Hogwarts: I am Harry's eldest cousin

Hearing about the extra points, a smile finally broke out on Hermione's face. She sat upright and flipped through the Transfiguration textbook on her desk. The pages were slightly yellowed, and it was obvious that it had a long history.

While Professor McGonagall was admiring Hermione's Transfiguration spell, Dudley quietly grasped the stick with one hand and pulled it hard with the other hand.

Thus a toothpick was born.

Professor McGonagall walked up to Dudley and nodded as well.

"Not bad, one point for Slytherin."

He really had no way of turning wood into iron, being able to make it resemble the original was already his limit.

Dudley called it a physical transfiguration spell.

The young wizards were waving their wands to cast spells on the wooden sticks on the table. After watching a few young wizards cast spells, Professor McGonagall quietly walked behind Ron.

Ron only felt a pair of burning eyes staring at him from behind.

Make him more stressed.

With a smile uglier than crying, Ron took out his wand. It was an old, slightly damaged wand, with the unicorn hair even showing at the end.

Obviously the wand was not Ron's own.

It belonged to his brother Charlie.

Because they had so many children, the Weasley family was very tight financially. Spending seven Galleons to buy Ron a new wand was unnecessary in Mrs. Weasley's opinion.

What's wrong with the old wand? It's not like it doesn't work.

You can use it, but a wand that is not your own will be very difficult to use.

For example, Ron sometimes casts spells that are not within his scope of magic.

You tried to cast 'Expelliarmus', but the wand instead cast 'Shatter into Pieces'.

So this time was the same. After Ron finished chanting the spell and pointed the wand at the wooden stick, not only did the stick not turn into a needle, it even made a "puff puff puff" sound similar to a fart.

"Ha ha ha ha."

Now the little wizards could no longer hold back, and even with Professor McGonagall there, they continued to laugh unbridled, and for a moment the whole classroom was filled with a joyful atmosphere.

Ron's face turned even redder than his hair.

Chapter 69 Mom doesn't have to worry about me anymore...

"What? Harry you said you knew it was Professor McGonagall? Then why didn't you tell me?"

Ron complained to Harry after class.

He had never felt so embarrassed before, and he embarrassed himself in front of four colleges. He felt that there was a high probability that he would not be able to get a wife.

"I wanted to say it, but it's too late."

While packing his schoolbag, Harry said helplessly: "You move too fast."

"By the way, Harry. What's our next class?"

Fortunately, Ron was a calm person, and his unhappy emotions came and went quickly, so he put the matter out of his mind immediately.

Instead of worrying about embarrassing things, you might as well eat a few more pieces of meat at noon. Now is the time for growing.

Harry looked at the timetable: "Potions, and Slytherin."

"Oh no!" Ron wailed again.

Potions class is not a good subject for the entire Gryffindor family. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a torture and torment.

Except for Hermione, there was no one in Gryffindor who had not been scolded by Snape, especially Seamus and Neville. These two were often in a group, and although most of the time it was Seamus who messed up, it was always Neville who got hurt and scolded.

It's as if Gryffindors are naturally unsuited to Potions.

This is indeed the case. Most Gryffindors are active, restless and impulsive by nature, and the most important thing about potion making is to stay calm and not be impatient. Basically, few Gryffindors can calm down and brew potions.

This also resulted in Gryffindor's potion level being almost the lowest among the four major colleges.

Why do you say almost?

Because Hermione alone raised the overall level to the same level as Hufflepuff.

Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that Snape is the Potions teacher.

Although he often said things that were not wrong, his words were too harsh and too cheesy. To put it simply, he had a foul mouth.

This caused many Gryffindors to be dissatisfied with him, and they secretly gave him the nickname "Greasy Old Bat".

This is a mockery of his hair that looks greasy all year round.

"Don't worry, I'll give you something good this time."

Harry said mysteriously to Ron, "It will definitely improve your Potions grades, I promise."

Ron instantly became interested when he heard this, but no matter how he asked, Harry stopped talking.

It was still the same basement, the same cold environment, and the same devil-like Snape.

After being glanced at by Snape, Ron shuddered unconsciously, and all his little thoughts were instantly extinguished. He now just wanted to get through the next four hours as soon as possible.

"Hey, Harry. What are these?"

Ron saw Harry taking out one thing after another from his bag and placing them on the table. It was a set of tools he had never seen before.

"New potions equipment."

Harry answered casually and started fiddling with it.

"Professor Snape asked us to buy new equipment? How come I didn't know that?"

Ron was stunned and said hesitantly.

It is said that children from poor families grow up early. Ron knew from a young age that his family was not well off, and he also deeply understood the consequences of poor economic conditions.

