The years of welding at Hogwarts

Even though the doors and windows of the classroom were tightly closed, blocking the entry of hot air from the outside, and there was a constant freezing spell that was roughly equivalent to an air conditioner that continuously emitted cold air out, the students sitting in the classroom were still sweating profusely.

Because at this moment they are going through their end-of-year exams for this school year.

Thanks to a certain Slytherin imp who wishes to remain anonymous and who is born evil, the quality of students at Hogwarts has greatly improved compared to previous years.

Thanks to the implementation of the monthly examination system, the frequency of examinations once a month allows professors to have a more accurate grasp of students' learning situation.

Coupled with Noah's suggestions on focusing on wrong questions and filling in the gaps, students' weaker knowledge can be better compensated in the explanation of test questions after the test.

This is much better than previous teaching situations where professors were only focused on catching up with the teaching progress.

Stopping appropriately to review previous knowledge will not slow down the original teaching progress. Instead, it will allow students to consolidate their basics and absorb new knowledge at a faster rate.

This also means that the students at Hogwarts today have much more knowledge than students of the same period in the past.

Among them, the more diligent and studious Ravenclaw youngsters, under the leadership of Hermione, the number one test taker at Hogwarts, have already learned the textbooks for the next school year through self-study and consulting professors.

For example, Transfiguration.

The first and second year Transfiguration textbooks at Hogwarts are the same, both of which are "The Elementary Transfiguration Guide" written by Emeric Switch.

This means that first-year students who want to preview second-year knowledge do not have to go to Diagon Alley to buy new teaching materials.

Of course, the corresponding year-end examinations are much more difficult than in previous years. After all, if a test is so simple that everyone in Hogwarts can get full marks, then it will not be able to test the students' true level.

The final exam for first-year Transfiguration was the same as in previous years. Professor McGonagall asked them to transform a mouse into a snuff box.

In previous years, as long as students could complete the most basic transformation operations, the snuff box would still retain most of the mouse characteristics, such as a mouse tail sticking out.

Such performance was good enough to get an "Acceptable" rating from Professor McGonagall, which meant passing.

Only those who are unable to complete the transformation operation will receive a grade below [Poor].

But this year, the older cat girl has greatly raised her scoring standards.

As long as there is even a trace of mouse characteristics on the snuff box, even just a tiny mouse whisker, I'm sorry, you can only get a [Poor].

The Hogwarts exams are not based on the familiar scoring system, but on a stage-by-stage scoring system, which is divided into six levels:

【Outstanding】means outstanding and perfect.

【ExceedsExpectations】, beyond expectations.

【Acceptable】means passing or acceptable.

【Poor】 means failing, which means the result looks a bit pitiful.

【Dreadful】means awful. If I must give an example, without Hermione as the brain supporting the group, their results would be about the same as this now.

[Troll] means troll, which is Snape's most common phrase: Your brain is not as good as a troll!

If you want to get a good grade in Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration test, you must add various exquisite patterns and decorations to the snuff bottle while completing a complete transformation process.

But a snuff bottle alone cannot get the highest score [Outstanding].

In terms of giving grades, Professor McGonagall followed Noah's advice, which was not to give the highest evaluation easily.

If students want to get the "O" which represents the highest score, they must complete the previous basic assessment and then pass the hidden assessment specially set up by Professor McGonagall for those students with outstanding performance.

All Chinese students will be familiar with the following words printed on the back of the test paper after the last question...

Additional questions.

Turning a mouse into a snuff bottle is just a relatively simple operation in the introductory art of Transfiguration. The transformation of inanimate objects into each other and the transformation of living things into inanimate objects are just basic content that a first-grade wizard can learn and master.

Professor McGonagall's additional question for the first-year wizards is to maintain the rat snuff

While the pot is deforming, you can also use your mind to deform other things.

If you want to maintain the effect of Transfiguration, you can't simply throw the magic power away and leave it alone.

Multiple transformations require students to spend a lot of energy to carefully maintain their transformation effects. This is not a big problem for senior students, but it is still a difficult test for first-year wizards.

Even in Ravenclaw House, which is full of top students, only a few people completed the additional question posed by Professor McGonagall.

In addition to Transfiguration, courses such as Charms and Potions have also increased the difficulty of the original assessments.

In the past, the end-of-year examination for first-year Potions students was to prepare the Forgetfulness Potion. This time, Snape directly included the Swelling Potion, which students would only learn in their second year, into the examination.

There were fifty or sixty cauldrons standing in the cold potion classroom. Snape, wearing his unchanging black battle robe, looked like a giant bat flapping its wings as it patrolled its territory, shuttling back and forth in the smoke.

