The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"I...I can help you look at the questions in the paper..." she said timidly.

Tom showed a wicked smile, "Then follow me: I want your paper. After that, I will give it to you."

"I...I want your...paper!"

After she finished speaking, she looked at Tom, only to find that he was looking at her with a half-smile. Hermione was a little angry: "You are teasing me again! I -"

"Yes, it's really fun to tease Granger!" Tom admitted frankly.

The reason why Hermione was so cowed was essentially because using means to obtain test papers from the teacher was definitely cheating. As a good student who works hard to abide by school rules, such behavior is too "degenerate" in her own eyes.

But Tom handed Hermione the paper before she could explode, lest she whip out her wand and give him an English massage.

After such a "competition", Tom regained the lead in the competition between the two - he had previously asked Hermione to pick on the weak points and was "teased" crazily, but now he took the opportunity to regain the victory.

Hermione, who had taken the paper, was like a well-fed cat. She stopped talking to Tom and concentrated on writing the paper. I finished answering the questions in a short while. When the paper was finished, Hermione kicked Tom and handed the paper over.

"Let me see your grades," Tom took the wet-stained paper from Hermione's hand. He scanned it and was a little surprised to find that Hermione actually got perfect marks.

"Okay!" Tom praised from the bottom of his heart. This set of papers still has twenty multiple-choice questions with indefinite items. It is not difficult to choose the correct answer. What is difficult is to choose all the correct answers.

"That's right!" Hermione also happily took the paper, as if she had accomplished something big.

The sun shines through the window and shines on her test paper, making the wet ink on it shine with a glimmer of light.

…

The classroom was filled with the rustling sound of quills scratching paper.

The ink on the test paper flashed a glimmer of light. Percy put down his pen and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Today's questions are quite big." He thought in his mind. The sunlight passed through the glass windows of the classroom and fell on his small desk - this desk was the same one used in the O.W.L. exam. In order to pursue the authenticity of the exam, Tom almost copied the content of the exam completely. From the venue to the time, from the parchment to the quill, it's exactly the same.

Percy glanced at his test paper to make sure there were no stupid mistakes. There were still a few questions that he was not sure about in this exam, but he was very careful to leave them blank and did not write an option without Hu Meng. Because Tom said that the format of this year's exam may change. It is said that the Wizarding Examination Board has changed the format of the questions and added multiple-choice questions that will deduct points. Faced with this kind of question, it’s better to skip the questions you don’t know.

After reading his paper, Percy glanced at Wood sitting near him. At this time, Wood's face turned red and he was writing furiously. The only thing that could make him stop was to dip his quill in ink.

clang! There was a crisp sound, and Wood's face turned pale instantly.

"It's time for the exam. All candidates put down their pens and stop answering questions." Tom knocked on the hourglass on the table, making a crisp sound.

The little wizards stopped writing in their hands, folded the papers and put them on the corner of the table.

Tom waved his wand and skillfully used the flying spell to collect the test papers of the little wizards in the classroom.

Tom took out his improved automatic marking machine and stuffed the test paper into it. The alchemy machine quickly marked the test paper. While waiting for the results to come out, the atmosphere in the classroom was even more tense than during the exam.

Cassandra narrowed her eyes in the audience. She noticed that the professor's alchemical creation seemed to be more advanced, and now it could actually correct short answer questions!

This is natural, not to mention Tom's gradual proficiency in alchemy. This machine was tampered with by Dumbledore. Needless to say, the results are pretty good... Although I occasionally make artificially retarded mistakes, the grading efficiency is still amazing.

The principle is not difficult. You only need to write some keywords for the short answer questions before the exam, and then write the standard answers, and the machine will refer to them when marking the papers and finally give points. Although the accuracy is poor, at least it has speed. Besides, in the mock test, the scores are just for reference. The most important thing is to adjust your mentality and adapt to the exam.

Tom handed out the corrected test papers, along with the reference answers.

"Proofread it yourself. If you don't understand something, you can discuss it with each other."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a buzz in the classroom.

"Ah! I really shouldn't have stayed on this question for so long!" Wood yelled, holding his head and looking very annoyed, "I didn't even have time to read the last big questions!"

Percy took a look and saw that the difficulty of the questions in this exam did not rise step by step, but the last one was very easy.

"Ah! Even if you only give me five minutes!" Wood also discovered this.

"If you had gone through the paper in general after getting it, you wouldn't have made such a stupid mistake." Cassandra, who was sitting diagonally in front of Wood, said in an arrogant tone. Wood's voice just now was loud enough that the entire classroom could hear it, but Cassandra, who was diagonally opposite him, naturally heard it clearly.

"Of course, I can understand your lack of overall perspective."

As arrogant as ever, but what he said made sense, Wood could only lower his head and sulk.

The discussion lasted for nearly half an hour. With the help of reference answers, the little wizards solved the problems they encountered internally.

"Okay, this mock exam is over. There are only a few days until O.W.L., and I wish you all the best in the exam." Tom bowed to the students, and the students also applauded.

"Everyone here may have different careers in the future. Some want to go to the Ministry of Magic, some may become a Quidditch player, and some students may inherit the family business," Tom paused. , glanced at Cassandra, "Of course, someone might open a magic shop..."

"No matter who you choose to be, I hope that the knowledge I teach you this school year can help you, and I hope you can develop the ability to think independently and learn on your own during this year."

One student laughed and said, "Professor, what you said sounded so much like a farewell speech!"

The classroom is filled with happy air. In the eyes of the students, Professor Lockhart taught very well. How could he not teach next year? As for the curse? What Professor Lockhart is best at is breaking curses!

"Indeed, I will be resigning from my Defense Against the Dark Arts position at the end of this school year."

There was silence in the classroom for a while.

"Professor, is it because of the curse?" the boy who just spoke said bitterly. To the young wizards at Hogwarts, their Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is like opening a blind box. This time I finally managed to be more reliable, but in the end I still taught for one year and then left!

How could they accept this!