days at Hogwarts

Chapter 107 At this moment, the curtain rises

In the homework of the Easter holiday, Professor Flitwick mentioned the problems related to making the fruit dance.

For the fun of it, Loren argues with Hermione about what kind of dance grapes are suitable for.In the exam room just now, when Hermione heard the exam questions, her mind was full of the process of arguing with Loren.

She was so nervous that she involuntarily asked Pineapple to start the ballet. It was only halfway through the journey that she realized she had made a mistake.

"Pfft." Loren couldn't help laughing out loud after knowing what happened.Seeing Hermione's eyes about to kill, he suppressed his laughter again.

"Hermione haha ​​- don't haha, don't worry, there are other exams later." He tried his best to control his smiling face, the muscles on his face were a little stiff from too much effort.

Hermione gritted her teeth when she saw that the guy was still smiling.He clenched his fist tightly and hammered it on his arm, feeling much more at ease.

After Harry and Ron finished their exams, they walked towards the restaurant together.

From time to time, Loren's arm was punched by the girl's grief and anger, and he tried his best to pretend to be in great pain.

"My grades in Charms must be very bad," Hermione said with teary eyes, repeating the mistakes in the exam process, "I also failed the written exam, and I only answered 7 points about the characteristics of the Levitating Charm, and I didn't write anything." The floating spell cannot be directly applied to the human body..."

Harry and Ron shivered from behind.

"You know what? Before that, I thought I did well. Although there is no O, it should be an E." Harry murmured.

Ron nodded stiffly, "I only wrote three points about the Levitation Curse, and I thought I could get full marks for that question."

The exam was carried out while the little wizards were free and struggling.

Perhaps considering that this was the first exam for first-year wizards, the professor had prepared novice benefits for them.Exam questions are basically selected from homework during the Easter holidays.

As long as you are careful when copying homework, you can get a good score.

For the practical exam of the Transfiguration class, Professor McGonagall chose the same method as Professor Flitwick.Let the little wizards demonstrate Transfiguration in front of her one by one, and Professor McGonagall will score according to their performance.

Students who have passed the test are told not to disclose the content of the test.But in fact, it’s okay if it’s leaked, this is a practical test, if you pass it, you will pass it, if you don’t, you won’t.

You listen to other little wizards tell you the main points of casting spells, and you think you know how to cast spells, and then your hands and wand tell you that you know how to use a hammer.

While waiting, Hermione flicked her fingers uneasily, simulating the trajectory of the wand, chanting various key points of transfiguration.

Loren stood behind her, not daring to say a word, he was afraid of being beaten.

"Hermione Granger." Professor McGonagall's voice came from inside.

Hermione took a deep breath and walked straight into the classroom.

A few minutes later, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, her expression came out with ease.Seems happy with the results.

"Loren Morgan."

When Loren entered, Professor McGonagall was putting a snuff box into a small box, as if he was going to treasure it.

The Hogwarts crest is painted on the front of the snuff box, and the other faces are the symbolic animals of each house - lion, eagle, badger, snake.

The watercolor colors are bright and lifelike, and there are delicate hollow patterns on them.

Professor McGonagall poured out a small white mouse from another box, "Turn the mouse into a snuff box, the more beautiful the box, the higher the score."

Points will be deducted if there are mouse whiskers or fangs on the box.But Professor McGonagall felt that there was no need to emphasize this to Loren, she knew Loren's level.

I thought of the intricate, colorful snuffboxes I had just seen.Loren's breath was stagnant, Hermione, what kind of ultimate volume king are you.

With mixed feelings, Loren waved his wand.His snuffbox was basically a copy of Hermione's idea, except that the animals were replaced by swords, gold cups, crowns, and lockets.

Professor McGonagall frowned. This child is obviously proficient in transfiguration, why is he always sneaking and playing tricks.

She pursed her lips in silence for a while, and then said: "From the perspective of transfiguration, it's perfect. But I can't give you the same score as Miss Granger, you can re-transform a snuff box."

Loren waved his hand. He didn't want to bother designing the shape of the snuff box, "Thank you, Professor McGonagall, that's it, as long as you can pass."

What words, what words this is.It's fine to pass what you mean, and Loren's words made Professor McGonagall, who is very self-cultivated, laugh angrily.

She watched Loren walk out of the classroom, thinking about the usual behavior of this kid.

The talent is excellent, and every time the new content of the transformation class is completed, it is always the first few to complete, but it is always muddled and lazy.The homework is excellent every time, but I never take the initiative to answer questions in class.

Good-natured and always teasing, especially poor Miss Granger.

She made up her mind that she will focus on taking care of this "problem student" next school year.

The Potions practice exam is based on the college, and the young wizards brew potions at the same time.

The test question that Gryffindor got in the first grade was to configure the forgetting potion alone from the beginning to the end.

It wasn't difficult, but Snape forced it up.While brewing the potion, he stood behind each student for five minutes, watching them closely.

If you have the experience of brewing potions, or any experience in exams, you can understand the pressure of being an invigilator standing behind you for a long time.

