Harry went a bit overboard in easing his nerves, and his partner Ron ended up in fits of hysterical laughter. They had to escort him to a quiet room for an hour before he could return to continue the exam. Meanwhile, Orli and Hermione were performing exceptionally well, thanks to Hermione—she insisted on reviewing the spell with Orli every night before bed.
At midnight, they had their Astronomy exam, where everyone was left windswept and disheveled on the highest tower. Even as they descended, Orli still felt like stars were sparkling before her eyes. They hurried back to the common room, but no one could sleep, so they started revising for Care of Magical Creatures and Potions again.
The next morning, Hagrid organized an extremely simple exam: he provided the entire class with a large bucket of fresh Flobberworms and instructed them that to pass, their Flobberworms had to still be alive after an hour.
The afternoon Potions exam was a disaster: Harry's potion was as thick as tar, and Ron's was as thin as dishwater. Snape loitered around them with a look of schadenfreude, observing closely, and then jotting something down in his notebook, as if selecting his favorite piglet at a slaughterhouse. Orli, on the other hand, wished he would linger around her longer. Although she was most confident in Potions, she still hoped to glean something from his expression. But Snape barely glanced at her cauldron before striding past, as if she carried something that might cause him an allergic reaction.
History of Magic was on Wednesday morning. As Orli wrote down everything she knew about the medieval witch hunts on her exam paper, she wished for a chocolate nut sundae in that stuffy classroom. Herbology was in the afternoon, with students grafting puffapods in the sweltering greenhouse, getting sunburned on the back of their necks.
Thursday morning was the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam, their penultimate test. Professor Lupin had devised an exam unlike any they had taken before: it was an outdoor obstacle course. Students had to wade through a pond with Grindylows, navigate a series of Red Cap-infested pits, squelch through a marsh ignoring the misleading directions of a Hinkypunk, and finally crawl into an old trunk to battle a new Boggart.
Orli navigated all the challenges smoothly, and when she emerged from the Boggart's trunk, she saw Lupin smiling at her approvingly. Harry also completed the course without incident, but Ron was misled by the Hinkypunk and ended up waist-deep in the marsh, possibly losing some points.
Hermione was flawless until she reached the trunk with the Boggart. After about half a minute inside, she came rushing out, screaming.
# Professor Lupin: "Hermione!"
Lupin was startled.
# Professor Lupin: "What's wrong?"
# Hermione: "Professor McGonagall!"
Hermione gasped, pointing at the trunk,
# Hermione: "She... she said I failed everything!"
It took some time to calm Hermione down, and then the four of them headed back to the castle together. The last exam was Divination. Of course, Hermione's schedule showed both Divination and Muggle Studies exams at the same time, but Ron and Harry didn't dare ask any more questions.
After lunch, they climbed the stairs to the eighth floor, where many students were sitting on the spiral staircase leading to Professor Trelawney's classroom, hoping to cram in a few last-minute facts.
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Note:
The exam sequence has been slightly adjusted and does not fully align with the original work.
Hermione, due to the protagonist's interruption, did not drop Divination midway and still needs to take the exam.
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