great-warnovel Chapter 117 Field Trips for All Grades
Chapter 117 Field Trips for All Grades
Chapter 117 Field Trips for All Grades
As the second-year students returned to the castle unharmed, they immediately became the focus of everyone in the Great Hall. Each of them was surrounded by several students from different grades, who asked them all sorts of questions, such as what they had seen outside, whether there was any danger, and whether they could act alone.
The fake Boggart that Draco captured also became a scallop. It was kept in the Defense Classroom, and Lockhart planned to use it to help the first-year students build up their courage when the time was right.
The perfect success of the second-year field trip relieved Professor McGonagall's worries. Letting a young professor take so many children out, even though other professors were patrolling the area, made her feel that her nerves had become increasingly thick in recent years.
Following that, on the second and third days, the third and fourth graders had their field trips, where they experienced the biting meadow and the distorted swallowtail herd.
The biting meadow is a beautiful, lush green meadow, but for some reason, like the biting cabbage in China, it will gnaw on any living creatures that pass by. With its beautiful green appearance, it is like a fairyland in the wilderness, often deceiving ignorant Muggles into going deep into it.
The mutated swallowtail wolves are even more ferocious. Their ancestors were a breed bred by wizards—the swallowtail dog. These dogs are extremely loyal to wizards but very cruel to Muggles. They also have a great appetite and can eat almost any kind of garbage, so many wizards like to keep them.
After the war, many owners of the Swallowtails died in the conflict. These dogs, now untamed and with their voracious appetites, could survive in any harsh environment and eventually mutated in the wild, becoming extremely ferocious beasts.
They swarm in groups, like locusts, plundering everything edible. Wherever they go, they even gnaw off a layer of the ground. Fortunately, their reproductive capacity is weak, and apart from being highly adaptable, their fighting ability is not outstanding, so they have not caused any disaster.
Led by Lockhart, the Weasley twins and other fourth-year students wiped out an entire pack of Swallowtail wolves in the area. This was their first time seeing blood, and it was a brutal massacre. Many people vomited because they couldn't bear the sight of the flying flesh, but they had to continue casting spells on these creatures. Swallowtail wolves were originally a breed bred by wizards, and they would greatly damage the local ecosystem, making the already fragile post-apocalyptic environment even worse.
If the fourth-grade curriculum merely exposes students to bloodshed, then the fifth, sixth, and seventh-grade curriculum almost exposes them to the harsh realities of the wasteland.
In fifth grade, the professor took him to a Muggle settlement where the people worshipped some kind of cult. The cult leader was a wandering dark wizard, or rather, a wild man who had awakened magic but had not received any formal magical education.
He called his power a miracle and demanded that all Muggles submit to him and be sacrificed, and that only by following him and pleasing him with fire and blood could they usher in a tomorrow flowing with milk and honey.
Lockhart and his students were met with hostility from everyone. Despite the insults and attacks, they exposed the dark wizard's lies and killed him, but they received no gratitude from the Muggles, only more hatred and resentment.
The students silently followed the professor, building walls and fortifications for the Muggles, and distributing plenty of food and medicine. One girl, in a moment of carelessness, ate food handed to her by a little girl and nearly died from poisoning.
You should know that the little girl was rescued from the sacrificial basin by their own hands.
For the first time, they experienced the ignorance of the wasteland and the insurmountable gap between wizards and Muggles. They preferred to believe in human sacrifice rather than in these "demons" who wielded magic.
As for the sixth and seventh graders, their field trips were combined, and Lockhart took these nearly adult students to a former war zone.
That was the path of conquest taken by the UMNO; they burned an entire Muggle underground cavern with Fiery Blaze, cracking the earth in the heat.
wisps of white smoke rose from the cracks in the ground. Even though a year had passed, the black flames here showed no signs of stopping. They continued to burn stubbornly underground, occasionally bursting out as towering pillars of fire, accompanied by the mournful cries of wronged souls or the roars of raging flames.
Led by Lockhart, the students used the "All Curses End" technique in unison, advancing step by step until they finally extinguished the fierce fire in the area.
Those who witnessed their entire behavior were members of the Masonic Party who had established a stronghold in the area. They watched the Hogwarts teachers and students act indifferently, neither stopping nor helping them, as if Grindelwald had tacitly approved of it all.
But the students still felt a huge divide between them and the Burma Party, even though they were both wizards. They found it hard to imagine that in Durmstrang, children their age were being trained to unleash Fiendfire and deal with goblins and Muggles.
Lockhart told the students that what they were doing was exactly what members of the Order of the Phoenix did every day; they were doing everything in their power to mend this broken world, even if the results were minimal, even if there was no hope at all.
But the members of the Order of the Phoenix are still working hard to build a better tomorrow.
Lockhart's words inspired many upperclassmen, who aspired to join the Order of the Phoenix after graduation and contribute to this ideal. Dumbledore invited Lockhart to join them more than once, because his actions were even more "Order of the Phoenix" than the members of the Order.
Lockhart stubbornly shook his head. He admired the ideals of the Order of the Phoenix, but for some reason, he was unwilling to participate himself and always offered help as an outsider. Dumbledore had no choice but to give up on this.
Students in higher grades don't get to contemplate life and the world, while students in lower grades can still enjoy campus life carefree.
Since Draco captured Boggart, the professor has looked at him with new respect. Even the students who used to bully him no longer dare to play pranks on him. Even if he didn't want to admit it, he was still very happy to see his mother smile again.
He realized that honors could indeed be helpful, especially for someone in his dire situation who needed even more praise to pave the way for his future.
He became enthusiastic about raising his hand to answer questions in class, and in the homework assigned by the professors, apart from Hermione being the clear first, he began to compete with Harry, with the two taking turns to take second and third place.
This approach was indeed effective; it earned him many points in Slytherin, and those who disliked him no longer attacked him recklessly. At most, they would just say sourly behind his back, "No matter how hard he tries, he's still the child of a murderer."