Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 242 Snape's Defense Against the Dark Arts
The match Cedric was talking about was next Saturday, Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff.

Mike actually knew about this a long time ago.

After all, if you have a Quidditch fanatic like Franklin around you, it's hard not to know these things.

As the first important game of the season, Gryffindor's opponent should have been Slytherin.

However, when the Slytherin Quidditch captain learned that there would be a storm on the day of the game, he submitted an application for avoidance without hesitation, on the grounds that their seeker Draco's arm injury had not healed yet.

Mike was very surprised when he heard the news. Of course, he was not surprised that the captain of the Slytherin team knew the weather on the day of the game so many days in advance.

The study of astrology combined with divination can easily predict the weather for many days in the future, with a much higher accuracy than the weather forecast in Muggle society.

Mike was surprised that Draco hadn't taken off his disguise until now. It seemed that he didn't listen to his warning last time.

Naturally Mike had to be present at Cedric's first game of the semester. After all, Cedric brought so many people to show his support, so he should go as well to reciprocate.

So he encouraged everyone he could call to go and cheer for Cedric and Harry, including Penelope, Franklin and other students who were more talented in the Patronus Charm.

Although these people are still far from being able to release a physical version of the guardian angel, they can still release some faint light, but it is not very useful.

Mike did not gather these people to ask them to help resist the Dementors that would invade the stadium, but to make an example and let everyone know that he was an excellent teacher and that as long as they followed his instructions and studied hard, they would be able to learn the Patronus Charm.

This is the best publicity. When more people come, it will be convenient for Mike to set a higher threshold.

As for what you said, what if the Dementors don’t come?
In the book, they attacked Harry during this match, so they will come this time too.

Even if they don't plan to come, Mike will find a way to make them come!
After finishing all these things during the lunch break, Mike took a group of Ravenclaw classmates to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

Now Mike has become the undisputed king of Ravenclaw House. Not only do his classmates of the same grade and younger grades follow his lead, but even his classmates of higher grades respect him very much.

This resulted in a large group of people following him wherever he went.

Mike now finally understood Cedric's feelings. This kind of ceremony looked impressive, but it was actually very troublesome.

He basically has no privacy now. He can't do anything private because even when he goes to the bathroom, there will be several classmates with him!

He would even secretly look at Little Mike, and then reveal an expression of inferiority!

When Mike and others arrived at the classroom, the professor waiting in the classroom was not Lupin, but Snape.

Mike was not surprised by this. It was the full moon these days, and Lupin, as a werewolf, would transform at this time, so it would not be appropriate for him to come to class.

But since Dumbledore invited Lupin to be a professor, he naturally made all the necessary preparations. After all, werewolfism is not an untreatable disease.

Wolfsbane potion!

This is the magic potion to cure lycanthropy!
This potion is actually just a werewolf transformation inhibition potion and cannot completely cure werewolf disease.

But its production is so difficult that it makes people's scalps numb. It is said that there are no more than two hands of people in the whole of Europe who can make this potion!

Snape, as it happened, was one of them.

Every time the full moon came, Snape would prepare wolfsbane potion in advance and give it to Lupin to drink. Due to the side effects of the wolfsbane potion, Lupin would fall into a very weak period.

At this time, the kind-hearted Snape would help his former classmate to the end and take charge of a few Defense Against the Dark Arts classes for him.

Of course Snape wouldn't be so kind. He and Lupin had a deep hatred for each other. Asking him to help prepare the wolfsbane potion was already the limit.

Mike even suspected that Snape had put some drug in the wolfsbane potion, making Lupin extremely weak.

Because Mike searched through all the information and found no record of wolfsbane potion having such serious side effects.

"Well, Professor Lupin is not feeling well, so I will take over the class today!" Snape glanced at the clock and saw that the time had come, so he began to teach. "Before this, I have learned about your current progress from students in other classes. I think poor Lupin has seriously underestimated you! After all, when I was your age, I was already able to deal with the red hats independently!"

The students in the audience looked at each other, all doubting what Snape said.

The Red Caps were level 4x dangerous creatures, and were extremely good at sneak attacks. They didn't think Snape would be that strong in his third year.

Mike doesn't think so. Snape is a tough guy who invented the Sharpness Curse when he was a student. It is not a difficult task for him to deal with a red hat in the third grade.

"Quiet!"

Snape shouted when he saw the crowd below was noisy. When everyone shrank their necks like quails and stopped talking, he continued:

"Now, please turn to page 394!"

There was an immediate sound of pages turning from the audience, and when everyone turned to the designated position in the book, they looked at each other in confusion.

"Werewolf? This isn't right. How can we possibly deal with this?"

"Yeah, Professor Lupin is the best. According to the curriculum, we were supposed to learn about the Dark Goblin today! Damn it! I've been looking forward to this for a long time!"

"Who says it isn't?"

……

Michael saw all of this. Lupin was indeed a good teacher. This became particularly obvious after his predecessor had ruined the reputation of the Defense Against the Dark Arts course.

He is very good at letting students learn knowledge while having fun, helping students overcome their fear of dark magic creatures and deal with them in a calmer and more interesting way.

This is true for Boggarts, for Kelpie, and for Red Caps.

But Snape was different. Having taught the obscure Potions for a long time, he did not have much patience. His teaching method was to be straightforward and instill as much knowledge as possible into you in the shortest possible time.

As for how much you can understand, that is not within his consideration.

If you can't keep up with the learning progress, it means you are not talented enough and you are a monster with shit in your head!
And Snape has never had the slightest liking for fools.

But today was different. Snape showed another side of him and patiently introduced werewolves and lycanthropy to everyone.

