Chapter 4103 4105【Examination Season】
After returning to Hogwarts, Xiang Nan returned to the great cause of studying and brewing medicine.
Because of the pure gold automatic stirring crucible, his medicine boiling efficiency increased by more than 50%, which also greatly increased his output and naturally increased his income.
In the past, he made about ten galleons a day, but now he can earn fifteen galleons a day, and his income has increased significantly.
Moreover, Xiang Nan contacted his family almost every day, asking Irene about Tobia's current situation and whether he had fallen into the same trap and drank again.
Because he knows that once you get addicted to alcohol, it is not easy to get rid of it. It's not easy to cheer up if you're used to lying down alone.
So he was worried that Tobias would not be able to cheer up for a few days before he started to fall back on his old ways.
Fortunately, Irene's reply made him calm down.
These days, Tobia is running the bar with all his heart. The business of the bar is also pretty good, with regular customers coming to support us. After deducting costs, we can earn twenty or thirty pounds a night, which is considered a very good income.
Coupled with the potion brewing by Eileen and her son, the family's monthly income can reach four thousand pounds.
With an annual income of 50,000 pounds, in the 1970s, Britain was not just a middle class person, but could barely reach the edge of the rich class.
So Tobia Snape is very satisfied now, and his relationship with his wife and son has also been greatly improved.
This also made Xiang Nan very happy.
It is said that it is better to drink porridge to open eyebrows than to eat rice to frown. Everyone hopes that the family can be harmonious and reunited, even Snape.
Otherwise, why would he return to the old house in Spider End Lane every holiday? After all, with his income, buying a new house of his own is not a problem at all.
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Coming to May, the last Quidditch match was between Slytherin and Hufflepuff to determine the champion and runner-up.
Xiang Nan also prepared a cheering banner for Hufflepuff.
He drew a lifelike and naive badger on the banner, and wrote the words "Badger Courtyard will win~" next to it.
The students from the four major houses of Hogwarts, except Slytherin, also cheered for Hufflepuff.
Because Slytherin College has always advocated "pure-blood supremacy", the students it accepts are basically pure-bloods and mixed-bloods, and there are very few wizards of Muggle origin.
Hence, colleges and students choose and influence each other, making racism prevalent in Snake College, which often attacks and bullies other colleges.
As a result, the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw students all sided with Hufflepuff, cheering for them and shouting loudly.
Even so, Hufflepuff ultimately lost the game, and Slytherin won the Quidditch Cup, thus earning one hundred and fifty points for the House Cup.
Seeing the celebrations of the students in Slytherin House, many students in the other three houses were depressed for several days.
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However, the students did not remain depressed for long, because as the Quidditch season ended, the school soon ushered in the exam season.
In June, each grade will begin taking exams.
Students in the first and second years must take seven courses including Potions, Herbology, Charms, Astrology, Transfiguration, History of Magic, and Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Students in third grade and above must take three elective courses, including divination, arithmetic divination, ancient runes, Muggle studies, and the care of magical creatures, etc.
So as we enter the exam season, the atmosphere in the entire school becomes very tense.
Everyone is busy reviewing and trying to get a good grade in the exam. Otherwise, you will be in trouble if you repeat a grade. Therefore, the library, which had not seen many people in the past, was suddenly filled with people.
In the dining hall, corridors, dormitories, and common rooms, you can see people holding books and reading. It can be said that everyone is forgetting about food and sleep, racking their brains, and just regretting that twenty-four hours a day is not enough.
“Oh, did we really learn how to boil sore-removing medicine? Why don’t I remember it?”
“What is the principle of the transformation spell? Why have I forgotten it again?”
“What spell should be used to deal with resurrected corpses?”
“What are the three uses of thorn grass?”
Joy, Benjamin, Gregory and others are all worried about the upcoming exams and feel that their brains are not enough. I can't even remember the knowledge I obviously learned.
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Xiang Nan is not worried at all about the upcoming exams. He knows every subject well and has no problem with both theory and practice.
So not only did he not panic, but he keenly discovered business opportunities.
He then brewed a large amount of intelligence-enhancing potions and sold them in the school.
Intelligence-enhancing potions can improve people's intelligence, memory and analytical skills in a short period of time. For students who usually don't study, cram for exams, and are busy preparing for exams, this is simply a gift from God.
Hence, there was no need to worry about selling these potions. They were all sold out as soon as they were launched, and demand simply exceeded supply.
Normally he sells it to Adam Giggs for a bottle of Sickles worth three silvers, but now everyone is clamoring for a bottle of Sickles worth four silvers. It was even more popular than the fiery potion he brewed at the beginning of the year.
After all, the fiery potion is not strictly necessary, but the intelligence-enhancing potion is directly related to the final exam results.
So just from this medicine, Xiang Nan made a small profit of 400 gold galleons in more than a month. It can be said that he made a huge fortune.
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In June, the exam season officially begins.
The Charms class will test the definitions and principles of three spells; the Transfiguration class will test Gamp's law of transformation and the five major exceptions; the Potions class will test the formulas and efficacy of three potions; the Herbal Medicine class will test the cultivation and efficacy of three herbs...
Students have to answer questions with school-issued quill pens in a hot and stuffy examination room. This quill is cast with an anti-cheating spell, which can effectively prevent cheating.
Although Xiang Nan had absolute confidence in himself, he did not take any exam carelessly, but answered seriously. And he knew all the answers clearly, so there was no problem at all.
The teacher in charge of invigilating the exam could not help but nod approvingly every time he passed by his seat.
After the written test, there is practical practice.
During the Charms practical exam, Professor Flitwick asked them to walk into the classroom one by one to see if they could make a pineapple tap dance across a desk.
This is actually a test of their mastery of the floating spell.
Xiang Nan was very familiar with this spell. Not only did he make Pineapple tap dance across the desk, but he also cast the spell without a wand and silently, which shocked Professor Flitwick.
Because wandless spellcasting and silent spellcasting are advanced spellcasting skills, it is really remarkable that Xiang Nan can master them skillfully.
Professor McGonagall watched as they turned a mouse into a snuff box...the more elaborate the box, the higher the score; if the box still had a mouse's whiskers on it, points would be deducted.
Not only did Xiang Nan turn the mouse into a snuff box, but the snuff box was also very exquisite. It not only had beautiful carving patterns, but was also inlaid with two rubies and tiny mother-of-pearl.
His performance made Professor McGonagall very satisfied.