Harry Potter and the Old Ones

"Okay, now..." Tiera snapped her fingers, "Retract the volume!"

"Pa—" followed Tiera's snap of her fingers.

Everyone's test papers disappeared at the same time, and then fell one by one on the circular podium test platform behind Tiera.

"No!"

"I'm not done yet!"

"Give it back! Give me the paper!"

"I have an idea for that question! Just a little bit, I can almost finish it!"

"I can write now, return the paper to me!"

"Just a little bit! Just a little bit close! It will be finished soon!"

After the test papers suddenly disappeared, some wizard students who had been writing furiously just now let out countless wailing sounds, and even reached out excitedly to grab the test papers.

"The exam is over." As he said that, Professor Tiera stretched out his finger and tapped it lightly.

The students who wanted to snatch the test papers back felt a pain in their foreheads, as if they had been stabbed hard by something, and then they lost their balance and fell back to their seats.

"Okay, students." Tiera said with a smile, "Although we have been taking the exam for four hours, it is still 10:20 in the morning outside. There is still an hour and ten minutes before your lunch time. You can walk out of the castle. Go walk around on the green grass by the back door, sit and bask in the sun for a while, this test will not count towards your grades, it is just a simple placement test, after all."

"After all, black magic is a dangerous thing. It is impossible for me to teach you black magic without having a solid foundation of basic knowledge." Tiera then explained kindly, like a real teacher, "Slow class Mainly learn the principles of magic and black magic, as well as the basics of magic arithmetic. The ordinary class adds several analysis and connections of common black magic on this basis. The express class adds the analysis of advanced black magic principles on the basis of the ordinary class. and reveal the secrets, the practical class will be under my protection, making dark magic items and practicing the use of elementary and some classic black magic."

"Regardless of whether you are assigned to the slow class, regular class, or fast class, please don't worry. We will have a monthly exam at the beginning of each month. Similarly, the monthly exam will not be included in the total score, but the monthly exam score exceeds a certain score. Students in the slow class who excel in the monthly exams can choose to be promoted to the regular class, and similarly, students in the regular class and fast class who excel in the monthly exams can also be promoted to the fast class and practical class."

After Tiera said this, some of the little wizards present were obviously relieved.

"Okay, get out of class is over, let's go back." With that said, Tiera clapped her hands and started chasing people away.

After Tiera's explanation, the little wizards seemed to feel much calmer, and they walked out of the black magic classroom in groups of twos and threes.

"I did terrible in the exam." Ron complained as he walked out of the Dark Arts classroom, and looked hopefully at Tiera, the student who was traveling with them, "Can you not put me in the slow class? This is too embarrassing. "

"Me too!" Hermione said worriedly, "I think I will definitely not be able to get into the fast class. I gave up on several questions and didn't write them. And even if I did write the questions, I'm sure there were at least three mistakes. "

"Don't worry." Tiera said with a smile, "You can all get into the fast class."

"Can everyone get in?" Hermione asked in surprise, "Even Ron?"

"That exam." Tiera smiled, "Only one-third of the questions in the six test papers test the basic knowledge necessary to learn black magic. All the other questions are too big for you at this stage. If it is too advanced and mysterious, you may be able to see the idea, you may be able to get started, or it may seem simple at first, but at the end of the solution, you will find that the results conflict with the conditions, and there are even several questions that have no answers at all.”

"What?" Hermione exclaimed in surprise, and then her eyes widened angrily, "I can't figure out why you put it up? Why do you want to test us?"

"The most important thing in learning black magic is not talent." Tiera paused, "Well, talent is still somewhat important, but the more important thing is mentality."

"When you really start to learn black magic and explore the mysteries of magic in depth, the most important thing will not be how far you can go on this road, but how long you can stay on this road." Tiera said, "You Remember the story that Professor Flitwick told us in first grade Charms class? The wizard Baruffeo, he said the 'f' instead of an 's' and found himself lying on the floor with his chest There's a bison standing on it."

"On the road of exploring the mysteries of magic, being paranoid about only focusing on the results and ignoring the initial conditions may lead us to the wrong path." Tiera said, "And on the road to magic, we go the wrong way. , the consequences would be much more serious than letting a bison stand on your chest."

"Actually, the content to be taught in the slow class and the regular class has been almost covered in the training classes of Dumbledore's Army. Even if some students have not mastered it, they can gradually become proficient in it through the first few assignments and exercises in the dark magic class. "Tiera said, "In addition to mastering the necessary theoretical knowledge of magic, students who can enter the fast class and practical class must also have the qualities of being down-to-earth, seeking truth from facts, and strictly deducing."

"Well... Ron, after you finished filling in all the questions on the test paper that you know how to do, you lay down on your desk and slept for most of the exam... But it is true that you did not touch any of the questions that gave contradictory conditions..." Tiera said, "Your mentality is very good for learning black magic. If you can't learn it, don't learn it. If you can't calculate it, don't do it. It's better to just sleep."

"As for you, Harry." Tiera smiled and said, "You actually thought of peeking at my answer."

"No, no...I...I just want to know you..." Harry immediately denied in embarrassment.

"Don't be nervous Harry." Tiera said, "Reality is not an exam. When one path doesn't work, it's not a shame to change to another path. You just have to pay attention to the method in the future."

"Hmm..." Harry replied nonchalantly.

"And Hermione..." Tiera took a deep look at Hermione and said, "Hermione wrote down the formulas for all the questions she couldn't solve, but didn't calculate the results..."

"It's not bad." Tiera said with a smile, "If you were in the third grade, I guess even if you knew that you couldn't calculate it, you would still continue to calculate it, right?"

"Then there's no need for you to ask us to do so many papers!" Hermione did not answer Tiera's words, but said dissatisfied, "And the exams take so long!"

"If you don't do this, what will happen to your mentality?" Tiera said, "Black magic is not a good thing. The emotional impact you will face in the early stages of learning black magic will be worse than sitting in the classroom and writing for four hours. It would be much scarier to not be able to answer half of the questions in the test paper.”

"What kind of black magic can a person whose mentality can be ruined by an exam learn black magic?" Tiera asked rhetorically.