The shifting winds outside Hogwarts did not cause much of a stir within the school.

The professors neither discussed the Ministry of Magic's actions with the students, nor did they shy away from the possibility of Quirrell's subsequent trial. They simply explained the temporary adjustments to the curriculum due to Umbridge's absence and urged the students to refocus on their studies as soon as possible.

In fact, even without the professors' extra emphasis, the young wizards' curiosity would soon dissipate.

The epoch-making revolution of "Modern Transfiguration" was like the first domino to fall. Various subjects at Hogwarts quickly saw attempts at evolution to varying degrees. However, in the absence of a qualitative theoretical replacement, the characteristic of "evolution" was a steep increase in homework and knowledge points. After all, learning more is never a bad thing. Perhaps the increase in content for each course was not that significant, but...

"Harry, could you let me take a look at your paper on escape velocity? Just a glance, just to check if the numbers are right."

Ron scratched his hair in frustration, dejectedly crumpled his fifth discarded parchment into a ball and tossed it aside. His slightly bloodshot eyes looked at Harry with a hopeless expression, lowering his voice as he said, "Borrowing ideas isn't plagiarism, just don't let that guy find out, or I really won't be able to finish..."

Harry didn't speak, but instead looked helplessly at Draco Malfoy, who was sitting across the table.

He still seemed to be buried in writing Professor McGonagall's paper on the decomposition of irregular cubes, not paying attention to the small movements here.

And to Draco's right, there was a stack of parchment at least half a foot high, which was Professor Sprout's assignment—the simplest in terms of difficulty, mainly copying and tracing non-magical and magical plant information, but also the assignment with the least shortcuts.

"No," Harry said in a heavy tone, "the new curriculum has only just begun, you have to keep up on your own... I don't want you to fall behind..."

Compared to the previous magic courses, Hogwarts' curriculum, in terms of both difficulty and knowledge, has taken a step up.

As the originally flat and easy knowledge content began to become three-dimensional, a clear division of learning talent levels gradually emerged among the young wizards of each grade. Even the second-year students who had almost all A's last year inevitably saw a three-tiered division.

It turned out that the reason most second-year students could get all A's before was simply because the upper limit of the difficulty of the questions was too low.

After the new curriculum revealed its fangs, only those who could still normally absorb and learn all the newly added concepts could roughly be classified into the first tier.

Students who could not adapt to the new content in time naturally fell into the second tier. The third tier was easier to understand—those dead-end wizards who had not put in much effort in basic magical knowledge were almost on the verge of collapse under the new curriculum wave.

Hannah and Luna still occupied the peak of the first tier, and the results of their extra tutoring in the previous academic year began to show their value.

On the other hand, with the guidance of the "Half-Blood Prince," Harry勉强 (mianqiang - barely) managed to grab the tail of the first tier, and his overall score could勉强 (mianqiang - barely) be considered an excellent student. However, as the difficulty of the course and the amount of knowledge points increased, Harry also gradually began to feel the strain.

As for Ron, he was even more miserable. If it weren't for his recent efforts and the tutoring of his brothers, he would have almost been at the bottom of the class.

This was not a problem for a single grade. Without exception, the young wizards in every grade at Hogwarts were suffering from the impact of the new curriculum.

However, the situation was slightly better in three grades at Hogwarts.

In addition to the second grade where Ailina was, the blank slates of the first grade and the "Magic Masters in Residence" composed of outstanding graduates from previous years all showed extremely strong adaptability—no one in these three grades had fallen into the third tier.

This was also one of the important reasons supporting the Hogwarts professors' continued reforms. The students' potential far exceeded their previous imagination.

In fact, there was an extremely special realm above the first tier.

Just as some people score 100 points because the full score is 100 points, for some geniuses, even the Hogwarts new curriculum teaching, which had been upgraded and evolved, had obviously failed to reach their ability ceiling. Such non-standard students were called ultra-first-tier geniuses.

Among the students at Hogwarts today, there are only 2.5 ultra-first-tier geniuses for the time being.

Ailina, Hermione, and...

"Draco, have you finished all your homework?"

Harry looked blankly at Draco Malfoy, who stood up, and couldn't help but twitch his lips.

