Chapter 228
: New Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor
Chapter 228: New Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor
The Defense Against the Dark Arts course finally became a little more normal, except that each professor liked to teach students in the way they were used to.
For example, Professor Flitwick teaches various spells, Professor McGonagall teaches them to use Transfiguration to deal with dangerous creatures, Professor Sprout likes to teach students to identify various dangerous plants, and Professor Snape always says:
"If you have a bottle of XXX potion with you, you can solve this problem effortlessly."
Defense Against the Dark Arts class seemed to have become an extension of other classes.
Moreover, when Lockhart was teaching, he liked to assign some insignificant homework, and students could easily get high scores by just making up some flattering sentences.
But after changing to other professors, their homework seemed to suddenly double in length, and no professor's homework was less than a foot long.
"You have missed out on so much knowledge in this course!"
Almost every professor said this: "You need to work harder to at least pass the final exam!"
Under the pressure of a mountain of homework, every student was cursing Lockhart. Even though the blond professor won the award for the most charming smile in Britain, he lost all his female student fans at Hogwarts.
What is even more distressing for students is that the books they bought at high prices have become garbage and there are no new textbooks.
The professors all agreed that it should be up to the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor to decide what textbooks they should use.
So in every class, the professor presents the knowledge points on the blackboard, and students not only have to copy them all down, but also need to go to the library to look up information and write papers after class.
Finally, on a weekend evening in early March, the dinner was more sumptuous than usual. Professor Dumbledore, who had not appeared for a long time, appeared in the teacher's seat, and a strange witch sat next to him.
The person was wearing a black wizard robe with dark blue and gold stripes on the edges. She was about thirty years old, with dark skin, rough and thin features, and a wild beauty.
All the students were attracted by her and talked about her. But the witch did not avoid the stares at all, but looked at the students with interest.
Her eyes scanned the hall like a hunting lioness, seeing the Weasley twins with excited faces, then looked at Harry Potter beside them, then turned around and looked at Wade for a moment.
After dinner, Dumbledore tapped his wine glass with his fork. The crisp sound spread throughout the hall and all the students suddenly became quiet.
"Good evening, children, I hope you are all well fed and watered."
The students all responded enthusiastically, and Fred said loudly, "The strawberry cake today is great, Professor!"
"Thank you, Mr. Weasley, I thought so too."
Dumbledore smiled happily and said, "Allow me to introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Professor Sera Abigail from the United States."
The students applauded enthusiastically and some whistled loudly.
But Professor Abigail had no intention of speaking. She just raised her hand lazily and waved to everyone.
The students began to feel that the professor was a little difficult to get along with.
"in addition--"
Dumbledore continued, "The Board of Governors has generously donated funds to purchase a batch of Defense Against the Dark Arts textbooks for all students..."
"Really?" a student asked in surprise.
"Of course." Professor Dumbledore said, "The new textbooks have been delivered to the common room and will be distributed by the prefects later. Well, what are you waiting for? Go back and see what you are going to learn next!"
The sound of chairs being pulled out could be heard as students walked out of the auditorium. Many of them couldn't help but turn around to look at the new professor as they left.
"She's really attractive, isn't she?"
Michael couldn't help but talk to Wade as he looked around.
"Humph!"
Suddenly, Padma snorted coldly. She pushed Michael away and walked out with her roommates with her head held high.
"I dare say this is the most charming professor in Hogwarts!" Terry also said, "I really hope we can have the Defense Against the Dark Arts class tomorrow." "Our class is on Thursday." Wade said, "Just be patient."
"Oh, no..." Terry said exaggeratedly: "Ved, you don't have to remind me."
Everyone returned to the lounge laughing and received new textbooks from the class leader.
"Defense and Deterrence Spells".
Opening the cover, there is a line of big words printed on the title page:
"The best defense is offense!"
"It seems that our professor is really different, right?" Michael murmured.
The students' faces were almost all filled with excitement - the new professor's style was already evident in their choice of textbooks.
Before Weider and his friends started their classes, there were Gryffindor and Hufflepuff classes. Of course, other grades also took Defense Against the Dark Arts classes.
Students who have taken the course have mixed reviews.
"Best defense class I've ever taken!"
"She's totally crazy!"
"Can Professor Abigail keep teaching us Defense Against the Dark Arts?"
"How could Dumbledore allow her to teach like this? It's worse than Lockhart's dramatic performance!"
All the students who attended the class were injured to varying degrees. I heard that Madam Pomfrey even had an argument with the new professor and stormed out of the professor's office angrily.
Padma timidly asked Hermione how she felt about the class.
"Hmm...how should I put it?" Hermione thought for a moment and said, "Very interesting, and dangerous. Anyway...bring the white moss spirit with you when you go to class."
"Excellent!" Harry strongly recommended the new professor's class: "I really wish she had taught us from the beginning."
"Harry, your nose is bleeding." Padma reminded him in a low voice.
"Oh, damn, here it comes again."
Harry hurriedly stopped the nosebleed, and then Wade gave him a healing spell, which finally stopped the bleeding.
"Thanks, Vader," Harry said, and then explained glumly, "I bumped my nose."
"We all saw that," Michael said, "So, what did you learn?"
"duel."
Harry smiled happily: "A real wizard duel."
"It's a bit too exciting, to be honest." Fred grinned, "But for us, it's heaven!"
"What are you afraid of?" George put his arm around Michael's shoulders and said, "Think about it, you've been through the maze so many times, why are you afraid of the duel class?"
Michael thought it made sense, but he also felt like they were fooling him.
Thursday finally arrived amid the anxiety of the Ravenclaw students.
(End of this chapter)