The years of welding at Hogwarts

Gwen raised an eyebrow, "You think so highly of them?"

"Aren't you too?"

……

Thanks to the twins' extraordinary powers, the time when these Hogwarts students fell into the food crisis was not the first night of their survival in the Forbidden Forest as Buggy had initially calculated.

Instead, I held on until noon of the third day.

Faced with scarce food resources, two different opinions soon emerged among the students of Hogwarts.

The first voice is that everyone has to rely on their own abilities. Those who are able to leave the camp to hunt can form a team and go out on their own. Whether they can hunt food depends entirely on their own abilities.

The students who hold this idea are mainly senior students with higher combat capabilities in the two sophisticated and selfish colleges of Slytherin and Ravenclaw.

In their view, even if they ignored those students who were unable to hunt, the professors would certainly not sit idly by and watch these vulnerable students without food.

In such a situation, why should they bother to care about other people?

It is already difficult for them to live in this dangerous forbidden forest.

This group of students, mainly led by Marcus Flint, the captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team, is a group of students with relatively low moral standards.

And, more importantly,

On the first day of the military training, Professor McGonagall explained to them that their teams would be graded after the one-month activity.

However, Professor McGonagall did not explain to them in detail the specific basis for the scoring. She just said that the ability differences caused by age differences would be eliminated so that every student could get a fair and just scoring result.

So, what exactly do professors base their grades on?

This is worth thinking about for students.

Is it to see how each of them performs in this event?

This may be a relatively easy scoring scheme.

Moreover, isn’t this wilderness survival operation meant to enable their senior students to perform well?

In the previous magic posture training and Kamar-Taj secret arts learning sessions, the senior students' understanding of magic had already been formed during their years of schooling as they studied standard spells.

When they came into contact with a completely new magic system, they were no longer blank slates, and those who were unfamiliar with magic were no longer

For the young wizard who is still ignorant, there is no advantage at all.

Their knowledge of magic actually became a burden to them when they were learning the secrets of Kamar-Taj.

Moreover, because he has been accustomed to relying on the wand for many years, the magic power flowing in his blood has become stable due to the training and control over the past few years.

Therefore, when training in magic postures, it is more difficult for them to enter into a state of selfless and highly concentrated mind than for those little wizards whose magic power is still in an extremely active state and who may have a magic riot if they are slightly excited.

Perhaps the first two steps were specially designed by professors because they took into account that the lower-grade students were not as good as their senior students in terms of their reserves of magical knowledge and the number of spells they mastered.

Students of different age groups will have a link in which they have an advantage. As long as we grasp the weight of each link in the final total score, we can give each student a relatively fair and just score.

Just like it is now.

Now it was the Forbidden Forest Survival Challenge session and it was time for the senior students to take the advantage.

This was the conclusion reached by the clever little eagles of Ravenclaw College after careful consideration of the professors' arrangements.

This conclusion was also recognized by many senior Slytherins.

They all took it for granted that since this was a link where they had an advantage, they should seize the opportunity to perform well and strive to make their grade team surpass other grades in scoring.

As for the professors not announcing the scoring criteria for this part?

That’s not a problem. After all, isn’t the final score based on performance?

In this dark forest full of dangers and struggling to survive, what could be better than relying on your own abilities to obtain sufficient resources and live a well-off life, and what could better demonstrate your abilities?

Almost all the little snakes who have always believed that the strong have everything have recognized this truth. Although the little eagles, as sophisticated egoists, did not behave as nakedly as the snake house next door, their actions also reflected their thoughts.

The majority of students in Gryffindor and Hufflepuff houses hold different opinions.

They are mainly represented by big brothers like Charlie who have a strong sense of family responsibility.

As the oldest of the Weasleys who are still in school, Charlie naturally has the responsibility to take care of his younger siblings.

His view was unanimously recognized and followed by many students in Hufflepuff and Gryffindor, which were relatively united compared to the other two houses.

But what is more surprising is that Gemma Farley, who was once the head of Slytherin house and the big sister of Snake House, chose to stand in the same camp with Charlie, who was from her old rival college.

Looking at the little snakes who believed in class confrontation and the law of the jungle huddling together, packing up their luggage and swaggering out of the camp, Gemma shook her head indifferently.

These stupid guys.

