The weather at Hogwarts became milder, the snow melted into the ground, and the young buds poked their heads out. The young wizards recently liked to lie on the grass in front of the Black Lake and bask in the sun lazily.

On Saturday, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Luna sat around the lake, watching Harry and Neville fight back and forth.

Two more dueling classes passed, and Harry and his friends learned two new spells. A defensive spell, the Shield Charm; and a small evil spell, the Tongue Locking Curse, invented by Snape himself to take care of the lower-grade wizards.

His behavior also caused some controversy, but these remarks were ignored by Snape.

"Even dark wizards usually shout spells in duels, relying on language to drive emotions and rely on emotions to strengthen the power of spells." Snape said in a sarcastic tone: "Therefore, it is necessary to block the opponent's words."

In fact, Felix had privately suggested that Snape switch to the Silencing Charm, but he refused.

"The Tongue-Locking Charm can stick a person's tongue to the roof of the mouth. It is not as gentle as the Silent Curse, which is exactly what I want." Snape said that this was developed independently by him when he was in school. Judging from the actual effect, he was very satisfied with this spell.

The Ironclad Charm explained by Professor Hepp is much more advanced, and many junior wizards cannot master it at all.

Even Harry and Hermione did not succeed once.

But it is a spell that can resist multiple spells, and what is even more rare is that

Professor Hepp said at the time: "The Ironclad Charm can resist attacks from both spells and physical entities at the same time. This may be the most practical defensive spell you have come into contact with when you are in school." The

new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Damocles Belby also explained a very useful spell in class, the Supersensory Charm. The effect of this spell is to make students' senses more acute. Flitwick mentioned it in the dueling class.

"You can use it to sense the coming of danger in advance, especially when you are in a dangerous environment."

He used magic to create a black fog. "Let's assume that it is late at night. This is the time when red hats and other magical creatures like to attack the most. If you are in the wild, do you remember what to do?"

The little wizards discussed it in a flurry.

Belby nodded and said:

"Safeguard... Protect everything... Thief Sense... It is best to add a Muggle Shielding Charm. Of course, you can't do this now, but it doesn't prevent you from remembering this knowledge."

Then, he asked the little wizards to walk into the black fog one by one and try to avoid the attack of the red hat.

"I've spread some leaves and branches on the ground. Stay focused and you will find the danger in advance."

However, the fact is: only a few people can find the red hat in advance and fight back. Most of the little wizards were knocked out of the black fog by cork sticks.

Fortunately, except for some embarrassment, no little wizard was injured.

Harry has always been curious about why these two red hats cooperated so well. Later, Professor Belby explained that he fed them many nutritional potions, "They like the taste of blood, especially the blood of magical creatures, and I happen to have all these..." Now these two red hats can barely be regarded as his assistants.

Unconsciously, dueling classes and the new Defense Against the Dark Arts class have been integrated into the lives of the little wizards and have subtly changed the entire school. The most intuitive manifestation is that many little wizards like to play dueling games in the corridor after class.

But the fate of these students is not very good. Filch arrested a large number of students.

There were a few days when the gems of the Gryffindor House Cup fell off, and Professor McGonagall's expression almost scared the little lions to death.

Not only Gryffindor, but also many little wizards from the other three houses were caught.

During this period, there were a lot of students who were punished to do compulsory labor. Snape was asked to go directly to process the potion materials, Professor Sprout was asked to take care of the flowers and plants, and Hagrid also asked Professor McGonagall to find a few junior witches to take care of the unicorns that were about to be born.

Even Professor McGonagall was not immune to this. She asked the remaining students to cooperate with the modified version of the "Answer Parchment" test.

With a painful lesson, the young wizards of Hogwarts finally realized that it was extremely stupid to cast spells in the corridor. They chose abandoned classrooms, the Black Lake, the courtyard, hidden corners...

Just like now, Harry was guiding Neville to cast the disarming spell.

Neville blushed and tried to release the spell. Finally, after countless attempts, a very thin red light flew out of the wand.

"Great, you succeeded, Neville!" Harry said loudly.

Hermione and others sitting on the grass also clapped their hands, and several Gryffindor whistles came from a distance.

Neville blushed and wanted to say something, but he just scratched his head and grinned happily.

The two returned to the open space and started chatting.

Ron talked about the news he got from the twins, "The new version of the 'Answer Parchment' is almost complete, and many of the functions mentioned at that time are available."

Among the six people present, four participated in the first test. In addition to Harry and Neville, they were all very interested in this topic because it was said that the new teaching aids would be used in seven grades.

"What new functions are there?" Harry asked with interest.

"The most important one must be the ranking list." Ron said without hesitation, "I hope to see Gryffindor surpass Slytherin, preferably first, but it is not realistic. The nerds of Ravenclaw will definitely have the advantage..."

"Ron!" Ginny glared at him and turned to look at Luna, who was a Ravenclaw.

"Uh..." Ron whispered, "I'm sorry."

Luna took out a very delicate-looking wand from her pocket with an expressionless face. She pointed the tip of the wand at Ron.

"Oh, Luna." Harry advised. He thought Luna was going to curse Ron.

But the next second, the wand in her hand made a shrill scream and turned into a giant rubber mouse.

Ron's expression became very funny, one eyebrow was tightly twisted, and the other one seemed to be about to fly out of his forehead.

Luna pointed at his face and laughed exaggeratedly, Ginny also chuckled, and the two little girls fell on the grass hugging each other.

Neville tried hard to hold back his laughter, but he couldn't help it, and he made a "grunt" sound from time to time.

"Well, this is very interesting." Ron muttered, he watched Luna repeatedly hit the ground with her fist.

Hermione held the rubber mouse by the tail and watched in amazement as it turned into a wand again. "What is this?"

Ginny got up from the ground and wiped the tears from her eyes. "It's a prank item made by Fred and George. They call it a fake wand. However, they should have developed it not long ago... How did you get this?" She looked at her friend.

"I... Haha! I bought it from them... for ten silver Sickles." Luna panted.

"How do you use this thing?" Harry asked with interest.

"Input magic power into it."

Harry took the fake wand and tried to inject magic power. With a scream, it turned into a rubber mouse again.

Ron poked it with his hand and said with some disgust: "It's far worse than Scabbers."

Harry looked at the black giant squid looming in the black lake, and the breeze blew through his hair. He felt very relaxed.

The fight against the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets seemed to have happened a long time ago.