305 Professor Lear and Bagette

305 Professor Lear and Bagette

(ps: Remus’ father Lyle officially changed his name to Lille.)

When they went to have breakfast in the auditorium the next day, the three of Callan discovered that Kingsley did not appear at the teacher's table. He must have returned to Hogsmeade.

This seems to confirm Callan's guess - Kingsley is not the first choice for Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Remus's father: Professor Leal is.

But this made Callan even more confused: Why did Kingsley agree to do this favor for Dumbledore?Did he really join the Order of the Phoenix in advance?

Kingsley's disappearance did not cause much discussion among the students. It was the first day of school after the Christmas break. The long-distance owls flew into the auditorium one after another. They shook off the snow on their bodies and put their talons on it. The package inside is placed in front of the recipient, and then he enjoys being fed by the students.

Karan is no exception.

But it was not Weier who flew in front of him, but a strange owl.

After putting the bronze Nat that had been counted in advance into the pocket around the opponent's neck, Karan took out the latest "Daily Prophet."

"Is there anything new?" Steve forked a piece of pie and said vaguely: "If it's bad news, don't tell me. I really can't stand more accidents about being attacked by werewolves. That's too much." It’s scary.”

At this time, Karan had already roughly flipped through the entire newspaper. He was flipping through it very quickly, as if he was purposefully looking for some news.

"No reports yet."

He said suddenly, tapping his fingers on the table uneasily.

"The presence of werewolves in Hogsmeade has never been reported."

Upon hearing this, Gespard immediately turned to look at him.

Since the two of them had also participated in the secret room incident, Karan had already told them what happened at Professor Kettleburn's house.

"What?" Gaspard asked: "Are you also interested in that werewolf? Or have you not given up on your plan to capture a werewolf for study?"

Steve was frightened by the words of the two people: "Keep your voice down."

After looking around, he immediately added: "Don't let Wolf hear this, he will definitely not like it."

"Wolf..." Karan retracted his finger and murmured as if his thoughts were diverted: "I almost forgot about it. Moon wolves who don't lose their minds during the full moon are even rarer than werewolves. I don’t know where Principal Dumbledore found it.”

Steve's eyes were so frightened that he was stunned.

"Don't mess around!" He warned: "Otherwise I will really tell my dad, and he is sitting up there right now!"

After repeatedly comforting them, the three of them looked in the direction of Mr. Newt. He had now changed his suit into a yellow and black witch robe full of patterns of various magical animals. While talking to Dumbledore, he turned his head. , a touch of green flashed across his chest.

"You are not dazzled, that is a Bowtruckle named Pickett." Steve introduced: "It has the magical ability to open locks and is the closest to my dad."

Mr. Newt noticed the gazes of the three people. He tapped the watch on his wrist with his fingers, telling them to pay attention to the time and not to be late for the first class.

After seeing this urging scene, Steve looked a little embarrassed: "It's really strange that a parent has become a teacher. Fortunately, my mother didn't come, otherwise I would never dare to sneak into the kitchen again. .”

The two of them patted his shoulders comfortingly, and after eating breakfast in a hurry, they hurried to the classroom.

The first class is Defense Against the Dark Arts.

The once-familiar classroom changed its appearance after the Prewett brothers left. All the costumes and props originally prepared for the drama program disappeared, making the classroom look a little deserted.

This class was for Hufflepuff and Slytherin, not Gryffindor where Lupin was.Karan felt a little regretful about this. He really wanted to see students and parents in the same class.

But Snape arrived in the classroom early.

He originally had no sense of presence in Slytherin House, and often lived alone. After the Chamber of Secrets incident, this xenophobia became even more obvious, and no one wanted to be around him.

But this didn't seem to have any impact on Snape. He was reading "Dark Arts: A Guide to Self-Defense" without distraction, previewing the lessons that might be taught later.

Callan took the initiative to walk over, which earned him a lot of hostility from Slytherin, especially Snape's roommates - so Mulcerb suddenly found that his books were clamped tightly in his backpack, and When he pulled out with more force, he accidentally slapped Rozier who was laughing hard with the book in his hand, making him dizzy.

"What are you doing?!" Rozier asked angrily, covering his red and swollen cheeks.

Mulserber looked at the book in his hand in confusion: "I..."

