Chapter 966 How Can a Spell Be Such an Inconvenience?

Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus.

This is the school motto of Hogwarts, which means to advise people never to provoke those sleeping powerful ones out of curiosity, because the first target of the awakened evil dragon will definitely be the daring provocateur. Dumbledore once said this when promoting the new curriculum standards at the beginning of this semester.

But now, Elena understands the meaning of this sentence very clearly and deeply.

Professor Sprout in the "awakened state" seemed to be a completely different person.

Of course, she was still as gentle and kind, but her eyes became hot and bright. The whole person of the Hogwarts Herbology Professor seemed to be constantly radiating light and enthusiasm to the surroundings, and her lecture voice began to change. Be high-pitched, excited, and passionate.

By the end of two classes on herbal medicine, they had barely completed a syllabus of plant taxonomy based on Carl von Linnaeus.

Since the biological classification on the magic side is not yet complete, the main content of these two herbal medicine classes is still on "species and taxa below species" - Species, Population, Subspecies ), Variety (variant), Form (variant), Cultivar (cultivar) - the understanding and understanding of these six common basic types.

I have to say that if you don't take into account those after-school homework, Elena and the others had a lot of fun in these two herbal medicine classes today.

In order to help the students understand, Professor Sprout opened all the greenhouses for the first time, led the students to visit the magical plants in the major greenhouses of Hogwarts one by one, and patiently introduced to them the names and details of each plant. Simple nature.

Poison tentacles, poison geraniums, knotty vines, biting vines, devil's nets, jumping bulbs, bubble pods, umbrella flowers...

Dozens of rare and magical plants are a feast for the eyes of little wizards, so much so that many little ones wish they could attend two herbal medicine classes every day.

However, as the bell rang, the joy and hope in their hearts turned into hesitation and despair in an instant.

"Very good. Today's classes are quite fulfilling and the homework is very simple——"

Professor Sprout said with a smile and clapped his hands to attract the attention of the students.

"We visited a total of 63 different types of magical plants today. I hope you can select at least 20 magical plants that impress you, look up and extract their properties, habits, and cultivation methods from books, and follow the instructions I mentioned the classification in class and find their appropriate positions for each one. During this period, please observe and record some daily plants around the school..."

The gentle, kind, and optimistic short and fat witch looked at the class gently, paused for a few seconds, and added.

"There are more than two hundred kinds of plants growing in Hogwarts Castle. I hope to see at least thirty related plant records in your record books next week. It doesn't matter if you don't know the names. The recording method is—— Location of discovery, time of discovery, morphological description.”

The homework assignments of Potions and Herbology were superimposed, and the students suddenly began to panic.

You know, they still have the motion theory homework from yesterday's Charms class, and then there will be Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration, as well as Professor Lockhart and Professor Alexei's grammar and mathematics classes, not to mention the Unbeatable astronomy class drawings, history of magic copying assignments...

If homework of this size were repeated four or five times, they might have to spend this weekend in the library.

Of course, this is based on the premise that they completely forget their homework from Monday to Friday and happily "study happily" all week long.

After returning to the castle from the greenhouse outside the castle, the second-year wizards hurriedly finished their lunch and obediently took their schoolbags and soaked in the Hogwarts library, looking for Professor Snape and Sparrow. The assignment content assigned by the special professor. Hermione finally found a gap and quietly reached a "morning tea" smuggling agreement with Hannah - in exchange, she could help Hannah solve and answer some difficult homework.

On the other hand, as the afternoon History of Magic class ended, Hermione, who had been observing Draco all day, was completely confused.

Just like most lazy boys, Draco persisted for about one class and soon fell into the same sleepy state as Harry and others. However, when Harry asked Draco after class When asked questions, he could accurately answer all the contents in the book...

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"That's very unreasonable, isn't it? Elena."

Hermione said, looking away from the red mark on Draco's face that had been pressed by the page, and there was a hint of confusion in her voice.

