"What?!" Hearing Ivan's words, Colin could stuff an egg into his open mouth.
He couldn't believe that Sirius would be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts.
Seeing Colin's expression, Ivan knew that Sirius had another admirer.
In fact, there are not a few little wizards who are as surprised and excited as Colin.
It didn't take long for the news that Sirius would succeed Professor Lupine as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor spread like wildfire, and the whole castle suddenly exploded.
Everyone was delighted and welcomed that such a legendary figure like Sirius became the school's professor, and even many students of Slytherin House were looking forward to it.
At the dinner that night, the atmosphere in the auditorium was undoubtedly warm.
When Sirius walked in, there was a long applause in the auditorium, and everyone stretched their necks and looked around curiously, trying to see his appearance clearly.
The chirping and chattering continued, and it wasn't until Dumbledore stood up to speak that the auditorium really fell silent.
Dumbledore looked older than when he was separated a few days ago.
The Wizengamot's multi-day trial of Pettigrew seems to have cost him a lot.
However, his gaze is still shining brightly, through the semicircular eyes, those light blue eyes give people a feeling of seeing through everything.
"Welcome!" said Professor Dumbledore, his beard gleaming in the light of the candles. "I am delighted to see you all at Hogwarts again after the Christmas break. Before dinner begins, I will Let me introduce a new teacher, Professor Black, who will succeed Professor Lupine as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."
As soon as Dumbledore's voice fell, there was deafening applause immediately below.
The applause on the Gryffindor table was particularly enthusiastic, because Harry, Ron and the others even slapped their palms red because they were too forceful.
Sirius stood up and waved his hand. He was sitting next to Hagrid, with Professor McGonagall on the other side. Except for Snape who looked disgusted, as if swallowing a fly, the other professors also smiled and applauded.
"Look at Malfoy!" Hermione suddenly whispered into Ivan's ear.
Ivan saw Malfoy living gloomyly on the long table in Slytherin. Instead of looking at Sirius, he stared at himself and Harry in disgust.
After noticing Ivan's gaze, he hurriedly turned his gaze elsewhere.
Ivan is not surprised by Malfoy's abnormality. In the case of Professor Lupine, because he wanted to drive Dumbledore from Hogwarts, Lucius Malfoy took a huge risk and further planned the werewolf riot on the basis of Pettigrew Peter's plan.
During the trial, Pettigrew told it all. He told Lucius Malfoy that he controlled Ron to write to Lucius Malfoy, hoping that Lucius could help him deal with Lupine, and that he held back Dumbledore from letting him return to the castle at a critical moment.
Although everyone suspected that Lucius planned the werewolf riot behind the scenes, there was no evidence. Lucius refused to admit that he had received a letter from Peter Pettigrew, and the Ministry of Magic had never caught Greyback's werewolf. No vellus was found.
Under these circumstances, Lucius eventually escaped punishment.
Of course, he also paid a high price. Fudge and those politicians are not so easy to buy, and the amount of Galleons that can impress them is definitely an astronomical sum.
What depressed Lucius the most was probably not the gold, but a great opportunity to defeat Dumbledore, which was wasted by Peter Pettigrew. If he could know the truth of the incident earlier, he would definitely not be as stupid as Peter Pettigrew, who was actually defeated by a few twelve or thirteen-year-old wizards.
Lucius is now very jealous of Ivan, Harry and others, he hates them to death.
Under such circumstances, Malfoy would naturally not have a good face towards Ivan, and his attitude was much worse than usual. He must be thinking about how to deal with Ivan and the others.
But Aiwen didn't care. At Malfoy's level, if he wanted to provoke him, he would be asking for trouble.
That night, the Gryffindor common room was still buzzing about Sirius becoming the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and everyone was looking forward to his first class.
It's a pity that the second grade doesn't have Defense Against the Dark Arts until Thursday.
The discussion about this continued until Harry took out his Firebolt. Almost instantly, he was surrounded by people scrambling to see the Firebolt.
"My God, this is the Firebolt. I saw it in the window of the Quidditch boutique in Diagon Alley. The price of this broom is astronomical. Where did you get it?"
"Let me ride it, please?"
"Have you ever ridden, Harry?"
"Can I just take it, Harry?"
People pass around looking at the Firebolt, admiring it from every angle.
After learning that this broom was a Christmas present from Sirius to Harry, the crowd burst into more exclamation immediately, and everyone looked forward to Sirius and the upcoming Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
"I don't understand how it's just a broomstick that makes them all so excited," said Hermione, frowning, as she sat on the sofa in front of the fireplace, checking her Christmas homework.
"It's the most expensive broomstick, more expensive than all the broomsticks in the school combined!"
Alvin sat on the sofa beside her, looking at the book about vampires that he had just borrowed from the library, he raised his head and glanced at the long parchment in Hermione's hand, "You misremembered this place , the material of the shrink potion does not include the eyes of puffer fish."
"Oh!" The tip of the pen in Hermione's hand hurried across the parchment.
"Seriously, you don't plan to take so many classes next semester, do you?"
"I know," said Hermione with a sigh, "that timer is driving me crazy, being in different places at the same time and being careful not to be seen, I can't take it anymore , I am going to give up Muggle Studies and Divination next year. That way, I can have a normal schedule again."
"Next year?!" Ivan immediately noticed the time Hermione said.
"Be consistent from beginning to end, Ivan!" Hermione continued to look down at her history of magic homework, "I can't live up to Professor McGonagall's expectations of me, you know, she worked hard to get me The Time-Turner, and it's helped us a lot."
Seeing Hermione's appearance, Ivan didn't know what to say.
Hermione was right, thanks to the help of this time-turner, they were able to successfully capture Peter Pettigrew, otherwise the current situation must be terrible.
He didn't object to Hermione's insistence, but just hoped that she would do what she could and consider her physical condition more. (.)