Chapter 255 The Tranquility Before the Storm

? Considering the threat from Malfoy and the other Slytherins, Harry and Ron eventually persuade Hermione, and they excitedly invite Evan to the war between the two Houses.

"What happened in the morning?" Ai Wen asked strangely, "How is Sirius's Defense Against the Dark Arts going, isn't there an accident?!"

"The course went well. He showed everyone the Banshee, a very interesting dark creature that always made a shrill and desolate sound. Although it was a bit unlucky, it didn't do anything to hurt others." Hermione explained , "Mainly Sirius, he made no secret of his dislike of Slytherin students in class, and deducted a lot of points for them, probably more than a hundred..."

"It's not Sirius' fault, it was Malfoy who took the initiative," Harry argued. "He messed up Sirius's class and didn't do what he said."

"I know, but Sirius is still too emotional. He is a professor now. He should treat every student fairly like Professor McGonagall." Hermione pursed her lips and said, which made her look very Like Professor McGonagall.

"God, do you know what you're talking about?!" Ron exclaimed in surprise. "A professor who leans towards Gryffindor, that's the greatest hope of my life. You're telling me now, I hope he Be fair!"

"Sirius didn't do too much, think about Snape, how he treated everyone before, if it was him..." Harry added.

"Snape deducted at least two percent for Gryffindor this morning, and even scared a few girls to tears." Ivan told what happened in the potions class in the morning.

"I knew it would, that nasty old bat," said Ron with disgust.

All in all, because of Snape and Sirius' duel, their unreserved hatred between them, and other long-standing feuds, the hostility between Slytherin and Gryffindor was at its highest level ever.

For the next week, students from both colleges were cautious. Everyone appeared in the castle in pairs, for fear of any accident.

Although they were on guard against each other, nothing actually happened.

With the intervention of Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall, the management in the castle was strengthened, and neither Harry nor Malfoy had the opportunity to carry out the so-called college war.

With the passage of time, Snape and Sirius also converged a lot, and they gradually stopped deducting points from Gryffindor and Slytherin, but the Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts classes also became Two classes that Gryffindor and Slytherin students love and hate each other the most.

Compared with the highly differentiated Potions class and Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Hagrid's Protection of Magical Creatures class was unexpectedly well-received by everyone.

At the suggestion of Ivan and Hermione, Hagrid chose the fire monster as the magical creature in the first class of the new semester. He raised a huge fire on the grounds, full of fire monsters, for everyone to have fun, collecting dead branches and leaves to keep the fire going, and the flame-loving lizards jumped up and down on the cracked and self-heating wood.

Almost everyone said that this was the best class Hagrid had ever taken.

A week into school, Ravenclaw and Slytherin played a Quidditch match, Slytherin won the game, but the score was close.

That's good news for Gryffindor, according to Wood. Because, if Gryffindor beat Ravenclaw, it would still be second.

The match turned everyone's attention to Quidditch, a method they found to be more practical than the ethereal House War. Although Gryffindor lost to Hufflepuff before, they are still the favorite to win this year because of Harry's Firebolt.

Gryffindor's Quidditch teams now train at least five times a week.

In the January winds, Harry was flying outside for five or six hours almost every day, and he didn't even have time to finish his homework.

Ai Wen also felt that his time was not enough. He entered a bottleneck in magic research and needed to invest more time. Tom Riddle's diary gave him the instructions last year, and Irving has finished all the research, and he is now fully studying the dark magic books he took out from 12 Grimmauld Place.

The magic recorded in these magic books, especially "The Secret of Cutting-edge Black Magic", is very profound and complicated, and there are many places that Ivan can't understand at all.

He couldn't take these black magic books to ask Dumbledore or Sirius. He could only do research secretly by himself. The time he spent in the library was getting longer and longer, and the librarian Mrs. Pince looked towards His eyes became more and more strange.

With Sirius's approval note, most of the books that Ai Wen borrows and refers to are very old and unpopular magic books, all of which are collections in the forbidden area. Don't say these books are for twelve-year-old wizards, even adult wizards rarely use them.

The only one who was busier than Ai Wen was Hermione, because there were too many courses to choose, and the burden of the courses was finally revealed to her.

Now every night, if she is not studying with Ai Wen in the library, she will inevitably appear in a corner of the common room, with various textbooks spread on the tables in front of her: arithmetic charts, various magic dictionaries, Muggle lifts Illustration of heavy objects, and a wide variety of notes.

Except for Ai Wen, she rarely talks to others now. If someone disturbs her, she will speak viciously.

"What the hell is going on with the two of them?" Ron finally couldn't help but muttered to Harry one night, "I've never seen anyone busier than the current Irving and Hermione, even preparing for high-level wizards. Neither did Percy in the grades. The two of them read more books in a day than I did in a semester."

"I don't know!" Harry didn't look up, he was writing an essay on undetectable poisons that Snape had assigned. "How about we borrow Hermione for her Potions classwork?"

"Better not, she won't agree." Ron looked up again at Hermione, who was sitting behind a pile of ramshackle books, almost out of sight.

"Hermione is so weird, how could he possibly take so many classes," continued Ron. "I heard her talking to Professor Victor this morning, and Victor was the witch who taught arithmetic. They were in Speaking of yesterday's homework, but it was impossible for Hermione to go to Arithmetic Divination yesterday because she was with us in Conservation of Magical Creatures! And Ernie McMillan told me that Hermione never missed a Muggle studies class , but half the time this class conflicted with divination class, and she never missed a divination class."

Of course Harry knew why, but he had to keep it a secret.

He couldn't speak about the time-turner, and he had to get Snape's paper done right now.

The confrontation between Snape and Sirius, though calm on the surface, was actually still turbulent. Harry had to be more careful, and at this point, if he had any control over Snape, he would definitely die ugly.

"How about I go to Ivan for help, let him help me with my homework, Hermione will definitely not refuse him." Harry changed the subject.

"It's a good idea, but only if you can find Ai Wen." Ron said, "In addition to Hermione, I also want to know what Ai Wen has been doing these days. He is in the library every night. The first time I saw him, he always held a thick magic book that no one could understand and recorded something there." (To be continued.)