On the day of the O.W.Ls exam, the auditorium was shrouded in a depressing atmosphere. Most of the fifth and seventh grade students who were about to enter the exam room remained silent. The depressing atmosphere before the exam even affected students of other grades.
Opposite Albert, Sana was eating while flipping through "Spell Achievement", fearing that she would forget the key points in the book. Lee Jordan, who was yawning and absent-minded on the right side, mistakenly added salt to the pumpkin porridge instead of sugar. Even Fred and George, who had always been heartless, were affected by the exam and became silent and even their appetites became worse.
Only Albert ate slowly and leisurely as usual, not affected by the depressing atmosphere before the exam at all.
After breakfast, students from other grades went to the classroom for class, but the fifth and seventh graders remained in the hallway, waiting aimlessly for the exam to begin.
Yes, that's right, O.W.L.S and S's Theory of Spells will be taken together in the auditorium, but the seats will be separated.
The waiting was the most difficult part. Everyone looked very nervous. Many people tried to calm down by flipping through books, but most of the time they still secretly glanced towards the auditorium, as if they were eager to see something.
Albert had experience in this area, so he gave George half a pack of mints left over from last time and asked him to share the candy with everyone to help them relieve their nervousness and anxiety before the exam.
Of course, other colleges don’t have this.
"You've thought it through very carefully."
With candy in her mouth, Sana found Albert lazily flipping through "Achievement of Spells" on the stone bench in the courtyard, and sat down next to him with a smile.
"No way, I have a lot of experience."
Albert closed the book and asked casually, "Think about those test papers. O.W.Ls are not difficult at all."
"Yeah." Shanna responded casually, not knowing what she was thinking.
After a while, all the Gryffindor candidates came out, gathered around Albert, and chatted about the exam incoherently with mints in their mouths. Their originally tense mood relaxed unconsciously.
The o.w.l.s exam started at 10 o'clock, and the professors began to arrange for the candidates to enter the exam room at 9:30.
The auditorium had been rearranged by the professors. The four long college tables had been moved away and replaced with many small single tables, all facing the teachers' seats at the end of the auditorium.
The first Charms theory exam was supervised by five professors: Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Professor Marchbank, Professor Tofty and Professor Greengrass.
Students need to go through a round of inspection before entering the examination room.
Filch stood at the entrance of the auditorium, holding two honesty detectors to check whether the examinees were carrying any prohibited items. After a cursory inspection, they would take the seat numbers they had drawn and go to their respective seats.
Most students who attempt to cheat will not be troubled by this hurdle, but there are always exceptions.
"It's really hard to imagine that you could be so stupid." Filch touched the Hufflepuff boy's sleeve with his honesty detector, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth. "You should be glad that the exam hasn't started yet. In my opinion, you should be disqualified from the exam."
So, in addition to the memory ball and some error correction ink, there were two more detachable clip cuffs on the table.
Many students found it very interesting and thought that those guys who tried to cheat were really stupid. If it were them, they would definitely not be discovered by Filch.
Albert discovered that there were two types of detachable cuffs, one was a magical version that was invisible to the naked eye but could be detected by the honesty detector, and the other was a non-magical version, but Filch seemed experienced and could easily detect it. He cursed and gave the candidates number cards, and finally succeeded in saving several students who had gone astray.
Albert glanced at his number tag and quickly found his seat number C7. In front of him was a Ravenclaw boy, and behind him was a Hufflepuff girl, um, that was Patricia Stinson who often had emotional breakdowns.
After checking the spare quills, ink bottles and parchment on the table, Albert found that Professor Flitwick, who had handed out the test papers to them, quietly sat behind them and monitored the entire examination room.
After Professor McGonagall turned the huge hourglass on the table upside down and placed it next to it, she announced to all the candidates: "You can start answering the questions."
Albert picked up the test paper, quickly glanced at all the questions, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The test questions were indeed all basic stuff. As long as you mastered the knowledge points in the spells class, you don't have to worry about not getting an "excellent" grade.
The Charms Theory exam is divided into three types of questions:
The first one is to answer questions.
For example: a) Write a spell that makes objects fly; b) Describe the motion of waving a magic wand.
The second type is multiple choice questions.
For example, the correct spell for the fire spell is:
a) blazing, b) burning fiercely, c) burning rapidly, d) burning out
The third type is the spell-breaking spell.
