Chapter 458 Silent Spell Teaching

After finishing the conversation with Slughorn, Mike returned to the common room. After meeting Franklin, he went to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom without stopping.

That's right, the Defense Against the Dark Arts class they were going to take was Professor Snape's Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

At this time, many students had gathered in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, and all of them were Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws.

Obviously, due to the recent return of Voldemort and the fact that Snape did not raise the admission standards for the advanced class of Defense Against the Dark Arts, there were a lot of students applying for this subject, so many that Snape had to teach in separate classes as he did in the lower grades.

Just like the Potions classroom had changed because of Slughorn's arrival, the originally bright Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom had also changed because of Snape's arrival.

First of all, the large French windows in the classroom had long been blocked by heavy curtains, and the entire classroom was only illuminated by a few candles, which seemed extremely dim.

There were many murals on the walls of the classroom that were not there before. All of these murals depicted people who were suffering from horrible torture, which made people feel creepy!

These, coupled with the cold atmosphere in the classroom, made people inevitably think of the potion classroom last semester.

Perhaps in order to resist the tension brought by this weird atmosphere, everyone was talking and laughing, trying to bring a little life to the place in this way.

However, at this moment, accompanied by a loud bang, the door of the classroom was heavily closed.

The students who were talking and laughing were startled. They all turned their heads and lowered their heads with a change of expression.

Mike also turned his head curiously, and saw Snape walking towards the podium with big strides. His steps were so big that his black cloak was blown up by the wind, and it looked like Snape had a pair of black bat wings behind him.

Snape came to the podium very quickly. He looked up and lowered his eyes to look at the people below. After a while, he said in a cold and empty voice without any emotion:

"I didn't ask you to take out the books."

As soon as he said this, Mike heard a lot of noises around him. It seemed that many people had taken out their books in advance.

Snape continued until the noise stopped:

"What I am going to say next is very important. I hope everyone can concentrate!"

As he said this, Snape walked down from the podium.

"So far, you have changed five professors of Defense Against the Dark Arts. These professors have their own different teaching philosophies and teaching methods. I am surprised that so many of you can pass the OWL exam under such a chaotic situation. I guess the officials of the Ministry of Magic who graded the papers must have let them off. What do you think?"

Snape pressed his back heavily on the shoulder of a Hufflepuff. The poor child trembled violently, and the Hufflepuffs around him lowered their heads in fear. They knew very well that what Snape said now was completely targeting them. Unlike the situation where almost all the students in Ravenclaw were good or excellent, the grades of their Defense Against the Dark Arts class were all low.

"Come on, I will be even more surprised if you can keep up with the progress of the advanced class, because its content is more advanced."

Snape said while patting the Hufflepuff on the shoulder, and then walked towards Ravenclaw.

This scene surprised Mike a little, because Snape actually encouraged those Hufflepuffs just now!

Although it was a bit weird, this was obviously Snape's unique way of encouragement!

This is very rare!

Unfortunately, the Hufflepuffs didn't seem to appreciate it.

They all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Snape leave. The Hufflepuff boy who was patted on the shoulder even touched his pants, apparently checking whether he had wet his pants. He didn't want to work hard at all.

Seeing this, Mike shook his head helplessly, and Snape said slowly:

"Dark magic! There are many kinds, powerful... Fighting them is like dealing with a powerful nine-headed snake! If you cut off a head, two more powerful and cunning heads will grow!"

Mike wanted to laugh. Snape's words reminded him of some comics he had read in his previous life.

"Therefore," Snape suddenly raised his voice, "your defense must also be as varied and creative as dark magic!"

Snape's sudden increase in volume made the students' spirits suddenly rise, and then he pointed to the murals on the wall.

"These pictures vividly show the conditions of the victims. For example, the Killing Curse (he pointed to a painting of a protagonist lying on the ground with a pale face). Another example is the Fire Curse (a large piece of human-shaped charcoal), the Explosive Curse (a fragmentary body)..."

As Snape began to introduce the meaning of these murals, the students' expressions gradually became terrified. Of course, Mike still kept his expressionless look. He even felt a little bored because the things Snape described were too low-level.

Perhaps he noticed Mike's thoughts. After introducing these murals, Snape returned to the podium and said to everyone:

"I think you are still unfamiliar with the Silent Curse. Who can tell me what the Silent Curse is used for?"

There was a dead silence in the classroom. Everyone lowered their heads, and no one raised their hands at all.

Snape looked around and finally set his eyes on Mike.

"Mike, please answer this question."

"Okay, professor." Mike stood up and said, "Silent spells can prevent your opponent from judging the spell you are about to release through the spell, so that you can gain some advantages. Of course, this is only a superficial effect. In fact, the silent advantage of silent spells is also very useful when sneaking. And its ultimate effect is actually to speed up your casting speed, allowing you to release spells at an almost instantaneous speed. Of course, it also has disadvantages. First of all, silent spells are very difficult to learn, and their power is much smaller than that of spoken spells."

"Well said." Snape nodded and said, "At least you can combine it with reality, which is much better than Miss Know-It-All, who can only recite from a book. Okay, sit down."

Mike sat down with a smile, while Franklin beside him was muttering in dissatisfaction.

According to convention, Snape should give Mike extra points, but he obviously did not do so.

However, Mike didn't care about this little thing. Instead, he gave Franklin a gesture to keep quiet, because if Snape found out that he was still talking nonsense, the consequences would not be good.

