At six o'clock in the afternoon, the deep and deep castle bell rang on time, quickly spreading to every corner of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The last class of each afternoon was over, and the students left the classroom with great relief and walked in groups towards the auditorium on the first floor of the castle, waiting for the arrival of a sumptuous dinner.
There is no doubt that the cold underground Potions classroom is never a place that makes people miss it.
After Professor Snape finished assigning homework and announced the end of get out of class, in less than three minutes, the classroom instantly became empty, with only Elena and Snape left.
"Today's class is much easier than yesterday... It would be great if it was like this every day."
Elena straightened up, stretched hard, and said with a sigh.
Compared to the hectic rush faced by the third-grade "Pippi Shrimps" yesterday, the fifth-grade students have obviously mastered how to survive in the potions class, except for one or two Ravens who accidentally cut their fingers because they were distracted.
Apart from the little wizard Crow, there is almost no place for Elena's healing magic to be used.
"Hmph, if they are still in the fifth grade and are still the same as junior students, then they don't need to go to O.W.Ls this year. Instead of embarrassing themselves in front of the officials of the Ministry of Magic, they might as well just repeat the grade and study again."
Snape snorted without looking back, speaking softly in his usual cold and mocking tone, while waving his wand to clean away the remaining potion stains on the table.
Although in theory, the job of cleaning classrooms can be left to the house elves, most professors, including Snape, still insist on personally controlling and being responsible for their own classrooms.
"That's right, I almost forgot, the fifth graders are fresh graduates. Speaking of which, they are really under a lot of pressure this year."
Elena nodded clearly while continuing to organize the somewhat messy potion material storage cabinet.
The fifth grade of Hogwarts is a quite obvious watershed. If compared to the non-magical world, it is actually somewhat similar to the nine years of compulsory education that Elena received in her previous life.
At the end of the year, every student will face the assessment from the Wizarding Examination Authority of the Ministry of Magic - the Ordinary Wizarding Level Results, or O.W.Ls.
According to Professor McGonagall, if you want to find a decent job in the wizarding world in the future, the smartest way is to get an excellent (O) in the fifth-year O.W.Ls test as much as possible.
Because to a certain extent, this is also the only academic certificate in the wizarding world. It will comprehensively display a wizard's learning status during school - excluding Potions, Herbalism, Charms, and Transfiguration.
In addition to the seven compulsory courses of magic, history of magic, defense against the dark arts, and astronomy, there are also five elective courses. (Note, click to expand)
The N.E.W.Ts exam after seventh grade is actually closer to a kind of existence between a professional title certificate and a professional certificate.
This exam has an important impact on future work. In order to pass the exam, fifth-year students must spend this year like a nightmare - you know, in today's magical world where jobs are increasingly scarce, even if you are applying for an operator or job at the Ministry of Magic,
Front desk staff also need more than 6 good (E).
"When they feel pressure, it's because they don't work hard enough. If they can spend half of the energy they usually waste on chatting, Quidditch, falling in love... on these things and put it into their previous daily studies, at least they can
It’s more than twice as good as our current performance.”
As he spoke, Snape, who had already tidied up the Potions classroom, turned around, walked to the podium, and casually took out a few bottles of potion reagents that the students had brewed in this class, and looked at them casually.
asked.
"Speaking of it, Elena... In the past few days, I seem to have heard some rumors about me in school, and they are said to be quite serious. Have you heard anyone talk about such things recently?
Have you passed?"
"Eh?!"
⊙▽?⊙!!!
With her back to Snape, Elena was squatting in front of the storage cabinet sorting out the potion ingredients. Her whole body froze, and the little fur on her head suddenly twitched. Her heart seemed to have stopped for a second, and her brain started to work quickly.
Trying to answer calmly.
"Well, no... You know, I just went back to school yesterday, so I'm not very clear about these things."
"That's right. You were at Mr. Otto's last week."
Snape nodded nonchalantly, put the potion bottle in his hand back on the wooden shelf, replaced it with another bottle and checked it, squinting his eyes with a hint of coldness, and whispered half to himself.
"And as far as I know, it's made up in a decent way. It looks like he's the child of some old classmates..."
Over the past few days, Snape could clearly feel that many young wizards in the school, even the ghosts in the castle, and even some professors had some subtle changes in the way they looked at him.
The most obvious thing is that lately, whenever he passes by, more and more students have taken the initiative to say hello to him - before this, except for the students from Slytherin, most of the students from the other three houses were in front of him.
They all look like wooden people.
Of course, due to his curiosity, Snape rarely paid attention to the gossip stories that had been circulating on campus recently, and even did not hesitate to use the professor's majesty and privilege...
Although he did not hear the complete version, he still vaguely heard some of the most widely circulated fragments:
For example, when I was in school, I was bullied by a bad Gryffindor student, so I targeted Gryffindor in particular;
In fact, he was an unknown hero who resisted the Dark Lord ten years ago, so he was appointed as the youngest dean of Hogwarts.
In fact, even Madam Pomfrey asked him sideways at the dining table if he had ever been cursed on his face, which made his expression more rigid.
The most outrageous, and what made Snape the most angry, were the various versions circulated among girls, but without exception they all ended in tragedy, about his various touching and poignant love stories...
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"Elena, I know you are very popular among students."
Snape slowly put down the reagent bottle in his hand and spoke slowly and softly. His voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, but there was also a hint of awkward friendliness.
"I know that you are a good boy with ideals and you won't pay too much attention to these boring rumors. However, if you can, help me pay attention to who these rumors are coming from."
"Uh, uh, but..."
Elena swallowed slightly nervously, and the tension in her heart dissipated slightly.
There is no doubt that judging from the current conversation, Professor Snape probably just mentioned it casually, and did not fix the target of suspicion on her, but made some routine mistakes.
This is not difficult to understand. After all, she is just a freshman who has just entered school from a non-magical world. There is no way that those specious past events could have come from her mouth.
"If I remember correctly, you should have a Slytherin House uniform now, right?"
Snape twitched the corner of his mouth and tried to use his gentlest voice to ask, but found that because he had not practiced this tone for a long time, the effect he sent out was more like a threat.
"Yes, yes, Professor." Elena hesitated, not knowing what Snape meant.
"It belongs to you (keep it). And, from now on, you will also have your own bed in the girls' dormitory in the Slytherin House common room just like Gryffindor House - well
, as a basic benefit as a Potions Assistant, this is also the only right I have."
Snape glanced at the little silver-haired witch in front of him who had been busy for a whole class, and who had almost sorted out the potions materials. The Potions Professor's eyes softened slightly, he shrugged, and said in as kind a voice as possible.
.
"At the same time, if you have any questions about potions, or want to brew potions, or need some rare potion materials, you can come to my office to see me... I heard Mr. Apokalis say
, you seem to have many interesting ideas in Potions."
I have to say that with the help of this little guy, the potions class experience is indeed quite good.
If there could be a data panel to display it, Elena might be able to see that for a whole class, Snape's favorability was silently +1, +1, hiccup, +2, +1, +1.
,burp,+3……
Of course, Snape would never admit it. Part of the reason for this was that the beef shabu-shabu in broth at noon tasted really good, and compared to the delicious taste of the beef shabu-shabu, what reminded him more of was the strange taste.
Relaxed dining atmosphere.
More than ten years have passed since the lovely, beautiful, kind, and gentle Lily got closer and closer to the arrogant, annoying, rich, powerful, arrogant, arrogant, and stupid James Potter.
Well, Snape had not experienced the fun of such a small-scale dinner party for a long time.
The only drawback is that the dipping sauce prepared by Elena is a bit too spicy.
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