Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

Because all electives are taken at once, many courses are taken at the same time.

According to Professor McGonagall, Lex and Hermione should choose one class to attend, and study the other class on their own during their spare time. Then, they should go to the other class in the next class and study the one they had been attending on their own...

The advantage of this method is that you don't fall behind on either side. At the same time, you can also find a professor of a course every week to discuss the problems that you have not learned during self-study.

However, Lycos certainly couldn't torture himself like this.

Since the two courses conflict with each other, I can only choose one to attend - only children make choices, and the mature Lecos will of course not attend either of them...!

When faced with a course conflict, Lycos decided to tell the professors of the conflicting courses that he was attending another course. Then he could rest in the dormitory or go to the Room of Requirement to do something on his own.

For example, Lecos was too lazy to learn Muggle Studies and Divination... As a time traveler, he knew more about the former than the professor; the latter was completely useless and people without talent could not learn it.

As for arithmetic divination, as the name suggests, it is the use of arithmetic for divination, which requires the use of complex number tables - this course is closely related to mathematics, so Lecos feels that he does not need to worry too much.

Ancient runes do need to be learned carefully, but as a foreign language major student, Lycos is still somewhat confident in his language talent.

In Lecos's opinion, the class he most needed to attend was the Care of Magical Creatures class, which was the easiest to pass.

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Chapter 206 Care of Magical Creatures Lesson

September 1993, 9, the first day of school.

Today is a Thursday, and I have three elective courses squeezed into one this morning.

Divination, Muggle Studies, and Arithmancy.

"Lex, I see there are three elective courses on this morning's schedule. How did you manage to study for them all?" Draco asked curiously as he sat next to Leco during lunch.

"It's simple." Lycos said casually while cutting a piece of steak, "It's good to make choices. If you don't go to class, just learn on your own."

Then he added in his mind… Making choices means giving up everything and not going anywhere.

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When we left the castle after lunch, the rain that had lasted all night had stopped, but the clouds in the sky had not completely dispersed, presenting a light grayish-white color, and the grass under our feet was wet and soft.

Lycos, Draco, Crabbe and Goyle walked out of the north gate of the castle together, stepped on the soft lawn, and went to the edge of the forbidden forest in the northeast of the castle to attend their first Care of Magical Creatures class.

Walking down a slope, Hagrid's small hut stood far away at the edge of a dense and dark forest. A huge figure stood beside the hut, wearing a moleskin coat, and the hound Fang was lying at his feet.

"What bad luck! I have to go to class with those Gryffindors!"

As Draco muttered, Lecos saw three very familiar figures walking in front of him. Their school robes all had red collars - Harry, Ron and Hermione.

The Gryffindor trio seemed to be discussing something intensely; the atmosphere was not very pleasant, and Ron and Hermione were almost arguing.

Lycos only vaguely heard that Hermione seemed to be criticizing the Divination course.

He immediately became interested... Although Divination was of no use to him and he couldn't learn it, Professor Sybill Trelawney was still very interesting.

In the era before Lycos traveled through time, many fans of the HP wizarding world held Trelawney in high regard.

Driven by various marketing accounts and bloggers, as well as word of mouth from the largely uninformed public, many people believed that all the predictions made by this divination professor had come true...

However, Trelawney is only good at tricks similar to those of a fortune teller, and her "predictions" are not always accurate.

It's just that according to the law of averages, Trelawney's rapid-fire predictions are always correct, but most of the time, she is just talking big and boasting.

For example, since arriving at Hogwarts, Trelawney has predicted the death of a student every year. But until 1993, no one had actually died...

Of course, these things do not deny Trelawney's ability - she is indeed the great-great-granddaughter of the great prophet, has inherited some of the prophetic ability, and can sometimes make true predictions.

Among them, for example, the prophecy between Harry and Voldemort.

Among those small predictions, some might be true, but they were mixed in with the self-boasting and it was difficult to distinguish the true from the false... Therefore, Lecos felt that Trelawney's predictions could not be fully trusted, but could be used as a reference.

After saying something to Draco, Lycos walked straight to the three little ones.

"What are you arguing about?" Lycos asked.

Hermione was startled, but was relieved when she saw it was Lycos, and began to complain about the elective courses.

"Ron insisted that I take Divination class with them, but it's pure superstition! It's completely useless!" Hermione complained loudly, "I missed Arithmancy and Muggle Studies because of this charlatan!"

"Do you still need to take Muggle Studies?" Lycos raised an eyebrow. "I thought you should know enough about the Muggle world."

"I can teach myself Muggle Studies." Hermione shook her head, "But I've prepared for Arithmancy. This course is all about professional knowledge about numbers, and I can't understand it by studying on my own."

"No, I don't understand why Divination is useless?" Ron also began to speak in a dissatisfied tone. "Professor Trelawney even predicted that Harry would encounter an ominous omen..."

"Just a coincidence." Hermione raised her chin and said lightly.

"You don't know what you're talking about!" Ron retorted, his tone clearly angry. "It's an ominous omen that scares the hell out of most wizards! My...my uncle Bilions saw it once, and...and then, he died twenty-four hours later!"

"Then you're right," Hermione said with a look of sudden enlightenment, full of superiority, "They saw the ominous sign and were scared to death. The ominous sign is not a bad omen, but the cause of death!"

"You see, Harry is still with us because he wasn't stupid enough to see that so-called ominous thing and think: Well, I might as well die suddenly!"

