Hogwarts: Me? Fight Voldemort?

Hermione, standing beside him, was completely unaware of his unusual behavior. Perhaps inspired by Professor Quirrell's words, she happened to be talking about Defense Against the Dark Arts and the book "The Dark Arts Self-Defense Guide".

When I arrived at the auditorium, it wasn't empty. Some senior students who were preparing for exams had arrived early and had books for various subjects laid out in front of them. They were eating a nutritious breakfast made by house-elves while studying.

“Let’s sit there!” There were the fewest upperclassmen at the Gryffindor table, so Hermione led the way and led Jimmy back to their seats from the previous night.

Jimmy readily agreed, and the moment he sat down, a plate containing sandwiches and a glass of pumpkin juice appeared in front of him.

"Could you replace the pumpkin juice with milk? It would be even better if you had chicken legs! If you don't have chicken legs, eggs or sausages would also be fine. Some salad would be nice too."

The same sandwich appeared in front of Hermione. She had just opened her book on the long table when she saw Jimmy suddenly talking to thin air. She asked in confusion, "Are you talking to me?"

Jimmy looked at the extra ham and eggs on his plate, along with a small bowl of salad in front of him, and proudly showed them to Hermione, "The house-elves in the Hogwarts kitchens are in charge of preparing breakfast. You can ask them to change some of your favorite foods. My Hufflepuff upstairs sister told me this, and many upperclassmen don't know it."

This is the benefit of intelligence gathering. He took out the notebook with a lot of information from his pocket, turned to one of the pages, which contained the recipes that Hogwarts kitchen could provide daily.

"I have a menu here, I can read it to you."

Hermione was genuinely surprised that Jimmy knew so much. More than the Hogwarts menu, she was curious about the amount of information recorded in Jimmy's scribbles-like notebook.

Unfortunately, Jimmy wasn't going to tell her, and Hermione didn't change her breakfast either; she didn't have much of a need for breakfast.

Jimmy ate too much for breakfast and didn't digest it until almost time for class. He then went to the Transfiguration classroom with Hermione.

During this time, Jimmy didn't see Harry and Ron appear in the Great Hall at all...

Chapter 18 Transfiguration Lesson

When they arrived at the Transfiguration classroom, there were already quite a few people there. They were taking the Transfiguration class with students from Ravenclaw.

The tabby cat crouching on the podium looked at Jimmy, making the newly arrived Jimmy feel uneasy. He knew that the person on the podium was Professor McGonagall, who had transformed into a cat.

Hermione, who entered the classroom with him, had a very clear goal: to walk towards the podium. As if bewitched by the cat, she made Jimmy tremble with fear. Fortunately, she stopped in the second row and sat down.

Jimmy actually wanted to sit in the middle or back row, but not only did Hermione turn around to look at him, the cat professor on the podium was also staring at him, as if he would turn back into his original form at any moment.

Forced by an inexplicable sense of oppression, he had no choice but to sit down next to Hermione.

His previous plan was to create scandals when he grew up. Besides the fact that being famous for being controversial does generate more traffic than being a normal celebrity, it's also tiring to maintain a well-behaved persona all the time!

Well-behaved and honest people are destined to work for others. If he doesn't accumulate enough start-up capital in the first grade, when will his development period end?

A good person can live a good life, but if they do one bad thing, they will be condemned by everyone.

A bad person suddenly acts out of kindness and does a good deed, yet they are praised and lauded. This is the result of ordinary people's different expectations of these two types of people.

Which option is better? Anyone with a modicum of rationality knows which one to choose.

As time passed, the classroom gradually filled with young wizards, but the two desks in the first row remained empty, and Professor McGonagall still hadn't transformed back into a human.

Harry and Ron, both sweating profusely, ran into the classroom when the classroom door was pushed open from the outside.

Both of them breathed a sigh of relief when they didn't see Professor McGonagall in the classroom. Ron even laughed as if he had escaped a disaster, saying, "Thank goodness Professor McGonagall hasn't arrived yet. If she knew we were late, she would be so angry!"

Jimmy gave Ron an admiring look, then winked at the two of them.

Harry saw his wink but didn't understand. "Jimmy, what's wrong with your eyes?"

