The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"It turns out to be an interview." Tom was convinced. It was probably that Dumbledore was a little worried, so he came to inquire about the teaching content in advance.

However, this interview should be very relaxed, because Dumbledore himself did not seem to interfere with the professors' teaching content. Professor Trelawney had been playing tricks in the Astronomy Tower for more than ten years, and Dumbledore didn't say anything weird. Quirrell's teaching was so bad last semester - he read the textbook according to the script and still stuttered, but he didn't interfere.

Therefore, the requirements for this position for Tom are very low. Even if he just reads textbooks, Dumbledore can let him coach.

Tom pondered for a moment, "I plan to start teaching this school year from my own books - the book actually talks about a lot of practical methods for dealing with dark creatures. I plan to let the children read these books first. .”

Dumbledore nodded.

"There is also Defense Against the Dark Arts, which is used to defend against black magic. Since you want to defend, you must first know what black magic is. I want children to understand the common black magic in the magic world and how to deal with them, and finally teach them Just a few simple spells."

Dumbledore looked slightly surprised, "What spells do you want to teach them?"

"Expelliarmus and the Iron Armor Curse." Tom replied without thinking. "One offensive spell and one defensive spell are enough for them."

Dumbledore was a little doubtful that Professor Lockhart across from him really understood these two spells - being able to use them and being able to teach them were two different concepts, but the problem was not big, as these two spells would not produce anything. Yao Mozi.

"Also, if possible, I hope Professor you can help me find some dark creatures, and I can also show the children how to deal with them."

Tom finished explaining his general teaching ideas, "Of course, I will add a lot of in-class exams, and correspondingly, there will be less homework assignments. I personally don't like the kind of exam method where the final exam determines the score, so I will add There are also group assignments for the midterm exam..."

Among all kinds of courses, the most annoying subjects are those with many and complicated things. Some courses have phase test one at the end of the semester, before the mid-term, and phase test two after the mid-term, as well as group cooperation projects, experimental classes and daily results. After one semester, it is full of presence, making you feel as if you have taken this course this semester.

But if you hate it, you hate it. Basically, if you take all kinds of things in this kind of class, you will definitely pass. The level of risk is completely different from those courses where the final score is 50% and the project is 50%.

However, Tom still prefers the latter. In this way, only the final period of the semester will be busy, and the rest of the semester will be "peaceful".

But after becoming a professor, Tom still lived the life he hated most.

However, this approach obviously exceeded Dumbledore's expectations: no Hogwarts professor had ever been so energetic before him.

"Ahem, I need to remind you that you have seven grades to teach." Dumbledore calculated the workload of Tom doing this. He was suddenly worried that this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor would retire due to sudden death from overwork.

"It doesn't matter, leave it to me!" Tom said in a confident manner - Is teaching stressful? nonexistent! There are so many students at his disposal that he will not be tired.

"Okay." Dumbledore saw that his dissuasion was ineffective, so he obeyed: at worst, he could just ask Madam Pomfrey to give him a few more energy-replenishing potions.

Tom left Dumbledore's office. But when he returned to his office, he saw an open door and empty drawers.

Tom's brows jumped sharply, this thing was a little unexpected and a little unexpected.

But it's not a big problem.

He had already made preparations for this.

Currently, Tom has countless things to deal with: stolen diaries, secret rooms, lesson preparation...

If you have a bunch of things to do, how do you prioritize them? Is it based on the difficulty of the thing? Of course not, it definitely depends on the priorities of things. Among these things right now, the most important thing is to get rid of the basilisk in the secret room. Without the basilisk, Riddle would be like a tiger with its teeth pulled out.

Just like playing a game, a new map has unique environmental factors: thunder and continuous blood deduction. In this map, you have triggered three or four tasks. One of them can remove the negative effects of the map, so naturally you should complete this one first. Tasks that can solve negative effects.

The basilisk plays such a role.

The basilisk is in a secret room. If you want to solve it, you need to open the secret room - you need the method and the location of the secret room. Tom knows the location. The only thing missing is the Parselmouth.

Parseltongue refers to the language used by snakes and snake-like creatures. The extended meaning of this word refers to people who can communicate with snakes. This is a rare talent that is hereditary. Almost all Parseltongues can trace their ancestors back to a famous dark wizard - Harry can say it because he has a fragment of Voldemort's soul. But as a language, as long as you master the pronunciation, you can communicate even if you don't understand the language.

It's like you don't understand French, but your friend tells you that "hello" in French means "hold on" and "goodbye" means "on the donkey". If you say "on hold" and "on the donkey" to the French, they can also say it. Understand.

