HP: Wizards at Hogwarts

Hufflepuff had herb class with Gryffindor in the afternoon.

The class was not held inside the castle, but in a glass greenhouse next to the vegetable garden at the back, where many plants that Elaine couldn't name were grown.

The professor giving the class was Pomona Sprout, the head of Badger House.

Professor Sprout was a short, plump witch with flowing gray hair.

She wore a thick hat covered in patches, dressed in rather simple cloth clothes, and was covered in mud, looking like an ordinary, optimistic middle-aged village woman.

Throughout the entire class, she always had a smile on her face. She was both enthusiastic and gentle with the young wizards, and she never held prejudices against students who liked to cause trouble or were clumsy.

Sprout treated Elaine the same way.

"While I do think that pulling out the Gryffindor sword is quite an impressive feat, I won't show you any favoritism by exempting you from your homework, Mr. Yakut."

Elaine thought to himself that his dean also had a bit of a humorous and witty side.

The cafeteria gets even livelier during dinner time.

Thanks to Elaine's performance in the cafeteria at noon today, and the spread of the word among the young wizards, the legendary story of his "angry rebuke of Snape" this morning has reached the ears of the entire school.

Now everyone at Hogwarts knows that Snape got humiliated by Elaine.

During lunch, almost all the students were discussing this.

The discussion was most intense among the students of Gryffindor. They had been oppressed by Snape for many years and were both afraid of and disgusted by him. Now that they had finally met Elaine, their "hero," they were all so happy that they ate twice as much as usual.

In short, it means that the people's hearts are with us.

Of the other three houses, the young wizards in Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw were relatively calm, but the situation was different in Slytherin.

Throughout the dinner, almost all the Slytherin students stared at Elaine with hostile eyes, with only a small number of them looking at him with a hint of unease.

On the one hand, they approved of what Elaine said in the dining hall last night and felt that they should take action to reform the wizarding world and help their family advance further;

On the other hand, they disliked what Eleven did to Snape, and even more so Eleven's publicizing of it, so they felt repulsed.

Elaine paid little attention to the students' attitudes and instead looked at Snape on the professor's bench.

Snape remained completely absorbed in his food, seemingly oblivious to the students' discussion, as if it were something entirely unrelated to him.

Hufflepuff attended the History of Magic class with Gryffindor again that evening.

The teacher who gave them lessons was the elderly Professor Binns... no, I mean, the old ghost of Hogwarts, Professor Binns.

Professor Binns has been there since the founding of Hogwarts.

It is said that he suddenly died in his sleep one day, and became a ghost the next morning, but he did not realize it and went to class as usual, scaring his students half to death.

Since then, Professor Binns has remained at Hogwarts, witnessing all the changes Hogwarts has undergone over the past thousand years as a ghost.

It can be said that there is no more authoritative professor of the history of magic in the entire British magical community.

Elaine still held a sliver of hope for the History of Magic class.

Besides his inherent interest in history, he was also genuinely curious to know just how boring this supposedly "extremely dull and tedious, where everyone falls asleep" course really was.

After experiencing it firsthand, his expectations completely vanished, and he finally understood why Professor Binns had such a reputation.

Professor Binns' teaching style was like that of an emotionless machine reciting a "chronicle of events".

For about an hour, this half-gray old ghost floated silently on the podium, recounting one historical event after another in the format of "in such-and-such year, such-and-such person, in such-and-such place, did such-and-such thing," and then making the students memorize it.

The historical context, root causes, and subsequent impacts of this event are not discussed at all.

The lectures only emphasized the 'facts' that actually happened, without mentioning any 'myths,' 'legends,' 'unofficial histories,' or 'stories.'

There was absolutely no interaction between him and the students. He neither called on anyone to answer questions nor paid any attention to anyone who was daydreaming. His main approach was to say, "I'll talk, you can do your thing."

Less than five minutes into the lesson, the young wizards from both houses treated Professor Binns's lecture as white noise and fell fast asleep on their desks.

Elaine didn't sleep, but he also didn't listen to the lecture. Instead, he sat in his seat flipping through his textbook on the history of magic.

In his opinion, listening to Professor Binns' lectures was not as interesting as reading books on his own.

The history of magic textbook in Elaine's hand was a second-hand book he bought from Flourish and Blotts. He hadn't even opened it since he got it, and tonight was the first time.

Since the history of magic textbook hasn't been revised, whatever is in other people's brand-new textbooks, is also in Elavin's secondhand book.

However, what Elaine's secondhand book has, other people's new books may not have.

On page six of the textbook, in a blank space, there was a short "love letter" and a sketch of a long-haired little witch.

Page eighteen tells the story of a medieval witch who tricked a king. The book also includes an illustration, but the illustration has been altered with a pen and is no longer recognizable.

Page 33 records the story of a vicious black wizard from hundreds of years ago. His name was circled in pen, and next to it was written, "You are a piece of shit."

On page 44, there is a half-written recipe for the Water of Life and Death potion. It seems that he originally intended to memorize it, but couldn't remember it halfway through.

The blank spaces from page 50 to page 58 were filled with a bunch of random, nonsensical writing.

Some express emotions—

"History of Magic class is so boring";

"I hate Potions class the most."

"The people of Slytherin are all bugs"...

There was discussion about the professor's gossip—

"Professor Snape is so annoying";

Rumor has it that Professor McGonagall can turn into a cat.

Did you know that Headmaster Dumbledore is fond of men?

"I like Professor Flitwick the most..."

There are those who draw pictures of cakes to satisfy hunger—

I'm hungry;

Fried chicken legs, pan-fried pork chops, roast beef, strawberry cake...

Some left behind useful information—

"The library's restricted section has some good stuff; everyone should definitely go and check it out if they have the chance, and especially look at the section on black magic."

"There are good things in the forbidden forest too. Go there and pick up trash often; they might just lift you out of poverty."

……

It's not hard to guess that these graffiti and messages were left by the book's previous owners.

Elaine thoroughly enjoyed the lesson.