Just a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor

"It's probably the two Weasley brothers who gave Harry this map when they saw that he couldn't go to Hogsmeade this year."

Lupine guessed the reason.

He said as he stood up from the chair, put on his coat, and got ready to go out.

Sherlock stared at the Marauder's Map and said thoughtfully.

"Can't this map show the movements of everyone in Hogwarts? Maybe we can use this to find Black."

Lupine shook his head.

"Hogwarts is very big, and there is a lot of information on this map when zoomed out. Let's not talk about whether we can find Black on the map the first time he sneaks into Hogwarts. Is there anyone in the school who can always be there? Time to stare at this map?"

What he said made sense, but Sherlock always felt that there must be other reasons why he rejected the proposal, but he did not delve into it, nodded, and followed Lupine out of the castle.

The moon had risen at this time, hanging in the sky, emitting a bright white light. Lu Ping's spirit had not changed much, but his face looked extremely pale in the moonlight.

Sherlock looked at his changes and asked doubtfully.

"Didn't you feel anything else before you transformed?"

Apart from being extremely pale, Lupine's emotions and mental performance were quite normal, he explained.

"The closer it is to the time of transformation, the more tired my body will feel. Physical fatigue will cause many high-level spells to be unable to be used, or unable to cast spells for a long time."

This Sherlock is understandable.

To be precise, wizards in this world do not have blue bars. The magic power in the wizard's body is more like representing the intensity of magic. The stronger the magic power, the stronger the magic used, rather than a consumptive energy.

If you insist on giving a blue bar characteristic to an attribute, it would be more like physical strength.

Casting spells for a long time will make the wizard exhausted and his physical strength will decrease quickly. Students basically have no restrictions when practicing magic spells. They can continue practicing when they feel tired and rest for a while.

Theoretically, as long as a wizard is physically fit enough, he can cast spells without limit.

This is also the reason why Sherlock insists on getting up every morning to exercise. His floating wand casting system consumes a lot of energy.

Two hundred and one wands cast spells together. If he uses it three times, his body will be exhausted. He can barely use it the fourth time, but he will have to lie down on the ground from exhaustion after five times.

This is still the effect after the magic spell has been reduced.

Taken together, under the condition of regular spell casting, Sherlock's physique can already cast between 500 and 600 spells in a row, and his body will be hollowed out.

As for Hogwarts students whose bodies are still growing and who don't usually pay attention to exercise, they will collapse from fatigue after casting a normal spell for about two hundred rounds, and their bodies will feel tired after a hundred rounds.

However, with the intensity of teaching at Hogwarts, it is very rare for students to practice a hundred spells a day, so learning magic is equivalent to no limit for them.

Moreover, for normal wizard duels, the outcome can usually be determined by just ten spells. It is impossible for two people to fire two to three hundred spells at each other in succession, and the result is still indecisive.

Therefore, there is no such thing as a blue bar in this world. As long as it can be used, you can cast off the spell at will.

Except for Sherlock, who can cast two hundred magic spells at a time.

Sherlock has been studying the reasonable combination of the number of magic wands cast. The last time he faced the straw man, two hundred rounds of the Patronus Charm were obviously too wasteful. Even if he only used a hundred rounds, under a reasonable combination , the same effect can be achieved.

Two hundred laser beams flew out all over the sky, seemingly very intimidating, but they consumed Sherlock's endurance.

Lupine took Sherlock to the Whomping Willow next to the Forbidden Forest. The willow was so manic and aggressive that normal people had no way of getting close to it.

When he was still more than ten meters away from the willow tree, Lu Ping waved his wand at a pebble under him.

The stone suddenly turned into a squeaking mouse, running quickly to the trunk of the Whomping Willow.

It seemed to have touched a certain knot on the trunk of the willow tree, and the violent magical willow tree immediately stopped.

Lupine took Sherlock to find an tunnel entrance next to the tree crown, and the two of them climbed in together.

"This Whomping Willow was specially planted by Dumbledore when I was in school, and the secret passage here was specially prepared for me. When I was in school, every time it was time to transform, he would Let the school nurse Madam Pomfrey bring me here, and then let me go from this secret passage to the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade Village, where I can transform into a werewolf and spend the time to avoid harming others."

Lupine told Sherlock about his past experiences.

Sherlock could clearly hear that there was some emotion in his words, as well as some loneliness that he wanted to hide but couldn't.

