From Azkaban To Hogwarts

"Brace yourself, Professor Lupin!"

"Yes, yes, that's it. Minister Fudge's safety depends entirely on you!"

In the big office, Moody and William looked at Lupine seriously, or pretended to be serious, "That's it, Professor Luping, that's it!"

Tomorrow is the day when the Minister of Magic comes to deliver money, well, come to inspect. The Office of Self-Defence will definitely show off.

Lupine was a little helpless, but he was still trying on new robes - the one he originally planned was rejected by Professor McGonagall yesterday, and then the vice-principal personally placed an order for new robes for him, and they worked overtime to have them delivered. .

"Is it really necessary? I think I look good the way I am."

"Of course, this is what Professor McGonagall means - the new greenhouse at Hogwarts is entrusted to you, Professor Lupin, and Professor Sprout will be very grateful to you."

William and Moody looked at each other, neither of them smiled, deliberately trying to squeeze Lupin.

"Okay, okay, is this okay?"

"Of course, perfect!"

William tried his best to speak more seriously, and then returned to his desk, "It's just a flower stuck in a buttonhole, it's not a big problem - I will go to Adams after class later, their herbology class office will definitely Full cooperation.”

"forgive me…"

"No, if you have any opinions, you can report it to Professor McGonagall - that's it, I'm going to class."

William said with great certainty, then picked up his paper bag from the table and walked out of the big office quickly.

"..." Lupine sighed and looked at Moody, who was still there, "Professor Moody... we are all Gryffindors..."

"So you should contribute to the academy," Moody nodded seriously. "You know, we don't have a share in this exhibition match. The team has just been established. Professor McGonagall will not take this risk."

After all, he is the Minister of Magic. It would be too impolite to randomly find players to form a team for an exhibition match. It is not so perfunctory...

“…”

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"Attend class."

William placed the paper bag on the podium and looked at the sixth grade students below.

Getting along last year was actually not that pleasant. Because of the Triwizard Tournament, the later coursework was a lot heavier, causing many students to collapse a little at the end.

As a result, the number of applicants for this year's self-defense improvement class was much lower than before. About one-eighth of the students gave up taking self-defense courses after passing the OWLs exam.

Fortunately, everyone got along well with each other in the last class, which was a bit of a relief to this group of students who were a bit frightened.

"Tell me about it, what do you want to know about today's course?"

William walked to the podium and smiled at the students below - after so many years, he was relatively familiar with the content of the advanced class. Although there were some minor problems in adjusting the course content, it was not a big problem to deal with it.

"Is it possible to cast spells without a wand?"

With William's encouragement, the students below came up with a bold idea - when they were still in fifth grade, they were curious about William's left-hand wand-free spellcasting, but at that time they were in a state where they only hated having too much knowledge. No one dares to mention or ask about his status.

"Wandless casting?"

William smiled and said, "Of course you can, but be mentally prepared in advance - this is difficult. I doubt that you will be able to do a simple levitating spell after one class."

He tapped the chalk and let it write quickly on the blackboard automatically, and then thought for a moment.

"Wandless spellcasting, this is actually a little spellcasting trick I learned from Africa when I went on adventures - in fact, the use of wands is not popular in the local area, and most of them have never touched it in their lives. Magic wand.”

"A little surprised, aren't you?"

William looked at the students below with their mouths open and smiled happily, "Have you always thought that it is a very clever, very rare special skill that only extremely powerful wizards can master?"

Obviously, he was right - after all, there is nothing new under the sun, and previous generations of students thought the same way.

"It's not..." William slid his left hand in the air, and a big cross formed in the void, "In fact, most of you have the experience of casting spells without a wand - think about it, you touch yourself Before you got your first wand, had you ever demonstrated your extraordinary magical abilities somewhere?"

"Of course there is - most wizards show their magical abilities in one way or another, and then they realize that they are different..."

"So, Professor, what do you mean, are there exceptions?"

Under William's deliberate prolongation of the tone, some students finally learned to break the inherent thinking they had in fifth grade and followed William's words.

William nodded and returned the look of approval - just relax, last year they were squeezed so hard that these students were no longer active.

"Of course there are exceptions. There are also some wizards who suppress their magical power because of one thing or another, which leads to - well, some tragedies happen."

"There is also a special existence - that is, because they are not confident, they keep telling themselves that they can't do it, and then their magical power will be used to limit the manifestation of their magical power. This is what many wizards will experience. The reason for the dramatic increase in strength later.”

"Then, Professor, will some of them become Squibs?"

Another student worked up the courage to ask a question.

"It's hard to say. There are no relevant research results in the wizarding world now. My teacher has studied related content. Unfortunately, a serious experimental accident occurred just after the experiment started..."

William sighed with emotion - he also discovered the relevant content when he was sorting out some potion notes in his vault. Although he wanted to continue researching on the Squib, it was obvious that now was not the time.

As long as there is hope for the Dark Lord's return, he will not be able to devote all his energy to any simple research project.

There was a pause in the classroom for a moment until William himself broke the silence.

"Okay, let's not talk about that anymore, let's continue our previous topic - casting spells without a wand."

William looked at the chalk on the blackboard and said, "Well, as it says on the blackboard, before the first wand appeared, wizards had actually been casting spells without a wand, and then entered the era of wands."

"At that time, the raw materials and core of the wand could not be determined, and even the style of the wand did not have good specifications. But even so, the wand still strengthened the power of the wizard. I believe you have all learned this in the history of magic. .”

Many students lowered their heads silently - it seems that they have read a little bit of the relevant content, but it has been so long since the OWLs exam...

