The next day, the continuous heavy rain continued.
Gloomy weather combined with visible dementors. It made the students feel extremely heavy.
Of course, this does not include Lucas.
He is skilled and bold so he even looked forward to the dementors coming to trouble him. In this way, they can be justifiably captured.
On the morning of the first day of school, Professor McGonagall taught Transfiguration as usual.
During the summer before their third year they had to choose electives.
In addition to regular courses such as charms, transfiguration, history of magic, potions, etc.
Year 3 students also need to choose a minimum of 2 electives out of five subjects: Arithmancy, Divination, Muggle Studies, Ancient Runes and Care of Magical Creatures.
Lucas chose Ancient Runes, Care of Magical Creatures, and Divination.
Runes can help him better complete the research of alchemy.
And divination is because of talent, since he got the awakened divination talent, it would be a pity not to use it.
The last choice of Care of Magical Creatures was chosen entirely for the care of the magical creatures in the secret garden.
As for Miss Hermione who has a stronger thirst for knowledge, she chose all five the same as in the original book.
Lucas tried to persuade her along with Cho many times together. But Miss Hermione, who is very stubborn in her studies, just doesn't listen.
…
Transfiguration classroom.
Children around the age of 13 change very quickly.
It's only been a summer vacation, and many people have grown a lot, no longer looking like little kids.
Entering third year, the basic courses will be taught together to the four Houses. This is to make it easier to coordinate the schedules for the elective classes.
Listening to Professor McGonagall talking about today's class, Lucas' mind gradually started wandering.
Since the end of summer vacation, he never got achievement points again.
In fact, in the last school year, Lucas discovered that answering questions in class on weekdays could no longer earn achievement points.
This is not good news for him.
'Have to find new ways to earn achievement points.'
The thought lingered in Lucas' mind, but he couldn't think of anything for a while so his thoughts turned to another matter.
Sirius Black is missing.
Members of the Saints Group trailed him into Hogsmeade, but after that they completely lost all traces of Sirius.
Lucas guessed that the mutt did not enter Hogwarts through the Honeydukes tunnel.
If so then he should have entered through the secret passage of the shrieking shack into the school grounds.
That could be a little troublesome. Hogwarts grounds are so big, so it is not easy to find a dog.
Maybe try with Peter Pettigrew?
Just when Lucas was thinking of a way to find out Sirius, Ron was also whining under his breath with his buddies.
"Bloody hell, there's been a fat ginger cat coming into our dorm since last year, I really hate that ugly monster."
"Fat cat? Why haven't I seen it?" Harry asked curiously.
"Of course you can't see it, because it always comes in the middle of the night. Don't you realize that Scabbers has lost weight recently? It's because of that damned cat."
"Uh..." Harry thought about the way Scabbers looked, but he really didn't notice the rat getting thinner.
However, when he saw his friend frowning tightly, he felt that it was better to follow his words and nod along.
"Now that you said it like this, it seems that he has lost some weight. By the way, you didn't ask other people whose cat it is?"
"I asked."
"Who is it then?"
Facing Harry's curiosity, Ron looked helplessly at Lucas on the other side.
To be precise, he looked at Hermione Granger beside Lucas.
"It's the pet of the know-it-all girl, what bad luck, why does everything bad have something to do with that guy Grindelwald?"
Ron's annoyed voice startled Professor McGonagall in the lecture.
Seeing Harry didn't pay attention to what she was talking about either, Professor McGonagall's stern voice rang in their ears.
"Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, please stand up."
Waiting until the two stood up dejectedly, Professor McGonagall also walked up to the two.
"Now take out your wands and complete the transformation I just described."
The two didn't listen to what the Professor had said at all.
They looked up at the blackboard, but found out that they couldn't understand anything of what was written.
Seeing the two slowly lower their heads, Professor McGonagall's face became very annoyed.
"Potter, Weasley, for disrupting class, four points from Gryffindor, two points each."
Still that familiar taste, the first House to lose points at the beginning of each year must always be Gryffindor.
Especially during the years since they entered school, this unspoken rule has hardly changed.
People from the other three Houses in the classroom let out low laughter.
A single person's laughter is small, but a group of people seem to be very loud.
The two of them blushed with embarrassment at the laughter coming from behind them.
"Gentlemen, I don't want a next time."
