bacchusnovels Chapter 559 You're so dense, hurry up and share this!
Chapter 559 You're so dense, hurry up and share this!
Chapter 555 You're so dense, hurry up and share this!
"Ginny, how are you?"
Percy's face was clearly reflected in the campfire.
Looking at Percy, Ginny hesitated, unsure whether to tell him about her afternoon's discovery.
The two of them have been talking here for a while now.
Since Umbridge left—
Ginny became Umbridge's only informant at Hogwarts, helping her find out what happened at Hogwarts and the truth about that day.
Umbridge hates Sean.
He wanted to get revenge on Sean.
If it weren't for Sean, and the plan had gone smoothly, she probably would have become the headmaster of Hogwarts.
Otherwise, things wouldn't have come to this.
Percy noticed his sister's dilemma and asked her what was wrong.
"Ginny, did you find out anything?"
Seeing her brother's rather anxious expression, Ginny hesitated for a moment before revealing her speculation.
However—she omitted the specific names.
It's just that Professor Phillips may have a rather ambiguous relationship with a certain female student.
Percy's eyes lit up when he heard Ginny's words.
etc-
Based on Penelope's observations, he seemed to have discovered something extraordinary.
If that's the case—
It wouldn't be difficult to remove Shaun from office and replace him with Umbridge, who has always been focused on her own interests, to take over Hogwarts again.
All we need to do is find something on Sean's head.
But how do we find something on Sean?
Percy looked at Ginny, who was standing anxiously in front of him, and suddenly realized something.
If—if—
Having made up his mind, Percy spoke softly to Ginny.
"Ginny, can you do my brother a favor?"
"What?"
Ginny suddenly had a bad feeling. Staring into Ginny's eyes, Percy said, enunciating each word clearly.
"Can you get close to Phillips and get evidence of his infidelity?"
"W-what?!"
Ginny panicked. Had she heard correctly?
His own brother had actually instructed him to approach Professor Phillips from that angle.
To put it more vividly, it's not about getting close—it's about seducing.
Percy saw Ginny's expression and quickly comforted her.
"Ginny, it's not what you think."
"You only need to pretend to be intimate with him, without paying anything in return, just to get the evidence—that will be enough to ruin his reputation and make him disappear from the wizarding world."
"You're so beautiful, I don't think Phillips would ever..."
Ginny looked down at her slightly improved chest, then looked up at Percy, her face flushed with shame and anger.
"No, I would never do that!"
"Just consider it one last favor for my brother, okay?"
Wednesday and Thursday are the Herbalism exam and the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam, respectively.
Neither of these exams was very difficult.
During the practical exam on Defense Against the Dark Arts, the former members of Umbridge's Army surprised and impressed the examiners with their skillful use of the Patronus Charm.
Friday is the exam day for elective courses.
With the ringing of a bell, the first week of exams officially came to an end.
"What do you think?"
"fine."
Hermione nodded, her reply somewhat absentminded.
"Only the last question, I think I misspelled it—the approximate spelling should be stwa—?"
Harry and Ron looked at each other in bewilderment.
Both of them sensed that Hermione was acting strangely.
Normally speaking, Hermione would be extremely frustrated whenever she encountered setbacks in her exams.
"Hermione, is something on your mind?"
"Me?" Hermione looked surprised, then quickly shook her head. "No."
"Really not?" Ron pressed.
"Of course not." Hermione looked a little angry, then turned and walked away.
This weekend was unusually uneventful.
Surprisingly, aside from reading and reviewing, there were virtually no other activities.
This perfectly matches Harry's definition of ordinariness.
Isn't that what life is all about?
Every day is ordinary, doing activities that match one's identity, watching the sun rise in the east and set in the west, and another day has passed.
Where are there so many events to come into contact with?
And how many villains are there?
But—really?
Hermione, however, did not think so.
She seemed to have discovered a secret.
A Secret of Ginny's.
At the empty Quidditch pitch, under the azure sky, Ginny recalled the tasks Percy had assigned her yesterday.
