Chapter 194: Beauxbatons Classroom

"We will use two broomsticks and adopt some flight tactics to deal with the dragon," Harry said. "We referred to the air combat manual of Muggle pilots, which is enough to deal with these cold-blooded animals with low IQ."

Cedric pretended to be surprised and questioned: "You just said it all out?"

"Of course, I think this is a kind of confidence," Harry tried to make his tone sound as stupid as possible. "We have had the best air force in the world since 1911, we have to give them a little British shock."

"It makes sense, it looks like a plan that can fully exert advantages," Hermione enlivened the atmosphere in time.

"Then the situation is very clear, Krum can't give up his flight advantage, so you'd better appear in advance to avoid looking like following the trend," Elena said with a smile.

"Krum has the confidence to fly better than them," Renata said coldly.

"Then that's it, you can completely appear last," Zhang Qiu said in an indifferent tone. "Let's see if Krum's flying technique can really surpass Harry and Cedric. Of course, I think this might be unquestionable, we just want to show excellent tactics."

"This is a game of using your brain," Luo En teased.

"Our solution is completely different from yours, so don't worry about who is copying whom," Fleur said with a smile.

"Does this mean we can determine the order?" Hermione asked cautiously.

Renata seemed to be still hesitating, but Krum immediately said loudly: "Of course, I am very happy to appear after Harry, I believe as long as I fully exert my technique, I will definitely fly better than them."

He said so, and Renata didn't say anything more, just nodded calmly.

Elena was also relaxed, laughing and saying: "Then we should go back and discuss the combination name, remember yours must be after the letter 'O'."

After returning to the train, several people couldn't help but laugh out loud. This was because they successfully facilitated the order they wanted according to their own ideas. Elena received the news in advance and would know that Harry had a way to deal with multiple dragons, so she intended to appear first to try to get more points, otherwise, the judges might not give her enough points after seeing Harry's performance; and Renata would think that Harry and Cedric were just ordinary school team seekers, confident that Krum, as the world's number one seeker, could suppress them, and through comparison, show her own superb technique and get higher points.

However, Zhang Qiu reminded Harry that perhaps other champions also hid some kind of trump card, and this was also inducing Harry to do so.

"Don't worry, I believe the possibility of this is very low," Harry always remembered that Fleur and Krum were his own people, and if there was any plot, they should secretly tell him. "Now what we have to do is to live our school life well and experience the various features of Beauxbatons."

When Harry said this, it was because he was really curious about the various courses at Beauxbatons, especially the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. The actual name of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class here was Wizard Self-Defense, and it didn't change professors every year like Hogwarts. Although the professor here didn't look old, according to Donna, he had been teaching here for nearly eight years, had sent away a full session of students, and had gradually formed his own teaching ideas.

The professor of Wizard Self-Defense at Beauxbatons was a very handsome man named Jack Harkness. When Harry asked the children about this professor, he expected to hear some news about the course or teaching style, but every student couldn't wait to tell him that this professor was bisexual, had had quite a few boyfriends and girlfriends, and was currently single.

In the Wizard Self-Defense class on Thursday afternoon, Harry learned the teaching sequence of Beauxbatons roughly through the introduction of the textbook. In the first year, they would focus on teaching the Spark Charm and the Repelling Charm, but in the second year, they would teach various self-defense spells represented by the Stunner. If according to Clara's statement, the Repelling Charm and the Stunner might constitute an advanced relationship, then learning might not be particularly strenuous.

Harry recalled that he had spent his entire second year practicing how to avoid the Killing Curse, and couldn't help but feel a bit emotional.

Beauxbatons third-year students would also learn how to deal with dark creatures, but it wouldn't involve Dementors and the Patronus Charm. For fourth-year students, they mainly taught dueling techniques, how to use various small hexes to interfere with opponents, so as to facilitate themselves to use the Stunner to concentrate on the enemy—these were all contents Harry had learned by himself in the Dueling Club.

It is conceivable that at this time, Hogwarts was in full swing with student-initiated dueling training, and Professor Moody of Defense Against the Dark Arts was eager to instill the characteristics and weaknesses of those cutting-edge Dark Arts into the students, which was the content taught in the seventh year at Beauxbatons.

