Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 21: Black magic
At one point, Matthew thought that Professor Horace Slughorn made himself wait in the potions classroom because he wanted to invite him to join the slug club he created.
Members of the club include what Slughorn considers outstanding students, as well as relatives of famous and successful people, making it an elite group at Hogwarts.
But it turns out that he was thinking too much.
After sending Harry Evans to the school hospital and returning to the Potions classroom, Head Slytherin only greeted Matthew in a "concerned" tone; If you encounter any problems, you can come to his office to find him, and he will definitely help you with all your strength.
Keep silent about the "club".
It seems that I haven't really reached the standard in the mind of the dean.
But this is also a good start.
Matthew returned to the common room with the supplies from Potions class.
"Blood is thicker than blood!" he said softly, touching the head of the giant snake on the door of the common room.
The stone door was opened, and he walked through the lively common room, and returned to his bedroom.
After staying for a few days, Matthew has become accustomed to living at the bottom of the lake, hearing the sound of big or small waves at any time, or seeing fish schools, octopuses and even other creatures swimming past the window...
The night before yesterday, he even witnessed a terrifying monster with the body of a mermaid, holding a fork in its hand, looking into the dormitory, which almost shocked him.
Soon he realized that the other party should be a mermaid living in the Black Lake.
In order to prevent being "peeped" by the mermaid, he simply closed the curtains.
……
Just when Matthew put back the supplies from Potions class and was about to go to the auditorium for dinner.
"Wakefield!" Draco Malfoy's voice sounded from behind him.
Matthew turned around slowly, and saw Malfoy's gloomy face, and Crabbe and Goyle, two big men standing behind him like a hill.
In the boys' dormitory of Slytherin, the phenomenon of "grouping" is very serious.
Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe, and Gregory Goyle are good friends who grew up together (or it is more appropriate to say that the latter two are the former's followers); Te is also from a pure-blood family, and his family conditions are also good, and he knew them before entering school...
As if Matthew Wakefield had been forced into this small group, he existed very awkwardly.
Plus Matthew, he didn't have the intention to deliberately please...or try to blend in with them.
So even though they are roommates in a dormitory, they can only be regarded as nodding acquaintances at best.
However, it was the first time that Malfoy showed such a hostile expression to himself.
"Malfoy, what's the matter?" He asked calmly.
"Slughorn invited you to join?" Malfoy asked coldly.
"Join?" Matthew frowned.
He quickly realized that Malfoy was already a member of the Slug Club, and that's what he was asking now.
So he shook his head.
A look of arrogance appeared on Malfoy's face, and he said flauntingly: "It seems that your intentional flattery in Potions class didn't work at all! Look, I didn't do anything. He invited me on the first day of school!"
"Maybe." Matthew shrugged, and said nonchalantly, "I'm going to the auditorium for dinner, shall we come together?"
Malfoy seemed to have punched a sponge hard, and now he had a strange expression on his face.
"Then I'll go first." Matthew said lightly.
Then he turned and left the Slytherin common room.
……
Life at Hogwarts is still going on.
For first-year freshmen, the most anticipated course is undoubtedly the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
The first-year students of Slytherin and Ravenclaw did not receive this course for the first time until Friday afternoon.
More than 20 immature faces came to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom on the fourth floor with great anticipation, waiting quietly for the start of the class.
Professor Rozier was just like what Matthew imagined. He knew that the professor must be difficult to deal with at the first sight.
As the bell rang, she entered the classroom very punctually, still wearing the neat black windbreaker.
"Defense Against the Dark Arts is the most important course for you at Hogwarts~IndoMTL.com~ and it will accompany you all your life." She said:
"If anyone dares to mess up in my class, then I will ask him out, and he will never be allowed to set foot here again. I have warned you now!"
This majestic opening remark completely shocked the entire classroom.
Neither Slytherin nor Ravenclaw students dared to laugh and laugh like they did in Potions and Charms classes. The whole classroom was so quiet that a needle could be heard falling on the ground.
After glancing at the quiet crowd, Professor Rozier continued:
"Very well, at the beginning of this first class, I would like to ask you a question, what is black magic?"
As soon as she finished speaking, one arm was raised high.
It's Hermione Granger from Ravenclaw.
"Miss Granger." Professor Rozier called her name.
"Black magic is an evil witchcraft created and used by black wizards. They usually bring great pain and suffering to the caster, and the caster can recognize the effect of this magic, and Have the willingness to see the harmful results happen.”
Hermione spoke quickly and answered fluently.
This answer was literally copied...or memorized from "The Dark Arts: A Guide to Self-Defense".
Matthew has also read this paragraph, but obviously he can't recite it as proficiently as Hermione.
There was no fluctuation on Professor Rozier's face, she just gestured for Hermione to sit down.
"Miss Granger's answer is completely wrong!" Immediately afterwards, she said mercilessly:
"First of all, magic itself is not good or evil; their good or evil depends on the wizard who uses them!