Loren doubted himself for several steps, and when he paused, Snape would make a disgusted sound like "嗤".

In the end, O (perfect) and E (exceeded expectations) were the ones who did not make mistakes during the period of being watched, A (passed) who successfully brewed the potion, P (failed) who were frightened and cried, and D (terrible) ), T (troll).

There was a little problem with Neville's grading criteria.He was frightened and cried by Snape, but managed to concoct the amnesia potion.

Snape was very disgusted with Neville's darker forgetting potion, which contained tears and snot.

Loren wondered secretly, as a Potions professor, should Snape try the potions brewed by the students before scoring.

The last exam was History of Magic, and the last question was to answer which eccentric old wizards invented the self-stirring cauldron.

When Professor Binns asked everyone to put down their quills and roll up the answer parchment, everyone couldn't help cheering.They can easily play for a whole week until the test results are released.

All the exams are over, and the bright and hot summer has really come.

A group of people followed the crowd to the sunny meadow, chasing butterflies and pulling flowers and plants.After a while, Harry and Ron disappeared like crazy.

Loren and Hermione ran across into the bright sunlight, enjoying the scent of the grass.

Hermione seemed to have unloaded a heavy burden, walking briskly, "It's much easier than I thought at first, in fact, I don't need to memorize the "1637 Werewolf Code of Conduct" and the elf rebellion. "

Loren complained: "There is also a whole "History of Magic" textbook."

He was sweating slightly, and opened the front of his clothes to let the wind blow more comfortably.

The white shirt seemed to be shining under the sun, reflecting the boy's fair face and the red mole on the brow, which was particularly eye-catching.The girls on the grass greeted Loren warmly.

Loren also noticed that the mole was too conspicuous, so he shaved his hair into a fringe to cover the center of his eyebrows.

Hermione pulled Loren away from the crowd out of some caution.

They made their way down the slope to the edge of the lake and sat down under the tree with a plop.Hermione curled up her legs and rested her head on her knees, and Loren lay down straight down.

Over there, a giant squid basked in the warm shallow water, and the Weasley twins, Ron and Lee Jordan, gathered to watch as Rolf fiddled with its tentacles.

When Loren saw the lake, he wanted to fish, but he thought of the fish and Grindylo in the lake that didn't talk about martial arts, and thought of preparing fish food, so he gave up.An An quietly watched them tease the big squid.

Loren didn't talk, and Hermione didn't want to talk. Such weather made people unconsciously become lazy.

The two of them didn't have to struggle to find anything to talk about, they just sat under the tree together, feeling the breeze blowing from the lake, feeling at ease.

Over there, the Weasley brothers were eager to try, and they also reached out to fiddle with the tentacles of the giant squid.Maybe they were too hard and disturbed the big squid. Its tentacles were raised high and hit the water surface, splashing a splash of water.

The group of people who were beaten head-on by the lake water were even happier, and cheered, thinking that this was a very fun game.

Loren and Hermione smiled unconsciously.

Under the blue sky, an owl flew by, its snow-white feathers were beautifully illuminated by the sun.

After a while, Harry ran over panting and squatted beside the two of them, "Hagrid knows we've finished our exams, so let's go to the hut at night, and he prepared the first crop of pea pods for us."

As he spoke, he saw a group of people happily playing with the big squid, their eyes sparkled, and before the two of them could reply, he threw his legs and ran over.

In this way, Loren and Hermione leisurely watched a group of people get soaked from the beating, and laughed from ear to ear.With the wind blowing, Loren didn't know when he fell asleep.

The sunset is like a flame, burning the whole sky, and the warm light covers the castle and the forest.

The squid slowly sank to the bottom of the water, and Harry and Ron walked towards the two of them. Their clothes had been dried by George and Fred's magic.

"Come on, let's go to Hagrid's for dinner." Harry was very happy.

Hermione stroked her hair tousled by the wind, and lowered her head to wake Loren who was sleeping.

The four of them set off towards the Forbidden Forest, and met Fang at the edge of the forest, its tail wagging so that it could not be seen, circling around the little wizards.

Hagrid was sitting on a chair outside the hut, his trousers rolled up, facing a large bowl, busily peeling peas.

"Hey! The exam is over?" Hagrid greeted happily, "You guys are in time, come and see the first crop of pea pods this year."

The four gathered around and helped deal with it together.

The last of the sun's light sinks below the horizon, and night takes over the sky.

In the hut, Hagrid poured the fragrant pea soup into bowls for several people, with the mixed boiled pea pods.

The soup is pea pods boiled with onions and chicken.The poached pea pods were also only seasoned with salt and olive oil.A simple and crude method, but it becomes extraordinary because of the ingredients.

The little wizards ate very happily. Except for Hagrid's signature rock cake, all other dishes were eaten.

Hagrid packed the tableware, took out a large ball of white unicorn hair from the wooden box and handed it to Loren, "This is a thank you gift from the unicorn tribe, they think that if it weren't for us, the mysterious people would hunt and kill more Many unicorns."