Contact Professor Phillips?
How could it be done so easily?
How can I make Professor Phillips like me?
We can't exactly make a love potion and force-feed it to Professor Phillips, can we?
Moreover—
She could never overcome this inner hurdle, not only because of the disparity in their social status, nor simply because Hermione and Professor Phillips maintained a special relationship, but also because—
"What are you thinking about?"
A clear, ethereal sound reached my ears.
Ginny turned her head away.
Luna. The speaker was Luna, the one who had always been perceived as behaving strangely in Ravenclaw.
"I'm looking at the sky."
Ginny replied.
To her surprise, she didn't want to talk to Luna, but she did anyway.
Perhaps it has something to do with Luna's voice.
The ethereal voice seemed to calm her down considerably.
Perhaps it's related to her current situation.
If others knew what she was about to do, they would think she was crazy.
Isn't this ten or a hundred times stranger than Luna?
"The sky is beautiful."
Luna naturally sat down next to Ginny, then half-reclined on the grass, gazing up at the sky.
"Every time I see the sky, I feel a sense of unreality, as if it is not part of our world."
She stretched out one hand and casually gestured in the air, as if she could touch the edge of the cloud.
"Don't you think? It's so far away, yet so close. Sometimes it seems to understand you, and sometimes it doesn't care about anything at all."
"————"
Ginny nodded.
She also imitated Luna by half-lying down.
Admittedly, Luna's description feels very accurate from this perspective. Perhaps—
The rumor is incorrect.
It's not that Luna's behavior is strange.
Rather—she's too normal, so normal that most abnormal people in the world might not be able to accept it.
Luna suddenly turned to look at Ginny and asked abruptly.
"And you? What's bothering you? I see something bothering you."
"Harassment? What is harassment?"
"I'm busy harassing you."
Luna blinked seriously and sighed, as if to confirm that Ginny didn't understand the word.
"It's those little creatures that stick to your heart and mind, making a buzzing sound." She gestured a thumb-sized outline in the air with her finger. "They fly over when you're not looking, sucking away your happiness while making you keep thinking about your worries."
Ginny shook her head, thinking she must have lost her mind.
For a moment, she didn't know whether to laugh or continue listening attentively, but Luna's expression was so sincere, so sincere that even she herself—
"Then—how do we get rid of them?" Ginny asked, following her train of thought.
Luna blinked, then looked up at the sky.
"You have to let it know first that it doesn't belong to you. You have to look at it and gently tell it: Thank you for reminding me, but I don't need you anymore." Then—" She paused, then suddenly, as if by magic, picked up a dandelion from the grass, "and blew on it to send it away."
Ginny took the dandelion, lost in thought.
"Look at one."
Luna lay back down on the grass, her voice fading.
"Often, achieving something doesn't require magic; it just requires you to be willing to believe in something a little bit unrealistic."
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I understand.
Ginny suddenly realized.
Watching Ginny skip away, Luna lay on the grass and suddenly laughed.
The first exam of the new exam week is the Potions exam.
Fortunately, Snape wasn't there during the exam.
I don't know where they went.
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These days, Snape is rarely seen on campus.
I wonder what Snape is mysteriously busy with.
The practical exam in the afternoon was very simple; it consisted of reagents that we often use in class.
First it was like that — then it was like that —
After messing around with it haphazardly and putting the stopper back in, a brand new bottle of medicine was produced.
As for the medicinal effects? What are those?
The potion that was concocted and used in Snape's class was already quite powerful.
Surely the examiners can't personally test the drugs to check their properties, can they?
That being said, everyone actually did very well on their Potions class practical exam.
This is also inseparable from Snape's teachings.
Strict teachers produce outstanding students.
People like Snape possess all the qualities that make a good professor.
After the Potions class exam, there are four days left.
That is, four exams.
Tuesday is the exam for protecting magical creatures.
The questions in the morning were a bit difficult, but Harry and Ron managed to fill in the answers, albeit with some difficulty.
The practical exam in the afternoon was quite difficult.