Rozier, who was getting angry, thought he was provoking himself. He kept swearing for a while. Mulcerbo's face turned red after being scolded, and he became equally angry after a while.

"shut up!"

The two were scuffled together immediately. Wilkes and Avery, who were both roommates, had no intention of stopping them, but were shouting excitedly.

"Hit him! Hit him in the nose!"

"Use your wand! You fool!"

The corners of Gespard's mouth curled up slightly, Steve's head was bowed deeply, and his cheeks turned red from the hard work of suppressing laughter.

"Black magic is really scary." Karan said quietly: "I think your roommates have begun to act abnormally, Snape."

Of course Snape knew it must be Callan's fault.

"You don't have to do this." He said, his voice gradually lowered: "But wandless magic is really easy to use... It's a pity that I don't have such a talent."

In response, Karan just smiled, and then he asked: "Didn't they make it difficult for you, a traitor?"

Snape immediately snorted coldly, his face gradually turning gloomy.

"Of course they have thought about it." He said coldly: "But it's not just a few of them who have been studying black magic, many of them even learned it from me."

It sounded like Snape had a rough night last night, but nothing major happened. This could be seen from the fact that he didn't have any injuries on his body.

At this time, the fight was still going on. Both Mulcerbaugh and Rozier were future Death Eaters. They had grown up in an atmosphere of pure blood supremacy since they were young, which also gave them a strong sense of superiority. Not only is it lawless, but it also doesn’t obey anyone.

After a while, both of them became bruised and swollen, but neither of them had any intention of stopping.

At this time, a spell suddenly hit them, forming an invisible barrier between the two.

"Twenty points from Slytherin! And a month of confinement!"

The majestic voice then added: "Everyone!"

The noise in the classroom stopped immediately, and the students who had been booing just now returned to their seats.

Professor Lear appeared at the door of the classroom.

It seems that due to a good night's rest, his whole appearance has completely changed. His old clothes can't hide his majestic temperament, and there is no trace of the dusty and hasty feeling of yesterday.

This familiar scene shocked the students and at the same time recalled the fear of being dominated.

And that fear came from the school's first Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Dorcas Meadows, who loved dueling classes.

"Both of you go to the school hospital. Besides, I don't want to see this kind of contempt for class again in the future."

Mulcerbaugh and Rozier left the classroom in a hurry. Professor Lear walked steadily to the podium and glanced at the students below who didn't even dare to breathe.

"My name is Lil Lupin, and I am your future Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."

He said with a serious expression, not as if he was introducing himself as a professor, but more like he was facing a group of future subordinates.

"You are too young, maybe you haven't heard of me yet."

Judging from the confused faces of most students, this is indeed the case.

"That's because I have spent more time dealing with dark creatures. You should be glad that I have not encountered you. Because not only is this something your parents are trying to avoid, but you will never want to be alone. Threats you face - especially until you have enough ability to protect yourself."

"And what I will teach you next is how to deal with these threats, and even solve them."

"Now, everyone, turn to page 78 of the textbook. Let's learn about Boggart and start our lesson with fear."

There was a clatter of books turning under the podium. No one dared to whisper to each other, but judging from their cautious eyes, it seemed that many people were silently relieved.

At least it didn't start with dueling lessons, but just reading.

In the course of the following lectures, the students learned more about Professor Leer - he has been studying dark creatures and became an expert in non-existence at the age of 30, especially in dealing with Boggarts and As for mischief elves, they are even more world-famous.

During the subsequent rise of Voldemort, his followers recruited a large number of dark creatures, which made the Ministry of Magic in urgent need of a large number of dark creature experts. It was also at that time that Professor Leal joined the Ministry of Magic and became the Controller of Magical Creatures Management. A member of the company.

This is the second largest department in the Ministry of Magic, after the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Although Professor Lear looked serious, he did not ask everyone to duel, and he did not ask the students to play dark creatures.

He was actually giving a lecture!

It even speaks well!

This can be regarded as the most responsible Defense Against the Dark Arts professor that this class of students has ever encountered!

This is really a novel experience. Many students even become distracted and feel a little confused because of this, but Professor Lyle can always keenly detect the distracted students and quickly wake them up through his stern gaze.

"What's going on with you?" he said with a frown, but it was obvious that he wasn't really asking, but just felt strongly dissatisfied with the confused expressions of the students.

