The years of welding at Hogwarts

The job seekers will stay tonight in Hogsmeade village next to Hogwarts.

Tomorrow morning, the four lucky admitted students will receive their employment letters delivered by owls. As for the others who have not received the letters, they can only say goodbye to Hogwarts with regret.

There were obviously fewer people in the auditorium on Monday night than on Sunday night. After all, only four of the more than two hundred job seekers who came for the interview stayed.

If we consider the intensity of the competition when Noah was taking the civil service examination and postgraduate examination, it would only be considered so-so.

But if it is placed in the sparsely populated British wizarding world, it would be a very explosive existence.

Even in the iron rice bowl of the Ministry of Magic, there has never been a situation where more than 400 people are competing for four positions.

When the students had finished their dinner, Dumbledore stood up and looked around the hall seriously. Everyone was looking curiously at the four figures that appeared at the faculty table.

Everyone wanted to know what was going on, and no one said anything, just staring at Dumbledore quietly.

“Starting this week, our school will welcome four new professors to join our team. They will replace our four deans and teach four courses from first to third year.”

After a pause, seeing that the students in the audience did not look surprised at this, Dumbledore continued:

"The first one is Professor Albert Bryan. He will be the one teaching Potions to the lower grade students. At the same time, Mr. Noah Shafrin will no longer continue to teach the first grade courses as an acting professor."

“As for me

The second professor we appointed..."

When Dumbledore introduced these junior professors, the students' response was not very enthusiastic.

For lower-level students, they have become accustomed to the teaching methods of the previous deans, and they don’t know what the teaching level of the new professors is. Anyway, no matter what, they can never compare with the deans.

As for the senior students, the addition of new professors means that their dean can greatly free up his own time and start to torture himself with those so-called crappy monthly exams.

This was not good news for all the students at Hogwarts. It was impossible for them to happily welcome the four new professors.

What makes the first-year students feel even more regretful is that the devil professor Shafulin, whom they love and hate, will never give them physical education classes again.

"The last one is Professor Remus Lupin, who will be filling the vacancy in Charms."

Among the four new professors, Remus Lupin was the one dressed the most shabby. His robe was patched in several places, and he looked sick and exhausted.

Although he is in the same class as Snape, he still looks very young, but it depends on who he is compared with.

If compared with Snape, he looked like he was a whole generation older than Snape, with strands of white hair mixed in his brown hair.

From the beginning of the dinner, Snape's eyes had been staring at Lupin, who was seven or eight seats away from him in the middle of the long faculty table. The negative emotions revealed in his black eyes had obviously gone beyond disgust and reached the level of hatred.

This suddenly aroused some interest among the students who were not very interested in the new professor.

They were eager to know whether there was any unpleasant past or some complicated grudges between Professor Snape and Professor Lupin.

"At the same time, I want to announce another good news to everyone."

Dumbledore looked at the students in front of him with a smile, "After a unanimous discussion between me and several deans, we have decided that first-year students will not attend classes for the first month after the start of the school year at Hogwarts."

"The original course time will be taken up by a special event lasting one month."

When the students in the auditorium heard that they could skip classes, they wanted to cheer, but the qualifier in front of them made them hold back the cheers that were already on the tip of their tongues.

A freshman?

Doesn’t that mean it has nothing to do with old students like them?

Even for the first-year students now, they have already spent most of the school year. It is impossible for Dumbledore to let them suspend classes for a month at this time.

At this moment, the quiet auditorium was suddenly filled with the noisy sound of students whispering to each other.

Dumbledore had to stand up and clap his hands for the students to be quiet before he could continue.

"Considering that none of you here have participated in this activity before, when Hogwarts welcomes the new school year, you will participate in this special event together with the first-year students of the next school year."

Dumbledore's words caused the students sitting in the hall to start discussing excitedly in low voices.

At the Gryffindor table, the twin brothers cheered loudly, shouting "Long live Professor Dumbledore!"

After all, whether he is a Muggle or a wizard, as long as he is a student, it is difficult for him not to be happy about not having to go to class for a month, unless he is mentally ill.

Every student was guessing what the special activity would be that would occupy their time for a whole month.

"If we don't have to go to class, can we sleep until noon every day and spend the whole afternoon practicing Quidditch or playing wizard chess or something?"

George Weasley immediately began to imagine their wonderful campus life after September this year.

Looking at the smiles on the faces of the students around him that were full of beautiful visions for the future, Noah's mouth corners gradually rose, "What a bunch of naive guys."

Sleep until you wake up naturally every day, and have a great time at night?

An extremely relaxing and comfortable free time life, no classes or homework to do?

Want to spend a whole day having fun in the castle?

If Noah didn't want to spoil the plot in advance and give these naive guys a big surprise, he really wanted to tell them that the kind of life they are fantasizing about now does not exist.

By September next year, these currently carefree guys will know what it means to be dominated by the fear of military training.

Every grain of rice has mud on it, who will give you a bag of rice?

Chapter 187 Polyjuice Potion and Animagus

In addition to the fact that the lower-grade students would welcome several new professors to replace the deans to teach and mark their homework, Dumbledore dropped another bombshell in the hall.

"Besides, there is another thing."

"After a period of discussion, the deans and I have unanimously decided to connect several abandoned classrooms on the second floor of Hogwarts Castle and open them to all students as a wizard duel arena."

Wizard duel arena?

This word can be understood literally, it is a place dedicated to wizard duels.

So, does Hogwarts have to open a place like this specifically for students to have wizard duels?

Or maybe use this venue as a classroom for magic attack and defense classes, so that they can improve their combat skills through wizard duels in class?

Whatever the case, this so-called wizard dueling arena sounds like an awesome place.

This immediately made the students in the audience excited.

