Using Transfiguration to transfigure a desk to become Tom to teach is actually completely useless for Sherlock.
He has only been familiar with the original's magic skills for about two months, and he had not been able to raise his level to the level of an adult wizard.
Based on the progress of Sherlock's studies at Hogwarts, he estimated that his current level of magic understanding should be comparable to that of sixth-grade student, but the amount of magic he had was much higher than theirs.
Therefore, he knew a lot of more effective uses of transfiguration, but he can't make the deformed objects more detailed and realistic.
To avoid transfiguring a super detailed object, Sherlock simply chose Tom, a cartoon character with not as many many details and a very simple design, from the very beginning.
Anyway, as long as Tom had enough ability to beat the second years, it was enough.
Expressing it in the form of Tom the Cat could also slightly change the students' perception of him.
At least the person who liked to watch Tom and Jerry will not be an impersonal professor like Snape.
As for finding a few real black magic creatures as teaching material, Sherlock also considered it.
But he, who lived constantly in a state alert in Hogwarts, didn't know how to get those things.
But this matter could most likely be solved through Hagrid in the future.
The challenges in the classroom continue.
The successive failures of the Hufflepuff boys and Ron aroused the desire to win among the remaining students.
When they were watching, they didn't feel how powerful Tom was, he was just a little faster, and his body was soft, with the ability to change shape at will, and nothing else was special.
The Tom transfigured by Sherlock was indeed not such a powerful deformer.
Not to mention the basic spell "incendio" that he learned in the fourth grade can be defeated, and the universal unlocking spell "reparifarge" that could be learned in the third grade alone could also release the transfiguration, allowing Tom to return to his original form.
But unfortunately, this class was only second-year students, and they don't have a grasp of whether it's a simple fire charm or a curse.
So they, who would only monotonously use magic spells against the enemy, using only simple spells to challenge the most powerful cat, Tom, and no had their magic hit Tom.
Near the end of the class, Sherlock turned Tom back to the desk, asked the students to return to their seats, and summarized the questions for them.
"Tom is not strong, you can all feel it, but why is no one able to beat him?"
"Is the spell you learned not strong enough? Or is the area around you inhibiting your performance?"
"Maybe there are reasons for this, but in this classroom, no one was strong enough to beat him what you have learned in the first grade?"
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"Or, do you think that the magic knowledge you learned in first grade is only foolishly waving your wand, aiming spells at the enemy and releasing them?"
"How to use what you have learned to beat Tom, think about this as your homework. Go back and think about how to write your ideas on parchment. Your homework is not limited in length, as long as it is effective, even if it only contains one word. ."
"In the next class, you can challenge Tom again according to the way you wrote in your homework. Those who are successful can still get 20 points, but the homework exemption for a month is no longer a reward."
At the end of the second-year class, the students of Gryffindor and Hufflepuff left the classroom excitedly.
This class was their first true Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Last year, former professor Quirrell read to the whole class the textbook every day and it was no different from self-study reading books by himself.
It was very interesting to take Professor Forrest's class.
This was the first day of school, and the consensus of the first- and second-year students who have taken the Defense Against the Dark Arts class were all positive.
And what happened to Tom also made them discover from the side.
Professor Forrest, who usually had a cold face and stern voice, was not as cold and inhumane as he appeared on the surface.
A person with an indifferent heart would not like Tom Cat, isn't it a cartoon that is supposed to make people happy?
So, although Sherlock on the outside behaved the same as Snape and putting on a indifferent face when speaking and teaching.
But the students, especially those who have taken Sherlock's classes, were not very afraid of him.
A few days after the start of school, several outspoken Ravenclaw students ran to Sherlock's office to ask questions related to Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Judging from this trend, Hogwarts students and new professor got along very well.
This is what Sherlock was happy to see.
This perception will only affect other Hogwarts professors until the student learns that he is not an aloof and withdrawn person with personality problems.
With this subtle completion, he changed his image in the minds of bothProfessor McGonagall and Dumbledore.
Just as Dumbledore said at the opening dinner, if he was open minded toward change, then he can give him an open and fair chance.
The first and second-grade teaching ended on the first day of school, and Sherlock was even more prepared for the next senior grades teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts.
On the morning of the second day of school, the fifth-grade students were whispering with anticipation, and Professor Forrest would give them a new lesson.
They saw Sherlock walking in with a thick stack of parchment.
"After rising to the fifth grade, do you know what the biggest challenge you will face is?"
At the beginning of the class, Sherlock didn't talk too much nonsense and started his opening remarks directly.
Under the podium, all the students shook their heads in bewilderment, they didn't know what kind of challenge they were going to face.
Sherlock shook his head in disappointment.
"Every generation is worse than the previous generation. When I was in school, even the fourth graders were already nervous. You all started fifth grade this year, but you don't know why you should prepare."
This is exactly what Sherlock was using to talk nonsense at Hogwarts with the words of his teacher in his previous life. He never went to school at Hogwarts, so how would he know whether the original owner was nervous or not in the fourth grade?
"O.W.L., the Ordinary Wizarding Levels exam, this is at the end of the fifth grade, and you will face the first magic exam that will determine your future."
"Unlike the previous final exams, the OWLs will be held by the Ministry of Magic, and there will be a total of twelve subject exams. The results of the exam will still be graded according to O, E, A, P, D and T but this time the grading will determine the Ministry of Magic. The tests you learned at Hogwarts for five years are also an important basis for other wizards to identify your abilities after you leave the campus."
"Defense Against the Dark Arts is one of these twelve examination subjects, and it is also a subject that everyone must take."
"Professor Quirrell's teaching was not very ideal last year, which means that you have fallen behind the learning progress of a normal year, so in the next year's defence class, you must prepare for this test. Work harder."
"For your study in the next year, I have arranged a complete plan-exam-oriented education plan."