Don’t they understand the significance of the professors setting up this event that involves the entire grade?

Forget it, just let them be.

……

Influenced by Gemma Farley, those students who joined Kamar-Taj chose to join the two of them. As for the remaining students, most of the senior students of Gryffindor and Hufflepuff could not sit idly by and watch their younger classmates.

Only the arrogant raven Ravenclaw and the venomous snake Slytherin chose to stand by and watch, splitting from the senior team and forming two distinct groups with the other students.

Led by a capable woman like Gemma Farley, the team led by the Kamar-Taj branch at Hogwarts quickly surveyed the terrain within a ten-kilometer radius around the camp, and drew a resource distribution map around the camp based on their reconnaissance results.

With the help of the resource distribution map, although their team's harvest was not very sufficient, it was maintained at a level that could keep everyone at the level of food and clothing.

While the senior students were out hunting at great risk, the junior students were not idle either.

The Digging House, bah, the little badgers of Hufflepuff House relied on their own house's advantage in herbology and reclaimed and planted relatively safe barren land around the camp.

When they used the magic that was originally used to assist the growth of magical plants on some vegetable varieties with shorter growth cycles, these Hufflepuff students were surprised to find that magic can actually be used like this?

With the massive outpouring of magic power, only five days later, the lower grade students reaped their first harvest.

On the premise that the professors did not restrict the scope of their activities, the team led by Gemma and Charlie also allocated a part of the personnel.

For example, Gemini, who is a master of seeking death, took the third and fourth grade students to the Black Lake to fish and catch shrimps and crabs as an additional supplement to their food.

With Professor McGonagall's tacit approval, other professors in the school turned a blind eye to these people leaving the Forbidden Forest.

Strictly speaking, they did not leave the Forbidden Forest.

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The Black Lake on the edge of the castle is quite large, and has a long border with the equally vast Forbidden Forest.

As long as these students did not leave the Forbidden Forest openly and head to the Black Lake from the direction of the Quidditch pitch, but instead went to the Black Lake along the streams in the Forbidden Forest that flowed into the Black Lake, then they would have no right to do anything.

Of course, the professors did not just ignore everything. They just quietly assigned a few people to keep an eye on them to make sure these naughty kids who loved to seek death did not drown in the Black Lake while diving for crabs.

After all, Black Lake is not a safe place. There may be countless Grindylows hidden in the dense aquatic plants.

Those mutant octopuses with a strong K-style appearance have worrying combat effectiveness on land. Even a five-year-old child can easily break their fragile fingers.

But in the water, in these guys' home turf, their fighting power is no joke.

In other words, the twin brothers were quite crazy and used the scrap metal recycled from Iron Overlord as well as some of their own stock materials.

The two of them used Transfiguration to build a temporary blacksmith furnace in the camp and started working as blacksmiths.

Without understanding the structure of bellows or knowing how to use a fierce fire, he used the magic of Whirlwind to replace the bellows to blow air into the blacksmith's furnace, and combined with the fire spell to heat the metal to the point where it could be shaped.

The two brothers spent three days making six sets of medieval-style heavy armor and armed a squad of heavy infantry.

Then he spent another two days using the remaining materials to make a pair of protective diving suits for each of them, which could be used to defend against Grindylow's claws underwater.

In this way, their team finally got back on track in terms of production activities.

……

Nearly a thousand students at Hogwarts were divided into two factions with different opinions. Noah, whose original intention was to make these students learn to unite, did not intervene in the students' actions.

Every day in the camp, what he did was to rely on his current turkey form to step on others under his feet.

Well, in the physical sense.

He had stepped on the heads of every professor in the school, even Snape.

I don’t know if it’s because I look like a young phoenix that other people’s vigilance has been lowered. The gloomy old bat always looks like he’s worried that his precious goddaughter will be abducted by the little yellow-haired boy.

When he was still in human form, as long as he approached within five meters of Shirley, no matter what Snape was doing, he would stop what he was doing and turn his attention to himself.

Once he got within two meters of Shirley, Snape's eyes would begin to wander to various vital parts of his body, especially the important part of his lower body.

If I had physical contact with Shirley...

Even if the two were just walking side by side and accidentally bumped into each other's shoulders because the road was narrow, this eerie old bat would appear in front of the two as if a summoning spell had been triggered, and use the skill "Old Father's Death Gaze" to separate the two.

