Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying - Page 255
Draco thought flustered.
——No matter what Dad says, Mom will definitely not agree. Yes, as long as I find Mom...
Draco didn't know where he ran to. He used his wand to conjure up a huge black snake, which wrapped around a red hat that suddenly jumped out. After turning the corner, a more familiar figure appeared in front of him.
Narcissa Malfoy lowered her head and wiped her tears, crying and saying:
"I'm sorry, Draco... Actually, you are not my and your father's child. We picked you up from a Muggle trash can... You are a mudblood..."
"We have finally found our real child. You...you should go back to your Muggle parents..."
"No, no way, I'm not! I'm not a Mudblood!"
Draco yelled in disbelief, unwilling to listen to his mother anymore, and turned and ran away.
Curtains, curtains, and curtains...
Just when Draco felt something was wrong, he saw the figure again.
This time, he saw Narcissa lying in a pool of blood, her face extremely pale, her gray eyes staring blankly at Draco.
Draco: "Aa ...
……
"Weider?" Professor McGonagall called out unhappily.
"It's not me, Professor." Wade said, "I don't know what's wrong with Malfoy. He always goes back to where the Boggart is."
"How did the curtain move..."
Professor McGonagall was halfway through her words when she noticed Professor Flitwick's ashamed expression.
"I'm sorry, that was me."
Professor Flitwick said apologetically, "I wanted him to go outside, but I don't know what happened. The more I tried to stop him, the more he came this way..."
Professor McGonagall: "..."
She glanced sympathetically at Draco Malfoy in her mirror and said, "Take the Boggart away... they haven't learned how to deal with such creatures yet."
Chapter 382 Is suspicion correct?
In fact, it's not just Boggarts, students are also unfamiliar with other magical creatures.
The prototypes of these puppets are actually very weak little monsters, and Hogwarts students should learn how to deal with them in their second year.
However, because of Lockhart, the students wasted more than half a year performing the drama. Professor Abigail, who took over afterwards, assumed that everyone had already learned it and did not pay attention to this knowledge.
It is true that students have seen it in books and professors have talked about it in class, but this is different from whether one has the ability to deal with it when facing real danger.
Almost everyone was exhausted at the beginning, screaming, which made Professor McGonagall look very ugly.
But after a few minutes, the fighting ability developed in the maze challenge and the adaptability developed by being beaten by Professor Abigail finally gradually emerged.
Afterwards, another smart student thought of a way to reunite with their friends. After gathering in groups of three or four, they finally defeated the first monster.
Professor Snape also hurried over at this time, with a strong smell of potion on his body.
He stood quietly behind several professors and saw at a glance that Draco Malfoy used a Disarming Spell to knock the red hat away in the mirror. The action was quick and decisive, and the spell was very successful.
Professor Snape raised his lips, revealing a satisfied smile, looked around, and said in a reluctant tone: "Well, Malfoy's spell is not bad. How are the Ravenclaw students doing?"
Everyone: "..."
Professor McGonagall lowered her head and looked at Professor Flitwick. They both suppressed their laughter and said, "Well, it's true... your performance is getting better and better."
Their attitude was a little strange, but Snape thought that they just didn't like his showing off and didn't take it seriously. He just crossed his arms and watched quietly.
In fact, compared to Ravenclaw, Slytherin students did perform better at this time and the battle ended more quickly.
Finally, the last puppet was knocked down, but the students in the venue did not know this. They still remained on high alert, and the slightest movement of the curtain would make them suddenly alert.
Suddenly, the curtains in front of them were all drawn up, and many students saw other classmates nearby, as well as several professors at the front of the classroom.
Seeing that their head of house was also there, the Ravenclaws greeted them warmly, and Professor Flitwick smiled and nodded.
The Slytherins were different. When they saw Professor Snape, their faces turned pale and they tried hard to recall their previous poor performances.
The painful past of Slytherin being severely ridiculed and reprimanded by his own head of house and having to do a lot of homework because of his poor performance in the maze is still vivid in their minds.
Strangely, this time Professor Snape looked at them with very gentle eyes, and for the first time ever, there was a little smile on the corner of his mouth.
The little snakes suddenly became even more panicked.
Only Draco Malfoy kept looking around the classroom, and even looked up at the ceiling, as if he suspected that his parents were hiding in the ceiling.
"Vade!"
Professor Abigail nodded at Wade, and Wade enlarged a stream mirror until it completely covered the blackboard. With a wave of his hand, images began to appear on the mirror.
Professor Abigail ignored the three deans beside her and began to comment on the students' performance one by one.
"Bute, how do you deal with Kaba? You clearly saw him in the corridor, so why did your first reaction when you met him was to run away?"
"Goldstein, the Red Cap will attack passers-by with a club in the dark of night, but it only takes a simple spell to drive it away..."
"Hinkpunk looks fragile and harmless. The most important thing is not to be deceived by it. Parkinson, do you regard Hinkypunk as your companion? Why are you so unguarded?"
"Malfoy——"
Professor Abigail was about to criticize Draco Malfoy for being scared away by Boggarts several times, but suddenly she remembered that she had never said the "ridiculous" spell before, and swallowed her words.
