The years of welding at Hogwarts

The abruptly added self-study classes took up the space in their schedules. It was okay for lower grade students, but it was a disaster for upper grade students whose schedules were already full.

But all this has nothing to do with Noah.

As one of the very few top students who could be given preferential treatment, and the proposer of the Hogwarts education reform plan, he had left himself a loophole and naturally applied to his dean for exemption from self-study classes early on.

Of course, his application was rejected by Snape early on.

Slytherin and Ravenclaw's study sessions are not at the same time. If we let that bastard Noah run away, what if he goes and teases Shirley?

So it was natural that Snape would not agree to his application.

As for the secret deal between the two?

What deal?

Is there such a clause in the transaction?

No!

After hanging out with Noah for a long time, Snape's skin became thicker and his bottom line was lowered a lot.

Of course, this still didn't affect Noah. Even if he skipped the self-study class, the professor on duty that day wouldn't say anything or deduct points from him.

In addition to self-study classes, the opening of new courses also has a great impact on students' study and life.

The first new class was scheduled for Monday morning.

Perhaps because he had finally gotten the course he had longed for, the old bat was in a very good mood, so much so that the place he chose for the class was not as gloomy as before.

The Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom that Quirrell had originally used was naturally abandoned and no longer in use.

Dumbledore was not aware of the workings of the curse that Voldemort had placed on the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor.

but……

When you are in doubt, just follow the methods of metaphysics.

Now that the new name has been adopted, this new course, apart from the fact that the teaching objects are still the same group of Hogwarts students, everything else must be distinguished from the original course.

This is the only way to avoid the curse of the original course to the greatest extent.

Uh, psychologically.

New name, new professor, new classroom, new textbooks, new ideas, new content, new goals...

I, Snape, teach magical offense and defense. What does the curse in the Defense Against the Dark World class have to do with me?

The Great Hall of Hogwarts Castle, where first-year students from the four colleges gathered.

Because the two professors teaching this course also have other courses to take, the four colleges have to be combined when scheduling classes, rather than teaching them separately in pairs as before.

The auditorium at this time has been arranged into a different appearance.

The original four dining tables were moved to the wall, freeing up a large space for the students.

The house-elves in the castle moved all the unused desks and chairs from some classroom, and even used some equipment to raise the desks and chairs in the back row, turning the auditorium into a semi-circular tiered classroom.

The center of the auditorium is arranged as a circular square, or to be more precise, it is more like a fighting arena.

As the school bell rang, the tightly closed door of the auditorium burst open, and Snape walked in with his big black cloak blowing in the wind.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Noah always feels that every strand of the old bat’s flowing black hair is radiating a sense of joy today.

I don't know if it was because the aura of a winner in life that he exuded was so eye-catching that Professor Flitwick who was following behind him was ignored for a moment.

Of course, it could also be that Professor Flitwick's less than 1

A height of .1 meter is a little too inconspicuous.

Although the two professors teach on odd and even weeks, it is reasonable for both professors to appear here at the same time given the importance of the first class.

Professor Flitwick, who looked like a good old man, smiled and handed over the leadership of the course to Snape. According to the original teaching plan, he should have been the one to host the first class of the day.

Snape had no intention of wasting time talking to the students. He just took the student roster and went straight to the point before starting the roll call for this class.

"Ms. Parvati, throw away that useless garbage on your desk."

While calling the roll, Snape did not forget to show off his traditional skills from previous Potions classes -

Poisonous tongue.

Parvati Patil, whose name was called, had to put her original Defense Against the Dark Arts textbook, "Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Defense" by Quentin Trimble, back into her schoolbag in disappointment.

There was a similar textbook on the table in front of Hermione, but perhaps because of Shirley next to her, she was not affected by Snape's sharp tongue.

Standing on the podium at the front, Snape sneered disdainfully.

"Reading books like that is a sheer waste of time."

Hermione's face froze instantly.

"Let's not talk about the fact that the theories in the book are decades outdated. Even if they are not outdated, can you protect yourself from the invasion of black magic with the theoretical knowledge on paper?"

A certain know-it-all lady who had memorized the entire textbook before school started, who decided to teach herself after realizing Quirrell's idiot nature, and who had even memorized the third-grade Defense Against Dark Magic textbook, suddenly blushed.

She felt offended, but she didn't know how to respond.

"I won't teach you how to deal with Red Riding Hoods and Grindylows, which even a five or six-year-old can deal with, just by reading from the book..."

Snape spoke slowly, his eyes slowly scanning the faces of each student in their seats.

When he passed the area where Ravenclaw students gathered, he lingered on it for a few extra seconds.

"In my class, I will only teach you one thing, and that is how to fight!"

He extended an invitation to the goblin professor standing beside him, "Before we officially start teaching, Professor Flitwick and I will show you what a real battle is."

In response to Snape's invitation to fight, Professor Flitwick readily agreed. This was also the content of the lesson that the two had already discussed before the class.

The two people standing in the center of the duel arena began to make arrangements before the battle.

As the wand was waved, lines of protective magic were cast.

In a short while, a hemispherical protective shield was erected, isolating the circular arena from the stands. This was done to prevent the students from being hit by deflected or missed spells.

The two professors put on such a serious look, it seemed that they were serious about it. All the students were immediately aroused. They all sat up straight and stared with their eyes wide open for fear of missing a frame of the picture.

Even Noah's expression became slightly serious. This was the first time he saw the professor use his full strength.

Holding the wand tightly like a sword and raising it to their chest, the two professors' temperament changed in that instant.

