Harry Potter Raven's Claw

After finishing the conversation with Slughorn, Mike returned to the lounge and came to the Black Magic Defense Class classroom without stopping after meeting with Franklin.

That's right, they will take this section of the Black Magic Defense class by Professor Snape.

At this time, a lot of students had gathered in the classroom of the Black Magic Defense Class, all of which were Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.

Obviously, due to Voldemort's recent return and Snape's failure to raise the admission standards for the advanced class of the Black Magic Defense Class, there are particularly many students applying for this subject, so many that Snape had to use class-based teaching methods like in the lower grades.

Just as the Potions Classroom changed due to Slughorn's arrival, the originally bright black magic defense class classroom also changed due to Snape's arrival.

The first is the large floor-to-ceiling windows in the classroom. At this time, they had long been blocked by thick curtains. The entire classroom was illuminated by only a few candles, making it look extremely dim.

There are also many murals on the walls of the classroom that were not originally available. The murals depict all humans suffering from horror, which looks creepy!

Coupled with the cold air in the classroom, these people inevitably reminded the Potions classroom last semester.

Perhaps in order to resist the tension caused by this strange atmosphere, everyone was talking and laughing, trying to bring a little bit of anger to this way.

However, at this moment, with a loud noise, the door of the classroom was closed heavily.

The students who were talking and laughing were startled. They all turned around, all of whom lowered their heads without saying a word.

Mike also turned his head curiously and saw Snape walking towards the podium in a meteor. His steps were so big that his black cloak was bulging by the wind, and it looked like a pair of black bat wings grew behind Snape.

Snape soon came to the podium. He raised his head and looked down at the people below. After a while, he said in a cold and empty voice without any emotion:

"I didn't ask you to take out the book."

As soon as this said, Mike heard a lot of rustling sounds around him. It seemed that many people should have taken out the books in advance.

Snape continued until the sound stopped:

"What I want to say next is very important, and I hope each of you can focus!"

Snape walked down from the podium while saying that.

"So far, you have changed five professors in the Dark Magic Defense class. These professors have their own different teaching concepts and teaching methods. In this chaos, I am surprised that so many people have passed the OWL exam. I guess those Ministry of Magic officials who have scored the paper must have let the water go. What do you think?"

Snape pressed heavily on the shoulder of a Hufflepuff. The poor child's body shook violently, while the Hufflepuffs around him lowered his head in fear. They knew very well that what Snape said now was completely aimed at them. Unlike the situation where almost all the staff on Ravenclaw were good or excellent, their black magic defense class scores were all passed by at low altitude.

"Come on, I'd be even more surprised if you can keep up with the progress of the class, because its content is more advanced."

Snape said as he patted the Hufflepuff on the shoulder, then walked towards Ravenclaw.

This scene surprised Mike because Snape actually encouraged those Hufflepuffs just now!

Although it is a bit sarcastic, this is obviously Snape's unique way of encouragement!

This is a very rare sight!

Unfortunately, the Hufflepuffs didn't seem to appreciate it.

They were relieved to see Snape leave. The Hufflepuff boy who was patted on his shoulder even touched his pants. It seemed that he was checking whether he had peed his pants and had no intention of trying hard.

Seeing this, Mike shook his head helplessly, and Snape said slowly:

"Black magic! There are many kinds, and powerful... Fighting with them is like dealing with a powerful Hydra! If you cut off one head, you will grow two more powerful and cunning heads!"

Mike wanted to laugh a little, and Snape's words reminded him of some comics he had read in his previous life.

"So," Snape suddenly raised the volume, "your defense must also be as varied and creative as black magic!"

Snape's sudden increase in volume made the students' spirits suddenly, and then he pointed to the mural on the wall.

"These pictures vividly show the situations of the victims. For example, the life-seeking curse (he pointed to an oil painting with the protagonist lying on the ground with a pale face). For example, the flame curse (a large piece of human-shaped coke), the explosion curse (a fragmented corpse)...."

As Snape began to introduce the meaning expressed in these murals, the students' expressions gradually became frightened. Of course, Mike still maintained his expressionless face, and he even felt a little bored because the things Snape said were too low-level.

Perhaps because he noticed Mike's thoughts, after introducing these murals, Snape returned to the podium and said to everyone:

"I think you should be very unfamiliar with the silent mantra. Can anyone tell me what the silent mantra is useful?"

The classroom was silent, everyone lowered their heads, and no one raised their hands at all.

Snape looked around and finally set his eyes on Mike.

"Mike, please answer this question."

"Good professor." Mike stood up and said, "The silent mantra can prevent your opponent from judging the spell you are about to release through spells, so that you can gain some advantages. Of course, this is just a surface effect. In fact, the silent mantra's silence and silence advantage is also very useful when attacking. And its ultimate function is to speed up your casting speed and enable you to release the spell at an almost instantaneous speed. Of course, it also has its shortcomings. First of all, learning the silent mantra is very difficult, and its power is much smaller than that of the audio mantra."

"It's a good talk." Snape nodded, "At least you can still combine it with reality. This is much better than Miss Wanshi, so she can only read the script. OK, sit down."

Mike sat down with a smile, while Franklin beside him muttered dissatisfiedly.

As usual, Snape should give Mike a bonus, but he obviously didn't do that.

But Mike didn't care about this little thing. Instead, he gave Franklin a gesture to silence, because if Snape found out that he was still lying here, the consequence would be not great.