"What kind of learning method can achieve such an effect? ​​Can you remember the lecture content even if you sleep in class?! You should have heard the conversation between Harry and Draco just now, right? Draco told Harry that he would take the notes from class tomorrow After copying it, I will lend it to them to read——"

Not just the history of magic, Draco Malfoy seemed a little absent-minded in almost all courses.

However, the questions asked by the professor in class and the completion of homework after class cannot be faked.

It looked like she didn't make any effort, but Draco showed a clearer and more profound preview effect than hers. This was something Hermione couldn't accept. All of this seemed to be mocking how bad her talent was. , so that others only need a little...

Snapped!

"Okay, stop thinking so wildly, what you saw is obviously not everything-"

Seeing the little beaver who suddenly fell into a low mood, Elena snapped her fingers and sighed helplessly.

After witnessing Draco sleeping in class, Hermione obviously began to have self-doubt, so much so that she had to enter another world line in advance - after the lie was born, people had to use more lies to maintain it. , she should have expected this to be the case.

"Eh? Not all of them?"

Hermione looked at Elena confused and frowned slightly.

"Well, your eyes will deceive you, your ears will deceive you, and your experience will deceive you... However, this is often not because you see false things, but because you only see part of the so-called truth. —and a partial truth would constitute a realistic lie.”

Elena shook her finger inexplicably, glanced at Hermione who was thoughtful, and continued.

"Academic Beach. Have you heard of this term? It describes people who deliberately pretend to be calm on the surface, or don't care about learning at all, and then study twice as hard where no one can see. It's not. Everyone will show their efforts, and if you observe carefully, you will find that Draco is most likely such a... well, a learning bitch."

"Huh? Academic beach? Does that mean the tide only rises at night? What a strange description -"

Hermione repeated Elena's pronunciation softly and blinked, "But...why did Draco do this?"

At night...high tide?

How can I explain it this way——

After Elena was stunned for half a second, looking at Hermione's pure eyes, she suddenly felt a little guilty.

This shouldn't be considered a pure wizard seedling, right? After all, Hermione is thirteen years old this year, and she is only twelve. Strictly speaking, if you want to protect underage children, then her protection priority should be higher than that of Little Beaver... I hope Little Beaver's father will not be angry. .

"Well, that's what it means, right? Looking at Draco's state these days, it's obviously the sequelae of staying up late reading and doing homework..."

Elena nodded without changing her expression and heartbeat. After pondering for a few seconds, she continued to answer.

"As for the reason why Draco did this, I guess it is vanity? Or to make others relax their vigilance? Or maybe he doesn't want to hurt Ron and Harry. After all, boys also have small cliques. If everyone is playing Is it too unsociable to study at a young age? In short, Hermione, don’t imitate him, and don’t expose him. You just need to work hard silently, and then surprise everyone, including Professor Lockhart—”

She raised her eyebrows at Hermione. After getting along with her for the time being, she temporarily gave up the idea of ​​smearing Gilderoy Lockhart.

After all, Mr. "The Hanged Man" has always been very cautious in his work attitude and personal style, and did not give her any excuse to carry out the physical cleanup plan. Therefore, she planned to change the method-to urge Lockhart to get married as soon as possible and end all the people. The thoughts of little witches.

"Well, I won't be Academic Beach - I will be the number one in a dignified manner."

Hermione nodded seriously, with a hint of determination in her voice.

This History of Magic lesson is the last lesson for Grade 2 Class A this afternoon.

As the bell rang, most of the students hurriedly packed their schoolbags and left the classroom, heading to the library that had not yet been occupied by senior students to reserve a seat in advance. However, for Elena and Hermione, they could not go there yet. Complete today's homework in the library.

Hogwarts has opened optional classes, and Hermione and Elena have third-year classes scheduled four afternoons a week.

As for today…

Hermione lowered her head and checked her class schedule, then jumped up as if waking up from a dream.

"Oops, the divination class! What are we still doing? Look, the divination class is on the top of the north tower. We have to walk ten minutes to get there..."

"Don't worry, Professor Sybil doesn't care so much about secular rules."

Elena shrugged and said nonchalantly, watching Hermione's hurried expression with interest.