"Are you looking down on Boggarts? Do you think pure fear won't do anything to you?"

Professor Lear was obviously mistaken, but no one said anything to stop him, because he had already begun to tell the research stories he had personally experienced.

Those deeds were both dangerous and terrifying, and they also strongly satisfied the curiosity of the students.

"Of course, fear that is predicted in advance will not pose much of a threat, but the biggest danger of Boggarts is that they will always appear unexpectedly, and then use the inner fear to make the wizard unable to hide. I have seen it more than once Some people have fled from the sudden appearance of Boggarts, and have even been tortured by the fear they have faced, and not everyone can face this calmly."

"And that's not all."

The classroom was silent, and every student was listening carefully to Professor Lear's words. They gradually began to like this cursed course.

"Under normal circumstances, we cannot judge what a Boggart looks like when he is alone. No method can. There were wizards who wanted to observe the Boggart from a distance, or captured the Boggart through magic, and then used it through a double-sided mirror, for example. ways to peek at the Boggart. However, these methods failed without exception. As long as the Boggart is under observation, it will immediately deform - no matter where the observer is, this cannot be changed, even if it is Not in front of another two-way mirror.”

"Until I saw what a boggart looked like," he said, and the students listened more carefully.

"Before I joined the Ministry of Magic, I encountered a special Boggart."

Professor Lear continued: "It has been dormant for a long time. The specific time cannot be determined, but it is obviously long enough."

"This special Boggart was hidden in a Muggle village. It absorbed too many Muggle fears, causing the people in the village to become abnormal. This Boggart also gradually changed - no longer It is intangible, but begins to transform into something tangible.”

"It turned into a huge black shadow, extremely huge, and there was a pair of glowing white eyes in the black shadow - this is the Boggart I have seen with my own eyes. No one knows why it changed like this. No one knows whether it will continue to change or what it will eventually become.”

"But you have to remember, this is a Boggart with eyes. I named it [Bagot]. Fortunately, the funny spell was still effective on Baigot. In the end, I surrendered it and locked it in a matchbox. in."

The students couldn't imagine what exactly happened during the battle, but the abrupt ending made them feel itchy and they couldn't hear enough.

"Then what? Professor?" A student couldn't help raising his hand and asked: "Then where did the Baiget go? Will it continue to change? Grow more eyes...or something else? what......"

The student couldn't help but shudder, and the person sitting next to him couldn't help but frown.

This sounds absolutely terrible.

"not sure yet."

Although Professor Lear was serious, he was still willing to answer students' questions: "In fact, wizards may not know all the characteristics of Boggarts."

"Boggarts are constantly changing. When they appear in front of a wizard, they will become the fear in the other person's heart. But when two wizards stand together, it is very likely that the boggart will be overwhelmed and eventually change forcibly. It becomes a combination of fear, such as a combination of half snake and half spider. It just looks a little weird, but not so scary. This has also become one of the ways to deal with Boggarts."

Judging from the expressions of the students below, they seemed to disagree with Professor Lear's idea: the combination of snakes and spiders is still scary, and has even become more scary.

Professor Lear continued: "But this is not absolute. For example, Baiget maintained a specific appearance in front of the Muggles in the entire village and did not continue to change. This is probably because it thinks This is scary enough to get enough fear nutrients.”

"Although I once thought, and even now, that Baiget may be the real appearance of the Boggart, I have to admit that Baiget is not the only special case, which also makes the conjecture of the true appearance questionable. .”

"In the 19th century, there was often a murderous thug wandering the streets of London. It was a Boggart that transformed into a specific appearance, rather than a specific look that was changed for a specific person - of course, for the local Muggles To me, this look is scary enough."

"This is also evidence of a specific appearance, but the murderous thug is obviously not the true appearance of the Boggart. It is more like the common fear of local people."

"And this Boggart is also very weak. You can turn it into a hamster with a simple spell. This is really not difficult."

Gradually, the things Professor Lear told about became things that were not in the textbook - whether it was the controversial Boggart or the murderous thug Boggart who was not affected by the number of people, these were unconfirmed ideas. .

Unfortunately, there are too few special examples like this to provide sufficient proof.