Tom does not have the blood of a dark wizard, and naturally does not have an innate talent for Parseltongue. He had previously tried to find a "dictionary" and memorize the pronunciation to open the secret room, but failed.

So he decided to find another way: As a human, it is normal for me not to understand snake language, but what if I turn into a snake?

Parseltongue is not only the language of snakes, but also snake-like creatures - runes can communicate through Parseltongue. Birds and snakes are naturally within this range.

But now there is still a problem: there is not enough space on Tom's soul ring.

His soul ring can reproduce five magical creatures, and it is now full: wizard, three-headed dog, phoenix, unicorn and fire dragon. If you want to carve a bird or a snake on it, you need to replace one.

Tom replaced the wizard Lockhart with almost no hesitation - the rest are hard to add: the fire dragon was said to be returned to the fire dragon sanctuary by Newt; the three-headed dog Luwei was adopted by Newt; the phoenix It's not convenient to get it in Dumbledore's office; the unicorn is deep in the Forbidden Forest, and Hagrid and Voldemort have a hard time finding it.

Compared with these, Lockhart in the office is quite easy to obtain.

But Tom was not in a hurry to "wash off" Lockhart's form, and went to Hagrid's hut in advance and bought several strong big roosters from him, each weighing six or seven pounds. Hagrid asked him the reason, but Tom still used the teaching effect as an excuse.

The basilisk is a strange creature. As long as it hears the crowing of a rooster, it will flee for its life, because the crowing of the rooster is also fatal to it. Since the rooster is so intimidating, there is no reason for Tom not to bring these to the snake treasure. Tool.

After buying the rooster, he took out his teapot and copied the shape of the bird and snake on it.

Everything is ready! You can go to the secret room.

The entrance to the secret room is in "Myrtle's Bathroom".

Myrtle's bathroom is also a famous "attraction" in Hogwarts. This bathroom is located on the second floor of the castle and is haunted by a ghost: Moaning Myrtle.

Moaning Myrtle, whose real name was Myrtle Elizabeth Warren, was a Muggle-born witch who studied at Hogwarts Ravenclaw Academy in the 1940s, but unfortunately, she was During this period, he was subjected to school violence because of his appearance.

In 1943, she lost her life after accidentally catching Tom Riddle summoning a basilisk.

After her death, she turned into a ghost and has been lingering near this bathroom. She kept losing her temper there and splashing water everywhere. The students stayed away from this bathroom and would rather suffocate to death. Come to this bathroom.

However, there are also some young wizards who take full advantage of the inaccessibility of this place and come here to do things that violate school rules - such as preparing banned potions.

However, Myrtle's behavior caused the other little wizards to stay away from the entrance of this secret room by mistake. Of course, even if you come here to use the toilet every day, there is no safety risk...

Although it is very safe, the thought of a big monster thousands of meters below my butt is still very disturbing.

In the afternoon, the little wizards all stayed in the common room of their college to rest. No one went to the second floor where the library was located, which gave Tom a chance.

He pushed a trolley to Myrtle's bathroom when no one was around.

There are seven big roosters, each weighing six or seven kilograms, and the total weight is forty or fifty kilograms, and each one is full of energy and jumping around. If they were packed in ordinary sacks, Tom's small body would not be able to control them. It has to be said that Hagrid is very generous in his dealings. I heard that these seven big and beautiful roosters were used as teaching aids, so he gave them away for free without asking for a knicker, and he packed them up for Tom patiently.

In order to prevent the roosters from crowing and alerting others, Tom asked Hagrid to tie all the roosters' mouths, wings and paws in advance and stuff them into cages.

Tom walked into Myrtle's bathroom and heard the sound of the door opening. Myrtle suddenly jumped out from the innermost toilet tank. Tom also saw this ghost for the first time.

The image of Myrtle is that of a short, chubby girl. Although her face is half covered by long hair and pearl-colored glasses, it can still be seen that her expression is gloomy and melancholy.

When she saw Tom, she immediately screamed and roared: "Who is here? This is the girls' bathroom!"

But after seeing Tom's appearance clearly, her attitude changed and she giggled, "Oh? Strange face? Why are you here?"

Even though Myrtle is just a ghost, Tom doesn't want to be stared at by her all the time.

So he rolled his eyes at Myrtle and said, "My coming here has nothing to do with you."

This attitude infuriated Myrtle, and she screamed into a toilet, splashing water as high as the ceiling.

"If you die here, it has something to do with this place! Just wait and share this toilet with me!"