Hogwarts: Don't call me Wandmaker

Chapter 265 Challenge (Speed ​​Version)

After the Charms exam, there wasn't much else to do that day. To allow everyone enough rest, Hogwarts typically only had two exams a day.

But after dinner, most students did not choose to rest, but instead began to review their studies on protecting magical creatures, potions, and astronomy.

The next morning, everyone came to the field to take the exam for the Protecting Magical Creatures class. Hagrid had prepared several hippogriffs in advance, saying that to pass the exam, one had to be able to ride them around the castle.

The hippogriff was something they learned after Easter, and most people remembered it clearly. They could complete the test by simply walking up to them and bowing to them; it wasn't too difficult.

It is said that Hagrid initially wanted to use Cerberus as a test question, but Professor McGonagall sternly refused, saying she would never agree to him doing so.

In the end, Hagrid had no choice but to change the exam questions to the current ones this morning.

Thank you, Professor McGonagall. If Hagrid had actually brought his three-headed dog, Fluffy, not to mention the students, even the people at the Wizarding Examinations Authority would have been trembling with fear.

This has nothing to do with the personality of the Cerberus; the mere presence of this magical creature is enough to instill fear in most people instinctively.

In contrast, the hippogriff was much more docile... at least they weren't twenty feet tall.

Siren encountered a small problem in this lesson; his hippogriff seemed to be grumpy, sulking and not returning the greeting.

Then they were stuck there.

Fortunately, Hagrid noticed the unusual situation in time and immediately found an excuse to give Siren a new partner.

This time it went much more smoothly. Xiren rode the winged hippogriff named Buckbeak, flew around the castle for a long time, and then landed smoothly on the ground.

Hagrid clapped loudly.

"Perfect score." Taking advantage of the proctor's inattention, he walked over to Xilun and the others and said in a very low voice, "Your performance just now was fantastic."

“Thank you for the compliment, Professor,” Harry said with a smile.

He had just fulfilled Hagrid's request, which was even more exhilarating than riding a broomstick. Now, with Hagrid's hint, he was overjoyed, as if he had just been given a happiness spell, and his mouth hadn't closed since.

His good mood lasted until the afternoon potions exam, which was a complete disaster.

This was true for Harry, and it was also true for Siron.

He was assigned a very old-fashioned cauldron with a thick bottom, making it difficult for the potion inside to boil.

All the time notes from before are no longer valid. Xilun must re-examine the state of the potion in the cauldron to determine when to add ginger root and belladonna powder.

After the exam, Xilun felt even more tired than he had been all day yesterday.

He wanted to get a good night's sleep, but he couldn't now. In third grade, he had to take an astronomy exam in the middle of the night when the stars were at their brightest.

Professor Sinister asked them to adjust the tangled telescopes, then observe the sky through the telescopes and predict the timing of the next lunar eclipse based on their observations.

They finally came down from the Astronomical Tower at dawn, and then everyone quickly returned to their dormitory to rest, waiting to take the written test on Transfiguration early the next morning.

The exam on Wednesday morning is on the history of magic. The content is the complete process of hunting down witches in the Middle Ages. The more detailed your answer, the better your score.

Hermione wrote the most; the parchment was almost twice the length of Celeste's. If there hadn't been a time limit for the exam, Celeste felt she could have finished the entire parchment.

The herbalism exam was in the afternoon. The June sun baked the greenhouse, and when Xilun came out, his neck felt both sore and itchy from the sun. Almost everyone else felt the same way; they all looked forward to this time tomorrow, when the exam would be over and they could play and do whatever they wanted.

Defense Against the Dark Arts was the penultimate exam, and also the most interesting exam they had experienced so far.

Professor Lu Ping set up an outdoor examination venue and placed several of the most distinctive and magical animals inside.

The students had to wade through a pond with Grindylows, pass through pits full of red hats, cross a swamp inhabited by Hinkpunks, and finally defeat the Boggart guarding the entrance to complete the exam.

It's interesting, but also the most difficult of all the exams.

Most students got stuck at the Red Hat level, and a few, misled by Hinkpunk, ended up in a waist-deep swamp.

It can only be said that none of the students in the previous group got a perfect score.

We've finally arrived in West London.

As soon as he stepped into the examination room set up by Professor Lu Ping, he transformed himself into a cat, nimbly leaping over the pond, passing through the pit where the red hats gathered, and running directly across the swamp.

Even the last Boggart ignored Xiren.

Five minutes later, Xilun pushed open the door and walked out of the examination room.

Professor Lupin's lips twitched violently. Sirius had indeed mentioned that Sirius was an Animagus, but he hadn't believed it, finding it too unrealistic for a thirteen-year-old Animagus to be real.

Now that he's seen it with his own eyes, he has no choice but to believe it.

Another feature is Xilun's unique challenge system, which not only broke the record for the fastest completion of each level, but also elevated it to a level that is difficult for others to reach.

Professor Lu Ping was still hesitant, wondering whether this result could be considered valid.

From a rational perspective, Xiren didn't actually pass the test; instead, he skipped all the challenges through another method.

But can such a result really be considered valid? If so, wouldn't it be unfair?

Professor Lu Ping hesitated for a long time, but finally gritted his teeth and decided to keep Xilun's results.

It was because Siron used Animagus transformation that the dark creatures ignored him, and Animagus transformation is also part of his power.

In a sense, Xilun really did pass all the events based on his own ability... so his results are naturally not a problem.

The last session is divination, but that will have to wait until 3 p.m.

Before that, Xilun needed to take an ancient runic exam, which involved translating a document that was said to be related to ancient magicians.

After reading it for a long time, Xilun discovered that it was just a dry and boring academic diary, and that the contents of it had been proven to be wrong five centuries ago.

Xilun also wondered if he had made a mistake, and if the truth was actually not like that.

But as soon as the exam ended, Professor Baburin collected all the exam papers and told everyone that if anyone actually wrote about an ancient magician, no matter how good their content was, they would still fail.

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(End of this chapter)