Hogwarts: This holy light is righteously evil

After listening carefully for a while, Puni realized that this seemed to be something that every senior student at Hogwarts cared about a lot, and it had even become an unwritten rule in the school.

During lunch break, Puni ran into several seventh-grade students at the library entrance. They were huddled together, talking quietly, and the topic was still about their Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.

Puni stopped and quietly listened from the side, quickly figuring out the reason behind it.

A senior student with long brown hair sighed: "It's strange, really. From our first year until now, every year we've had a different Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. None of them have ever stayed in the position for two years."

The senior student next to him chimed in, his tone becoming somewhat eerie: "That's right! There's a saying circulating in the school that the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts is cursed, and whoever takes on this role will not escape the fate of 'serving for no more than two years.'"

"We asked previous graduates, and they said they'd never seen anyone have a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher teach them for a full two years!"

Puni, intrigued, couldn't help but step forward and ask softly, "Senior, who's this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?"

Upon hearing Puni's question, the senior students exchanged glances. The senior with long brown hair spoke first: "This year's teacher is a witch in her thirties. I heard that she graduated from Gryffindor. She has a particularly fiery temper and is decisive in her words and actions, without any hesitation."

"She didn't believe in the curse at all at first," another senior added, somewhat sadly. "We've heard professors mention that for the past few years, she's been actively vying for the Defense Against the Dark Arts position, always saying that the rumors about the curse are nonsense, and that she will definitely break this so-called 'curse' and continue teaching in this position."

But no one expected that less than a month after taking office, this witch teacher would discover something that would completely throw her into a panic.

She is pregnant!

This discovery made her immediately stop in Bengbu, and she even began to suspect that the curse circulating in the school might really exist.

She privately complained to professors she knew that she probably wouldn't even be able to teach for a full year before being forced to leave the position.

What devastated her even more was that she hadn't gotten married by the time she discovered she was pregnant!

When the senior students got to this point, they couldn't help but lower their voices, their faces showing a complex expression.

One of the senior students sighed softly, "If this gets out, it will probably cause a sensation throughout Hogwarts."

"After all, an unmarried witch teacher suddenly becoming pregnant and having to leave her cursed position because of it is more bizarre than any other rumor circulating in the school!"

Puni stood aside, listening silently to everything, and clicked his tongue.

Poor professor.

......

When news of the unexpected turn of events surrounding the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher spread throughout Hogwarts, the older students reacted with unusual calmness, showing little shock, as if they had already anticipated such an event.

This habitual attitude is not apathy, but rather because similar situations have been so common in the history of Hogwarts that they have long been accustomed to them.

They all knew that if such an accident had happened to any other professor in the school, it would have become a major event that would have shocked the entire school.

Whether it's Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, or Professor Snape...

Whenever such unexpected changes occur in their lives, they are repeatedly mentioned by students from one generation to the next, and may even become anecdotes that are passed down in Hogwarts for decades and remembered for a lifetime.

But when it happened to the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, everything became "perfectly natural".

An older student leaned against the wall in the hallway, scratched his head, and casually chatted with the student next to him: "Speaking of which, how many Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers have left for strange reasons now? I've lost count. I'll have to check that list with Ravenclaw later."

Someone else laughed and chimed in, "That's right, this reason might even rank among the most bizarre on that list, more outrageous than those other excuses like accidentally ingesting a potion or being scared off by a Boggart."

Listening to their conversation, Puni's curiosity was fully piqued. After pressing for details, he learned that a special record that had been passed down for decades was hidden in the Ravenclaw common room.

This record was not officially compiled, but was started decades ago by a restless Ravenclaw student. The original intention may have been just to relieve boredom, but it gradually became an unwritten tradition of the college and has been continued by generation after generation of students.

The record was written on a yellowed and brittle parchment, with handwriting from different eras detailing the names of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers each year, their length of service, and the specific reasons why they were ultimately unable to continue their duties.

There was no fancy embellishment or rigorous formatting. In fact, many students wrote their own jokes and reflections in the remarks column, their words filled with helplessness and curiosity about this cursed position.

For new Ravenclaw students, this parchment list is a "special collection" they must see upon enrollment.

Senior students would always bring freshmen to the list and explain the various bizarre reasons for leaving their jobs.

such as.

Some students went mad while practicing black magic defense techniques and had to drop out of school to recuperate.

Some students were unable to teach normally because they were bitten by the defensive magical creatures they kept.

Some people even resigned voluntarily out of fear after accidentally discovering the secret of the curse on their positions.

Each reason was both bizarre and true, leaving the freshmen in awe.

According to Ravenclaw tradition, each new class has a special obligation: at the end of the year, they must neatly add the reason for the departure of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher to the end of the list, so that this record spanning decades can continue.

When Puni first saw the list, he was deeply shocked by its length.

The entire parchment was carefully rolled into a roll, as thick as an adult's arm. When unfolded, it could almost cover the long table in the common room. The handwriting on it had changed from generation to generation, some neat and tidy, some cursive and unrestrained, but each stroke carried a small piece of Hogwarts' history.

Puni could imagine that the student who initiated this list back then had probably already seen through the fact that this curse was difficult to break, which was why he was so persistent in leaving this record, hoping that future generations would continue to write it down and see how many more bizarre stories would be born from this cursed position.