Hogwarts: I graduated before the system came

He whispered the matter to the two of them.

Then after a few exclamations from Ron, they were kicked out by the angry Madam Pince, the librarian.

After coming out, Hermione angrily threw the pile of books she was holding into Ron's arms.

Then he found a deserted corner and said:

"Actually, I'm more inclined to believe that the map is correct. After all, it was created by Professor Holmes.

And there's the cage thing. From the beginning, I thought there was something wrong with the professor caring so much about Banban. First he made special pet food, then he gave him a cage..."

Ron snorted coldly at the side:

"I sent the pet food because Scabbers was in a bad mental state at that time. The professor cared about me and understood me, so he made the pet food specially for me. I sent the cage because your Crookshanks wanted to go to the boys' dormitory to look for Scabbers several times.

Anyway, the professor is a nice guy, and he gave me a new wand..."

Ron really couldn't imagine how the pet mouse that had been with him for so many years could have transformed from a dead person.

Hermione said disdainfully:

"How did the professor know all this? Did you tell on him?"

Harry quickly interrupted the two of them and asked why they were not arguing before he went to the library, so why were they arguing as soon as he showed up?

"So, you also think Scabbers might be an Animagus, but how could he be a rat?"

Hermione shook her head and said:

"No, I think Professor Holmes must have tampered with the map, changing the name of Spotted to Peter Pellum as a clue to give us..."

Ron snorted coldly:

"Tell me what clues can be found on Banban..."

Hermione shook her head, touched her chest, and then talked to Harry about something else.

"Harry, you said that map can show the real-time location of everyone in the castle?"

Harry nodded.

Hermione looked around to see if there was anyone around and said:

"When you have time, you can observe my movements from above. This will serve as a test of the map's capabilities."

After Hermione finished speaking, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief. She thought she couldn't say this sentence. It seemed that the professor had finally found a loophole in the confidentiality spell he had set up.

Harry gave Hermione a questioning look but agreed anyway.

The whole weekend, several people seemed very busy.

Ron kept calling out Peter Perum's name to the sleeping Scabbers, but every time he called out, Scabbers would shudder all over and then continue to sleep. This reaction left Ron puzzled.

Ever since Hermione saw the four names on the map, she had a guess:

"Do you think Wormtail here refers to a mouse? Could this be the clue Professor Holmes gave me? Dog, mouse, what are the other two? Prongs and Moony."

Harry said doubtfully:

"Could these four animals be related to Blake?"

Ron frowned and said:

"I asked Percy about it, and he said that the professor once borrowed Scabbers for a while during school.

I wrote to Bill and Charlie, hoping to get information from them about these names.

Actually, Harry, you can ask the professor directly about this matter, why do you want me to investigate?"

Harry shook his head and said:

"He assigned this task to me. I want to complete it independently. The more clues you provide, the more money you will get..."

In fact, Hermione had another guess in her mind. When she saw that Scabbers' front paw was missing, she immediately had an association.

However, this speculation was currently unfounded. She planned to collect more information to confirm this speculation, otherwise it would be too easy to scare Ron if she told him now. She had seen Peter's photo in the newspaper...

In addition to these three people, George and Fred were not idle either. Since they thought that Scabbers might be an Animagus, they went directly to Lupin and asked to learn the Animagus counter-spell.

Lupin directly rejected their request. On the one hand, this spell belonged to the category of advanced transfiguration. With the current ability of fifth graders, it was still very difficult to learn this spell. The magic practice study room had strict requirements for fifth graders to learn spells. All spells must be helpful for the OLS exam.

On the other hand, Douglas requested that Banban not be allowed to turn into a human form for the time being without conclusive evidence.

Chapter 229 Professor Lupin was led astray

No matter how busy a few people are, it will not affect school life.

So that students can have a relaxing Halloween and have fun in Hogsmeade.

The school decided to move this month's exams forward to the week before Halloween.

The fifth and seventh grades are busy again.

Some students even found that Professor Lupin's detention classes were not very strict. Even if you did your homework and asked some questions in the detention class, Professor Lupin would not care, and he could answer most of the students' questions in different subjects.

This led some studious students to deliberately make small mistakes, lose a point or two, and then openly write the homework assigned by the professors in the closed class, or the "Seven Years...T. Five Years...OL."

If you encounter something you don't know, just ask Professor Lupin and you will get some guidance.

This way of doing homework is much better than working hard with a group of students in a common room.

When some students start to like Professor Lupin of Detention Class.

After a morning exercise, Lupin announced that morning jogging classes would also be included in this monthly exam, which would be called a physical fitness test.

And at noon that day, a notice titled "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Monthly Physical Examination Notice" appeared on the school notice board.

The main event is the obstacle course chase. Students are paired up in pairs (of the same grade), with one running in front and the other chasing behind. They can use spells to attack each other (harmful spells are not allowed). If the chaser catches the chased before the finish line, they will get 10 points, while the chased will lose 5 points. If they fail to catch the chased, the chaser will lose 5 points, while the chased will get 10 points.

When the students learned the news, their first reaction was that Professor Lupin had been led astray by Professor Holmes.

After learning the news, Douglas sneered and asked, "What do you mean I led him astray?" He had only suggested a physical test, but Lupin and Sirius had a heated discussion.

Not only did he borrow the alchemical mouse, he also borrowed some dark magic creatures from the Defense Against the Dark Arts practical class... Tsk tsk, Douglas sighed repeatedly, ever since Lupin knew the truth, he has become more and more unstable.

