Chapter 19: At Hogwarts

　　Life at Hogwarts, that's how it began.
　　 For Matthew Wickfield, the past few days have been very fulfilling, as if returning to the middle school period in the previous life.
　　From the Slytherin common room, to the auditorium, to the classroom, to the library... a stable life at four points.
　　 This time also allowed him to forget the bad things before.
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　　 Hogwarts teachers, although many are a little weird, they are almost all good people (at least those whom Matthew has already met).
　　 If there is the only exception, it is Apollon Pringle, the administrator of Hogwarts Castle.
　　 Pringle is a big man full of flesh, with a bad temper, and likes to punish students who make mistakes. Rumor has it that on the ceiling of his office, all the chains, handcuffs and leather whips that were polished by him are hung. All the students hated him.
　　 In addition, Pringle has a dog called Mr. Tang... When Matthew heard the name for the first time, he almost laughed out loud because it was clearly the name of a duck.
This sturdy golden retriever dog, like a haughty drake every day, patrols the aisles of Hogwarts Castle proudly. Once it finds students breaking the rules, it will stop them from letting them. Leave until the arrival of the master.
　　 It is very familiar with the terrain of Hogwarts, and no student knows the secret passages of Hogwarts better than it.
　　 But as long as you stay away from Pringle and Mr. Tang, the rest of your memories are pretty good.
　　The professor of the history of magic is a witch named Bathilda Bagshot, who is also the author of the textbook "History of Magic".
　　 This witch is very old. It is said that she is almost two hundred years old, so she didn't even bother to attend the sorting ceremony and the opening banquet. Even after class, she needs two house elves to support her in order to move.
However, her memory is still clear, and she is able to grasp any piece of past history at her fingertips; the content of the lectures is also lively and interesting, one by one boring historical events, which she describes as interesting little stories... So the magic history course is very popular with everyone. Welcome.
　　 Professor Flitwick, the wizard who taught the curse, was the strangely short wizard. He had to stand on a stack of books during class to reach the desk.
　　 Professor Flitwick is a very good-tempered professor, and the curse class is also very relaxing and enjoyable.
　　 However, it is said that this relaxed and easy-going curse professor was also a grumpy old man when he was young. He participated in many duel competitions and won many championships. Before coming to Hogwarts, he was also a famous figure in the wizarding world.
　　 Three times a week, they will be taken by Professor Sprout to the greenhouse behind the castle to study herbal medicine, learn how to cultivate those strange plants and fungi and understand their uses.
　　 In the first lesson of the herbal medicine class, they learned to distinguish whether mushrooms are toxic.
　　 Those mushrooms that were selected by the students as non-toxic were taken to the kitchen by Professor Sprout after class and became the mushroom soup that night.
　　 And every Tuesday night, they have to go to the Astronomical Tower.
　　 Under the guidance of Professor Sinistar, observe the starry sky with a telescope and learn the names of different stars and the trajectories of planets.
　　 This course does not require any magic, and Professor Sinistera is by far the most stringent professor.
　　 Her homework is also very much arranged. A paper on the orbits of eight planets is at least two and a half feet long.
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　　 There are two potions classes on Wednesday afternoon. This is the only class that Slytherin will take with Gryffindor.
　　 Potions class is in an underground classroom.
　　 It's theoretically colder than the main building of the castle (like the Slytherin common room), but the large cauldrons bubbling in the classroom make it warmer.
　　 Twenty students from Slytherin and Gryffindor filed in and sat in the classroom one after another.
　　 Matthew entered the potions classroom and glanced at the bubbling crucibles; while looking at the animal specimens, plant specimens and diseased specimens immersed in the glass jars along the wall.
　　 But when he sat down, he looked a little lonely around him.
The five Slytherin boys in a dormitory, Crabbe and Gore are both loyal followers of Malfoy, and Knott has a very good relationship with them; it's Matthew alone, who has become a little uncomfortable; faintly, Unknowingly, he was quietly "isolated" by the others. UU reading www.uukanshu.com
　　 Matthew doesn't know exactly why, and he doesn't care much about it either.
　　 He took out the two textbooks "A Thousand Magical Herbs and Mushrooms" and "Magic Potion and Potion", as well as tools such as crucibles, brass balances, and crystal bottles, and put them all on the desk.
　　 Professor Horace Slughorn hadn't even appeared before, and his belly had already pushed in first. His walrus beard trembled on his smiling mouth, greeting the students.
　　 This is also the first time Matthew met the dean of Slytherin College in class.
　　Like Professor Troka, he also took out the roster and started to roll his name.
　　 But when Neville Lombard of Gryffindor was named, and Draco Malfoy of Slytherin, he paused for a while and smiled enthusiastically at the two boys.
　　 Matthew suddenly heard Farley’s evaluation of Slughorn--
　　 "He only prefers students with prominent family backgrounds or outstanding talents."
　　 It seems that Neville and Malfoy belong to the former?
　　 The underground classroom is filled with steam and full of strange smells
Professor Slughorn was standing in the hot steam, his big figure looked erratic: "Students, please take out the balance, the medicine packet, and of course, don’t forget to take out your "Magic Potion and Potion" textbook..."
　　 There was a sparse sound of fetching things.
"However, before the class..." Professor Slughorn suddenly said somewhat mysteriously: "I have prepared several potions to open your eyes... Before you actually start making potions, let you feel in advance. That kind of wonderful and magical magic!"