He didn't ask much about this. Everyone has some little secrets of their own, even himself.

They advanced in the passage for about half an hour, and finally came to a dirty and dilapidated shack.

This is the village of Hogsmeade, or the Shrieking Shack, a famous haunted house throughout the British wizarding world.

Sherlock looked at this room and thought of the time when the name of the haunted house, the Screaming Shack, was spread, and he probably guessed something.

"This place is called a haunted house because someone used to hear strange noises in the middle of the night. Is that the noise that came out after you transformed here when you were a student?"

Lupine nodded.

"Yes, in fact, the spread of rumors is also the result of Professor Dumbledore deliberately fueling the flames, so that no one will risk entering here when I am transforming and be accidentally injured by me."

"But actually it was close once?" Sherlock blinked.

Lupine looked at him in surprise.

"You, you know these things?"

"Snape told me." Sherlock sighed. "I asked him why he hated you so much. He told me that it was because when you were transforming, your friend tricked him into it and he was almost transformed. You will be killed if you become a werewolf."

Lu Ping fell silent, his expression gloomy, as if he was recalling some bad memory.

"We did go too far because of our ignorance at that time, especially Sirius."

Sherlock was stunned for a moment when he suddenly heard this familiar name, and then he immediately reacted.

"Who are you talking about!"

Lupine seemed to have accidentally let it slip, but he didn't care much about letting Sherlock know about it. But just when he was about to open his mouth, his expression suddenly turned ferocious!

"Wait, let me talk to you later, Sherlock..."

Sherlock also noticed that Lupine was preparing to transform. He took a few steps back to ensure that he had enough casting distance after the accident, while observing Lupine's performance during the werewolf transformation.

A roar of pain sounded as Lupine's head stretched and his body became longer.

His shoulders were arched, hair grew on his face and hands, and his fingers curled into sharp claws.

An upright werewolf image appeared in front of Sherlock. Compared with ordinary wolves, the animal form of a werewolf has a slightly shorter muzzle and slightly smaller pupils. It looks closer to humans, but the combination of the human body and the appearance of a wolf, Makes the werewolf look incredibly ugly.

After transforming into a werewolf, Lupine stared at Sherlock with his beastly eyes, but there was no violence or cruelty in them, only peace.

Obviously this was the effect of him drinking the wolfsbane potion in advance.

Studying werewolf transformation was the main purpose of Sherlock coming here with Lupine, but now he no longer had this intention, but looked into Lupine's eyes and asked.

"You said your friend from school was Sirius Black?"

Lupine, who was covered in gray and black hair, motioned for Sherlock to sit down and said that none of them paid attention to the dusty floor of the Shrieking Shack and sat directly on the ground.

"I got the news that you joined the Order of the Phoenix last year, Sherlock." Lupine's voice in the werewolf state was rough and low, but still had the unique gentleness in his tone, "So there are some things that even if I don't do it now, Tell you, and you will know it later.”

Sherlock didn't make a sound. He listened quietly to Lupine's story about his past.

"Dumbledore is a kind principal. After knowing that I was a werewolf, he still specially allowed me to enter Hogwarts. Here I not only learned magic, but also made several good friends. ”

"I have always been afraid that if they find out that I am a werewolf, they will alienate me because of it, but later they still discovered my secret through clues."

"But being a werewolf did not become an obstacle to our friendship. They were still willing to get along with me. Later, they even learned difficult transformation techniques for me so that I would not be allowed to transform here alone."

Hearing this, Sherlock of course guessed who Lupine's friends were at school.

"So Sirius Black, James Potter, they are all your friends?"

"How did you know there was James?" Lupine asked in surprise.

"Mr. Weasley came to me before school started and told me how Black betrayed Harry's father. I know they were very good friends before. Since you have Black among your friends, you will naturally have Harry as well. Leigh's father."

Lupine nodded in admission, his eyes laced with pain.

"Sirius, James and Pettigrew, they are all my friends."

"Peter Pettigrew?"

It was another familiar name. Not only had Mr. Weasley mentioned it to him in the Leaky Cauldron, Sherlock always felt as if he had accidentally seen or heard this name somewhere, but he couldn't think of it. stand up.

"Yes, Peter Pettigrew, we were a group at that time, but you should also know what happened next. Black betrayed James, causing him and Lily to be killed. After that, Peter wanted to stop Black for revenge, but he was also used by him. The curse left only one finger!"