In order to prevent everyone from being unable to tell the difference between werewolves and ordinary people, he even repeated the key points several times until he was sure that everyone could easily tell the difference between werewolves and ordinary people.

Mike knew what he wanted to do.

After recuperating in Hogwarts for so long, Lupin's body has returned to health. Not only does he have more flesh on his body, but even his originally gray hair has returned to its original color.

This obviously made Snape very unhappy, so Snape wanted the students to discover Lupin's werewolf identity by themselves, so that Lupin would get out of Hogwarts, lose this well-paid job, and return to that quagmire.

Mike had to say that Snape was indeed a smart man, because when Snape triumphantly announced the end of get out of class and walked out of the classroom, Mike found that at least three people in the classroom had thoughtful expressions on their faces.

“There are still a lot of smart people!”

Mike exclaimed.

There has never been a shortage of smart people in this world. Objectively speaking, Hermione's IQ is only average, far from the level of a genius.

If you have to say it, she is just a genius who has been made through hard work. The rich knowledge gained from long-term reading of poetry and books, coupled with the contrast of Ron and Harry, makes people think that she is a genius.

In fact, the real genius is much stronger than her.

Take Harry's mother Lily for example.

She was once known as the most gifted genius in modern times. No matter what kind of spell it was, she could learn it immediately. No matter how profound the potion formula was, she could easily make it...

Do you really think that the ancient family spell that allowed Harry to survive the Killing Curse is so easy to learn?
Rather than saying that Harry, the child of destiny, defeated Voldemort at his peak, it would be more accurate to say that Lily and Voldemort died together.

Now that I say this, you should understand how strong Lily is, right?
A woman who can die together with Voldemort!

Mike smiled and shook his head, threw all the mess out of his mind, then got rid of his large group of admirers and went to Lupin's office alone.

He had to remind Lupin to keep up his disguise, he still needed Lupin.

At this stage, no one will expose Lupin's identity as a werewolf because everyone is still in the stage of carefully verifying it.

For a long time to come, many eyes will be closely watching Lupin. Once their suspicions are confirmed, Lupin's expulsion will be inevitable.

After all, Lupin is a werewolf, and werewolves in the wizarding world are like AIDS patients in Muggle society!
When Mike arrived at the Defense Against the Dark Arts office, he saw Lupin lying in a recliner with a thick blanket covering him, sleeping soundly, like an old farmer who was tired after working in the farm in winter.

Judging from his bloodless lips, he was in a very bad condition. It was as if the sufficient nutrition he had had some time ago had been taken away from him overnight, turning him back into that thin middle-aged man.

"Professor Lupine?"

Mike asked softly.

Lupin was a light sleeper, and his eyes opened slightly as soon as Mike spoke.

"Ah, Mike."

Lupin was breathing heavily and responded to Mike's call weakly.

Seeing him like this, Mike became more certain that Snape must have put drugs in the wolfsbane potion, otherwise there would not be such serious side effects.

"You look very ill."

"Yeah, ahem!" Lupin coughed twice and said, "How was your class today? Did Snape give you any trouble? Ahem!"

Lupin started coughing violently again just after he finished speaking. Mike moved slightly away from Lupin, and waited until Lupin's breathing became more stable before saying:

"It's not good. He is hinting at your identity as a werewolf. And the worst thing is, someone must have started to suspect you."

"Is that right?"

Lupin was stunned at first, then became very disappointed, lowered his head and remained silent for a long time. After a long while, he pretended to be optimistic and said:

"Looks like I have to change jobs again."

"Don't you hate him?"

"Hate? That's not the case. After all, I owe him this." Lupin's expression tightened at first, then relaxed. "You know what? Don't look at Snape like this now. When he was young, he was a punching bag. We called him Snotlout back then..."

Lupin became more and more excited as he spoke, telling him everything about how they bullied Snape during their school days.

Although to Mike this sounded like a story of a rich second-generation playboy seizing someone's childhood sweetheart and bullying her in school, Lupin told the story happily and even had a smile on his face at the end.

As he was speaking, the smile on Lupin's face suddenly disappeared, and then he said with a heavy face: "Do you know? Snape almost died because of me."

Mike looked at him in surprise, quietly waiting for what to come.

"I was already a werewolf at the time, and whenever I was about to transform, I would go through the secret passage under the Whomping Willow to an abandoned house in Hogsmeade Village and vent my anger inside.

Later, James found out, and he took Blake and Peter and turned into animals to keep me company.

Risk contracting lycanthropy to help me!"

Lupin burst into tears when he said this.

"But Snape, the snotty guy, found out something about this. He wanted to follow us but he didn't know how to open the secret passage. So he was trapped under the Whomping Willow.

As you know, the Whomping Willow is a very aggressive magical creature. People who are entangled by it are basically hopeless.

Fortunately, we found him later, and James risked his life to rescue him, but he was still seriously injured and even punished by the professors. "

Mike's eyes narrowed unconsciously. He knew that there was a secret passage under the Whomping Willow, but he couldn't explain how he knew it, because even the Marauder's Map didn't mark this secret passage.

Now Sirius Black is hiding in the abandoned house that Lupin mentioned. Mike originally couldn't find a reason to find him naturally. Now, after today's conversation, Mike can go to find Black openly.

After making the decision, Mike decided not to waste time with Lupin any more. He smiled and said, "I still hope you can cheer up. To be honest, your classes are really interesting. We all hope you can continue to be a professor.

So please disguise yourself as best as you can. The more convincing the better, and don't let them find out."

"Aren't you afraid of me?"

Lupin's trembling voice reached Mike's ears, causing Mike to smile slightly and say, "Of course, you won't bite me."

Lupin fell silent, big tears streaming down his face.

"Then I won't disturb your rest. I wish you a speedy recovery!"

(End of this chapter)