Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 19: At Hogwarts
This is how life at Hogwarts began.
For Matthew Wakefield, the past few days have been very fulfilling, as if he had returned to his middle school days in his previous life.
From Slytherin's common room, to the auditorium, to the classroom, to the library... a stable life at four points and one line.
This time also made him forget the bad things before.
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Although many of the teachers at Hogwarts are a little weird, they are almost all good people (at least the few that Matthew has come into contact with).
If there was one exception, it would be Apolion Pringle, Warden of Hogwarts Castle.
Pringle is a burly man with a bad temper, and he likes to physically punish students who have made mistakes. Rumor has it that chains, handcuffs, and leather whips hung from the ceiling of his office are all polished by him. All the students hate him.
In addition, Pringle has a dog named Mr. Tang... When Matthew heard this name for the first time, he almost laughed out loud, because it was obviously the name of a duck.
This strong golden retriever, like a proud drake, patrols the aisles of Hogwarts Castle every day, once it finds students who violate the rules, it will stop them Do not let them leave until the arrival of the master.
It is very familiar with the terrain of Hogwarts, and no student knows the secret passages of Hogwarts better than it.
But as long as you stay away from Pringle and Mr. Tang, the rest of your memories are pretty good.
The professor of the History of Magic is a witch named Bathilda Bagshot, who is also the author of the "History of Magic" textbook.
This witch is very old, it is said that she is almost two hundred years old, so she doesn't even bother to attend the sorting ceremony and the school opening banquet. Even during and after class, she needed two house elves to support her before she could move.
However, her memory is still clear, and she can easily recall any piece of past history; the content of the lectures is also lively and interesting, and the boring historical events are described by her as interesting stories... So the history of magic course, Quite popular with everyone.
The one who taught the spell was the strangely short wizard Professor Flitwick, who had to stand on a stack of books to reach the desk during class.
Professor Flitwick is a very good-tempered professor, and the class of Charms is also very relaxed and happy.
However, it is said that this relaxed and easy-going Charms professor was also a violent old man when he was young. He participated in many duel competitions and won many championships. Before coming to Hogwarts, he was also well-known in the wizarding world. figure.
Three times a week, they will be led by Professor Sprout to the greenhouse behind the castle to study herbology, learn how to cultivate those strange plants and fungi and understand their uses.
In their first lesson in herbal medicine, they learned to tell if a mushroom is poisonous or not.
And the non-toxic mushrooms selected by the students were taken to the kitchen by Professor Sprout after class and became the mushroom soup that night.
And every Tuesday night, they go to the Astronomy Tower.
Under the guidance of Professor Sinistra, use a telescope to observe the starry sky and learn the names of different stars and the orbits of planets.
This course does not require the use of any magic, and Professor Sinistra is by far the most demanding professor on the course,
Her after-class assignments are also very extensive, a paper on the orbits of eight planets, at least two and a half feet long.
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There were two Potions classes on Wednesday afternoon, and this was the only class Slytherin would take with Gryffindor.
Potions classes are taught in an underground classroom.
Theoretically, it's colder here than in the main castle building (like Slytherin's common room), but the large bubbling cauldrons in the classroom keep the place warm.
Twenty or so Slytherin and Gryffindor students filed in and sat down in the classroom one after another.
As Matthew entered the Potions classroom, he glanced at the bubbling cauldrons; at the same time, he looked at the glass jars along the wall, soaking animal specimens, plant specimens, and diseased specimens.
But when he sat down, he seemed a little lonely around him.
There are five Slytherin boys in a dormitory. Crabbe and Goyle are Malfoy's loyal followers, and Nott has a good relationship with them; Among them, he was quietly "isolated" by the other people~IndoMTL.com~ Matthew didn't know the reason, and he didn't care too much about it.
He took out the two textbooks "A Thousand Miraculous Herbs and Mushrooms" and "Magic Potions and Potions", as well as crucibles, brass balances, crystal bottles and other tools, and put them all on the desk.
Professor Horace Slughorn's belly was already pushing in before he showed himself. His walrus mustache twitched on his smiling mouth as he greeted the students.
This was also the first time Matthew saw the head of the Slytherin house in class.
Like Professor Troka, he also took out the roster and started roll call.
However, when Neville Lombard of Gryffindor and Draco Malfoy of Slytherin were called by name, he paused for a moment and smiled warmly at the two boys. .
Matthew suddenly sounded Farley's evaluation of Slughorn——
"He only prefers students with prominent family backgrounds or outstanding talents."
It seems that both Neville and Malfoy belong to the former?
The underground classroom is filled with steam and filled with all kinds of strange smells
Professor Slughorn stood amidst a lot of hot steam, his huge figure seemed to be erratic: "Students, please take out the scales, medicine bags, and of course, don't forget Take out your "Magic Potions and Potions" textbook..."
There was a sparse sound of fetching something.
"However, before class..." Professor Slughorn suddenly said mysteriously, "I have prepared several potions to open your eyes... Before actually making potions, let You feel the wonderful and magical magic in advance!"