The Hogwarts exams began as scheduled.

After breakfast, the first-year students followed Professor Flitwick to a spacious classroom. Each desk had a Charms exam paper spread out on it, along with a new quill specifically for the exam, all of which were enchanted with anti-cheating spells. Professor Flitwick, as the invigilator, would also be patrolling at all times.

Being their first time experiencing such a formal exam, many first-year students seemed a bit awkward and nervous.

However, in Elena's view, who was a seasoned exam-taker, aside from the discomfort caused by the lack of air conditioning, the Hogwarts written exams were not much different from those in regular universities. Meanwhile, Hermione was already diligently writing on her paper. Elena raised an eyebrow with interest and glanced down at the first question:

1) Write the spell to make an object fly;
2) Describe the wand movement.

Unsurprisingly, this was the same exam paper that had been used in this classroom seven years ago. In other words, it was exactly the original question that the Hogwarts class of 1991 had done in their first year... Elena smiled slightly and began writing happily.

Poor Hermione Granger, she didn't even know that the bet had been lost from this moment on.

About fifteen minutes later, while Ron Weasley next to her was still biting his fingers, pondering what spell had a similar effect to the Scouring Charm (Scourgify), Elena suddenly raised her hand high.

"Hmm? Miss Kaslana, is there a problem?"

Professor Flitwick quickly walked over, asking softly with some curiosity.

"I'm done," Elena said, waving the exam paper in her hand. "Professor, since there's still plenty of time, why don't you give me the second, third, and fourth year papers too? I might as well finish them all at once."

Screech—

Along with Elena's words, in the seat to the girl's right front, Hermione's quill heavily scratched a line of ink across the parchment, the nib piercing through the parchment and creating a grating sound on the desk that made teeth ache.

"D-Done?!"

Professor Flitwick widened his eyes in shock and repeated, stuttering, subconsciously taking the paper from Elena and scanning it roughly. With his years of teaching experience, he hadn't found any errors or omissions yet.

"Hmm... since that's the case... wonderful... yes, yes—papers, come here!"

Professor Flitwick nodded continuously, pulled out his wand, and flicked it gently. A parchment paper sealed under the podium popped out, gliding through the classroom like a light bird and falling in front of Elena.

"This is the second year Charms final exam. After you finish this one, I'll give you the third year one. Don't just rush, remember to check it after you're done. I'm starting to look forward to whether you can get another three O's (Outstanding)..."

Hermione turned her head in astonishment, the chair making a loud scraping sound against the floor.

Wait! Another three Outstanding grades?

In other words, the white-haired ball of fluff's first year paper had already been judged as Outstanding?!

"Okay, then I'll start answering the questions," Elena said with a sweet smile, winking playfully at Hermione, who was looking back at her not far away, revealing a mischievous smile like a little devil, mouthing silently.

"One hundred times, one hundred times..."

You know, when people think, millions of neurons in the brain transmit information to each other.

When these neurons work every day, they consume about 75% of the liver's stored blood sugar, and their oxygen consumption accounts for 20% of the body's total oxygen consumption. Sufficient energy reserves for a student in the examination room are like ammunition reserves on the battlefield.

After the calorie intake of buttered strawberry jam toast this morning, Elena Kaslana, who had entered a state of satiety, was a ruthless exam paper harvester. Just this amount of questions for eleven- or twelve-year-old children was too little.

On the other hand, unlike Hermione's exam application, this exam had more significance for Elena.

The most important goal was to ensure that she had some qualifications and say in participating in the reform and supplementation of various courses throughout the school after the start of next year—at least to prove that her knowledge reserve at the level of ordinary wizards was already qualified.

Therefore, she had spent a lot of time consulting higher-grade textbooks and memorizing Hogwarts' past exam questions. Seven sets of questions for one grade, twenty-one sets for three grades, and with so many subjects, that was hundreds of papers.

After all, apart from the first year exams, she wasn't sure if the questions in the grade skipping test would definitely be this year's.

Fortunately, the amount of questions on each paper at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was not large, and there was a lot of repeated content among the past questions. Overall, the actual memorization difficulty was much easier than Elena had imagined.

Not to mention that with the transformation of Slytherin House, the effort Elena needed to spend in finding standard answers and understanding specific concepts was greatly reduced. All she needed to do was keep asking and memorizing.

