
A trace of embarrassment appeared on his face.
"Give me your body!"
A hoarse voice sounded in Quirrell's mind, and then an irresistible force came.
Quirrell's eyes changed.
Instead of standing in the middle of the podium and reading the textbook like before, he walked around among the students with interest.
Argus, who had been observing secretly, was startled!
He lowered his head even lower, fearing that he would attract Quirrell's attention.
At this moment, Voldemort closed the book in his hand.
Click!
The sound was not loud, but it attracted everyone's attention.
"If you think studying textbooks is too boring, let's try a new learning method."
Voldemort took out his wand and enjoyed the feeling of being noticed by countless students.
He wanted to be a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher for a long time, but unfortunately he was always rejected by Dumbledore.
Until he started the Wizard War.
I thought there would be no chance again, but I never thought it would happen to Quirrell.
"Please put down your textbooks and take out your wands."
Voldemort just waved his wand, and everyone's textbooks were instantly closed and gathered aside.
The magical scene caused a burst of exclamations from the little wizard.
Voldemort was very satisfied with the reactions of the crowd. His constantly moving figure did not look like he was giving a lecture.
Rather, it looked like he was giving a speech on stage.
"If you want to learn the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, you must first understand what dark magic is!"
Several students were attracted by his previous magic and immediately raised their hands when they heard the question.
Voldemort smiled and said, "You don't need to raise your hands in my class. You can say whatever you want."
"Dark magic is magic that can cause harm to people!"
"Magic without a counter-curse is dark magic!"
"Dark magic is used by dark wizards!"
"..."
Most of the young wizards did not have an accurate concept of dark magic and simply answered according to their own inner thoughts.
"Mr. Grindelwald, what do you think?"
After Voldemort commented on the answers of several young wizards in turn, he suddenly threw the question to Argus.
Argus narrowed his eyes and was about to talk casually.
But he heard Voldemort continue to speak.
"With Grindelwald, what do you think?"
Mr. Devore's knowledge will surely give us a perfect answer. "
"You won't refuse this opportunity to add points to your own college, will you?"
Facing Voldemort's half-smile, Argus cursed in his heart!
Old fox!
Using the college to pressure me!
A simple provocation directly put Argus on the fire.
In the past classes, Argus had shown his profound knowledge more than once. If he answered casually, it would obviously make other Slytherin students think that he was fooling around and didn't care about the honor of the college.
This would be a fatal blow to his image!
He stood up and thought for a while.
"The judgment of dark magic should be whether the wizard who casts the spell has strong malice."
"For example..."
Argus picked up the wand and pointed to the podium.
"Clear spring like water! "
Several streams of water came out in response and fell directly at Voldemort's feet.
"Clear springs are like water. In many people's eyes, it is just a life spell, but if the water flow continues to expand and rises enough to submerge a person's body, it can also kill wizards. "
"Therefore, I think that as long as the magic is released with strong malice, it can be called black magic."
"Unique insights!"
A glimmer of praise flashed in Voldemort's eyes.
In his expectation, the answer given by Argus should be a summary of the previous students, plus some textbook knowledge.
Unexpectedly, Argus gave him such a big surprise.
Even he did not have this understanding until the third grade.
"Mr. Grindelwald, please sit down."
"Because of your perfect answer, Slytherin will get five points! "
He flicked his sleeves, and the water stains on the ground disappeared completely.
The superb silent and wandless spells once again attracted the discussion of the young wizards.
"As Mr. Grindelwald said, not only magic that can cause harm to people or has no counter-curse is called black magic."
"As long as it carries strong malice, any magic can be used to kill people."
"Of course, in the eyes of most people, black magic is mainly divided into three types, Mr. Grindelwald?"
"The three types of black magic are mainly evil spells, poison spells, and curses. Among them, curses are the most evil, evil spells are the shallowest, and poison spells are between the two." Argus replied calmly.
"Very good!" Voldemort nodded, and his tone suddenly became cold.
"But you missed one of them, that is... the unforgivable curses!"
He turned his head and looked at Harry fiercely.
"Mr. Potter!"
"Please tell me, what spells are called unforgivable curses?"
