The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

It's obviously just a bunch of chess pieces, but it feels like thousands of horses galloping around.

Hermione's cavalry and chariot troops launched an extremely smooth attack like mercury pouring down the ground, rushing straight into Tom's central army formation.

At this time, Tom had already withdrawn his chariot troops, and the cavalry on both wings also lost the opportunity. What was even worse was that the trenches were not dug well. So the nine hundred infantry were attacked head-on by fifty chariots and two hundred cavalry.

Some infantry counterattacked, but were easily routed. Tom watched as the centurion who had complained earlier sailed upstream and was knocked to pieces by the soldiers on one of Hermione's chariots, and his men scattered in a rush.

Tom:…

I'm going to reform the bishop right now! Next time you want to hide on a hill, watch me direct my magic bombing!

Tom's side was completely defeated. He watched his king jump onto a chariot extremely quickly, and then quickly fled the scene. Tom's nine hundred infantry were finished.

By the time Tom retreated to his hillock, almost none of the nine hundred foot soldiers remained. And it is impossible for Tom to replicate Hermione's style of play. Hermione only needed to throw her infantry to entangle Tom's mobile troops, and then let her chariots and cavalry charge into the formation, and she could easily win.

"You win." Seeing his king being knocked over with a hammer, Tom gave up resistance. Hermione knocked on the table with satisfaction, "Remember to buy me chocolates."

At this time, several owls flew in one after another outside, some of them applied to be assistant coaches, but there were also a few letters from fans. In the week when Tom first arrived, countless little wizards came to ask for autographs every day, and there were hundreds of letters every day. However, ever since Tom wrote back to his fans, telling them that he wanted to focus on teaching, the number of letters dropped to just a few a day. The little wizards' demand for signatures is also limited. After Tom signed a lot of names, there were obviously a lot fewer little wizards coming to the door.

As for teaching, come on, Lockhart can be a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor! Of course Tom can do it too. For little wizards under fifth grade, Tom naturally provides them with some basic knowledge. After all, the dark magic defense professors in recent years have not been very reliable, and they need to lay a good foundation.

As for fifth- and seventh-grade students, they naturally focus on reviewing and preparing for exams. Fifth grade students will take the Ordinary Wizarding Level Examination (O.W.L.) next June, and seventh grade students will take the Ultimate Wizarding Test (N.E.W.T.)

The O.W.L. exam is a subject test administered by the Wizarding Examination Authority for fifth-year students. The score a student obtains in a specific O.W.L. exam subject will determine whether he or she can continue studying that course in the following year. . Little wizards before the fifth grade are similar to undergraduates. Regardless of whether they are talented or not, the professors at Hogwarts will teach you. No matter how much Snape hated Harry and Neville, he taught them for five years.

Sixth and seventh grade are a bit like graduate school. Professors have the right to choose. They will stipulate that in order to take their own courses, O.W.L. test scores must exceed a certain level. For example, Snape stipulated that if he wanted to continue taking his Potions class, his O.W.L. Potions score must be excellent. Professor McGonagall asked Tom at the beginning of the semester where he should set his grades.

If Tom wants to save trouble, he can set his grades as excellent, so there will definitely be fewer students signing up for the class. But the employment of many students will also be affected. Defense Against the Dark Arts is not a popular subject. If you want to become an Auror, you need to be very good at Defense Against the Dark Arts. To be a healer, you also need to get at least an "E" in the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam.

There are six levels of grades in the wizarding world: O, E, A, P, D, and T. The first three are passing grades, and the last three are failing grades.

So in the end, Tom, like other professors, set the grade at "E (Good)." There are not many students enrolled in the class, only a dozen in each grade.

The role of N.E.W.T. is to serve as degree certification for Hogwarts graduates when they apply for jobs after graduation, which is equivalent to various professional certificates on Muggle resumes. However, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professors in recent years are really bad, so these poor children can only teach themselves - the real Lockhart can only forget the spell and talk about his own books. Lockhart could only offer the students anything but help. Tom was about the same, he wasn't good enough to teach these seventh grade seniors - but he was definitely better than Lockhart, at least he could do one thing: help them prepare for exams.

Tom used his identity and connections as Lockhart to send out several letters and obtain the original questions from past exams from a fan of his who worked for the Wizarding Examination Authority. Then, Tom read the questions over night. He found that the contents of the written examinations over the years were actually very similar: for example, last year's O.W.L. Defense Against the Dark Arts written examination tested the five characteristics of werewolves - this was simply a score-breaking question. It's covered in my own paper.

In his experience, the best way to deal with the Defense Against the Dark Arts written test is the question-sea tactic. Because the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam does not require you to create anything original. This course tests your knowledge of dark magic and dark creatures. You need to know their characteristics, distribution, habits and coping methods.

Just memorize these things and you’re done! This is much simpler than the exam questions in the Muggle world - at least the magical world will not ask you to briefly summarize the historical significance of the invention of Wolfsbane Potion. It will only ask you about the function of Wolfsbane Potion. The most difficult one is to test how you make it. The wolfsbane potion has failed. These written-answer questions are more like multiple-choice questions on current affairs that delineate the scope of the exam.

This is also the reason why the Defense Against the Dark Arts faculty at Hogwarts is in turmoil, but students do not fail the class in large numbers.

This teaching method is very simple. Tom only needs to summarize the test points in the questions and produce a review booklet or Lockhart secret volume to cope with the O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. written examinations. The part other than the written test is the practical test, which will test their mastery of defensive spells and various unblocking spells.

This requires hundreds of millions of outside help. To be more precise, Tom needs to find billions of foreign aid.

Tom dismissed the owls, and then played a few more games of magic wizard chess with Hermione. This time the two sides fought back and forth, winning and losing, and the two even played some new tricks. It wasn't until the first class in the afternoon was approaching that Hermione reluctantly left. Before leaving, he told Tom: seize the time to transform the bishop's chess pieces.

After sending Hermione away, Tom took out the parchment and wrote a letter to Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick, hoping that he could make an appointment with them to discuss preparation issues for the O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. practical exams.