But when Noah was in the form of a phoenix, even when he was standing on Shirley's shoulders and was caught by this naughty witch with dirty hands and was stroking him wildly, and even rubbing his cheeks wildly, Snape just looked calm.

He was completely different from the worried old father who was worried that his precious goddaughter might be kidnapped by the yellow-haired boy.

Lying quietly on Shirley's thighs, Noah was using the lap pillow that he had not been able to enjoy in his previous two lives, while also comfortably receiving the massage service from the little beaver.

Ahem, proper massage.

Glancing at the gloomy senior Slytherin and Ravenclaw students sitting by the bonfire in the distance, a hint of human mockery emerged on Noah's phoenix face.

Although these students were able to bring back enough prey to fill their stomachs in the first few days.

But as all the prey near the camp were hunted down by the hunting parties outside, if they wanted to get food again, they would need to advance deeper into the dangerous forbidden forest.

Although in terms of high-level combat power, each of them has the ability to leave the camp and hunt deep in the Forbidden Forest, which gives them an advantage in numbers over the Kamar-Taj team.

But there was no inventive genius like the twin brothers in their team, nor was there any logistical support personnel who could stay in the camp to do all the work for them except hunting.

More importantly, even though they had the same idea, they were not able to unite as completely as the team led by Charlie and Gemma.

They are composed of small teams of three to six people and act separately.

Everyone is afraid that their performance will not be as good as others, so when they are surveying the terrain and exploring for resources, they will not share the intelligence they obtain with other small teams.

Many times, their time is wasted on meaningless internal conflicts.

When the prey resources within a three-kilometer radius of the camp dropped to a certain level, for several days in a row, the students could only take in enough nutrition to barely support their basic

The lowest level of activity.

The reversal of the situation occurred on the tenth day of survival in the Forbidden Forest.

……

Originally, this day should have been the end of the Forbidden Forest Survival Challenge. According to Noah's previous plan, the students would enter the next stage of training after this day.

However, at this point in the military training, there is actually nothing more to practice.

It was nothing more than selecting those students who had shown talent in learning the secret arts of Kamar-Taj, and letting them study on their own the magical knowledge that Noah brought from the neighboring universe.

As for those who haven't been able to create any sparks yet, they continue to train their magical postures and gather on the Quidditch field every day to practice military boxing and the like.

There is not much meaning in such training.

The secret arts of Kamar-Taj can be taught at any time, and magical postures can be trained independently at any time.

On the contrary, what kind of measures will the two factions split due to different opinions and the egoistic faction take when they are in trouble, and what kind of ending will this Forbidden Forest Survival Challenge develop into in the end, this is what attracts the most attention and is the most meaningful to study.

That morning, the camp was once again filled with the intoxicating aroma of food.

Thanks to a certain Mr. Shafrin who wishes to remain anonymous, most second-year students at Hogwarts are good cooks.

Even the little lions who extremely hated Potions, or to be more precise, hated Old Bat, the Potions professor, still messed up the potions under Old Bat's sonic attack during Potions class.

But letting them cook soup in such a relaxed environment with the cauldron originally used for making potions was an act that was considered unorthodox for Snape, but every little lion enjoyed it very much.

They were all happy to see the old bat's blood pressure rise.

One result of this is that the cooking skills of the little lions have improved rapidly. Even the little badgers from Hufflepuff House, who are mostly foodies, have to admit defeat when facing these Gryffindor top chefs trained by Noah himself.

Looking at the team of girls from the Hogwarts branch of Kamar-Taj next door, everyone was devouring a wide variety of sumptuous breakfast.

But I could only eat the leftovers from last night.

Those selfish students, who were already emaciated from hunger, all revealed vicious gleams of jealousy and even resentment in their eyes.

Fortunately, this kind of torture is finally coming to an end.

After breakfast, the professors should announce the next stage of training, right?

The fastest scenario would be that after finishing the morning training, they could return to the spacious hall of Hogwarts Castle at noon and enjoy the delicious food prepared for them by the house-elves.

At the latest you only have to wait until tonight, not tomorrow morning.

Even though they still stayed in the Forbidden Forest for dinner tonight, after returning to the castle at night they could go to the castle's kitchen and order the elves to make them a midnight snack.