However busy the few of them were, it had no effect on life at school.
To let the students enjoy a relaxing Halloween and a pleasant trip to Hogsmeade.
The school decided to move this month's monthly exams up to the week before Halloween.
The fifth and seventh years were plunged into a flurry of work again.
Some students even discovered that Professor Lupin was not particularly strict during detention. Even if they did homework during detention and asked questions, Professor Lupin did not mind, and he could answer most of their questions across different subjects.
This prompted some studious students to start deliberately committing minor infractions, losing a point or two, then openly working on assignments from their various professors during detention, or on "Seven Years of N.E.W.T.s, Five Years of O.W.L.s."
Whenever they encountered something they did not understand, they could get some guidance simply by asking Professor Lupin.
Doing homework this way was far better than burying themselves in work with a bunch of fellow students in the Common Room.
Just as some students began to grow fond of Professor Lupin in detention.
Lupin announced after one morning exercise session that the morning run would also be included in the monthly exams, under the name of a fitness test.
At noon that very day, a "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Monthly Fitness Test Notice" appeared on the school's notice board.
The main event was an obstacle course chase. Students would pair up with someone in the same year, with one running ahead and the other pursuing. They could attack each other with spells, though malicious spells were forbidden. If the pursuer caught the runner before the finish line, the pursuer would gain ten points and the runner would lose five. Conversely, if the pursuer failed to