To make you fully recognize reality and extinguish any excuses or Luck mentality you might have.
I have decided to give you ten seconds, no, thirty seconds of preparation time.
After thirty seconds, I will attack all of you!"
With that, he gently tapped the hourglass on the table with his wand, setting the flow rate, then inverted it.
The silvery fine sand began to fall rapidly!
"What?"
"Wait, Professor, this is absurd."
"What the hell is this? Professor, are you joking?"
"Woohoo, my captain, can I use props?"
The Weasley Twins and Lee Jordan hastily and secretly shared a few newly made special effect candies, hoping they would work.
The seventh-year Slytherin who had just answered the question cast a Shield Charm on himself.
The entire classroom was in chaos, but as time passed, they quickly realized that the Professor in front of them was not joking.
He genuinely intended to attack them!
"No, this is too stupid, I'm leaving here!"
"I'll have my dad write a letter to complain about you."
However, they couldn't even open the door.
"Alohomora—"
The spell was cast, but it was useless.
Clapping sounds rang out. Howl lazily clapped his hands, stood up, and drew out his small wand.
"I'm starting!"
As he spoke, he paused for a good while longer, making sure everyone at least had their wand in hand.
Whether they wanted to or not, they did their best to make all the defensive preparations they could think of!
"Expelliarmus—"
Immediately, a bright light appeared at the tip of Howl's wand. It flew at an extremely slow speed to the ceiling of the classroom, then burst open like fireworks.
The light moved towards the hands of each Little Wizard. Some who reacted quickly tried to cast spells to block it.
However, this was only from Howl's perspective.
In the eyes of the Little Wizards, they only saw that after Howl finished the incantation, a bright light flashed in the air, its speed like lightning, shooting towards them.
All sorts of foolish spells emerged from their mouths.
"Serpensortia, Impedimenta, Petrificus Totalus—"
This was only a minority; most people couldn't even correctly recite the incantations, and various colored fireworks exploded throughout the classroom.
The Shield Charm cast by that seventh-year Slytherin had no effect whatsoever. After blocking one Expelliarmus, another ray of light quickly flew towards him!
The candies the three Weasleys had just eaten clearly made them much sturdier, their skin glowing with a swollen, blood-red color from boiling blood.
However, they were powerless against Howl's Expelliarmus!
A scene of chaos.
The next moment, almost everyone felt their wand being struck by a force, their hands numb and weak!
Then, they watched in horror as those bursts of light, about to explode or already half-exploded, were forcefully stopped in mid-air.
Those were their foolish spells.
"This is my power! And it's not just me; in this school, several Professors you see every day also possess such abilities.
I'm sorry to tell you that Professor Snape often says his class doesn't need 'silly wand-waving'—this is a statement of fact!
In our eyes, all of you are just foolishly waving your wands.
Someone teaches you Transfiguration, someone teaches you spells.
But unfortunately, no one has taught you how to correctly wield the wand in your hand!"
Howl's voice echoed in each of their ears.
"Perhaps now you can recognize how vulnerable you are in magical combat."
Everyone was drenched in cold sweat, looking at Howl with fear.
Then they saw Howl's raised hand slowly grasping in mid-air.
The exploding spells that were suspended in mid-air were gathered by Howl, forming a colorful, unstable polymer.
Then, Howl raised his hand, waved his wand, and the massive unstable polymer was disintegrated into a huge torrent of energy, which poured out of the window.
"As a subject for many students, I certainly won't unilaterally arrange course content from my own perspective.
Some people genuinely dislike conflict and genuinely don't want to resolve things with force.
I completely understand!"
Everyone's gaze was fixed on the tall figure on the podium.
"So I didn't say that all of you must become aggressive, must find ways to learn how to defeat others, to harm others.
In fact, I can tell you how to pass the O.W.Ls for this class.
As long as you learn the theory well, and then, among advanced spells, master the Shield Charm, you can completely spend these two years slowly practicing it.
Why do I specifically require practicing the Shield Charm?! And set it as the OWLs assessment standard.
Because this is a Defense Against the Dark Arts class!
Even if you don't join my advanced class for further study, at the very least, you should understand how to protect the people you want to protect in a sudden accident!
You should know what reaction to make when those strange and unpredictable spells attack you.
And not just randomly cast a completely useless spell. Or even fail to cast a complete spell, where your own casting error can kill you!!
Even worse, some will just stand there blankly, waiting to die!!"
Howl's voice was not loud, but it was deafening. Everyone stood still, heads bowed, like trained quails.
"Not wanting to fight and not knowing how to fight are always two different things!
This is the meaning of Defense Against the Dark Arts being a compulsory subject!!
Now you tell me, do you want to wait until you are attacked, then wait for the Ministry of Magic to avenge your corpse, and let your family cry over your remains!
Or do you want to pick up your wand at the moment of danger, and protect yourself, protect your family and friends?!!"
After Howl finished speaking, the wands floating above the classroom fell one after another.
They landed in front of them.
Fred and George were the first to raise their heads. They exchanged glances, then took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.
Afterward, both of them solemnly took the wands suspended in mid-air.
In the silent classroom, their voices became so loud, like the roar of true lions.
"Professor, I really want to improve!"
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