Lu Mingfei: Hogwarts repeater

Chapter 91 What, I am a repeater? !
  Being shrouded by the sudden spell, Lu Mingfei didn't even subconsciously take precautions.

This is the Hogwarts headmaster's office of Dumbledore, the world's greatest white wizard!

Who went crazy and came here to set a trap? If you have this ability, do you still need to set up a trap?
  There is probably no other place in the world where Lu Mingfei can feel completely relieved like here. This place is absolutely safe for him, just like Sun Houhou returned to the ancestor Bodhi's home, Lingtai Fangcun Mountain Xieyue Sanxing Cave.

Not surprisingly, after the complex magic light enveloped Lu Mingfei, it brought all kinds of comfort.

Lu Mingfei, who had experienced it many times before, almost instinctively realized the role of these magic spells - healing, repairing, and maintaining life.

"Is this because Professor Dumbledore is worried that I will be seriously injured when I come back and he will not be in the principal's office, causing me to miss the best time for treatment?" Lu Mingfei reacted.

From the moment he appeared, to when the spell was triggered, to when Lu Mingfei reacted, it was just a matter of seconds.

On the ordinary shelf, Phoenix Fox shouted loudly, his voice seemed to be full of surprise.

"Hey, Fox, long time no see, I don't know how long it is... Anyway, yes, I'm back." Lu Mingfei looked at it, and at the same time noticed that the window outside the window was not the familiar night every time he traveled through time, but daytime.

"Can you please tell Professor Dumbledore for me?"

Fox shook his head slightly, tilted his head slightly, and looked behind Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei understood and turned around.

Sure enough, Dumbledore was already standing there.

He still has the silver-white, waist-length hair, slightly reflective half-moon glasses, and is wearing a gray wizard robe. He was smiling and looking at Lu Mingfei with relief.

Originally, Lu Mingfei wanted to say, "Professor Dumbledore, have you ever considered giving a Chinese name to Cao Cao, or a nickname of Batman?" to liven up the atmosphere with such bad words.

But in the end, what he blurted out was just——

"Professor Dumbledore, I'm back."

"I'm glad to see that, kid."

Dumbledore blinked, stepped forward, tapped his wand, and lifted the spell surrounding Lu Mingfei, "You did it."

"It was just a lucky escape," Lu Mingfei scratched his head, "and that's because Professor Dumbledore and you guys gave me so much help."

"No matter what is inside, at least on the surface, it appears to be the legendary god. My child, you have done a good job. As time goes by, one day, when facing him, you will no longer I need to escape again.”

Dumbledore came to the principal's desk and motioned for Lu Mingfei to take a seat.

With a wave of his hand, several quills inserted in the pen holder immediately jumped onto the parchment and started writing. A large number of candies and desserts appeared in front of Lu Mingfei, as well as a cup of steaming coffee.

"I need to write a letter to inform some people. They will be pleasantly surprised by the news of your return...but it may be a shock at first, maybe?"

Dumbledore put his hands together, stared at Lu Mingfei, and winked mischievously.

"Scared? Why?" Lu Mingfei was stunned, "My popularity at Hogwarts shouldn't be that bad, right?"

"Oh, no, just some pessimistic conjectures." Dumbledore said softly.

"You can hardly blame them. After all, a long time is enough to corrode the most powerful magic in the world, and it can naturally change people's minds...

Even I will be changed, but, you know, after all, I am an old man, and it is better to be patient after all. "

"It sounds a bit creepy..." Lu Mingfei couldn't help but swallowed after understanding Dumbledore's words.

"Professor Dumbledore, how long exactly is this 'long time' you are talking about? Has it been a long time since I last came back?"

Lu Mingfei suddenly remembered the time he had waited before traveling to Hogwarts this time - one month.

There has never been such a long gap before!

"...Child, you may need to be mentally prepared." Dumbledore did not answer directly, but looked out the window.

Lu Mingfei also looked outside, and he saw - the white sun was shining brightly, the grass looked a little wilted, and there were patches of water vapor on the black lake, which caused some visual distortion.

It’s just a scene in the sweltering heat of midsummer, it doesn’t seem to be anything special.

But Lu Mingfei reacted immediately and his expression became extremely ugly.

The first time he traveled to Hogwarts was during the summer vacation. Later, he experienced the tutoring of Professor Snape, participated in the sorting ceremony at Hogwarts and entered the school, and then traveled back and forth...

By the time I left last time, it was already December and December here at Hogwarts, and it was time to start snowing!