Fortunately, Snape didn't seem to notice the situation here. He raised his head, shook his greasy hair, and said:

"Today our task is to practice the silent mantra. Now you are divided into two groups. One tries to cast a mantra to the other, but you are not allowed to recite it. The other tries to repel the evil mantra, and you are not allowed to speak. Let's start."

After saying that, Professor Snape threw his magic wand all the desks in the classroom and was thrown to both sides of the classroom by a huge force.

The students of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff looked at each other, and finally raised their wands to the classmates around them under Snape's threatening gaze.

Although there are many people who want to find Mike to form a team to practice, Mike finally chose Franklin.

There is no way to do this. Compared to educating others, Mike is more willing to cultivate Franklin, his own person.

To be honest, Mike thinks Snape is a relatively competent professor of black magic defense, at least much better than Umbridge before and Kilow, who only reads scripts in the first grade.

After all, he is already trying his best to improve the strength of the students to face the next Voldemort invasion. This can be seen from the advanced spell casting skills he taught everyone to silently spell. Otherwise, if Snape really surrendered to Voldemort, he could let the students study freely, just like Quirrell before, so that when Voldemort really invades Hogwarts, he would save some effort.

However, although Snape was already teaching everyone with all his heart, the students were obviously not very grateful. Various cheating methods emerged in the practice of silent mantras, such as the two people around Mike. Although they were very quiet when chanting the mantras and almost invisible to their lips, Mike still found that they were secretly chanting the mantras, and there were many people doing this.

This is actually a very stupid thing, because even Mike can easily detect their cheating methods, let alone Snape.

That's right, Mike was sure that Snape must have noticed these people's small actions, but for some reason, Professor Snape, who used to treat students extremely harshly, chose to ignore this behavior.

On the contrary, those students who practiced seriously but had little effect were scolded by Snape. Snape's thin lips kept opening and closing, spraying venom at them, but at the same time they were constantly pointing out the mistakes they made during the practice.

The students who were reprimanded all looked gray. Snape was indeed an old Yin-Yang man and had a good reputation for beating people.

The cheating students laughed sneering when they saw this.

Mike shook his head disdainfully. In his opinion, these self-righteous people are the stupidest. They think that no one notices their own methods, and they are even laughing at those who work hard, but they do not know that they have been given up.

Mike withdrew his gaze and looked at Franklin again.

He planned to teach Franklin well in this class, because the role of silent spell in combat is really important. Whether he has mastered the release of silent spells of more than double digits is even set as one of the graduation review conditions for the Auror training class, this means that only a wizard who has mastered the silent spell can be called a real combat wizard.

"Come on, cast a silent spell on me, you can choose whatever spell you are best at."

Mike said to Franklin, who looked embarrassed.

Franklin was really not confident at all about the Silent Curse, and he thought it was too difficult.

Fortunately, Franklin did not think that those people were as smart as themselves. After struggling for a while, Franklin agreed.

Immediately afterwards, the two of them pulled out their wands and pointed them at each other.

Franklin gritted his teeth and prevented himself from chanting a spell. At the same time, the wand in his hand kept waving up and down in the air, and soon drew a strange trajectory in the air.

This is ‘weapons you’.

Mike easily recognized the spell through Franklin's wand track.

But this is not the right choice. The disarming spell is a more advanced attack spell among the black magic defense technique. As a beginner of silent spells, it is obviously not advisable to choose such an advanced spell for the first time you try it.

As Mike expected, when Franklin's first attempt at silent curse failed, and because of the lack of guidance of the final stage spell, the magic power in his body that was guided by the correct wand swinging movements also broke down.

Looking at the twitching muscles on Franklin's face, Mike also gasped.

This reminded him of his experience when he was learning the silent mantra. The feeling of being out of control of the magic was not good, and the pain was like being hit by a weakened version of the Heart-Diamond.

Mike shook his head and was about to remind Franklin, but before he could say his words, he heard a familiar voice coming from the side.

"Ha! Another idiot! Do you think you are Merlin? He actually chose the disarming curse from the beginning. I really should open your head and take a look, because I guess there should be nothing inside." Snape said quickly in a tone that looked like a singing voice, "Or this was Mr. Tony taught you? Oh! I think I should understand that there is always a idiot around celebrities who can highlight their genius, just like Weasley next to Mr. Porter. And you are the idiot around Mr. Tony, right? It exists just to highlight Mr. Tony's genius!"

Franklin clenched his teeth, and even made a creaking sound of grinding teeth in his mouth.

Mike believed that if he hadn't been able to beat Snape, Franklin would have gone up and fought with him now.

In order to prevent Franklin from making any impulsive moves, Mike stepped forward and patted Franklin on the shoulder and said loudly:

"Okay, calm down, Franklin. Do you know with the 'front teeth stick'? Use the simplest spell to experiment again, remember that you must use your mental power to mobilize your magic in the end, rather than using words like before. Come on, let's pull it again."

Franklin glared at Snape fiercely before raising his wand again.

At this time, Snape also closed his mouth and looked at Franklin who was preparing to cast the spell in a calm manner.

Obviously, he still remembers his responsibilities as a professor.

Compared with the disarming spell, the casting steps of the "Incisor Stick" are much simpler. Franklin took a deep breath, and the wand in his hand slowly slid through the air, and finally pointed at Mike.

At the same time, Mike and Snape opposite each other held their breath at the same time.