Hogwarts: Don't call me the Staff Maker

Chapter 62 Mobile Ad Cat Project

As the exam date drew closer, the atmosphere in the castle grew increasingly tense. Students could often be seen hurrying past in the corridors, carrying heavy magic books and quietly reciting spells and potion recipes.

The library is even more crowded. Sometimes, if you're a little slow, you can't find a seat and have to borrow a book to read.

However, most of these people were students preparing to participate in OWL and NEWT, and Xilun, who was only a first-year student, did not feel nervous at all.

The only difference is that he is more popular now.

The main reason was Fred and George, who, on the day their confinement ended, showed off their "brand new" wands around the castle at noon.

While attracting a lot of attention, he also helped Xilun lose face, and now many people are starting to consult him about the dye spray.

To my shame, I had prepared everything at the beginning of the semester, but I forgot about it completely because of various things, and I didn't sell the first bottle until almost the end of the school year.

But by this time, everyone had almost run out of pocket money, and Xilun's pricing strategy was to make a fortune from the opening, so most of the time there were a lot of inquiries, but basically no one bought anything.

"What if you lowered the price a little?" Fred suggested over breakfast. "If it's all one gallon, most people could actually afford it if they grit their teeth."

"Yeah," George nodded in agreement. "A wand only costs seven Galleons, so the coloring spray can't be more expensive than a wand, can it?"

"No way, I won't take advantage of poor students," Xi Lun said righteously.

"Hmm?" The Weasley brothers looked at him, suddenly feeling like they were being subtly insulted.

Xilun actually felt that they weren't poor students, which felt really good... ah, no, that's not right.

Come to think of it, if the discount offered by Siron hadn't been so attractive, they wouldn't have spent ten Galleons to buy a bottle of wand dye spray that was useless except for decoration.

"Then you'll just have to give up," George said. "Maybe it'll just make more people fall for it."

"That's a good idea." Siren stroked his chin. "The problem is, how do we deal with this guy? The bulletin board in the common room?"

"If you can get into the common rooms of the other three houses, that would be a good option."

"But I can't get in." Siron shrugged. He hadn't even met all the Gryffindors yet, so how could he possibly know people from other houses?

"Want some advice?" Fred suddenly lowered his voice and chuckled. "Think about it, who tirelessly travels to every corner of the castle every day?"

"Who is it that always likes to chase after every student?"

"And who is known to all the students?"

"Dumbledore?" Siron asked tentatively.

"No, that's not right." George shook his head vigorously. "It's Mrs. Lorris."

"Why don't you use hair dye spray to write 'GG' on Mrs. Lorice's body?"

"That way, it will bring your product to every student," Fred enticed. "More importantly, you won't need to spend any extra money."

"Yeah, it'll be taken to Filch, and then next year, Filch will put the dye spray on the list of prohibited items," Celen said irritably. He shouldn't have trusted those two to come up with any good ideas.

"Don't say that. How will you know if it will work if you don't try?"

"That's right, give it a try."

The two followed behind Siren, earnestly trying to persuade him to give Lady Loris a brighter color.

But Xilun knew very well that they were only doing this so that they could easily observe the enemy's movements during their night patrols.

Besides, Tom often beat up Mrs. Lorris when he was showing off, so he was really too embarrassed to mess with her few remaining hairs.

Anyway, his "pet wand" can earn pocket money, which is enough... In this respect, Xilun is quite easily satisfied.

A few more days passed, and then the exams began.

Like everyone else, Xilun had to stay in the stuffy, uncomfortable classroom and fight against the exam questions.

The first-grade exam wasn't too difficult; Xilun estimated that he could answer half of them correctly. The main problem was that he hadn't memorized some of the trivial, vague, and lengthy questions... such as the fifteen ways to deal with werewolves.

To be honest, there aren't really fifteen types of this stuff. Simply put, there are only two: either run away, or if you can't run, find a way to kill the werewolf. Everything else is nonsense.

Besides, werewolves can read this stuff too. Hogwarts textbooks haven't been changed in at least thirty years, so they might have already figured out a solution.

In the entire Gryffindor, only Hermione would spend time memorizing this kind of thing... well, maybe Percy should be added too.

In contrast, the practical exam was much more interesting, especially for Siron, since he could "cheat"—as long as he used the right wand, getting a high score wasn't difficult.

The content taught at Hogwarts can basically be considered white magic, and with Silvermane's help, the exams, which were originally quite difficult, became much easier.

The transformation test involved turning a mouse into a snuffbox, and Siron was the first to complete it.

In the spell test, Professor Flitwick asked them to make a pineapple tap dance across a desk.

This tests the students' application of the levitation spell. The so-called tap dance is nothing more than making the pineapple move up and down on the table to make it look like it is tap dancing.

After all, there is no Tarantella Dance Charm in Standard Spells, Level 1; if you want to learn it, you have to look for it in One Hundred Ways to Get Revenge Against Your Enemy.

If it's just the Levitation Charm, it's naturally not difficult. Even without Silver Mane, Siron can easily complete the requirements.

His tap dance looks a bit like robotic dance, I wonder if he'll get points deducted.

If I had to pick the most troublesome exam, it would definitely be potions, because potions are mostly made using a cauldron, and the wand basically only serves to stir them.

Snape demanded that they prepare the correct forgetfulness potion within two hours.

This was not a question that Xilun was good at at all. The correct answer should have been blue potion and smoke, but Xilun submitted brown potion and pink smoke instead.

Judging from Snape's expression, he most likely won't get a high score.

Siren then took exams in Herbalism, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and History of Magic, after which the exams were finally over.

To welcome the upcoming holiday, the castle was filled with joy, and the previously oppressive and gloomy atmosphere was instantly swept away.

On the second day of their holiday, Fred and George approached Siron again for cooperation, inviting him to target Willow again that night, and repeatedly assuring him that this time there would be no mistakes.

But Siren still refused.

Besides not entirely trusting their assurances, he also wanted to wait for something more important.

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