Harry Potter: A Certain Hogwarts Professor Of Magic - Chapter 103

It’s temporary.” Snape stared him in the eye, “Felix, it’s January, a full five months before the end of the school year. You know what that means, right.”

Felix fell silent, it meant that the young wizard would not have anyone to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts class for almost six months.

But again, does it matter if there is one or not?

Even if the young wizards were left to learn on their own, it would probably be better than when Lockhart was around. At least they save time from writing boring homework.

“Professor, I’ve always been curious, why can’t you give up on this class? Aren’t you afraid of the curse of the Dark Lord?” Felix wondered about this.

However, Snape did not answer him.

Felix thought about it and said, “I can talk to Dumbledore about this.”

He is not good at curses, plus the course has a horrible record of beaten, so he never thought of taking over the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

However, he is indeed very curious about the ‘Curse of the Dark Lord’, and maybe he could find out about it from Dumbledore.

“By the way, Severus,” Felix winked at Snape, “don’t forget about the dueling class tonight.”

Snape gave him a disgusted look, “How do you plan to organize it?”

” One of us will speak a part, mainly to exhibit. After all, the professors are rushed together, the follow-up lesson I will invite them separately.” Felix said somewhat helplessly.

Professor McGonagall, Professor Filius, together with himself and Snape, that’s four people.

Snape nodded his head and turned to leave.

During the seventh-year class that day, Felix showed the young wizards the new teaching aids for ancient magic runes.

They watched as Professor Hap spoke eloquently from the podium, “See this parchment in front of you? It will make a huge impact on your NEWTs exams.”

A young witch raised her hand, “Professor Hap, is this the legendary teaching aid Flint had a part in making?.”

The young wizards in the room turned their attention to the tall and imposing Marcus Flint.

There were less than twenty people in the seventh year’s ancient magic rune class, and everyone knew everybody’s history, and they were all looking suspicious at the moment.

Marcus somewhat want to cry, he just bragged a little, why would they point him out?

Felix looked at him and said: “Miss Vera, Flint did participate in the testing of new teaching aids. Not just him, but a total of ten young wizards, each of whom made their own valuable suggestions, and what you see is the result of their joint efforts.”

“Next, let’s have a practical demonstration.”

The little wizards followed the previous explanation, put their wands on the parchment, and whispered, “The Secret of the Magic Rune.” ( TL: did the password changed previously?)

The parchment emitted a hazy bright light and a line of text emerged –

‘Welcome to the answer space, please complete the following steps.’

After rippling like water ripples, four symbols of the Houses appeared on the parchment – snake, badger, lion, and eagle.

Their respective shapes were made up of simple ink lines that looked alive. The small snake representing Slytherin wiggled and swayed in place, the badger representing Hufflepuff stood upright and looked from side to side, the lion representing Gryffindor let out a soundless roar, and the eagle representing Ravenclaw took flight with wings.

The wizards, both male and female, made sounds of awe.

The eagle representing Ravenclaw occupied the middle of the parchment, flapping its wings and seemingly climbing upwards as clouds of ink lines appeared around it.

Eventually, the eagle stopped, its sharp gaze fixed on the front, and a line of handwritten, elegant text slowly emerged, ” Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”

Almost instantly, Vera liked it, and her brown eyes seemed to glow under her thick glasses.

‘This is made by Professor Hap? This is the application of ancient magic Rune?’

‘This is an Ancient Magic Rune!’

Even she herself didn’t realize that her perception of ancient magic rune had unknowingly leaned towards Felix’s way.

A few seconds later, the image of the eagle shrank again, and it landed on the flower pattern in the upper left corner of the parchment, glancing around and grooming its feathers by itself.

And the center of the parchment emerged with a new message, ‘Please use your wand to input magic and input your name.’

Vera used her wand to neatly write down her name – Clammy Vera.

After completing this step, the official interface finally emerged on the answer parchment.

In the upper left corner is an eagle representing Ravenclaw, at the bottom is the name of Clammy Vera, while the central position is divided into three modules, namely – OWLs module, NEWTs module, and a collection of mistakes.

Felix nodded in satisfaction, and in the finalized version, he made considerable adjustments.

For example, the starting password, from the original “I like ancient magic rune” into a more formal ‘secret of magic rune’.

For example, he added the part of information bonding, that is, a collection of names, houses, and magic identification function.

The function of “ranking”, which he had set in his mind, is temporarily suppressed, because the current number of answer parchments is too small, and he also has the intention to pull in other professors. (TL: if he creates an artefact that uses Hogwarts Magic and has its own sentience like a sorting hat later, it will be cool)

To do this, it takes time to fester.

After about three or four minutes, the young wizards were excited to complete this step by following the guidelines on the parchment.

And, already, a number of them started to compare.

“Look at my lion, it’s too majestic!”

” Still, the eagle is more beautiful.”

…

“Okay, little wizards.” Felix clapped his hands and drew their attention.

Felix explained, “Currently, the answer parchment is only available for fifth and seventh grade, and you will need to select the NEWTs module. It stores test questions from previous years for you to complete the test and learn.”

“Of course, I’ve split them up so that each test will last about twenty minutes, and you can practice when you have nothing to do.”

“As for the wrong question set module, all the questions you have done wrong can be found here.”

The young wizards who were exposed to this new gadget for the first time couldn’t resist trying it already, and Clammy Vera forced herself to hold back her excitement and said, “Professor Hap, can we try it now?”

Felix said kindly, “Of course, the next twenty minutes are reserved for you.”

“Oh, by the way,” he emphasized, “if you guys don’t like the feedback function, you can just tap your wand on it and say ‘silence’.”

Vera looked a little uncertain, but she tapped her wand on the ‘NEWTs module’ and a magic rune question quickly appeared on the parchment.

When she finished the first question, a line of golden text surfaced on the parchment –

『Wise choice』.

She understood Professor Hap’s words somewhat, and the next thing she knew, she was met with all sorts of overwhelming praises.

‘Your answer simply tickled my heart and soul.’

”You are the next star of magic rune!”

”The Choice of Genius!”

These words left Vera in a delicate mood, a little embarrassed, but unable to resist the desire to see new compliments, and time passed without her noticing a little.

But the others didn’t have a wonderful experience as she did, most of them had a mixture of compliments and toxic comments, while Marcus faced mostly flowery sarcasm.

He couldn’t help but mumble the names of two individuals, “Fred Weasley, George Weasley.”

It is their doing!

In less than ten minutes, Clammy Vera finished the test first.

A big ‘O’ appeared on the parchment, with an eagle circling in the upper left corner and large clusters of fireworks in the background.

She waved her fist excitedly.

“Very good, Miss Vera, ten extra points for Ravenclaw!”

At the end of class, Felix assigned the latest homework: “Complete 3 tests and write an essay based on the questions you answered incorrectly, which will you analyse the areas where your knowledge is weak.”

…

In the evening, the Great Hall once again changed its look, with the gilded ring rising from the ground and the young wizards talking in small groups.

The third dueling lesson is about to begin.