Jimmy raised his hand to cover his barely suppressed lip, shook his head slightly, and didn't look at the two of them again.

At that moment, the cat on the podium jumped off the table and instantly transformed into Professor McGonagall herself.

When Professor McGonagall, whose expression was frighteningly calm, stood in front of the two of them, Harry realized what her earlier glance meant, but it was too late.

Ron's expression changed like a Sichuan opera face-changing act, and finally his mouth opened so wide it could fit an egg, and he said, "That's amazing!"

“Thank you for your assessment, Mr. Weasley, but I think it’s class time now and you should be in your seats.” The calmer Professor McGonagall was, the more frightened Harry and Ron became.

In the end, the two sat in the front row, and Professor McGonagall didn't deduct points from them, after all, it was only the first day, so it was understandable.

Not content with scaring the students with Animagus, Professor McGonagall went back behind the podium and gave everyone another scare.

She transformed the podium into a grunting, fat pig, then back into a human. "Transfiguration is the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts. Anyone who misbehaves in my class will be asked to leave and never be allowed to return. I've warned you!"

These words startled the young wizards so much that they all straightened their backs and continued listening attentively without the slightest carelessness.

Jimmy noticed that Hermione seemed to glance at him, probably because she was thinking about secretly practicing Transfiguration again.

Professor McGonagall was very serious and focused during class. She gestured for everyone to turn to the first page of their textbooks, which was filled with statements about the dangers of Transfiguration. "I don't want anyone to practice Transfiguration without being familiar with it, because Transfiguration is a rigorous discipline. If you make a mistake in any step of the spell, you could turn your body into an animal or a chair!"

Jimmy felt another gaze coming from beside him and was speechless. Enough already!

For the next half hour, Professor McGonagall explained various cases of failed Transfiguration spells, and then spent another fifteen minutes explaining the "Gamp Basic Transfiguration Laws" of Transfiguration, as well as the relationship between different types of Transfiguration spells.

Just as spells are distinguished as positive and negative, transfiguration also has a set of spells to aid in casting, and the spells for transfiguring living and inanimate objects are not quite the same.

The knowledge was quite basic, and he finally understood the meaning of some wizarding terms in Professor McGonagall's class.

In the last fifteen minutes, Professor McGonagall gave everyone a match and asked them to turn it into a silver needle.

Having practiced beforehand, Jimmy successfully turned the match into a silver needle on his first try.

The gleaming silver needle made Professor McGonagall stop in her tracks. She excitedly held it up to show the rest of the class, "Look! Mr. Blaine succeeded on his first try!"

All the students looked at Jimmy, who calmly met their shocked gazes. Gaining prestige was part of his development plan.

Fame is the foundation of making money. If no one knows you, even someone as powerful as Dumbledore won't attract attention.

While Quirrell might have noticed him, it was unlikely that Voldemort would have.

The noseless monster is still plotting resurrection, while the arrogant Voldemort will only be eyeing the savior who will turn the tables on him.

He has at most 5 to 6 years to accumulate enough wealth and reputation during this time, so he cannot waste his first year and remain unknown.

Fortune favors the bold!

It was based on these two points that Jimmy showed off his skills in front of everyone.

Professor McGonagall cast an approving glance at Jimmy. "I'll add 5 points to Mr. Blaine. And the other students shouldn't be discouraged; learning Transfiguration requires some patience."

After putting down the silver needles, Professor McGonagall continued her rounds in the classroom.

Jimmy started writing his paper on how to turn matches into silver needles ahead of schedule, and Hermione, sitting next to him, would occasionally give him a disgruntled look.

As get out of class was about to end, Hermione finally managed to make the silver needle change; one end turned silver, while the other end remained a matchstick.

Even so, Professor McGonagall was already very pleasantly surprised and added another point to Hermione's score.

As Professor McGonagall said, Transfiguration is a profound subject. By the end of get out of class, only Jimmy had succeeded, and only Hermione had made the match undergo a noticeable change.

I didn't spend any money on Transfiguration, but I still did a great job, which means I'm quite talented at Transfiguration too!

Jimmy, with a touch of smugness, walked into the History of Magic classroom with the Hufflepuff students.

The classroom was filled with the sound of snoring, and even the diligent and studious little witch Hermione had to strain to hear Professor Binns's lecture, while only Jimmy remained enthusiastic.