"Well... it was a good idea to use the disarming spell to temporarily repel the red hat, but the follow-up attack did not keep up..."
Malfoy's tense expression relaxed slightly, and he now understood that the "parents" he had seen before were actually Boggarts.
He was not a Mudblood, his mother was not dead, and everything was still the same as he was used to.
This made Malfoy feel like he was saved, and even though he was criticized by the professor, he felt relaxed.
Pansy, who was beside him, saw Professor Snape's face becoming increasingly darker and his head lowering lower.
……
The video that Wade edited was taken away by Professor McGonagall, and some time later, the school began the renovation work of the Basilisk Chamber.
It's much easier for a wizard to build a house than it is for a Muggle to build one.
It doesn’t matter if the pipe is too narrow, the Traceless Extension Spell can easily widen it several times.
The construction materials were sent into the secret room below using a levitation spell, and a specialist sent by the Ministry of Magic designed the routes of the various pipelines.
The construction work was entirely handed over to the students, with the sixth and fourth grades being the main force, while the fifth and seventh grades only participated occasionally because they had to prepare for exams.
Students below the third grade were also very enthusiastic about participating; for them, this was much more interesting than attending classes and writing papers.
However, the magical abilities of most lower grade students can only cause trouble and are of little help. First grade students even have to worry about crashing into the wall when transporting materials on broomsticks.
But the school did not exclude these students. Professor Sprout led the students to transplant a group of relatively safe plants into the secret room, and also made magic torches, arranged some simple decorations, and so on.
What’s interesting is that various tasks are never assigned to students from a single college, but every college is involved, so quarrels can be heard from time to time while they are working.
There were several serious injuries in the Chamber of Secrets. Madam Pomfrey was very angry, but Dumbledore did not separate the students.
"Have you noticed, Poppy?" Dumbledore said, "that fewer students are injured now than when we first started the maze challenge."
"But the injury is more serious!" Madam Pomfrey said seriously.
"This is because their magic level is stronger than before."
Dumbledore smiled with a complicated expression: "I used to think that maintaining competition between colleges would be more conducive to promoting student growth, but they taught me that cooperation is actually more effective."
Madam Pomfrey was stunned: "-they?"
Dumbledore made no move to explain.
Sometimes he would also participate in the transformation of the Chamber of Secrets, and occasionally Vader would be seen directing Clint Creevey and Rolf Scamander to record these precious images.
Both of them are photography enthusiasts and have rich shooting experience, so Wade gave them the two mother lenses to operate.
It's just that Colin couldn't help but point the camera at Harry Potter, and Rolf often mixed into the Ravenclaw team unconsciously, so Wade corrected him several times.
Sometimes, Dumbledore would see Abigail discussing renovation plans with the Ministry of Magic's designers. She wanted the Chamber of Secrets to simulate various environments - jungle, grassland, desert, city, and countryside.
The designer shook his head vigorously, indicating that it was impossible - the expansion space approved by the Ministry of Magic was limited, how could he make it so complicated?
So Abigail settled for the second best, requiring only that the environment be complex enough, with ample opportunities to dodge or sneak attack, and also with a variety of traps.
After rejecting an outrageous suggestion, the designer found this suggestion much easier and the two reached a consensus happily.
Abigail devoted a lot of effort to the renovation of the secret room. She was the only professor who would come here whenever she had time, and every detail had to be perfect.
Of course, the words that came out of her mouth would often make the students nearby turn pale, wondering how they would defend themselves if they were faced with such a sudden attack.
Abigail also requested that more dangerous golems be added here - vampires, werewolves, poisonous horns, pentas, eight-eyed giant spiders, corpses, etc.
This time, Wade's production speed was much slower, and it took him about a week to make one.
Also, Abigail suggested that all students be involved in the construction, disrupting the arrangements of different colleges, and especially ensuring that there is at least one Slytherin in most groups.
"I know that most students hate Slytherin. These brats are indeed sinister, and quite a few of them even master the Dark Arts."
"But Professor Dumbledore, haven't you noticed? When students are bullied by Slytherin, they are also bullying Slytherin in a subtle way; they are excluded by Slytherin because other colleges are also excluding Slytherin."
Professor Abigail said seriously: "And you, Professor Dumbledore, your attitude is definitely one of the most important reasons."
"There are only a few hundred students in this school, but there are always a quarter of them wandering around, and they are enemies rather than partners with others. What a huge gap this is for Hogwarts!"
"If a student is treated as a candidate for Death Eaters and is subjected to inexplicable disgust and accusations simply because he was sorted into Slytherin by the Sorting Hat, then perhaps his only future path is to become a Death Eater."
"Is this what you wanted to see, Professor Dumbledore?"
Dumbledore was speechless.
He couldn't say how much effort he put into it - because he really didn't like Slytherin.
Because of Voldemort, and because of their admiration and yearning for pure blood, and because most of the Death Eaters are indeed from Slytherin.
In the end, Dumbledore acquiesced to Abigail's leadership of this event and supported her decisions throughout.
Bloodshed and conflict were inevitable, but he did see a general attempt among students to understand and tolerate each other.
Privately, Dumbledore told Wade, "Sometimes I even doubt my own judgement - are we right to doubt Professor Abigail? She seems honest and dedicated to her duties."