Knowing that Elwyn was going to take the exam, Corin and Wicky went to bed early. Everyone wished him good luck.
The dorm was quiet. No one said a word.
Elwyn stared at the deep darkness for a while. Then, the definition of a basic spell suddenly appeared in his mind.
He thought about it for a while, shook his head, and fell asleep. He felt that the night had passed very quickly.
If Elwyn said he was not nervous at all, he would be lying. He probably performed better than the others.
The next morning, the fifth-graders did not say much at breakfast. Harry was swinging his knife casually. Ron buried his face behind the Hogwarts Magic Newspaper that had just arrived. Parvati was practicing her spell in a low voice. The salt shaker on the dining table was twitching in front of her. Neville kept dropping his knife and fork and spilling the jam.
Hermione was still holding the thick book, Spell Achievement, and was mumbling something. However, Elwyn did not let her open the book!
After breakfast, the other years went to class. Corin, Ginny, Elaine, Luna, the other students who were not going to take the exam, and the D.A. members all came to greet Elwyn. They gave their last wishes and left the hall.
After that, Elwyn, the fifth-graders, and the seventh-graders walked around the hall aimlessly.
At around nine o 'clock, the door of the hall was opened again.
The deans took the name list and called the students into the hall one by one.
They were responsible for checking the students to make sure they were not carrying any prohibited items.
Professor Meg gently waved his wand at Elwyn and let him in!
Inside the hall, the four school tables were moved away and replaced with many small tables for single people. All of them faced the staff tables at the end of the hall. The examiners from the Wizard Exam Authority would guide the students to their designated seats.
On each table, besides the examination papers, there were spare quills, ink-bottles, and parchment for calculus.
Perhaps due to special arrangements, Elwyn's seat was in the first row. He could see Dumbledore, Sirius, Professor Machiban, and a very old wizard sitting at the staff table not far away. The four of them were whispering to each other.
When Elwyn came in, they all smiled and nodded at him.
Elwyn nodded as well. Clearly, their conversation just now had something to do with him. Otherwise, the two examiners wouldn't have recognized him.
He turned around and saw that Hermione was sitting in the fifth seat in the third row. Harry and Ron were seated a little further behind.
After that, it would be the seventh grade students.
When all the students entered, Professor Meg closed the door and was the last to enter.
"You may begin!" She turned a huge hourglass on the table upside down and placed it beside her.
As soon as Professor Meg finished speaking, the more than two hundred examination papers on the table flipped over.
Elwyn heard the sound of a quill scratching across the paper. He looked down at the first question: a) Write a spell that can make objects fly; b) Describe the action of waving a magic wand.
This was a Levitation Spell. The incantation was Hagadim Leviosa, which one would come into contact with in the first grade.
After mastering the incantation and combining it with the casting technique, one could omit four words. If one used different Ancient Magic Texts to cast this incantation, there were a total of thirty-six ways to cast the incantation. The simplest one only needed one word, and if one was fast enough, it could be cast instantly.
Elwyn hesitated for a moment. Should he write down all thirty-six different incantations? Or should he simply answer …
Using Ancient Magic Texts to cast magic was not something a fifth-grade wizard could master.
However, Elwyn looked at the size of the blank space between the first and second question. It was quite big …
Was it too big to write a Levitation Spell and waving a magic wand? It was definitely not that simple.
He thought about it, lowered his head, and started writing.
Since there was enough time, there was nothing wrong with writing a little more, right?
This kind of question was not difficult for Elwyn. He felt that the difficulty of the paper was on the low side. The only troublesome questions were the last few questions.
For example, writing down all the incantations and casting methods that could produce a happy effect. Without limiting the specific scope and side effects, Elwyn could write more than eighty of them in one go.
Another example was the last scenario analysis question. Setting up a scenario, then using no more than three incantations to achieve the required effect of the question. Elwyn also felt that this condition was too broad.
Two hours passed quickly, and he wrote non-stop. His handwriting covered the entire test paper.
Professor Meg stood beside him and looked at him for a long time. Then, he silently brought over a stack of parchment paper and asked Elwyn to write down the answers that he could not write down on the parchment paper.
In short, he was probably the last to finish the paper.
Regarding the first O.W.LS exam, Elwyn wanted to say that exams were really strenuous work.
Fortunately, he had eaten a lot of breakfast. Otherwise, he would not have enough energy to finish writing everything in the end …
"How was it? It wasn't too bad, right?" Hermione asked nervously as soon as they walked out of the hall. She was still holding a large stack of parchment paper tightly in her hands. Like Elwyn, she had been writing until the end. "The time was just about up. I'm not sure if I answered all the happy incantations. Elwyn, how many did you think of? "
"Eighty-three, but some of them were black magic. I only wrote about sixty in the end," Elwyn said.
No matter how he thought about it, it was not a good thing to write black magic in the theory of spells exam.
As soon as he finished speaking, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Neville, and the others who heard Elwyn's answer all looked at him in surprise.
"Hmm, what's wrong?" Elwyn looked at them strangely. "Is there a problem?"
"Nothing!" Harry and Ron exchanged a look and shook their heads at the same time.
"Are there so many happy incantations?" Hermione flipped open her study notes. "I only wrote down thirty-eight. Can black magic make people happy?"
"It can produce a similar effect. Some black magic believe that inflicting cruel damage or abuse on a person's body will produce a distorted sense of pleasure, which will continuously stimulate the senses and emotions. In the end, the spellcaster will get a considerable amount of pleasure. The degree of pleasure is directly proportional to the degree of damage caused, until it reaches an unimaginable level. The effect is several times that of a normal happy incantation …"
"Hmm, tell me all the happy incantations later. I want to double-check them. I hope this question won't deduct too many points," Hermione said. "Oh right, have you written down the dispel incantation for hiccups? I don't know if I should write it down or not. I seem to have written too much. Also, the twenty-third question … "
"Hermione, can you two be nice and not talk about these things?" Ron said firmly. "I only wrote down one happy incantation. Also, this exam is over. We don't want to retake it every time. Once is enough!"
"Yes, you're right!" Hermione said. "We should prepare for the afternoon exam now."
During lunch, someone spread the news that Elwyn had answered more than eighty happy incantations.
The whole hall was discussing this. Many students only knew one happy incantation, and only a few knew two or three.
No one could answer as many as Elwyn and Hermione. They obviously didn't spend enough time on non-textbook magic books.
Of course, everyone was used to Elwyn doing this kind of thing!
Looking at them, Elwyn realized that he seemed to have answered a little too much.
If he had known, he would have written fewer incantations and kept in line with Hermione. Then, he would probably have gotten all the points for that question.
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