Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

256. Chapter 256 Tranquility before the storm

    Considering Malfoy and other Slytherin's threats, Harry and Ron finally convinced Hermione that they were excited to invite Ivan to the war between the two colleges.

    "What happened in the morning?"Ivan asked strangely, "How is the Sirius' defense of the Dark Devils going, isn't there something unexpected?!"

    "The course went very smoothly. He showed everyone Banshee, a very interesting dark creature. It always made a sharp and bleak voice. Although it was a bit unlucky, it didn't do anything to hurt others."Hermione explained, “It’s mainly Sirius. He didn’t hide his dislike of Slytherin students in class, and gave them a lot of points, about a hundred…”

    "It doesn't blame Sirius, it is Malfoy's initiative to provoke."Harry argued, "He messed up in Sirius' class and didn't do what he said."

    "I know, Sirius is still too emotional. He is now a professor. He should treat every student as fair as Professor McGonagall."Hermione grinned, which made her look like Professor McGonagall.

    "Good heavens, do you know what you are talking about?!"Ron cried in surprise, "a professor who favors Gryffindor, this is the biggest expectation of my life. You actually tell me now, I hope he can be fair! ”

    "Sirius didn't do too much. Think about Snape. How did he treat everyone before, if it was him…"Harry added.

    "Snape deducted Gryffindor by at least two percent this morning and even scared a few girls."Ivan talked about what happened to Potions in the morning.

    "I knew it would be like this, the damn old bat."Ron said disgustedly.

    All in all, because of Snape's and Sirius' duels, their unreserved dislike, and other long-standing grievances, the hostility between Slytherin and Gryffindor reached its highest point ever.

    In the following week, the students of both colleges were all cautious. Everyone in pairs appeared in the castle, for fear of any accident.

    Although they are on the alert, nothing actually happens.

    With the intervention of Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall's, the castle was strengthened and there was no opportunity for the so-called college war, whether it was Harry or Malfoy.

    Over time, Snape and Sirius also converge a lot. They also stopped Gryffindor and Slytherin from each other, but Potions and Defence Against the Dark Arts also became the favorite and most annoying of Gryffindor and Slytherin students. Two courses.

    Compared with the heavily differentiated Potions and Defence Against the Dark Arts, Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures was unexpectedly well received.

    At the suggestion of Ivan and Hermione's, Hagrid chose the magical creature of the first class of the new semester as a fire monster. He raised a lot of fires on the ground. There were fire monsters inside, let everyone have fun, collect dead leaves and leaves to keep the fire, and the lizards who loved the flames jumped on the cracked, self-heating wooden blocks.

    Almost everyone reflects that this is the best course on Hagrid.

    A week after the start of the school, Ravenclaw and Slytherin played a Quiddich, Slytherin won the game, but the score was very close.

    According to Wood, this is good news for the Gryffindor team. Because, if Gryffindor wins Ravenclaw, it can still take second place.

    This game allowed everyone to turn their attention to the Quiddich competition. Compared with the illusory college war, they found that it might be more practical to score the outcome in this way. Gryffindor lost to Hufflepuff before, but because of Harry's Firebolt, they are still the hottest team this year.

    Now, Gryffindor's Quiddich team has to train at least five times a week.

    In the cold wind of January, Harry flew outside for five or six hours almost every day, and he didn't even have time to finish his homework.

    Ivan also feels that his time is not enough. He has entered the bottleneck in magic research and needs to invest more time. Tom Riddle's diary gave him the guidance last year. Ivan has done all the research. He is now working hard to study the dark magic collections he has taken from 12 Grimmauld Place.

    These magic books, especially the spells described in "Secrets of the Darkest Art" are very esoteric and complicated. There are many places that Ivan can't understand.

    He can't take these dark magic books to ask Dumbledore or Sirius, he can only sneak a study, he spends more and more time in the library, and librarian Madam Pince looks at him. More and more strange.

    Holding Sirius' strips, most of Ivan's borrowed and referenced books are very old and unpopular magic books, all of which are collections in the forbidden area. These books don't say that they are 12-year-old young wizards, and even adult wizards are rarely used.

    The only thing that is more busy than Ivan is Hermione, because there are so many classes to choose from, and the weight of the course is finally revealed in her.

    Every night, if she is not studying with the Ivan in the library, it is bound to appear in the corner of the common room. There are a variety of textbooks on the tables in front of them: arithmetic charts, various magic dictionaries, muggle lifting heavy objects. The illustrations, as well as a wide range of notes.

    Except for Ivan, she rarely talks to others now. If someone disturbs her, she will be disgusted when she speaks.

    "What are the two of them?"One night, Ron finally couldn't help but yell at Harry. "I have never seen anyone who is more busy than Ivan and Hermione, even Percy, who is preparing for the advanced wizard level." The books they read two days a day were much more than I saw in a semester. ”

    "Don't know…"Harry didn't look up. He was writing a Snape paper on all kinds of undetectable poisons. "How do you say that we borrowed Her Potions from Hermione?"

    "It is best not to, she will not agree."Ron looked up again and looked at Hermione, who was sitting behind a pile of crumbling books, and people couldn't see it.

    "Hermione is so weird, how can he go on so many classes."Ron continued. "This morning, I heard her talking to Professor Victor. Victor is the witch who teaches arithmetic divination. They are talking about yesterday's homework, but Hermione was unlikely to go to Arithmetic Divination yesterday because she was with us on the Care of Magical Creatures! And Ernie. Macmillan told me that Hermione never missed a muggle study class, but half of the class was in conflict with Divination, and she never missed a Divination. ”

    Harry certainly knows why, but he has to keep it secret.

    He can't tell the story of Time-Turner, and he must write Snape's thesis at this point.

    The confrontation between Snape and Sirius has calmed down on the surface, but it is still undercurrent. Harry had to be more careful. At this time, if he had any handles that fell into Snape's hands, it would be hard to see.

    "You said that I went to Ivan to help, let him help me with my homework, Hermione will definitely not reject him."Harry transferred the topic.

    "This idea is good, but only if you can find Ivan."Ron said, "In addition to Hermione, I also want to know what Ivan is doing these days. He is in the library every night. He has seen him several times. He always holds a thick piece and no one can see it. Know what the magic book is recording there."