For example: Please write the spell to break the hiccup curse.
The exam content is really simple. The only problem is that there are too many questions. There are a hundred questions on the exam paper, and some students may not have enough time.
Of course, for Albert, this test paper was not difficult at all. With the help of the panel, his memory was far superior to that of ordinary people, and he answered the questions quickly and perfectly without thinking.
At this moment, Albert suddenly heard a sharp alarm: Cheating, cheating.
He looked away from the test paper and looked forward in surprise towards the source of the voice.
Not only Albert, but everyone else in the auditorium was startled by the sound and cast curious glances in this direction.
Someone is cheating
Is this triggering the anti-cheating mechanism
The students were very curious as this was the first time they had encountered such a situation.
The Ravenclaw student looked a little at a loss, because Professor McGonagall, with a sullen face, had quickly walked down from the teacher's seat, carried the unfortunate guy out of the hall, and calmed down the voice in the process.
"Be quiet, don't look around, and continue answering the questions." Professor Flitwick's sharp voice then sounded, and his expression was also very unhappy. After all, he was a student of his own college.
After the exam, the cheating incident quickly caused an uproar among the students.
The news was soon revealed. It was said that the unlucky guy who was taken out secretly took dragon claw powder during the exam, triggering the anti-cheating mechanism.
"He made a pill out of the Dragon's Claw powder and put it in his mouth," Lee Jordan said. "That bastard Kenneth must have given him the idea. He was the only one in the school selling Dragon's Claw powder, and he really screwed over other people. I heard that they were disqualified from taking the Charms exam, and Professor McGonagall even wrote to their families to inform them of the incident. If they cheat again, they will be held back."
"How was it detected?" George asked puzzledly.
"No wonder no one succeeded in cheating." Fred was a little scared. He actually wanted to do that, but was warned by Albert and had to give up in the end.
"The Ministry of Magic must be on guard against Dragon Claw Powder and Intelligence Enhancers. These two things are the easiest to get. If you know Legilimency, I'm sure no one will be able to detect that you are cheating."
"How did you do?" Sana asked Albert to borrow the test paper. "I saw that you fell asleep at the end."
“It should be a perfect score.”
"I didn't answer a few questions correctly." Shanna was a little depressed.
"Can you guys shut up?" Fred complained, covering his ears. "I finally finished the test, and you don't have to check your answers. This makes me feel sick."
At lunch time, the hall was restored to its original appearance, and the four house tables reappeared. The fifth-year Gryffindor students gathered around Albert to listen to him talk about what the afternoon practical exam might be about.
There's no way, basically everything Albert said this morning was included in the test.
The afternoon's practical spell test started at two o'clock. All candidates were required to come to a small room next to the auditorium in advance and wait to be called to the auditorium in alphabetical order of their surnames to take the practical test.
Albert entered first, and with him were two other people.
"Professor Marchbank is free, Anderson." Professor Flitwick, who was standing at the door, assigned examiners to the students entering.
"Okay, let's get started, Mr. Anderson. I think this test will be easy for you." Professor Marchbank smiled kindly at Albert. "Please make this glass cup run on the table, then jump into the air and perform a few side flips. Of course, you don't have to do it all at once."
What this actually means is that you will get a higher score if you complete it in one go.
Albert did it easily. It was nothing more than the use of basic movement spells and levitation spells. The glass cup completed all the movements in one breath, like a graceful athlete.
“It’s perfect.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of a glass falling to the floor and breaking was heard in the auditorium.
Albert looked down at his glass, then turned his head to look at a poor guy who had failed in a cartwheel far away, then he turned his gaze back to his old friend.
Professor Marchbank smiled at Albert, pointed to the mouse he had taken out of the cage next to him and said, "Please turn it green and make it as big as a plate."
"The color changing charm and the expansion charm."
Albert waved his wand gently, and the mouse immediately turned green and began to slowly expand, soon reaching the size the other party required.
"Perfect." Professor Marchbank signaled that he could leave.
Albert was very satisfied with the difficulty of today's O.W.Ls exam, which meant that he could easily get an "excellent" and complete the task of getting twelve excellent grades.
Albert went straight back to the dormitory and got himself a bottle of iced butterbeer to cool off. The hot weather made him uncomfortable, then he took his books and slowly went to the library to review for the Transfiguration test that he would take tomorrow.
