"boom!"
Snape stepped down from the podium and slapped the tabletop of the desk with a loud bang. Suddenly, the classroom, where no one was talking, immediately became silent.
However, Luna, who was sitting behind the desk, just raised her head in a daze, then narrowed her eyes and looked at Snape standing next to her with a puzzled expression.
"Oh, Professor Snape..." she greeted inarticulately, "Good morning?"
Perhaps it was because Luna's performance really made everyone laugh. Even in Snape's class, many people couldn't help but laugh secretly.
"Quiet!"
Snape looked around coldly for a week, and then lowered his eyes to look at Luna.
"Miss Lovegood, since you think it's still morning... After class, don't go to lunch. Stay in the classroom and copy out the part about resisting the Imperius Curse in Chapter 9 of "Encounter with the Faceless Monster" Say it three times!”
"Isn't that possible?" Luna pursed her lips and said pitifully, "There is caramel pudding for lunch today! I saw it on the bulletin board at the entrance of the auditorium this morning..."
"snort."
Snape completely ignored Luna's intention and turned around and walked towards the podium. Luna looked at his back and blinked at the classmate next to her, with a bit of confusion in her eyes.
"what should I do?"
As soon as she said this, the laughter that Snape had just stopped sounded again, causing Snape to turn around again.
"I said, be quiet!" he snapped. "If anyone is willing to stay with Miss Lovegood, just raise your hand and tell me, and I will agree!"
For the same person who had not slept all night, Snape was obviously much better than Luna - not only did no changes appear at all on the surface, but even the words to warn the students were the same as usual, Full of powerful sarcasm.
Yes, Luna also spent the whole night in London last night, and was not sent back by Aberforth until dawn.
To be honest, she still couldn't find Maka's location quickly last night. But because of Aberforth's help, she had been able to avoid the Aurors who were also searching around London several times, which was already a blessing.
Otherwise, if Luna was wandering alone in London, the Aurors would have discovered her whereabouts. If that's the case, the ending that awaits her is probably either being sent back to Hogwarts and handed over to Professor McGonagall, or being sent directly to the Ministry of Magic.
"It seems..." Luna muttered in the end, "Cream pudding is going to be far away from me."
…
Compared with Luna, who searched all night but found nothing, Hermione, who faced the rune array underground in the old Black mansion, finally achieved certain results.
Well, no! Maybe that can't be said.
Right now, while Luna was regretting her lunch pudding in Snape's Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Hermione was rarely bowing her head in silence in Slughorn's Potions class.
She was similar to Luna, and she didn't pay much attention to the class today.
Of course, this was not about secretly catching up on the lost sleep time last night - under the care of Lu Ping and others, she still had some time to rest before breakfast after returning to school.
The reason why Hermione didn't speak actively as usual, and even lowered her head all the time, was actually because she was silently flipping through one of her own notebooks.
According to Maca's rune pattern, Hermione collected and organized many rune symbols that resembled Phoenician letters. After that, she compared those symbols with ordinary Phoenician letters, trying to find the connection between those magic words and Phoenician letters.
And now, she has found three groups of characters that can correspond to each other.
Suddenly, the sound of the end of get out of class bell suddenly came from the corridor outside the classroom, causing Hermione, who was still immersed in the artistic conception of magic text, to come back to her senses.
"Hermione, get out of class is over!"
"I heard."
After raising her head and nodding towards Ron, Hermione packed up her things with everyone, stood up, and left the Potions classroom together.
In the corridor, Harry suddenly turned around and asked softly:
"It's Hogsmeade Day again the day after tomorrow, Hermione... you're going to the old house then, right?"
"Well," Hermione nodded immediately, "Finally some progress has been made. I will definitely go, sorry."
"No, no, why are you apologizing?" Harry said, "I just want to ask - do you think that after you leave, should we all go to London?"
To be honest, Hermione could actually understand how Harry and the others felt. If she hadn't already joined the work of the Order of the Phoenix, she would probably be even more anxious than Harry.
Maybe he would sneak out of the secret passage at night!
but…
"I think it's better not to," Hermione shook her head. "You should also know - there are a lot of Aurors searching in London now. If you go there, it's very difficult not to encounter them. Not to mention that tomorrow is the Apparition. Lesson, when the time comes..."
