Hogwarts: I graduated before the system came

When Douglas saw the fraction after the decimal point, his heart trembled.

It’s like arriving to work early every day, but on the last day, I clock in at the last second.

Is that a one-second difference?

No, that's the difference between having a perfect attendance award and not having one...

He counted his points and found that he had 1899 points.

In this way, he doesn't have to wait until the end of the semester, he can just work harder later.

If he improves the quality of teaching, then it will only take him four more months to accumulate enough points to lift the curse.

October is here.

The Scottish Highlands were filled with cold and damp air, and the castle didn't seem to be that warm either.

Colds began to spread among many faculty and students.

Madam Pomfrey, the school nurse, saw Douglas running with a new batch of students several times in the morning.

They would severely criticize Douglas for doing this, as if it would add to her workload.

But it seems that the opposite is true. As long as you keep running with Douglas, you will feel good.

Here we have to mention the first couple who were chosen because of confinement.

Their confinement ended two weeks after it began.

But it seemed that they were addicted to the feeling of running in the morning, and after the lockdown ended, they still ran with Douglas every day.

And become the male and female captains of the morning jogging group.

Later, several couples actually took the initiative to join the morning jogging team.

So in a morning jogging team of twenty people, sixteen of them are volunteers, and the other four are the real prisoners.

Every morning at 7 o'clock, after Douglas left.

They were three by three... well, not three, but two by two, walking around the castle.

This makes it difficult for other students who actually come to detention...

What made things even more difficult for all the students at Hogwarts was that they all had to take the monthly Defense Against the Dark Arts exam.

The exam content for grades one to three is mainly based on the progress of the top-ranked Ravenclaw House.

This forced them to use all their free time to memorize the descriptions of those dark magic creatures in the textbooks.

The most painful thing is that Ravenclaw's progress is to memorize all the textbook content required for each grade.

Only those who passed this monthly exam would be eligible to take the subsequent practical classes. It was said that Holmes had moved out the contents of the fourth-grade practical class classroom.

Those who failed could only continue to recite while others were fighting against dark magic creatures in each class.

The fourth grade will also take the abridged version of the OLS test, but those who have passed the practical class will not need to take another practical class exam, so it is relatively easy.

Fifth grade?

There are exams every week in the fifth grade, and the list of people who have cleared the curse has been refreshed several times.

In the latest ranking last week, Slytherin finally knocked Ravenclaw down from the top spot in the college. The top three in the individual rankings were Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Gryffindor.

The best Hufflepuff is in fifth place.

The easiest grades are probably sixth and seventh grades, as they hardly test theoretical content, only practical application.

The sixth grade exam content is still the same as before, practical course content, but Professor Douglas said,

If those who can't pass the first level this time,

From now on, I will follow him for morning jogs, exercise well, and then go fight with the Yin corpses.

Those who were originally disdainful saw Douglas kick a corpse that had crawled ashore back into the water with a very skillful kick.

They were quiet now, so they continued to practice their spells diligently.

But they are indeed miserable. So far, only a few people have passed the Yin corpse level.

They felt that it was not a Yin corpse at all, but an old Yin bi.

Under the blessing of Douglas' various spells, the only weakness of the Inferi is their fear of light (in the lake, fire spells are ineffective).

Even if they tried to freeze the lake and walk across it, it was useless.

It will always attack you from unexpected angles.

There was even a class where Professor Holmes specifically informed everyone that the Inferi had been upgraded again.

This time it's not just the lake that's making noises. As long as you're on the shore and make any noise by chanting, it will alarm them.

This forced them to practice silent spells diligently.

Especially the Shield Charm, which they did not learn in fifth grade. It seemed that Professor Quirrell had forgotten it.

I made up for all the learning this month and even practiced it into a silent spell.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the corpses have been processed and are not highly poisonous.

But we still have to thank Professor Holmes for being willing to teach them some of his unique tricks and spells.

But that spell was too difficult.

You need to concentrate all your energy and inject strong positive emotions into the glow spell.

The students from other colleges were fine, as the luminous spells they released still had some effect.

But the Slytherin students still have no clue.

If Professor Holmes had not emphasized:

"This spell is not allowed to be used anywhere else in the castle except during Defense Against the Dark Arts classes. Violators will most likely be expelled!"

Being able to learn spells that were forbidden by the school had always been something they enjoyed and found exciting.

After all, some of the dark arts they learned privately might be sent to Azkaban.

But this spell seemed to be mutually exclusive with them, and it was almost impossible to cast.

