Chapter 562: Chapter 562: Uranus (Edited)
When Tom went to sleep, he still clung to the naive idea that maybe he could dream of that rainy night. But it turned out he was wrong, as he had a dreamless, pleasant nap. When he woke up, the afternoon had already passed...
Tom headed to the common room with a vacant look and a buzzing head. It wasn't due to any injuries he had suffered, but rather the headache caused by sleeping too long. Oversleeping leads the brain into a state of deep sleep, slowing down blood circulation and causing a lack of blood supply upon waking, resulting in a headache. Even a wizard couldn't avoid this problem.
Dinner time had already passed, and the young Ravenclaw wizards were busy in groups of two or three in the common room, engrossed in their own affairs.
Tom found an empty seat and stared out the window. As oxygen-rich blood flowed to his brain, his headache began to ease.
"Tom, do you have a moment?" Padma sat down at Tom's table along with two girls. Tom looked up and was slightly surprised, as these two girls were not Ravenclaw students.
The people Padma brought with her were her sister, Parvati, and Parvati's close friend, Lavender. Unlike Hufflepuff and Slytherin, the Ravenclaw common room allowed the entry of outsiders. However, for the most part, the young wizards of the four houses only socialized and moved within their own common room.
So, when Tom saw two Gryffindors appear here, he was slightly taken aback.
"Of course, I have time, but what business do you have?" Tom also wanted to know the purpose of these three people seeking him out.
The three people produced some charts and a stack of parchment and began to explain to Tom the reason for their visit.
It turns out that Professor Trelawney had assigned them a rather problematic task: to analyze the workings of the planets that would affect them in the coming month based on their own self-drawn star charts.
They had to predict a whole month! And they had to submit it in the first Divination class next week!
If they took it seriously, the amount of work was overwhelming. However, there was also a shortcut, which was to invent some misfortunes of their own and maybe get a good grade for the assignment.
As for the star chart they needed for the assignment, it was the one they had filled out in class under the guidance of Professor Trelawney, which was the position of the planets at the time of each young wizard's birth. The process of completing the chart was extremely tedious and boring, involving many complicated calculations.
"Do you want me to help you with your Divination assignment?" Tom furrowed his brow, as he hadn't even finished his own assignment yet.
"Of course not," Parvati shook her head upon hearing that. "What we want is for you to check our star charts to see if there are any errors. We need them as references for the subsequent assignment, and if these charts are wrong, we'll be in trouble."
Tom suddenly realized and received the star charts of the three people, starting to compare them, and indeed found some problematic details.
"Incredible, I didn't notice!" Parvati exclaimed, took the quill from the table, and quickly modified her own drawing.
"No wonder Professor Trelawney praised you as a genius," Lavender praised Tom, leaving him slightly embarrassed.
He realized that his talent for Divination class was quite good, and he quickly grasped all sorts of new knowledge. Moreover, with his powerful quill, Tom simply didn't make silly mistakes. For example, when he was drawing, he accidentally drew two Venuses, but his quill automatically corrected it.
Although Tom was outstanding, he could only review one star chart at a time. So while Parvati and Lavender sought out Tom to "correct" their star charts, Padma could only stand by and check for spelling errors in her own star chart.
Finally, Tom corrected the star charts for Parvati and Lavender. Padma impatiently placed her star chart in front of Tom and said, "Tom, I'm not sure about the position of my Uranus. Can you take a look?"
"Alright, Padma. Where is Uranus? Let me see..." After Tom spoke, he also felt that something was wrong with that sentence.
"Uranus..." he pondered over that word and realized, to his surprise, that the word "Uranus" and "your anus" sounded nearly identical.
In other words, his previous statement could also be understood as "Padma, let me see where your anus is."
Damn wordplay!
He quickly scanned the three girls around him from the corner of his eye and noticed that they all had a blush on their faces.
"I'm quite interested in Uranus as well, can you let me take a look at Uranus too, Yodel?" A cold and distant voice came from behind Tom.
Tom: !!!
"Hermione, when did you get here?"
"When you got so interested in Padma's 'Uranus'," Hermione responded irritably. As soon as she entered the common room, she saw Tom surrounded by three girls as if they were the stars orbiting the moon, chatting and laughing, even mentioning things related to "rear flowers," which infuriated Hermione.
After understanding that they were studying astronomy, Hermione was not in a good mood. Now she just wanted to drive away these annoying girls.
Tom felt cold sweat forming on his forehead and pleaded with Hermione in a supplicating voice, "You arrived at the right time, I have a bunch of Divination assignments to do, surely you can help me."
"Oh, yes, a bunch of assignments, Professor Vector didn't assign any," Hermione responded with no doubt, her attention now focused on Tom's topic. Learning that Tom had a bunch of Divination assignments to do, she became lively and enthusiastic.
Hermione didn't get along with Divination Professor Sybill Trelawney, so she had dropped that course. Now, upon hearing negative news about Divination class, she was as happy as when she heard her stocks had stopped dropping after she sold them.
"Actually, that class doesn't help you at all," Hermione asserted firmly, causing Parvati and Lavender to glare at her angrily. Both were loyal followers of Divination class, and Hermione's words irked them.
"Yodel, if you have time, we could analyze the predictions for the coming month together," Parvati and Lavender said, looking at each other and sitting directly on both sides of the table, while Padma sat across from the table.
Now Tom's table was crowded. Hermione, expressionless, grabbed a chair from the neighboring table without ceremony and sat down next to Tom.
Until recently, she didn't think there was a big issue, but now she believed it was time to assert her sovereignty.
Something without its own label will always make others think it has no owner.