So much so that Professor McGonagall had to pick up a spoon and tap the goblet in front of her, making a tinkling sound, before the students could reluctantly quiet down.

But even so, the students in the entire auditorium were still in a state of extreme excitement, especially the Slytherin little snakes who had already begun to imagine themselves killing everyone in the duel arena.

Speaking of...

Will the duel arena launch a competitive ranking list?

For example, it can display your own record, how many games you win, how many games you lose, the highest number of consecutive wins, etc.

In the huge hall, Madam Pomfrey was the only one with a frown on her face. As a healer, she obviously did not want to see such a place where there was a high possibility of students getting hurt.

If possible, she would like to cancel all the courses at Hogwarts and replace them all with her healing classes - only teaching students how to protect and heal themselves.

Any other content that may cause the slightest harm will not be taught.

"Wizard duels are dangerous. Even the lowest level of curses can cause serious harm to others. This is why we have set up the dueling field next to the school infirmary."

After making a little joke, Dumbledore brought the topic back to the rules of the dueling arena.

"In view of this situation, the wizard duel field is currently only open to students in the third year and above, excluding the third year."

As he finished speaking, the students in the three grades that did not meet the requirements began to grumble in dissatisfaction.

"Except for classes that require it, the duel field is only open on weekends, and students must be supervised by a professor when they participate in a duel."

"Students are strictly prohibited from dueling without the supervision of professors. Violators will be severely punished. If you don't want to cause serious injuries or deaths to your classmates due to accidents, it's best not to violate the rules easily."

……

The arrival of several new professors and the opening of the dueling arena did not actually bring about much change to the students' campus life.

For students below the third year, even if the professors who teach their classes are replaced by new professors who are not so experienced, the impact is not that big considering the difficulty of their current courses.

It can even be said that there is no impact at all.

After all, these four professors were able to stay because they were carefully selected from a large number of people. Even if they lack teaching experience, they would not be as bad as Quirrell.

For senior students, even if there is an additional mock exam for all subjects once a month, it is not a big deal as long as they get used to it.

On the contrary, after each mock exam, the professors will bring back the mistakes they made during the exam to the class so that they can review the original knowledge points again.

This is actually a more beneficial thing for them than continuing to bury themselves in learning new knowledge.

Only when the foundation is laid firmly can the subsequent construction of buildings be easier and more stable.

As for the dueling arena, although Lao Deng said it was ready to open, given his efficiency, he hasn't even set a specific date yet. It is possible that the dueling arena will not be opened before the end of this school year.

……

In Snape's office.

"Gurgling..."

A syrupy thick decoction was bubbling in a cauldron.

After stirring it three times, Noah observed the final color of the decoction, nodded with satisfaction, and then extinguished the magic fire that was still burning under the crucible.

Snape stood aside with his arms folded, glancing at Noah's final result expressionlessly.

"The quality is okay." He said lightly.

What kind of quality is this?

This pot of Polyjuice Potion is in perfect condition, isn't it?

However, Noah basically didn't expect to get any praise from Snape for his sharp tongue. Too lazy to debate with Snape, he simply scooped up the decoction and put it into glass bottles and sealed them separately.

The amount of this pot of soup is enough for him to fill twenty or thirty bottles.

If used properly, it could not only help him complete his Animagus training, but the remaining amount could also allow Bucky to disguise himself as him and sneak into Hogwarts to attend classes in his place.

Taking out a strand of hair of an unknown animal from his arms, Noah's hand hovered over the glass containing Polyjuice Potion.

"Old Si, what do you think would happen if I used Fox's tail feathers?"

Snape looked at Noah calmly and said, "Then you will most likely become a birdman and will never be able to change back. I really want to see what that looks like. Why don't you try it?"

Try and die.

It would be strange if Noah fell for the old bat's despicable instigation.

It is not impossible to add Fox's tail feathers to the compound decoction.

But if he wanted to drink this stuff, he needed to take precautions first to ensure that he could return to his original appearance.

But that is something that Noah cannot do now. This insurance requires a crucial alchemical tool -

Time converter.

Before getting the time turner, Noah thought he should start with the simplest one, which was also the lowest danger level at which Madam Pomfrey could rescue him.

"What did you put in it?"

Looking at the potion that made a loud noise and boiled like a pot of boiling water after the hair was added, even Snape couldn't help but wonder what kind of trouble Noah, this big moth, would cause.

"Wait until I drink it, and you'll see the effect."

Noah shook the glass in his hand, "Would you like to have a sip too?"

Snape stayed away from the cup of abnormal potion in Noah's hand, which no one would drink except a patient who had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage for ten years.

Let Noah enjoy this thing himself.

I heard that the taste of Polyjuice Potion is a bit like goblin urine. Although Noah felt nauseous, he had to pinch his nose for the sake of his Animagus, tilt his head back and gulp the Polyjuice Potion down his stomach.

Although it only took a moment for the decoction to pass through his throat, Noah's face still turned green.

He felt as if he had eaten a devil fruit from the next world, and his originally tough internal organs began to churn at the extremely unpleasant taste.

"If you spit it out, you've wasted the drink."

Snape's "kind reminder" made Noah swallow back the sour water in his throat, and his handsome face was distorted at this moment.

A burning sensation spread rapidly from his stomach throughout his body, reaching his fingers and toes.

Then, there was a terrible melting feeling, as if his skin was bubbling like hot wax.

Noah found it a rather novel experience to see the hair on his arms becoming thicker and growing wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The hair on his head, which was not short to begin with, grew backwards madly under the effect of the polyjuice potion, and his mouth began to stretch forward, with the muscles of his face being stretched long at this moment.

"Old Si, do you want to try it too? It's really fun."