"Today's class ends here." On the podium, the gloomy Potions Professor glanced at everyone in the classroom. "Tomorrow is the rest day, but I think you may not be qualified to rest..."
"This weekend, everyone has to write an article about "the development process of improving the warming potion into the evil-dispelling potion and the application scenarios of the two potions in the active era", at least - fourteen inches long."
All the students in the classroom lowered their heads with bitter expressions on their faces. Only Hermione waved her fist in excitement.
Snape glanced at Hermione expressionlessly, and then cast his gaze on Sean next to him.
"The famous Mr. Wallop, considering your behavior of skipping class a week ago, your paper is at least two feet long for me. Since you have skipped class, you must be very confident in your potions knowledge.
Right? Then... those who can do more work."
"get out of class is over." Snape grabbed his textbook, swung his black cloak back, and strode out of the classroom.
Only Sean, who looked depressed, and other classmates who looked at him sympathetically were left.
Two feet, that's twenty-four inches, a full ten inches more than the others!
Sean lay weakly on the desk: "I can't live this life."
Hermione on the side was packing her things and said: "You should be lucky that Snape didn't even directly give you a failure in Potions class - who in Hufflepuff skipped class last time? Snape
I put a big T on his final report card on the spot. The guy even asked Professor Sprout to intercede, and he studied potions crazily in the second half of the semester, but in the end he only got a P."
T stands for Troll, P stands for Poor.
Sean waved his hands feebly: "I would rather he give me a failing grade - this week is really worse than death..."
Within a week after Sean skipped class, Snape was on full display in Potions class, and Harry even made a glorious history of not having any points deducted for three consecutive Potions classes - all thanks to Sean.
In the class just now, Sean was ridiculed by Snape for ten minutes because he didn't hold the silver knife in a straight position after cutting the medicinal materials.
"The way a person arranges his utensils can tell a lot about his state - Mr. Wallop, are you paying attention to this lesson?"
"The deep-sea algae we are cutting this time requires the silver knife to be cut at a specific angle. Just looking at the position of your silver knife, I can tell that your angle is a little off - this will cause instability when brewing the potion.
In such a situation, splashing of medicine is almost inevitable... Of course, if you want to show a wave of going to the infirmary with a bag on your head, I would also be happy to see it."
"The way you extinguished the crucible really disgusted me... What I taught you in the first class were forgotten so quickly? Oh, by the way, the famous Mr. Wallop, who skipped class, has of course formed
It’s a method of operation that belongs to your identity as a potions master, right? - No? Then just do it as I say!”
"Five points from Ravenclaw."
Similar words kept popping up in Potions class this week, but Sean couldn't refute any of them, even if his operation was fine, and even if everyone knew that Snape was deliberately trying to find trouble with him.
Who actually missed a class?
If it hadn't been for recent events that allowed Sean to get a lot of bonus points, I'm afraid it wouldn't be enough for Snape to deduct...
Sean sighed and took the things Hermione had packed for him, and looked at him eagerly: "That, the respectful and knowledgeable Miss Granger..."
Hermione turned around neatly, leaving him with long, fluffy brown hair.
"No way, don't expect me to write that extra ten inches of paper for you, shameful and lazy Mr. Wallop."
"No, Hermione, help me, I usually copy your Potions papers..."
"Humph, that was for you to learn from! And this time it's extra homework assigned by Snape to you alone!"
"Don't I have to rely on you...Hey, don't go, wait for me, I'll treat you to lamb chops tonight..."
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At night, Sean lay alone on the cushions of the Room of Requirement. Under his control, the ceiling of the Room of Requirement was transformed into a starry night sky.
"It's rare to have a weekend where I can rest. Such an unfortunate homework..."
Sean was holding a hay lollipop in his mouth, and he was weighing it with his legs crossed in an imageless manner.
Hermione had been a lot stricter with him recently. During dinner, Sean had some good talk before Hermione agreed to help him write four inches, which meant that he still had to rely on himself for the remaining twenty inches.
"It's terrible..." Sean sighed.
He's really not very good at writing papers.
"I don't know what the largest font size I can use... Maybe I can use a thicker quill pen..." The miserable young man had already begun to think of all kinds of evil ways.
After thinking like this for a while, Sean sadly realized that if he really did this, he would probably have to be targeted by Snape for another week.
"I'll write it tomorrow, it hurts my brain to think about it now."
He bit off the hay lollipop in his mouth, chewed it hard a few times, and then swallowed it in one breath.
Let's think about other things first.
The results of Lockhart's investigation have come out. The professors used veritaserum and hypnotic potions, and then asked all the questions they could think of.
Not much gain.
During this period, Professor Flitwick tried to extract some of Lockhart's memories to see what was going on, but the other party's accomplishments in memory spells were truly astonishing.
Even when he completely lost the ability to resist, the memories in Lockhart's head seemed to have taken root and could not be extracted no matter what.
In the end, I had no choice but to return to the interrogation method of using truth serum.
The information obtained is similar to what Sean guessed - from the perspective of a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, or even a normal wizard, Lockhart has undoubtedly failed. But from the perspective of an undercover agent
, Lockhart did quite successfully.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He extracted and destroyed all his previous relevant memories. Some important memories that could not be destroyed were also modified at key points, and all that remained were recent parts.
Memory, asking and questioning is all known information.
The only new discovery was that the professors got partial information about the black rhombus crystal.
In Lockhart's memory, the returnee called the black diamond-shaped crystal "obsession" in the emergency contact. He also mentioned that the so-called obsession is something that has been inherited for a long time and is very important. Lockhart needs
Get it back at all costs.
Sean has never heard of the name Obsession. Not only him, but even the professors have never heard of it. Only Professor Bablin of Ancient Runes said that Obsession may be the same as Ancient Runes.
related.