"Then came the complete finalization of the wand, the massive increase in the wizards' combat power, and then the great prosperity of the wizarding world. Now, the wand has become the most important thing you need to buy before you enter school."

Of course... the wands before they were completely finalized were actually very powerful... For example, the Ilvermorny wand was said to be the wand used by Slytherin himself... but William couldn't tell this kind of thing to the students - at least not on the Dark Lord's side. Before the matter is finalized, he cannot publicly let students notice these contents, in order to prevent the Dark Lord from confirming this attitude...

"But it is precisely because of the power of the wand that we have completely given up on wandless spellcasting. Moreover, after a series of magic training, our understanding of magic has made it difficult for us to cast wandless spells..."

"The most basic wandless spellcasting requires some hand gestures..."

William slowed down the movements of his left hand, trying to let all the students see his slow wandless casting, "That's it!"

With the completion of the last gesture, a floating spell was successfully used by him.

"That's about it," William slowed down his gesture again, pointed the wand at his left hand, and used the wand to create an illusion that was magnified five times to show it, "do it again!"

He demonstrated the levitating spell in a slower manner - everyone's attention was focused on the large illusion.

"Do you see clearly?"

"Professor, are you dual-casting?"

Just as William was asking questions to the students below, someone asked another question - the floating spell displayed and the enlarged illusion were not the same kind of magic!

'What would your reaction be if I told you that Dumbledore could cast Transfiguration at the same time as the spell was completed...'

He thought to himself, but said very modestly, "They are two different spells, but they are not used at the same time. They are cast with the wand first and then with the left hand. There is a huge difference..."

But now the students have begun to imagine the scene of casting spells with their left and right hands at the same time - whether it is difficult or not, it looks really cool!

…

'It's like having a convulsion...'

William looked at the students in the classroom and almost laughed out loud.

All the students began to practice hard after his demonstration, but as William said, they were accustomed to casting spells with a wand and had long forgotten the feeling of casting spells without a wand. Those marks are really difficult...

‘Should I tell them that I actually taught myself how to cast spells with my left hand in order to use my left hand? The local indigenous people also use their right hand? ’

William looked at the students whose hands were dented into chicken claws, and after hesitating for a while, he chose to give up.

The left hand has been learned to have some use, and the right hand has been learned - what's the use? If his students easily lose the wand, it is almost equivalent to a failure in education. How can they learn to cast spells without a wand?

What's more important is that no one will change it even if they say it. All these students have passed the OWLs exam and they are very arrogant. How could they try their right hand just because it is easier?

Therefore, due to the high difficulty of wandless spell casting and a certain professor's deliberate failure to remind him, before the end of get out of class, only five students moved their feathers slightly. Three students could be considered to have completed a spell in a relatively standard manner. Only One is barely qualified and can effectively cast spells in a short period of time...

"Well... the results are a little better than I expected - not bad. Go back and review the silent spell skills by yourself. That one is much easier. If someone can complete both wandless and silent spell casting before the next class, I will Let’s briefly talk about wandless spellcasting without gestures.”

William stood on the podium and threw out a fat bait, "Come on!"

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"By the way, look!"

In the empty classroom, Qiu put his quill on the table, and then began to make various strange gestures with his left hand, a little clumsily.

After a minute, she completed the last step with difficulty, and then the feathers flew straight up.

"Awesome! I'm one of the few people in the whole grade who can complete the entire spell!"

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One minute cast speed - This spell is nothing but bells and whistles.

Although Harry's subconscious told him that this spell would be of some help in the battle, there was no doubt that it was nothing but a show now.

But this kind of thing obviously cannot be said, especially now.

'It should be the professor's magic...Qiu does have a self-defense course today...I don't know when the professor will teach me...'

"Can you do it again? It looks great!"

Harry said in admiration, Qiu showed a proud look on his face, and then continued to demonstrate once more, while Harry quietly made gestures with his left hand - this is difficult, but it seems to be just difficult...

About the same time that Qiu was finishing it, Harry's own shoelaces began to flutter in front of the same spell - there was no way that the basic gestures for wandless spellcasting that William had learned from Uganda were most suitable for transfiguration... because the local The best thing is transformation...

Harry quietly let the shoelaces fall down, then raised his left hand, clumsily imitating Qiu's gesture just now.

"Is that so?"

"No...you are so stupid. That's it. You need to curl up your little finger, otherwise it won't be standard..."

Qiu corrected Harry's wrong posture step by step, looking extremely serious.

"Oh, here, your index finger should be clasped here..."

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"Get ready, Minister..."

In the minister's office, the assistant submitted the Hogwarts schedule, "There's just a little problem -"

"Um?"

"Quidditch exhibition match between Slytherin and Ravenclaw..."

"Where's the Gryffindor team?

"They don't have the best players...the crucial goalkeeper is a new recruit."

The assistant also had a troubled look on his face - the goalkeepers were all novices, so they couldn't expect Gryffindor to win the game, but if Gryffindor didn't win, how could the minister give Harry Potter the award!

Although the rest of the warriors are not bad, is the Ministry of Magic a unit that needs to be defeated?

"The goalkeeper is not here..."

Fudge was also a little dissatisfied - but we couldn't let the other houses deliberately lose to Gryffindor to highlight Harry, right? Wouldn't it make people laugh to death if it spread out?

"Isn't there a way to get those warriors to come up?"

Fudge sighed and complained...

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"Yes... Minister, we, the Ministry of Magic staff, can form a team, and then ask Hogwarts to form a temporary team, and then play a friendly match."

The assistant gave his opinion directly after thinking for a while.

"Good idea, let's do it, but don't make it too obvious..."

Fudge nodded approvingly, he was extremely satisfied with his assistant.

"Okay, Minister!"