Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Snape didn't target anyone in this class - he targeted everyone. His stormy questions gave everyone a strong warning, and when the lecture officially started, Hufflepuff was deducted 13 points and Ravenclaw was deducted 5 points.

In silence, Snape began to instruct everyone on how to prepare the scabies potion. He divided everyone into groups of two according to their seats, and then with a wave of his wand, the detailed steps were listed on the blackboard, and everyone hurriedly took up their pens to write them down. Wade found that there were some minor adjustments between the content on the blackboard and the steps in the book. If they followed the content in the book completely, they might not be able to prepare the effect that satisfied the professor.

"Sorry." Theo, who was in the same group as Wade, whispered, "I didn't review the text in advance, but I will try not to hold you back."

His amber eyes were sincere, and Wade's depressed mood due to being grouped with the "bad students" was relieved.

"Nothing." Wade said, "The preparation of scabies potion is very simple. As long as you follow the steps, there shouldn't be any problems."

Theo went to get the herbs from the shelf next to him. Wade weighed them on a scale and pushed the snake's fang to Theo with a knife: "You take care of the ingredients, and I'll be responsible for brewing it."

"it is good."

Theo responded, put on protective dragonhide gloves, and ground the snake's fang into a mortar. Wade picked up four slugs with tweezers and put them into the cauldron to boil, carefully controlling the heat with his wand.

A few minutes later, Wade picked out the discolored slugs and set them aside, changed the water and heated it again, while reviewing the cooking steps again. Theo next to him had already processed the snake tooth powder and was now chopping the dried nettles.

Wade was somewhat surprised to find that although this Hufflepuff student looked a little clumsy, he was very careful, and the powder he processed was fine and uniform, without any rough particles or impurities.

Maybe this partner isn't so bad after all.

Vader thought.

Chapter 10 Library

White steam soon came out of the water in the crucible. Wade added snake tooth powder and nettles, stirring it clockwise for two circles and counterclockwise for three circles. The crushed nettles melted quickly like ice.

At this moment, there was a sudden scream in the classroom, and a thick green smoke hissed out. Some students' skin was corroded by the failed potion and they screamed in pain. Theo was startled, "What's going on?"

"Don't be distracted!" Wade didn't even look over there. He thought silently for ten seconds and added the slug into the equation.

"Theo, take away the cauldron."

Theo did it immediately (he was still wearing dragon-hide gloves), while Vader waited a moment, added the two porcupine quills, and stirred five more times clockwise.

The potion immediately underwent a change visible to the naked eye. The disgusting brown-green liquid quickly turned into a green, jelly-like color - this was exactly the color written in the book after the potion was successfully brewed.

Theo looked at the potion in surprise, then at the book, and exclaimed, "It worked! Wade, you did it in one try!"

At the other end of the classroom, Snape, who had just dealt with a potion accident and scolded several students to tears, heard the voice and strode over. He lowered his head and examined it carefully. Finally, under Theo's nervous eyes, he reluctantly said, "Not bad, it still meets the standard. Add one point - each person."

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"--It is said that Professor Snape rarely gives extra points to houses other than Slytherin. I mean, it would be great to get back the points that were deducted." On the way after class, Theo excitedly said to his friend Ryan, "And after our potion is finished, we can use the remaining time to preview the cough potion for the next class. The next time Professor Snape asks a question, I will definitely not be unable to answer a single question!"

Ryan was also happy for him, and added: "The potion in our group has always been a little bit off - it exudes a strange smell, I don't know if it's because the brewing time is too short..."

"Hey, Wade!" A voice came from behind. Michael quickly caught up with Wade and said, "I want to ask, how did you make that light green color? I also followed Professor Snape's steps completely, but I don't know why, the color is a little dark."

"If there are no mistakes in the steps, it should be the difference in the material processing." Wade looked at his partner Theo: "Theo processed the materials very perfectly, and our final product has almost no impurities."

Michael looked at the Hufflepuff in surprise.

Theo seemed unused to being praised. His face slightly blushed and he quickly changed the subject: "By the way, do you have classes in the afternoon? How about going to the library to do homework together?"

Before the get out of class ended, Snape asked them to write a paper on scabies potion that was at least six inches (about 15 cm).

"No need to rush, right?" Michael was not happy: "It's not due tomorrow, there are still several days until Friday!"

He naturally included himself, even though Theo had initially only asked about Vader and Ryan.

"I'll go to the library," Wade said. "It's only six inches. I'll finish it quickly. I won't have to keep thinking about it."

Ryan also nodded: "Library."

Michael was probably a bit of a procrastinator, he hesitated, looking eagerly at the classmates who were discussing going to explore the castle or take a walk by the Black Lake. Two girls giggled and invited Michael to go to the Quidditch field, but Michael hesitated for a while for some reason, and finally trotted to join Wade and the other two.

