The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 86 The Swamp in the Classroom
A new week has begun again. After two weeks of study and life, the students finally returned to normal. The knowledge that was eaten during the holidays was picked up again by everyone. The faces of professors in various subjects finally stopped being ugly. up.

Professor McGonagall was patrolling the classroom. Although most of the students did not successfully turn the caterpillar into a pawn, the consumption rate of the caterpillar was significantly reduced, and the students would no longer kill these poor little ones angrily. Bugs gone.

The caterpillars of a few students can already see the shadows of some chess pieces, and with more practice, they should be able to complete a complete deformation.

So Professor McGonagall is in a good mood today, and she is very satisfied with the performance of the students.

Ada was the first person in the classroom to conjure a complete chess piece. She transformed the bug into a knight, and then conjured other chess pieces.The image of each chess piece is very vivid, a knight with a leaping horse and a whip, a king who is not angry and majestic, and Ada is about to become a queen now.

In wizard chess, the queen's movement is not limited to the number of squares, and she can advance and retreat horizontally, vertically, or obliquely. In chess, the queen can almost be said to be the most powerful chess piece.

This is also influenced by the various royal families in Europe. The royal family borrowed powerful reinforcements from the queen's natal family to defeat the enemy or consolidate the rule of the royal family.The queen piece is the embodiment of this situation.

With a flick of a wand, the caterpillar is transformed into a queen under the influence of the Transfiguration Charm.This queen chess piece is wearing armor and standing with a sword, with a murderous look on its brows. It doesn't look like a queen, but more like a king fighting with soldiers in front of the two armies.

Professor McGonagall standing behind Ada quietly watched her cast spells. Ada's Transfiguration is so good, it has something to do with Professor McGonagall's careful teaching.

Today's Ada gave Professor McGonagall a different feeling. This feeling is very strong, but I can't tell where she has changed. However, Ada is developing in a good direction, which makes Professor McGonagall feel at ease. .

In the afternoon, it was Defense Against the Dark Arts class. On Saturday, what Professor Glover Cecil said to Ada by the Black Lake, I don't know whether he was helping her or pitting her.

Logically speaking, if a person speaks out about his tragic past, no matter how well he speaks, it will only earn some sympathy and tears, and make people feel sad.

But Cecil's story had a great impact on Ada, almost turning Ada into a person who only knew about memories and obsessed with the past, almost destroying her.

But when Ada broke free from those memories, Ada figured out a lot of things and understood how she should live in the future. From this point of view, Cecil seems to be helping her.

Every time I came into contact with these old guys in the wizarding world, Ada felt that she was shallow. She couldn't see through any one person, and even what their behavior represented, Ada had to think about it for a long time.

The desks in the classroom were put away and neatly arranged at both ends of the room. A large open space in front of the podium was covered with a black cloth, and it was unknown what was hidden inside.

In front of the window, Cecil was still sitting there smoking a cigarette. The light blue smoke enveloped him, and you couldn't see a trace of sadness from him. The person standing by the black lake and weeping silently didn't seem to be him.Cecil was back to her first class self, wise and knowledgeable, with a touch of humor.

Ada was watching Cecil, and Cecil was watching her through thick glasses.Seeing Ada joking with her friend, Cecil showed a satisfied expression.He originally thought that it might take some time for Ada to come out, or that she would not be able to come out for a lifetime.Cecil was also surprised that Ada could walk out so quickly.

The class bell rang, and Cecil put away his pipe and stood in front of the podium. He said: "There are many kinds of black magic, and they are varied and endless. Fighting them is like fighting with a Fighting with a monster, if you cut off one of its heads, it may look at you from other places, and it will become more vicious and cunning."

The students in the classroom were a little scared by Cecil's words, and their hands holding the books became even stronger.

"If you say you have no brains, how should you look at people?" Fred muttered in a low voice, "I'm really curious."

"I'm also curious, do you think it could be..." Lee Jordan's smile was a bit wretched, and he didn't know what bad things came to his mind.

Ada knows one, but he should be a god, not some black magic or dark creature.Ada said: "I don't know, maybe there is, maybe he just made it up to scare us, why don't you ask?"

Lee Jordan shook his head vigorously, he didn't want to have any contact with a dark wizard like Glover Cecil.

Since the start of school for two weeks, Professor Cecil has been such a weird existence. The students like to listen to his lectures, but no one dares to ask him questions after class. Everyone does not want to have anything to do with the notorious dark wizard.

After class, the students in the classroom would disperse, and everyone would run very fast, as if they were not taught by a wizard, but by a troll wielding a huge mallet.

"Today, we are going to come into contact with a cunning and vicious dark creature." Cecil pointed at the black cloth with his wand, and the black cloth disappeared immediately, revealing a small swamp. "They often inhabit swamps and attack travelers passing by. , does anyone know what it is?"

The swamp in front of him looked very real, like a scaled-down version of a big swamp. There was a winding path in the swamp leading from the students to where Cecil was.

The students shook their heads. They couldn't think of any monsters hidden in the swamp, but they were instinctively afraid of the swamp.

Ada raised her hand, and Cecil motioned for her to answer the question.Ada said: "Is it Shinkopunk?" There are many dark creatures in the swamp, but Shinkopunk should be the only one suitable for them to learn now.

"Tell me more in detail." Professor Cecil said encouragingly.

"Sinkpunk, a one-legged creature that seems to be condensed from smoke, looks quite fragile and harmless on the outside." Ada continued, recalling the information about Sinkpunk, "but it will lure travelers into a trap. The swamp, when the traveler drowns, it eats the traveler."

"Yes, the answer is correct, five points for Gryffindor." Cecil applauded and said, "This kind of creature sounds scary, but they are actually easy to deal with, as long as you stick to your heart and don't be confused by it. alright."

"Your task today is to resist the temptation of Xin Ke Punk and successfully pass through this swamp." Cecil walked down from the platform and continued, "Don't worry, you are safe, I will protect you. "

All the students took a step back neatly, everyone reacted quickly, and no one became unlucky because they didn't step back.

"No? Don't you want to be the first to try?" Cecil said with a smile, "The class still has to continue, so there is no way, I can only pick someone at random."

(End of this chapter)