Of course, when entering the second level, the students in the fog are not having an easy time either, as there seems to be something else hidden in the fog.

According to Professor Holmes, the fog was invisible smoke that he imported from Peru.

As soon as you step inside, the surroundings are pitch black. Even using "Lumos" is useless, but the luminous spell taught by the professor seems to be of some use.

Yes, in the end they didn't know that the full version of the Glowing Spell also had another name called the Light of Righteousness.

What they didn't know was that Douglas was subtly influencing their bodies and minds.

In comparison, the seventh grade exam was much simpler, as it only required a duel with Professor Holmes.

Overall, this week has been very busy for all students, especially those who have caught a cold.

I had to carry Madam Pomfrey's stimulant with me to ensure that I could continue my studies at any time.

Chapter 89 Monthly Exam Week

Accompanied by a rain of bullets,

The students of Hogwarts finally ushered in the first monthly exam week of a single subject in their lives - the Defense Against the Dark Arts monthly exam week.

Why do we specifically emphasize that it is a single subject at a time?

up to now,

Each main course will require memorization of textbooks to varying degrees;

And each main course has its own class representative.

Of course, these class representatives are all students with strong learning abilities in the course, and the professors don’t care how many class representatives you hold.

It is worth mentioning that the class representative of Gryffindor's second-year Potions class is Harry. This choice is both unexpected and reasonable.

Because Professor Snape would always say:

"Potter, why didn't you tell him...? How did you become a class representative? Gryffindor lost two points because of you two!"

"Potter, stop winking at me. Your eyes can't tell Longbottom what to do next... One point from Gryffindor."

"Potter, who allowed you to talk in Potions class? Otherwise, you'd help Weasley take the exam... Gryffindor will deduct two points."

Well, Harry was used to it, thankfully he was already memorizing his Potions textbook.

This is why Professor Snape's attempts to provoke him failed.

It seemed that the other party regretted it very much and added the requirement of memorizing the Potions textbook to Harry's detention.

This was the first time Harry felt the benefits of memorizing textbooks.

In addition to normal memorization, even the deans of various colleges also like to use dictation as a form of confinement, and the place of confinement is coincidentally arranged in the office of the youngest professor at Hogwarts - the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Of course, this was Professor Holmes's own request, for no other reason than to consider the physical and mental health of all the professors.

But Mr. Filch had seen Professor Holmes more than once picking out empty classrooms, as if he were planning to make some new arrangements.

Therefore, when Defense Against the Dark Arts announced that it would have a monthly exam, many students had already predicted that all subjects would likely start having monthly exams.

The fifth-grade students, in particular, already felt an ominous feeling looming over them.

Some people even recalled the scene when Trelawney divined for them during their first divination class, and it was definitely not a good memory.

......

"Put away your textbooks and wands, don't talk to each other, and don't try to use any cheating methods. Magic will detect all your actions."

"If you don't know how to do something, you can leave it blank. I want to see your true level!"

"Put away your potions. Even the energy potion won't work. The OLS exam won't care if you're sick or not."

"Now start answering the questions!"

"There are only fifteen minutes left before the end of the exam. Please hurry up and answer your papers. Check carefully to see if you missed any questions or made any mistakes. Please correct them carefully."

“Take it like a real OLS exam and take it seriously!”

"The test time is over, stop answering!"

Douglas spent almost the entire day listening to this kind of rhetoric.

Of course, it is inevitable that during exams, I will stand behind some classmates and sigh.

Although the students felt much more relaxed after the exam, they quickly immersed themselves in new studies.

"Why, we still have homework after the exam!"

"Uh, did you forget that this is just a monthly exam?"

"The professor was standing behind me at the time. I heard him sigh. I looked over the question over and over again, but in the end I still couldn't figure out what the problem was."

"..."

In the evening, exciting news came from the Gryffindor common room.

In the sixth-year practical exam, all Slytherins were wiped out.

"Haha, those advanced black magics are not allowed to be used, other spells don't work, and the special glowing spell taught by the professor can't be used.

You can never imagine that they cast the Armor Spell continuously and almost knocked themselves out."

"This is the first time I've seen students from any academy use the Armor Spell so skillfully."

"Tomorrow morning, they will all go for a morning run with the professor! Haha..."

"But it's true that the professor can send those troublesome Inferi flying with just one kick. I really want to learn from him!"

eight pm.

Defense Against the Dark Arts Office.

The place was packed with people.

Except for the seven students who came to be detained.

The rest are class representatives who took the exam today, and one deputy class representative.

They were called by Douglas to mark the test papers.