Chapter 291 Helga's Defense Against the Dark Arts

After Divination, it was Hufflepuff's Defense Against the Dark Arts.

When Rice walked into the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, he found that Hufflepuff was already waiting for the students in the classroom.

"Oh, Mr. Lint, Miss Greengrass!" Seeing that the first person to enter the classroom was his acquaintance, Hufflepuff smiled.

"Come, sit here." Looking at Rice walking to the corner of the classroom, Helga spoke decisively and motioned for them to sit directly opposite the podium.

"If you don't want to, then I will arrange a seat on the left and right of the podium, one on the left and one on the right, just right." Hufflepuff's eyes were full of kindness, but the words he said made Rice shudder.

Rice had a bad premonition: Hufflepuff must have no good intentions! Otherwise, why would he sit in the front?

He silently cheered up and secretly prepared for it.

Students came to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom one after another. Due to the amazing performance at the Hufflepuff opening banquet, the students were very curious about the professor, so they came very actively and no one was late - the classroom was full five minutes before the class.

Interestingly, there were not only students on the class roster, but also some young wizards who had no classes. They couldn't wait to listen to Professor White's Defense Against the Dark Arts. It seemed a bit redundant to call Rice to the front row, because the enthusiastic students had already filled all the seats.

Who could refuse a professor from hundreds of years ago? And she could also turn drinks into drinks for everyone.

Hufflepuff glanced at the crowd of people in the audience and gave up the idea of ​​calling the roll. When the bell rang, she started teaching directly.

"Introduce myself." Hufflepuff wrote her pseudonym on the blackboard behind her: "I am Smith White, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. You should all know me."

The students nodded one after another. After all, they had all drunk the drinks provided by Professor White.

"I am a person who came from hundreds of years ago. At first, I thought Professor Dumbledore would give me a job as a kitchen chef, but I ended up being the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. Headmaster Dumbledore seems to be a little overwhelmed."

The students in the audience all laughed.

"It's true, because I really don't understand what Defense Against the Dark Arts is. Can anyone tell me its definition?"

The students provided Hufflepuff with a definition of Defense Against the Dark Arts, which is the most basic knowledge. Even if you only look at the textbook, you can find the answer.

Defense Against the Dark Arts is a subject that teaches students how to resist various types of dark magic, including dark magic creatures, dark spells, and duels.

"I see." Hufflepuff showed an exaggerated expression of sudden enlightenment.

"Then who can explain to me what dark magic is?" Hufflepuff cast his eyes on Les, who was sitting opposite him.

"It's you, Mr. Lint, help me explain what dark magic is."

Les:...

Helga Hufflepuff, you did it on purpose!

Let me explain what the Dark Arts are, Hufflepuff, you really want to watch the fun, but this is exactly what I want.

After carefully assessing the risks, Rice felt that Hogwarts would not expel him because of his words, and he stood up decisively.

Hufflepuff: Hehehe.

Rice: I have to speak, right?

Hufflepuff: Just speak.

After exchanging glances with Helga, Rice spoke.

Before Rice spoke, the students in the classroom thought this was a free point question, because there is a standard definition of Dark Arts. But of course, Rice would not answer like this.

"Dark Arts is a branch of magic."

This sentence that sounded like nonsense made nearly half of the students look up at Rice: He said something!

"If we must give a definition, it is magic that causes great or irreversible damage to a person's body and mind."

As soon as this was said, the other half of the students also raised their heads: Rice's definition of black magic seems to be different from the mainstream view...

Hufflepuff showed an expression that she knew you would say this, and she continued the topic like a supporting role: "So do you think we should study black magic?"

There is actually only one answer to this question in the current magic world, that is, no, this is something like political correctness, but Rice is not a person who will be kidnapped by political correctness.

He stood up straight and answered loudly: "Of course we should learn."

Students from other colleges:...

Students from Slytherin College:?

Almost everyone was shocked by Rice. Students outside Slytherin College thought that Rice was crazy? He actually advocated learning black magic in public? Students from Slytherin College thought: Brother, can't we talk about this behind closed doors in the lounge of our own college? Some things should not be said everywhere even if they are correct!

Something even more shocking happened. Professor White, who listened to Rice's speech completely, didn't say a word of rebuttal. It seemed that he agreed with Rice's words? !

"Tell me why." The smile on Hufflepuff's face did not diminish at all, but increased instead.

"Because if you want to compete with dark magic, you must understand it. More importantly, many dark magics are very powerful. If we are restrained by the name of dark magic, how can we compete with dark wizards who are familiar with dark magic? During the wizard war more than ten years ago, the Ministry of Magic authorized Aurors to use the Unforgivable Curse, which is the ironclad evidence that we should learn dark magic. If we want to compete with dark wizards, we must know dark magic better than them."

Rice didn't mind the bad reputation of dark magic at all. In his opinion, it was just a kind of magic. Except for a few spells that distorted personality, whether other dark spells were evil depended entirely on the person who used them.

Aurors would use black magic to kill dark wizards. Are they evil because they used black magic? Dark magic is a weapon. We cannot throw the baby out with the bathwater just because it is too lethal and too cruel.

The classroom suddenly became silent. The students were thinking about what Rice said. The education they had received since childhood told them that they should stand up and refute Rice at this moment, but Rice thought about what Rice said carefully, and it seemed to make sense?

Hufflepuff applauded Rice with satisfaction.

She just wanted to say these things through Rice's mouth. After a deep understanding of the current magic world, she felt that modern wizards seemed to have gone too far.

Not studying dark magic in depth does not mean putting dark magic aside!

Dark magic still needs to be learned, otherwise how do you know how to deal with it?

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