The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Anthony Goldstein did not dare to stay at the rear of the group, but immediately accelerated his pace and moved closer to the large group in front. He took three steps and two steps to catch up with Michael Corner. When he stood next to his classmates, the sense of urgency in his heart naturally dissipated a lot.

"What's wrong?" Michael Corner couldn't help but be curious when he saw his classmate's face suddenly turned bad. "Does your stomach hurt?"

"No, Mike, listen to me -" Before Anthony could finish speaking, he suddenly felt someone blowing on the back of his neck.

"Ah!" he screamed, jumping to his feet.

This scream attracted other students to look at him. Professor Lu Ping also stopped, turned around and asked gently: "Classmate, what's the matter?"

Michael Corner grimaced and recounted what he had just experienced.

After Lupine listened, he glanced thoughtfully at the empty corridor behind Michael Corner, cleared his throat, and quieted down the little wizards who were a little restless.

"There are four possibilities," Professor Lupine said to Michael Corner very gently, "One, it is an evil spirit."

The little wizards trembled.

"...But it's daytime now, and we're still in Hogwarts, so it can't be an evil spirit." Lupine did not continue to lie, so as not to make the students panic, "There is also a possibility that it is some magical being that can become invisible. Animals, there’s a good mantra for situations like this.”

He took out a wand from his tattered robe and looked behind Michael Corner, "Of course, the most likely possibility is that I met an old acquaintance - Aparecium! "

He shouted without warning, and a gust of wind emerged from the tip of his staff and swept across the corridor. A short "figure" appeared in front of everyone. It had a pair of evil-looking black eyes and a He has a big mouth and is small in stature. He is wearing a bright red suit, a hat with fur balls on his head, and an orange bow tie.

"Peeves!" Some students recognized this figure.

"Idiot, Lupin, madman, big fool!" Peeves saw that his disguise was exposed, and he did not panic at all. Instead, he sang happily, as if he had met an acquaintance.

The students were a little surprised: although Peeves was always rude, he rarely provoked the school teachers. For it, provoking Filch and playing tricks on the little wizard are more interesting. I don't know where it went wrong today, and it actually had a head-on conflict with a real professor - is it because Professor Lupine teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts? Some little wizards cursed in their hearts.

But this is very interesting for the students. They really want to watch the show. They want to know how good this new professor is and what kind of "sparks" will be created between him and Peeves. "?

"Peeves is going to be in trouble," Tom whispered in Hermione's ear. Hearing what Tom said, although she didn't know where Tom's confidence came from, Hermione also felt a sense of expectation in her heart.

Contrary to what the students expected, Professor Luping did not show any anger. On the contrary, he was still smiling, as if he was recalling good things.

"Still so energetic, Peeves," he turned the wand in his hand and shot a magic spell at Peeves: "Incarcerous!" [Note]

A thick rope spurted out from the tip of Lupin's staff, which tied Peeves tightly and caused him to fall to the ground from mid-air.

"It's not enough to know the magic spells. You also need to learn the appropriate combination of magic spells. For example, the Appearance Charm just now makes the enemy appear, and the Quick Confinement spell makes it incapacitated. You see, now I can do whatever I want to it. .”

When Peeves heard this, he immediately struggled, but the more he struggled, the tighter the rope became.

"Lupin -" it opened its mouth to say something, but Lupine had already raised his wand to shoulder height and pointed it directly at Peeves. "This is a very useful little spell. Please pay attention - Vardy Vasi!"

A piece of chewing gum stuck to the ground flew up like a bullet and hit Peeves' nostrils.

Peeves' breath hitched, and then he cursed.

Lupine was still smiling, and he said to the students: "If you are interested, you can try it. Beginners are better off shooting fixed targets. After you are familiar with this spell, you can try moving targets."

Peeves:!

It made ill-intentioned eye contact with the little wizards and realized that something bad was going on. But before it could say anything harsh, Tom raised his wand high and said in a similar pattern: "Vasi Dixie!”

A pebble hit Peeves on the head, knocking his hat off.

Under his leadership, other students also tried new magic on Peeves. I have to say that this spell is really simple. Although it was the first time for the little wizards present to cast this spell, almost everyone cast it successfully.

All of a sudden, all kinds of debris were thrown at Peeves. The clever little wizard also opened a bag of Bibi's multi-flavor beans and scattered them on the ground to serve as ammunition.

Under the intensive barrage attack, Peeves was beaten and screamed repeatedly. He rolled up and hid in an empty classroom. He hooked the door with his foot and couldn't get out.

Hermione's eyes also flashed with surprise. She didn't expect Professor Lupine to solve the problem in this way.

Seeing that the little wizards were casting spells smoothly, Professor Lupine gave everyone applause without hesitation, "Well done!" He said with a smile, "Sometimes you have to do this when facing Peeves."

At this time, the little wizard looked at Professor Luping with a little more awe. Because of Lupine's shabby clothes, they didn't think much of this professor before. But the process of fighting Peeves just now made the contempt for Lupin disappear without a trace in their hearts, replaced by a trace of awe and goodwill.

Lupine simply reversed the negative impression the young wizards had on him.

Lupine led the students to set off again, walked through two corridors, and arrived outside the door of the staff lounge.

"Okay, today's class will officially start soon. Believe me, the guys here are much more difficult to deal with than Peeves." Lupine stood in front of the door and looked at the little wizards behind him with interest.

At this moment, the door to the staff room suddenly opened, and Snape walked out from behind the door.

Little Wizard: This is indeed much more difficult to deal with than Peeves...

Snape, who saw Lupin as soon as he opened the door, frowned and showed an extremely disgusted expression, as if he saw a big cockroach lying on the ground when he opened the bedroom door.

