Douglas brought the class back on track again.
"Miss Granger, how is the memorization coming along?"
Hermione stepped forward and said:
"Professor, everyone has now memorized all of section two, and two students have already started memorizing section three.
Everyone has finished the essay for section two as well!"
Douglas nodded. Although he thought the second-year textbook's introduction to Dark Magical Creatures was very brief,
and hardly required so much time, for students who had never memorized an entire text before,
finding time outside class to memorize it was already no easy feat. He could not set his expectations too high.
"Very good!
At present, your progress ranks second among the second years of all four houses. Five points to Gryffindor!
I hope you will all keep up the hard work!
Also, in light of your excellent performance last week,
I've decided to let you begin learning and practicing spells related to Defense Against Dark Magic ahead of schedule.
So I don't intend to have you memorize the remaining sections in class.
You can use your free time to memorize them...
Miss Granger, do you have any objections?"
Douglas saw Hermione's hand raised high and asked her to stand up and answer.
"Professor, of course, I'm not against memorizing things outside class.
The main issue is that our free time is rather limited at the moment.
Professor Sprout just told us this morning that she also wants us to memorize Herbology material outside class.
Of course, I'm not questioning your decision, Professor.
It's just that, for everyone, it might..."
Douglas saw the young witches and wizards below looking at Hermione with admiration.
Well, well. He could actually see something of a leader in Hermione, though she was still a little unpolished.
After all, this requirement was practically nothing to Hermione.