"Don't you want to go play?" Wade asked him.

Michael sighed, "If everyone else is going to play, I would definitely want to go too. But since some people are doing their homework ahead of time, I feel guilty about playing."

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The library of Hogwarts is on the west side of the castle. The space inside is much larger than it looks from the outside. Wade is sure that some kind of magic to expand the space is used here. The library is divided into several floors, with several staircases moving in it. The criss-crossing bookshelves are arranged silently, with thousands of books in them, and rows of brown desks between the bookshelves.

On the first day of school, there were few students in the library. When the four little wizards looked at the countless books in amazement at the entrance, the librarian, Madam Pince, immediately noticed them.

She walked over quickly, looked down at the four people, and asked, "New students?"

Theo, who was standing at the front, nodded.

"No scratching, tearing, folding, soiling, damaging, or throwing books. No noise. No eating in the library. Do you understand?" Madam Pince said sternly.

Theo nodded quickly, as if he had a vision of Professor Snape.

"You are not allowed to go to the restricted book area. You can read the books in the ordinary area, but you are not allowed to scribble on them! If you want to take them out of the library, you must get my permission. Remember?"

Everyone nodded again.

Madam Pince asked again, "What book are you looking for?"

"Uh...scabies potion...books related to potions." Michael said.

Madam Pince waved her wand in a circle, and a dozen books flew over from several bookshelves.

"That should be enough. Go and study." Madam Pince said with a very faint smile on her face.

A few people held books and found a seat by the window to sit down. Michael flipped through the books, and probably considering that there were four of them, there were two of each book, and the thinnest one was an inch thick - how long would it take to see it?

He flipped through a few books at random, but felt that he had not read a single word. He was wondering if he could first copy a hundred or two hundred words from the text, and then pick a few sentences from a random book to make up the length. Then he heard the sound of a feather pen "swish" across parchment next to him.

"Wade?" Michael asked in surprise, "Did you know how to write it so quickly?"

"Hmm?" Wade said without raising his head: "It's not that difficult."

There were several books in front of him, and he wrote four or five lines in a short while, and the words were not particularly large.

Not only Michael and Theo were dumbfounded, even Ryan, who had never talked much, couldn't help but go to see what Wade wrote.

Wade looked at the expressions of the crowd and realized that he had overlooked something - the children in front of him were all eleven years old, not his classmates in college who could easily write a 1,800-word essay. If these children were from wizard families, they would not have received any systematic school education, and even if they had attended elementary school in a Muggle school, they would not have written many essays.

He didn't mind sharing his thesis experience with a few people.

"Writing a paper is actually very simple." Wade pulled out a blank piece of parchment and whispered as he wrote on it: "Just build a simple framework and fill it with appropriate content. First, briefly introduce the scabies potion; second, the history of this potion, such as who invented it and who improved it; third, write about the configuration process and precautions; fourth, analyze why the potion does not meet the standards, what accidents will occur if the configuration is improper, how to deal with the accidents, etc.; fifth, you can analyze the effects of several materials and their reactions to each other in detail. You can read "Thousands of Magical Herbs" and "Introduction to Common Potion Materials" for this; sixth, write about the symptoms corresponding to the scabies potion, the causes of the disease, symptoms, potion usage, past cases, etc., and you can also compare it with similar potions, such as comparing their materials, brewing time, cost price, efficacy, etc. Finally, you can make a simple summary and write down your own ideas. There are too many things to write about. You can just choose two or three of them and you should be able to complete a qualified paper."

The three of them were silent for a long time, and suddenly they pulled out parchment at the same time and began to copy quickly - not doing homework, but copying down everything Wade wrote.

"You are such a genius, Wade!" Michael exclaimed as he copied, "This is simply the secret recipe for a paper!"

Theo nodded. "That's right! I feel like I can write any paper from now on—not to mention six inches, even six feet!"

Ryan paused, thought for a moment, and said seriously, "Six feet won't do! Six feet is still too much. I can't write it."

Vader and the other two couldn't help laughing.

Chapter 11 History of Magic

The afternoon class was History of Magic, and Ravenclaw and Slytherin took the class together. Sitting in front of Wade was a boy with light blond hair, and he was followed by two chubby little followers. Wade recognized the boy as Draco Malfoy, the villain who had been at loggerheads with the protagonist for seven years in the original book. But the relationship between Slytherin and Ravenclaw was okay, and Malfoy did not spray venom at everyone. On the contrary, except that he spoke in a somewhat arrogant manner and liked to show off his family background and wealth intentionally or unintentionally, he was quite polite in the classroom.

But his attitude towards his arch-enemy Harry Potter must be different.

