"Perhaps when you grow stronger and begin to form your own fighting style, you can decide the placement of your wand, the way you hold it, and the fighting posture according to the magic you are good at. But now you don't have any practical experience, and you have only been in contact with magic for a few days..."
"So today we are learning the most common and standard posture, which even many Aurors are willing to use, the 'sword holding style'."
"Hold your wand with your thumb, bend your index finger and place it in front, and hold the wand with the remaining three fingers. Relax your shoulders and sink your wrists..."
"Put your feet shoulder-width apart, bend your knees slightly, move your center of gravity to your left leg, and relax your left palm against your waist to facilitate some auxiliary gestures..."
"Keep your chin tucked in, look straight ahead, and slightly arch your back…"
Professor Baker moved the podium aside and demonstrated a standard posture himself: "This posture can ensure that you can move flexibly at any time and control the distance from the opponent…"
opponent takes the initiative."
"Well,"
he resumed his normal standing posture, waved his wand, and all the tables in the classroom disappeared: "Now, everyone take out their wands, keep a distance from the people around you, and start practicing this posture!"
"I know this will be a bit boring compared to other courses, but it is indeed necessary to master the basics of the basics... How about this, if your performance in this class can satisfy me, I can consider speeding up the teaching progress and share some simple but practical spells in advance..."
Professor Baker looked at the little wizards with expectation, smiled and continued to tempt them: "Some of them even played a significant role in the battle just demonstrated."
This time, there was no need for Professor Baker to say anything. The little wizards scattered and stared at the posture diagram left by Professor Baker on the blackboard, and practiced carefully. Professor Baker also walked down from the podium and began to patrol around the classroom, correcting some people's movements from time to time.
"You raised your hand too high. Now your entire right side is vulnerable!"
"Relax your shoulders. This position is for you to move flexibly, not to turn you into a stone block!"
"Don't hold the wand so hard. The wand is your assistant, not your mortal enemy!"
"Don't twist your waist so much. You'll get a stitch in the side in actual combat!"
"Move your center of gravity to the back. You're doing a horse stance now!"
When it came time to practice, Professor Baker suddenly became strict.
Any deviation from the standard would be discovered and corrected in time. Everyone, including Avada and Qiu, who had outstanding athletic talent, was corrected several times.
After everyone was able to get into a standard position, Professor Baker began to lead them in practicing combat moves. Jump forward, retreat, dodge, attack, defend... After a series of action training, even the energetic young wizards couldn't help sweating on their foreheads and panting.
Finally, when there were still more than ten minutes before the end of the class, Professor Baker waved his wand, changed the table back, and signaled to stop practicing.
"Very good, everyone's progress has exceeded my expectations!"
After all the students were seated, Professor Baker clapped his hands in satisfaction and smiled, "I thought it would take at least a whole class for you to master this posture, but I didn't expect that you would have already achieved the requirement ten minutes before the end of the class."
"There is definitely not enough time to teach any new magic in the remaining time... Then how about this, if you have any questions about Defense Against the Dark Arts, you can ask them now and I will answer them."
As soon as the voice fell, almost everyone in the classroom raised their hands in unison, with expectations on their faces.
"Well..."
Professor Baker randomly picked up a Hufflepuff near the first row: "Mr. Summers, what is your question?"
"Professor, I'm curious, as an adventurer and a director of the Dark Arts Defense League, you also have a job, why do you come to Hogwarts to be a professor?"
He asked a little embarrassedly, after all, this was not a question related to Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Professor Baker did not blame him, and replied with a smile: "The main reason is that I feel that the improvement of my own strength has reached a bottleneck, so I am ready to temporarily put aside the adventure journey and the work of the director, and carefully summarize and sort out my magic foundation. And the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is undoubtedly the most suitable job for me during this period. Not only can I review my knowledge according to the textbook, but I can also contribute to the cause of education... How does the saying go, teaching and learning benefit each other? That's the truth."
"Will such a powerful wizard like you also encounter bottlenecks, professor?" Summers asked again.
"Of course, everyone will encounter bottlenecks, even Dumbledore is no exception." Professor Baker smiled and asked Summers to sit down, and called on another student: "Ms. Zhang, what about your question?"
Qiu stood up with a blush and asked: "Professor, do you know Mr. Gilderoy Lockhart?"
Professor Baker was stunned for a moment and replied: "I haven't met him, but I have heard of his name for a long time, and I have read many of his works. I have to say that it is quite wonderful, combining practicality and literary qualities. Many of the techniques mentioned in it have benefited me a lot."
"So who is better, professor or Mr. Lockhart?"
"Well..."
Professor Baker hesitated for a while after hearing this question, then chose his words carefully and said: "He and I... can be said to have our own strengths."
"Although I haven't seen him in person, I can infer from his books that Lockhart is the kind of person who is knowledgeable, quick to react, masters a lot of remote but practical knowledge, and is good at using his brain to survive in various dangerous situations and wild magical creatures. In other words, he is a standard adventurer."
"Compared to an adventurer, I am more like a wild Auror, or an ancient dark wizard hunter. I specialize in going to dangerous areas to fight against dark wizards and dark creatures. Compared to adventuring in the wild, I am better at fighting in various man-made dangers. Of course, I will occasionally go to some wild environments to relax and enjoy the natural scenery."
"Then professor, do you have some exciting adventure experiences?" another girl asked curiously.
"Me?"
Professor Baker smiled bitterly. "I can only say that if I also write my own experiences into a book and publish it, the sales volume may not even catch up with one-tenth of Lockhart's. Because the things I have to deal with require extremely high professional qualities, and outsiders can't understand them at all. And the story will not be so ups and downs, most of them are twists and turns, or bloody..."
"Take Lockhart's new book "A Year with the Tibetan Snow Man" last year as an example."
"This book is about Lockhart accidentally falling into a glacier crevice while adventuring on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and coming to a secret world under the ice. His wand was broken and his supplies were about to run out. He relied on Transfiguration, simple potions and a wealth of knowledge of magical creatures to disguise himself as a Tibetan snowman, and joined the local tribe to survive and find a way to leave.
"And in an accident, his identity was discovered by a Tibetan snowman, but he relied on his wisdom and experience to become friends with the snowman, let it help Lockhart conceal his identity, and started a wonderful process of getting along between man and snowman. "
But then, as the glaciers moved, the cracks in the glaciers began to close, and the habitat of the snowmen was about to collapse. Lockhart worked together with the snowmen, using all kinds of knowledge and with the help of luck, he successfully escaped from the underwater world and returned to the surface. And Lockhart also said goodbye to the snowmen and returned to human society. Is that right?"
Professor Baker paused again, choosing his words carefully, hoping not to give too much of a blow to the girls who were worshipping his idol: "If the same thing happened to me... uh..."
"I would probably be able to climb out of the crack directly on the first day. Casting spells without a wand is not a difficult task for me."