Chapter 126 Am I a Poisonous Milk?

"What is the rhythm of casting a spell?"

"It means that after you use this spell, you have already thought clearly about what effect it will have if it hits, what means to continue to attack if it doesn't hit, what kind of response method the opponent will use, and whether his response method will pose a threat to you."

"Thinking these things clearly before each casting means that you have grasped the rhythm of the duel. Even if the situation is always deadlocked, as long as your rhythm is not messed up, you will always have a chance to win."

"And Weasley responded very well from the beginning. When using the disarming spell, he had already anticipated it. I will use the countermeasures later, dodge in time, and use big body movements to cover up his Transfiguration spell, but he didn't guess the spell casting action after I solved his Transfiguration. "

"Since he thought I used a fake stick swing to deceive him, his spell casting rhythm was interrupted from here, so the armor spell on his body was broken. He was eager to resume the rhythm, but his mind was already in chaos, and his energy was all focused on me at this moment, so Transfiguration had a chance to take advantage of him, and he was defeated in the end."

The students listened very carefully to Sherlock's analysis of the whole game, and many of them even took notes.

These are old students who have been with Sherlock for a year, and they have developed the good habit of good memory is not as good as bad writing.

The students have never been taught so carefully in actual combat. Sherlock's words inspired them a lot. It turns out that wizard duels are never random.

According to the students' previous ideas, the battle between wizards is to use whatever magic they can think of. Most of them have bad luck and their strength is secondary.

After watching this duel, they vaguely understood why some wizards can be at ease in battle. Wizards should be elegant when waving their wands, instead of being a reckless man who can only cast disarming spells without thinking.

After that, Sherlock began to organize students to try actual combat.

Of course, he would not be a sparring partner again. If he did, he would probably be exhausted after a class, and there would be no elegance of wizards.

The students formed teams of two and fought one by one. The other students watched first, and Sherlock guided them on the side to their shortcomings in the duel, and let other students who watched learn from experience.

The class ended quickly, and about one-third of the students in the class had a duel.

Each of their duels ended quickly. When listening to Sherlock's talk, they all looked as if they had suddenly realized something, thinking that they had understood it and would definitely be superb when they started.

But when it came to the actual operation, it was a mess, not as easy as imagined.

As for the rhythm control of the duel, it is certainly not achieved overnight, and it requires long-term practice and self-reflection.

Sherlock opened this classroom to them. If they want to practice on their own after class, they can come to this classroom for the duel.

It is definitely not possible to do it in other places in the castle, because Filch will be caught and put in solitary confinement.

After class, Sherlock packed up his things and just walked out of the classroom, he was surrounded by three little guys.

Harry looked at him and said embarrassedly.

"Professor, we have something to find you."

Not only him, Hermione and Ron also had such an expression. They stood beside Sherlock and showed obvious hesitation.

"What are you thinking about? Are you still thinking about my crow's mouth?"

Sherlock walked to his office, and Harry and the others followed him.

Hearing his words, Harry and the others just smiled foolishly and didn't say anything.

They were privately preparing to make an extremely bold experiment.

After a full week of discussion in the lounge, they finally made a decision. Of course, they were a little nervous at this time.

Sherlock took them back to his office, sat on the chair, put down the things in his hands, and then leaned back to look at them.

"Tell me, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Harry and the other two looked at each other, and finally, according to the plan, Hermione spoke first.

"Professor, don't you find that sometimes, the things you predict and say, in fact, the reality often turns out in the opposite direction of your prediction?"

Sherlock understood what she wanted to express. In the end, she still wanted to say that he was a crow's mouth.

Or to explain it in modern popular terms, it is a poison milk.

But this kind of thing has always been metaphysical, and Sherlock really didn't expect that someone would actually believe it.

If no matter what he said, things would develop in the opposite direction of what he said, wouldn't he become a god?

Sherlock himself wished he had this ability.

When he encounters any danger in the future, he will just fall to the ground and say "It's over, there is no hope, we can wait to die." Then wait for the poison milk to take effect and he can get through it.

If there was such a good thing, he would probably wake up laughing in his dreams.

