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Chapter 19 Defense Against the Dark Arts professors are exhausted

Lockhart didn't know that the dear headmaster and Snape were talking about him behind his back, but even if he knew, he wouldn't care much, because his mind was now on preparing lessons.

As the first lesson was about to begin, Lockhart didn't want to screw it up.

He looked at his schedule and found that his courses were still quite tight.

The curriculum of Hogwarts is not easy. Students have classes in the morning and afternoon, and occasionally astronomy, history of magic, or potions in the evening. It is not easy for Hermione to take all the courses.

Fortunately, the homework is not too tight. Sometimes it is assigned on Monday, taught on Thursday and Friday, and sometimes it is due next week. If the course is not too tight, if there are two days on weekends, it can usually be finished.

But it's not an easy job for a professor.

Even if two colleges teach together, even if grades 6 and 7 are taught by four colleges together, if a grade has two classes a week, the professor still has to teach at least 24 classes, an average of about 5 classes a day, and correct students at night homework.

To be honest, this class is too tight.

Like Professor McGonagall, who requires "exceeding expectations (E)" in the 0.W.s exam to take sixth-grade courses, which is already a rare act of kindness, because Transfiguration is also a compulsory course.

As for Snape's requirement that he must pass the "Exceeding the List ()" test, to be honest, Lockhart can understand it very well-because Potions class is taught in two classes at the same time, so if Snape doesn't control In terms of the number of elective courses, he even used weekends to attend classes.

Lockhart thought that there were not many sixth and seventh graders who chose Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Because he learned from Dumbledore that there were only 4 students who took Defense Against the Dark Arts last year, which means that there are only 7 seventh graders he will teach this year, even if there are more sixth graders. , So when Dumbledore asked Lockhart about the admission line for W's grades, he said that as long as "A (pass)" is fine.

But he was wrong, and very wrong.

Because when he looked at the list last night, he found that there were actually 6 sixth graders taking Defense Against the Dark Arts this year, which means that half of the sixth graders took his class

He looked at the list, and found that 25 of the 17 people were witches, and the number of wizards was double that of last year. Although in a sense, this was a good thing, and it was convenient for him to recognize people, but he It will inevitably take a while.

For example, this Monday, Lockhart's class time is fully arranged: there are four classes in the morning, one for the sixth graders, one for the seventh graders, two for the fifth graders, and two for the second graders in the afternoon. Enter graders.

Well, I kind of know why Hogwarts has to change a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor every year—they are all exhausted.

Lockhart was nearly late for his first class on Monday morning.

There is no way, even if he "remembers" how to go to class, he underestimated the enthusiasm of the students. Everywhere he went, people greeted him, and some girls even greeted him in the hallway, auditorium, and outside the classroom. Greeting three times, just to say a few more words with him.

Had it not been for the roaring letter from Ron's mother that caught the attention of everyone in the Great Hall, Lockhart probably wouldn't even have had breakfast.

But no matter how annoying he was, Lockhart was still polite and smiling.But if everyone wants to return the greetings, then he can't even think about doing business. It will take a lot of time just to say hello all day long.

It seems that learning the Disillusionment spell needs to be put on the agenda as soon as possible, Lockhart thought.

"Good morning! Ladies and gentlemen!" he said to the sixth graders in the room

"Good morning! Professor Lockhart!" The students replied enthusiastically.

Seeing their enthusiastic attitude, Lockhart has no doubt that as long as he doesn't act like a monster, he will definitely become the most popular teacher in the history of Hogwarts by the end of the semester.

Since it is already popular, let's do something more popular, such as a

"Put away your books and get out your wands, we don't need to read books for this lesson." Lockhart said to the audience.

Sure enough, the students were even happier.

"I'd like to do a roll call first—although I already know most of you, such as Mr. Percy Weasley from Gryffindor, Miss Penelope Clearwater from Ravenclaw, Mr. Marcus Flint of Lytling..."

After the roll call, Lockhart straightforwardly began his lecture.

"The concept of Defense Against the Dark Arts, I think, should be familiar to you sixth graders, that is, learning how to use magic to protect yourself from dark creatures and black magic.

If this homework was done many years ago, it should be a basic skill for a wizard.But with the advent of modern society, not only Muggles, our wizards' life has become more and more convenient, and the dangers we encounter have become less and less. We only need to master the spells commonly used in life, and it is enough to cope 99.9% of the time.

But the reason why we have to learn this course is to deal with the dangers that may be encountered in the 0.1% of the time, because the danger will either not happen, or it may kill us if it happens, and for some dangerous occupations All the more so, we must learn to fight black magic and dark magic creatures.

For those interested in a medical career, Defense Against the Dark Arts is more like a branch of Charms, because they seldom face demons and heretics directly.But for those who want to face the black magic, the essence of this homework is "confrontation"

In my class, I want to train you and train your confrontation ability, from the first grade to the fourth grade, plus you are in the sixth grade. "

Hearing the "confrontation" that Lockhart emphasized, the smiles of the students restrained a little.

