The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts

Chapter 618: Harry’s Talent (Part 2)

The Elixir of Felicity is to Ron what a huge diamond is to a girl.

It makes people salivate, and I can't wait to rub it into my own flesh.

Although Ron is no longer poor by working in Link's factory, his character has not changed in any way.

Frugality and stinginess have been deeply engraved in his bones.

This can be seen from the fact that he still uses the old books handed down by his brothers.

So after getting Harry's permission to play with Felicia, he went completely insane.

Playing while resting, and playing while eating.

It wasn't until the end of the lunch break, when the class was approaching, that Ron put the Felix Elixir under his nose and took a deep breath:

"One day, I'm going to get myself a bottle of this and try being favored by the goddess of luck. It must be wonderful. By the way, Ernie seems to say that Link always has Bliss on him, and sometimes Take it out as a reward for a small game. Tell me, is it too late for me to transfer to Hufflepuff now?"

While talking, Ron reluctantly returned the Felicia to Harry.

Hearing this, Harry didn't answer, but just walked behind Ron with a sad face, as if he was full of thoughts.

"Oh! Merlin, aren't you still thinking about Hermione?"

Ron rolled his eyes and said, "It's okay, well, I'm sure you're right. I've already asked Lavender and the others. Hermione is only here for a few days every month, so she's just a little irritable .It will be fine after a few days."

"What days of the month?"

"Don't you know? Every girl has it, damn it, I forgot you had no experience with girls. Well, why don't you go back and ask Sirius Black. I heard my mother say that when he was young, he was Hogwarts heartthrob, every girl dreams of being with him. He must have a lot of experience in this field!"

Speaking of this, even if Harry was innocent, he understood what Ron was talking about.

This made him blush when he came to his senses.

At the same time, the two of them turned a corner and finally arrived outside the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

Hermione and several other students had already been standing in the corridor waiting.

She was carrying a large pile of heavy books in her arms, and she looked abused.

Harry took a deep breath, going up to say hello.

But the next moment, the classroom door was suddenly opened.

Snape walked into the hallway, the same as before, his greasy black hair parted on either side, framing his sallow face.

The originally noisy corridor suddenly became silent.

Snape's cold gaze swept across the people in the corridor, and stayed on Harry for an extra long time.

He didn't speak, just moved away, and gave everyone a look of 'come in' expressionlessly from behind.

After being 'tortured' by Snape for so many years, the surviving students naturally possessed super high ability to perceive words and emotions.

Seeing this, everyone quickly poured into the classroom.

Unlike Umbridge or Lupin, the current Defense Against the Dark Arts professor has a strong 'Snape' style.

There are pictures on the walls that have not been seen before, many of them are suffering people, hideous wounds and bizarre twisted body parts.

If it wasn't for the absence of all kinds of strangely shaped crucibles and beakers, and the absence of all kinds of inexplicable smells in the air, people who came in would definitely mistake this place for another Potions classroom.

But even though the decor is so uncomfortable.

But Harry and the other students didn't feel anything wrong after they sat down.

No one was even interested in glancing at the patterns on the side.

The reason is simple, they are already used to it.

Since the day Umbridge was kicked out last year, Snape has been their substitute Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

After such a long period of 'torture', they have adapted quite well.

When the last student trotted into the classroom, Snape closed the classroom door and strode towards the podium.

Along with his steps, all the windows he passed closed automatically, and the curtains were suddenly drawn.

After he walked to the podium, the light in the whole classroom was dimmed, leaving only the dim light from the candles.

"I have something to tell you, and I hope you will pay close attention." Snape said expressionlessly, "So far, you must have changed five teachers for this course."

As soon as Snape finished speaking, a gloating smile appeared on the corner of Ron's mouth.

Harry knew without guessing that Ron must be fantasizing that Snape would be next to be cursed by the position.

"Needless to say, these teachers all have their own teaching methods and teaching emphases." Snape continued, but his eyes were fixed on Ron, which made the smile on Ron's face disappear instantly, turning into With a distorted look, "I think you should all be grateful to me, if I hadn't taken over this course in the second half of last year and brought them on the right path. I'm afraid most of you will be Missed the current NEWT advanced course!"

Snape stepped off the podium and walked around the room, speaking in a lower voice.

"The true meaning of black magic is the magic power of the curse system. After various evolutions, the magic power of the curse system has been developed into various wonderful changes. They are either weird or fierce, and they are ever-changing. That is to say, what you are facing It is something unpredictable and indestructible."

Harry stared at Snape, who didn't think 'wonderful' was the right word to describe the Dark Arts.

This probably shows that Snape subconsciously doesn't dislike the Dark Arts, after all he was a Death Eater before!

