Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Wade and his classmates did not have classes that afternoon, so after lunch they went to the umbrella house to finish their weekend homework. When the time was almost up, everyone walked towards the lawn together.

They were the first grade to have weapons class. Some students from other grades also came to watch curiously. They even arrived earlier than the students who had classes and formed a circle on the lawn.

Everyone was familiar with each other. They stood in groups of three or four, looking at the weapons on the lawn, some old and some new, with curious eyes.

The weapons were protected by spells, and the students couldn't get close, so they stood on the periphery and discussed how to use them and their power.

"I know, it's a land mine!"

A Gryffindor boy swore, "My dad once accidentally stepped on one when he was traveling. The Muggles who were traveling with him thought he would be killed in the explosion and ran away crying. My dad used an armor charm to offset the power of the explosion. When he returned, he saw that the Muggles had already started preparing for his funeral!"

Everyone burst out laughing.

His laughter revealed his contempt for stupid Muggles, as well as his own sense of superiority as a wizard.

Suddenly, one of the students felt a tap on his shoulder.

"Please give way!"

"Hey, go find some other place!"

The student shook his shoulders impatiently, trying to shake the hand away.

But he didn't get what he wanted, instead the strength in his hands increased several times.

"I said... please move aside!"

The visitor repeated it in a cold, emphasized tone.

This voice sounds familiar.

The tone sounded very unfriendly.

The student turned around and saw Professor Abigail's gloomy face, and for a moment he actually saw Professor Snape.

"T-Professor!"

He shouted and many students hurriedly made way.

Professor Abigail walked in like Moses parting the sea, followed by a string of second-year students.

——They came here at the right time and were blocked outside.

Everyone walked to the middle, looking at the well-designed and powerful modern weapons with curious eyes from time to time. But after Professor Abigail walked in, she first picked up a simple stone axe.

"Does anyone know what this is?" she asked.

"Pfft!"

Some students chuckled, as if they thought the professor had asked a stupid question.

Chapter 246 Battlefield Meat Grinder

Hermione still actively raised her hand to answer: "Stone Axe, Professor."

She paused and added: "Primitive humans have used it to hunt and cut food since about 200 million years ago."

"That's right." Professor Abigail said, "At that time, the Muggles who used such weapons regarded wizards who mastered magic as gods. They knelt down and prayed for the protection of wizards, and gave the best food, clothes, gems, and even their own children to wizards."

"And then, their weapons became these—"

The spear, iron knife, and bow and arrow were suspended in the air one after another, slowly rotating. Professor Abigail picked up the bow and arrow, drew the bow and arrow, and shot at will.

The bow and arrow hit a tree trunk in the distance with a "thump".

Behind the trees, there was a faint rustling sound, leaves were brushed aside, and thin dead branches on the ground were broken by being stepped on.

Students with good eyesight could see part of the centaur's figure in the shadows between the trees.

There were two young centaurs holding bows and arrows, hiding at the edge of the forbidden forest, staring at the teachers and students who were in class.

"This is a bow and arrow. Centaurs still use these weapons today. With bows and arrows, Muggles can hunt from a safe distance, greatly reducing the risk of encountering wild animals."

Professor Abigail said: "They can also use this weapon to sneak attack wizards - no one can maintain the Shield Charm all the time, I can't, let alone you little wizards who can't even use the Shield Charm."

"At that time, Muggles were no longer so in awe of wizards. Even the legendary wizard Merlin was only a close friend and mentor of King Arthur. Muggles no longer worshipped wizards as gods. They even learned to use the power of wizards."

"But gradually, wizards were no longer regarded as prophets and companions. People began to believe that all disasters were caused by wizards. The reason why wizards have magical powers is that they are possessed by evil spirits."

Then, more weapons were displayed.

The cannon appeared in the 13th century, the matchlock rifle was invented in the 15th century, and the flintlock rifle came into being in the 17th century.

There was a "bang" of a gunshot and a puff of white smoke rose up. The centaurs in the Forbidden Forest were startled. Some of them seemed to want to rush out, but were pulled back by their companions.

Professor Abigail said: "So starting in the 15th century, the witch hunts began."

She pointed to a target pierced by bullets not far away and asked the students: "Tell me, if there were several or dozens of such weapons pointed at you, how many of you would survive?"

There was silence for a moment.

Ron muttered, "It doesn't take dozens of them... Even if it was just one, I would probably be dead."

Professor Abigail said: "Your textbooks tell you that during the witch hunts, most of those killed were actually Muggles who were framed... That's true."

"The textbook also tells you how some powerful wizards played tricks on Muggles, such as the witch Wendelin who was burned forty-seven times."