"It just so happens that you want this, so I'll get some for you."

These long white hairs are soft, thick and shiny, not only the tail hair, but also the mane.The inside is full of magic power and does not contain impurities.

But Loren was a little embarrassed, "This won't be the last time..."

He didn't finish speaking, but Hagrid understood what he meant, and Hermione quickly retracted her hand.

Could it be the hair from the two unicorn corpses last time?Although Loren needs fresh unicorn hair, but the last time he saw the unicorn's miserable appearance, he didn't think about picking the hair from the corpse.

"Don't worry, unicorns won't desecrate the corpses of their own kind." Hagrid said in a hearty voice, "This is combed from living unicorns."

Loren suppressed her joy and put away the unicorn fur.

Ron said with emotion: "Since the confinement, it's all good things. It's like what you want."

Harry heard this and touched his scar.No, he's not good, he's been having nightmares since he got back from the Forbidden Forest.

Hearing "All wishes come true", something flashed through his mind, and he hurriedly asked Hagrid, "Hagrid, did you want a dragon very early!"

Speaking of Norbert, even though he had sent him away, Hagrid was still happy, "Yes, this is my long-cherished wish."

"If you think about it, it will come true. How could it be such a coincidence!" Harry looked anxious, "Do you remember what the person who lost to you looked like the night you played cards and won the dragon egg?"

"What did he look like?" Hagrid recalled the situation at the time, "I didn't see what he looked like."

Except for Loren, Harry, Ron and Hermione had expressions of astonishment on their faces.You gambled with someone and won a fire dragon egg worth hundreds or thousands of galleons, but you don't know what the other side looks like!
Hagrid said, "What's so strange about that, the Hog's Head's full of queer fellows like that. He's got a hood on and won't take his cloak off," said Hagrid.

Harry froze, motionless.

Hermione also realized that something was wrong, how could someone bring illegal dragon eggs to the bar, and lose to others casually.

Loren sighed that Quirrell was really sincere.

The salary of Hogwarts professors is not low, but most of the professors get rich because of their side jobs.How many years of salary does Quirrell, who taught Muggle studies before, have to spend to buy a genuine fire dragon egg from the black market?

And just give it to Hagrid.

Does the Death Eater group have any intelligence-reducing buff?
You are villains!

What about Veritaserum?

What about the Imperius Curse?

Let's do something villainous.

Quirrell's Imperius Curse doesn't work, so can Voldemort?
Although Hagrid's resistance is high, but with Voldemort's attainments in black magic, not to mention half-blood giants, pure-blood giants can't stand it.

It seemed that Voldemort's condition was so bad that he couldn't even use the Imperius Curse.

No wonder Dumbledore finally let Harry solo with him.

Under repeated questioning from Hermione and Harry, Hagrid recalled.When talking about fire dragons with that person, he mentioned that he can even deal with three-headed dogs, let alone fire dragons.

"I showed off to him that the Three-Headed Dog could fall asleep by listening to some music," Hagrid said, covering his mouth. "I shouldn't have said that to you!"

Hearing this, Harry pulled Ron and ran towards the castle, and Hermione quickly pulled Loren to follow.

"Hey, where are you going?" It was Hagrid's voice.

"You can't exercise vigorously after meals." This was Loren's voice.

The same thing is that no one pays attention to them.

Harry made his guesses as he ran.

Hagrid told a stranger about the way through Lu Wei, who must have something to do with Voldemort.They had to break the news to Headmaster Dumbledore as soon as possible.

Running all the way into the foyer, although Harry was very tired, he didn't dare to relax at all. He looked at Loren, "How do I get to Dumbledore's office?"

"You want to see Dumbledore? Why?" Professor McGonagall's voice sounded from across the hall, and she approached with a stack of books.

Harry swallowed, not knowing what to say.

Others didn't dare to say it, but Loren spoke quickly, and he said sternly: "We suspect that someone is going to steal the Philosopher's Stone, and we want to tell the principal."

When Professor McGonagall heard the Philosopher's Stone, she dropped the book in her arms on the ground in shock, but she didn't pick it up. "I don't know how you found out about the Philosopher's Stone, but it is strictly protected and foolproof."

Her eyes were full of pressure, "Now, you should go back to your dormitory to rest. After the exam, it doesn't mean you can violate the school rules, unless you still want to be locked up."

After speaking, with a wave of her hand, the book that fell on the ground flew back to her hand.Professor McGonagall turned to leave.

"Professor McGonagall!" cried Hermione.

"Principal Dumbledore has received a letter and has gone to London to deal with urgent matters. He will not be back until tomorrow." Professor McGonagall's voice came from afar.

Loren didn't know if Professor McGonagall knew about Dumbledore's plan, but he always felt that Professor McGonagall just dropped the book on the floor, and his acting skills were a bit stiff.

"Just tonight!" Harry became more determined in his mind, "Snape didn't dare to do it when Dumbledore was at school, and he will do it tonight."

"Even this letter might have been forged by Snape."

(End of this chapter)