The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 436 Preparation for the Exam (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
June is here, the weather is slowly getting hotter, and the days are getting longer. The sun shines on the earth, making the lake, the lawn and even the Hogwarts castle sparkle. But for the fifth year students, this only means one thing: their OwLs exams are finally here.

Everyone was a little excited for a day or two after the Quidditch match ended, but soon the pressure of the exams silenced these fifth and seventh year students again.

All professors no longer gave them homework; except for Professor Binns, the rest of the class time was used to review the questions that the professors thought were most likely to appear in the exam. As for Professor Binns, since death could not stop him from teaching, the small OwLs exams certainly would not stop him. But everyone learned to memorize something or take a short break in his class.

Ryan and Hermione shared their notes with the students who came to ask, which naturally earned them a lot of favors. In particular, the members of the reading club who were facing exams all had two people's notes. For them, the practice in the reading club made it easy for them to use magic in practice. However, they still needed some extra help in reciting some texts.

Many students began to behave strangely, for example, Ernie Macmillan became more and more fond of asking others about their revision times, while Malfoy boasted about his family's connections in public.

The same thing happened to Hermione. Ryan found that she often muttered to herself, and her long-term concentration on studying had messed up her biological clock. He could only take Hermione to the cafeteria to eat on time every day and let her take a break. Otherwise, she would probably keep using the radiation world nutrient that Ryan had given her before to solve the problem of eating.

Of course, as a magical world, many wizards try to use magic to solve problems, such as some magic potions. Ryan saw Eddie Carmichael, a sixth-year student from Ravenclaw, trying to sell a bottle of Buffy Brain Refresher to Harry and Ron, and the two of them seemed very interested, and Harry even started to touch his wallet.

"Two idiots!" Seeing this, Hermione put down her pen and walked over. This is what she and Ryan often do as prefects recently: confiscate those obviously problematic drugs. In the past two days, they have confiscated more than 30 bottles of things that claim to help people concentrate, refresh their minds, and stay awake.

"Harry and Ron actually believe that this stuff works." Hermione put the medicine on the table. Ryan took it and smelled it, and immediately figured out what it was.

"Some kind of mind-refreshing potion with a bunch of useless ingredients added?" Ryan put the bottle on the table. "These Ravenclaws are at least a little better than those guys in our house. For example, they use air-dried and ground fox feces to impersonate dragon claw powder. To be honest, dragon claw powder can really make people's memory very good for a few hours. But the price is that the brain will be in a short-circuit state from time to time for several days afterwards. If used too much, this short-circuit state will become a permanent problem."

"Yeah, but I don't understand why so many people want to buy it." Hermione picked up the book and started reciting it.

Just like everyone exchanging yearbooks before the college entrance exam, the Hogwarts castle was also filled with sadness and parting. Especially for some of the seventh graders' junior lovers. For example, Ryan saw Zhang Qiu crying in the corner that day while hugging Cedric.

In the Transfiguration class, Professor McGonagall, the vice-president, informed everyone of the specific time and arrangement of the examination. This arrangement was much more relaxed than the college entrance examination, and there were not exams every day. In the examination, all written tests were uniformly scheduled in the morning, and practical operations were scheduled in the afternoon.

Of course, the same speech as the class teacher and school leaders before the college entrance examination. What was repeatedly reiterated was that cheating was strictly prohibited - Professor McGonagall repeatedly explained to every student how perfect the anti-cheating measures for this exam were: "I must remind you that your test papers have been cast with the most stringent anti-cheating spells. It is strictly forbidden to bring automatic answering feather pens into the examination hall, and there are also memory balls, detachable clip cuffs and automatic error correction ink..."

Of course, this kind of speech didn't work very well. Just like Professor McGonagall said, every year someone tries to bypass this rule to pass the exam, and their fate is terrible. But this has nothing to do with Ryan, because he has already reviewed everything.

Finally, Professor McGonagall told everyone that an owl would deliver the report cards to everyone in July after Hermione asked. Ryan thought that he might be back from visiting his parents in China by then, otherwise the examination committee would have to find an owl that could fly long distances to deliver the report cards to him and Hermione. On the last Sunday before the exam, Ryan spent an extremely fulfilling last day before the exam. After reviewing, he had nothing to do, so he promised Hermione to help her review on Sunday. As a result, he released no less than fifteen life magics to soothe emotions throughout the day. Because Hermione seemed very agitated during the review, she always took the textbook back from him to check whether her answers were correct, and even almost slapped the book on Ryan's face.

But even with the help of magic, Hermione was still not very calm. Even Ryan, who was sitting on her left during the meal, could see her taking out a book to read. Finally, Ryan couldn't stand it anymore and covered the book with his hand: "With your current level, I think you can get all Os if you take the NEWT exam directly. Now eat well. Otherwise, your stomach upset will affect your exam tomorrow."

After a few seconds of stalemate, Hermione took a deep breath, nodded, put away the book, and then ate the whole meal absentmindedly.

While they were eating, Umbridge walked in very nervously with a small group of old wizards and witches. No matter how arrogant she was in school, she could only talk to these elders who had a transcendent status in the wizarding world respectfully.

For example, old Gelsalda March, whose face was covered with wrinkles like a spider web, repeatedly said that it was extremely stupid for Hogwarts to let Headmaster Dumbledore leave. Umbridge looked as if she had swallowed a mouthful of stinky juice, but she didn't dare to say a word. This made most of the students feel very relieved.

Think about it, you can be the invigilator for Dumbledore, who is now 112 years old, and you can still be the invigilator for so many years. One can imagine the level and connections of this old wizard.

Not to mention that these examiners are not even under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Magic. They have enough strength and connections to ignore the Ministry's orders. For example, the examiner who supervised Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts in the original text did not take into account the Ministry's intention to suppress Harry. So facing these people, Umbridge had to endure all kinds of criticism. Otherwise, if she dared to talk back today, she would probably be kicked out of the Ministry tomorrow, and even Fudge couldn't save her.

That night, most of the students who were going to take the exam tomorrow lit the incense they bought from the Weasley twins in their dormitories before going to bed. The next morning, at breakfast, except for the Slytherin students who insisted on not buying anything from pure-blood traitors and mudbloods, most of the other students were in good spirits. According to Professor McGonagall, you are the best group of students in the exam state since I became a professor.

It looks like Weasley's Joke Shop is about to release a flagship product, Ryan thought as he looked at everyone's state.

After dinner, the other grades went to class, and the seventh and fifth graders wandered around the foyer aimlessly, looking visibly nervous.

Ryan was a rare exception. Not only was he not nervous, he even had time to comfort his acquaintances. This was normal. How could someone who had seen the battlefields of thousands of troops and the equally crowded college entrance examination halls of China be overly nervous before such an exam?

Finally, it was half past nine and the exam was about to begin.

(End of this chapter)