"Why are you here?" Snape asked in a disgusted tone.

"I'm here for class. Here are the 'teaching aids' I need." Faced with Snape's unabashed malice, Lupine was extremely calm.

Facing the verbal sparring between the two professors, the young wizards present obediently remained silent to avoid being drawn in and becoming cannon fodder.

"Very well," Snape also controlled his emotions, "Remember to come to my office to pick up the medicine tonight."

When talking about medicine, Snape deliberately emphasized his tone so that the students could hear him clearly.

"I'm really looking forward to seeing why you will pack up and leave for some reason after one year." Snape suddenly walked out of the lounge and said with his back to Lupine. Rather than talking to Lupine, he was talking to the little wizards in Ravenclaw.

"Is it because of poor health or because the students discovered your..."

"Severus, I was invited here by Dumbledore. No matter how long I teach here or for what reason I leave, it has nothing to do with you." Professor Lupine's mood fluctuated and interrupted Snape. speech.

He moved Dumbledore out to remind Snape of what Dumbledore had told him. Sure enough, this sentence had a good effect. Snape closed his mouth, showed a malicious smile and left.

"How long do you think you can hide it? A month, half a year, or a year?" Before leaving, he gently left a very lethal sentence in Lu Ping's ear.

Hearing these words, Lu Ping's body swayed slightly. He took a deep breath to recover and observed the students' reactions. He found that these children didn't seem to notice anything unusual and were still fighting for him.

From the perspective of an ordinary little wizard, it is nothing more than the evil Snape bullying the kind and gentle Professor Lupin. As for medicine? Professor Lu Ping's face was indeed sickly, and he must have been suffering from illness.

Seeing that the students reacted normally, Lu Ping breathed a sigh of relief and led the students into the teachers' lounge.

The staff lounge is a long room with wooden panels on the walls and filled with old mismatched chairs. The little wizards were a little surprised that the staff room was so shabby.

At the end of the lounge, there is a wardrobe where teachers keep their replacement robes. When Lupine approached it, the wardrobe began to shake, hit the wall, and made a banging sound. The door handle of the cabinet clicked, as if something was trying to get out of it.

The little wizards were startled, stopped in their tracks, and stared at the cabinet without blinking.

"Boggart!" Lupine patted the door of the cabinet. The sound inside was stagnant, and then began to shake more violently.

Hearing this term, Hermione glanced at Tom beside her. She knew very well that her boyfriend had inherited many of the Boggart's abilities.

"Okay, I remember that Professor Lockhart seemed to have introduced Boggart to you before? But I asked some students, and he didn't seem to show you the real Boggart, so I spent some effort and found a real Boggart in the castle. I found this guy here." Lu Ping looked at the quiet students, feeling very satisfied. His eyes scanned the crowd, and when he saw Hermione, he suddenly remembered something.

"You may not know that Miss Granger published a very good paper on Boggarts in Magic magazine last year, so Miss Granger, can you briefly tell us what is Boggart?"

Little wizards:!

Magic magazine? !

There were still a few young wizards who had heard of this name, and they immediately looked at Hermione in awe: This is the top journal in the wizarding world, but she published an article in it in the second grade? What were they doing in second grade? Why is the gap between people so big?

Hermione smiled sheepishly, "I didn't expect to be included in "Magic". Professor Lockhart gave me a lot of help at the time..."

"As a subject of research..." Tom complained in his heart. This is simply a joke - "What are you doing research in university?" "I am being studied in it."

Hermione explained a little, but found that few classmates believed her - they all thought Hermione was in Versailles.

She had no choice but to give up the explanation and began to answer Professor Lupine's question: "The Boggart is a dark creature that can shape-shift. It will turn into the thing that we are most afraid of, because it will turn into the thing that is most feared in our hearts. A thing of fear, so no one knows what a boggart looks like when he's alone."

This is the best summary of Boggart.

But it wasn't over yet. Hermione continued to add: "Boggarts like dark and closed spaces, so they will hide in closets, under beds, or in cupboards. The way to deal with boggarts is very simple, that is, several people work together. Face it and travel in a group so the boggarts don't know what to turn into. Don't be afraid of one, there's a simple spell to repel them..."

"Great, twenty points for Ravenclaw." Hermione's answer was very complete. She not only introduced what a Boggart is, its habits and characteristics, but also talked about its weaknesses. Even Lupine himself He couldn't do better, which made him nod with satisfaction.

"If you keep talking, I'm going to lose my job." Lupine joked, making Hermione's face light up with joy. Even though she had been in school for three years, Hermione still enjoyed getting extra points for answering questions.

"The spell to repel the boggart is very simple. It is the same as the Vasidisi I just taught you, but it requires a very strong willpower. You have to force it to turn into an image that you find funny."

"Take out your wands and say after me... Funny!"

The whole class repeated it several times.

"Very well," said Professor Lupin, "but this spell alone is not enough. Miss Granger, please come up and demonstrate it to us."

Hermione walked nervously in front of everyone, and Professor Lupine motioned for everyone to step back to give Hermione enough space.

Hermione stood in front of the stage, feeling a little unsure. She didn't know what she was most afraid of. At this time, she saw Tom in the audience quietly making a cheering gesture to her, which made her feel at ease: no matter what, Tom would be behind her to support her.

She nodded to Professor Lupin, indicating to him that she was ready.

Professor Lupine held his wand and pointed at the door handle of the closet, "Three-two-one, start!"

A stream of sparks shot out from the tip of his staff and hit the spherical door handle, causing the closet door to swing open.

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Note: Regarding "incarceration", there are two very similar spells: Incarcerous and Colloportus. The Chinese are very similar, but the English are completely different. Quick confinement is to tie things up, and quick confinement is to lock the door immediately and make it silent.