After high-intensity training in the sea of questions, Elena could be regarded as a fourth-year Hogwarts student in terms of knowledge reserve alone, and one whose written test-taking ability was maxed out.

This was not surprising, because even a fourth-year wizard was only fifteen years old.

In other words, these questions were roughly equivalent to the magic version of "teaching content from sixth grade of elementary school to third grade of junior high school"—this stage of learning was mostly pure memorization, combined with a small amount of understanding and practice.

As for the content of the subsequent Charms practical exam, there was not much complicated about it either.

After Professor Flitwick collected the papers, he asked the little wizards to come to him one by one, watching whether they could make a pineapple tap-dance across a desk. This was something they had practiced many times in class, and most of the little guys passed successfully... although Seamus's pineapple sparked at the end, smelling like it had been roasted.

Near noon, the first-year wizards came out of the Charms exam room one by one, eating the sweet roasted pineapple in their hands, while gathering around Elena and asking in low voices about the answers to the questions on the paper.

In front of the whole class, Elena completed the Charms papers from the first to fourth grades in less than two hours.

And from the news revealed in Professor Flitwick's words, she had probably already locked in four Outstanding grades in advance. In comparison, Hermione Granger, who had only completed the first and second year papers, was naturally not so eye-catching.

However, Elena knew very well that Hermione had now surpassed herself and was much more powerful than in the original book.

Glancing at the girl who was biting her lip tightly and leaving the Charms exam room with her bag in low spirits, Elena casually pushed Hannah, who was standing next to her, into the crowd to be responsible for post-exam Q&A, while she crossed the crowd and caught up with Hermione.

Compared to helping other little guys answer questions, comforting the frustrated Hermione was obviously much more important.

"Hermione, your pineapple's tap dance was so beautiful, much more flexible than mine..."

"Go away, I don't want to talk to you!"

"How about we eat grilled pineapple for late-night snack tonight? Eating pineapple won't make you fat."

"I don't want to eat it! Leave me alone!"

"Then what about fruit-filled macarons? This time I'll let the kitchen make black tea and raspberry flavors, and the cream will be forget-me-not flower cream, sprinkled with some peanut crumbs and white sesame seeds, it should be delicious."

"...Uh, no white sesame seeds."

"(?￣?￣?) Okay!"

The friendship between little girls is very simple, even if they occasionally quarrel with each other, it is easy to reconcile.

As Elena showed her desperate exam ability, Hermione quickly let go of her concerns and no longer struggled to defeat a certain inhumane white-haired ball of fluff, adjusted her mentality and faced the upcoming exams again.

The Hogwarts exams were not precise to specific scores. As long as she could get all Outstanding grades, her scores would actually be exactly the same as Elena's—anyway, there were still seven whole years, she could slowly catch up and eventually overtake Elena.

After quickly finishing lunch, the first-year students were handed over from Professor Flitwick to Professor McGonagall, who took them directly to another classroom upstairs to take the Transfiguration exam.

Like the Charms exam in the morning, Elena and Hermione also completed their multiple tests within the exam time.

As for the practical assessment, Professor McGonagall required them to complete the transformation of a vertebrate, that is, to turn a rat into a snuffbox—the more exquisite the box, the higher the score; and if there were any parts of the rat's body left on the box, points would be deducted.

Understandably, Hermione completed the practical assessment excellently.

As for Elena, she could only harden her heart under Professor McGonagall's gaze and use her "Second Construction" magic to create a lifelike snuffbox illusion. Fortunately, Professor McGonagall still gave her an Outstanding rating.

For some reason, Professor McGonagall's expression had been much gentler than before every time she saw her recently.

Without much time to think about McGonagall's change in attitude, the rotating exam schedule made Elena and a group of little wizards like puppets, following the professors of each subject everywhere in the castle, completing the exams one by one.

After dinner, Professor Aurora Sinistra announced the Astronomy exam schedule.

They took the Astronomy exam that midnight, on the top of the highest tower.

This was perhaps Elena's most painful exam. In order to get an all Outstanding grade, she had to write according to the standard answers, instead of answering based on the latest conclusions actually observed by the astronomical community.

On the journey to the stars and the sea, unknowingly, wizards had fallen behind too much.

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