The Changed Timetable
The Astronomy Tower is the tallest tower at Hogwarts.
You can't go up there except for classes.
Astronomy classes and evening exams are held here; to get to the top of the tower, you have to climb a steep spiral staircase.
To be honest, Ryan found it hard to understand why Crabbe and Goyle would remain obese in the original timeline, especially in Hogwarts with its many stairs.
But Ryan immediately realized that they were Slytherin students, and they spent most of their time going down the stairs to the basement. Their most physical activity was probably climbing those stairs to class.
The Astronomy Class professor was Aurora Sinistra, a very talkative witch who often attended the opening banquet and other meals. She seemed to enjoy talking to the teachers around her, and Ryan and the others often saw her at dinner in the Great Hall.
In the first year of school, the only thing Ryan and his classmates needed to use was the folding brass telescope that was required to be purchased according to the Hogwarts notice.
In class, Professor Sinistra mainly taught Ryan and his classmates how to use a telescope to observe the night sky, as well as the names of different stars and the orbits of planets.
Interestingly, Ryan also overheard Harry's analysis.
"Professor Sinistra's surname comes from the Latin word sinister, meaning left side or facing left. As for Aurora, in English, Aurora means aurora borealis, which comes from the Latin word aurora, meaning dawn. It is related to dawn, so it may be derived from the aurora." Harry was probably obsessed with reading "The Standard Book of Spells" and wanted to analyze every new and interesting name he saw.
This almost cost him points, forcing him to give back the points he earned in Charms Class. At the same time, Harry also received a fierce glare from Hermione (Harry not paying attention in class).
But none of that matters. The most important thing is that there's relatively little homework.
This allowed Ryan and his group to maintain their energy after class, and the Ravenclaw first-year students finished their homework in about 15 minutes.
This gave Harry extra time to keep asking around about Professor Snape, since he had a Potions Class the next morning, and the professor was someone his aunt had told him was a friend of his mother.
This prompted Ryan to tell Harry that his mother was very skilled in Potion-Making, and as a descendant of Snape's friend, he figured she would definitely call on him to answer questions, so he suggested that he review some common Potions knowledge.
To be honest, this is not Ryan exaggerating. According to the original timeline or the original schedule, Gryffindor and Slytherin should have been the students in Potions Class on Friday mornings.
After Harry was assigned to Ravenclaw, Snape actually changed the schedule, unable to resist wanting to openly and honestly look Harry in the green eyes as soon as possible.
This Potions Class not only includes the children and descendants of Snape's most beloved people, but also another person Snape takes his anger out on: Neville.
Neville is another child who fits the Prophecy; if Voldemort had approached him first, Lily would have survived.
This led Snape, in the original timeline, to constantly use words to negate him, destroy his confidence, and cause him trouble.
Of course, what Snape didn't know was that Voldemort targeted Harry Potter first because Harry was more similar to him; both were Half-blood, descendants of Pure-blood wizard and Muggle-born wizard.
Lost in thought, Ryan finished washing up and drifted off to sleep.
The next morning, Harry got up early and became engrossed in reading "Magical Drafts and Potions" by Assani Giger. Ryan looked at Harry in surprise, it seemed that yesterday's reminder had been very useful.
Today's breakfast in the Great Hall consisted of simple foods like oatmeal porridge, bread, and eggs. The only thing that had any flavor was a dish of white sugar next to the oatmeal porridge.
Almost all the young wizards were adding sugar to their cereal.
"Ryan, why are you always smiling?" Harry asked curiously. He had paid attention to this mysterious friend before, and his mood was usually related to the abundance of food in the Great Hall. How could Harry's theory of Ryan's smile fail before it even began?
"What? Shouldn't I be laughing?" Ryan asked in surprise. Although the food wasn't great, Snape and Harry's first real meeting was about to begin, and as a Harry Potter fan, how could he not be happy?
"Alright." Seeing that Ryan had no intention of giving a serious answer, Harry ended the pointless conversation just like that.
The Potions Classroom is located underground, not far from the Slytherin Common Room, and even the Slytherin Head of House's office is on the same floor.
"I'm so envious. I wish Professor Flitwick's office was in the Ravenclaw Tower." Hermione suddenly said something surprising.
"Oh, what's so great about that? The professor is right there, I'm definitely not comfortable," Ron said. After a while, Ron gradually became able to speak to Hermione normally without getting red in the face.
"But it's really far, and going down the stairs is tiring," Neville said, sweating profusely, as he carried a standard size 2 tin-plated pot, a set of small glass or crystal medicine bottles, and a brass balance, all of which he would need for the class.
As the voices rang out, Ryan and the others entered the Potions Classroom.
This classroom is large enough to accommodate at least twenty students.
This place feels like a shop selling Potions. If a Muggle were to stumble upon it, they might even mistake it for Frankenstein's monster laboratory from a horror movie.
The walls were covered with various glass jars containing animal specimens, and next to them was a storage cabinet containing various raw materials that students might use when making Potions.
Behind the teacher's podium in the classroom was a blackboard, but the podium was still empty.
Soon, the Hufflepuff students also entered. Dudley hung far behind the crowd, his large body giving him renewed confidence.
Once the Hufflepuff students entered, the once chilly and unnerving classroom immediately transformed into a noisy space.
Every now and then, Hufflepuff badgers would point and whisper at Harry and Dudley. In this atmosphere, Dudley, who had been startled by the eerie atmosphere when he entered the Potions Classroom, perked up again.
However, things changed when Professor Snape came in.
He seemed to possess a magical power; the moment he entered, the entire classroom fell silent. Adorned with his black wizard robes, he was like a dark cloud, obscuring the joyful sunlight that had just filled the classroom.
Even Dudley, who was originally taken by Snape to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies, no longer had his head held high and had reverted to his appearance when he first arrived at Hogwarts.
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