Harry speculated viciously.

"Therefore, your defense," said Snape, raising his voice slightly, "must be as flexible as black magic, and silent spells are a good way to deal with it! So what we are going to learn today is silent spells! Now, divide into groups of two, and one will try to cast a jinx on the other without saying it aloud. The other will try to repel the jinx, also without speaking aloud. Let's go."

After Snape finished speaking, everyone in the audience looked perplexed. After finally being divided into groups, they didn't intend to proceed to the next step.

This made Snape feel dissatisfied and said:

"What? Don't any of you know the silent spell?"

Snape's question was obviously an insulting rhetorical question, but Hermione immediately raised her hand upon hearing this.

This stunned Snape for a moment.

He looked around, finally nodded and said:

"Miss Granger?"

"Silent spells, as the name suggests, cast spells silently. The advantage of this is that your opponent doesn't know what you're planning to cast," said Hermione. "This gives you a split-second advantage."

"It's still correct, but do you really know how to release the silent spell?"

"To successfully release the silent spell, what is required is strong concentration and willpower."

"These answers of yours are copied from "Standard Spells: Sixth Grade"," Snape said contemptuously. "I believe that even you yourself can't understand the meaning of this passage?"

As soon as these words came out, Hermione's expression darkened instantly.

Because she really didn't know.

The textbooks used by Hogwarts are actually incomplete, and many knowledge points in them are only briefly mentioned, and it is impossible to truly and completely guide students to learn magic.

That's why Hermione is so obsessed with libraries.

This part of the missing content can only be supplemented by other books besides the professor's narration.

"Oh, poor Miss Know-It-All, you can only study blindly and rigidly, but you don't know that although this can give you short-term good grades, it can't make you a really good wizard. After all, as a wizard, you need It’s not just hard work and hard work, but more importantly, talent!”

Snape said gloomily, "Take silent spells for example. The reason why they require great willpower and concentration from the caster is that they essentially skip the guiding process of reciting the spell. In the absence of After this process, the release of magic will lack a guide. And the lack of this part, you need to use your willpower to mobilize and guide yourself, do you understand now?"

"What is guidance and mobilization?" Hermione blushed and said, "You didn't explain what we should do at all!"

Snape glanced at Hermione contemptuously and said:

"What I said is very clear. To guide is to guide, and to mobilize is to mobilize. Both of these are verbs. As I said, talent is very important to magic, and silent spells are especially important in this regard. You need talent. If you can't understand, it's because you don't have enough talent. If it were Link Foley, he would have known how to do it as early as I said that silent spells require willpower and concentration! What? Are you still not convinced?"

Snape looked at Hermione's clenched fists, and couldn't help but sneered, "Then try it yourself! I know you have all been trained by the D.A. army, so armor protection spells and ordinary attack spells are also You don’t need me to teach you? Let’s all start practicing and try to see if we are talented!”

Following Snape's order, the students who had already been divided into groups immediately started to move.

But as Snape said, silent spells do require talent.

The vast majority of people present actually don't understand the mystery at all.

In other words, they don't care at all whether they can learn silent spells.

After all, having Snape as a professor was bad enough.

With Snape's presence, they didn't put their minds on such a difficult subject as silent spells.

Ever since, a lot of cheating has appeared.

Many students were chanting mantras in low voices, they just didn't amplify their voices.

The only person on the scene who was still trying hard was Hermione.

She and Neville stood opposite each other, holding each other's wands, letting Neville cast a silent curse on her, while she blushed and closed her mouth tightly, afraid that she would not be able to resist the temptation and whispered Cast a spell.

Harry could feel a deep discomfort just by looking at this appearance.

After all, chanting the mantra when releasing the mantra has become their instinctive reaction.

Especially after the training of the D.A. Army, this instinctive reaction was further strengthened.

And now, Hermione was forcibly reversing her instincts.

The most important point is that as Hermione's emotions became more and more tense, she still failed to release the silent spell.

Seeing that she was getting weaker and weaker due to the frequent mobilization of mental power, Harry and Ron both couldn't bear to persuade:

"Hermione, forget it, it's okay if you can't learn it, you don't need to torture yourself like this."

"Get out of the way! Harry!"

Hermione gasped and snapped, "I can learn, I promise! You have no idea what that means to me!"

Hermione glanced in the direction of the podium while talking, and saw Snape looking at her with a mocking smile, which made her even crazier and said:

"Neville, go on!"

"Well, Hermione, if you still want to."

Neville said helplessly, and then raised his wand again.

Perhaps in order to mobilize the magic power better, he even closed his eyes this time.

To be honest, Harry felt that Neville's current appearance was a bit contrived.

