Chapter 48 - Finals (1/2)

Weeks passed once more and Chris started to see Quirrell's failing health.

”Professor are you doing alright? You look quite pale,” Chris said one day after Defense Against Dark Arts class.

”Yes... I'm doing fairly well. I'm just waiting for summer vacation to come. This year has been a bit tiring for me,” Professor Quirrell said.

”Alright I hope you do get better Professor. Sicknesses do sneak up on you and become nasty little things since they're going to be constantly in your head,” Chris said. Quirrell's expression changed a bit, but he immediately put up a smile. .

”Alright do move along. I know that you don't want to spend all your break with me,” Quirrell said.

”Of course. Have a nice day Professor,” Chris said as he quickly left to go to Hermione and Kristine who were both waiting for him.

”What took you so long? We have to study. The test is in like 2 weeks. If we don't do well, we might have to repeat our first year! Repeat! Our! First! Year! I'd rather leave Hogwarts permanently and go to some other school before I get humiliated for repeating first year,” Hermione shouted as the three started walking to the library.

'Goodness I knew that she was study freak, but to think she would freak out this much for staying behind 2-3 minutes late,' Chris thought. 'But I guess Quirrell's physical and mental health is hitting its peak. I suppose regardless of whether or not the results are going to be like the book or the movie, he's going to die,'

...

Test days finally came with Hermione being more nervous than ever.

”Oh guys what if there's something we haven't studied on in the test? I can't get a single question wrong. I-”

”Hermione, you have to relax,” Kristine said as she rubbed her eyes. Chris noticed that she had a small dark circles under her eyes. ”We've talked about this all night. We basically read all the textbooks for the past 2 months and if Harry, Ron, or Se-yeon were here, they'd basically say the same thing. Remember when even Se-yeon told us that we had to rest a bit, but you said that we couldn't and we studied for the next 2 hours?”

”Yeah yeah,” Hermione said as she took a deep breath. ”Alright I'm ready. Let's go,”

As Chris was walking down to his first class, he heard a sound that he hasn't heard in a while.

[You have a new Quest. Get over 100% on all your tests. All the tests given today has a chance of giving extra credit. Even the History of Magic class can give you extra credit on some of the questions where you can write extra for more points.]

Reward: 15,000 EXP, 3 Galleon, and 1 bottle of fire-repelling potion/Recipe