Chapter 236: The Only Choice
Professor Flitwick waved his wand, and a stack of white papers dispersed, flying towards each student.
Wade reached out and caught the paper in front of him. It listed the elective courses, their times and locations, and brief descriptions.
At the bottom was another section, outlining which courses were required for various professions.
The classroom buzzed with discussion.
"Don't rush, children, don't rush."
Professor Flitwick waved his arms. "Any hasty decision is prone to error. Go home and think it through carefully. And... happy holidays."
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"Ugh, my holidays are definitely not going to be happy," Theo said gloomily in the Umbrella Room. "My whole family is writing to me, giving me their opinions on electives."
"Me too," Neville said nervously. "They all say different things. I don't know who to listen to."
"How about we sort through your family's opinions?" Wade suggested. "While others' opinions can be good, we don't have to accept them wholesale. We just need to pick out the parts that are most beneficial to us."
"Yes, excellent!"
Neville almost eagerly brought out all his letters, looking at Wade expectantly.
To be honest, in this regard, he trusted Wade more than his own family.
Neville's grandmother, Longbottom, had an exceptionally high level of expectation for him, which put a lot of pressure on him. His uncle and other relatives, however, were pessimistic, believing it would be a victory if Neville managed to get O.W.L.s in more than two subjects.
But Wade would consider his actual level and needs.
Subsequently, Theo, Michael, Padma, and others also compiled the opinions of their parents and elders.
After consulting everyone, Harry even dragged Ron along, worried he might make a wrong choice.
Ron looked a bit awkward and said in a somewhat forced tone, "Honestly, I just want to drop Potions Class."
"Me too," Harry said, sympathizing.
"But we have to take all the original subjects. Otherwise... we'd just take a few easy ones," Michael said with a sigh.
Wade pulled out a huge whiteboard and then drew a table on it—
Ancient Runes.
Divination Class.
Arithmancy.
Care of Magical Creatures.
Muggle Studies.
Neville held a letter, read it briefly, and said, "My uncle said Arithmancy is very difficult to learn, requiring memorization of a lot of charts. He told me not to waste my time on it, that I wouldn't be able to learn it."
Wade wrote next to Arithmancy: [High difficulty. Requires: Strong memory, strong arithmetic ability].
"He also said not to study Ancient Runes—that you have to memorize tons of words and pronunciations. If I took this class, I wouldn't even be able to write the number '0'—is that true, Wade?" Neville asked.
Wade smiled and said, "It's not that exaggerated, but the way to write '0' is Demiguise, the same as the Demiguise, and the pronunciation is..."
He made a very convoluted sound that sounded very different from English.
Then Wade added, "Many words in Ancient Runes have more than one pronunciation, and you have to choose based on the actual application. Also, the writing direction is different; sometimes you change the writing direction as you go, and this change also affects the meaning expressed."
Neville gasped, "That sounds too complicated."
He unhesitatingly crossed both Ancient Runes and Arithmancy off his list of potential choices.
Almost all the others listening in secretly decided not to choose these two subjects, only Hermione seemed unaffected.
"I have a letter here."
Theo also pulled out a yellowed envelope.
"Oh, it's from my cousin—she says if I want to get an easy certificate, Divination Class is the best choice."
Neville hesitated. "My grandmother says it's a scam and told me not to choose it."
George, holding the letter Ron received, read, "...for truly gifted people, Divination is a wonderfully useful subject... Wow, predicting the future."
"This must be from Percy! He's at school, and he still wrote a letter!"
Fred snatched it to look, and sure enough, it was. Then he leaned on George's shoulder, laughing, "He actually said... I don't think you have the talent for this... Hahaha..."
Ron snatched the letter back, his face red, and said, "Percy took all the electives, he must know what he's talking about! Asking him is much more useful than asking you two!"
"Oh?" Fred raised an eyebrow. "So what 'useful' advice did Percy give you?"
Ron stammered, unable to speak.
In fact, after a lot of analysis, Percy had ultimately picked two subjects for him that were easy to get good grades in and would also be useful in the future:
Care of Magical Creatures and Muggle Studies.
[Care of Magical Creatures is relatively interesting, and the exams are quite easy to pass. As for Muggle Studies, I imagine it shouldn't be difficult for you, given Father's influence...]
Percy's advice was very pertinent, but after reading his letter, Ron secretly crossed out Muggle Studies in his mind, wanting to choose Divination Class instead.
Because Percy had said in his letter:
"This is a pointless class; Professor Trelawney will give high marks to anyone willing to just make things up, without considering whether students have actually made predictions… In fact, I doubt she's even half as good as she claims…"
"I only took this class to achieve the honor of twelve O.W.L.s, but for you, I don't think that's necessary…"
Ron immediately focused on the "easy high marks" comment and decided it was his top choice.
However, saying that out loud would be like admitting he was stupid. He hesitated for a while, not voicing his own thoughts, but simply describing Percy's opinions on the various subjects objectively.
Wade compiled everyone's letters, adding more details to the form. By the time the last letter was organized, almost every confused student had a clear idea of what they wanted to do.
Wade put down the chalk and said, "Although the opinions vary, some parts are actually consistent."
"Arithmancy and Ancient Runes are both very difficult, requiring a lot of memorization and recall. The other three courses are relatively much easier."
"Care of Magical Creatures focuses on practical work, Muggle Studies has a fair bit of memorization, and Divination is easy to get marks in, but the professor's reputation isn't great, so you likely won't learn much useful from that class."
"Have you all decided what to choose?"
"Wade, which classes are you going to take?" Michael asked.
Wade smiled and said, "Of course… all of them."
For him, it was the only choice.
The only chance… to get a Time-Turner.
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