During the summer vacation, he could勉强 (mianqiang - barely) compete with Draco in learning, but since the beginning of this semester, this young master from the Malfoy family seemed to have taken some kind of potent wisdom potion, and his ability in learning had risen almost linearly, approaching the ultra-first-tier realm.

Strictly speaking, in some cases, Draco's accuracy in pure memorization was even slightly stronger than Hermione's.

The only difference was that, compared to the other two witches who were beyond normal human standards, Draco Malfoy was obviously slower in reaction speed and new knowledge absorption, so that his more shining moments were in after-school homework, rather than in-class quick Q&A.

"No," Draco Malfoy shook his head, rubbing his throbbing temples.

"The orbital speed is approximately 7.9 kilometers per second, and the escape velocity is approximately 11.2 kilometers per second. If you just want to see if the numbers are correct, just remember these two concepts." He picked up the crumpled parchment that Ron had crumpled into a ball, glanced at it roughly, and said, "Professor Sinistra's assignment requires us to elaborate on the relationship between the first speed and the second speed. The calculation result and logical deduction are wrong, your formula is wrong."

"Thank you," Ron said fiercely, "I realized this problem a few minutes ago."

Since astronomy began to introduce the concept of astrophysics, this subject has gradually become the main course that students fear the most in the rainy season.

When the clouds above Hogwarts Castle block their telescopes, Professor Sinistra excitedly takes out a stack of thick parchment manuscripts and begins to stammeringly tell everyone about the basic theories—those amazing astronomical knowledge that he has just learned from his teaching assistants.

That's right, astronomy is the third magic subject at Hogwarts to introduce a teaching assistant system.

After a few rounds of simple interview questions and answers, those "former" astronomers from the former Soviet Union successfully conquered Professor Sinistra.

You should know that due to the era of the Great Purge, astronomy can be said to be the most humble lineage in the Soviet scientific community.

Even Ailina's "Silver Wolf Fang Rescue Plan" did not deliberately invite any astronomy experts at the beginning.

These scholars were mostly introduced into Hogwarts [Academy City] because of their outstanding abilities in mathematics and physics.

Although Hogwarts has not yet built a huge astronomical observatory, they soon discovered that the astronomical telescopes used in the magic world, after being magically modified, have some exciting black box capabilities in terms of naked-eye observation capabilities, such as... naked-eye fill light, this kind of ghost thing.

In the field of astronomy, a complete knowledge system and the technological level of observation equipment are indispensable.

In the magical world, the two present an extremely wonderful, and it can be said to be a dreamlike relationship—when wizards in the magical world cast magic and create various magical props, their works depend on their cognition.

Whether it was Professor Sinistra or the scholars from the former Soviet Union, they almost immediately realized this key point.

With the help of magical power, astronomical knowledge has the opportunity to see some real [visible] miracles!

Naturally, under such a cross-era friendly consensus, the young wizards of Hogwarts have become victims of witnessing the friendship between the two sides.

"Weasley, don't think about copying the answer. The law of universal gravitation is the basis for studying the motion of celestial bodies. If you are lazy in the first step, then what will you do with at least four years of astronomy classes from now on? No one can help you write the answer on the exam paper in the exam room..."

Draco Malfoy shook his head, glanced at Ron, whose face was flushed, and then turned to look at Harry.

"Harry, the task of supervising Weasley still depends on you. This guy is too lazy. You didn't secretly let him copy in the dormitory, did you?"

"Of course not," Harry loyally defended his friend.

Draco raised his eyebrows.

"Well, I gave him some help," Harry touched his nose and muttered, "But you also know that the difficulty of the professors' classes has increased too quickly at once, and there is much more homework than before. There always has to be a process of adaptation..."

"Then what about your own homework? Especially since you have to go to Professor Snape's place for extra tutoring every night—"

"Shhh. Shhh. Don't say that so loudly, Draco!"

Harry looked around the library with some anxiety, although this was almost a semi-public secret in the class.

Since the beginning of last semester, Professor Snape had been calling him to his office for extra tutoring from time to time. At first, he would make some excuses, such as him making mistakes in the classroom or arguing with the professor and being "detained." By this semester, the professor simply couldn't be bothered to find a reason.