Harry looked at the textbook carefully. Beauxbatons' fifth-year courses would focus on teaching the Disarming Charm and the Shield Charm. If there were no accidents, these would be the knowledge taught to Hogwarts students by the amateur Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Lupin in the Muggle Studies class. And the sixth-year course was low-hazard Dark Arts. Students could learn how to defend, or freely try how to use them, generally speaking, it was moving the Slytherin common room to the classroom.

In such a comparison, Harry noticed with surprise and relief that although the teaching of Dark Arts at Hogwarts was always unsystematic, the children would always have other ways to make up for the content not taught in the classroom, and such learning was even more efficient and interesting.

By Friday, after attending a French Charms class and reviewing the Bubble-Head Charm, the course schedule finally reached the English class that made Harry's mood complicated. Not only because Professor Barty Crouch Jr. was the liaison designated by the Department of Mysteries, but also because he was a person born speaking English, listening to English classes in a foreign land, which was the same weird feeling he had when he first attended the Muggle Studies class.

It is worth mentioning that when Harry first stepped into the Muggle Studies classroom, the Bean Professor of that year was also a figure belonging to the Department of Mysteries, shouldering a secret mission, which gave him a sense of déjà vu.

Barty Crouch Jr. was a man with slightly curly brownish-black hair and a thin face. Like his father, he always wore a regular suit and paired it with a trench coat when the weather was cold. However, Barty seemed to retain the vitality of a young man, and he would pair his suit trousers with a pair of high-top canvas shoes, which reconciled that serious temperament.

However, as soon as he opened his mouth, that temperament completely changed, because Barty had a very thick Scottish accent, which was far from his father's London accent.

"Eww—" Donna showed a very disgusted expression. "I have never attended an English class, who knew he was actually a Scotsman?"

"Now, students, let's turn the textbook to page 53 and continue to talk about classical poetry in the Elizabethan period..." Barty started teaching very naturally.

"Wait a moment, teacher, are you English?" Donna immediately raised her hand and asked.

"No, I am Scottish," Barty frowned.

"So I can't understand what you are saying, because what you are speaking is Scottish, right?" Donna frowned and said.

"It's obvious that what I'm speaking is English, and you understood it too," Barty took a deep breath, but didn't lose his temper at her.

"Even if it is, but it obviously doesn't sound like it," Donna shook her head.

"Say whatever you want, now let's continue to learn Shakespeare..." Harry could see that Barty was trying hard to maintain classroom order. Harry didn't stop Donna's unreasonable trouble, because he was also troubled by this question: why was old Barty's English so standard, while Barty Jr. had a Scottish accent that he couldn't get rid of.

"But to tell you the truth, I don't think you are qualified to teach us English," Donna said arrogantly. "Unless you intend to teach a Scottish class."

"Let's talk back to Shakespeare's sonnets..." "Professor?" "—it has fourteen lines—" "Crouch Professor?" "—and the last two lines—" "That Scotsman?" "—must rhyme!"

"You wouldn't be that Donna Noble, would you?" Barty slammed the book on the table and frowned.

"Of course," Donna nodded proudly. "So can I ask you a question? Just ask one question, okay?"

"No!" Barty looked very angry. "If you must come to find fault, then I tell you, I really can't teach English anymore!"

"Students from Hogwarts and Durmstrang, follow me to the classroom next door to attend a French class. I will let the teaching assistant teach this English class," Barty pointed at Donna with one finger. "You are not allowed to follow!"

"Alright, of course, you are the professor, you have this power," Donna chattered sarcastically. "You have the power to make students who know English unable to attend your Scottish class."

"That's great, look at your teaching assistant, she is still a black person, do you admit that your English is not as good as a black person?" Donna was still outputting, Harry just waved at her slightly, and then pulled Luo En and Zhang Qiu away like escaping.

After coming to the classroom next door, Barty greeted everyone to sit down as if nothing had happened, and then he explained: "As you can see, Donna Noble is a problem student, but she is very smart, or rather, her problem is that she is too smart."

Harry nodded, Donna's feeling was indeed like this.

"Then, if you really intend to learn French, you can come to me to receive a French test paper," he took out a briefcase. "The questions are progressive from easy to difficult, which can help you understand where your French level is, so as to arrange class attendance time more reasonably later..." ===== CHAPTER 195 =====