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  After the torturous History of Magic css, Eda finally ewo days of peace.

  On Wednesday evening, Eda had Astronomy css, which required using telescopes to observe the night sky. By the time Eda and the others, panting heavily, reached the top of the Astronomy Tower, Professor Sinistra was already waiting for them.

  Under Professor Sinistra's guidahe young wizards learhe names of different stars and the trajectories of ps. The night was clear, with the milky white band of the Milky Way stretg across the sky. At that time, Pluto was still sidered a p, making the total number of ps in the sor system nine.

  The Defense Against the Dark Arts css was ohat everyone eagerly anticipated. Known as the most dangerous position at Hogwarts, the students were also very curious about the neointed Professor Be Foley.

  Professor Foley, the test in a series of annual appois, was handsome and stylishly dressed. He always wore a smile and looked like a frivolous pyboy with no real substance. However, he was actually very knowledgeable and made his lessons lively and engaging, a stark trast to the dry lectures of Professor Binns.

  Furthermore, the empathetic Professor Foley promised that in the css, he would lead the students in practical exercises. Su outstanding professor was naturally weled by the students. Additionally, with his exceptional appearance, he quickly became the heartthrob of the Hirls.

  On Friday m, Eda and her friends were finally going to Professonagall's Transfiguration css.

  When Eda arrived at the Transfiguration , everyone was quietly and obediently sitting in their seats, not daring to make a sound. It was a on uanding among the udents that Professonagall was very strict, so no one wao get on her bad side in the first css.

  Gee waved to Eda, signaling for her to sit o him. Eda noticed that Aelia and Lee Jordan were sitting together, while Fred had abandoned his twin bree and chosen to sit with Angelina.

  After Eda took her seat, she began to take iails of the . The room was arranged with meticulous precision, refleg Professonagall's style. The only thing that seemed out of pce was a tabby cat sitting on the desk.

  When Eda first saw the tabby cat, her mind was filled with curiosity. She thought to herself, "Wait a minute, why does this cat look so familiar? Especially the markings around its eyes, which look like square gsses! Isn't this the stray cat I used to feed at the orphanage? How is it here? This doesn't seem magical at all!"

  As the css bell rang, the tabby cat leaped off the desk. Just before it nded, it transformed into Professonagall!

  huk..?

  Eda felt as if a thousand trolls were stampeding through her mind.

  The stray cat she had fed turned out to be Professonagall! Who would have thought that the stern and respectable professor had su ued side...

  The first-year students, who had never seen anything like this, were stunned by Professonagall's dispy of magic. They were so shocked that they fot how to express their amazement.

  Professonagall, dressed in her emerald-green robes, nodded with satisfa. The students' quiet behavior in the clearly pleased her.

  "Transfiguration is one of the most plex and dangerous forms of magic you will learn at Hogwarts," Professonagall said as she walked back to the podium. "Anyone messing around in my css will leave and not e back. You have been warned."

  After her stern warning, Professonagall drew her wand and transformed her desk into a pig and then back again. The students were once more captivated by her impressive skills, longing to be able to do the same and turn furniture into animals for fun.

  However, after taking doile of plicated notes and difficult theories, they quickly abahis unrealistic idea. Following the theory, Professonagall handed out matches to each student and instructed them to try turning their matto a needle.

  She demonstrated the process, stating it was a basic exercise. pared to transf a living animal into lifeless furniture, the students found turning a matto a needle much simpler, as the two objects at least shared a simir shape and were both non-living.

  But while the theory seemed straightforward, the practical application was far more challenging. They could uand the cept easily enough, but when it came to actually doing it, their hands failed them.

  Practical attempts were rgely unsuccessful. Transfiguration, being a highly advanced form of magiaturally made even the basics difficult to master.

  Eda, watg Gee struggle with his match, was amused and didn't notice Professonagall standing right behind her.

  "Miss Twist, why are you staring at Mr. Weasley's matchstick? Where is yours?"

  Startled, Eda quickly grabbed the needle she had already transformed and held it up for Professonagall to see, indig that she wasn't sg off.

  Professonagall g the needle in Eda's hand. She had to admit, Eda had done a good job. However, not wanting to ence any pride, she tinued, "So you don't io keep practig and instead choose to idly watch Mr. Weasley struggle with his matchstick?"

  Hearing the professor's words, a sense of dread washed over Eda, she had been stubborn and ended up being on bad terms with the headmistress in her previous life. She quickly admitted her mistake, hoping for leniency from Professonagall.

  The professor pced the remaining matchsticks on Eda's desk, insisting she tinue practig. She also took away the needle Eda had transformed.

