From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 124 Temporary Examiner
The first year History of Magic exam was the last written exam of exam week.

Logically speaking, by the time of the History of Magic exam in the first year, the practical exam part of Defense Against the Dark Arts for OWLs and NEWTs should have been completed long ago.

However, due to frequent problems in the examination hall this year, the practical examinations for fifth and seventh grade students were postponed.

When Ivy came to the corridor and was about to approach the stairs to see what was going on, Professor McGonagall walked over quickly.

"Professor Victor!" Professor McGonagall shouted as soon as she saw Ivy. "Please go to classroom 11 on the first floor. The practical exams for OWLs and NEWTs for Defense Against the Dark Arts are being held there. The examiners may need a little help."

"Then History of Magic..." Ivy tilted her head and looked at the classroom behind her. All the first-year students were writing furiously inside, including Ivy "himself".

"I'll be the invigilator." Professor McGonagall answered neatly. When she came to Ivy, she said in a low voice, "It's about Pyroblast... The students have already killed a Hinckley Punk, a Swamp Red Cap, and a Boggart. The review team has used up all their backup plans..."

"But I'm not a dark magic creature. Even if I go to the examination room, what help can I provide?" Ivy asked.

"They are considering adding Pyroblast as a bonus item this year. All students who can cast this spell will at least pass the exam. As for the final grade and content related to Dark Magic creatures... they haven't discussed a result yet." Professor McGonagall smiled encouragingly. "Dumbledore's invitation to you to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts is the wisest decision he has ever made. Just treat the exam as a class. I have a hunch, Professor Victor. This year's average score for Defense Against the Dark Arts will be the highest in recent decades."

"Okay, I understand." Ivy nodded, walked down the stairs and left the History of Magic examination room on the third floor.

"You must be Professor Victor, right?" As soon as Ivy walked into Classroom 11 on the first floor, a wizard with very little hair on his head spoke to him, "Your Pyroblast is so creative! Ah, I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Professor Tofty, the examiner."

"Hello, Professor Tofty." Ivy followed Professor Tofty into the temporary examination room for Defense Against the Dark Arts. It was completely unrecognizable. In the center of the examination room was a charred corner of wood. Perhaps not long ago, it was a complete cabinet.

Ivy guessed that it had once contained a Boggart, a dark magical creature that could reveal people's inner fears and liked to hide in dark and narrow corners.

Following Professor Tofty's guidance, Ivy met the examiners from the Wizarding Examination Authority. They were generally older, including a witch who looked extremely old. She was Griselda Marchbank, who was said to have supervised Dumbledore's Transfiguration exam. She should be at least over a hundred years old.

"That Pyroblast of yours is truly amazing!" Her voice was as loud as Professor Marchbanks's. Ivy was familiar with this kind of demeanor, a spirited and hard-of-hearing elderly person.

"It blew the cabinet we put the protective spell on into powder." Professor Tofty added, motioning Ivy to look at the black spots and wooden debris in the middle of the classroom. "We no longer have any dark magic creatures that can be used for exams, Professor Victor. I wonder if you have any teaching aids that have not been consumed?"

"I'm sorry." Ivy saw that the expressions on the examiners' faces didn't change much. Perhaps they had heard rumors about his class from Professor McGonagall.

"Okay, okay." Professor Tofty muttered, "Although we have heard about it a long time ago, we still have hope. After all, you are just temporarily teaching this less safe course." "We would like to invite you to be the temporary examiner of this exam!" Professor Marchbank, who had been sitting in the examiner's seat, stood up. "Although OWLs and NEWTs' Defense Against the Dark Arts are two sets of practical exam questions, I am afraid that even if you bring OWLs' dark magic creatures here, your students will blow them to pieces. That poor Boggart was the masterpiece of a fifth-year student."

"Fifth grade student?" Ivy raised his eyebrows. "I remember that I only taught this spell to seventh graders. How did he learn it?"

"Really?" Professor Marchbank looked surprised. "I still remember his name, Mr. Weasley, Percy Weasley."

Ivy narrowed her eyes. This was definitely a phenomenon worth studying. As a spell invented by Ivy himself, Pyroblast had a casting logic that was completely different from that of ordinary spells. If one did not have a certain understanding of its spell model, it would be impossible to cast the spell successfully.

But now someone has really done it. Could it be that "belief" can really bridge the gap between the two worldviews? Or is it that with Ivy's spellcasting, the magical power from the DND worldview has begun to affect this wizarding world?

Will there be something like "Magic Net" or "Shadow Magic Net" in the future?
The so-called "Magic Network" is literally a "magic network". It is an important part of the magic in the world view of Wizards of the Coast DND. However, due to the multi-author co-creation model adopted by Wizards of the Coast, it is not uncommon for the novels and setting collections to be mutually influenced. Ivy himself does not quite understand it.

However, there is no problem with the fact that the "Magic Network" is the source of magic for many worlds under the Kingdom Sky.

For a world with a normal magic network, the results of mages casting spells are fixed. As long as the resources are in place, they will be able to cast successfully. For some places where the magic network is not very active, or the magic network is too active, mages will encounter certain troubles when casting spells. For example, the wild wave of magic elements changes the original spell structure, resulting in another completely different spell being released; or because the magic power is suppressed by some inert ability, the difficulty of the mage's casting increases, so that simple arcane spells require more resources.

Ivy's current method of casting spells is "prepare spells" + "consume spell slots". In short, spell slots are used as a fixed resource for casting spells. In a sense, it is also a mana bar mage.

Taking the phenomenal MMORPG game World of Warcraft as an example, the so-called preparation of spells is the process of dragging skills from the spell book to the shortcut keys. The higher the intelligence and caster level of the mage, the more shortcut key slots he has, and the more spells he can prepare to deal with emergencies.

As for spell slots, they can be roughly regarded as a limited mana bar. A 1st-level spell slot is equivalent to one mana point, and a 2nd-level spell slot is equivalent to two mana points, but each spell slot cannot be converted into another. A 1st-level spell slot can only be used to cast a 1st-level spell, while a 2nd-level spell slot can be used to cast both 1st-level and 2nd-level spells. When the spell slots consumed by casting a spell exceed the minimum spell slots originally required by the spell, a level-up spell casting effect will occur, which enhances the spell effect based on the original spell.

In some worlds with strict control over magic networks, mages casting spells is like writing reports or applications. They must communicate with the magic network every morning and think in advance about what spells they will cast in the next day and how many times each spell will be cast. Without special expertise or professional characteristics, mages can only look at the spells in the table and sigh in despair. This greatly limits the mages' ability to respond, so in this world, warlocks who can cast spells spontaneously are obviously more comfortable.

Although he is now in the HP world, Ivy does not feel any resistance from the world when casting DND spells. Perhaps it is because Ivy, as a wizard with charm as the spellcasting attribute, has a spellcasting method closer to the spontaneous spellcasting of warlocks, and has not changed his spellcasting method even after becoming a wizard of the Scribes.

Of course, it is also possible that the magical power in the HP world is primitive and peaceful, and has not been destroyed or tainted by some people with ulterior motives.

Ivy still had a lot of time to investigate the matter of Percy Weasley. The most important thing now was to help the examiners complete the practical exams of Defense Against the Dark Arts for OWLs and NEWTs.

(End of this chapter)