Considering the threat from Malfoy and other Slytherins, Harry and Ron finally persuaded Hermione, and they excitedly invited Ivan to join the war between the two houses.
"What happened in the morning?" Ivan asked strangely, "How is Sirius' Defense Against the Dark Arts going? Didn't something happen?!"
"The course went very well. He showed everyone the Banshee of Death, a very interesting dark creature that always makes a sharp and bleak sound. Although it is a bit unlucky, it did not do anything to hurt others." Hermione explained , "It's mainly Sirius, he made no secret of his dislike for Slytherin students in class, and deducted a lot of points from them, probably more than a hundred"
"It's not Sirius' fault, it was Malfoy who took the initiative to provoke him." Harry argued, "He messed up Sirius' class and didn't do what he said."
"I know, but Sirius is still too emotional. He is a professor now, and he should treat every student fairly like Professor McGonagall." Hermione pursed her lips, which made her look very Like Professor McGonagall.
"Oh my God, do you even know what you're talking about?!" Ron exclaimed in surprise, "A professor who favors Gryffindor is the biggest expectation in my life. You're telling me now that I hope he Be fair!"
"What Sirius did is not too much, think about Snape, how he treated everyone before, if it was him," Harry added.
"Snape deducted at least 200 points from Gryffindor this morning, and even scared a few girls to tears." Ivan recounted what happened in the Potions class this morning.
"I knew it was going to happen, that damned old bat," said Ron in disgust.
All in all, the animosity between Slytherins and Gryffindors is at an all-time high because of Snape's duel with Sirius, their unreserved dislike, and other long-simmering feuds.
In the next week, the students of the two colleges were all cautious. Everyone appeared in the castle in pairs, for fear of any accidents.
Although guarding each other, nothing actually happened.
With the intervention of Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall, management in the castle has been strengthened, and neither Harry nor Malfoy has the chance to carry out the so-called college war.
As time went by, Snape and Sirius also restrained a lot, and the fact that they deducted points from Gryffindor and Slytherin slowly stopped, but Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts classes also became The two subjects that Gryffindor and Slytherin students love and hate each other the most.
Compared with Potions class and Defense Against the Dark Arts class, which were highly differentiated, Hagrid's Protection of Magical Creatures class unexpectedly received unanimous praise from everyone.
At the suggestion of Ivan and Hermione, Hagrid chose the fire monster as the magical creature for the first class of the new semester. He raised a great fire in the field, full of fire monsters, for the entertainment of all, and gathered dead leaves to keep the fire alive, while fire-loving lizards hopped on the splintered, self-heating blocks.
According to almost everyone, this was the best class Hagrid had ever taken.
A week after school started, Ravenclaw and Slytherin played a Quidditch match, and Slytherin won the match, but the score was close.
According to Wood, this is good news for the Gryffindor team. Because, if Gryffindor beat Ravenclaw, it would still be in second place.
This game turned everyone's attention to the Quidditch game. Compared with the illusory house war, they found that it might be more practical to decide the winner in this way. Although Gryffindor lost to Hufflepuff before, they are still the favorite team to win this year because of Harry's Firebolt.
Today, the Gryffindor Quidditch team practice at least five times a week.
In the cold wind of January, Harry had to fly outside for five or six hours almost every day, and he didn't even have time to finish his homework.
Aiwen also felt that he didn't have enough time. He had entered a bottleneck in magic research and needed to invest more time. Ivan has already studied all the guidance given to him by Tom Riddle's diary last year, and he is now doing his best to study the black magic books he took out from No. 12 Grimmauld Place.
These magic books, especially the magic recorded in "Secrets of Advanced Black Magic" are very esoteric and complicated, and there are many places that Ivan can't understand at all.
He can't take these black magic books to ask Dumbledore or Sirius, he can only conduct research secretly by himself, and he spends more and more time in the library, while the librarian Mrs. Pince looks at His gaze also became more and more strange.
Holding Sirius' approval note, most of what Aiwen borrows and refers to are very old and unpopular magic books, and all of them are books in the restricted area. Let alone twelve-year-old wizards, these books are rarely used even by adult wizards.
The only person who is busier than Ivan is Hermione, because there are too many courses to choose, and the burden of the courses is finally revealed on her.
Now every night, if she is not studying in the library with Aiwen, she will inevitably appear in a corner of the common room. Various textbooks are spread on the tables in front of her: arithmetic charts, various magic dictionaries, Muggle lifts, etc. Diagrams of heavy objects, and a wide variety of notes.
Except for Aiwen, she rarely talks to others now, and if someone disturbs her, she will speak in a vicious voice.
"What the hell is going on with the two of them?" One night, Ron finally couldn't help muttering to Harry, "I've never seen anyone busier than Ivan and Hermione now, even preparing senior wizards Neither did Percy in the grade exam. The two of them read more books in a day than I do in a semester."
"I don't know!" Harry didn't look up, he was writing a paper on various undetectable poisons assigned by Snape, "How about we borrow Hermione's Potions class homework?"
"Better not, she won't agree." Ron looked up again at Hermione, who was sitting almost out of sight behind a pile of precarious books.
"Hermione is really weird, how could he have so many classes." Ron continued, "This morning, I heard her talking to Professor Victor, who is the witch who teaches arithmetic and divination. Speaking of yesterday's homework, but it was impossible for Hermione to go to Arithmancy and Divination class yesterday, because she took the Protection of Magical Creatures class with us! And Ernie McMillan told me that Hermione never missed a Muggle study class, but this class conflicts with the divination class half the time, and she has never missed a divination class."
Of course Harry knew why, but he had to keep it a secret.
He couldn't talk about the Time-Turner, and he had to finish Snape's paper now.
The confrontation between Snape and Sirius, while calm on the surface, was actually still turbulent. Harry had to be more careful, at this moment, if he had any clues that fell into Snape's hands, he would definitely die ugly.
"You said how about I go to Ivan for help, let him borrow my homework for me, Hermione will definitely not refuse him." Harry changed the subject.
"This idea is good, but the premise is that you can find Ivan." Ron said, "Besides Hermione, I also want to know what Ivan has been doing these days. He is in the library every night. The first time I saw him, he was always recording something with a thick magic book that no one could understand."(.)