With a shower of bullet-sized raindrops,
the students of Hogwarts finally welcomed the first single-subject monthly exam week of their lives-Defense Against Dark Magic exam week.
Why emphasize that it was a single subject?
So far,
every core subject had required them to memorize their textbooks to varying degrees;
and every core subject had its own class representative.
Of course, these representatives were all particularly good at learning that subject. The professors did not care how many subjects they represented.
It was worth mentioning that the class representative for second-year Gryffindor Potions Class was actually Harry, a choice that was both unexpected and understandable.
Because whenever anyone made a mistake in Professor Snape's class, he would first say:
"Potter, why didn't you tell him...? What sort of class representative are you? Gryffindor loses two points because of you two!"
"Potter, stop making those shifty eye signals. Your eyes cannot tell Longbottom what to do next... one point from Gryffindor."
"Potter, who gave you permission to speak in Potions Class? Why don't you take Weasley's exam for him as well...? Two points from Gryffindor."
Well, Harry had gotten used to it. Fortunately, he was already memorizing his Potions textbook.
That was what had kept several of Professor Snape's attempts to make things difficult for him from succeeding.
The professor seemed to deeply regret having added memorizing the Potions textbook to Harry's detention requirements.
It gave Harry his first taste of the benefits of memorizing textbooks.
Besides the usual memorization, even the heads of the houses had taken a liking to making students write from memory during detention, and without consulting one another, they had all arranged for detentions to take place in the office of Hogwarts's youngest professor-the Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Of course, Professor Holmes had requested