Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Chapter 127 Mandrake
Professor Sprout strode over and saw the students gathered together in a tense situation, which immediately sounded the alarm in his mind.

"What are you doing? Why aren't you in class?"

She asked sternly, her face stern.

Pansy immediately complained: "Professor, Gray used a curse on Draco, and now he can't speak!"

Professor Sprout was very surprised. She glanced at Malfoy, then frowned and asked Wade: "Did you do this, Mr. Grey?"

Padma immediately raised her hand and shouted, "It was Malfoy who insulted his classmates first, Professor! Vader did nothing wrong."

Pansy rushed to say: "Michael was the first to humiliate Draco! He deserves it!"

Padma immediately asked back, "How did he humiliate me? Didn't he just ask Malfoy how to contact his parents?"

"Uh……"

Pansy was suddenly stuck.

Professor Sprout was annoyed by the quarrel between the two little girls. He pointed at a student and said, "Tell me what's going on, Greg..."

No, Vid Grey is the person involved today.

Professor Sprout pointed his finger stiffly at Anthony Goldstein next to him.

"…Mr. Goldstein."

Anthony was stunned for a moment, then stood up and told the story impartially:
"…In the end, Gray used a silencing spell to make Malfoy unable to speak, that's it."

"Silent spell?"

Professor Sprout looked at Vader in surprise, and his tone softened.

It was already time for class, so she simply uncursed Malfoy and said, "Anyway, it's wrong to insult or curse your classmates. I'm going to deduct five points from everyone... and three days of detention."

Vader accepted the punishment quietly.

Malfoy looked indignant, but under the professor's stern gaze, he said nothing.

Beside Vader, Michael looked at Malfoy coldly.

"Today we are at the third greenhouse."

Professor Sprout took the students to a greenhouse they had never been to before.

She opened the door and saw hundreds of pots of Mandrake seedlings in the greenhouse, half of which were still in the seedling pots, and the other half had been moved to large pots.

There is also a bench in the greenhouse with more than twenty pairs of earmuffs of different colors on it.

"Today we are going to repot the mandrake. As you can see, Gryffindor and Hufflepuff have completed half of the work in the first class. I hope your class will go well as well."

Professor Sprout glanced at everyone and asked, "Now, who can tell me what the characteristics of mandrake are?"

Several students raised their hands, and Professor Sprout randomly pointed to a student and asked him to answer.

Wade looked at these green and purple seedlings and felt excited.

Mandrake is a powerful restorative agent. In the original plot, it even restored the ghosts petrified by the basilisk to their original state.

At the same time, Mandrake is also an essential material for practicing advanced transfiguration - Animagus.

It is not easy to repot a mandrake because its roots are ugly babies that struggle and scream when you dig them out. Hearing the sound can make people unconscious for several hours.

If it is an adult mandrake, the crying can even be fatal.

Wade, wearing earmuffs, dug a hole in a large flowerpot in advance, then pulled out a mandrake seedling and quickly stuffed it in, while Michael quickly filled it with soil.

The baby with leaves on his head was buried in the soil before he could stretch his arms.

They are very efficient.

After planting the third seedling, Michael looked up and saw that many students were still struggling with the first Mandrake doll.

The light green doll twisted hard in their hands, kicked its arms and legs, and even hit them with their little fists.

The students were like they were holding a big jumping rat, not daring to let it get close but also not daring to let it go. Three or four of them were so busy that they were sweating profusely.

Especially the Malfoy group.

Crabbe and Goyle were always much more clumsy than others. They couldn't hold down a seedling for a long time and almost had it pull off their earmuffs. Malfoy was so angry that he cursed, but everyone was wearing earmuffs, so no one could hear what he was cursing.

Michael smiled sarcastically.

……

In order to complete all the transplanting, the get out of class ended ten minutes later than usual.

As the students left exhausted, Professor Sprout asked Malfoy and Vader to stay for a while.

"Mr. Malfoy, your detention begins at nine this afternoon. Go to the entrance hall and find Mr. Filch. He will tell you what you should do."

Professor Sprout said.

Malfoy glared at Vader and turned away.

"Mr. Grey." Looking at Wade, Professor Sprout's expression eased a lot: "I am very satisfied with your performance in class today."

"Thank you, Professor," Vader said softly.

Professor Sprout smiled and asked gently, "Have you mastered the silent spell now?"

It's not that she wanted to treat them differently, but in the eyes of this witch, the Slytherin students had often shown malicious expressions to Wade since last semester.

As for the reason...is there any need to explain?

Slytherin never needed a reason to target children born into non-magical families.

She was sure that there had been a direct and serious conflict between the two sides.

All the professors in the school knew that one day last year, several first-year Slytherin students went to the infirmary crying.

Things had calmed down since then... but Malfoy still seemed to be holding a grudge.

Comparing the two, even without considering the difference in academies and only looking at the attitudes of both sides, the witch would unconsciously lean towards Wade's side.

"Silent spells are quite difficult. I can only use silent spells for a small number of spells at the moment."

Vader said modestly, then waved his wand.

The earmuffs and shovels that the students had casually placed on the shelves all flew up and landed neatly back where they belonged, and the dust and manure on the ground also disappeared.

It's so smooth and natural, without any sense of "force".

"Excessive modesty is arrogance, Mr. Gray."

Professor Sprout smiled and said, "That's a nice silent spell. I'll give you ten points. And... um... your detention will also start at nine o'clock tonight, in the second greenhouse."

"Okay, Professor," Vader responded.

The two of them understood each other tacitly that this was not so much confinement as it was the professor giving him special treatment.

As they left the greenhouse together, Wade said again, "Professor, when these mandrakes grow up, can I apply for a leaf?"

"Leaves?" Professor Sprout realized. "You want to practice Animagus?"

"Yes." Vader did not hide it.

"This is a very advanced Transfiguration."

Professor Sprout said with emotion:

"Minerva must be very satisfied with your Transfiguration performance, but she would not agree with you practicing Animagus in this grade?"

"I actually have a very good tutor."

Vader smiled and said, "Professor, could you please keep this a secret for me for now? The preparation time for Animagus is very long... I don't want others to know until I'm sure of success."

Some people can even take several years to prepare for their Animagus, so it is not surprising that he starts now but only succeeds in the sixth or seventh grade.

So Professor Sprout said tolerantly: "Of course. But you have to promise me that the last step of this magic must be carried out under the supervision of a teacher."

"Yes, I won't be reckless." Wade said seriously.

He hoped to master the magic of transforming from a human into an animal, but he did not want to actually become an ignorant animal.

(End of this chapter)