Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Chapter 78 Integration and Learning

After the brief welcome ceremony, Harry said with a bit of nervousness and anticipation, "Uh - actually this is my first time joining a club, so I don't know much... May I ask what the rules of the SSC club are? Is there anything I need to do?"

Everyone looked at each other.

"——Club?" Theo asked confusedly, "Are we already a club?"

Neville was surprised: "Isn't SSC a club? I thought it was already one!"

"If students form a club, do they need to report it to the professor?" Ryan asked with some uncertainty.

Michael: “I thought we were a club?”

"The club requires membership dues, right? We haven't paid any money." Ryan said based on what he had learned from his Muggle relatives.

Neville was a little confused: "I say - what's the difference between a club and a society?"

Everyone was silent for a moment - Yeah...what's the difference besides the name?

They were unable to put it into words for a moment.

Harry never expected such a scene to happen. He carefully thought about how things turned out like this, and then silently looked at Hermione beside him.

Wade looked at Hermione who was trying not to laugh, and asked helplessly, "Hermione, what did you tell Harry?"

Hermione burst into laughter, waved her hand and said to Harry, "I didn't say anything. You and Ron just guessed, right?"

Harry: "..."

Yes... She didn't say anything, but repeatedly emphasized that this matter was very important, so he had to be cautious and well prepared. She also reminded him to bring his wand... and then watched them anxiously guessing what kind of tests joining the club would be.

Ron even made a particularly outrageous guess -

"Maybe they'll let you sneak into Snape's office and steal one of his personal belongings - like his underwear or a sock or something. Or throw a dung bomb into the corridor in front of Professor McGonagall to prove your courage!"

At that time, Ron looked at Harry with a tragic look, as if he was about to be torn to pieces by the angry professor.

Come to think of it, Hermione looked painful at the time - he thought it was a painful expression - but she was actually trying not to laugh, right?
Or... was it because of their various demonized speculations that Hermione said nothing?

"It's like this..." Wade couldn't help laughing. "We are actually just an after-school study group. We get together to practice spells, discuss homework problems, or borrow notes from each other. Generally speaking, we all come here to study after dinner, but we can come and go as we please. If you don't want to come, you don't need to ask for leave. There is no fixed rules. As for the rules, they are posted on the wall behind you."

Harry turned his head and saw a piece of paper nailed to the wall with only a few short sentences written on it, such as members should help each other, be united and friendly, and not touch other people's things casually. These are basically the basic moral standards that elementary school students should abide by. The only special thing is that without the consent of all members, other people cannot be brought to the umbrella house.

Harry felt relaxed at first - these "rules" were not really rules at all, and there were no strong punishments or constraints. It was obvious that all their previous guesses were wrong; but when he saw the last one, Harry's heart sank again.

——He is new here too, can you introduce Ron to join us? "Harry, your seat is here." Neville enthusiastically took Harry aside.

An empty table had been prepared next to Neville's seat, with independent bookshelves and cabinets on the side. The surrounding wooden boards formed a semi-enclosed structure that could block other people's sight, and the wooden boards could also be put down to facilitate communication.

There were also a few small tea tables, food cabinets, and soft old sofas with a few soft pillows on them. These things were prepared by Wade at Zoe's request - the old furniture in the Room of Requirement almost formed a small town, and he picked out the relatively intact ones and repaired them piece by piece, so that they looked no different from new ones.

The food cabinet is always filled with cakes, biscuits, puddings and candies, and several dark silver tin pots are filled with drinks and water, all of which are prepared by the house elves. Not only that, when the elves are free, they will also find ways to decorate the umbrella house.

Wade and his friends often found some small changes in the umbrella house as soon as they entered the door, maybe there were some strange decorations and photos on the wall, maybe there were a few pots of wild flowers blooming in the corner, or maybe one or two very useful pieces of furniture were added.

Unconsciously, this originally empty abandoned classroom has become more and more full, with traces of several people living and studying here everywhere. There is a warm and vibrant atmosphere in the room.

Harry fell in love with this place almost at first sight.

He also received a piece of parchment that was used by SSC members to keep in touch with each other - the Friend's Book. Almost everyone knew about this thing now, but Harry, who stayed in school during Christmas, had no place to buy it even though he had money.

Among the people he knew, Hermione had one, and she gave Harry one for communication, but they were together all day, so they rarely used it; Ron had two, one also from Hermione, and the other was sent to him by Mrs. Weasley after the holiday. Each Weasley child had one. Ron often used the Friends Book to chat or quarrel with his brothers before going to bed, and then Mrs. Weasley sternly asked them to go to bed immediately.

Ron sometimes complained about his mother's strictness, but Harry envied him greatly.

Now, he also has a second book of friends.

He put two pieces of parchment between his textbook and stuffed them into his schoolbag, then looked around - everyone else had already started doing their homework or reading, even Neville was conscientiously copying down his Transfiguration notes.

——This is also very different from studying in the common room. In the Gryffindor common room, there are always students making noises, and some people are looking for others to copy homework. There is no such quiet and strong learning atmosphere. If they want to do their homework seriously, they have to go to the library, but Madam Pince is very strict and does not allow eating or talking, which is another inconvenience.

Harry calmed down and took out his homework for Charms class and started writing. However, after writing just a title, he didn't know how to start.

——I should go to the library to borrow two reference books first...but everyone is studying, and if I leave suddenly, will it be abrupt? Maybe Hermione will have some books...

When Harry began to look around uncomfortably, Theo, who was nearby, noticed his dilemma and asked knowingly, "I don't know how to write it."

Harry subconsciously covered the scribbled notes and doodles on his textbook with his hands and said awkwardly, "Yeah, right."

"It's okay. We won't know how to do it at the beginning." Theo comforted him, "You can find Wade. He will teach you how to write a paper and what reference books you need to read. Before you come tomorrow, go to the library and borrow the books. Follow Wade's method and you will soon find that completing the homework is actually very simple."

In fact, Hermione was the one who read the most books, but Hermione was used to writing down everything she had read - in her eyes, all the knowledge she had learned was the key points; while Wade could point out their current problems and what knowledge they needed to improve, and then pick out the most valuable book for them to read. Basically, after reading the book he pointed out, those knowledge points that they didn't quite understand before became simple, as if they suddenly understood everything.

As he got closer, Theo also saw the messy notes on Harry's book. After hesitating for a moment, he pointed at the book and asked, "If you don't mind, can you let me see it?"

(End of this chapter)