Ancient Wizards Return to Hogwarts...

Chapter 110 Where Rice is far inferior to Dumbledore

After the final exams, the young wizards finally ushered in the happiest time of the semester.

The period between the end of final exams and the release of results is the most pleasant and free time of the year. During this time, students don't need to worry about their studies or have homework, and can freely play with their friends in the castle. Even better, the professors choose to turn a blind eye to the children's behavior, tacitly allowing them to release their stress. Even a teacher like Snape restrains his emotions during this period and doesn't pick on the students—this may be closely related to the fact that Slytherin has missed the House Cup, and he has many papers to grade.

The more free the students are, the busier the professors are. They have to grade papers, calculate scores, and weigh overall grades—a tedious task even with magical assistance. If they're unlucky enough to be the Head of House, they also need to issue report cards and worry about students' OWLs and NEWT exam results, making them incredibly busy. Professor McGonagall is the worst off, as she also has to assess students' Defense Against the Dark Arts in place of Professor Quirrell, essentially doing two jobs. She's even the Vice-Headmaster and Head of Gryffindor!

When it comes to training an assistant and then exploiting him to the extreme, Dumbledore is at least three Diagon Alleys plus Hogsmeade Avenue ahead of Rice.

After learning a little about the professors' work, Rice was extremely grateful that he was currently playing the role of a "student." If he hadn't made the decision to join the university as a professor, he probably would have resigned by now.

Other Defense Against the Dark Arts professors quit after a year because they were harmed by the curse, but he quit after a year because the workload was too much. As for why he didn't quit halfway, it's because he's a responsible person and wanted to teach for the full year before leaving.

The professors were busy, and the headmaster wasn't idle either. After explaining things to Professor McGonagall that day, he set off with the phoenix Fawkes and the sword of Gryffindor. He brought the phoenix for faster movement and searching, while taking the sword of Gryffindor was a spur-of-the-moment decision—he remembered that the seal was left by the four founders, and perhaps bringing the founders' relics would have a miraculous effect.

Then something amazing happened: after finding the monster, it simply glanced at him and fled in terror, a stark contrast to its frenzied state when they last met. Ultimately, Dumbledore, using the speed of Fawkes the Phoenix, caught up with the monster, utterly annihilated it, and brought its remains back to Hogwarts.

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The time of freedom was short-lived; after a few days of carefree enjoyment, the students received their transcripts from the professor.

In theory, everyone only knows their own grades, but Slytherin House is different. Professor Snape obtained the grades of all the students in the school, sorted them, made a table, and posted it on the bulletin board to urge and encourage the young wizards of his house to study hard.

This might have caused some controversy in other houses, but the students of Slytherin really took it to heart. Even Daphne rushed to see the report cards of all the first-year students after the results were posted.

She pushed her way past the senior students to the bulletin board, where she anxiously searched for her and Rice's names.

She's a bit different from Rice; she values ​​school exams quite a bit.

The first-grade report card was on the far left of the bulletin board. Her face froze when she saw the name on it.

【第一名：赫敏·格兰杰——总分：700（1）魔药学：50/50（1）……

Second place: Les Lint – Total score: 692 (2)

Third place: Daphne Greengrass - Total score: 690 (3)

Daphne's face flushed red at a visible speed.

"What's going on?! How could I only get third place?!" She stared at the top name, her eyes practically spitting fire.

Rice coming in second is understandable, since Rice's result is equivalent to his own. But what's with Granger?!

Rice was also surprised when she saw the report card: Was Granger that amazing? She got full marks in all subjects?

Many Slytherin students noticed what was happening and were immediately astonished when they looked over: a perfect score? Is this even a human?

You know, getting a perfect score in one course isn't difficult, but getting perfect scores in every course is outrageous. This means that she is not only proficient in subjects that require practical skills, such as spells, potions, and transmutation, but also understands dry humanities subjects like astronomy and the history of magic.

Furthermore, the fact that she, as a Ravenclaw, could get a perfect score in Potions shows that her performance was truly impeccable. Daphne and Rice also got perfect scores, but given that they came from Slytherin, the value of those perfect scores is questionable.

Daphne's face turned bright red. She stomped her foot forcefully, indicating that if she hadn't missed so many classes on History of Magic and Defense Against the Dark Arts, she would definitely have gotten a perfect score.

Rice suddenly had a question: If they both got full marks, how would they be ranked? By first letter? Then Daphne would still be ranked lower than Hermione!

Pulling the furious Daphne out of the group, Rice went with her back to the table by the window. There he saw two letters on the table, which read:

[First Grade Summer Homework Checklist]

Rice felt her blood pressure rise as well.

"Why are we being assigned homework during the holidays?!" Rice slammed her fist on the table as she looked at the homework lists sent by the professors.

They wouldn't have assigned so much homework to students during the holidays back then! And with so much homework during summer vacation, do you really even read it?

Looking at the indignant Rice, Daphne, who had just been angry about only getting second place in the final exam, laughed. But she quickly stopped laughing because she realized that all the homework would probably fall on her shoulders.

The girl was momentarily at a loss for words.

However, this is only a small part, because she can "outsource" the most tedious and annoying history of magic assignments, and Hogwarts still has quite a few students who are short of money.

Want the latest cosmetics, beautiful new clothes, and fun new toys, but don't have enough money? What to do? The wealthy junior Daphne is willing to solve her senior's problem—all you need to do is help her complete a few trivial papers on the history of magic.

She now seems to have forgotten the pain of losing to Hermione Granger in the final exam and has decided to ask someone to do her homework for her.

To her surprise, Rice didn't just toss the list to her; instead, he put it away himself. This left Daphne wondering: Did he not need me to do his homework because I failed Granger's test?

Daphne felt a sense of crisis for the first time.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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