When Professor Binns appeared in the classroom through the wall, Malfoy was still talking bad about Harry Potter to his followers: "Showing off the scar on his head all day long, as if it was so great - and hanging out with the stinky Weasleys, with the shabby smell of their family all over him -"

The surrounding Ravenclaws all looked sideways and quietly distanced themselves from the Slytherins.

——No matter what happens in the future, Harry Potter is still a hero in the eyes of many wizards, and the children in the school basically grew up listening to his stories. Draco Malfoy's words naturally made everyone a little disgusted, and at the same time reminded others of some facts that have been covered up.

"I heard that Malfoy - I mean Draco Malfoy's father is a Death Eater who follows You-Know-Who -" Michael whispered to Wade, "It is said that after You-Know-Who was defeated by Harry Potter, his father claimed that he was under the Imperius Curse and donated a large amount of money to the Ministry of Magic, which is how he escaped from prison. Looking at his expression, it is obvious that his father still hates Harry Potter for defeating his master, so he was influenced by him..."

Wade shook his head secretly. He knew that Draco Malfoy certainly didn't think that much. He seemed to want to make friends with Harry Potter at first, but his arrogant attitude made Harry Potter look down on him. How could the arrogant young master have suffered such an injustice? So he persisted in opposing the savior.

"Don't take it lightly, and don't get close to Malfoy." Michael reminded: "Their family is the one that cares most about bloodline among the twenty-eight holy families."

"Twenty-eight Holy Clans?" This involves Wade's blind spot in knowledge.

"There are 28 pure-blood families. They have no Muggle ancestors, and no one in the family has ever married a Muggle." Michael said nonchalantly, "But my dad said it was all nonsense, because many of the families listed have Muggle ancestors, or they claim to have Muggle ancestors."

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It must be said that the History of Magic was indeed a boring class. Because the ghost professor Binns who taught them was always reading the lecture in a hypnotic voice, neither asking questions nor caring about what the students were doing. He spoke with a wheezing sound and unclear tone. In less than five minutes, half of the students in the classroom lay down, and the remaining half were basically either dozing off or secretly drawing squares on the parchment for taking notes to play board games.

Wade blocked out Professor Binns' hypnotic voice and drew a timeline on paper, listing important dates, historical figures and major events in the history of magic - these are also the things that are tested in the wizarding history exam. On Wade's desk was a book called "Hogwarts: A History" borrowed from the library. Comparing the two, one could not help but imagine what magnificent adventures and struggles the four founders of Hogwarts had in history, and what role Hogwarts played in the following thousand years.

History itself is actually very interesting, but Professor Binns made the class boring.

When the get out of class was over, Professor Binns' voice stopped abruptly and slowly floated away through the wall. Wade woke Michael up, and the two went to the library together to finish their History of Magic homework - a foot-long paper on the reign of terror of the demon Emeric.

"No one in the whole Hogwarts is more diligent than you." Michael muttered as he was doing his homework: "I bet other students must wait until the last day to do their homework!"

Before he could finish his words, a staggering figure passed by the two of them - Hermione was carrying a thick stack of books. When she saw Wade, she stopped and put the books on the table. Michael felt that the whole desk shook.

"Hi, Wade." Hermione greeted, sat down directly, and asked, "How is Ravenclaw?"

"There's nothing wrong with it except that there are too many stairs to climb." Wade introduced: "Hermione, this is Michael Corner. Michael, this is Hermione Granger, we met on the train."

"Hello." Hermione was as brave and enthusiastic as a little lion. She stretched out her hand and said, "Are you also a Ravenclaw?"

Michael looked at the height of the stack, swallowed, shook his hand and said hesitantly, "But... maybe?"

In front of these two, he deeply felt that he might not be worthy of calling himself a Ravenclaw.

"—maybe?" Hermione frowned.

Feeling the blood suppression of some kind of biological chain, Michael's stature inexplicably became shorter. He asked in a low voice: "Can I ask... why did you take so many books? Are you going to read them all?"

"Of course! These are the books I plan to finish reading this week." Hermione said as a matter of course.

Michael's face turned pale, and he looked at Wade and asked him: What's going on? A week? Even more crazy than you?

Vader raised an eyebrow at him slightly.

Michael stopped complaining about Wade dragging him to do homework and lowered his head to concentrate on completing the rest of his paper. Wade, who had already completed the paper, continued to make his own timeline.

"Oh, your method is very useful." Hermione leaned over to take a look and suggested, "But I think it would be more inspiring to combine it with Muggle history."

"Well, I plan to add to that later." Wade pushed the part he had finished to her and said, "You've read more books than me. Can you help me check if there is anything that needs to be revised in the previous part?"

"Let me see." Hermione did not refuse. After taking a closer look, she said, "Here, the exact time when the wand was born is unknown. Melaina Sims's main contribution was to study the magical properties of eighteen kinds of wand wood, and to propose the wand adaptation theory and Sims formula..."