#64 - Who dares to follow Quirrell?

How Hermione formed such an absurd idea, Moon wasn't clear.

Anyway, he directly dismissed Hermione's idea of fundraising for him.

It's not that he disliked the clothes and supplies from donations, but that even if he received these supplies now, he couldn't take them back to Xilin.

Thinking of this, Moon silently retracted his wand, feeling that finding a way to multiply food as soon as possible was the most important thing.

As for his spell practice, it was something that required long-term persistence.

Now, his [Petrification Charm]'s duration could last for more than five minutes, and his spellcasting speed was as fast as Zalan shooting three rounds of arrows.

As for the [Leg-Locking Curse], the spell's effect duration was already more than thirty minutes, and his spellcasting speed could even match Zalan's.

One round of arrows, one spell.

Moon was actually very satisfied to be able to reach this speed.

Especially after he learned that Zalan was the most skilled among all the veterans in the alley, he knew that his spells had reached the basic self-protection requirements.

Just as Moon put away his wand, the portrait door of the common room opened.

Professor McGonagall came to the common room and began her monthly routine inspection.

First, she stopped George and Fred from wanting to set off fireworks indoors.

Then, she forbade Lee Jordan from raising a large spider in the common room.

......

Finally, as she was about to leave, McGonagall noticed Moon in the corner.

"Mr. Scarlett, you must remember that practicing spells is not allowed in the common room."

"Uh, okay, Professor."

Until McGonagall went out through the portrait door, Moon looked at Hermione blankly.

"Don't look at me, I didn't snitch."

"I'm not talking about snitching, is there such a rule in the school rules?"

Moon was inspired by Hermione at the beginning of the school year and memorized all the school rules, but he didn't remember such a rule.

"There shouldn't be, but the common room is indeed not safe, it's too noisy here, and accidents can easily happen."

McGonagall probably had the same idea as Hermione, but this posed a problem for Moon.

The school rules clearly state that students cannot cast spells in the corridors, and now it is not recommended to practice spells in the common room, then Moon can only find a new place.

That night, Moon didn't practice spells anymore. After reading 《Spell Secrets: Methods of Transforming Spells》 for a while, Moon left the common room with all the young wizards to go to the Astronomy Tower.

Wednesday night's Astronomy class had slowly changed from the original curiosity to boredom and suffering.

Especially now that the weather was getting colder and colder, Moon had to put on two more pieces of clothing.

......

The next day, all the young wizards woke up late as expected.

But everyone was very excited after getting up, because tonight was the Halloween feast.

For this reason, the afternoon flying class was canceled, and today's first-year Gryffindor students only needed to attend one Charms class.

Professor Flitwick was paying more and more attention to Moon.

"That's right, the gesture is very accurate, Mr. Scarlett."

"The incantation is accurate and flawless, Mr. Scarlett."

......

In the past, only Hermione could get such treatment.

Now, Professor Flitwick's change made Moon feel a little uncomfortable. Fortunately, he didn't choose to sit with Hermione.

Otherwise, that little witch would definitely compete with him secretly again.

"Okay, students, Mr. Scarlett did a very good job, but you must not forget the subtle wrist movement I just made, and the spell must be pronounced correctly."

"It's Wingardium Leviosa, don't pronounce 'f' as 's', otherwise your deskmate may be standing on your chest."

Professor Flitwick demonstrated the Levitation Charm again with Neville's toad, and then began to let two people practice together on the feathers on the table.

Moon sat with Neville. Seeing the poor young wizard carefully grab Leif back and put it back in his pocket, he signaled Neville to start practicing first.

Moon felt that it was now necessary to slow down his learning speed in Charms class, so as to better conceal the secrets on his body.

"Wingar... Wingar... Wingar, what's after that?"

Neville's memory was as bad as ever, even though he carried a Remembrall with him.

Moon watched Professor Flitwick walk away, then quickly took out his wand and chanted the spell at the feather.

"Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa"

As Moon's voice fell, the feather that was lying steadily in front of the wand tip slowly floated into the air.

Before Neville could react, Professor Flitwick's voice came over first.

"Come! Let me see."

Moon could hear that Professor Flitwick ran over.

"Wow, I really didn't expect it, Mr. Scarlett, you succeeded in one try."

As Professor Flitwick's words echoed in his ears, Moon felt several gazes gathered on him.

"I decided to give Gryffindor one point."

It wasn't until Moon withdrew his wand and the feather slowly fell from the air that Professor Flitwick reluctantly left.

"You did really well."

Neville's voice sounded, Moon just nodded, and then pointed out the mistakes in the spell to the other party.

At this time, Hermione and Ron, who were sitting in the back row, were arguing again over the problem of spell syllables.

These two people seemed to be at odds since the beginning of school.

Moon had witnessed at least five scenes of the two arguing.

And Moon also discovered a very interesting point in these quarrels: sometimes occupying the truth does not necessarily mean winning in the quarrel.

For example, Hermione, she is always right, but she is also the one who gets hurt after every quarrel.

Sure enough, this time was the same. Hermione succeeded in the Levitation Charm in one try and received praise from Professor Flitwick.

But after class, Ron's sentence "She must have very few friends" made Hermione cry again.

However, Moon didn't know about this, he hurriedly left the classroom after class.

Several plants in the Herbology Club needed to be loosened and watered today. He had to complete this task before the evening banquet started, and then he could enjoy the food with peace of mind.

The characteristics of magical plants are different, they have their own temperaments like small animals.

Among the thirty-two plants in the club, the most difficult to care for was a Dragon Blood Grass.

This was a plant left by Nymphadora Tonks, who graduated last year.

According to Cedric, this senior student was very talented in disguise, and she also used this method to sneak into the dragon's nest to steal this herb.

However, she herself didn't think this was stealing, because she also left a letter with an IOU for the dragon.

Dragon Blood Grass needs to be planted using fertilizer made from dragon dung. For this reason, Professor Sprout specially made a fiery red fertilizer.

Moon needs to change the soil and fertilize this little grass every three days, otherwise it will wither.

......

When Moon had arranged all the plants for today, it was time for the banquet to begin.

He had already heard several waves of young wizards passing by the door excitedly.

Just as he was about to leave, a pungent but familiar smell of garlic came from outside.

Moon knew that Professor Quirrell was preparing to attend the banquet.

But just as he was about to open the door, he suddenly stopped, because he found that Quirrell's footsteps seemed too hurried.

"......Entered the school?"

From Quirrell's voice, Moon guessed that someone must be following him.

"Could it be that there really is someone in the school who is not afraid of garlic and dares to follow Quirrell?"