But in fact, this ability is not bad at all.

The so-called poisonous milk is just a combination of coincidences, which creates an illusion for people.

It is possible that what I said before turned out to be the opposite, which led to the misunderstanding of Harry and the others, and made them think again and again that I had some strange personality.

The best way to break this impression is to prove to them in person that the so-called poisonous milk is actually a coincidence, and this kind of coincidence will not appear again and again.

Just like on the French highway, Harry questioned this, and Sherlock used facts to prove himself.

He folded his hands in front of his chest and sighed at Harry and the others.

"I have already proved it to Harry once during the holiday, but you still don't believe it. I have said that what you saw before was just a coincidence. I used to think that only people with dull brains would do this, but I didn't expect that Hermione would believe this kind of thing."

Hermione pursed her lips and remained silent, but she was shouting helplessly in her heart.

I really didn't believe this kind of thing before! ! ! Until the facts were in front of me, how could I not believe it, Professor! ! !

"Since you have always been skeptical and doubtful about this, let's do an experiment on the spot."

Sherlock's mentality is also very open-minded. He thinks that as a teacher, he should change the students' metaphysical impression and focus on learning magic. Why believe in poisonous milk?

And what Harry and the others were waiting for was his words.

For this reason, they specially prepared the next series of questions and even wrote a small note.

First, Harry came first.

"Professor, what do you think the weather will be like this afternoon? You must tell the truth and don't perfunctory us."

Sherlock just relaxed and played with them here.

He looked out the window, although it was still a little gloomy, but there was some sunshine in the sky.

"The weather should be good in the afternoon, right? I think it should be sunny."

Harry then wrote down his answer on paper.

Next was Hermione.

"Professor, do you think there will be pudding as a dessert for lunch today?"

Sherlock said thoughtfully.

"Pudding seems to be available sometimes and sometimes not. To be honest, it's one of the sweets I can accept. I like it very much. I guess it should be available at noon."

Finally, it was Ron.

"Professor, do you think that in the spell class this afternoon, Seamus might have made a mistake in the spell again and then caused an explosion?"

This question really stumped Sherlock. When he was in Harry's class last semester, he had some impression of this boy named Seamus. He seemed to always make mistakes in the spell, and finally caused various explosions.

But this kind of thing should not be the norm. How could someone be so outrageous that every spell would cause an accident and explosion?

"It shouldn't be. Seamus is still quite smart. I think the previous mistakes were just a little accident. It's impossible that he would explode as soon as he used a spell, right?"

After they asked one question each, the experiment began.

In fact, among the three things, the two things mentioned by Harry and Hermione are two things that are likely to happen, with a probability of half and half, while the Seamus explosion case mentioned by Ron is a very likely thing to happen!

Seamus was not so exaggerated when using magic normally, and explosions occurred every time.

But I don't know if it was because of his special physique, but whenever Seamus started to learn a new spell, an explosion would inevitably occur in his first attempt.

In the spells class this afternoon, Professor Flitwick said in the last class that he would explain the new spell, so the possibility of Seamus causing an explosion was extremely high.

After getting the golden words from Sherlock, Harry and the other three left the office satisfied.

Sherlock then quickly put his energy into correcting homework. The three grades of four, five and six had a lot of summer homework left in the summer vacation last semester, and he had to correct it before Halloween so as not to delay the subsequent explanation.

So it didn't take him long to forget about Harry and the others' joking experiment.

But Harry and the others naturally took it seriously.

Hermione made a bold hypothesis before the experiment, and what they are doing now is to verify the correctness of this hypothesis.

The first thing that can see the result is, of course, the pudding at noon.

After leaving Sherlock's office, they went straight to the Great Hall. Lunch had just begun, and the food prepared by the house elves appeared on the long tables of the four colleges.

Harry and his friends ate first, and dessert would not appear until halfway through the meal.

They filled their stomachs as quickly as possible, and then the three of them stared at the tabletop of the long table together, attracting the attention of other Gryffindors.

"What are you waiting for?" Lavender and Parvati asked them curiously while eating grilled sausages.