After Douglas finished explaining the rules, he made them no promises.
He certainly did not think his signed books would hold any appeal for this bunch of Slytherins.
He merely mentioned that this practical lesson would also have rankings.
In the observation room of the practical classroom.
When he asked who would go in first, none of them spoke.
As the class representative, Draco first looked at Goyle and Crabbe beside him,
then, after some thought, pointed at a student behind them. "Theodore, you go first!"
The Slytherin named Theodore Nott frowned, but ultimately said nothing more.
After glaring at Draco, he stepped straight through the entrance.
A smug smile hung on Draco's lips. Theodore Nott had always relied on his cousin being Head Boy
to show disrespect to him, the class representative. Several times, when he had urged Theodore to recite his material, Theodore had barely acknowledged him...
This practical lesson did put the Slytherin second-years at something of a disadvantage.
After all, they had only just learned a creature-detection spell in Defense Against Dark Magic yesterday, and most of them had yet to master it.
The spell could detect whether there were other creatures within a one-meter radius of the caster.
But it could not mark their locations,
and when there were too many creatures around, it could not distinguish which one you were looking for.
There was nothing to be done. They were ranked last, after all.
After Theodore Nott entered the passage,
he first cast Lumos on his wand, but did not dare look around.
He cautiously felt his way forward, but soon noticed that something seemed to be following him.
It frightened him so much that a chill ran down his back.
He felt that he did not need to cast any detection spell at