However, the students didn't have much envy for Professor Snape's undisguised special attention.

Not to mention that in Potions class, Snape almost never praised Harry, but always nitpicked and reprimanded Harry in various places.

The most important thing is that compared to the improvement in Potions class grades, Harry had too much less time to rest and play than other young wizards. He had to go to Snape's place for extra tutoring almost every night except weekends, and even had to help out in the Potions classroom on weekends occasionally.

"Actually... Professor Snape didn't keep teaching me potions this week..."

Harry shrugged, lowered his voice and said, "In addition to some knowledge about pharmacology and chemistry, if I can finish the learning content assigned by Professor Snape in advance, the professor allows me to spend the remaining time writing homework for other subjects in his office—if I encounter something I don't understand, sometimes he will help me answer it, so I haven't fallen behind too much in terms of homework. In fact, the professor is quite knowledgeable in other fields as well."

"Compared to Uncle Black?"

"...Godfather, he, well, after all, he's been locked up in Azkaban for so long..."

"Understood. Then just help Weasley if you want to, there's no need to hide it until you get back to the Gryffindor common room."

Draco Malfoy raised his eyebrows and looked at the pile of crumpled paper next to Ron, helplessly reaching out.

"Ugh, forget it, Weasley—just bring that pile of stuff over here."

"What?" Ron said.

"Your homework, the Transfiguration essay, the Astronomy essay, the math homework..."

Draco explained impatiently, "Give them to me, I'll read them over, make some slight modifications for you, and see where your problems are, so that it's a little more efficient. Anyway, I can't possibly be like Ailina大哥头 (dàgē tóu - big sister), going wherever she wants to go. Instead of waiting for you two to rack your brains in front of the fireplace in the Gryffindor common room after lights out, it's better to solve the problem in the library, and then you can finish writing the simple parts yourself."

"Malfoy, you—" Ron looked at Draco warily, slowly saying with a face full of suspicion.

"This is the last time. If you're still distracted in class next time and copy the wrong notes, then I won't care."

Draco Malfoy said impolitely, while grabbing the notebook from Ron's hand and modifying it.

In fact, in terms of understanding difficulty, the newly added content in each subject at Hogwarts is not difficult.

What really gives the young wizards a headache is mainly the increased amount of content that needs to be memorized, and the requirement for accurate memorization of those newly added theorems and formulas in class.

Due to the lack of textbooks, many new concepts now rely on the professors' oral explanations and writing on the blackboard. Once the notes are copied incorrectly, then the subsequent homework may not be able to be written at all. For many children from magic families, numbers and formulas are much more difficult than magic.

"Are you telling the truth? Ah, Draco, you're a lifesaver. Actually, I've been working hard, but I really don't have as good a brain as you. I can't remember so many numbers and formulas word for word..."

Ron looked at Draco, grinning foolishly with a flattering smile.

After so much time had passed, he had long known what Draco's personality was like.

Although this guy sometimes seems to be so proud that his nostrils are almost facing the sky, he is still very reliable as a friend, otherwise they wouldn't be writing homework together.

"What should I say—"

"Okay, I roughly know which areas you have problems with, um..."

Draco was revising Ron's essays and notes, just halfway through when he suddenly frowned.

Ron looked at his homework expectantly, cautiously asking in a low voice.

"What's wrong? Is the problem big?"

"No, it's nothing, it's actually just that some formulas are written wrong... for example, the acceleration here is missing a square sign."

Draco rubbed his temples, casually explaining, trying to endure the discomfort that suddenly surged in his mind just now.

Countless fragmented memory scenes, sounds, and words echoed in his mind.

Strange and profound, even if he closed his eyes, they would clearly appear in his mind, like fragments of various knowledge engraved in his soul.

This is also the secret of why Draco can touch the "ultra-first-tier" realm of Ailina and Hermione this semester.

Those are from Professor Gilderoy Lockhart, oh no, to be precise, it should be the input results of the memory inheritance magic of Mr. "Hanged Man," a member of the sCp Foundation o5 Council, the complete knowledge content of various subjects at Hogwarts after being sorted out.

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