Ron stared at Hermione, his mouth gaping.

"No...how can you talk like that?" He couldn't think of how to refute for a long time.

"I thought Divination seemed muddled," Hermione continued, ignoring Ron. "Professor Trelawney obviously relies on guesswork a lot. If you ask me, I'd guess pretty much the same."

"But the ominousness in that teacup is clear!" Ron's tone became more intense. "Professor Trelawney said your aura is wrong! You just don't like that you are not good at divination!"

He seemed to have touched a raw nerve with Hermione.

Hermione stomped her foot heavily, splashing the wet mud on the grass. Ron and Harry's trouser legs were stained with mud... Then, Hermione strode towards Hagrid's hut with "The Monster Book of Monsters" in her arms.

"Ouch!" Ron and Harry jumped up one after another, but they couldn't avoid the mud and water splashed by Hermione's steps.

"What's wrong with her?" Ron looked at Harry.

Harry shook his head blankly and said hesitantly, "Maybe you spoke too harshly?"

"Forget Granger for now, I have a question for you—"

Lycos came out from behind Harry again. Because he was hiding behind Harry, he was not splashed by the water caused by Hermione's steps.

"What on earth did Harry see in Divination class that caused such a scene?"

"Oh, a snake appeared in my teacup, and Professor Trelawney said it was 'ominous'..." Harry explained, "But actually, I've seen many snakes since I was a child, and I can even talk to snakes. This shouldn't be considered 'ominous', right?"

After hearing Harry's explanation, Lycos frowned: "Are you sure you saw a snake?"

"Yeah, it looks like a snake." Harry nodded blankly. "Actually, I think based on the shape of the tea leaf, it's not a problem to think of it as a rope..."

Lycos fell silent.

He vaguely remembered that in the original book, the tea leaves in Harry's teacup should have formed a dog - that dog could correspond to Sirius's Animagus transformation.

However, today, the omen Harry saw turned into a snake?

Lycos couldn't figure out whether this was good or bad, nor did he know what the tea leaf divination meant, and he wasn't even sure if Trelawney's prediction was true...

"Come on, hurry up!"

Just then, a loud voice came from the edge of the forbidden forest, interrupting Lycos's thoughts.

Lycos looked up and saw Hagrid waiting anxiously for his students by the shed door, seemingly eager to set off.

He then realized that most of the students had already approached Hagrid's hut.

"We've got something nice to treat you all today! We're about to have a wonderful lesson!" Hagrid clapped his hands and shouted, "Is everyone here? Well, follow me!"

After saying that, Hagrid turned and walked towards the Forbidden Forest.

"Is Hagrid going to take us into the woods?" Harry shuddered.

He had had some unpleasant experiences in the Forbidden Forest, enough to make him unforgettable for the rest of his life... Fortunately, Hagrid was not completely without measure. He only led the students along the edge of the woods and had no intention of taking them into the Forbidden Forest.

Five minutes later, all the third-year wizards were outside a paddock-like area. The paddock was empty and there seemed to be nothing inside.

"Everybody get over here to this fence!" Hagrid called out, standing beside it. "All right, that's it—stand where you can see. Now, the first thing you need to do is open your books..."

"How do I open it?" Draco asked first in a cold, drawn-out voice.

He had been dissatisfied with his new book for a long time because it was too violent. He spent all day trying to break free from the chains that bound him, and once he almost bit Draco's hand.

"Huh?" Hagrid was stunned.

"How do we open this book?" Malfoy asked again.

He took out his "Monster Book of Monsters", which was still firmly bound with a chain, but even so, it still struggled from time to time.

The other young wizards followed suit, taking their books out of their bags... Most of them were tied up with ropes or chains, while others put the books in sturdy bags or clamped them with large clips.

Only Harry and Lycos's books were not bound by various means and stayed in their hands...

"Didn't you tell your good friend how to tame these books?" Lycos glanced at Harry and asked casually.

"I told Ron and Hermione, but they seemed to have left the rope on for safety reasons," Harry said. "What about you? I don't think Malfoy and the others know this method either."

"Hmm..." Lycos was silent for a moment.

He hadn't meant to, he had genuinely forgotten to tell Draco about it.

"You... you don't know what to do with this book?" Hagrid began again, looking crestfallen.

The whole class was shaking their heads. Harry was too embarrassed to take credit for the method Lycos had told him, and Lycos was too lazy to be the first to speak out.

So Hagrid felt even sadder, and the expression on his face seemed a little confused.

"You've got to sort these books," said Hagrid, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "Look..."

He took Ron's book from the side and peeled back the tape that bound it. The book tried to bite, but Hagrid slid his index finger down the spine and it trembled.

The next moment, the book opened naturally and lay quietly in Hagrid's hand.

"You mean we're stupid?" Draco was annoyed by Hagrid's complacent expression and began to sneer again. "We should have sorted out these books. Why didn't we think of that? Even the manager of Flourish and Blotts didn't think of that?"

"I... I think these books are funny and interesting..." Hagrid said hesitantly.

"How ridiculous..."

"Cough cough!"

Draco wanted to continue his taunting, but was interrupted by Lycos's cough.

Lycos felt that he couldn't let Draco continue to attract hatred, otherwise when the Hippogriff came over, he would definitely be beaten up by the arrogant Buckbeak.

"Be quiet, Draco." Lycos walked to Draco and held his shoulders.