After practicing until now, everyone present should know that things like silent spells are simply not something they can learn now.

Probably only a real super genius like Link can practice silent spells to the stage of perfection when he was a student.

As for them.

The reason why Snape brought out the silent spell was probably just to torture them.

Thinking of this, he sighed, and was going to wait until Neville failed to cast another spell before continuing to persuade the two.

However, at this moment, a scarlet light burst out from the tip of Neville's staff without warning.

This ray of light quickly condensed, and it was fully charged in less than a second, shooting towards Hermione.

This scene shocked everyone present.

Hermione opened her mouth even more in surprise.

She never imagined that Neville could succeed so easily in the silent spell that she had tried so many times but failed!

At the critical moment, Ron was the first to react.

He jumped up, and raised his wand.

"Armor protection!"

The phantom of the light blue shield flashed away, and the not-so-thick scarlet beam was bounced back in an instant, hitting Neville hard, and knocking the wand out of his hand.

It was clear to Harry now that Neville had cast the Disarming Charm.

Being directly hit by the Disarming Curse will not only disarm, but also cause huge pain in the hand, making it impossible to attack again in a short period of time after being hit.

But right now Neville couldn't care less about the pain in his palm.

He didn't even pick up the dropped wand, just stared at his hand in disbelief.

"I... I actually succeeded?"

Neville stammered, his tone was a bit like the doormat from before.

But on the corner of his mouth, an ecstatic smile spread wildly.

"how can that be!"

Hermione screamed loudly. After speaking, she might have realized that what she said was an offense to Neville, so she hurriedly changed her words, "Oh no, Neville, you know I didn't mean that, I mean..."

Neville didn't notice what Hermione was saying.

At this moment, he was probably completely dazzled by the ecstasy of success, and even waved the arm that had just successfully cast the spell, and shouted at Snape:

"Professor Snape, I did it! I did it!"

"Oh! That's really good. Although it took so many attempts to succeed, it is enough to show that you have some talent. At least..." Snape slowly walked down from the podium, saying, At the same time, he gave Hermione a sarcasm, "It's much better than some people who are obsessed with reading. Then, Neville Longbottom will add 10 points."

"Great!"

Neville was almost jumping up in excitement.

You must know that as a Gryffindor, it is almost impossible to get extra points from Snape.

But before he could be happy for a long time, Snape continued to say:

"However, Mr. Ron Weasley, I remember I said that you are not allowed to read the spell aloud, right? Obviously, you didn't take my words to heart, deduct 10 points!"

Neville's cheers stopped abruptly.

Ron on the side also roared:

"No, it's not fair. Didn't you see that the spell just now almost hit Hermione? I was just protecting my classmates, let alone deducting points, you should also give me points!"

Harry agreed with Ron's words in his heart, but he didn't think Ron should say them on this occasion.

You must know that Hermione has already entered a state of autism because of Neville's success.

And Ron's words undoubtedly stabbed her in the heart again.

How could Hermione, who had always been so proud, bear it?

Seeing Hermione who was sobbing with her head bowed silently, Harry's mood was extremely complicated.

But Snape didn't care that much.

He continued:

"It's just a disarming spell, not a killing spell. So what if Miss Granger gets hit? Will she die? Mr. Weasley, I know what you're thinking. A place to show off in front of you! Ron Weasley will deduct 5 points for contradicting the professor!"

Ron wanted to say something else, but Snape took the lead and said:

"Also, Ron Weasley, I think your progress is really slow. So, let me show you."

While speaking, Snape had already drawn out his wand.

This made Ron's face change drastically.

Snape was clearly avenging his personal revenge. If he did it, he wouldn't say anything about his injuries, and making a fool of himself in public would definitely be inevitable.

"Stop it, Professor Snape, let me replace Ron!"

Harry pushed Ron away abruptly, speaking loudly.

Ron's eyes were red when he saw this scene, and Harry was undoubtedly his best friend.

But how could he have the heart to let his friends suffer for him?

He pushed and shoved Harry hard, trying to stop him, but Harry didn't know where the strength came from. No matter how hard Ron tried, he couldn't move.

And Snape, who was not far away from them, had an imperceptible excitement on his face when he saw this, and the corner of his mouth slightly raised:

"In this case, it will be even better!"

After all, he didn't care that Harry was still entangled with Ron, and pointed his wand directly at Harry.

Snape still sneak attack?

This is obviously something that no one could think of.

Looking at the magic spell that shone with dazzling light, Harry's eyes suddenly shrank into a dot.

Hum——

That familiar cold feeling reappeared in Harry's brain.

Driven by that icy feeling, Harry suddenly had a strange feeling.

At this moment, he is omnipotent!

This is his talent!

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