Chapter 220 Hermione's Growth
It was Thursday, Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
After calling the names, Moody put away the roster and said in a gruff voice: "Today, I will teach you the skill of hex-deflection. Well, does anyone know how to deflect offensive spells?"
Deflection, as the name suggests, is to use magic to change the direction of the evil spells attacking you and transfer the evil spells to other directions.
Hermione raised her hand high.
"Miss Granger, you say."
"Salvio Hexia."
"That's right, Salvio Hexia is indeed the most standard answer," Moody nodded, and then said: "Almost all evil spells will be deflected as long as they encounter Salvio Hexia. So, does anyone know other answers?"
Seeing that no one raised their hands to answer, Moody shook his head slightly and planned to start teaching the magic of "Salvio Hexia". Hermione's answer was actually correct, but that was just the written answer on the syllabus, which did not exceed his expectations.
The study of other classes is fine, he is not really here to teach, he doesn't care at all, but in this class there is Harry Potter himself who he needs to focus on cultivating -
If Harry can only show this level of defense, how can he compete with the other three Bug-level warriors? If Harry's strength is too weak, how can he become the first warrior to touch the Goblet of Fire?
Forget it, he didn't expect that anyone else could give other answers except the Malfoy brothers, but the Malfoy brothers obviously would not easily share their own unique skills. It seems that he can only think of other ways.
At this time, Hermione raised her hand again, although the process of raising her hand was relatively slow, and unlike her previous high-raised hands, this time she didn't raise her hand to the highest, and the hand raised in the air was also trembling nervously, so that everyone could easily see her inner hesitation and uncertainty.
"Hmm?" Moody's eyes flashed with surprise, "Miss Granger, you tell me."
"Well, I'm not sure either..." Hermione regretted raising her hand. She was worried that giving the wrong answer would reveal her ignorance, but she couldn't help but think of the figure she had always wanted to chase. She gritted her teeth, and finally, as if she had made up her mind, she said, "That... Shield Charm?"
A gleam of light flashed in Sherin's eyes. It seemed that Hermione was indeed different from the original book.
Although in the fan fiction of the previous life, the Shield Charm was a common magic, and many fan fiction authors set this magic as a magic that a first-year wizard could do, in fact, this magic was extremely advanced -
In the Hogwarts curriculum, only students in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class who entered the NEWT advanced class were eligible to learn it.
The protagonists in the original book were able to learn this magic because Harry studied it in advance under Hermione's suggestion during the Triwizard Tournament, and then taught it to the members of Dumbledore's Army in his fifth year. At that time, Zhang Qiu and Marietta (they were in the 6th grade at that time), who had a family background and were one grade higher than Harry, had not even come into contact with this magic!
In the British wizarding world, most young wizards only learn magic at the OWL level, which is the 5th grade level. Only a small number of wizard students have special expertise or special interests in individual fields, and they will choose to enter the NEWT advanced class to conduct more in-depth research and practice.
In the original book, even Hermione's Defense Against the Dark Arts score can only be "good", and even readers in the previous life unanimously inferred that Harry is very likely the only student in that class who got "excellent" in this subject.
What's more serious is that after the defensive items sold by the Weasley twins in the original book became a hot seller, the Ministry of Magic even placed a large order of 500 pieces with them. This means that in the Ministry of Magic, which has only 600 to 700 people, more than 80% of the employees cannot skillfully perform the Shield Charm - it can be seen that, unless they are wizards who are interested in joining the reconnaissance team, striker, Auror and other combat units, most wizards will not pay much attention to the Defense Against the Dark Arts course after completing the OWL level of learning.
This has also caused many wizards to have a partial understanding of the Shield Charm.
The principle of the Shield Charm is to create an invisible magic barrier in front of the body, which can offset the magic spell attacking oneself. This is the most common Shield Charm in the minds of wizards, but -
If the control of the Shield Charm can be refined to a certain extent, it can actually bounce the attack to other directions, or even bounce it back along the original path of the attack. Some wizards, like Harry, are born with a natural intuition about manipulating magic, so he can do it without training, but for most other wizards, unless they are willing to work hard to study and practice, being able to fully perform the Shield Charm is already the limit.
