At the same time, Hermione outside the examination room was also asking about the quiz. When she learned that Adrian had used a small wooden block to create an owl, she felt rather disappointed.
Hermione thought that after studying so hard for so long, she could narrow the gap a little. But she hadn't expected the gap would only get bigger.
On the way back, Adrian also happened to meet George and Fred Weasley, who were looking gloomy. They'd just taken the third-year History of Magic exam and looked like the sky was falling.
"What's wrong with you? It's not time to announce results yet, right?" Adrian asked curiously.
"No, but we must have failed the exam." Fred sighed, then turned his eyes to George. "I blame you, George. I told you to put the research aside and review a few days before the exam."
"So? Did you review well? Who was the one studying in the dormitory until midnight yesterday?" George rolled his eyes.
"I was working on the self-answering quill, the one that can automatically write the answer! Preparing for exams is different from what you were doing!" Fred defended himself.
"Yes, and it turns out this quill will only write answers we already know. It's definitely the worst invention!" George said with dissatisfaction, because he'd trusted Fred so much this morning, only to be shocked as soon as he arrived in the examination room.
'A self-answering quill? That would still be quite good for homework...'
Adrian thought to himself. Seeing the two blame each other noisily, Adrian's mood improved considerably.
This wasn't to say he was gloating, but these two had a natural charm that made others happy.
"Professor Binns has a good temper. Generally speaking, as long as you finish writing and the answer isn't too outrageous, passing should be no problem." Adrian felt amused and tried to comfort them.
"Yes, I thought so too, so I secretly ate a Skiving Snackbox sweet, had a nosebleed, and tried to pretend I was unwell to win sympathy. At first it went well, but in the end..." George shrugged.
"Fred ate one too?" Adrian had already guessed what happened.
The two of them must have done the same thing, and while Professor Binns was sometimes a little confused, he definitely wasn't stupid. Two students having continuous nosebleeds that wouldn't stop, anyone could see the problem.
"So we're done for..." George and Fred looked at each other. They looked like they wanted to cry.
"I can only wish you good luck." Adrian spread his hands, indicating he could do nothing.
"Forget it, let's not talk about it. Did you use the Dungbombs we gave you? How did they work? We're planning to officially sell them in school next semester." George quickly sorted out his mood and asked.
"I used them on Quirrell. Let's just say... they did the job! Otherwise, you'd probably be visiting my grave right now," Adrian said with a crooked smile.
"Was that when you and Harry defeated Professor Quirrell in the basement? Tell us..." Fred suddenly became excited.
George had a whole new idea.
"Maybe we can write this as a slogan next semester, then put Quirrell's picture on the box. The Dungbombs will definitely sell!"
Listening to George's wild idea, Adrian's mouth twitched. He had a new understanding of their ability to court death.
'If you do this, won't the Dark Lord lose face?'
Adrian hesitated about whether to tell the story of Quirrell being controlled by the Dark Lord, to stop their suicidal thoughts.
But remembering that in the original timeline, both of them had dared to mock the Dark Mark during the height of Voldemort's power, Adrian still felt it was better not to say anything.
Otherwise, they'd probably print Voldemort's face on a Dungbomb box with the slogan:
"I'm the Dark Lord, and I endorse Dungbombs!"
Adrian imagined the scene in his mind, thinking the Dark Lord who was currently in hiding might be so angry he'd come back just to kill the two brothers.
___
A few days later, the test results were finally announced.
Before this, all of Hogwarts seemed panicked. Even the Weasley twins turned their grief and anger into motivation and came up with a kind of charm that supposedly temporarily improved performance. It sold very well for a while. In the end, even the two of them believed it and wore them all day long. They even tried to give one to Adrian.
Adrian certainly didn't accept it, because he didn't need that kind of thing at all.
His Transfiguration, Potions, Herbology, and Charms classes all had perfect scores. They couldn't be higher.
Even Adrian, who originally wasn't good at flying lessons, got an Outstanding grade.
After fusing the unicorn's blood, it wasn't only his strength that had improved, but also his natural talents!
Especially his perception and control of magic power had greatly improved, making it easy to control a flying broomstick.
The only thing that went beyond Adrian's expectations was History of Magic. He only got an E (Exceeds Expectations), which left Adrian confused. He'd missed the first place in their year because this position was taken by Hermione.
Hermione was happy all day about this, though she still compared answers with Adrian carefully, looking for where points were deducted.
"No, I remember the ancestors of werewolves were created by wizards using Transfiguration... That obviously wasn't wrong." Adrian looked at the parchment scroll in his hand.
"That must be a mistake in your memory. Section five of Chapter 17 of A History of Magic states that the first werewolf appeared because of incorrect treatment after a wizard was bitten by a wolf. I'll show you!"
Hermione pulled out a thick A History of Magic textbook and quickly found the corresponding content to present to Adrian.
Adrian only remembered after reading it. What he'd recalled had actually been content from the book The Origin of Blood.
Obviously Professor Binns had marked it according to the textbook content.
'Well, let the truth blow away with the wind.'
Adrian thought rather helplessly. After all, he couldn't take that book to argue with Professor Binns, could he?
After the results came out, there were only one or two days left before the holiday.
Adrian didn't plan to relax at all.
Saying goodbye to Hogwarts and returning home might be a happy thing for other young wizards, but it was somewhat troubling for Adrian.
This meant he had to face an unfamiliar family and a new environment that was even more unknown and possibly dangerous.
Don't think that just because Adrian had sorted through his memories using Occlumency, this made everything fine. He wasn't the original person after all, and it was hard to guarantee he wouldn't reveal any flaws.
The only thing to be thankful for was that he'd been at Hogwarts for almost a year. If there were any differences, they could also be explained as growth during school.
But Adrian remained cautious and spared no effort to take advantage of his last days to improve his strength and knowledge reserves as much as possible.
The most important point was to explore his newly acquired bloodline magic, the Unicorn Shadow!