Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

Chapter 254 calm before the storm

Given the threat from Malfoy and other Slytherins, Harry and Ron finally convinced Hermione that they were excited to invite Ivan to the war between the two colleges.

“What exactly happened this morning?” Ivan asks strangely, "How is Sirius' Dark Demon defense going? Wasn't there an accident?! ”

“The lesson went well, and he showed everyone that the Dead Witch, an interesting dark creature, always made a sharp and desolate sound, although a little ominous, didn't do anything to hurt others.” Hermione explained, "Mostly Sirius, he didn't hide his disgust with Slytherin students in the classroom, deducting them a lot of points, probably more than a hundred..."

“No wonder Sirius was provoked by Malfoy.” Harry argued, "he messed up in Sirius' class and didn't do what he said. ”

“I know, but Sirius is still too emotional, and he is now a professor, and he should treat every student as fairly as Professor McGonagall.” Hermione whispered that it made her look like Professor McGonagall.

“God, do you know what you're talking about?!” Ron shouted in surprise, "A pro-Graffindor professor, the greatest expectation of my life. You're telling me now, I hope he's fair! ”

“Sirius is not doing too much, think about Snape, what he did to everyone before, if he..." Harry added.

“Snape deducted at least two percent from Gryffindor this morning and even scared a few girls to cry.” Ivan talks about what happened in the morning magic class.

“I knew it would happen, that disgusting old bat.” Ron said reluctantly.

In short, hostility between Slytherin and Griffindor reached an all-time high because of Snape's duel with Sirius, their unreserved aversion, and other long-saving resentments.

In the following week, students at both colleges were cautious. Everyone appeared in pairs in the castle, afraid of any accidents.

Despite mutual vigilance, nothing actually happened.

With the intervention of Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall, management in the castle was strengthened, and neither Harry nor Malfoy had the opportunity to wage the so-called college war.

Snape and Sirius have also converged considerably over time, and they have slowly stopped deducting points from each other to Griffindor and Slytherin, although magic and dark magic defense classes have also become two of Griffindor and Slytherin's favorite and most annoying classes.

Hagrid's classes on the protection of magical creatures were surprisingly well received compared to the highly differentiated classes on magic and defense against the dark arts.

At the suggestion of Ivan Hermione, Hagrid chose the magical creature of the first class of the new semester to be a fire monster. He raised a huge pile of fires on the site, filled with fire monsters, entertained everyone, collected dead branch leaves to maintain the fire, and the flaming lizards jumped on the burning, self-heating blocks.

Almost everyone reflects that this is the best lesson Hagrid has ever had.

A week after school, Ravenclaw and Slytherin played a Quidditch, Slytherin won the game, but the score was close.

According to Wood, that's good news for Griffindor. Because if Griffin wins more than Ravenclaw, it can still take second place.

The game shifted people's attention to the Quidditch competition, and they found that it might be more practical to separate wins and losses in this way than in a vain college war. Gryffindor lost to Hecky Patch earlier, but they are still a popular winner this year because of Harry's crossbow.

Quiddich teams in Griffindor now train at least five times a week.

In the cold wind of January, Harry flew out almost five or six hours a day, and he didn't even have time to finish his homework.

Ivan also felt that he was running out of time and that he had entered a bottleneck in his magic research and needed to invest more time. Tom Riddle's diary gave him those instructions last year, and Ivan has done all the research, and he's doing his best to study the dark magic books he took out of 12 Grimo Square.

These magic books, especially The Secret of the Peak Dark Arts, are all very deep and complex, and there are many places that Ivan can't understand.

He can't take these dark magic books and ask Dumbledore or Sirius, he can only study them secretly by himself, he spends longer and longer in the library, and the librarian Mrs. Pings looks at him more and more strangely.

With the Sirius batch, Ivan is now borrowing and referencing mostly very ancient, cold-door magic books, all of which are collections in the forbidden book area. These books don't say twelve-year-old wizards, even adult wizards rarely use them.

The only thing busier than Evan was Hermione, because there were so many classes to choose from that the burden of the classes finally came to light on her.

She is now studying with Ivan in the library every night, or necessarily in the corner of the public lounge, with textbooks on several tables in front of her: mathematical charts, magic dictionaries, pictures of Muggle-lifting objects, and a wide range of notes.

Apart from Ivan, she rarely talks to anyone now, and if anyone bothers her, she speaks ill.

“What the hell is going on between them?” One night, Ron finally couldn't help but whisper to Harry, "I've never seen anyone busier than Ivan and Hermione, not even Percy, who was preparing for the advanced wizard level exam. They read more books a day than I read a semester. ”

“I don't know!” Harry didn't look up, he was writing a Snape paper on undetectable poisons, "What do you say we borrow Hermione for her magic lesson homework? ”

“Better not, she won't agree.” Ron looked up at Hermione again and she was sitting behind a bunch of shaky books that were almost invisible.

“Hermione was so strange, how could he take so many classes?” Ron continued, "This morning I heard her talking to Professor Victor, the witch who taught arithmetic divination. They're talking about yesterday's homework, but Hermione couldn't have gone to arithmetic divination yesterday because she took a class with us on protecting magical creatures! And Ernie McMillan told me Hermione never missed a Muggle study class, but half the time it was in conflict with the divination class, and she never missed a divination class. ”

Harry certainly knows why, but he has to keep it a secret.

He can't talk about the time converter, and he has to write Snape's paper right now.

The confrontation between Snape and Sirius, albeit calm on the surface, is actually still raging. Harry had to be more careful, at this point, if he had something in Snape's hands, it would be ugly to die.

“How about I go to Evan and ask him to lend me his homework, Hermione won't refuse him.” Harry shifted the subject.

“That's a good idea, but only if you find Ivan.” In addition to Hermione, “Ron said," I wonder what Ivan's been doing these days, he's been in the library every night, he's seen him several times, and he's always got a thick magic book that nobody understands that records what's there. ”