Despite Harry and Ron's desire not to embarrass Hagrid, accurately identifying Hedgehog among a dozen hedgehogs was still quite a challenge.
How to do it?
The correct approach is to scare it in turns.
The thorn-wielder is inherently suspicious and always thinks that others want to harm him. So when others show even the slightest tendency to attack, he will not hesitate to raise the magical thorns on his back.
That way, you can tell the difference.
So the little thorny fellow spent the entire afternoon in fear and trepidation.
In addition, the practical lessons also include demonstrations of how to properly touch a tree grouse, how to feed a fire crab without burning your eyes, and how to select the appropriate food from a variety of options for the corresponding animal.
However, there is a bug in the last point.
In previous years, some young wizards would deliberately add something—not so good—to the food in order to get the animals to eat it.
In short, the whole process was quite absurd.
Hagrid appeared several times during the exam, his huge face filled with worry, until he saw that most of them had passed smoothly, at which point he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Wednesday is the astronomy theory exam.
The theory exam was in the morning, while the practical exam was scheduled for the evening.
The reason, of course, is that you can't see the stars in the afternoon.
At 11 p.m., the sky was very kind to the young wizards tonight, with not a cloud in sight.
However, for some young wizards who dislike astronomy:
It would be better to have more dark clouds.
Before the examiner announced the start of the exam, everyone carefully set up their binoculars.
Simply put, the exam content was stargazing at night.
Then, draw a blank star chart on parchment based on the stars of that night.
Throughout the exam, the only sounds were the rustling of parchment, the occasional squeaking of the telescope as it moved on its stand, and the hurried scribbling of many quill pens.
Hermione gazed intently at the night sky.
Ten minutes have passed.
Fifteen minutes have passed.
Twenty minutes have passed.
The parchment remained blank.
Damn.
For some reason, Hermione could never concentrate on observing the stars; they appeared blurry to her.
Ow.
It turned out that the telescope lens was blurry.
Twenty-two minutes into the exam, Hermione finally discovered this absurd and frustrating truth.
After wiping the lenses clean, Hermione put her eyes close to the telescope again.
After adjusting the focus, Venus appeared in the exact center of the field of view.
well.
This is a great start.
Pluto — Mars — Jupiter.
One by one, the positions were marked on the parchment in front of Hermione, until the last one.
Hermione picked up the parchment with satisfaction and blew on the ink stains to dry them.
perfect.
Thursday is for the Oath, and Friday is the Magic History exam.
The History of Magic exam does not include practical sessions, so it will take place in the afternoon.
Of all these courses, the notes for the History of Magic are the most numerous.
All the notes combined could probably circle Black Lake three times.
At 1:55 PM, the last exam is about to begin.
"There are five minutes left before the exam. Please check that the exam bag is sealed properly."
"Please have the chief examiner open the exam papers, and the proctors distribute the exam questions."
"Please fill in your personal information."
"bite"
"The exam is now beginning. Candidates, please begin answering the questions. Please maintain silence in the examination room!"
As the broadcast ended, the young wizards sitting in the classroom began to write furiously.
This feeling is strange.
It was as if time had been paused in this classroom, and in the hearts of many test-takers.
Facing the exam paper, it's hard not to recall the efforts I made to help it recover in the past few days.
Especially in summer, especially in the afternoon, especially in the history of magic.
These three factors, when combined, can easily produce undesirable chemical reactions:
For example, drowsiness.
Fighting off sleepiness, I glanced through the exam paper:
I. Wand Legislation and the 18th-Century Fairy Riot: In your opinion, did this legislation fuel the riot or help to better control it?
2. How was the Secret Service Act violated in 1749, and what legislation was subsequently introduced to prevent a similar situation from happening again?
III. State the reasons and circumstances that led to the establishment of the International Confederation of Wizards, and explain why the wizards of Liechtenstein refused to join.
Four,----
All of them were essay questions.
It's hard.
Ron looked at the exam paper, then at Parvati, who was sitting in front of him writing furiously.
You're so dense, hurry up and figure it out!