The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

As for why Tom was able to discover Professor Lockhart's flaw, it was naturally because the great Professor Dumbledore discovered the problem and asked Tom to investigate. And Tom lived up to Professor Dumbledore's expectations and successfully discovered the problem. Lockhart's secret.

"Then why did you start such a big fight today? It made people in the school panic. And you have become the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts?"

Tom sighed, "Although I wrote that line, the content written above is correct. The heir to the Chamber of Secrets is back. He has lurked into Hogwarts. I just muddied the water. Only In this way, the fish will move and be caught by the fishermen.”

"As for the professor, I am confident that I can do a better job than the other Dark Magic Defense professors, and I passed Professor Dumbledore's interview!"

Hermione raised her slender eyebrows, "Dumbledore actually thinks you can be a professor?" She was a little unbelievable.

Tom spread his hands and said, I, a student, suddenly became a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

All of Hermione's questions were answered, and she felt like she could leave. But before leaving, she coughed twice more and expressed a little coyly that she wanted to know today's test results in advance.

Naturally, Tom would not embarrass her on such a trivial matter. He took out Hermione's test paper - it had been automatically marked by the quill.

"The only perfect score so far." Tom handed Hermione's paper and took a look at it. "Many little wizards just copied your answers, but I changed the questions!"

Hermione was also very happy: this was the only perfect score in the whole grade, and she was extremely happy.

"I just read a little more," Hermione put the paper back and walked to the door, "Good night, my Professor Yodel."

"Good night, Miss Granger." Tom waved to Hermione, who seemed to have remembered something and raised her wand with a smile:

"The birds flock!"

A flock of birds spurted out from the tip of her wand, hitting Tom like raindrops, making him run away with his head in his arms. It wasn't until Hermione closed the door that he transformed into a basilisk and petrified all the birds.

Shortly after Tom sent Hermione away, there was another knock on his office door.

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The fact that "Tom" was cursed by the heir to the secret room made some people in the school panic. The red letter written on the blackboard was erased immediately, but the sentence in everyone's heart was not erased. Many people have taken this sentence to heart.

However, the popularity of this matter did not last long. Firstly, no second victim appeared, and secondly, another big news happened. The little wizard's attention was immediately attracted by a new hot spot: Sprout The professor gave out a set of papers to his students in class!

Professor Sprout feels that in-class tests seem to be very helpful for courses like herbal medicine that require experience and memory. So last night, she paid a special visit to Professor Lockhart, borrowed a printer from him, and printed out a batch of test papers with Lockhart's help.

However, their purposes were different. Sprout hoped that the students could grasp the knowledge more firmly, so all the questions she gave this time were fill-in-the-blank questions and short-answer questions, and she did not deliberately change the question types.

The content of the paper is mainly to test students' knowledge of magical plants and whether they know the characteristics, uses and coping methods of these plants.

For the little wizard, this was a complete "unexpected surprise". In the past, only Professor Lockhart of Defense Against the Dark Arts had done in-class tests, but unexpectedly Professor Sprout also started learning. Before this, the little wizard was worried that other professors would learn from Lockhart's methods, but he didn't expect that it would come true immediately. What surprised them even more was that the first person to make changes was Professor Sprout, who taught the herbal medicine class.

Fortunately, Professor Sprout's quiz was not scored, and the answers were answered directly after the exam in class, which did not bring much pressure. But this sends a very scary signal: other professors are imitating Lockhart!

For a moment, the heir to the Chamber of Secrets was forgotten. Heir, how many papers does he have? If you are petrified, you won’t have to take the exam!

But in the next few days, no professor continued to do this. The main reason is that the courses taught by Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall are rather special and more practical, so exams are of no use to them. In Professor Snape's Potions class, it is also necessary to give some test questions to strengthen learning. But Snape hasn't printed out the papers yet - he's still writing the questions! He has to complete the question design for seven grades by himself, and coupled with his busy schedule on weekdays, it really cannot be done in a day or two.

When Professor Sprout made such an appearance, it indeed immediately diverted everyone's attention away from the secret room.

The new week passed quickly. On Friday evening, all four Heads of Houses received their Defense Against the Dark Arts report cards for the week. Professor Sprout looked at the average score of his college and fell into shock. She never expected that the average score of Hufflepuff House would overwhelmingly surpass the other three houses, and zero scores were not the most.