Because the wizard card game he wanted to make required some knowledge of the history of magic, and Professor Binns' lectures were indeed difficult, but not in a difficult way.

Eating history is not the same as eating shit. Some people would even eat shit for money!

Jimmy was still refreshed when the class ended, and he quickly finished the homework assigned by the History of Magic while eating.

After he finished his homework, all the boys in the class treated Jimmy with the same respect they would show their godfather.

Ron pleaded, "Please, Jimmy. We're friends, right? Can I borrow your History of Magic assignment?"

Harry, Seamus, Dean Thomas, and the others behind him also looked at him hopefully.

Chapter 19, 1000%

"No! You can't lend them your homework, that's wrong!"

Hermione, who was eating at the same table, immediately turned her wary gaze into displeasure, all directed at the boys who had borrowed Jimmy's homework to copy.

Doing homework is a perfectly normal thing to do. Copying homework on the first day of class is disrespectful to the professors!

Hearing this, the boys immediately deflated. They were right; they did feel a little embarrassed to have their homework copied from classmates on the first day.

Only Ron was annoyed by Hermione's meddling. He let go of Jimmy's hand and muttered, "Who would know if we didn't tell anyone?"

Hermione glared at Ron, and after everyone else backed away, she gave Jimmy a warning look.

"Hermione is right. Even if you copy my homework, you still have to figure out the hardest part yourselves. If everything is exactly the same, the professor will spot it immediately."

Jimmy responded to Hermione's warning with a smile. Even without Hermione's interference, he wouldn't have lent it out... because he was going to sell it!

He worked so hard on his homework, how could he let someone else do it for free!

Now, even those who hadn't given up gave up, and they looked at Jimmy with the eyes of someone looking at an alien.

From this moment on, there may be two outcasts in Gryffindor, no, perhaps three.

Percy Weasley, Jimmy Blaine, Hermione Granger.

In the afternoon, they had a herbalism class. Professor Sprout simply led the young wizards on their first day of class to learn about the structure of the greenhouse and what they could touch and what they couldn't touch yet.

Magical plants are no less dangerous than animals. Hogwarts has many greenhouses where most of the herbs cultivated are precious, and the death of any one of them would be a huge waste. Therefore, the rules must be clearly explained.

The assignment is to write down which of the herbs in "A Thousand Kinds of Amazing Herbs and Mushrooms" pose certain dangers, and which herbs are grown in the greenhouse open to first-grade students. It is also necessary to write down the precautions for entering and exiting the greenhouse.

Here comes the opportunity!

Jimmy knew that some people didn't want to look up their homework, so he quickly finished his Herbology homework during the afternoon when he had no classes. He then found Harry and Ron playing Wizards' Chess in the common room and furtively looked around.

"I have some homework I just finished here, are you interested?"

Harry and Ron initially didn't understand what Jimmy was up to, but when they heard it was homework, they immediately stood up.

Ron's opinion of Jimmy had completely changed, and he said with shame, "I'm sorry, Jimmy, this morning I was thinking to myself that you and that Granger are the same kind of people. I apologize to you!"

Harry was tempted, but also hesitant. "Jimmy, didn't you say..."

"Ahem!" Jimmy stared at Ron with a serious look and lectured, "Hermione is a good person. If you encounter any difficulties, go to her for help. I believe she will do her best to help you."

Ron guiltily looked away, while Harry remained dazed, though he seemed to have taken it all in.

Then Jimmy changed the subject, saying, "Of course, the way she talks now does sound a lot like a professor. But that's not the point. You can copy Assignment 1 for a month straight! Interested?"

"Oh, so you need money, but I don't have any!" Ron immediately deflated, slumped back onto the sofa, and refused to look at the homework again. "You know, my family is very poor. I'll just do my homework myself."

Harry also felt there was something hard to describe about Jimmy's act of asking for money. "Are you short of money, Jimmy?"

"I'm short of money, I'm really short of money, but what I lack is money I can earn myself!"

Jimmy, within Harry's sight, seemed to be bathed in light. Although his eyes were meeting Harry's gaze, they seemed to drift into the distance, gazing at something he was willing to dedicate his entire life to pursuing.