"Excuse me, where are the fifth and seventh graders?" A girl timidly raised her hand.

"Unfortunately, they have to take the exam." Loha spread his hands, "so their main homework is to recite, brush up the questions, and practice spells against the scarecrow." Just finished the exam a few months ago.W丄s The wizards suddenly showed gloating smiles—sounds really boring enough.

"Don't worry, you will have to take the exam next year." Lockhart reminded.

Then the smiles on their faces suddenly disappeared again.

Students everywhere are alike, and it's hard not to feel overwhelmed by the thought of spending a whole year studying.

"Excuse me, what do you mean by "confrontation"? A duel?" Another boy raised his hand and asked.

"Dueling is only part of it." Lockhart admitted his thoughts without hesitation, "Considering that most black magic is performed by humans, training duels is a very effective method."

- Hearing that a duel was about to take place, the little wizards present immediately became energetic, while many girls looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Don't be surprised, in fact, duels will take up most of the class time of this class." Lockhart suddenly found a good opportunity to reduce his workload: "For example

,If we face a villain who summoned Fiendfyre, raised a black dragon, or threw floating bombs everywhere, our best way is never to fight Fiendfire, black dragon or floating bombs, but to defeat the dark wizard himself, so dueling skills learning is very necessary. "

He deliberately exaggerated the threat, hoping that these girls could retreat in spite of difficulties.

But unfortunately, no one in the audience moved.

If it's Professor Lockhart, I think... it should be safe. "Penello's speech caused a burst of nodding among the girls.

"I can't guarantee your safety." Lockhart said, "The things I will teach in this class are very practical. At the end of the semester, I will formulate the most suitable magic confrontation for each student. system, and before that, I have to see his or her full potential."

"You mean, tailor-made instruction?"

I have to be responsible for every student, don't I? "Lockhart said helplessly: "If you are a junior student, I will mainly focus on tapping your potential, but you are already 16 or 17 years old, and you are about to become an adult or already an adult. Most of your spell systems have been finalized, so I can only Build it according to your current abilities, if you really don't have the confidence to fight..."

"Then we must participate." Penello said firmly.

Lockhart really didn't expect that his reputation would bring him so much workload.

But there is no way around this. Since he has enjoyed the benefits of fame, he has to bear the corresponding responsibilities.

So far, he has no choice but to go all out: makeup, since you all refuse to give in, let us start the first step now... Tell me first, what spells have you learned so far?Especially apparition, who learned it?Who doesn't yet. "

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay—apparition is still quite difficult, not to mention these children who may have just turned 17 or even not yet, even adult wizards who have graduated for many years, there are not many who can learn to apparate.

"Does it matter?" the Ravenclaw student asked cautiously.

"I'm not trying to scare you. In a one-on-one duel system, whether or not you can Apparate will determine the wizard's style of play. You can use Apparation as you like, you can only use it when you are fully concentrated, and you can't use it at all. Yes, the fighting styles of these three wizards can be said to be quite different. Although people who can’t use Apparition can’t say that they have no chance of winning, they will definitely be passive against those who can use it.”

"You are very good at apparating in the heat of battle?" The students were in disbelief, "I heard from Mr. Treklaus (the official of the Ministry of Magic who took the Apparition exam)..."

"You mean the three of Apparation? Destinatin, Determinatin, and Deliberatin." Lockhart grinned. "It just so happens that I'm good at this kind of self-suggestion."

Chapter 20 Curriculum for second grade

"Have you heard, Fred 0 Defense Against the Dark Arts 0"

"The two of us have been together all the time. When you hear it, I hear it."

"I just wanted to make sure, thank you, but we don't seem to have a defense class today."

"That is to say, there is a whole day for us to inquire."

After the morning class, a gossip began to spread among the students.Everyone was curious about what class the famous Gilderoy Lockhart would teach, so when the senior students finished his class, the younger students immediately started to inquire.

This inquiring made a lot of sense—Lockhart actually wanted to teach dueling directly!

And these people, of course, also included the trio of Harry, Ron and Hermione.

This year they are in the second grade. After the thrilling adventure of the Sorcerer's Stone at the beginning of the year, they have developed a strong interest in Defense Against the Dark Arts. In addition, the three of them have more or less dealt with Lockhart, so Inevitably curious.

But they didn't know many senior students, so they had to take advantage of lunch time and Ron's two twin brothers to stop Percy Weasley in the auditorium and ask him Case.

Percy Weasley replied sternly: "Personally, I think Professor Lockhart's courses should never be described as "interesting". For Miss Granger and I who are good at learning from books For people with knowledge, some of the content may be dangerous..."

"That's awesome!" the Weasley twins said in unison.

