I’m Only A Defense Against The Dark Arts Professor

Chapter 68: Find A Knuts

Even if the search from the students came up with nothing, the teaching routine at Hogwarts has to continue. But another thing happened.

After Colin was attacked and all of Hagrid’s roosters were strangled to death, Dumbledore specifically asked Hagrid to buy a group of healthy roosters from outside and raise them separately. These seemingly inconspicuous animals are the best weapons against basilisks.

But the atmosphere among the students has changed from before. This time, the sense of unease did not disappear but spread among the students.

Sherlock was especially aware of this situation. After finishing the second-grade Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he could clearly feel that the student’s performance was not as good as before.

He lightly tapped the podium with a book, attracting the students’ attention. “In the next class, we will start talking about snake-like dark magic creatures. All of you can prepare it in advance, collect some data, and prepare for next week’s class.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a Ravenclaw student raised his hand and asked strangely, “But Professor, we don’t have any content about snake-like dark magic creatures in our books this year?”

The other students also looked suspicious. Explaining a snake-like dark magic creature is to let these children know some information about the Basilisk in advance to prevent the next attack from happening again and save their lives.

This is Sherlock’s idea; he also consulted Dumbledore and agreed with him.

Facing the students’ questions, he found an excuse to deal with them, “All of you have been too nervous recently. Let’s leave the book temporarily and learn some interesting knowledge.”

The students looked at each other. They didn’t think snakes were interesting at all. However, Hogwarts has no clear rules on how to teach something in class. The Defense Against the Dark Arts class is Sherlock’s class. Even if he wants to teach students to study nuclear fission in class, they can only listen to it.

Just as Sherlock was packing and preparing to leave, Harry and his friends suddenly approached him.

Sherlock stopped, glanced at them, and said, “I heard that you were yelling in the Hall yesterday that you wanted to see me. Is there anything? Do you still suspect that I’m actually the culprit?”

Harry smiled awkwardly and rubbed his hands, “How could we possibly suspect that you are the culprit, professor? We just want to ask you a favor, a small favor.”

Hermione hurriedly handed a piece of parchment paper in her hand to Sherlock’s hand, and they looked at him expectantly. Sherlock glanced suspiciously at their strange behavior before looking at the parchment.

There was only one sentence in it.

‘Harry won’t find a Knuts at Hogwarts today.’

After reading the sentence, Sherlock looked at them even more strangely, “How do I know if Harry will get a Knuts at Hogwarts today? What are you doing? A spell that uses language as a medium? Are you trying to jinx me?”

Of course, Harry and the others didn’t dare to say it in front of Sherlock. They didn’t have any reason for Sherlock to read this sentence, so they could only keep begging him.

“Professor, we are only thirteen years old. How can we curse you? We really just want to ask you a favor, which is to read this sentence out.”

“Please, Professor. This is really important to us, please.”

“Professor, think about the hard work I have to help you collect your homework, help you borrow books from the library, and help you pass messages to other professors. Please do us a favor.”

Sherlock silently looked at the three, who seemed to be out of their minds, and doubted how they had finally defeated Voldemort. He was so annoyed that there was nothing he could do. He would usually deduct points from them, but he didn’t.

“Harry won’t find a Knuts at Hogwarts today. There, now don’t bother me again.”

All of their faces suddenly showed a look of joy. However, they did not leave immediately but asked cautiously.

“Professor, do you think Harry can find a Knuts in the castle?”

Sherlock was tired from being tossed about by them, “How do I know if he can find a Knuts in the castle? If I knew, would I tell you?”

Hearing him say this, Harry and the others cheered even more, bowed their heads, thanked him individually, and walked away.

Sherlock returned to his office to prepare the materials for the next class content. He couldn’t talk about the Basilisk openly; it would be too obvious, so he had a lot of work.

After asking Sherlock to say the sentence they’ve prepared, Harry, Hermione, and Ron spend the rest of their time strolling around the castle. When they walked around, they kept staring at the ground, hoping that Harry would find a Knuts.

During lunchtime, Ginny stared curiously at Ron and the others, “Why do you guys keep staring under the table? I thought I dropped the food.”

Nothing happened lately, which made Ron feel slightly confused, and he waved to Ginny to drive away, “It’s none of your business.”

Ginny pouted. She wasn’t in the mood to share her experience in the office yesterday with them.

Harry and the others have another class to attend in the afternoon, so they can’t walk around the castle. However, after the class ended, they would continue to get Knuts.

If Harry can really find a Knuts in the castle today, it means that Sherlock’s jinx is a miracle, and even if it goes against his heart, it can be activated successfully.

After that, Hogwarts will be saved.

But they didn’t see anything resembling coins for a day until they finished their dinner, let alone Knuts. It wasn’t until curfew that Harry and the others returned to the Gryffindor common with great disappointment.

“It seems that if the professor’s jinx to work, he must say it sincerely.” Ron said disappointedly.

Although Hermione was also disappointed, she had expected such a result, “If the professor can activate this ability no matter how he says it, then he will be the most powerful wizard in the world.”