So Ron seldom asked his family for money and never added burden to his family. He had no toys at all since he was a child. He spent most of his childhood with the goblins in the vegetable garden and the ghouls in the attic.

Clothes, pants, shoes, even textbooks and wands were all second-hand, things discarded by my brothers at home.

Although he would complain occasionally, he never made a fuss or fought for anything, even if his brother or sister got something new.

Most of the time, I just look at the new things in other people's hands with envy.

But sometimes, my heart still longs for it.

This made Ron feel inferior when facing children from wealthy families like Malfoy.

If Harry and Dudley hadn't stood up for him on the train, Ron would have endured a few sarcastic remarks because he didn't want to bring trouble to his family.

If Snape asked them to buy new potions equipment, it would mean another expense for their family.

Just looking at the styles of the utensils on the table, you can tell they are not cheap.

“Are these expensive?”

Ron complained quietly, "Why would Professor Snape suddenly ask us to buy these things? I haven't heard Percy and the others mention it."

With so many people in the family, it was hard for him to imagine what kind of difficulties he would face if everyone had to have a set.

Harry paused after hearing this and quickly explained: "No, this is not what Professor Snape asked us to buy. Brother D prepared it for us."

As he spoke, Harry pushed a set of assembled experimental equipment on the table to Ron: "This set is yours."

Dudley had prepared many sets of these equipment before coming to Hogwarts. The reason why he let Harry take them out so late was that he had only obtained Snape's permission to use these tools in Potions class a few days ago.

The price is that other little wizards can use it, but he can't.

So Dudley distributed the equipment, one set for Harry, one set for Hermione, one set for Ron, one set for Malfoy and one set for Neville, a total of five sets.

Yes, Neville, Dudley has never forgotten this talented little fat boy.

Snape's demands on Dudley had reached a point that could be described as harsh.

However, it also indirectly reflects his importance to Dudley.

It is true that the successor is teaching with all his heart.

Fortunately, Dudley was also very hardworking and he really had a talent for Potions. Although Snape always found some problems, he was actually very satisfied.

Even the best students at Hogwarts couldn't do better than him.

Simply the perfect successor for Lily and him.

"Mr. Dursley?"

Although the other party is a Slytherin, Ron is still very convinced of his cousin Harry.

Especially after the night tour of Hogwarts, I admired him even more, otherwise I wouldn't have carried a few pieces of salted fish with me. He is the only Slytherin who doesn't have so much bad feelings towards him. However, he was still scared when facing Dudley.

Ron looked at Dudley unconsciously, only to find that he was not using any of these tools.

Did he give his to me?

Ron was instantly touched.

"Ron, I need your help with something."

"what's up?"

"This. This and then again."

Harry whispered.

"No problem, stay with me."

Ron patted his chest vigorously.

"I'll teach you how to use these things."

Harry began to instruct Ron.

It wasn't something particularly difficult to operate. Ron quickly understood the purpose of these tools and instantly exclaimed how convenient they were.

And it was at this time that Snape began to talk about the main content of this lesson.

Boil a pot of burn healing ointment.

It is a common potion learned in first years.

A little harder than the ointment for scabies.

After successfully brewing a pot of potion using the new tools, Ron's expression instantly changed, and his eyes were shining.

This tool is so damn useful.

Mom doesn't have to worry about me not being able to make potions anymore.

I like characters like Hermione, Harry, Neville, Ron, and Malfoy.

Chapter 70 Professor Ron Snape Says Yes

Still working in groups of two in the traditional way, Snape checked everyone's homework. Except for a very few people, most of them were criticized.

Among them, the Neville group was the worst. As expected, Seamus lit the crucible again, and as expected, the crucible exploded twice. As expected, Seamus was not there again, and Neville was unfortunately hit again.

It's like turning on the halo of betraying teammates.

It's quite strange. Whenever two people are in a group, accidents will definitely happen, but Simo will definitely be fine. With such a frequency of accidents and the fact that he always survives, it's hard to imagine that he didn't do it on purpose.

As to whether it is true or not, only he himself knows.

Snape waved his wand again to clean the table, and as usual asked Dudley for a bottle of potion and gave it to Neville. The way Neville closed his eyes and drank the potion was so skillful that it made people feel distressed.

"Gryffindor, terrible, one point deducted."

Snape said coldly.

Seamus didn't care about it at all, as if nothing had happened. He thought that someone would add the points back anyway. He even winked at the little Gryffindor wizards around him when Snape turned around. But Neville shrank his neck. He was sad that he was the one who caused the school to lose points, and he was even more afraid of Snape.

"Look, Weasley and Potter weren't scolded by Professor Snape."

An sharp-eyed Gryffindor noticed that Snape only stopped briefly at Harry and Ron's group and then walked away, rarely doing so.

Maybe it’s because Porter did a really good job this time.