Seeing the two nodding, Professor Mcgonagall asked them to sit back in their seats.
Immediately afterwards, she called the student representative who she always calls for demonstrations.
"Mr. Grindelwald, come and show us please."
Lucas didn't even hear what Professor McGonagall was saying.
"Mr. Grindelwald?"
Hearing Professor McGonagall calling him again, everyone in the classroom looked to the first row on the right.
Harry and Ron looked at Lucas who was distracted, covered their mouths and secretly laughed.
Unexpectedly, they still had the opportunity to see the scene where Lucas was punished by the professor in class.
~Bang!~
Lucas felt his calf being kicked by his girlfriend next to him and was about to ask her what happened.
But when he looked up, he saw Professor McGonagall's serious face.
"Mr. Grindelwald, please demonstrate to everyone what I've been teaching today."
"Sorry Professor."
Lucas apologized first, then he looked at the blackboard with his wand in hand.
He just glanced at it, and he knew it clearly.
The wand became very flexible in Lucas' hands.
When he waved at the book on the table, it turned into a fluffy white cat.
Immediately afterwards, it jumped up into the air, and turned into a flying dove in the air.
Then it flew around the classroom for a moment and finally, it swooped into the fish tank on the front.
The fish tank, which was originally empty, now not only has water, but also a red carp swimming back and forth.
~Clap clap clap!~
Professor McGonagall clapped her hands with a broad smile.
"Very well, I'm afraid I have almost nothing left to teach you about Transfiguration."
Hearing such comments, there were a lot of surprised exclamations in the classroom.
"Because of Mr. Grindelwald's excellent performance, I decided to give Slytherin five points, which would have been ten points, but you should know why they are not."
Lucas apologized to the Professor again.
When he sat back in his seat, a reminder from the system suddenly came to his ear.
[Ding, the host has gained a new achievement, unprecedented: rewards: 200 achievement points.]
Lucas turns the system on.
Unprecedented achievement, he was rewarded for breaking the record of casting the compound transformation spell the fastest.
A distant memory suddenly appeared in Lucas' mind, he remembered that when he had just entered school, also in the Transfiguration class, he once made a record-breaking thing.
At that time, it was the third place in history, and the system also rewarded achievement points.
'Break Hogwarts records to earn achievement points!'
Lucas seems to have found a new way to earn achievement points.
And this method is very challenging, no one knows exactly how many records Hogwarts has had over the millennia.
But Lucas wanted to try and see if he could change these records into his own name.
…
Charms class
[Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining a new achievement: winning the top spot (Banishing Charm) reward: 200 achievement points.]
…
Potions class.
[Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining a new achievement: perfect potion; reward: 200 achievement points.]
For the next period of time, the students of Hogwarts rediscovered Lucas' unrivaled strength that he showed in the first year.
The entire Hogwarts third years were overshadowed by his light.
The dust-laden records were also broken one by one by him as he left his name on them.
This situation continued for several days until the arrival of the electives classes.
Lucas sat on a cushion looking at the teacup on the table, he already knew what to do next.
Just then, Sybill Trelawney, the divination professor, walked in.
"Come here, you will travel into the world of divination."
"Having come here, you will find out if you have vision"
As soon as Professor Trelawney finished speaking, she bumped into a low table.
This sudden accident right when she was talking about having vision made a few chuckles ring out in the classroom.
Professor Trelawney seemed used to it.
She introduced herself and began to explain the first stage of the course. They were going to learn Tessomancy, which is to read the tea dregs in someone's cup and interpret their meaning.
Lucas listened to Professor Trelawney's mysterious speech with great interest.
Those who engage in divination and prophecy seem to like to speak in this tone, always being very vague in everything they say, his father is actually quite the same.
"This is just nonsense!"
Suddenly a familiar voice came from beside him.
Lucas turned to look at Hermione, eyes full of scrutiny.
"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"
"What do you think, Miss Hermione, your Head of House is really kind to you, to give you such a thing."
Lucas' gaze went to Hermione's neck.
There was the necklace he gave her during their first year, and there is also a long chain of gold.
Hermione's expression changed, and she suddenly covered her chest with her hands.
The Professor said at the beginning, you can't let yourself see another self.
But the other party didn't say what would happen if her boyfriend noticed it!.
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