Chapter 563: Chapter 563: Moody's Imperius Curse (Edited)
Tom was immersed in the joy of escaping one danger without realizing he had become entangled in a larger and more dangerous whirlpool.
He opened "Clearing the Mist to See the Future" and began to seriously analyze his future following the instructions in the book.
"Mars and Jupiter are unfortunately in conjunction, which means I'm likely to feel uncomfortable... but it seems that something good will also happen that day..." Tom wrote quickly, completing his interpretation for the next month. In the last line, he wrote, "On Monday night, I will have a conflict with someone due to the appearance in the twelfth house of the zodiac."
"Tom, can you see my future?" Parvati held the card under Tom's nose. Seeing Parvati's gesture, Hermione raised an eyebrow.
"Hmm." Tom had turned into an unfeeling divination machine. Without saying a word, he took the star chart and began to predict Parvati's future.
"Hmm... the stars indicate that next month you shouldn't have any major problems, maybe some minor difficulties, like the risk of burns on Monday... this could be related to your Care of Magical Creatures class."
Tom's little joke made Parvati and the others laugh.
"Can you take a look at our long-term future... like in love and stuff?" After completing their assignments, the three girls didn't want to leave. They chatted and surrounded Tom, hoping he would help them see their own future.
"Alright, according to the star chart, Lavender, you need to take the initiative, while Parvati and Padma, you just need to wait patiently... around Christmas, there will be a small opportunity, so make sure to seize it..."
Tom was fully engrossed in his words when he looked up and saw Crookshanks crouched on the empty chair next to him, gazing at him with deep, impenetrable eyes. His expression was identical to Hermione's. It was almost as if they were the same.
Tom quickly pushed the star chart aside, indicating it was time to finish, and they needed to leave quickly. "Don't run into Filch on the way back."
Lavender and the other two finally ended their conversation with some reluctance.
After they left, Hermione, who had been silent for a long time, snorted coldly, "Take the initiative? Wait patiently? And what should I do?"
When the attention shifted away from divination, Tom's emotional quotient returned to normal. Seeing Hermione's reaction, he immediately realized: Was she jealous?
"You don't have to do anything." After saying these words, Tom quickly got up, kissed her briefly, and walked away while Hermione was still processing what had happened.
Hermione touched the spot where Tom had kissed her, feeling annoyed but also amused, and said to Crookshanks, "Do you think he can escape the consequences with just that? How naive!"
Crookshanks lazily flicked his tail.
"Meow!"
The following days passed uneventfully until the first Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
Before the Ravenclaw students started Moody's classes, they had heard some vague comments from friends who had already had their classes. This made everyone anxious about Moody's classes, to the extent that many arrived early to the classroom to secure a good spot.
Tom and Hermione arrived early, so they managed to occupy seats right in front of the platform.
After the bell signaling the start of the class rang, they heard Moody's distinctive footsteps in the hallway outside the classroom; as he had a prosthetic leg, his steps resounded dully.
When Moody entered the classroom, his first sentence was, "Put away your books, you won't need them for my class."
The students got excited immediately: Defense Against the Dark Arts without books, it was sure to be very exciting!
Moody quickly wrote his name on the chalkboard and then began taking attendance. Each student called was subjected to a scrutinizing gaze from Moody.
After the last name was also marked with a checkmark, Moody closed the attendance book and said roughly, "I did some research. Professor Lupin systematically taught you how to deal with dark magical creatures, which is very good. I also heard that two years ago, an imposter replaced the original Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who was supposed to come here and taught you for a year..."
The young wizards in the audience nodded.
"If I ever come across that guy, I'll definitely send him to Azkaban," Moody muttered, "Although he's a scumbag, I agree with his educational approach."
Hearing this, the young wizards in the audience were surprised. They thought that the good and the bad didn't get along, and they expected Moody, as a former Auror, to be against the fake Lockhart. No one expected him to agree with that person's educational approach.
"It's true that all of you lack skills in handling curses, even many adult wizards can't cast a Protego Charm!" Moody slammed his staff on the floor, "So, this year, I will teach you how to deal with dark magic... but what I have to teach you is much more detailed than what that impostor taught you, so you'll have to work hard... time is limited."
Moody smiled.
"In any case, I suppose he talked to you and showed you the Three Unforgivable Curses, right?" After receiving an affirmative response, Moody nodded in satisfaction.
"That saves me a lot of trouble... So, as the first lesson of the school year, I've decided... to take turns using the Imperius Curse on you."
The students became agitated. They didn't expect Moody to openly use the Unforgivable Curse on the students! Tom was also confused; he didn't know if someone like Moody, a retired Auror, would really use the Imperius Curse on common students.
Could a retired Auror really do such a thing? Tom began to doubt Moody's identity.
"But that's illegal," said Hermione, almost standing up in surprise, "Before... it was said that using the Imperius Curse on a wizard-"
"Both Dumbledore and I think it would be good for you to experience the Imperius Curse," Moody's two eyes looked at Hermione simultaneously, and he said firmly, "You need to have an idea of what it feels like so that in the future, when subjected to this curse, you can respond better and even free yourself from the control of the Imperius Curse. I'm sorry, Miss Granger, but it's necessary."
With that said, Moody waved his wand and cleared a large space in the center of the classroom. After arranging the area, Moody began asking students to approach one by one to receive the Imperius Curse. Under the effect of the Imperius Curse, they all started acting unusually: some began to dance frenetically, others started exercising in the classroom, and Seamus even astonishingly mimicked a rabbit.
"Hermione Granger." Finally, Moody called Hermione by name. She walked to the center of the classroom with some unease.
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