Of course, as for why you asked Sherin to master the Shield Charm in the second grade and improve his own defensive magic in the fourth grade?
That is certainly not because of the protagonist's halo, but because Sherin has been accumulating magic theory knowledge since he was 4 years old. Of course, mastering the secrets of the four pure-blood families also made him stand at a different height from other wizards of the same class from the beginning. Even other pure-blood disciples do not have half of his heritage, let alone half-blood and Muggle wizards.
This is what is called winning at the starting point.
Speaking of Hermione, it is not surprising that she, who loves learning, knows the magic of the Shield Charm. However, she knows how to be creative and thinks of using the Shield Charm, which was originally used to resist attacks, to transfer the spell. This is an advanced application of magic.
Is this still the Hermione who only knows how to study? Is this still the Hermione in the original book who clearly witnessed the effect of the Half-Blood Prince's notes, but still insisted on blindly following the textbook?
Xie Ling's spirit could not help but appear a little trance. He remembered the Christmas gift that Hermione gave him a few months ago, the finely crafted feather pen.
Well, Xie Ling must admit that he did have feelings for Hermione.
What made him hesitate the most was actually never Hermione's Muggle origin. When it comes to bloodline theory, Xie Ling can almost be said to be the person in the pure-blood family who despises this backward idea the most. With such a small population in the wizarding world, if intermarriage with wizards from other classes is not encouraged in order to maintain the status of pure-bloods, the pure-blood class itself will probably be finished sooner or later.
The real reason why he insisted on keeping a distance from Hermione was actually Hermione's own personality problem. Hermione is not the generous Daphne, not the gentle Murray, and not the naive Astoria. Hermione is a person with principles, pursuits, and ideals, while the road that Sherin wants to take is full of blood and darkness.
Sherin's girlfriends can tolerate everything about him. He knows that he is very lucky and should not ask for more. Hermione is a persistent person. To some extent, it can be said that she is stubborn, stubborn, and rigid. Her heart cannot tolerate Sherin's filth. Sherin keeping a distance from her is actually a good thing for both of them.
But...
But, what if Hermione's personality becomes different from the original book?
"Well said! 10 points for Gryffindor!" This was exactly the answer Moody wanted to hear. He knew that as long as the name of the Shield Charm was spread, Hermione, the intellectual leader of the trio, would most likely let Harry master this magic, and then Harry's strength would inevitably increase, which would be beneficial to his plan. "Then, next, let's start today's study of 'Safeguard'..." But at this time, Hermione asked again, "I'm sorry to interrupt you, professor... I really want to ask, why do we still need to learn this 'Safeguard' when there is a more effective 'Shield Charm'? In a real battle, the competition is never about who knows more spells, but who uses better spells and more powerful spells-" "Real In a battle, there is probably only one chance to cast a spell. Shouldn't we give priority to learning the most useful and effective spells? "Hermione's eyes sparkled, and she said confidently, "In addition to transferring, the Armor Charm can also defend; and the Armor Charm is effective against poison spells and most curses, not just against evil curses. If learning the Armor Charm means that Ping An Zhen will be eliminated, then why don't we just learn the Armor Charm instead of wasting time on the former?"
Xellin secretly applauded Hermione in his heart. It was a great wisdom in life to know how to make choices and choose to learn more practical magic instead of greedily wanting to learn all the magic in the world.
In Xielin's experience as a human being in two lives, except for the protagonists of some Long Aotian novels who can use the system to max out all skills to satisfy the fantasies of readers who like to be happy, in the real reality, those who want to be comprehensive in all fields are often mediocre and mediocre.
Well, the immortal Nicolas Flamel is an exception.
On the podium, Moody lowered his head slightly and fell silent.