"So, you two are here to ask Professor Dracula for the answers to the test?"
Cedric looked at the twins with an unfriendly look, and took out his Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching assistant badge and pinned it on his chest.
"I think I need to use my authority as a teaching assistant to give you two a good beating," he said.
"Hey, Cedric, we were just joking!" Fred quickly put his arm around Cedric's shoulders, looking intimate. "We just said that to test whether you, the teaching assistant, are fair and just enough."
"That's right, don't you know who we are? We would never do such immoral things!" George said righteously.
Dracula looked at this scene and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.
"Have you two forgotten that I'm still watching here!" He said with a look of disgust, "You just did something, and it's only been a few minutes and you don't dare to admit it?"
Fred and George's faces changed, and they immediately turned to face Dracula, with their backs to Cedric, and kept squinting and winking at Dracula.
"If your eyes feel uncomfortable, go to the school infirmary and get treated to avoid missing the exam." Dracula ignored their pleading looks and said with a chuckle.
Then, Dracula looked at Cedric, "Tell me, Diggory, what questions did you have while reviewing?"
Cedric nodded slightly and thought for a moment.
"I want to know, when we answer the test questions, should we use the knowledge in the textbook as the standard or the content you taught in class as the standard?" he asked. "A lot of the knowledge you taught in class conflicts with the textbook. Now I want to know which one I should refer to when preparing for the test."
"Do you still need to ask me this kind of question?" Dracula smiled, his tone as if it was a matter of course, "What I have said is correct. Any conflicts with the textbook are problems with the textbook!"
Cedric was stunned for a moment, then nodded seriously.
"I have another question, Professor." He hesitated and spoke again, "Will the amulet you mentioned at the beginning of the school year really be given to the students who rank first in the exams from grades one to three?"
Dracula was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then he remembered that he seemed to have made such a promise in order to quickly mobilize students' enthusiasm for learning Defense Against the Dark Arts.
But he didn't take it seriously at the time and put it behind him after he finished speaking.
If Cedric hadn't mentioned the gift of the amulet again today, he would have completely forgotten about it...
"Ah, that's right!" Dracula said guiltily, while rummaging back and forth in his pocket where he had cast the Traceless Stretching Charm. "Don't worry, I will definitely keep my word!"
After a long time, he finally found three small pendants from his numerous collections.
Dracula took out the cross pendant made of the eerie wood and showed it to Cedric—
The center of the cross pendant is engraved with an ancient runic symbol symbolizing the moon. Unlike the cross of the church, its shorter horizontal bar is slightly tilted upward, like a pair of spread devil wings.
"You come to ask about the amulet before the exam. It seems that you are very confident about this test!" Dracula chuckled.
"I must get this amulet." Cedric also laughed.
Cedric's confident expression made the Weiss twins next to him envious. They stared at the cross pendant in Dracula's hand with an expression of "get me one too".
"Any other questions?" Dracula ignored the twins' eager expressions, took a last glance at the three little wizards in the office, and asked lazily.
Although it was a question, his tone revealed his intention to drive people away.
Cedric thanked Dracula tactfully, then turned and left the office.
The Wesley twins, however, had no idea that Dracula was going to chase them away, and they just stood there stupidly, trying to figure out a way to get the amulet without having to rely on their test scores.
However, the next moment, two red-haired figures screamed and were thrown out of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office like garbage.
"boom!"
The office door slammed shut.
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An hour later, Professor McGonagall, who knew Dracula very well, rushed from the vice-principal's office on the second floor to the third floor to prevent him from lying in the office pretending to be dead. She called the reluctant Dracula out of the office and asked him to come to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom to supervise the exam.
The weather in June was extremely hot and humid, and the castle was not equipped with cooling magic, so the large classrooms were extremely hot and uncomfortable for the young wizards.
Dracula was the first one who disagreed to stay in such an environment, so he closed the doors and windows of the classroom and blew a breath into the air above the classroom.
A cool breeze fell from the sky, bringing a refreshing feeling to the summer classroom. The young wizards said that they had a perfect experience in the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam and would come again next year!
After all the young wizards received a quill specially used for the exam and recited an anti-cheating spell, the bell in the Hogwarts clock tower rang loudly, and the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam officially began.
The young wizards were busy writing the test questions set by Dumbledore himself. The classroom was quiet, with only the rustling sound of quills writing on parchment.
Some of the little wizards frowned and thought hard, some were excited and wrote furiously, and some looked calm... Of course, Dracula also saw a few little wizards who just fell asleep on the table like they had accepted their fate. They probably had never listened to the class...
When he first started invigilating the exam, Dracula was quite interested in watching the little wizards scratching their ears, looking worried, and making sad faces. However, before the exam was halfway through, he gradually lost his patience with the performance of these not-so-experienced little wizards.
So Dracula sat quietly behind the podium, cast a spell to create a figure exactly like himself on the chair, and then, under the cover of the Disillusionment Spell, he quietly slipped out of the examination room.
Dracula leaned against the railing of the corridor outside the door and looked into the distance.
At this moment, his eyes moved slightly.
Dracula took out an exquisite crystal ball emitting a soft glow from his pocket. It was a connected pair with the crystal ball that he had requested Wes to send to Romania.
In the center of the crystal ball of Mo Lake, there should be a dim moon rotating quietly.
However, at this moment, the dark moon became extremely bright.
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