So the next day during the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

"Classmates, do you want to get a good grade in this monthly exam?"

The third-year Hufflepuff students below looked at each other and felt deeply moved. The professor never felt tired and always gave inspirational quotes to the Hufflepuffs before and after every exam. It had been a year and he still hadn't said enough.

But everyone still cooperated and said:

"miss you!"

"I really want to!"

Douglas was very satisfied with the student's answer and said with a smile:

"In that case, let's do a spot check on the recitation during this class."

The students below didn't react for a moment, and nodded and said:

"The professor is right!"

"The professor is right!"

But he quickly reacted and subconsciously began to shake his head.

Because except for the class representative Justin who recites to Douglas, all other students recite to Justin, and Douglas has basically not been checked this semester.

Douglas suddenly checked the recitation, which made many students start to shrink their necks and lower their heads, for fear of being picked.

It’s not that they can’t recite, but reciting to classmates and reciting to the teacher are two completely different feelings. No one is willing to recite to the teacher on their own initiative...except Justin who is raising his hand high.

Douglas glanced past Justin and looked at Ernie McMillan, who was pretending to look down at his textbook.

"Mr. McMillan, could you please recite everything about vampires in the textbook? I remember that you had already memorized this part in the report that Mr. Finch-Fletchley (Justin Finch-Fletchley) gave me... What's the matter? Is there any problem?"

Hearing that Douglas had already chosen someone, the other students breathed a sigh of relief.

Ernie stood up slowly and asked cautiously:

"Professor, is this everything related to vampires?"

Because Defense Against the Dark Arts uses the "Dark Arts: A Guide to Self-Defense", it is used from the first to the fourth grade without changing professors. It contains confidence content, but it does not mean that all of it is taught at once. For example, the content about vampires is taught in the second and third grades.

After hearing everything Douglas said, Ernie was afraid that he had misunderstood, so he asked.

Douglas smiled lightly, nodded and said:

"Of course, the second and third grade exams will touch upon some of the material learned last year...

But I originally only planned to have you memorize the third-grade content, but since you asked, I'll also memorize the second-grade content."

Ernie opened his mouth and wanted to slap himself for talking so much.

But looking at Douglas's eyes, he still began to recite the text haltingly.

"...Uh...Vampires are usually pale and gaunt...They have fangs in their mouths that they use to bite people's throats..."

Ernie stumbled through a long, fragmented recitation of second-grade material mixed with third-grade material.

Not only was Ernie's forehead sweating, Justin in the front row also had sweat on his palms. He was the class representative, and based on his understanding of the professor, if Ernie didn't memorize it, he would definitely be among the next punishments.

As expected, Ernie finally insisted that he couldn't remember, so he honestly admitted:

"Sorry, Professor, I kind of forgot!"

Douglas shook his head and said in a disappointed tone:

"Don't apologize, you learn for yourself, not for me.

I have repeatedly emphasized that these contents are basic, and I don't want you to spend a lot of energy in fifth grade just memorizing these basic contents...

Ernie, you know what to do, right?"

Ernie swallowed his saliva. This time he didn't dare to speak casually, but said weakly:

"Professor, can I copy these?"

When he finished speaking, he saw Douglas still standing on the podium, looking at him with a smile, but there was always a sense of danger behind that smile.

"Professor, I said copy it five times!"

"How about ten times?"

Only after Ernie said these words under pressure did Douglas look away from him.

Douglas seemed to notice Justin's worried expression, turned around and smiled at him, scaring Justin so much that he quickly lowered his head.

"Justin, my class representative, what do you think?"

Justin took a deep breath, wiped the sweat from his cheeks, forced a smile and said:

"Professor, I feel that as a class representative, I have failed to fulfill my supervisory role. I will punish myself ten times."

Douglas clapped his hands twice, as if there was something dirty on them, and then said lightly:

"You only need to copy it five times, but Mr. McMillan, it's still ten times. Okay, let's get back to the topic of this lesson."

In the following classes, not only Ernie from Hufflepuff, but almost all the students who joined Charon's Detective Agency and those who had been spreading rumors that Douglas had led Lupin astray, all received Douglas's kind care for some reasons.

Exam week soon arrived.

During this period, Hermione secretly discussed with Harry without telling Ron that her pet cat Crookshanks and Harry would take turns to monitor Scabbers in the cage day and night, and found some reasons to ask Ron not to let Scabbers out.

Since the attack by Buckbeak the Hippogriff, Hagrid has kept a much lower profile with the help of Douglas and Lupin.

Every morning he goes for a run and discusses various magical animals with the students. During his break, in addition to patrolling the Forbidden Forest, he carefully studies the danger levels of some magical animals, as Douglas puts it.

"Hagrid, to determine whether they are dangerous or not, don't use your point of view, but let Fang see it."

Fang is a large boar hound raised by Hagrid. Apart from its huge size, it seems to be a completely ordinary dog. On top of that, Fang is a coward. When encountering dangerous magical animals, the first thing he does is run away.

Douglas taught Hagrid that if Fang saw the magical creature, the farther he ran, the more dangerous it would be. He used this as a standard to set learning goals for his students.

Just like that, Hagrid had another arrangement to observe Fang, which resulted in Harry and the others not being able to find a chance to get any information from Hagrid during this period.

Chapter 230 Answering Skills

The arrival of monthly exam week also means that the full moon will come again.

This time, Lupin did not ask for leave a week in advance. Instead, he got the potion from Douglas and drank one every day.