But now it is a scene of scorching summer heat?

If it's not caused by magic, it can only be caused by natural weather. This is not the equator.

Furthermore, what Dumbledore gave himself was a cup of steaming coffee...a drink that suited the temperature of the weather.

Everything is clear.

"I haven't been away for many years, right?" Lu Mingfei looked at Dumbledore desperately.

"It's not that exaggerated, kid, you've only been away for seven months and eleven days." Dumbledore comforted him, "The time now is early July 1988, and there are still two weeks before Hogwarts summer vacation."

"Huh, that's still acceptable. I just missed a whole semester of classes..." Lu Mingfei breathed a sigh of relief.

He has long been used to piles of homework, and even having no homework is a bit uncomfortable.

As for the course progress that has fallen behind?
  He already had the courses for the first to fourth years of Hogwarts to make up for in his account. Now that he has added the fifth grade for one year, isn't it a lot?

If you have too many lice, you won’t be itchy; if you have too many debts, you won’t have to worry!
  But Lu Mingfei didn't completely relax, because the key word "July" triggered a memory in his mind.

That's what his good friend Bill Weasley in Gryffindor once said - "By next July, we will be able to relax a lot for the time being!"

Lu Mingfei still remembered that after hearing this sentence, he asked Bill why, and the answer he got from him was——

"Haha, of course it's because in June, fifth grade students will take the Ordinary Wizarding Level Examination (OWL). After the exam, it's time to relax. After getting the ideal transcript, you can have a perfect summer vacation!"

July...The OWL exam for fifth-grade students in June ends in July!
  "Hiss!" Lu Mingfei gasped instinctively after thinking about this, and he looked at Dumbledore.

"Professor Dumbledore, it's...July now? Did you remember it wrong? It's actually May now. Please, it must be May! The OWL exam must not have passed yet!"

"I really want to have the ability to change time, but I'm sorry, kid, time is a closed loop, and nothing that has happened can be changed." Dumbledore's tone was full of regret.

"The time you came back...is indeed a little late."

The principal's office was quiet for a while, and the only sound that could be heard was the rustling of quills as they scratched the parchment.

"I remember the OWL exam was very important for students."

Lu Mingfei looked collapsed.

"So does the OWL exam have special arrangements for make-up exams for students who are absent for some reason? I have a good reason. I was fighting with God at the time, so I couldn't take the exam!" "There is no precedent for make-up exams in the OWL exam, kid. If you insist, I can arrange it for you," Dumbledore asked, "But are you sure you want to participate?"

"Huh?" Lu Mingfei was stunned. Dumbledore certainly couldn't have been wrong. There must be a reason for this question... He thought about it seriously and finally remembered.

"The OWL exam...isn't there any way to treat special situations in the spell practice part?" Lu Mingfei asked cautiously.

"Of course not." Dumbledore nodded.

"Hiss..." Lu Mingfei gasped again, "Then I will never be able to take the OWL exam?"

The OWL exam includes theoretical and practical parts. Both the Transfiguration and Charms classes require the casting of spells, but the only ones Lu Mingfei could cast were the Thunderbolt Explosion and the Illuminating Spell.

Unless he is extremely lucky, the Charms class will be tested on the use of explosive spells or lighting spells, and the Transfiguration class will be tested on turning objects into a pile of coke and fly ash...

Rather than expecting this, it is better to ask Professor Dumbledore directly to open the back door and decide the assessment content in advance!
  Leaving aside the Transfiguration and Charms classes, even the practical part of Snape's Potions class, Lu Mingfei was not very sure of passing.

It’s not that he is not good at learning, but that even if all the steps are correct, at the step of activating his own magic power, his magic power full of destruction and death can easily destroy a good potion...

"Don't worry too much, kid, this problem will be solved sooner or later." Dumbledore comforted him.

However, this comfort did not have much effect, because Lu Mingfei suddenly pulled out another piece of information from his memory.

"Professor Dumbledore, I suddenly remembered that on the first day of school, before the sorting ceremony, Professor McGonagall told me that you promised that I would get O (excellent) in the twelve subjects, otherwise I would not be allowed to enter the next level. grade……"

Lu Mingfei's words and eyes were full of lingering sadness.

"So, I am... becoming a repeater? And there is no hope of graduation at all!"

"About that agreement, it was before you got the wand and showed the characteristics of being unable to cast spells normally..."

