Just a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor

It was exactly as Dumbledore said.

The Ministry of Magic did not suppress the news that Azkaban had fallen, or they couldn't suppress it even if they wanted to.

On the next day, almost all wizards in the British wizarding world were at the breakfast table and saw the news in the Daily Prophet.

And at the same time that the news spread, the Death Eaters, who were already walking blatantly in the sun, also broke out with the Aurors in their first violent conflict since Voldemort's resurrection.

According to Scrimgeour's plan, Aurors used the Apparition Detection Magic set up by the Ministry of Magic in the UK to detect the escape location of the large-scale prison break Death Eaters. However, Voldemort led the Death Eaters who did not immediately move their positions, but Ambush in that manor in Wales.

Although the Aurors were careful enough, the two sides still had a large-scale battle involving more than a hundred people near the manor.

The injuries Sherlock inflicted on Voldemort two months ago seemed to have completely healed. Under the leadership of a dark wizard like him, who was at the top of the magic world, the Aurors were forced to retreat after a hard battle.

There is no way to hide the outcome of this battle. Even though the name Voldemort makes most wizards in the wizarding world change their minds after hearing it, there is still no shortage of his followers in this land.

Even before the news from the Daily Prophet came out, the news of the Death Eaters' victory had already spread completely.

This easily undermined the situation and public opinion that the Ministry of Magic had tried to stabilize for more than two months, and the British wizarding public once again fell into a state of panic.

Such emotions even affected the students in Hogwarts.

In the first week of this semester, the castle was full of people talking about the conflict between Death Eaters and Aurors, and even some professors were talking about it privately.

Dumbledore had less time to stay in the castle.

Not only does he have to continue to search for clues about the Horcruxes, but he also has to coordinate the actions of the Order of the Phoenix.

Fortunately, even without him, under the management of Professor McGonagall as the vice-principal, there would not be any big trouble in Hogwarts.

The only ones with some hidden dangers were those students from pure-blood families in Slytherin College. The entire Snake House became quiet in such an environment.

This is an obvious change from their usual habit of tit-for-tat with Gryffindor. After all, many of these people's families are followers of Voldemort. They have been educated in pure-blood theory since they were young, and they interact with students from other colleges in the castle. It seems out of place.

Even Sherlock, a professor, was aware of this situation.

In his class, the students in Sheyuan have become taciturn, and their enthusiasm has dropped significantly compared to He Zhiqi.

Some students even looked at him with hatred in their eyes.

This naturally includes Draco Malfoy, who has also become a prefect this year.

Although Sherlock didn't pay attention to their attitude, this change still made him more vigilant.

With Voldemort's bottomless character, he might not use these students to carry out some small actions in Hogwarts.

Guyuan

It rained lightly for several days at Hogwarts in September.

And in such bad weather, Harry and the others finished their first Potions class after entering fifth grade.

Originally seeing Snape attending the Order of the Phoenix meeting during the summer vacation, Harry thought that his Potions class this semester would be easier, but the reality was exactly the opposite of what he thought.

When configuring the potion, he made a small mistake in his operation, and was caught by Snape as a model.

The lesson ended with Slytherin, and Draco's harsh laughter and Snape's cold humiliation rang in Harry's ears.

"I know you forgot about the hellebores, Potter, which means this cauldron of rubbish is useless. Fade without a trace."

Harry's potion disappeared all of a sudden, and he could only stand stupidly next to an empty cauldron. Then Snape didn't even bother to look at him, turned around and walked towards the podium, saying in an indifferent tone.

"Students who have read the operating instructions carefully, put your medicine sample into a short-necked bottle, mark it carefully with your name, and bring it to my podium for testing."

"Homework - write a twelve-inch paper on parchment on the properties of moonstone and its uses in medicine, due Thursday."

The classmates around Harry were filling potions into short-neck bottles. He was putting everything away, feeling very angry.

His potion was no worse than Ron's, whose cauldron now smelled like rotten eggs; nor worse than Neville's, whose potion had become as hard as freshly mixed cement. Now I had to forcefully pull it out of the crucible.

But it was he, Harry, who got zero marks for today's homework.

After handing over the potion, Hermione and Ron followed him and became suspicious of Snape.

"I thought he would be more tolerant of you this year." Hermione said very cryptically, and they were surrounded by other students, but only so that Harry and Ron could understand.

Ron complained: "Anyway, I always thought Dumbledore was really crazy to believe Snape. What evidence is there to prove that he really doesn't work for You-Know-Who anymore?"

Just as they were talking and walking out of the classroom, they suddenly saw Sherlock in the corridor outside the door, who seemed to have been waiting here for a while.

After Sherlock saw the three of them, his expression was obviously surprised.

"I originally wanted to find a student to help deliver the message and ask you to come to my office after today's class. Unexpectedly, Severus's class is for you. It just saves me from looking for someone to help. . Come after dinner in the evening, don’t forget.”

Harry was a little confused when he heard Sherlock's words, but this was not a good place to ask questions, so he could only agree first, and then said goodbye to Sherlock with Ron, Hermione, and the others.

Just before they walked up the stairs, all three of Harry saw Sherlock heading towards Snape who had just finished class.

Obviously he didn't come here specifically to wait for Harry, but to see Snape.

"I really don't understand why Professor Forrest and the others would trust Snape so much." Ron said again, "Do they really not care about what Snape has done? I'm sure they There’s that person’s mark on his arm too!”

"I think Dumbledore and Professor Forrester probably got enough evidence, although he didn't show it to you, Ron." Hermione said bluntly.