Percy frowned dissatisfiedly: "Compared with other courses, the uncertainty of this course is indeed higher. But except for the fifth and seventh grade courses which are quite practical, I don't think the other grades The course schedule is suitable for an on-campus student,

But out of the pursuit of overall consistency, I obey the student head and other prefects collectively..."

"Okay, we got it! Thank you, Percy."

George slapped Percy hard from behind, smacking him with a smack and pushing back what he hadn't finished saying.

"It's something to look forward to this year," the twins assured Harry's trio. "Percy says dangerous things, so it must be very interesting."

Hearing what they said, Harry and Ron were also eager to try.

""No matter what the professor is, he won't be worse than the one last year, at least he won't have someone on the back of his head who wants to kill you all day long. ' said Ron to Harry.

Harry was amused, but Hermione was furious.

"Ron! Professor Lockhart just saved you yesterday!" she yelled at Ron.

Ron was baffled by Hermione's annoyance, "I was saying nice things about him

"Then how can you compare him to that monster?"

"...Isn't it enough to just mention one sentence?" Ron was dumbfounded.

—After a so-so lunch, the trio came to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

Although Hermione was still angry, she didn't have any other friends, and she had to form an iron triangle if she wanted to go to class.

The afternoon sun combined with a full stomach made people drowsy, but Lockhart made up his mind to let everyone in his class face the afternoon refreshed.

Lockhart was still the same, and said first: "Take out your wands and put away your textbooks. You only need those for homework."

There was an uncontrollable cheer from the students.

Apparently not everyone in the senior class was like Percy, who said almost everything but said nothing. They had known for a long time that there was a special small circle between the sixth grade students and Professor Lockhart. Practical exercises.

Although the courses of the fifth and seventh grades are still so boring, considering the imminent exam, I believe that both the parents of the students and the students themselves can accept Lockhart's arrangement.

Lockhart promised them that if the fifth and seventh graders still had enough time to study, they could come to participate in some extracurricular activities after the weekend.However, considering that the fifth graders had almost seven classes a day, and the seventh graders were looking for jobs, Lockhart felt that they would just come and have a look.Those who really need to focus on training are two or three grades before and after Harry Potter.

Lockhart felt that if Dumbledore knew what he thought, he would definitely give himself a raise.

I believe you already know Shimu. My course emphasizes confrontation, because in actual combat, no enemy or black magic creature will stand still for you to cast a spell. All your spellcasting must be done in confrontation and pressure.If you neglect to practice 7 at ordinary times, then your magic spells will definitely not be able to hit accurately in the confrontation, and you may lose your mind and temporarily forget the spells.

But for you, I don't think it's appropriate to learn all kinds of skills and methods from the very beginning, because your spell system has not yet been finalized—in other words, you don't even have a deep understanding of yourself, let alone the spell system.

So in the first few courses, in addition to teaching you some practical little spells, I will also conduct a series of tests on you to confirm your talent bias and give you a basic positioning.

This positioning is very important. It not only allows you to better understand yourself, but also allows you to figure out where you are in the next "team battle".

After you get my position, you can refer to the list of "suggested spells" I gave, learn the key points one by one, and finally complete your own set of systems-your second-year work is limited to this.

Well, anyone who has any questions can ask me now, if there are no questions, we will officially start our first class. "

After saying this, Lockhart looked at the second graders.

- Listening to ask questions, both Harry and Ron instinctively looked at the man beside them.

Although they have only been together for more than a year, they have become accustomed to this girl who must raise her hand to "answer" whenever there is a problem in class.

But they were surprised to find that when Lockhart asked "Who has a problem", the girl remained indifferent, just propped her chin with her hand, and smiled sillily.

Niu Liwende told me that Hermione spent half an hour combing her hair at noon. "Ron whispered to Harry. "I didn't know why, but it's clear now.

Although the original doubt in Harry's heart was resolved, a new doubt flooded his mind again: "Well...why did Lavender tell you this?"

Ron was also puzzled: "Who knows."

Apparently, young boys do mature later than girls emotionally, especially at the age of 12.

After Lockhart asked the question for a while, someone raised his hand timidly:

"Professor, what did you mean by 'test'?"

Everyone looked around and found that it was Neville Longbottom who asked the question.

Lockhart was very happy that someone supported this field, otherwise he would be responsible for guiding the students himself later.

"It's very simple. I will set up a series of scenes to examine the

The quality of the position--this quality includes magic power, accent of chanting, reaction speed, overall planning ability, and whether you have a big heart. Only by knowing the real quality of everyone, can I help you make use of your strengths and avoid weaknesses... Okay, let’s get back to business, no Do you know how well you mastered the "Repelling Curse" last year?"

Hearing this, the little wizards were obviously a little uneasy.

Last year, Professor Quirrell's business level, or the ability to cast black magic, was actually not bad, but unfortunately, his severe stuttering and strong smell of garlic (in order to cover up Voldemort's special smell) made his teaching a joke.