Looking at the chopping boards, kitchen knives and a series of kitchen utensils on the tables in front of the students, Snape, who was not quite accepting this novel innovation but had to admit that they were indeed very useful, twitched his expressionless face slightly.

Damn, ever since that bastard came to Hogwarts, the style of this school has been getting weirder by the day.

Snape felt a little melancholy. Sometimes he felt that he was no longer a potion master. He looked like an old Cantonese chef who was making soup as he stood by the cauldron with a spoon in his hand.

The white smoke wafting from the simmering crucible no longer exudes the fragrance of potion ingredients, but the aroma of a specially prepared broth made from a variety of high-quality ingredients.

The fluid flowing into people's blood vessels is no longer filled with the mysterious magic that makes people's hearts and minds dizzy.

Rather, it is the purine, amino acids and fat that continuously seep out from the ingredients during the simmering process...

Thinking of me Snape, half a liter of purine, I haven't met...

It would be better if I were not the professor of Potions!

Starting today, strike!

Chapter 211: Hagrid? Aquaman!

All the subjects were raising their score lines crazily, except for Professor Binns' History of Magic, which remained consistent.

When the exam time for the last test, History of Magic, was over and Mr. Binns asked the students to put down their quills and hand in their answer parchments, the whole Hogwarts was shrouded in a sea of ​​joy.

The end of History of Magic marks the beginning of a wonderful holiday.

As soon as he finished the exam, Noah went straight to visit Hagrid.

In the lonely rude hut outside the castle, Hagrid was busy in front of the stove, wearing an oversized dragon-skin apron that matched his body, humming an unknown tune.

The big bootlicker Lu Wei was squatting at his feet, maintaining his cute dog state under the shrinking potion, drooling from his open mouth, obviously waiting for Hagrid to feed him.

Even though he had become a little familiar with the place, the coward Yaya still huddled in a corner of the room trembling under the pressure of the three-headed dog's terrifying bloodline that had a strong inhibitory effect on its kind. He clearly wanted to go up and share some dog food, but he didn't dare to move.

Duh! Duh! Duh!

A huge boning knife flew up and down in Hagrid's hand. The half-giant's extraordinary strength allowed him to easily smash a large meat bone on the iron chopping board in half with one cut.

Yes, it was smashed, not split.

After breaking the bone, he picked it up casually. The bone, whose shape and size matched Lu Wei's bloody mouth, drew a beautiful parabola in the air and fell accurately into Lu Wei's dog's mouth.

Noah scratched his head as he watched the complete skeleton of a cow disappear into Louie's bottomless dog's mouth in less than three minutes.

All I do every day is eat.

Fortunately, Hydra is a big family, and if it is just one three-headed dog, even if they add Fawkes, they can afford to raise it.

Hearing the door open behind him, the half-blood giant who was happily smashing the cow bones turned around and said, "It's you, Noah. Have you finished the exam? I heard from Harry that this year's exam is particularly difficult?"

Noah waved his hand casually, "It's not difficult, it's just like that."

It's just the final exam for the first grade. If I can't easily get full marks in all subjects except History of Magic, how can I have the nerve to call myself the Sorcerer Supreme of Kamar-Taj?

He found a sofa in Hagrid's hut and sat down on it, not considering himself an outsider at all. Of course, given the relationship between him and Hagrid, there was no need to be so particular.

The half-giant wasn't as formal as normal people. "There's tea in the kettle. Pour it yourself."

As he said that, the half-blood giant, who had not yet finished feeding Lu Wei lunch, turned around and started smashing the meat bones aggressively.

Looking at Hagrid with his back turned, Noah stated directly his purpose.

"Hagrid, I plan to take Fluffy away during the summer vacation."

Hearing Noah's words, Hagrid, who was originally smashing bones, stopped the knife in his hand halfway in the air.

It took him a while to turn around, as if he was trying to digest this unacceptable topic. His voice sounded a little more dull than before, "Lu Wei is here.

Isn’t it good to live here? Besides, the Muggle world…”

Noah felt helpless when he saw the burly mixed-blood giant suddenly put on such a pitiful look as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

"Lu Wei's learning progress is too slow. I didn't have time to teach him in person before, so now he can't even remember all 26 English letters."

When it comes to studying, Hagrid's expression is a little embarrassed. The giants as a race are not the ones who love studying.

When God opens a window for you, he will also close a door for you. The window that is opened for the giants is their extremely strong physical strength and physique, while the door that is closed is their IQ.

Fortunately, the purebred giants only think about eating, drinking, killing, killing and fucking.