Fortunately, Snape didn't seem to notice the situation here. He looked up, shook his greasy hair, and then said:

"Our task today is to practice silent spells. Now you will be divided into two groups. One will try to cast a spell on the other, but you are not allowed to recite it out loud. The other will try to repel the evil spell, and you are also not allowed to speak out. Let's start."

After that, Professor Snape swung his wand and all the desks in the classroom were thrown to both sides of the classroom by a huge force.

The students of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff looked at each other, and finally raised their wands to the students around them under Snape's threatening eyes.

Although there were many people who wanted to find Mike to practice together, Mike finally chose Franklin.

There was no other way. Compared with educating others, Mike was more willing to train Franklin, his own person.

To be honest, Mike felt that Snape was still a relatively competent professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, at least much better than Umbridge before and Quirrell who could only recite from the textbook in the first year.

After all, he had been doing his best to improve the students' strength to face the invasion of Voldemort. This can be seen from the fact that he taught everyone the advanced spellcasting skills such as silent spells. Otherwise, if Snape really surrendered to Voldemort, he could let the students learn freely, just like Quirrell before, so that he could save some effort when Voldemort really invaded Hogwarts. However,

although Snape was already doing his best to teach everyone, it was obvious that the students did not appreciate it very much. Various cheating methods emerged in the practice of silent spells, such as the two people next to Mike. Although they chanted the spells very quietly and their lip movements were almost invisible, Mike still found that they were secretly chanting spells, and there were many people who did this.

This was actually a very stupid thing, because even Mike could easily detect their cheating methods, let alone Snape.

That's right, Mike was sure that Snape must have noticed these people's little tricks, but for some reason, Professor Snape, who used to be very strict with students, chose to ignore this behavior.

On the contrary, those students who practiced hard but achieved little results were reprimanded by Snape. Snape's two thin lips kept opening and closing, spraying venom at them, but at the same time, he kept pointing out the mistakes they made in practice. The

faces of the reprimanded students were all pale. Snape was indeed an old yin-yang man, who was good at arguing with people.

Those students who cheated laughed secretly when they saw this.

Mike shook his head in disdain. In his opinion, these self-righteous people were the most stupid. They thought that no one had discovered their methods, and even laughed at those who worked hard, but they didn't know that they had been abandoned.

Mike retracted his gaze and looked at Franklin again.

He planned to teach Franklin well in this class, because the role of silent spells in combat was so important that whether or not to master the release of silent spells of more than two digits was even set as one of the graduation examination conditions of the Auror training class. This also means that only wizards who have mastered silent spells can be called real combat wizards.

"Come on, cast a silent spell on me, any spell will do, pick the one you are best at."

Mike said to Franklin, and the latter looked embarrassed.

Franklin really had no confidence in silent spells, he thought it was too difficult.

Fortunately, Franklin did not act like a smart guy like those people, and after struggling for a while, Franklin agreed. Then

, the two drew their wands and pointed them at each other.

Franklin gritted his teeth to prevent himself from accidentally reciting the spell, and at the same time, the wand in his hand kept waving up and down in the air, and soon drew a strange trajectory in the air.

This is "Disarmament".

Mike easily recognized the spell by the trajectory of Franklin's wand.

But this was not the right choice. The Disarming Spell was a relatively advanced attack spell in Defense Against the Dark Arts. As a beginner of Silent Spells, it was obviously not advisable to choose such an advanced spell for the first attempt.

As Mike expected, when Franklin's Silent Spell failed in the first attempt, and due to the lack of the guidance of the final stage of the spell, the magic power in his body that was guided by the correct wand waving action also went out of control.

Looking at the twitching muscles on Franklin's face, Mike also took a breath of cold air.

This reminded him of his experience when he was learning Silent Spells. The feeling of losing control of magic power was not pleasant. The pain was just like being hit by a weakened version of the Cruciatus Curse.

Mike shook his head and prepared to remind Franklin, but before he could say anything, he heard a familiar voice from the side.

"Ha! Another idiot! Do you think you are Merlin? You chose the Disarming Spell at the beginning. I should open your head and take a look, because I guess there should be nothing inside." Snape said quickly in a singing tone, "Or did Mr. Townley teach you this? Oh! I think I should understand. There is always an idiot around celebrities who can bring out their genius, just like Weasley around Mr. Potter. And you are the idiot around Mr. Townley, right? You exist only to bring out Mr. Townley's genius!"

Franklin clenched his teeth, and even made a creaking sound of grinding his teeth.

Mike believed that if Franklin had not been unable to beat Snape, he would have gone up to fight him to the death.

In order to prevent Franklin from doing anything impulsive, Mike stepped forward and patted Franklin on the shoulder, saying loudly:

"Okay, calm down, Franklin. Use 'Teeth Like a Bludgeon', you know? Try it again with the simplest spell, remember that you have to use mental power to mobilize magic power in the end, not words like before. Come on, let's do it again."

Franklin glared at Snape fiercely, and then raised his wand again.

At this time, Snape also closed his mouth, concentrating and looking at Franklin who was preparing to cast a spell. Obviously

, he still remembered his duties as a professor.

Compared with the disarming spell, the steps of casting 'Teeth Like a Bludgeon' are much simpler. Franklin took a deep breath, and the wand in his hand slowly slid through the air, and finally pointed at Mike.

At the same time, Mike and Snape on the opposite side also held their breath at the same time.