From Azkaban To Hogwarts

‘The feeling of not being able to intervene really makes people unhappy at all——’

Casually holding Dumbledore's gift in his hand, William began to think about his shortcomings and areas that could be improved quickly.

Although William knew that even with a period of training, he would not make any greater contribution to the situation just now - 'But it can't stay like this, being unable to get involved in the secrets of the castle. ? ’

When it comes to matters of life, William doesn't want to be as ill-prepared as he is now when the curse strikes.

‘The research on magic props has to be intensified. You can even give up learning how to identify the effects of those things and focus on detecting whether there is a curse on them. ’

'Well, memory protection must also be done well - it doesn't matter if you can't recognize the accelerated memory, at least the memory cannot be easily read out. I remember that Veritaserum has a similar effect, so you can focus on training the recognition of Veritaserum. . ’

‘But that thing is colorless and tasteless? Or control your own drinks? ’

Thinking of messy plans in his mind and constantly revising them, William started walking towards his office.

"Hey William!"

Adams said hello from a distance.

"Hey Adams, are you done with the greenhouse?"

"Well, yes," Adams quickly approached with a mysterious look on his face, "William, have you heard that Ravenclaw's diadem has been discovered!"

Dear Adams, is there oxygen on Mars? Can I cast spells normally?

However, Adams obviously did not understand William's eyes. He muttered in a low voice, "You don't know how disappointed the students looked when I was in class in the morning - all of them were looking forward to getting the crown and passing the exam!"

"I heard that the crown is now at Dumbledore's place. I don't know when we can go and see it - I guess Singed will be able to see it soon. He is an expert in alchemy. Dumbledore Definitely, wait, William, what do you have on your hands?”

The rambling Adams suddenly stood up in shock, pointed at the thing on William's left hand and was speechless.

'what? ’

William glanced at his hand, and then he was stunned.

It was something given to him by Dumbledore, a small handful of messy hair, not neat, long and short, and mixed with some fine fluff - it seemed that the original owner had not taken care of it carefully.

"God, William, what have you done!"

Adams expressed his shock in a small but rather rapid voice.

"You should know what this is!"

"Of course I knew, I just didn't expect it to be it."

William responded nonchalantly—he was really surprised.

It was only at this moment that he truly understood how precious the crown that Helena gave away at random was, so precious that he could not imagine its value at all.

What Dumbledore gave him was a handful of phoenix feathers, fresh phoenix feathers with rippling magic.

William immediately thought of several potion formulas that needed to be added to it - without exception, they were all the ones that took more than half a year to brew.

Another thing these potions have in common is that they give people the feeling of drinking gold when they drink them.

Not to mention that there are several tail feathers in this handful of feathers - which are the top wand materials. If William remembers correctly, the old professor said that his wand has a phoenix feather core. (Note, official information.)

This handful of phoenix feathers alone is a top-notch material that William had never dared to think of before, and such a handful of materials was easily given away by Dumbledore - then, how precious is the crown that Dumbledore valued? ?

"Adams, you know," William asked Adams stupidly, and continued without waiting for his answer, "I have heard a joke before, saying that the emperor used golden hoes to farm..."

"What emperor! William, please wake up - why are you plucking Fox's hair?"

"Plucking hair?" William didn't understand. "Why are you plucking hair?"

"Dumbledore's phoenix - you are kidding me too much. Even if it is shedding, you can't bully it like this!"

"I didn't. These were given to me by Dumbledore." William shook his head in denial. He would not take the blame.

"A gift?" Adams was stunned for a moment, then patted his head, "Yeah, why didn't I think that by asking for phoenix feathers on the pretext of making potions, I wouldn't be able to see the crown!"

"See you later, William," Adams looked excited. "If you want to make a potion and are short of ingredients, go to me. I have most of the herbs for the potion over there. I'll go ask about the crown first. See you at the lunch table!"

Adams left without looking back.

William froze on the spot, and the phoenix feather in his hand suddenly lost its initial impact.

‘Have I always underestimated the professor’s welfare? ’

Since entering the school, William has been working hard towards the goal of becoming a good professor, and so far he feels that he has done a pretty good job.

But at this moment, he found that what he did seemed to be not good enough.

‘If it weren’t for that curse, someone like me, who was almost a newbie in magic and didn’t have a certificate, probably wouldn’t have been able to pass the first interview, right? ’

‘You have to come on, William, don’t always think that you can deal with it with question-sea tactics. You have to work harder on your studies! ’

——

‘Well, this schedule should be enough. ’

After thinking about it for nearly an hour, William finally made a new plan.

'Fortunately, Professor Lockhart is there, otherwise I would have shown my timidity long ago in the seventh grade course. How could I have maintained my strength while attending class! ’

William once again thanked his peers in his heart - sharing the curse, sharing the teaching tasks, and sharing the dissatisfaction about the class (if Professor Lockhart's teaching ability was not really bad, the sixth and seventh grade students would not be so happy in class).

‘The curse I have shared can easily be directed against me, but I still have to carry it even if Professor Lockhart doesn’t come.’ After comforting himself, William began to pack up the papers and prepare to go to the restaurant.

"Professor William, are you there?"

A rather eager voice came from outside the door, which made William couldn't help but put away all his complaints - Cao Cao, Cao Cao, Professor Lockhart is here!

"Come in, Professor Lockhart."

"That's great," the door opened, and a pair of white teeth and a unique smile were revealed in front of William.

Professor Lockhart, who had just entered the door, had an eager expression, but his eyes kept looking around, which made William have bad thoughts in his mind.

Isn't it because of the crown again?

Professor Lockhart is a standard Ravenclaw graduate and a great adventurer - these two combinations together, does it mean that he has to go to Dumbledore's office again?

'If you can refuse, just refuse. After all, you can learn something from being ridiculed by Professor Snape. Professor Lockhart does have some useful information, but he can't show it at all when he's not writing a book. He hasn't eaten lunch yet, so he can't listen. He boasted all day long! ’

ps: If you take one chapter off, it will be easy to get stuck when it comes to the connecting chapter.