Chapter 3019: A Meal's Self-Awareness
After returning from the holidays, school suddenly became a little boring for Annie. The classes that had once been fun and offered chances to play pranks were gradually losing their appeal.
For example, Professor Quirrell from Defense Against the Dark Arts no longer dared ask her any questions in class, as if he were afraid she really would teach the students more ways to fight Dark Magic and use ordinary spells to kill a dark wizard.
As for Professor Pomona Sprout, she was even worse!
She no longer dared teach in the greenhouses full of herbs and all kinds of plants. Instead, before every lesson, she went out of her way to move the plants she planned to teach about into an empty greenhouse, then moved them back after class.
It was the dead of winter now, with ice and snow everywhere. Otherwise, Annie was sure Professor Sprout would have held class outside and banned her from entering the greenhouse. That was practically a certainty!
And Snape's Potions Class was just as boring.
Sure, every time Annie made a potion, she did it quickly and well. But since she never followed the textbook or Snape's instructions, doing things however she pleased and in whatever way was quickest and easiest, and since she succeeded every time—often making an even better potion than Snape himself—
that fellow had taken to completely washing his hands of her in Potions Class. He just let her do whatever she wanted.
He ignored her outright. No matter how good her potions were, he never looked at them, praised or criticized her, or awarded her points. He even forbade the other students from copying her.
Professor Filius Flitwick from Charms was much the same.
Ever since she'd used the Levitation Charm to