If nothing else, after "Calculation Girl" experienced a divination class, such a serious expression would no longer be seen. She quickly took advantage of this last moment to appreciate Hermione's enthusiasm for divination, which was very important. A limited edition emoticon pack that will soon be out of print.

After all, according to the plot in the original book, Divination is the only subject that Hermione cannot pass.

Although she brought many changes to Hogwarts, Professor Sybil's Divination class was not among them.

The reason why Elena chose the divination class is also very simple. She wanted to see how many classes Hermione could endure in the new world line before the classic irritable scene of throwing the crystal ball and walking away in front of the whole class - that was something she definitely couldn't miss. .

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It's a long way from the castle to the north tower.

Although Hermione has been at Hogwarts for more than a year, she is still not familiar with everything in the castle. She has never been to the North Tower before. As for Elena? Her pathfinding skills were even inferior to those of Neville's pet toad, Leif.

"Well - um - I mean - you shouldn't be lost, right?"

Elena looked at the familiar environment around her. This should be somewhere very high in the north tower.

This is an unfamiliar platform with no landmarks. There is a large picture frame hanging on the stone wall directly in front of it, showing a grassland.

"First we can rule out the right-"

Hermione glared hard at Elena, who was suppressing a smile, and observed the surrounding passage environment.

"That's south over there. Look, you can see a corner of the lake from the window...so let's just go to the left."

"Method of elimination? It's a method of reasoning and path-finding. This is really powerful."

Elena raised her eyebrows, and a very annoying cunning appeared on the corner of her mouth.

As a road addict who has long since given up struggling, Elena's greatest joy in life is watching others get lost. And in this, when the protagonist of the story becomes a friend who has extraordinary talent in finding the road, That would be an even more wonderful enjoyment.

“Oh, shut up—Elena.

Hermione said angrily, ignoring a certain white-haired dumpling who was gloating about his misfortune.

"At least I know the general direction. If it were you, we wouldn't be able to get to the divination classroom next week."

"Really? But I don't think so-"

Elena glanced at Hermione, the little hair on her head swayed from side to side quite proudly, and said in an old-fashioned way.

"It is a very important quality to admit failures and shortcomings calmly. If you had told me earlier that you could not find the way, maybe we would have reached the door of the divination classroom by now. You don't know, right? I learned about an extremely difficult situation some time ago. An effective wayfinding spell.”

"A wayfinding spell? You mean... show me the way?"

Hermione was stunned, frowning and recalling the spells book she had read.

"No, the directional spell only applies to maze places. According to the book, its effect is..."

"-- Eliminate impassable roads. Or distinguish north from south."

Elena continued what Hermione said, with a somewhat complicated expression.

"I learned the directional spell in advance last semester. I'm talking about another spell."

In fact, after realizing her road-crazy nature, her first reaction was to learn this curse.

Unfortunately, Grindelwald soon revealed the cruel truth in front of her. There are two effects of the directional spell, but these two functions have no effect on the road idiot, because the devil never cares about road blockage. , and East, West, North, and South are even more meaningless.

Not to mention, they were in Hogwarts Castle, which was connected in all directions, and the directional spell had no effect at all.

"Another spell? A new spell not recorded in the book?"

Hermione's eyes suddenly lit up, and she looked at Elena expectantly.

"Did Professor Apokalis teach you this? Or, was this taught by Professor Dumbledore?"

"Well... let's just say... let's put it this way..."

Under Hermione's hot gaze, Elena scratched her nose in embarrassment.

Elena raised her right hand, snapped her fingers lightly, and said solemnly.

"I'm lost."

Hermione:? ? ?

crackle.

crackle.

The next moment, two house elves appeared in front of them.

"Dobby (Burley), the house elf, is at your service, Miss Kaslana."

"Well, as you can see, I now have a little... little privilege..."

Elena spread her hands and explained to Hermione, then turned around and looked at the two elves in front of her with a calm expression.

"We are looking for the North Tower, Professor Sybil's divination classroom, please take us there! Thank you."

"Oui, Chef!"

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