During dinner, everyone gathered in groups of three or four to discuss today's Charms exam.
"It feels easy. I can at least get a good grade."
"If only Transfiguration exams were this easy," said Fred.
Albert looked at Shanna who looked a little depressed and asked, "Are you okay?"
"My mouse swelled up like a balloon, and it floated away when I wasn't paying attention." Shanna was a little depressed.
"Don't worry, with your grades you can at least get a good one." Albert comforted her casually, but Shanna obviously didn't want her grades to be extremely good.
A loud voice suddenly resounded throughout the auditorium, shaking off the dust on the ceiling.
The unlucky Ravenclaw became the focus of attention, but his luck was better than that of the protagonists of previous Howlers, because no one was interested in discussing this matter.
After dinner, everyone returned to their respective common rooms to prepare for tomorrow's exam.
The Gryffindors gathered together to listen to Albert's analysis of the Transfiguration exam on the next day. They also took out the exam papers from previous years and looked through them. Anyway, the content of the exams had basically remained the same.
After yesterday's experience, no candidate would be stupid enough to cheat, and even bringing in things would no longer happen.
After Albert flipped through the test paper, he found that the focus of the Transfiguration exam was indeed to test how much theoretical knowledge you had memorized.
The practical test of the Transfiguration class in the afternoon was the Vanishing Charm. Albert was honored to be one of the first candidates. He needed to make a cute ferret disappear in front of Professor Tofty.
The Vanishing Charm is the most important spell learned in the fifth grade Transfiguration class. It is also the most difficult spell to master among all the Transfiguration spells. The larger the object, the more difficult it is to make it disappear using the spell.
Albert felt that some of the students were going to be in trouble because the biggest object they had practiced to make disappear was a big rat, and making a rat disappear was difficult for a group of students, not to mention alerting a ferret which was much larger than a rat.
"Okay, let's get started, Mr. Anderson." Professor Tofty smiled and said, "You need to use the Vanishing Charm to make it disappear."
"Well, it looks cute." Albert reached out and touched the ferret's head, then took out his wand and tapped it lightly on the head.
“Disappeared.”
There was a flash of light, and the snow ferret disappeared out of thin air.
"Perfect." Professor Tofty smiled and reached for the wand on the table, ready to get the ferret back, but Albert was faster than him. After a few crackling sounds, the ferret appeared out of thin air again.
"This test is really too easy for you." Professor Tofty winked at Albert and said, "If you can give me an extra performance, I can give you extra points."
In fact, Albert would have received an excellent grade regardless of the extra points. However, he did not refuse and pointed his magic wand at the ferret, turning it into an eagle. When the eagle was about to spread its wings and fly, it fell to the ground and turned into a snake, then a badger, and then a huge lion.
A lion's roar sounded in the auditorium, and Albert turned the lion back into a ferret, picked it up from the ground and placed it in front of Professor Tofty.
"Very good, very good, you can go." Professor Tofty was very happy to see other new things. It was not easy to transform into a huge lion. The greater the difference in the size of the transformed creature, the more difficult it would be.
However, the other professors were not too happy because the creatures that they had prepared to transform the students were all scared away by the lion's roar.
The culprit had already fled.
"So you were the one who made that lion roar."
At dinner, Fred, George and Lee Jordan almost laughed their heads off when they talked about the practical exam.
"What's wrong?" Albert asked with a raised eyebrow.
"You may not know that many of the students who stayed in the room waiting were practicing with their wands, but they were startled by the lion's roar, and the whole room was in chaos."
Everyone seemed to want to laugh, and it was clear that a lot of funny things had happened. In the end, Lee Jordan said, "A Hufflepuff boy had leeks growing out of his butt, two Slytherin robes were set on fire, Arya was almost stabbed in the eye by a wand, and a Ravenclaw was almost sent to the hospital ward.
"Did Professor Tofty give you extra points?" Sana was more concerned about this topic.
"Maybe I'm more familiar with him!" Albert said jokingly.
"You must have done well in the Transfiguration exam again!" Sana had to make her iguana disappear with great reluctance. Some students even tried several times before they succeeded. George was one of them. He was not in a good mood right now because Fred had achieved good results in the Transfiguration exam. In his own words, he could at least get a good grade.