  Eda picked up her wand and started casting the spell again. Uhe influence of the intation, the matchstick gradually turned silver, its tip being sharper. As the spell pleted, the matchstick assumed the shape of a needle.

  Eda sidered adding a pattern to the needle to make it more decorative but decided against it, feeling it unnecessary to show off.

  "You did well, but you could have doer," Professonagall remarked before returning to the podium without further praise.

  Standing at the front of the css, Professonagall held up the needle so all the students could see, "Miss Twist's Transfiguration has earned Gryffindor five points."

  Seeing that they could get extra points, the blood in the bones of the freshmen who were inally a little disced was ignited again, and they began to tio pete with the matches. But until the end of css, no one else succeeded in doing it.

  The afternoon potion css was held in a basement , which was much colder than the warm main castle building. There were many gss jars along the wall, with spes of different animals soaked in them, which made people shiver.

  Gryffindor and Slytherin collided again. Enemies are particurly jealous when they meet, but this time it was the other party's home court. In addition, Professor Snape was famous for proteg his children, so the little lions naturally fell into a disadvantage iual bickering and staring.

  Cody Avery was still as arrogant as ever, and his raised mouth ers made people want to punch him. Every time they bumped into each other in the past few days, Cody Avery was always the one who was most active in finding faults, obviously he had never beeen by society.

  When Severus Snape appeared at the door of the , the potion , which was just full of noise, suddenly became quiet, as if everyone was under a spell at the same time.

  Snape walked from the door to the podium, his bck robe swaying behind him, just like a bat flying in the air. Sallow skin, hooked nose, shoulder-length greasy bck hair, his eyes were equally bck, like a tunnel with no end in sight. Eda evehat if she kept staring at those eyes, she would feel deep despair.

  He began to call the roll, and he did so just for the sake of calling the roll. Snape didn't even want to look up. But when he called Eda, Snape uedly looked up, but this look seemed to be filled with some disgust...?

  "You are here to learn the precise art and strict craftsmanship of potion preparation." He began to speak, his voice was almost slightly higher than a whisper, but everyone heard every word he said. Like Professonagall, Professor Snape also had the deterrent power to keep the in order without any effort.

  "Sihere is no foolish waving of wands here, many of you will not believe that this is magic. I do not expect you to truly appreciate the beauty of the simmering crucible with white smoke and fragrance. You will not truly uand the magical power of the liquid flowing into people's blood vessels, which makes people excited and fused... I teach you how to improve your reputation, brew glory, and eve death - but there must be ohing, that is, you are not the kind of stupid fools I ofte."

  The whole css seemed to be ied by his words, and they were eager to prove to others that they were not stupid fools!

  "Twist!" Professor Snape suddenly said, "If I need you to submit a bezoar as an assig, where should you find it?"

  Just when Snape called her name and looked up at her, Eda instinctively felt that something was wrong, and now the problem had indeed arisen. However, Eda was a bit fused about when and where she had offended Snape. With so many Gryffindors around, why did he specifically pick her?

  (A/N: the Potions store cupboard! ?)

  "In a goat's stomach, bezoars have detoxifying properties, Professor," Eda answered.

  "Miss Know-it-all indeed," Snape said, but his tone carried a hint of sarcasm. The Slytherin students burst into ughter, while the little lions silently prayed to Merlin, hoping that the old man would bless Eda.

  "Then, what ingredients do you o make a cure for boils?" Snape pressed on.

  "Dried les, crushed snake fangs, stewed horned slugs, and pore quills," Eda's tone had beuch stiffer.

  "It seems you've done your homework quite well," Snape said. "Powdered root of asphodel, infused with wormwood..."

  "Draught of Livih, a very powerful sleeping potion! Professor!" Eda interrupted Snape's question directly, rushing to answer. She was remely irritated. Snape's repeated questioning, coupled with his annoying tone, had pushed Eda to her limit!

  Snape, however, pletely ighe furious Eda and tinued calmly, "Interrupting and tradig the teacher, Twist, Gryffindor will lose five points because of you."

  Eda shot up, ready to front Snape. She couldn't bear this grievany longer! At worst, she'd get detention; this was Hogwarts, Snape wouldn't kill her!

  Sended a finger and pointed downward, signalio sit down immediately. He then turned away from her auro the podium.

  Fred and Gee quickly pulled Eda back down, urging her not to defy She twin brothers had never expected that the usually easygoing little girl could have such a temper!

  "Write all of this down!" Snape anded from the podium. He tapped the bckboard with his wand, and the method for cog a simple medial potion appeared instantly.

  "This is your task for today. plete it before the end of css."

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