He instantly transformed from a amiable professor into a high-spirited fighter, as sharp as a sword drawn from its sheath.

No one counted down, and no one shouted start. The two of them raised their wands over their shoulders at the same time in tacit understanding, and then suddenly swung the wands forward.

Two rays of light, one red and one blue, collided in the air. In the first round of confrontation, neither Snape nor Flitwick had the upper hand.

The next moment, lightning flashed in the auditorium.

When the two professors were fighting, they both tacitly chose to cast spells silently, and neither of them used those advanced spells that required a very long casting time.

Both of them chose conventional magic such as Disarming Spell and Stunning Spell which are available to students, but their casting speed was incredibly fast.

It seemed as if the two were not fighting between two wizards, but between two magic machine guns. Even a sniper confrontation from the center would require pulling the bolt and aiming, but these two did not need to do that at all.

The splashing spells hit the protective shield with a crackling sound. Even with the protection of defensive magic, the students in the front row still felt unsafe and took the initiative to retreat to a distance of seven or eight meters from the protective shield before they stood still.

Everyone stared intently at the fight between the two people in the ring.

This is called fighting!

This is fucking called black magic defense...

Pooh!

This is called magic attack and defense!

Chapter 77 Halloween

The magic offense and defense class jointly taught by Snape and Flitwick instantly became popular throughout Hogwarts.

It's not just because of the exciting demonstration duel between the two in the first class, but the teaching method that is different from the traditional Dark Magic Defense is also one of the major reasons that attracts students.

Under the suggestion of an unnamed Dumbledore who was appointed as the teacher for the next three generations, the new course adopted a new teaching concept of "practice as the main and theory as the auxiliary" for the first time.

According to Noah, students at Hogwarts now have two courses, Charms and Transfiguration, which allow students to learn a lot of magic and spells.

If the newly opened magic attack and defense

If the teaching goal is to let students learn more magic, then there is no need to do this.

Because the aforementioned two courses can already cover the latter's teaching content to a large extent.

Therefore, the most important teaching task of the newly opened magic attack and defense class changed from teaching students magic to -

How to let students make good use of the magic they have mastered to protect themselves.

The so-called wizard duel is nothing more than attacking and defending each other.

If you want to learn how to fight, then learning how to attack is an inevitable step.

For this reason, when students first came into contact with this course, the two professors teaching them asked them to take out their magic wands.

Whether they are senior students who have mastered a variety of offensive and defensive magic, or first-year students who have only mastered the Light Charm and the Unlocking Charm.

The content of their first class is the same, namely——

I stood in front of the alchemical puppet target for two class hours.

Don't think this is an easy task.

In a space as wide as an auditorium, it is not an easy task to hit a puppet that can move around on its own to avoid attacks.

Moreover, the alchemical puppets faced by senior students were additionally engraved with defensive magic patterns.

After all, their offensive power was much stronger than that of the first-year students who could only release a simple magic attack.

This kind of course, where students can cast spells to their heart's content, is the first time that it has appeared in Hogwarts.

It was also because of the emergence of the magic attack and defense course that Dumbledore's image in the students' minds was instantly restored by more than half.

Originally, adding a self-study class, a wicked course, was considered a huge offense in the eyes of conservative students who believed that ancestral laws could not be changed.

Dumbledore's image in the students' minds plummeted after the self-study class.

He only needed to announce a monthly exam mechanism to successfully defeat Phineas Black and become the most unpopular headmaster in the history of Hogwarts.

With Dumbledore's reputation as the greatest white wizard in the wizarding world today, he is highly respected by the people in the wizarding world, but this does not affect students' hatred of him.

All in all, with the great success of the new course of Magic Attack and Defense, the students' studies finally returned to normal for the first time after Qi Luo went offline.

As time goes by, the first important festival of the new semester that students are looking forward to is quietly approaching.

On the morning of Halloween Eve, the students who woke up early in the morning could smell the sweet and tempting pumpkin scent wafting in the castle in their common rooms before they even stepped out of the corridor.

The entire Hogwarts Castle was decorated in Halloween style overnight, with pumpkin lanterns hanging in every corridor and corner.

Some of the pumpkin lanterns were even cast with magic by the costumers in a very malicious way. As long as a student approached within a certain range, a bat or a ghost would come out from inside to scare them.

Groups of ghosts walked in the corridors with happy smiles on their faces.

Holidays like Halloween are undoubtedly the second most important holiday of the year for ghosts who have died long ago.

As for the first one...

That must be the anniversary of their death.

In addition to the happy event of Halloween approaching, there is another thing that makes the first-grade wizards very happy.

Professor Flitwick announces to his class that they can try to use the Levitation Charm to make objects fly.

Flying has always been one of the most basic abilities of wizards.

"Okay, don't forget that subtle wrist move we've been training for the last few months, flick it!"

Professor Flitwick squeaked, standing on his pile of books as usual.

"Remember, swing and shake!"

“It is also very important to recite the mantra correctly!”

Whenever he mentioned the importance of reciting spells correctly, Professor Flitwick would always criticize the wizard Baruffio, who accidentally invented the Bull-Summoning Spell.

The story comes from the fact that the wizard Baruffio pronounced the 'f' as 's' when he was chanting a spell.

His magic was successfully performed, but after he finished reciting the spell, he felt a little pain in his chest. When he looked up, he found that a bison that was summoned out of thin air had stepped on his chest and kicked him to the ground.

Professor Flitwick distributed feathers one by one and then asked the students to start trying.