Chapter 150: Cedric’s Unbearable Memories
The incident with Professor Quirrell didn't keep them distracted for long. Cedric recounted that the previous Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, the one before Oren, was actually even worse than Quirrell.
Back then, Cedric had just started at Hogwarts—a first-year student brimming with dreams and endless expectations. Unfortunately, that excitement faded in less than two days. In their first Defense Against the Dark Arts class, the professor cast a series of vicious jinxes on the students under the guise of teaching.
There was the Vomiting Jinx, the Horn-Growing Hex, the Hair-Thickening Jinx, the Jelly-Legs Jinx, and the Swelling Head Jinx... Cedric had experienced them all.
While the professor always managed to reverse the effects in time, ensuring no lasting harm, the experience of being jinxed was extremely unpleasant. The Swelling Head Jinx, in particular, left him with a dizzying discomfort he remembers all too vividly.
To make matters worse, the professor pitted classmates against each other, dividing them into two groups from different houses and forcing them to duel with jinxes. For Cedric, each Defense Against the Dark Arts class felt like torture, leaving him needing days to recover afterward.
Thankfully, these ordeals didn't last long. Cedric explained that on Halloween, a large group of heavily armed people stormed into Hogwarts and took the professor away. Initially, everyone assumed he was some dark wizard. But a few days later, The Daily Prophet revealed that he was actually an escaped patient from St. Mungo's Hospital—one from the psychiatric ward.
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After Cedric finished, Kyle and Kanna stared at him in disbelief.
"It's true," Cedric said, shrugging as he caught sight of their shocked faces. "If you don't believe me, you can ask the Weasley brothers. They know, too."