The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 73 Glover Cecil
On the morning of September [-], the sky over Hogwarts was shrouded in owls. Countless owls hovered around the campus, and the letters they carried were not for the students who had just returned to school.

In the auditorium, the confused students chattered about the reason why the school was occupied by owls, but they discussed for a long time, but no definite result came out of the discussion. Everyone just suspected that it might have something to do with the new professor.

The first class of the new semester is Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class. The Transfiguration class is a very difficult subject. It is really a disaster for the students to rank this course as the first class at the beginning of the semester.

In the first grade, Ada and the others learned how to transform objects, but today their transformed object is a beetle, and they need to transform the beetle into a button.

Last year's homework seemed to be emptied from the students' brains, which also made today's Transfiguration class extremely difficult.Professor McGonagall walked around the classroom with a straight face, and the performance of the students really made her anxious.

Either pointing the beetle with a magic wand and running around, or directly stabbing the beetle to death with too much force, some angry students even slapped the beetle to death.The beetles were consumed at a rapid rate, and their carcasses were scattered throughout the classroom.

You are the worst class I have ever led!Professor McGonagall roared in his heart.

Professor McGonagall wants to see Ada, she is in urgent need of comfort, otherwise she is afraid that she can't help but shoot all the students present.

As soon as she walked behind Ada, she saw George sitting next to Ada set his beetle on fire with his wand.A small puff of black smoke floated up, and Professor McGonagall's blood pressure soared along with the smoke.

Fortunately, Ada did not disappoint Professor McGonagall. She put the beetle on the desk, pointed at it with a magic wand, and chanted the spell softly. The beetle successfully turned into a delicate button with E· T, this is Ada's initials.

Bonus points, this has to be extra points.Seeing that Ada successfully cast the spell, Professor McGonagall's blood pressure finally returned to normal, and he no longer felt dizzy or dizzy.

In the afternoon is Defense Against the Dark Arts. Students come early. There is a new professor every year. Each professor has their own teaching style. There is always a professor that you are satisfied with.

Glover Cecil, who just took office, the students are still full of freshness to him, as long as his performance is not too bad, the students will give him a good review.

In the classroom, Professor Cecil was sitting by the window, smoking a black pipe.The window was open, and the smoke he exhaled drifted outside along the open window.

When the class bell rang, Professor Cecil put away his pipe, walked back to the podium and started roll call. His voice was a little hoarse, but it didn't make people uncomfortable.Each time he called a student, he took a good look at the student through his thick glasses.

After the roll call, he closed the roster with a snap, and started his first class with Professor Cecil holding the podium.

"I think everyone should be very curious, why are there so many owls suddenly appearing in Hogwarts this morning?" The students under the podium nodded, and Professor Cecil continued, "These owls came because of me."

Regardless of the whispering students below, Cecil said: "After your parents knew that I became your new professor, they lodged a serious protest with Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic. They felt that people like me should not appear in the school." Instead, they should be locked up in Azkaban for the rest of their lives."

These words aroused the curiosity of the students, why this professor was so hated and wanted to be imprisoned in that terrible place of Azkaban for the rest of his life.

"Why did you say he was locked up?" Fred asked curiously.

"Maybe he's a dark wizard?" Ada whispered her guess, "or maybe he's crazy."

Professor Cecil pressed down with his hand, and the classroom immediately fell silent, not because he was so prestigious, but because everyone was really curious.Professor Cecil said: "I am a dark wizard. I like to study black magic, and I even did a lot of wrong things for it."

The students were in an uproar, and a black wizard appeared in the school!Some of the timid ones, like Patricia Stinson, were ready to run away.

"Don't worry, I won't attack you, I am not the same person as my predecessor." Professor Cecil said with a smile, "I don't want to go back to Azkaban again."

"That place is really terrible. People who are locked there will lose all happiness." Cecil said slowly, "I paid a heavy price for the wrong things I did. I lost Many years of freedom...and joy."

George whispered, "Why is Dumbledore looking for a dark wizard released from Azkaban? Is it true that no one can be found?"

"Maybe the salary offered by Hogwarts is not enough for people to pay their lives for it?" Fred said.

"Can't you be more serious?" Angelina patted Fred. "I think Dumbledore must have his consideration in making such an arrangement. He must have trusted Professor Cecil."

"Did you forget last year's benefit?" George asked.

"Before teaching at Hogwarts, who knew he was a Death Eater?" Angelina asked back, "Many people know Cecil's identity as a dark wizard."

Cecil was still talking about his own affairs at the edge of the podium, and he didn't care even if the students were discussing quietly in groups of three or four.

"What do you think, Ada? You are the one of us who has had the most contact with Dumbledore." Angelina poked Ada on the shoulder.

A person who studies black magic must be proficient in black magic, so he must also be very good at defending against black magic.Such a person is very suitable to be the professor of this course.

Of course, there is a premise that this person will not threaten the safety of the students.This is also what the parents of the students are worried about. It is very normal for them not to believe such a person.

"I think he should be able to teach us something real, something that can be used after graduation." Ada said, "Whether he can stay and teach at Hogwarts is not something we can decide."

Cecil stood on the podium, looked at the students below and said, "Although I haven't used black magic for a long time, I still think it is necessary for black magic to exist. Magic shouldn't be divided into black and white, just because someone Bad things are done with these magics, so they become black magic, which is unfair..."

"Okay, that's all for now, let's get down to business." Professor Cecil signaled everyone to be quiet, and when there were no more students talking in the classroom, he continued: "I have already learned about the progress of Fuli's lectures. In terms of defense against magic, you are as innocent as a piece of blank parchment, so in the next year I will take you to understand what black magic is and learn how to defeat it."

Cecil turned around and wrote today's lecture content on the blackboard. With his back to the students, he made a joke. He said, "If I can finish teaching this year safely!"

Although the students have been whispering below, the atmosphere in the classroom is always very depressed. A black wizard has brought too much fear to the students. With this joke, this sense of fear has also eased a lot .

In the following time, Cecil didn't say a single word of nonsense, nor did he spread his views. Instead, he told the students how to define black magic in easy-to-understand language according to the contents of the book.

This class did not allow the students to use wands, and only Professor Cecil spoke on the podium throughout the whole class, but the students did not have the slightest impatience, because Cecil brought them a whole new world and let them know Turns out Defense Against the Dark Arts isn't just about waving a wand.

(End of this chapter)