As she spoke, Hermione glanced behind her. She was looking at Ron, who was discussing the potion ratio with Neville.
"... I'm worried that Ron will be under greater pressure by then. After all, he is the only one among the three of us who has not learned how to apparate in advance."
Disapparation is a difficult spell, and its characteristics make it difficult for young wizards to practice it without the help of an experienced professor.
However, with the support of Maka's magic potion, the danger of splitting caused by failure to manifest is no longer a problem.
However, it is obviously not enough to have the ability to practice but no place to practice.
Since the entire Hogwarts space is firmly fortified, no one can practice the Apparition spell here without the principal temporarily lifting it.
Therefore, not to mention Harry, who had learned it from Sirius a long time ago, even Hermione and others practiced it during the last period of the previous Christmas vacation.
There is no doubt that although this spell is difficult, once you learn it, it will naturally add a lot of convenience to everyone's actions.
It's a pity that Ron couldn't complete it until the beginning of school.
"So, if Ron still can't do it tomorrow, you and Neville will bring the potions and help Ron continue to practice on Hogsmeade Day!" Hermione whispered, "I was supposed to go as well. …”
"It's okay," Harry said, "I understand. Your suggestion is right. It's best to let Ron learn how to speak before we speak. This will also allow us to-"
"What are you talking about?"
Suddenly, Ron's voice sounded from behind the two of them, which startled them.
"Oh, no... it's nothing," Harry said with a quick smile, "I was asking Hermione to lend me the notes from the Potions class just now. You know, how the joy potion works..."
"Ah?" Ron suddenly said with a puzzled look on his face, "Didn't Hermione have been studying ancient magic texts in Potions class? And I said, you didn't listen well in class, right? The joy potion was already taught in the previous class. It’s over!”
"Oh, is it...?"
Harry turned his head in embarrassment, trying to get Hermione to answer Ron's words for him, but to his surprise, Hermione had already taken a step ahead and headed to the auditorium.
Seeing this, he had to turn around again and gave Ron a stiff smile.
"Well... look, no wonder Hermione is angry again, ha..."
"Why are you still laughing? Then go apologize quickly!"
Ron took Harry's shoulders and pushed him towards the side door of the auditorium. Just when he passed the bulletin board in the foyer, his eyes suddenly stayed on a certain notice above for a few seconds, and then he silently looked away.
That is a big notice that has been posted on the bulletin board since the beginning of this semester. The content of the announcement was naturally the twelve-week Apparition course, with instructors dispatched from the Apparition Testing Center of the Ministry of Magic.
In fact, even though he had been talking to Neville just now, he still heard fragments of the conversation between Harry and Hermione.
Although he didn't hear the whole thing, just the words "Apparition" and "Ron" allowed him to guess what the two people said.
However, even if Ron was indeed depressed that he had not yet been able to master Apparition, he was not as stressed out as Hermione imagined.
how to say? Is it because I'm used to being one beat slower than the other two
Shaking his head, Ron pushed Harry into the auditorium and took his seat at the Gryffindor table.
At this time, at the faculty bench at the other end of the auditorium, Slughorn was looking curiously at the empty seat at the edge of the long table.
"Where's Severus?"
"I don't know," Professor Sprout said, "Maybe he's still in the office?"
But they didn't know that Snape was not in the office at the moment, but still in his Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.
With Luna.
…
"Miss Lovegood, that's all right, stop writing for a moment!"
Luna, who was immersed in copying textbooks, heard Snape's voice in front of her. She suddenly stopped at the tip of her pen and raised her head in confusion.
"What's wrong, Professor Snape?" She looked at the professor who was still standing on the podium and said in a daze, "I haven't finished the first copy yet!"
"I know," Snape said calmly, "You answer a question for me. If you answer it correctly, you can just copy it once."
Luna nodded immediately, as if she saw the caramel pudding that had gone away reappearing in front of her, twisting her smooth and sweet body, waving at her!
"Oh! That's great!" she said quickly, "What's the problem?"
Snape waved his hand and asked concisely:
"It's very simple. I just want to know - what on earth did you do when you left Hogwarts so late last night?"