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Chapter 4126 4128 [Restricted Book Area]

After the train arrived at the station, Xiang Nan and others got off the train and then took a carriage to Hogwarts.

We walked all the way to the auditorium, which had been newly decorated.

Everyone took their seats according to their respective colleges and waited for the freshman sorting ceremony.

The sorting ceremony was held soon, and Sirius's younger brother Regulus was sorted into Slytherin as expected.

Xiang Nan sighed, knowing that history was not so easy to change.

After the sorting ceremony, everyone enjoyed a sumptuous dinner and then returned to their respective houses to rest.

During the period, Dumbledore also introduced to the students the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Frances Fabian from Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in France.

The next day, the new semester officially began.

In the new semester, the number of classes per week increased to 23, which means an average of nearly five classes per day. For the third-year students, it was really stressful.

But for Xiang Nan, dealing with these classes is easy.

Not only does he perform well in class, he also completes his homework very well and is often welcomed by teachers.

But Xiang Nanzhi was not interested in this. As early as the first grade, he was not satisfied with what he learned in class and books, and started teaching himself.

Now in the third grade, he has read all the books in the library related to potions, spells, herbs, defense against the dark arts, etc., except for the forbidden section.

During the summer vacation, he also read a lot of banned books taken from the Room of Requirement and Filch's office, gaining a lot of dangerous and forbidden knowledge.

Now, while he continued to read his own collection, he began to think about the books in the restricted section.

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In fact, the restricted area of ​​Hogwarts Library is not difficult to enter. It is just behind the library and is separated from the normal area by only a rope.

There is no magic on this rope, so even first-year students can cross it, but the prerequisite is that they don't get discovered by the librarian, Madam Pince.

Madam Pince is a very serious person. If she finds a student trespassing into the restricted book area, she will arrest him immediately without hesitation.

Of course, if she doesn't find out, then you can go in and out of the restricted area freely. In "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", after Harry got the invisibility cloak, he sneaked into the restricted area late at night.

Xiang Nan also has an invisibility cloak, which is not as good as Harry's, but it is not easy to be discovered. Moreover, he can also perform druid transformation and burrowing.

So it was not difficult for him to go to the restricted books section.

On the second night after Xiang Nan returned to Hogwarts, he quietly came to the restricted book area of ​​the library.

I saw that there were quite a lot of books in the banned books area, and most of them were very old, so much so that the gold-plated letters on the spines had peeled off, and some books even had no names.

In addition, some books exude a dangerous aura. For example, there is a book that emits faint whispers, as if there is a person sealed in the book.

The cover of one book was covered in dark brown bloodstains, as if it had been soaked in blood; another book was surrounded by wisps of black air, which made people shudder at the first sight... But Xiang Nan was brave and not easily scared.

He first selected a book called "Powerful Potions", took it to the Room of Requirement, locked Fenrir again, and then began to read it.

"Powerful Potions" records a large number of dangerous and forbidden potions, such as polyjuice potion, fear potion, rage potion, demon potion, etc.

The polyjuice potion can transform a person into another person for an hour; the fear potion can make a person fall into endless fear and easily lead to mental breakdown; the rage potion can make a person fall into a frenzy and violent state, making him extremely aggressive; the demon potion can stimulate the evil thoughts hidden in a person's heart and make him fall into depravity...

These potions are quite terrifying and difficult to prepare. Any mistake in one step may lead to very serious consequences. No wonder they are placed in the banned books area.

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Xiang Nan kept reading until the sky gradually brightened before he put the book back into the forbidden area. At night, after the library closed, he would secretly take it out and read it again.

The reason for going through so much trouble is to prevent someone from borrowing the book from the restricted section and finding that the book has been stolen. In that case, he would most likely be exposed.

In fact, the books in the forbidden area are not for students to read, but for students in lower grades. The school is worried that they are too young to be exposed to these dangerous and taboo knowledge, which will lead them astray.

Just like the film rating system in the United States, some movies contain swear words, violence, blood, and pornographic scenes, which are not suitable for children to watch, and will be classified as R-rated.

Senior students can borrow books from the restricted area with the professor's approval.

For example, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, in order to help Harry find a way to breathe underwater, Hermione read through all the books in the restricted section with the approval of Professor McGonagall. In the sixth grade, in order to find the secret of the Horcrux, she read through the books in the restricted section again.

So Xiang Nan didn't want to take any risks. He secretly read the book at night and returned it quietly in the morning. This way, although it was a little troublesome, it was safer.

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Time flies and it is already the end of October.

Xiang Nan and the others have learned the throwing spell, speaking spell, nonsense potion, intermediate transfiguration and other knowledge. They have also learned how to deal with dark magic creatures such as Kaba and Little Red Riding Hood, and learned about magical animals such as Bowtruckle and Niffler.

It is worth mentioning that the current professor of Care of Magical Creatures is Sylvanus Kettleburn, who resigned from the position in 1993 and was succeeded by Hagrid.

Professor Kettleburn is a very senior professor who has been teaching for more than 40 years. Like Hagrid, he also likes dangerous magical animals. The more dangerous, the more interesting it is to him.

Moreover, his character was similar to Hagrid's, and he was also a bit reckless, so during his years as a teacher, he lost an arm and half a leg.

Therefore, when many students saw Professor Kettleburn, who was half a man left, in the first Care of Magical Creatures class, they began to regret choosing this course.

Fortunately, Professor Kettleburn's interest is interest, and teaching is teaching. Although he likes dangerous magical animals, he still has a plan in mind when teaching.

Unlike Hagrid, who was so reckless that he taught dangerous hippogriffs in the first class, Professor Kettleburn started with less dangerous magical animals, such as Nifflers, Puffballs, Prickly Pears, Bowtruckles, and so on.

The most popular ones among the students are Sniff and Catkins.

Girls generally like the cat, thinking it is furry and very cute, but boys prefer the sniff because it has a treasure-hunting instinct and can dig out jewelry and coins buried in the soil.