Chapter 4082 Chapter 4084 [Flying Lesson]
“Since we can’t understand the predictions of these stars, what are we supposed to learn from them?”
“She didn’t say anything. She said we couldn’t understand the prophecies, and that the centaurs’ prophecies need time to be verified...”
“I think this subject is not interesting at all compared to Charms, Transfiguration, and Potions, and it is barely better than History of Magic.”
“I have Defense Against the Dark Arts class and flying class tomorrow. I hope these two classes will be interesting.”
“Definitely, I heard that flying lessons are the most interesting. Being able to fly into the sky is so fun.”
The students are talking a lot about the fact that children from wizarding families, such as Gregory Foley and Ben Alban, have begun to show off their experience of riding a broomstick.
It attracted many new students who were born as Muggles, or who had lived in Muggle communities since childhood, and had never been exposed to broomsticks, to marvel and be curious.
This also makes them more complacent and exaggerated as they speak. According to Gregory Foley, he once raced an airplane on a broomstick; Ben Alban said that he learned to ride a broomstick when he was five years old. His father would let him catch an eagle, and He flies faster and higher than the eagle every time...
Xiang Nan ignored their bragging. His main energy was still in his books.
Magic literature, transfiguration, charms, potions... so many subjects, so much knowledge, so many books waiting for him to learn.
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Let's turn around and have Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the morning.
The professor of this course is Austin Amelio. He used to teach the Divination class. Later, the Defense Against Dark Arts class was short of a professor, so he was replaced.
It is said that Voldemort once applied for this position, but was rejected by Hogwarts, so he cursed the position so that every teacher who taught this course could not teach for one year.
Although this curse may not be true, Hogwarts has indeed had to change Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers every year in recent years.
When I took up my current job as a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, I was bitten by a local two-headed monster lizard while traveling to Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, I died as a result.
Professor Amelio’s face is pale, his eye sockets are sunken, and he looks sickly and always startled, giving people a feeling of mental instability.
The Defense Against the Dark Arts class actually teaches students how to resist various black magic and dark magical creatures, such as resurrected corpses, boggarts, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, snowmen, trolls, hags, red hats, and ghouls. etc.
However, in Xiang Nan’s opinion, Amelio’s teaching was not very good.
Because he was just telling stories, Xiang Nan felt very disappointed that he did not teach a single protective spell in the entire class, such as the Iron Armor Curse, the Disarming Curse, the Stop Curse, etc.
But looking at the reactions of other students, it seems that his teaching is not that bad. Anyway, Joey, Benjamin, Olivia and others enjoyed listening to it.
Because Amelio told them a story about how he subdued a powerful reanimated corpse.
His jumpy, neurotic style can create a good atmosphere when he tells ghost stories, scaring the students into screaming and cheering.
But Xiang Nan didn’t want to hear stories, he just wanted to learn knowledge, so in his opinion, Professor Amelio failed at all.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students gathered in the open space in front of the castle. It was a sunny, breezy day, and the grass rippled slightly under their feet as they walked quickly down the sloping lawn toward a flat lawn on the opposite side of the field. Beyond the lawn is the forest, with dark trees swaying in the wind in the distance.
Mrs. Rolanda Hooch, the teacher who teaches flying lessons, is already waiting here. She has short gray hair and two yellow eyes, like the eyes of an eagle.
Beside her were more than twenty broomsticks, most of which were incomplete and obviously old. This is not surprising. Hogwarts does not charge tuition fees, and its expenses mainly rely on grants from the Ministry of Magic and funding from alumni.
And broomsticks are expensive, so naturally they won’t be replaced every year. As long as I can still ride it, I basically won’t change it.
"Okay, what are you waiting for?" she snapped. "Everyone stand next to a broomstick. Quick, quick, hurry up."
The students stood up one after another.
“Put your right hand on top of the broom handle,” Mrs. Hooch shouted from the front, “and then say: ‘Get up!”
“Get up!” everyone shouted.
Xiang Nan’s broomstick jumped into his hand, startling both Joey and Benjamin in front of him.
Their brooms did not move at all, and Gregory's broom just kept rolling on the ground.
“The tone must be firm, the thoughts must be focused, and you must let it feel your sincerity.” Seeing this, Xiang Nan guided the three of them.
The three of them tried shouting again, and the effect was much better.
Gregory’s broom finally bounced up, and Joey and Benjamin’s brooms finally responded.
Finally, after nearly ten minutes of tossing, everyone finally got on their own broomstick.
Mrs. Hooch then showed them how to ride on a broom without falling off their heads. She walked around the group correcting their hand grips.
Xiang Nan has a strong learning ability. After just listening to her talk once, she can do it as expected. Other students are not as good at learning as he is, and often require Mrs. Huo Qi's guidance and correction several times before they can improve.
"Okay, as soon as I whistle, you kick your legs off the ground and push hard." Mrs. Huo Qi said, "Hold the broom steadily, rise a few feet, then lean forward slightly and fall vertically back to the ground. Listen to my whistle...three...two...one!"
The whistle blew, and the students kicked their legs together. Everyone's broomsticks slowly jumped up, rising several feet high, and floated off the ground. This makes everyone very excited.
“Okay, lean forward slightly and fall vertically back to the ground.” Mrs. Huo Qi instructed.
But at this moment, Joey leaned back and raised the head of the broomstick, so the broomstick carried him and jumped out immediately. Like a cork spurting out of a bottle...twelve feet...twenty feet.
“Child, come back!” Mrs. Hooch shouted loudly.
Joy's face was pale with fright at this time. It was his first time playing a broomstick and he had no idea how to control it. Don't know how to get it back.
When Xiang Nan saw this, he leaned back, raised the head of his broomstick, and swooped after him.
He was much faster than Joey, and he arrived close at once. Then he pressed the head of his broom and pulled his body. The broomstick immediately stopped moving forward, changed direction, and slowly flew downwards with Joey on its back. .
Mrs. Huo Qi and her classmates breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this, and then they all applauded Xiang Nan.