Early June.
Felix was awakened by the sound of raindrops hitting the window. It was gray outside the window. A dazzling flash of lightning flashed across the greenhouse, followed by continuous low thunder.
The final exams had lasted for three days, but the Ancient Magical Writings class was scheduled in the middle and late stages of all subjects, so for him, today was the first day of the final exams.
Fortunately, the Ancient Magical Writings he taught was an elective course. Excluding the fifth and seventh grades preparing for the wizard level exams, he only needed to supervise the remaining three grades.
All the professors of the required courses had to spend more energy to compete with the little wizards. Belby, who was in charge of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, complained to him more than once,
"There are always students who are lucky. Can you imagine? During the inspection before the exam, I found a dozen cheating quills!"
Felix specifically consulted Professor Flitwick on this issue. He told Felix, "You can prepare anti-cheating quills for students uniformly, which will save a lot of effort."
He readily accepted this suggestion.
In the ancient magic classroom, the long rows of seats were replaced with individual tables and chairs. Felix waved his wand and let a large number of test papers and quills fall accurately on the small table in front of the fourth grade students.
"I must remind you that the test papers and quills are all cast with anti-cheating spells, and the consequences of cheating are also very serious."
The exam began, and Felix wandered in the aisles between the seats, reporting the time every half an hour.
When he reminded for the second time, some students had already finished the test paper.
"Very good, Mr. Andrews, you can choose to continue checking, or go out for a breath of fresh air."
...
After completing the fourth grade invigilation, Felix corrected the less than 100 test papers that day.
"A total of 7 Os and 22 Es, compared with the results of previous years, it is very good."
The former means excellent, and the latter means good.
"And there are also extra points for the practice of magic puppets. Maybe I will break the best score in the ancient magic class in the past ten years." Felix thought happily, and this mood was reflected in the following exams. He was smiling.
Finally, at the end of the first week of June, the final exam was over. Students in other grades were completely liberated. A few little wizards who were worried about their grades would still be nervous for two or three days, but most of them had already had fun.
The school was full of laughter and joy. Only the fifth and seventh grade students were still preparing for the wizard level exam with all their strength.
They were very anxious, and Felix, as a professor, confiscated all kinds of weird things.
"Miss Seldon, can you tell me where did you get this onion-flavored amulet?"
Pete Seldon was about to cry, sobbing and not speaking.
"Okay, I won't deduct points this time. Drink some joy potion. You are too depressed."
Seldon was radiant after drinking the joy potion. She was much more cheerful. She thanked the professor happily and left with brisk steps.
Felix was very satisfied with his actions, but then he found that more and more people were running to the school hospital. A large number of fifth and seventh grade students told Madam Pomfrey that they were depressed and needed the encouragement of joy potion.
"The stock is obviously insufficient, Professor Hep. And there are already inferior joy potions in the school. I have received seven or eight students who are laughing non-stop." Madam Pomfrey complained.
In addition to joy potions, the Happy Charm has a similar effect, and this spell is a third-year content. For students preparing for the wizard level exam, this is a very simple magic.
But finally, the wizard level exam came after the announcement of the final exam results.
One day in mid-June, Felix saw several very old wizards in the school, an ugly man with a tumor, a fat and short witch, a wizard with sparse hair and glasses, and of course, the director of the Wizard Examination Bureau, Griselda Marchbank. Marchbank
is a small hunchbacked witch with wrinkles all over her face, as if covered with spider webs. But she is in very good condition and has a high voice. It was she who served as the chief examiner and invigilated Felix's Transfiguration and Charms in the owLs and newTs exams.
Incredibly, she was once the invigilator for Headmaster Dumbledore. This was the oldest wizard Felix had ever seen who was still active in the wizarding world.
"Oh, Felix, is that you? I'm glad to see you in school." The short Marchbank spoke loudly from a distance, with Professor McGonagall beside her.
"Professor Marchbank, long time no see." Felix quietly pointed at himself with his wand, making his voice twice as loud.
"It wasn't long, time always passes quickly, and it seems like it was just yesterday that I was invigilating Dumbledore's exam." The somewhat hard of hearing Marchbank said loudly. "I'll never forget it! It's my honor to be his invigilator."
Marchbank was in high spirits. She looked at Felix and said, "You are the same, but you shocked me in the study of spells. I heard that you are now an expert on Muggle issues? Do you teach Muggle Studies?"
"It's ancient runes, Professor Marchbank. This is my research field." Marchbank
listened attentively, and then said loudly, "I hope you don't fall behind in the study of magic, especially spells, which are incredible!"
Felix smiled and nodded. When her attention was focused on other places, he turned to the wizard with thinning hair and said, "Long time no see, Tofty. I just met Ogden recently..."
"He mentioned it to me at an awarding ceremony at the Ministry of Magic, right?" Tofty said.
This was also one of Felix's former examiners, but the two had little contact during school. Felix visited him after graduation. Tofty was an expert in ancient runes. He was also a theoretical school, but he helped Felix a lot.
"Yes, he seems to be getting better."
"Yeah, that old guy! I didn't believe it when he told me. I didn't expect you to really return to Hogwarts."
"I like the atmosphere in the school." Felix said.
"Yes, this is one of the reasons why I stay in the examination board. They are the hope of the British wizarding world. Although most of the time these young people are a headache." The old man talked for a long time, "And old Vera, he got angry with me when I mentioned you to him, but I clearly saw your book on his desk..."
Felix held back his laughter and didn't say anything. Old Vera was the grandfather of one of his students, Clemmy Vera, a very stubborn old man.
He is also the vice president of the Ancient Magic Rune Association, and has always been critical of Felix's "Practical Ancient Magic Rune".