Otherwise, facing such a race whose physical strength was far superior to most creatures in the magic world, even a fire dragon could only fight it on equal terms. At the same time, it also possessed extremely strong magical power, and its wisdom could also support them in creating a highly developed magical civilization...

Where in the world is there still room for humans and other creatures?

It is precisely because of the giants' savagery and lack of social organization ability that the highest level of civilization they can develop to is the tribe.

Moreover, they were unable to organize any decent resistance in front of humans who were always united when facing foreign enemies. The giant tribes that fought each other eventually ended up being driven by wizards into the deep mountains and forests to survive.

If wizards had not believed that it was necessary to maintain species diversity, there would have been no giants in the world by now.

Hagrid's situation is slightly better than the pure-bred giants. The half human blood in his body gives him wisdom, but learning is still an extremely painful thing for him.

He also knew that he was not cut out for it, let alone being a professor to teach others knowledge. It was too much of an honor to ask him to teach Lou Williams something.

"All right……"

Upon hearing such an impeccable reason, Hagrid could only nod silently in agreement.

After all, Dumbledore's bird has already learned Animagus, while Fluffy hasn't even memorized the alphabet. They are both 5X-level magical creatures. Isn't the gap too big?

"Actually, you don't have to be so sad," Noah grinned, "If you don't mind, you can come and stay with me for a while during the summer vacation. You can still continue to live with Lu Wei."

Hagrid's dim eyes suddenly brightened up again. "Really?"

But when Hagrid, the old scumbag, thought of his forest full of little cuties, and was unwilling to give up the entire forest for a tree, he gave up this wonderful idea after a fierce ideological struggle.

"Well, I think I should just go visit Lu Wei once in a while. After all, he will be back in two months, right?"

"That's fine," Noah nodded with a smile. As for whether Lu Wei would cause any trouble living in the non-magical world, you can rest assured about that."

With the wealth of the Hydra Lord, wouldn't it be easy for him to just buy tens of thousands of acres of land in the wilderness for Lu Wei to transform into his complete form and run wild?

Even if they don't buy land, their wizards still have cheating methods such as the Traceless Extension Charm.

When Noah was treating Shirley before, he had a very happy chat with old man Newt. If Noah wrote to the old man asking for a box to keep Fluffy, old man Newt would definitely not be stingy with just a small suitcase.

Chapter 212 Year-end Dinner and Season Settlement

“Another year has passed!”

On the second night after the end-of-year exams for all courses were over, Dumbledore stood on the podium in the auditorium with a rostrum, his face beaming, his eyes full of pride as he looked at the students below.

As a principal, nothing makes him happier than seeing his students perform extremely well.

After the exams ended yesterday afternoon, because the Hogwarts faculty team had three more professors to help than originally planned, the students' test scores were all counted in just one morning, and the corresponding transcripts were distributed to each young wizard.

"Before you enjoy these delicious dishes, I must trouble you to listen to an old man's clichés."

Dumbledore's tone revealed an irrepressible joy, and from his tone it could be heard that Hogwarts' educational work this year was obviously much more outstanding than in previous years.

"What a year it's been! You all must have a lot more in your little heads than in the past."

"You have a whole summer vacation ahead of you. You can digest all that stuff before the next semester starts, and free up your brain..."

Having said this, Dumbledore, who was originally speaking happily, suddenly stopped talking and cast a slightly resentful look at the figure sitting next to the Slytherin table.

Before announcing the official start of the last dinner of the school year, he still had one thing to do, which was to announce the final winner of the House Cup for this semester.

At this moment, the hall has been decorated with green and silver, representing Slytherin. This decoration also announces the identity of the winner of the House Cup - Slytherin House.

"now

Now, we have to hold the awards ceremony for the College Cup first.”

Dumbledore sighed silently in his heart. Ever since he entered the review month of Hogwarts, which was June, he had been thinking all the time about how to secretly manipulate the situation and send the house cup to Gryffindor.

But unfortunately, his most beloved savior classmate is now a complete pile of useless mud.

There are a total of 78 first-year students at Hogwarts, and Harry Potter ranks 61st in the year-end assessment of this school year...

In Gryffindor House, the only ones with worse grades than him were his roommates Seamus Finnigan and Ron Weasley, who ranked 69th and 73rd respectively.

Let’s take a look at the performance of these three people in their colleges.

Harry had never been caught for night walks after getting the invisibility cloak, but he was targeted terribly in Snape's class. In one semester, he was deducted more than 150 points in Snape's class alone.

Seamus, the explosion maniac, would cause explosions of varying sizes in any course that required the use of a wand. Although the points deducted from him were not as many as Harry's, they were not much different.