Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Chapter 11 History of Magic

The afternoon class was History of Magic, and Ravenclaw and Slytherin took the class together. Sitting in front of Wade was a boy with light blond hair, and he was followed by two chubby little followers. Wade recognized the boy as Draco Malfoy, the villain who had been at loggerheads with the protagonist for seven years in the original book. But the relationship between Slytherin and Ravenclaw was okay, and Malfoy did not spray venom at everyone. On the contrary, except that he spoke in a somewhat arrogant manner and liked to show off his family background and wealth intentionally or unintentionally, he was quite polite in the classroom.

But his attitude towards his arch-enemy Harry Potter must be different.

When Professor Binns appeared in the classroom through the wall, Malfoy was still talking bad about Harry Potter to his followers: "Showing off the scar on his head all day long, as if it was so great - and hanging out with the stinky Weasleys, with the shabby smell of their family all over him -"

The surrounding Ravenclaws all looked sideways and quietly distanced themselves from the Slytherins.

——No matter what happens in the future, Harry Potter is still a hero in the eyes of many wizards, and the children in the school basically grew up listening to his stories. Draco Malfoy's words naturally made everyone a little disgusted, and at the same time reminded others of some facts that have been covered up.

"I heard that Malfoy - I mean Draco Malfoy's father is a Death Eater who follows You-Know-Who -" Michael whispered to Wade, "It is said that after You-Know-Who was defeated by Harry Potter, his father claimed that he was under the Imperius Curse and donated a large amount of money to the Ministry of Magic, which is how he escaped from prison. Looking at his expression, it is obvious that his father still hates Harry Potter for defeating his master, so he was influenced by him..."

Wade shook his head secretly. He knew that Draco Malfoy certainly didn't think that much. He seemed to want to make friends with Harry Potter at first, but his arrogant attitude made Harry Potter look down on him. How could the arrogant young master have suffered such an injustice? So he persisted in opposing the savior.

"Don't take it lightly, and don't get close to Malfoy." Michael reminded: "Their family is the one that cares most about bloodline among the twenty-eight holy families."

"Twenty-eight Holy Clans?" This involves Wade's blind spot in knowledge.

"There are 28 pure-blood families. They have no Muggle ancestors, and no one in the family has ever married a Muggle." Michael said nonchalantly, "But my dad said it was all nonsense, because many of the families listed have Muggle ancestors, or they claim to have Muggle ancestors."

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It must be said that the History of Magic was indeed a boring class. Because the ghost professor Binns who taught them was always reading the lecture in a hypnotic voice, neither asking questions nor caring about what the students were doing. He spoke with a wheezing sound and unclear tone. In less than five minutes, half of the students in the classroom lay down, and the remaining half were basically either dozing off or secretly drawing squares on the parchment for taking notes to play board games.

Wade blocked out Professor Binns' hypnotic voice and drew a timeline on paper, listing important dates, historical figures and major events in the history of magic - these are also the things that are tested in the wizarding history exam. On Wade's desk was a book called "Hogwarts: A History" borrowed from the library. Comparing the two, one could not help but imagine what magnificent adventures and struggles the four founders of Hogwarts had in history, and what role Hogwarts played in the following thousand years.

History itself is actually very interesting, but Professor Binns made the class boring.

When the get out of class was over, Professor Binns' voice stopped abruptly and slowly floated away through the wall. Wade woke Michael up, and the two went to the library together to finish their History of Magic homework - a foot-long paper on the reign of terror of the demon Emeric.

"No one in the whole Hogwarts is more diligent than you." Michael muttered as he was doing his homework: "I bet other students must wait until the last day to do their homework!"

Before he could finish his words, a staggering figure passed by the two of them - Hermione was carrying a thick stack of books. When she saw Wade, she stopped and put the books on the table. Michael felt that the whole desk shook.

"Hi, Wade." Hermione greeted, sat down directly, and asked, "How is Ravenclaw?"

"There's nothing wrong with it except that there are too many stairs to climb." Wade introduced: "Hermione, this is Michael Corner. Michael, this is Hermione Granger, we met on the train."

"Hello." Hermione was very brave and enthusiastic like a little lion. She stretched out her hand directly: "Are you also a Ravenclaw?" Michael looked at the height of the pile of books, swallowed his saliva, shook hands and said hesitantly: "But... maybe?"

In front of these two, he deeply felt that he might not be worthy of calling himself a Ravenclaw.

"—maybe?" Hermione frowned.

Feeling the blood suppression of some kind of biological chain, Michael's stature inexplicably became shorter. He asked in a low voice: "Can I ask... why did you take so many books? Are you going to read them all?"

"Of course! These are the books I plan to finish reading this week." Hermione said as a matter of course.

Michael's face turned pale, and he looked at Wade and asked him: What's going on? A week? Even more crazy than you?

Vader raised an eyebrow at him slightly.

Michael stopped complaining about Wade dragging him to do homework and lowered his head to concentrate on completing the rest of his paper. Wade, who had already completed the paper, continued to make his own timeline.

"Oh, your method is very useful." Hermione leaned over to take a look and suggested, "But I think it would be more inspiring to combine it with Muggle history."

"Well, I plan to add to that later." Wade pushed the part he had finished to her and said, "You've read more books than me. Can you help me check if there is anything that needs to be revised in the previous part?"

"Let me see." Hermione did not refuse. After taking a closer look, she said, "Here, the exact time when the wand was born is unknown. Melaina Sims's main contribution was to study the magical properties of eighteen kinds of wand wood, and to propose the wand adaptation theory and Sims formula..."

She pulled out a book from her pile of books and flipped open it. "In 382 BC, the Ollivander family began making wands. To this day, the best wand makers are still the Ollivander family. I think this is also a test point..."

The quill quickly recorded on the parchment, and Madam Pince occasionally cast a vigilant look over here, as if she was ready to drive a few people out if they made a loud noise.

Michael, who was working on his thesis, felt himself becoming increasingly insignificant. He listened for a while, then silently pulled out a piece of paper and prepared to copy the timeline of the history of magic that Wade had revised. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he nudged Wade with his elbow and whispered, "Look!"

Theo was standing outside the library, looking around. He had probably just come back from the Herbology class, and he was still covered in soil from the greenhouse, so Madam Pince refused to let them in. Meeting Wade and Michael's gazes, Theo waved happily, motioning them to go out.

Wade said goodbye to Hermione, and packed up with Michael to go out. Seeing Ryan and Theo at the door, looking dirty, he asked, "What's the emergency?"

The two Hufflepuffs looked at each other, and Ryan indicated with his chin: "Go ahead, it was you who mentioned this to Professor Sprout."

Theo smiled and said, "Weider, didn't you say you wanted to find a quiet place to practice spells this morning? Professor Sprout, the Herbology professor, is the head of our Hufflepuff house. I stayed after class to help the professor, and after class I plucked up the courage to ask -"

(End of this chapter)