The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"Now I will send out the project list form for this school year. You can sign your name after the topic you are interested in. Each project cannot exceed three people. If you want to complete it alone, of course you can."

After Tom finished his lecture, he took out a piece of parchment with a table drawn on it and handed it to a student in the first row.

"These are some topics I found. If you have original topics that you are interested in, you can write them at the end." Tom gestured to the students to choose their own topics, and then sat behind the podium to read.

He has been teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts for more than a week now, and he has more and more tricks to catch fish or make better use of his time. Today, he just asked the students to choose topics first, and then discussed it by themselves after the group results came out, and the whole class was over. Students can also learn something and make new friends.

Tom's grouping method is very stupid. Students can choose the topics they like and do not necessarily have to form a team with classmates they are familiar with. What’s even better is that this teaming method can effectively solve the problem of finding a team for students with social fears.

Many times, the most troublesome moment for group assignments in a course is the free grouping at the beginning of the semester. You have to follow the list of students listed on the school's official website, add friends on Facebook one by one, and then ask them if they want to be a group - this process is very torturous and painful. Sometimes teammates are unreliable, so it’s better to do it alone.

This kind of operation is perfect if the professor gives you a list and you fill in your name on it. At worst, you can find a two-person team to hang in and act as tool people.

The little wizards also seemed very curious about this novel way of cooperation. They stretched their necks and looked forward hard, hoping to see what was written on the parchment - this was of course in vain.

After a while, the parchment was passed to Harry. Harry took a look at the topics on it: habits and prevention of werewolves, investigation of the current situation of Grindylow in the British wizarding world, dark creatures in the Forbidden Forest, dementors...

Some topics have already been selected, such as the dark creature in the forbidden forest.

"Professor, can I choose the topic again?" Harry raised his hand and asked. He really wanted to choose the topic of the Forbidden Forest. Who else knows the creatures in the Forbidden Forest better than Hagrid? It would be much easier if he chose this topic.

Tom thought for a moment and nodded, "It's not recommended, but it's not forbidden either."

Harry thought for a moment, and then chose the topic about the Forbidden Forest with Ron and Neville.

About twenty minutes later, everyone selected their favorite topic and handed the parchment back. Tom took a look and found that Hermione actually filled in an original question on her own: the Boggart's inheritance of magical creature's abilities after his transformation. It was an original question, and Hermione filled it out relatively late, so she was the only one to choose this question.

"Okay, I'll put the list here. Let's discuss it among the groups and think about how to write this topic. I will go over in a quarter of an hour to listen to your conclusions." Tom put the list on the podium and looked at the little wizards. Crowd around and check on your teammates.

What followed was a discussion among the little wizards in groups of twos and threes.

"What made you think you chose such a topic?" Tom walked to Hermione's desk.

"Because there are ready-made materials." Hermione looked at Tom and smiled, and Tom shrugged. But he was indeed a little curious, could the Boggart inherit the wizard's abilities after becoming a wizard?

Next, Tom listened to each group's ideas one by one, and soon it was time for get out of class to end. Some of the little wizards' ideas were pretty good, but some were outrageous. Tom could only suggest that they check out the information.

"I still need a teaching assistant for this course to do some chores and help me in class. If you are willing, you can come to me or send me an owl letter. Okay, get out of class is over!"

At noon, when Tom was working at his desk after lunch, there was a knock on the door of his office, and Hermione walked in.

Tom motioned to Hermione to close the door, and then changed back to his own appearance. He still wasn't used to talking to Hermione as Lockhart.

"What's the matter? You came here suddenly."

"Do you think that with my ability, I can be your assistant?"

"I see your ability, tsk tsk tsk, it's better to go back!" Tom threw a letter from a reader on the table into a basket on the ground and responded with a smile.

Hermione:?

"I'll give you a chance to think about it again."

"Don't think about it..." Tom felt he vaguely saw the wand under Hermione's wizard robe, so he didn't dare to continue, "——My teaching assistant must be you! Do you still need to ask?"

Hermione put her wand back into the inner pocket of her robe and smiled quite kindly: "You have good taste!"

Tom took out a small plate of candy from the drawer, "Would you like some candy?"

"Okay," Hermione sat down opposite Tom.

Tom tapped a small wine bottle-shaped chocolate with his wand, and the wine-centered chocolate floated up on its own and flew into Hermione's hand.

"I got it from Professor Flitwick, Honeydukes' liqueur chocolate. It's said that if you eat it -"

A ball of flame spurted out from Hermione's mouth, but although it was flame, it had no heat at all.

"—can breathe fire."

Hermione obviously found the candy very interesting, so she took a few more to eat and play with.

"We can go to Hogsmeade in the third grade, but it seems we need a guardian's signature." Tom recalled the policies of Hogwarts and found that he seemed to have no guardian.

"My dad should be able to sign for you." Hermione said after swallowing the chocolate in her mouth, with the aroma of wine and chocolate remaining between her lips and teeth.

Tom thought for a while and felt that Hogwarts should not leave such a loophole as "my guardian is myself", so he nodded: If it doesn't work, just ask Mr. Granger to sign it.

"Want to play cards? Or chess?" Tom gathered the drafts on the table together, intending to make an open space.

"What are you busy with?" Hermione asked curiously. She remembered that Tom seemed to be working when she just came in.

"There's too much nonsense and exaggerated rhetoric in Lockhart's books - for example, the plot of catching ghouls with a tea strainer in "Wandering with Ghouls", I don't really believe it. I I need to delete some things so that you can save some time." Tom raised "Wandering with Ghouls" on the table. The cover of the book had been removed by Tom, and he looked at it.

Hermione seemed to be very interested in this work, and she asked eagerly: "How far have you revised it? I can help you revise it."

"That's great!" Tom took out a few Lockhart books. "There are three left: Breaking with the Goblin, Holidaying with a Dominatrix, and this one, Traveling with Ghouls. "

Hermione took the initiative to take over the revision work of "Girls" and "Danny": she had read these books, and the revision was very efficient.