Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 108 Course Selection Begins

Saturday, January 1991, 1, moderate snow.

The new school year has finally begun, and all the little wizards return to school on the Hogwarts Express.

The roommates still looked reluctant to leave the holiday, but they were forced to engage in intensive study.

The second semester of each school year seems to go by a little faster than the previous one.

The Quidditch season that students always look forward to begins in February. Now Sainz is too lazy to pretend. Except for the competitions in his own college, he no longer goes.

If you have that much time, wouldn’t it be better to master one more healing spell?

In the second week of March, Hufflepuff lost to Gryffindor in a Quidditch match.

The roommates said they felt calm and even wanted to eat a licorice wand.

The Easter holiday came in a blink of an eye, and they encountered another problem!

All professors assigned a huge amount of homework during the Easter holiday, and almost no students went home during this two-week vacation.

In addition to having to deal with seemingly endless homework, all second-grade students have to face another problem. They have to use their limited thoughts to think about another problem.

They need to choose their third grade courses.

Sainz saw that in the common room, the second-year students gathered in groups, discussing what choice they should make.

Rob Dane is similar to him, also of Muggle origin. Sainz has seen him more than once pulling Cedric aside to discuss what choice he should make.

Cedric would patiently explain the differences between the various courses to him every time, but it seemed to be of little use, as Dane would soon pull him back to repeat the previous actions.

Ben held his course selection list with a confused look on his face and said weakly, "Rather than choosing courses, I would like to know if I can drop any of them. If they allow, I want to drop Potions!"

"What a shame," Adam said dejectedly, "We still have to take all the classes we had before. It's too cruel. How are we going to finish all the extra classes?"

From the boys' side, there is Frano Enriquez, and from the girls' side, there are Sevilla Steven and Celica Rojas. It can be seen that these little wizards must come from large families, as they received numerous letters from different family members.

While we were having breakfast in the auditorium, messengers would occasionally drop letters on our heads, with different people making different suggestions on each letter.

This made the little wizards look very worried, and they didn't know who to listen to.

Someone suggested that they go to the dean to discuss the matter. Although the dean was kind, he was not their guardian after all. He could only give them advice on this issue and could not make choices for them.

However, these suggestions were not fundamentally different from what they had seen in the letter. Instead of gaining more clarity, they became more confused.

Flano was at a loss, and Rob Dane was no better.

Sainz heard him ask Cedric, "What is the difference between Divination and Arithmancy? They sound a little more difficult than the study of ancient runes?"

Finally, he began to use the metaphysical method of course selection. He closed his eyes and randomly clicked on the course schedule, choosing whichever one he clicked.

This reminded him of an exam in his previous life, where he had also been unsure of which option to choose for a multiple-choice question, so he just randomly ticked the boxes with his eyes closed.

After returning to the dormitory, Ben and Adam approached him and asked for his advice.

"Sains, you are the only one in our dormitory who has read the most books and knows the most. I want to hear your advice." Ben was a little distressed holding the class schedule.

Adam also said, "Last year my dad asked me how I was doing at school and whether I was bullied. I told him that you taught me some useful spells and beat up Mrs. Monta. My parents were very happy.

They asked me about you and I told them about you.

They told me that you are very smart and have a plan, and asked me to listen to your advice when I encounter problems. "

Sainz raised his eyebrows after hearing this. "You two are both from wizarding families, and some of your family members work in the Ministry of Magic. And now you want to hear my advice?"

"Yes!"

"Just tell me!"

"Well, since you want to hear my opinion, I will tell you a little bit of my own insights.

Do you remember when we were in the first grade, one day you suddenly said that you felt stressed because you saw me studying?"

The two roommates smiled sheepishly, "That's because I didn't know you at the time."

"Yes, we thought you would be particularly arrogant and difficult to get along with. Just look at those Ravenclaws. They only care about themselves."

“Then we won’t.”

"We know you just like reading, but you take good care of us."

"Okay, I don't mean anything else." Sainz interrupted his roommates' confessions.

He continued, "At that time, I asked you about your plans for the future. I remember you said you would probably follow your parents' arrangements. Do you still think so now?"

The two of them pondered together.

Ben thought for a while and said, "I don't know. I didn't know what I wanted to do when I grew up. I thought I would follow my parents' ideas and work in the Ministry of Magic.

Now I don’t know if I would make such a decision again.

I kind of want to do something different from what they do.”

Adam said: “Before coming to Hogwarts I never cared about my parents’ working hours.

Now that I have returned home during the holidays, I realize that they are always busy and always coming and going in a hurry. I want to talk to them more, but I don’t have much time.

I think I will want to find a job with more flexible working hours in the future, at least not like them, where they have to stay in one place every day. "

The two children's self-awareness finally began to awaken, and they began to have their own plans. Although they are still very immature, at least they no longer want to follow other people's instructions in everything.

"Very good, since you already have your own plan, then if you think and analyze it in this direction, things will become very clear.

You see, we currently have five elective courses: Divination, Arithmancy, Ancient Rune Studies, Care of Magical Creatures, and Muggle Studies.

Now, let’s take a look at what these courses are about.

Divination, as the name suggests, is to teach people how to tell fortunes. This is easy to understand, but there is one situation you should pay attention to. Have you heard of any fortune-telling masters around you, or does anyone around you know a fortune-telling master? "

The roommates looked at each other, as if there really wasn't anything.

"What does this mean? This means that the learning threshold of this course is very high, or there may be special requirements, and it is particularly difficult to truly master it."

The roommate thought about it and nodded in agreement.

Sainz continued, "Arithmetic Divination, the name of this course sounds like divination.

If you have any knowledge of it, you will know that the teaching tool it often uses is actually a number table.

Rather than divination, I would rather call it logical cryptography."

"What does this mean?" the roommate was confused.

"What is logic?"

"What is cryptography?"

"Don't worry, let me drink some water and explain immediately...