But this reminded Karan of the special Boggart in the giant snake statue. The other party could even break through Occlumency and read his inner memories - this may be due to his non-existence, so Only then can one break through the boundaries of wizard magic.

Moreover, the intelligence of Lily and Mr. Anthony transformed by the special Boggart are obviously much higher, which is especially true.

At this time, Karan couldn't help but feel a little lucky - fortunately, the Boggart was not fed too much fear. The empty Forbidden Lake ruins obviously could not meet this condition, as there were no humans there.Otherwise, it was really hard for him to imagine what the Boggart that had existed for so long would become.

Just grow a pair of white eyes?Or will there really be something else?

Just before the bell was about to ring, Professor Lear assigned homework.

"Before the next class, everyone has to turn in an essay on how to deal with Boggarts."

Then he patted the textbook hard.

"You don't have to write down the content of your conjecture. Everything is subject to the content in the book. Whether or not Baiget's conjecture is true or not is not the most important thing - at least the way I deal with it is learned from this."

After giving the final instructions, Professor Lear walked out of the classroom with the ringing of the bell.

"This class is so interesting!" Steve couldn't hide the excitement on his face: "And no one has been injured in class - oh, not counting the two Slytherin people."

But besides him, Callan, Snape, and Guspard all seemed to be thinking about other things.

"It's changed a lot." Gaspard pushed up his glasses.

"And more than a little bit, it's completely different from yesterday." Snape added in a low voice.

"It's indeed a lot." Karan nodded in agreement.

Steve looked confused.

"What are you talking about?" he asked in a daze, "Why can't I understand anything?"

Karan patted him on the shoulder twice: "Do you remember the other professors who have doubts?"

Steve was stunned for a moment, and he said uncertainly: "You mean... the Prewett brothers?"

After seeing Karan nod, Steve's eyes suddenly widened: "Professor Lear was also impersonated?! Just like before the Christmas vacation?!"

"It's just a conjecture." Karan repeated as he picked up his backpack: "Just like Baiget, it's just a conjecture."

Slytherin and Hufflepuff both had only one class in the morning, and several of them were going to the library. Snape was no exception. He wanted to find out if there were more dark magic books available for borrowing.

Steve was not in the mood to do his homework, so he picked up a book of eternity from the bookshelf, spread it out on the table, and kept wrestling with the book.

The Book of Eternity can never be finished. After a while, the pages that have been turned are piled up in a high pile, and the remaining pages are still only a thin pile.

While he was flipping through it, he was still observing the expressions of the other three people.

But none of them seemed to be in a hurry. Instead, they each borrowed a bunch of books and read them silently, without anyone making a sound.

Steve finally couldn't help it any longer. He turned his head around on the page and asked a few people: "Aren't you worried? What if Professor Lear is really being impersonated..." "

Before Steve could finish speaking, Gaspard interrupted him expressionlessly.

"That's impossible." He said: "How can the problem that just happened happen again immediately? The school will definitely take precautions in this regard."

"Then what do you mean?" Steve was completely confused.

"I just feel something is wrong." Karan was reading a collection of werewolf stories. He said without raising his head: "Besides, we must be more careful. After all, werewolf riots are not a small matter. No matter where we are... It’s no surprise that anyone among them is attacked, everyone has the potential to be the target of the mysterious person – although I am the most likely.”

He added the last sentence very consciously, and both Guspard and Snape nodded.

Karan continued: "And I'm still thinking, if Professor Leal's identity is real, why would he do this?"

"First I rejected the principal's invitation, then I hurriedly agreed, and finally my attitude changed drastically today..."

"But it is also possible that Professor Lear today is his truest character. After all, he works in the Ministry of Magic and faces dangerous existences such as dark creatures. Yesterday's him was the most wrong... ..”

Callan vaguely felt that this had something to do with Professor Lear's son, Remus Lupin, and this was the only reason why he was so abnormal.

Snape raised his head and suddenly suggested: "How about asking Professor Meadows?"

Callan shook his head. He knew that Meadows needed to stay in Hogsmeade Village. Dumbledore would definitely not let her get involved in Hogwarts affairs again - this was too risky. After all, Meadows had just graduated from Hogwarts. Egypt had narrowly escaped death and she needed to calm down for a while.

Steve blinked.

"Why don't you go directly to my dad? He might know something."