This kind of surprise came too suddenly. Although Professor Sprout had previously said at the faculty table that his college would most likely be at the bottom, he was just like the scumbag who clamored that he was going to fail the exam after finishing the exam. There was always a trace of luck in his heart: Once it’s over?

And today I really “passed”!

This kind of joy is difficult for top academics to experience.

The main reason for Hufflepuff's high average score this time is their unity. At the end of the first day, all the Hufflepuff students who had taken the exam gathered in their common room, reviewed the exam papers, and then everyone worked together to come up with a set of exam knowledge test points for the entire school. For student use.

In other words, students from other houses either review on their own or take the exam naked with unreliable answers and a few sentences, while Hufflepuff students know the scope of the exam and have review materials. .

This is simply a dimensionality-reducing blow to other colleges. The other three colleges didn't expect this at all. Gryffindor House did not expect this operation, Ravenclaw House is used to reviewing by itself and does not need these fancy things, and it is impossible for the little wizards of Slytherin House to give away their review materials to others. .

The average scores of these three houses are naturally widened by Hufflepuff.

Professor Sprout looked at the transcript and smiled happily. To be honest, a class exam in a general subject should not have brought such great joy. However, the previous competition model of the four major Hogwarts houses was too monotonous. Their previous competition was nothing more than the annual Academy Cup, the Quidditch Cup, and at most a final exam. But now a Defense Against the Dark Arts in-class test suddenly appeared, which can arouse the competitive spirit of the deans.

In addition, Hufflepuff has rarely had this honor of coming out on top before. This time the whole school can unite and get first place in terms of average score, which really makes Professor Sprout happy - even if it is just A short test.

Of course, other deans may not be in such a good mood.

At this time, Professor McGonagall fell into a rage: the average score was last, the highest score was last, and the number of zero points was the last!

In this exam, after Monday, few people will get zero points for copying Hermione's answers. Everyone knows that there have been slight changes to the questions. Even if you don’t know it, someone among your friends will always discuss it.

In other words, if you get zero points on the test after Monday, you will be a real loser.

In fact, Gryffindor had a lot of zero points this time, and the big reason was the exam format. They are all multiple-choice questions, and multiple-choice questions also have points deducted, which can reflect the personality gap.

Young wizards from other houses usually skip the options they are unsure about, but Gryffindor's little lions are more fierce and choose even if they are unsure. This time, many points will be deducted. There are multiple choices, but as long as you make the wrong choice, it will be considered wrong. If you make a wrong question, you will not get the four points for the question itself, but you will get two points! They need to get one question right to fill in the gap, but how can they be sure that they can get the next question right?

Therefore, Gryffindor is now in a miserable situation, with a very low average score and a lot of zero points.

Professor McGonagall already wanted to take leave. She really couldn't imagine what it would be like to see Snape tomorrow.

Professor Flitwick and Professor Snape were both in a good mood: Professor Flitwick because the only perfect score in the school was in Ravenclaw, and Snape because Gryffindor did very poorly in this exam.

It doesn't matter if Slytherin doesn't get first place, as long as he does better than Gryffindor.

This was Snape's true attitude, and the big zero behind Potter made him even more happy.

The next day was Saturday, and Professor McGonagall went to the Great Hall to have breakfast with great reluctance. During this period, she did not dare to make eye contact with Snape at all.

But what is coming will still come.

"Granger, this kid did well in the exam." Professor Flitwick took the initiative to stir up the topic, and Professor McGonagall suddenly became very interested in the kippers in his bowl. Those who didn’t know better thought that Animagus transformation would affect the wizard’s preferences.

"Yeah, that kid is really good. He seems to be the only one in the whole school with perfect scores. He's really awesome. I even missed one of the options when I took that set of questions." Professor Sprout next to him seemed to be waiting for this sentence. After a long time, he immediately continued, "She was also very active in the herbal medicine class before."

Professor Flitwick looked delighted, "Really? Ha, the kid!"

"Congratulations, Hufflepuff did very well in the exam this time!"

"No, it's just that the average score is relatively high..."

Professor McGonagall felt a little depressed: It would be great if this kid, Hermione Granger, was a student of her own college!

Professor Snape next to him also showed a sneer, "Minerva, we must pay close attention to Gryffindor's education!"

"I understand, don't worry about it, Severus." Professor McGonagall responded indifferently, and at the same time glanced at the young wizards at the Gryffindor House table with very sharp eyes.

She was determined.