"Now that I've exposed Lupin, who is both a werewolf and a dark wizard, I can prove to you all from every angle that he's a werewolf…" Malfoy continued, addressing all the students before him.
"Firstly, werewolves have extremely strong regenerative abilities. When the chandelier fell on Professor Lupin just now, he quickly recovered his mobility. Don't you find that strange?"
"Stop talking!" With blood rushing to her head, Hermione suddenly stood up from her seat, raised her wand, and chanted, "Langlock!" A beam of light shot from her wand, like a meteor, swiftly aimed at Malfoy.
"What do you think you're doing!" Pansy immediately got up upon seeing this, forcefully kicking aside the desks and chairs blocking her path, and rushed to Hermione's side. "You mud…" She felt like she was about to utter that nasty, insulting word, but something made her stop abruptly. Then, she raised her own wand, pointed it at Hermione, and said with disgust, "Sneaky little sneak attacker, I'm going to teach you a lesson!"
"Dark wizards always have helpers. Birds of a feather flock together, don't they?" Malfoy continued, staring at the students below, and leisurely added, "I'm not at all surprised that I would be attacked by a select few."
The spell didn't hit Malfoy. He only needed to sidestep to avoid this harmless spell, which ended up hitting the wall and dissipating into the air.
"Tsk, now let me continue to complete the proof of my proposition."
"If you listened carefully during class, then the knowledge that Snape taught us during those two days he substituted is actually enough to make a judgment. Of course, I know that most of you didn't pay attention, so let me ask a student who definitely listened."
Malfoy strolled leisurely to Hermione, pushed Pansy aside, and then directly asked Hermione, "Miss Granger, can you now explain to the students here the methods of identifying a werewolf? So that in the future, these students won't be deceived by werewolves without knowing it."
Hermione was trembling with anger, her chest heaving, unable to speak.
Hermione's last shred of sanity was about to be completely swallowed by rage. Was Malfoy trying to ruin Professor Lupin beyond redemption?
"It seems I asked the wrong person. It's obvious that this student wants to protect this werewolf." Malfoy pretended to scrutinize Hermione for a few moments, then waved his hand, drawing the attention of all the students present.
"Enough!" Lupin got up from the ground, stopping Malfoy from continuing, and then calmly said to all the students, "He's right, I am a werewolf. I don't deny it."
The tables and chairs below began to creak and groan again. Many students even lost color in their faces, suspecting that the teacher before them would transform into a werewolf at any moment and start a massacre.
At this time, Lupin had adjusted his emotions, only feeling somewhat disappointed, and no longer looking at the students' expressions.
"Now that my identity has been exposed, I can no longer continue teaching." Lupin tried to keep his voice from trembling, even forcing a smile as he said to Malfoy, "You won this duel, Mr. Malfoy. You did very well. Also, this class is almost over. I know that the students below must be terrified of me, which is fine. I'll be leaving here soon."
Although Lupin wanted to smile, all that was visible on his face was a bitter smile.
"If possible, I hope you can retain a good impression of me, considering that I haven't harmed any of you." Saying this, Lupin sighed deeply. After the blow just now, he also felt a sense of relief. From the beginning, he had actually deceived the students, even if it was for the sake of carrying out his teaching work, but ultimately, he was the one who wasn't honest first.
"Maybe this is a good ending."
Lupin thought, dusting off the dirt on his body, preparing to submit his resignation letter to Dumbledore today.
Lupin knew very well that no parent would be willing to have their child taught by a werewolf, it was too dangerous.
Honestly, if he were still a normal person, he probably wouldn't be able to accept it either.
"It's just that I'm a little sorry for Headmaster Dumbledore's expectations." Thinking of this, Lupin felt a little disheartened. He had originally planned to at least finish teaching this academic year, but he didn't expect that he wouldn't be able to achieve it.
"Mr. Malfoy, you actually saw through me a long time ago, didn't you?" Lupin walked to Malfoy's side and whispered.
"That's right, Mr. Lupin." Malfoy nodded, responding in a similarly soft voice.
"What are you going to do to Draco?" When Pansy saw Lupin gradually approaching Malfoy, her first reaction was to assume that he was enraged and wanted to retaliate on the spot.
"Don't worry, Miss Parkinson. I just want to have a word with him." Lupin waved his hand, indicating that he had no malicious intent.
"Don't worry about me." Malfoy said, giving Pansy a reassuring look.
"Then I'm very curious, why didn't you expose me back then? If you were dissatisfied with my lessons, you wouldn't have had to endure my boring classes for most of the semester if you had revealed my identity then." Lupin continued to ask.
Strangely, his heart was unusually calm at this moment. Apart from the slight bitterness he felt from being looked at by the students with strange eyes, he didn't feel the slightest resentment towards the "culprit" before him.
"Quite the opposite, Mr. Lupin, so far, you are the most outstanding Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher I have ever seen." Malfoy politely responded to Lupin's question.
"Then I find it even harder to understand your reasons for exposing me." Lupin smiled bitterly, deciding not to pursue the matter further, and started to walk towards the door, but suddenly stopped.
"I'll give you a few more minutes of class, if you're willing to listen." Lupin suddenly turned back and walked back to the teacher's desk, propping his hands on the surface, facing all the students, behaving as if nothing had happened.
Hermione was just staring blankly at Professor Lupin at this time.
"Werewolves are extremely dangerous creatures. They possess extremely strong destructive power and vitality, and are cruel and vindictive by nature."
The more calmly Lupin narrated, the more Hermione worried about him. Lupin was wholeheartedly thinking of these students, preventing them from repeating his mistakes.
Lupin later found Hermione privately and told her the reason why he became a werewolf. This was not something Lupin could choose. If he could, he would also want to be a normal person. Lupin hoped that Hermione could keep it a complete secret for him, at least for this academic year.
Hermione had no reason to refuse. She trusted her judgment. Such a teacher would not harm his students. Even before Lupin explained the situation to her, she had already decided to lock this secret in her heart forever.
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