Dumbledore actually seemed a little embarrassed when talking about this incident, as he picked up a "Sizzling Bee Candy" from the candy dish and stuffed it into his mouth.

In the final analysis, it was really "pure coincidence."

After all, Lu Mingfei showed such a strong learning ability at that time, with a photographic memory and inferences from one instance to another. Dumbledore believed that Lu Mingfei did have this ability, and settled with Professor McGonagall and the school board of directors. .

Who knew Lu Mingfei would be such a bomb? Except for the lighting spell, he was an explosion!

"It's okay, repeaters can be repeaters. Anyway, I promised Professor Dumbledore that I would deal with Voldemort. If Voldemort wants to make a comeback, he will definitely not be able to avoid Hogwarts."

Lu Mingfei quickly became optimistic again. What he was best at was looking at one thing from an angle that ordinary people could not reach. Otherwise, he would not have been able to stay peacefully in the environment before crossing to Hogwarts for so long.

The optimistic nonsense school belongs to yes.

"I don't have to pay tuition. I eat, drink and live for free. I can stay here at Hogwarts for as long as I want!"

While the two were chatting, Dumbledore's letter and note were also written. He put a wax seal on the letter and gave it to Fox along with the note.

Fox took it with his talons, flew up, circled in the air, and disappeared in a cloud of sparks.

Without reading the content or asking, Lu Mingfei could guess who the letter and note were addressed to respectively—Mr. Nico Flamel and Professor Snape.

Lu Mingfei asked curiously when he thought of Professor Snape.

"Well, Professor Dumbledore, so Professor Snape is still the professor in charge of Potions, right?

I heard that he has been thinking about the Defense Against the Dark Arts course, and that course seems to be cursed. You shouldn't give it to him, right? "

"Yes, Severus applies to me once a year for the position of tenured professor of this course, but I will never agree."

Dumbledore said: "There is a curse... that lingers in the place of that course, and Tom went very far into it, and I have tried to study it, but in vain."

"A curse that even Professor Dumbledore can't solve," Lu Mingfei shook his head, "Voldemort can do such a big thing, so he is more or less capable... I just don't know how it compares to Odin. ”

"Face every opponent seriously." Dumbledore warned.

"Of course...but let's talk about it."

Lu Mingfei looked back at where he was when he appeared in the principal's office, and asked the question he had long wanted to ask after hearing Dumbledore say the time.

"Seven months and eleven days, Professor Dumbledore, can the magic you cast last for such a long time, and is it still that strong?"

"Of course not, kid."

Dumbledore smiled, his deep blue eyes as pure as the sky, and he said softly.

"I just release it again every day."

The principal's office was quiet again, this time without even the rustle of a quill.

"Thank you, Professor Dumbledore." Lu Mingfei whispered after a long while.

"I just have faith in you, kid."

……

"I don't know what's in your heads. At first I thought it was bezoars, but now, I think it's an insult to bezoars!"

In the Potions classroom, all the little wizards were like quails, shrinking their heads and trembling.

The difference from usual is that this time it is not only the little wizards from other houses, but also the students of Slytherin House!
  Everyone feels that Professor Snape's temper is getting worse and worse... He used to take good care of the Slytherin students, but now he has a feeling of "treating them equally" - all students are trash, cruel Points deducted!
  When did this change begin? After discussion, the students finally zeroed in on the most mysterious fifth-year Dongfang transfer student who had not been seen for more than seven months.

As for the specific reasons, there are naturally different opinions and different calibers.

"This summer vacation, you are going to copy the Potions textbook..."

Snape was about to unleash his punishment, but suddenly stopped.

Some bold students raised their heads and discovered that Fawkes, the phoenix from Principal Dumbledore, had appeared in the classroom at some point. He was handing a piece of paper to Snape, then turned around again and disappeared.

After Professor Snape read the note, his expression was startled, and then the corner of his mouth twitched... You read that right, the corner of his mouth indeed twitched!
  Do you want to... laugh? Professor Snape, a cold-faced professor who never showed any expression, could actually laugh?

When he was confused, Snape, who had read the contents of the note again, raised his head and glanced around fiercely. The small half of the students lowered their heads in an instant.

"Study for the rest of the time."

Snape said a few words, shook his black robe, and left the Potions classroom.

All the students looked at each other, almost all of them couldn't believe it... Snape left without punishing them!
  What happened?
  ps: Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! Happy New Year!

　Happy New Year everyone! This may be the chapter today, spend New Year’s Eve with your family! Will update as usual tomorrow!
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