Hogwarts Homecoming

Ever since the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts had frequent accidents, no wizard could persist in this position for more than a year, and since it became a consensus among young wizards to abdicate safely, every new At the beginning of the school year, identifying the quality of the newly appointed Defense Against the Dark Arts professor has almost become a repertoire at the beginning of the school year.

According to the usual practice, the popularity of this topic will generally last until the end of the first month of school, and then gradually there will be conclusions that everyone agrees with.

But this year's situation is different. Before the class started, Professor Lupine showed his hand on the Hogwarts Express. Within a week after the class started, he was widely praised.

Of course, the most unpopular Slytherin house still adhered to the previous style. They couldn't find anything wrong with Professor Lupin's Defense Against the Dark Arts class, so they simply took Lupine's plain dress as an issue. However, they They can only entertain themselves, and not many people will have any opinion on Professor Lu Ping because of this.

Now, among the young wizards, the most popular topic is Professor Remus Lupine and Professor Amosta Bryan, which of them is the most "professional" professor in the past ten years.

This is not something that can be explained in just one or two sentences. Even within Gryffindor, there is a lot of controversy on this topic.

"It's not professional at all—"

Fred, one of the Weasley brothers who had a rare night's rest, leaned against the extinguished fireplace and said, "But obviously we appreciate-"

"Professor Amosta Bryan!" the twins said in unison.

Proud of their bond, Fred and George jumped to their feet and bumped each other's elbows in mid-air, grinning.

Harry, Ron, who were sitting on the sofa, and Hermione, who was leaning on the wooden table and previewing several subjects at the same time, were not surprised at all. They all knew why Fred and George liked Professor Brian more, and they both liked him. Boggarts are obviously less interesting than eight-eyed spiders.

"Neville and Dean prefer Professor Lupine--"

Ron was cautiously feeding Scabbers its strength potion, which looked sluggish, but Scabbers didn't seem to like it very much. It writhed in Ron's hands, desperately trying to escape, and in the end most of the potion in the vial was gone. sprinkled on his wizard robes.

"At least they can deal with the Boggart in the closet, and Professor Blaine"

Ron shivered suddenly, and said with lingering fear,

"During the summer vacation, Mom and Dad took us to visit the mummies in the pyramids, and I had a nightmare that night. I remembered the corpse brought by Professor Blaine, and I probably will never forget this in my life!"

Hermione, who was at the desk in a hurry, suddenly pursed her lips and laughed. She raised her hair and looked at Ron.

"Honestly, Ron, I thought the boggarts were going to be ghouls or basilisks when you played, but it turns out that the thing you're most afraid of is spiders?"

The in-depth conversation about this issue lasted for about ten minutes. Finally, both Harry and Hermione figured out the reason why Ron was afraid of spiders. Amidst a burst of happy laughter, the unhappy Ron mistakenly took the bottle of stamina. Scabbers poked his mouth into Scabbers' nose, and finally, after a series of painful screams, Scabbers slapped Ron hard, and this made Ron even more depressed, and he looked at Harry with a downcast face. ,

"Time to tell you what you think, Harry!"

"Well--"

Harry hesitated and said nothing, but it was all fake.

Hermione is more appreciative of Professor Lupine who teaches step by step according to the formal textbooks, while Ron prefers Professor Brain. It is not surprising that Professor Brain saved almost half of Ron's brothers and sisters, and once gave him a very beautiful commemorative coins.

How should I put it, when facing Professor Lupine, Harry felt a strange intimacy in his heart.

He didn't know what the reason for this feeling would be. Maybe it was Professor Lupine who saved his life on the Hogwarts train, maybe it was Professor Lupine's gentle temperament that was favored by others, but even so , if he had to choose a winner between Professor Blaine and Professor Lupine, he would undoubtedly choose Professor Blaine.

The reason for making such a decision is not only the help that Professor Brayne helped them in the Chamber of Secrets incident last semester, but also because, during the summer vacation, he accidentally learned about Professor Brayne's life experience, which made Harry feel that he and Brayne Professor En felt a little connected with fate.

However, this reason cannot be said. He cannot disclose the most important privacy of Professor Brian without permission, even for Ron and Hermione.

Early the next morning, all the little wizards who entered the auditorium to eat felt an unspeakable depression. Soon, the little wizards realized that this depression was transmitted from the professor's seat at the front of the auditorium. of.

Except for Principal Dumbledore and Professor Lupine who were not on the professor's table, almost every professor who came down to have breakfast had a newspaper. They turned a blind eye to the various breakfasts stacked in front of them and only focused on spreading them The Daily Prophet.

"Is there anything new that we don't know about?"

Harry and Ron, who were late, quickly sensed that something was wrong. They ran in quickly from the hall with their heads down, and took the empty seats next to Hermione.

The atmosphere in the auditorium was too weird, everyone had a heavy expression on their faces, the young wizards were discussing in groups of twos and twos suppressing their voices, and the professors were also expressing their opinions in a low voice, only the 'loved' potion The professor was expressionless, calmly dealing with the porridge on the table.

"The Ministry of Magic has found Black."

Hermione said seriously, but when she saw the dumbfounded expressions of the two little wizards, she quickly added, "But he ran away again, Seamus told us yesterday, oh, he saw it from the Daily Prophet, A Muggle was around and saw Blake--"

Hermione shook her hand and read today's latest edition of the Daily Prophet,

"Today's newspaper said that according to the Muggle's report call, the strikers from the Ministry of Magic were mobilized and found clues. Last night, the strikers stopped him in front of the old house of the Black family and had a confrontation with him. A fierce battle!"

Harry hastily snatched the newspaper from Hermione, and read it with Ron.

Black was seriously injured and fled in embarrassment. Dawlish, the Auror Office of the Ministry of Magic, was heroically wounded in a duel with Sirius Black. At present, Aurors and dementors are still hunting. Please keep calm.

"oh!"

"Second generation official" Ron turned his face away with a look of disgust,

"The Daily Prophet is still the same. When it comes to important issues, it is always vague!"

"That's not the problem, Ron, let's look at this again!"

Hermione carefully took out another copy of The Times, and stuffed it under the table to Harry, who looked a little strange,

"I'm afraid no one at school is subscribing to the Muggle paper except me," said Hermione, pointing to a horrifying picture on the front page.

"The Daily Prophet didn't publish the details of last night's arrest, but the Muggle newspapers did record the scene, and the Muggle government advertised a gas explosion. It's not a new excuse, but you see—"

Huge searchlights brightened the dark night, shocking fissures opened on the ground around the deserted small square, the edges of the fissures were in a melted crystal state, and light smoke could be seen faintly. In the alley in the distance , a large part of the road was blown away, and next to the laneway was a house whose roof was blown off.

"This is all caused by Black?!" Ron stared at the Muggle newspaper, his eyeballs almost protruding from their sockets in shock, "but the Daily Prophet said that no Muggle died!"

"That's what the Muggle papers say."

Hermione pointed to a line of text under the picture and said, then, she looked at Harry who said nothing, and said solemnly,

"With one man's strength against most of the Ministry of Magic's elite, and causing so much damage, now we finally know why the Ministry of Magic is panicking about Sirius Black's escape!"