You can't really analyze anything from the name alone, but what matches Sean's guess is that this obsession is indeed very important, at least to the returnees.
It can also be seen from this that the Returners were determined to succeed in their plan, but what they did not expect was that the barrier that trapped Sean and Dawson together became Sean's way to unlock his own restrictions.
Best cover.
They probably never imagined that the outstandingly powerful Max Dawson, equipped with the controllable Mouth of Silence, and the help of the dementors, could not even catch a fourth-year student like Sean.
Sean didn't really feel that he had foiled the other party's plan.
All I can say is that time is destiny.
Dark creatures such as the Mouth of Silence and Dementors were completely restrained by Sean's Dark Sleeper, and with this method of being unable to see the light, the enemy thoughtfully helped him close the curtains.
For Sean, the more urgent thing is always the next thing, and the plans of the returnees obviously don't stop there.
This obsession may be a good direction for investigation, but Sean has never heard of this name. In the impression, Grindelwald would mention some ancient secret magic and magic props to him from time to time in the past.
etc., but there is no such name in it.
However, some clues can be seen from the contacts Lockhart received.
It seems that the obsessive body does not need to be taken with special care, nor does it require any special magical drive, otherwise Lockhart would be informed of this information in the emergency contact so that he can obtain it.
After thinking about it, Sean opened the ring and said hello, and soon, Cat Leopard Pudding moved up the box containing the obsession.
To be on the safe side, Sean put on a pair of thick dragon leather gloves and opened the box carefully.
Nothing has changed, and the defensive spells he left behind are still intact.
The obsessive body is lying quietly in a box that can bind black magic items.
Sean got closer, and with his sensitivity to dark forces, he couldn't find anything amiss, and the high-precision speculum produced by the system didn't issue any warning.
"This thing itself seems to be harmless, but with special methods it may have various application scenarios..." Sean thought silently.
After checking again to make sure there were no problems, Sean took off his dragon leather gloves.
He got closer again and carefully looked at the black crystal called the obsession body.
It is about twenty centimeters long and only five centimeters wide at its widest point. It is a very standard diamond shape. What is strange is that under the reflection of the torches and the starry sky ceiling in the Room of Requirement, there is no reflection on the surface of the pitch-black crystal.
It's like it can absorb bright light hitting the surface.
Sean tried to look inside the obsession, but still couldn't see anything. There seemed to be only a vague mist-like thing inside.
Moreover, the obsessive body does not have the feeling of being sucked in by a single glance as a dark prop in the novel.
Sean finally tried to touch it. It was ice cold, just like an ordinary crystal. However, even after touching it for a long time, it would not become warm due to Sean's body temperature, and the obsession body remained the same.
That look.
The spell doesn't work, nor does it work when touched. This thing seems to be like a stone that cannot be affected.
"It's a bit strange," Sean touched his chin and thought, "You can obviously feel a magic power, but this magic power is not outstanding, but it will not be ignored, but all kinds of magic spells that induce magic power activate magic power.
Even after I cast it, there was no movement..."
Just as Sean was thinking, there was a sudden knock on the wooden door of the Room of Requirement.
"Huh?" Sean put away his obsession and turned his head.
Hermione and Daisy can directly open the door and come in with their own consent, but others can't even see the door without Sean's consent. The only ones who can see and knock on the door are...
Sure enough, when Sean opened the door, the petite silver-haired girl was standing in the corridor looking up at him.
This guy really hasn't changed at all... This sentence popped up silently in Sean's mind.
"Good evening, Stephanie." Sean greeted.
"Good evening, Sean." Stephanie nodded to him.
Letting the other party in, Sean closed the door and asked, "What's wrong? Do you want to see me if you need anything?"
As a girl who doesn't like to talk nonsense, Stephanie has always been very direct.
She said straight to the point: "Sean, are you having some troubles lately?"
Sean, who was caught off guard by the girl's question, was stunned for a moment, and then spread his hands: "Obviously yes - to be precise, I have always been troubled, but recently there have been particularly many problems."
Even through the gold-rimmed women's glasses, Stephanie's eyes were still sparkling. Although her charm ability had long been useless to Sean, she had to say that he looked very beautiful.
"Because I was also involved in this matter that day, the professors revealed some information to me. I discussed it with Professor Bablin, and finally agreed that this still involves ancient runes and ancient magic."
"Ancient runes..." Sean pressed his temple with a headache.
His ancient rune talent is really hopeless, and now he has been relying on the two talents gifted in Dumbledore's junior set that he drew... If it is still the original 0-point talent, Sean doubts it.
I can’t even understand the introductory course.
It's not that he doesn't want to remedy it, but that there is really no good way to remedy this talent.
The talent points he has extracted so far, excluding those directly added to the fixed talents, there are only a few talent points that can be freely distributed.
And Sean is a person who likes to specialize. He didn't add the nine-point talent of Transfiguration to ten points, but added the two-point talent of Ancient Runes to three points. This is not his character.
Of course, his other talents are basically full now. If he can still freely allocate talent points in the future, Sean will definitely add them to ancient runes.
He now relies on Thelma Murphy's supplementary lessons and [The Lament of the Ancients] once a month to keep up with Professor Bablin's teaching progress...
"I'm really not very good at this..." Sean spread his hands helplessly.
Stephanie looked up at him, her face expressionless, but her eyes were twinkling.
"I can help you."
"Huh?" Sean didn't react for a moment.
"You need huge sources of information to analyze various things, and you are not very good at ancient runes, but I am very good at it." Stephanie said straightforwardly, "To be precise, in terms of knowledge reserve alone, I am better than the library.
The administrator, Mrs. Pince, has more.”
"Because I really like reading." The girl said seriously.