Chapter 122: The Seventh Grade Class

Chapter 122: The Seventh Grade Class

The first contact with Lupin at the dinner party made Sherlock feel that he was not a bad person. If he didn’t appear, he should be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts this semester this year. Judging from the current conversation, Sherlock did not see any ulterior motives for Lupin to come to Hogwarts.

The dinner ended normally, and after the night of the first day of school, it officially entered the normal class time. Lupin’s presence helped Sherlock split two-thirds of his tasks.

He had to take the fifth, sixth, and seventh grades. The most stressful exam is the fifth grade because everyone has to take the OWL exam, and every student feels pressured. After entering the sixth grade, although they will face the NEWT exam, it is more difficult and more stressful than the OWL exam.

But this test is optional. The sixth and seventh-grade classes are big classes, filled with students from all four houses. Coupled with the two classes per week in the fifth grade, Sherlock’s tasks this semester only require taking four classes a week, which is much easier than last semester.

On the first day of school, Sherlock had a big seventh-grade class.

Because all the graduates who took the Defense Against the Dark Arts course last semester successfully passed the NEWT Exam with a high passing grade, most of the students in the sixth and seventh grades have chosen his class.

When Sherlock came to the classroom, it was already crowded with students. Sherlock glanced at the scene where two or three students in the back row huddled together at a table to listen to the class and couldn’t help shaking his head.

“It looks like I’m going to apply to Professor Dumbledore for a bigger classroom next class.”

Everyone sitting here has been taking a class with Sherlock for a year, and many students are close to him.

“I think you can apply to Professor Dumbledore to teach in the Hall, Professor.” A student answered.

The students below laughed, and Sherlock followed suit. He tapped the blackboard with his wand, “Okay since this class has already started, let’s focus.”

“Students who have already taken their subjects, after the class, I will hand over the twelve sets of test papers I gave you during the summer vacation to Percy, and he will collect them from me to see the results of your vacation studies.”

“As for the students who are taking this class this year, come to me after class. You also have to have these twelve sets of test papers. I will give you enough time to hand them in before Halloween.”

“I hope you don’t use a foolish way to finish it. These are new questions I made up based on the example questions on the exam in previous years.”

“The owner of a bookstore where I got it asked me to pay 1,000 Galleons to buy the papers. So remember, don’t copy this. After Halloween, I will do a special test based on the available topics.”

“If you can figure out all the questions in these twelve sets of test papers, then there will be basically no questions that will confuse you in the exam later.”

The students below listened carefully. Since they chose this class, the students who have already entered the seventh grade need to pay attention clearly and pass the exam.

The exam for Defense Against the Dark Arts is important in the wizarding world. Many professions pay special attention to this particular score. An Auror who wants to apply for the Ministry of Magic requires at least an O rating.

Sherlock tapped the podium lightly with his wand, turned the podium into a chair, and moved it to the side to make more room for himself.

“Let’s focus on the theoretical knowledge later. For the first course of the school, let’s talk about the practical exam first.”

Because it was not a spell, the entanglement did not provoke the defense mechanism of the Protego Charm spell and spread directly to Wilson’s waist. In the end, he suddenly tightened, and the vines trapped him tightly. The students below exclaimed.

Sherlock released Wilson and continued to explain, “This is the second key to getting a high score: never ignore a Transfiguration.”

“I know that the vast majority of you place more emphasis on spells than Transfiguration. I would say that is true, but don’t forget Transfiguration at any time.”

“Whether it’s used in the duel process or to discover the examiner’s Transfiguration in time, any point will give you extra points in the test.”

The class passed quickly. In the first class of the seventh grade, Sherlock talked about the two main points of Protego Charm and Transfiguration, but every student who came to the class felt that they had learned a lot.

These students don’t know what a normal seventh-grade Defense Against the Dark Arts class is like. But the professors usually discuss a lot of things. In the end, only a small part of the class passed the test.

Most students are miserable in class. They are often full of doubts when they are studying, and they have always doubted whether what they are learning now will pass the test. Therefore, those who can finally get an O rating are the top students.

These people keep all the knowledge they can learn in their minds, and it is easy for them to ask any questions. But these students are in the minority after all, and most students still do not have enough energy and brainpower to remember so much knowledge and can only try their luck in exams.

After a few days, most of the knowledge is completely forgotten, and only a small part of it can be really used in future work and life. Sherlock’s purely test-oriented teaching method is a gospel of those students with mediocre talents.

At the end of the class, Sherlock packed up his things and told Percy to send the homework directly to his office. Back at the office, putting away the things in his hands, Sherlock came to the Hall for lunch.

There were quite a few students in the Hall. Sherlock was chatting with Hagrid at the teacher’s table. Hagrid was excitedly talking to Sherlock about his preparations for the first class this afternoon.

At this moment, most of the students who had lunch suddenly became quiet, and their eyes were all looking at one place. It was a witch who walked in from the front of the Hall. She was wearing a black robe different from normal students, with a hood on her head, revealing only the lower half of her face and long gray hair.

The students had never seen her in the castle, and the aura she exuded was obviously not a student. But a person like this never appeared among the professors at Hogwarts.

Under the eyes of most of the students, Silk walked up to Sherlock and said, “I saw something, and I’m going to Hogsmeade now.”

Hearing her words, Sherlock was stunned for a moment. He stuffed the rest of the sausage into his mouth and stood up from the table, “Let’s go then.”

Sherlock and Silk left the Hall together. After a brief silence, a much more heated discussion broke out in the Great Hall. The most talked-about topic was the witch with the hood.

“Who is she?” Ron asked Harry.

Although Harry spent almost a month with Sherlock during the summer, he had never seen her, “I don’t know, I’ve never heard Professor Forrest talk about that person.”

Hermione’s attention had just been diverted from this morning’s terrible divination class. She thought, “Professor Dumbledore said that Professor Forrest had something else to do this year; it’s possibly related to her.”

While they were making all kinds of guesses, Harry suddenly remembered something important and said to Hermione and Ron in a low voice, “Oh yeah! During the summer vacation, Professor Forrest’s jinx suddenly didn’t work when I was with him!”