Chapter 4126 4128 [Restricted Book Area]

After the train arrived at the station, Xiang Nan and others got off the train and then took a carriage to Hogwarts.

All the way to the auditorium, which was now decorated.

Everyone was in place according to their respective colleges, and then waited for the freshman sorting ceremony.

The sorting ceremony was held soon, and Sirius's brother Regulus was sorted into Slytherin as expected.

Xiang Nan sighed, knowing that history was not so easy to change.

After the sorting ceremony, everyone enjoyed a sumptuous dinner and then returned to their respective colleges to rest.

During the period, Dumbledore also introduced the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Francis Fabian from Beauxbatons School of Magic in France, to the students.

The next day, the new semester officially began.

Because of the addition of elective courses in the new semester, the number of subjects per week increased to 23, an average of nearly five classes a day. For the third-year students, it was really a bit nervous.

But for Xiang Nan, he was able to handle these classes with ease.

Not only did he perform well in class, he also did his homework very well, and was often welcomed by teachers.

But Xiang Nanzhi was not satisfied with what he learned in class and books as early as the first grade, and he taught himself.

Now in the third grade, he has read all the books in the library, except for the forbidden area, related to potions, spells, herbs, and defense against the dark arts.

During the summer vacation, he also read a lot of banned books from the Room of Requirement and Filch's office, and gained a lot of dangerous and taboo knowledge.

Now he continues to read his collection while starting to think about the books in the forbidden area.

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In fact, the forbidden area of ​​Hogwarts Library is not difficult to enter. It is at the back of the library and is separated from the normal area by only a rope.

And there is no magic on this rope, even first-year freshmen can cross it, but the premise is not to be discovered by the librarian, Mrs. Pince.

Mrs. Pince is a very serious person. If she finds that a student has trespassed into the forbidden area, she will immediately arrest him without hesitation.

Of course, if she doesn't find out, then he can freely enter and exit the restricted area. In "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", after Harry got the invisibility cloak, he sneaked into the restricted area at night.

Xiang Nan also has an invisibility cloak, although it is not as good as Harry's, but it is not easy to be discovered. What's more, he can also perform druid transformation and burrowing.

So for him, going to the restricted area is not difficult at all.

The second night after Xiang Nan returned to Hogwarts, he quietly came to the restricted area of ​​the library.

There are quite a few books in the restricted area, and most of them are very old, so that the gold-plated letters on the spines have peeled off, and there are even books without names.

In addition, some books exude a dangerous atmosphere. For example, there are faint whispers in a book, as if a person is sealed in the book.

There was a book with dark brown blood stains all over the cover, as if it had been soaked in blood; there was another book with wisps of black air wrapped around it, which made people shudder at the first sight...

But Xiang Nan was brave and not so easily scared.

He first chose a book called "Powerful Potion", took it to the Room of Requirement, locked Fenrir again, and then started to read it.

"Powerful Potion" records a large number of dangerous and forbidden potions, such as polyjuice potion, fear potion, rage potion, demon potion, etc.

Polyjuice potion can turn a person into another person for an hour; fear potion can make people fall into endless fear and easily lead to mental breakdown; rage potion can make people fall into a frenzy and violent state, which is extremely aggressive; demon potion can stimulate the evil thoughts hidden in people's hearts and make people fall into depravity...

These potions are quite terrifying, and it is also very difficult to brew them. A mistake in one step may lead to very serious consequences. No wonder they are placed in the forbidden book area.

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Xiang Nan waited until the sky gradually brightened before putting "Powerful Potion" back into the restricted area. At night, after the library closed, he would secretly take it out and read it again.

The reason for this trouble was to prevent someone from finding that the book had been stolen when borrowing it from the restricted area. In that case, he would be exposed.

In fact, the books in the restricted area were not forbidden to students, but to lower grade students. The school was worried that they were too young to be exposed to these dangerous and taboo knowledge, which would lead them astray.

Just like the American film rating system, some movies have dirty words, violence, blood and pornographic scenes, which are not suitable for children to watch, and will be classified as R-rated.

Senior students can borrow books from the restricted area with the professor's approval.

For example, in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", in order to help Harry find a way to breathe in water, Hermione looked through all the books in the restricted area with the approval of Professor McGonagall. In the sixth grade, in order to find the secret of the Horcrux, she looked through the books in the restricted area again.

So Xiang Nan didn't want to take risks. He secretly read books at night and returned them quietly in the morning. This way, although it was a little troublesome, it was safer.

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Time flew by and it was the end of October.

Xiang Nan and others had already learned knowledge such as throwing spells, speaking spells, nonsense potions, intermediate transfiguration, and how to deal with dark magic creatures such as Kaba and Little Red Riding Hood, and learned about magical animals such as Bowtruckle and Niffler.

It is worth mentioning that the current Care of Magical Creatures professor is Sylvanus Kettleburn. He was replaced by Hagrid after he resigned from the position in 1993.

Professor Kettleburn is very experienced and has been in this position for more than 40 years. Like Hagrid, he also likes dangerous magical animals. The more dangerous, the more interesting it is to him.

Moreover, his personality is the same as Hagrid, and he is also a bit reckless. Therefore, during the years of teaching, he has lost an arm and a half leg.

Therefore, when many students saw Professor Kettleburn, who was only half a person left, in the first Care of Magical Creatures class, they began to regret choosing this class.

Fortunately, Professor Kettleburn's interest is interest, and teaching is teaching. Although he likes dangerous magical animals, he still has a plan in mind when teaching.

Unlike Hagrid, who is so reckless and teaches dangerous hippogriffs in the first class. Professor Kettleburn started by teaching the magical animals with low risk factors, such as the Niffler, the Puff, the Thorny, the Bowtruckle, etc.

The most popular among the students are the Niffler and the Puff.

Girls generally like the Puff, thinking it is furry and very cute. But boys prefer the Niffler because it has the instinct to find treasure and can dig out jewels and coins buried in the soil.