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Chapter 171 Games
The fifth-year wizards of the four colleges all received the same notice: this week's Defense Against the Dark Arts class was brought forward, and they gathered in the open space in front of the castle.
Everyone was half anxious and half excited to the open space.What does it mean to leave the classroom?It means that there is no need to study boring theoretical knowledge!Even though Defense Against the Dark Arts isn't boring this semester, who hates a practical class?
"Professor Hall finally made the right decision," Draco said to Pansy beside him, "It wouldn't be Defense Against the Dark Arts without a duel."
As soon as this remark came out, the students of the four colleges became restless, and even Harry and the others, who had always been at odds with Draco, hoped that what Draco said was true.
"Great if it's what he said!" Ron grinned happily, agreeing with Malfoy's words for the first time in five years.
But Harry was also a little worried while being happy: "According to Professor Hall's previous lectures, I don't think she looks like she will let us duel."
I told them time and time again to stay away from danger, but now it is a bit illogical to let them duel.
"I really didn't expect that!" Hermione's eyes widened in disbelief, "I'm so proud of you Harry, you finally learned to analyze problems rationally."
With that said, Hermione gave Ron a reproachful look.The meaning is very obvious, Ron is still the same, reckless and useless.
"Let's see, what if Professor Hall really asks us to duel?" Ron yelled unconvinced, but he also knew that he was not very confident when he said this.
As soon as Alice approached, she heard Ron's yelling, so she said very intimately: "Unfortunately, Mr. Weasley guessed wrong. I won't let you have a duel in this class."
Not in the mood to mock Ron, most people cried out in disappointment.
"Actually, I asked you to come to the open space in this class to assign homework." Alice blinked and deliberately elongated her tone.
"No!" A Gryffindor boy wailed in pain, "Professor, you can't treat me like this. I just voted for you in the questionnaire."
"Hogwarts Most Popular Teacher Selection", this is the product of Alice's enthusiasm.An anonymous questionnaire was released to students across the university on Monday, after consultation with the chancellor and other professors.
"Mr. Thomas, thank you for your vote," Alice said with a smile, "Gryffindor will get one point for your honesty. But because I am not No.1, Gryffindor can only get one point."
In fact, Alice is already very satisfied, because she won No.2 in this vote, and No.1 is undoubtedly Professor Sprout.
"Professor!" Draco rolled his eyes and raised his right hand, "I voted for you too!"
Alice easily saw through Draco's little thoughts: "Unfortunately, there is only one extra point. Does anyone know what this tells us?"
After nearly 5 minutes, a Hufflepuff girl blushed and said, "You only have one chance, so hurry up."
"Very well, one point for Hufflepuff." Alice said briskly.
Suddenly, the Slytherins made dissatisfied voices.
"Quiet, you know, I have always treated the four colleges fairly and justly," Alice forced a serious look, "As for who you voted for, I think you know better than me."
The Slytherins looked at each other in an eerie silence.
Alice turned around quickly, covering the smile at the corner of her mouth.The original intention of this vote is to encourage the most popular professors and remind and motivate the least popular professors.She also knew that Snape didn't care about this so-called name at all, so she made this vote.
And the truth was true, Snape didn't feel sad when he was voted "Most Unpopular Teacher", he even wanted to hang that award on the wall very proudly.Until he saw his number of votes, no more, no less, exactly the number of Slytherins.
"Stupid, really stupid!" Snape gave up the idea of showing the certificate because of this, "If they go to other academies to attract a few people, it won't be so obvious."
The voting incident was just a small episode, and Alice quickly changed her mood and got into the main topic.
"Don't worry, this assignment is a practical assignment. And I promise, it will be very interesting."
"Professor, is it similar to the previous assignments?" Hermione raised her hand and asked.
Alice shook her head and showed a mysterious smile: "I personally think it's much more interesting than them."
The students were suddenly excited. They danced and guessed, and the chirping sound even covered the crisp birdsong in the morning.
"Okay," Alice clapped her hands, motioning for everyone to be quiet, "Now, please each find the person you hate the most to form a team."
As soon as these words came out, the students exploded again.They are very familiar with the task of forming a team. Generally, they are either assigned by the professor or chosen by themselves.But teaming up with the person they hate the most, they really can't understand.
"I have to remind you that you are teaming up with the person you hate the most." Seeing a young couple getting closer, Alice quickly stopped, "As a psychological counselor, I know your relationship very well, so don't think about it." Muddle through."