"But many of you may not realize that the Frostfire Curse is a very advanced spell, and there are only a handful of wizards who can master it."

"There are many young wizards of your age who have been killed - because they have neither the ability to escape from the Muggles nor the ability to protect themselves from fire or gunfire!"

"Imagine if you were tied to the stake. Would you be able to laugh at the stupidity of the Muggles like Wendelin did? Would you be able to walk down from there alive?"

The laughter among the students completely disappeared. They looked at the professor, imagining the cruel scene at that time. Their faces turned pale, with anxiety and fear in their eyes.

"And in those days, children, Muggle weapons were still very crude, and they never stopped studying how to kill their own kind."

"Compared to them, most wizards would be helpless if they lost their wands."

"For example, Mr. Nick, the Nearly Headless One from Gryffindor, was captured by Muggles and his wand was taken away. He was unable to escape from the Muggle dungeon and was eventually hacked in the neck with a blunt axe forty times."

When students heard this story in the past, they thought Nick was unlucky and funny, but now they realize the horror behind it.

Just then, they heard a wronged voice:

"Why use me as an example? That's so rude, professor!"

Nick floated away sadly, and several ghosts followed quickly to comfort him.

Everyone then realized that all the ghosts in the school, including Peeves, were attending the class. Peeves rarely made trouble, so everyone ignored his presence.

Professor Abigail paused for a moment, then ignored the episode and patted the thing next to her that was like a telescope.

She said, "This is the Maxim machine gun, an antique invented almost a hundred years ago. Who wants to come up and experience its power?"

The students had not yet recovered from their previous imagination. When they heard this, they thought that Professor Abigail wanted them to face machine gun bullets directly. They were all so scared that they stepped back, fearing that the professor had a wrong understanding of their strength.

Then, Wade, who took a step forward, stood out, and everyone looked at him as if he were a martyr.

"Professor, I'd like to try," Vader said, raising his hand.

He had never come into contact with this kind of battlefield meat grinder, but had only seen it in military museums.

"very good."

Professor Abigail asked Wade to come forward and taught him how to install the canvas belt and adjust the barrel.

Then the professor waved his wand, and on the lawn in the distance, rows of targets stood up, like a crowd of people standing there in a daze.

"You can shoot now," she said.

Vader did so.

"Da da da da..."

Like a series of firecrackers exploding, the bullet belt moved rapidly and the metal shells clanged to the ground.

Wade's arms also trembled rapidly, and he tried to steady his direction to prevent the bullet from flying around.

The target in the distance fell down as quickly as cut wheat.

The students who saw that Vader didn't have to sacrifice themselves just gathered around him, but then fearfully kept their distance. One Hufflepuff student even accidentally tripped while backing away and fell to the ground.

A long belt of bullets was fired in less than a minute. When Wade stood up, he felt the muscles in his arms trembling unconsciously.

Then they heard Professor Abigail's cold voice: "This is the harvester of life. It once killed more than 60,000 people in one day on the battlefield."

"...Sixty thousand?" someone murmured, suspecting that he had heard it wrong.

"That's right," said Professor Abigail. "This machine gun can theoretically fire 600 rounds per minute."

She moved the Maxim machine gun aside and said, "Now, let's look at the others."

Special note: Voldemort did not curse his own name during the first war, but did so in the seventh book. Anyone who called his name would be found by the Death Eaters.

Chapter 247 Are the wizards the lagging party?

Professor Abigail then demonstrated various other weapons.

Rifles, machine guns, sniper rifles, mills bombs, mines.

And there is no way to show it, and people can only understand it through models and videos——

Atomic bombs, intercontinental missiles, white phosphorus bombs, thermobaric bombs, and depleted uranium bombs.

Tanks, fighters, bombers, battleships, aircraft carriers.

Many little wizards who knew nothing about Muggles were shocked again and again. Malfoy couldn't help but say: "Muggles have made so many terrible weapons? Who do they want to fight against?"

The students looked at each other, and finally looked at the Muggle-born students.

Justin Finch-Fletchley of Hufflepuff couldn't help but say: "Don't look at me, I'm just as shocked as you are."

Seamus Finnigan of Gryffindor pretended to know everything and said, "Well, Muggles often go to war, and many Muggle countries are keen on invading other countries, such as... uh..."

He glanced at the professor teaching in front of him and swallowed the rest of his words.

Instead, Professor Abigail herself said: "Yes, for example, the United States. In recent decades, the United States has invaded North Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Libya, Panama, Iraq..."

She looked at the confused looks on most of the students' faces, smiled with a complicated expression, and said, "Those are countries in other parts of the world. Even in Iraq, the US military used depleted uranium weapons."