No matter what the actual job is, couples in love will always turn it into a date, and that's at odds with Alice's goals.
In an instant, several couples separated at the speed of light.
"Couples are not allowed to form a team. If there are no annoying people, you can form a team with friends," Alice added, "provided that there are no annoying people."
After saying this sentence, everyone's grouping speed became significantly faster.After all, they are all students of the same school. It is rare for two people to be real enemies, and more people tend to get along friendly.
But this theory obviously doesn't apply to Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy, they are almost the first to complete the team formation.
"Very well, like Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy are very honest." Looking at the two people staring at each other, Alice nodded in satisfaction.
She took out a cloth bag from her wide sleeve: "Now send one person from each group to take a note from the bag. Please don't open it until I tell you to open it, otherwise it will be regarded as a failure of the homework. "
This never-before-seen operation method aroused the interest of almost everyone, and they stepped forward in an orderly manner, and it took only 5 minutes to complete the extraction of the note.
"Now let's explain, please listen carefully. There is a riddle written on each note, and each riddle hints at a treasure hidden in Hogwarts," Alice looked around and saw everyone's surprised expressions , "Your task is to cooperate to find this treasure."
Harry was the first to raise an objection. He really couldn't accept being in the same group as Draco: "Professor, but what does this have to do with Defense Against the Dark Arts? Didn't you say that the focus of this semester is to learn to stay away from danger?"
"Oh yes, I'm glad you found this problem," Alice explained calmly, "The next thing is the important point, that treasure may be fake."
Fake?Harry looked bewildered.
Alice smiled slightly: "I have set up mechanisms for every treasure, some of which can be solved, and some of which cannot be solved at your level, and the ones that cannot be solved are fake treasures for you. Solving the riddle is very simple, the point is to Recognize your own level, and determine whether you can get the treasure with your own ability."
"Professor, isn't it doomed that some groups will not be able to get the treasure?" Hermione couldn't help worrying, what if they picked a fake treasure?
"So there are two scoring criteria for this homework. The team that works together to get the treasure and the team that judges the fake treasure and chooses to give up can both get full marks." Alice finished the last point, "Is there anyone who has any questions now?"
"Then why are we teamed up with the most hated person?" Draco pursed his lips and asked with his head held high.
Alice: "The official answer is to enhance the friendship between classmates. After all, in a dangerous situation, you may have to team up with someone you hate. This is called weighing the pros and cons. The unofficial answer is that it is more interesting."
Draco and Harry: "…"
Alice: "Any questions?"
"No problem." The two replied at the same time, but they were both a little listless.
"Then..." Seeing that there were no more questions, Alice announced loudly, "get out of class is over early today, and I look forward to meeting you next week."
Seeing the little wizards disperse in twos and threes, Alice stood where she was, her thoughts returned to three days ago.
"Thirty percent profit? Malfoy gone crazy?" Suddenly hearing Snape's words for Lucius Malfoy, Alice almost spit out the black tea from her mouth.
Snape replied very calmly: "Whoever goes crazy, not even Lucius Malfoy."
"So why is he sending me money?" Alice asked.
"He wants to pay for this in exchange for some of your help," Snape said, "mainly to let you think of ways to improve the relationship between Draco and Harry."
Alice couldn't understand even more: "Malfoy also betrayed Voldemort?"
"There is no betrayal, but Malfoy is not loyal. He wants to use this to offset part of the cost of losing the team in the future. After all, the friendship of a savior is very important." Snape explained.
Alice understood: "If it really succeeds, no matter which side wins in the end, the Malfoy family will not have no way out, right?"
Snape nodded.
After thinking for a while, Alice readily agreed: "Even if I don't agree, he still has a lot of ways to make his son and Harry establish a friendship. After all, Harry is still very simple, and it is easy to trust others."
"So what are you going to do? Counseling?" Snape asked curiously.
"No no, facing difficulties together and solving difficulties together is always the best catalyst for friendship. And I have always been disgusted with Harry's behavior of taking risks at will regardless of his own strength," Alice said excitedly. If there is such a problem, let’s treat them together.”
Seeming to have guessed something, Snape didn't ask any more questions.
But Alice changed the subject: "But if I have a son like Harry in the future who runs around and takes risks without knowing how much he weighs, I will definitely beat him up."
"Like Potter?" Snape's face suddenly became extremely ugly, "I think it's better to be a daughter to be on the safe side."