Everyday Players at Hogwarts.

Chapter 177 Magical Development

This was the first time Harry felt as if he were back at the Dursleys' house again, and Rita's reports had never made him feel that way.

How could he be so stupid as to forget the Invisibility Cloak? It was the Deathly Hallows, his father's relic, and it was just forgotten in the Astronomy Tower. If it was lost like this, what would he do?

Ron was thinking about whether this matter would be known to his parents, and Percy would definitely complain.

Draco was the most relaxed, but he was still immersed in the pain of separation from Norberta. In terms of feelings for Norberta, Draco was not inferior to Hagrid, but he was better at controlling his emotions, just like he used to suppress his sympathy to bully others.

This also caused Harry and the other two to remain silent on the way back to the dormitory by Filch last night.

Harry suddenly came out of his worry about the Invisibility Cloak and thought about the points deducted, which made him a little envious of Draco.

Draco deducted 20 points from their school, while Harry and Ron had 40 points deducted from their school.

Even more fortunately, the Slytherin common room was in the basement, so Draco could get rid of Filch in advance and didn't have to endure Filch's weird looks and chattering along the way.

When they returned to the dormitory, everyone else had already fallen asleep, and even Harry and Ron's return could not wake them up.

And Harry barely slept the entire night.

What would happen when the other Ravenclaw students found out about the good things they had done?

Will the Quidditch team still regard him as the future captain? But this may not be a bad thing. It will make him feel relieved, Harry thought.

To be honest, thinking of this, Harry no longer worried about tomorrow, but he was still a little unhappy. Unlike himself, Ron fell asleep almost as soon as he touched the pillow, which made Harry begin to envy Ron again.

Sometimes, what Draco said might not be untrue. How could a thick-skinned man like Ron get into Ravenclaw?

Thinking of this, he smiled and finally fell asleep.

The next day, as the Ravenclaws passed the giant hourglass recording the House Cup scores, they thought something had gone wrong.

How could they suddenly be forty points lower than yesterday?
Then, word slowly spread that Harry Potter, the famous Harry Potter, the hero of two Quidditch matches, had caused them to lose so many points, him and two other stupid first-year students.

However, no one paid attention to this, leaving some people with ulterior motives puzzled.

More people are interested in who the other two are, which two of Draco Malfoy, Ronnie Weasley, and Neville Longbottom.

Even Harry hadn't expected this trend. No one was interested in his lost points. They were all curious about why they went there. Was it because of jealousy?

The report previously published by Rita Skeeter has been dug up again.

Harry was one of the most popular and respected people in the school. After the ups and downs, he was no longer surrounded by people like before, but now he was back to the situation at the beginning of the school.

Ron also regained the popularity he had when he first started school.

Ron attracted everyone's attention at the beginning because everyone thought that they could get the "Doraemon" gold card from him through hard work, but after seeing Ron's performance, they realized that there was no hope at all.

The subsequent report by Rita Skeeter only made him a little famous, but the popularity came and went quickly, and Ron soon returned to the point where no one cared about him.

Ron had been holding a grudge against this in his heart, but this time, he became popular again. He made up his mind that he must become the superstar of Hogwarts this time!

So, under Harry's surprised gaze, Ron made up different versions of the story and told it to everyone he met.

In his story, he discovered that the phoenix of the Ravenclaw Tower had disappeared for several years and was living in seclusion in the Astronomy Tower, relying on an invisible beast for survival. The reason why they did not appear was because of poachers hidden among the senior Slytherin students.

It is because of them that the Astronomy Tower has been closed during after-school hours.

Ron discovered the conspiracy behind the scenes, and together with his think tank Draco and the armed force Harry, they thwarted the conspiracy and got rid of them.

The only regret is that the true identity of the mastermind was not found, and he was reported and finally caught by Professor McGonagall.

Other versions of the story are similar, the only difference is that Ron himself plays an increasingly important role.

At Harry's strong request, the ending where the Phoenix and the Invisibility Beast are no longer in the Astronomy Tower was added (to prevent someone from going there and discovering the Invisibility Cloak).

Eventually, the story even reached Professor McGonagall.

"Come on, I doubt why you would believe this ridiculous story."

"Potter and the others were caught because Dumbledore said someone was hanging around in the Astronomy Tower. He knew I had the habit of staying up late, so he asked me to go check it out."

"It's nonsense to say that we were reported by the mastermind." Professor McGonagall said this with a cold face in a Transfiguration class.

"But, Professor, do you know why they went to the Astronomy Tower?" asked an unknown badger.

"They didn't say anything," said Professor McGonagall unhappily.

"Could it be that Dumbledore wanted to hide the secret of the phoenix? The headmaster himself has a phoenix! So he did something that was not in line with his status!"

"This story--" Just as the class was about to start a quarrel, Professor McGonagall deducted 10 points from Hufflepuff as a warning, and the communication on the matter ended.

Not all schools would be interested in a romance between several boys.

But if we add a phoenix or even an invisible beast to this story, it will become something special.

Now, Ron's story has become logical and perfect after being spread by various people.

Some people even swore that Ron's swollen right hand was injured because of this, and Hagrid's hut was suddenly closed and now Hagrid has a sad face all the time.

It's no secret that Hagrid loved magical creatures, and he must have been saddened by the departure of the Phoenix and the Invisible Beast.

However, because of this, no one cared about the relationship between Harry and the others anymore.

At the same time, there were a few extra students who wanted to break into the Astronomy Tower and get points deducted - Filch had been waiting there with premeditation as soon as the story got out.

This made it difficult for Harry to find time to retrieve the Invisibility Cloak.

He could only focus his mind on studying and Quidditch for the time being, looking at the Astronomy Tower from time to time.

But his behavior of looking at the Astronomy Tower from time to time provided evidence for Ron's story, and Ron got the result he wanted from this story - Rita Skeeter mentioned this incident prominently in her latest report, and she used it to criticize the education at Hogwarts, asking why a school would produce hunters of magical creatures. She ignored the setting in Ron's story that the mastermind behind the scenes was a Slytherin student, and listed several Muggle-born seniors who were good at learning magical biology as suspects.

Things were becoming more and more magical, and Ryan could not have imagined that it would develop like this.

(End of this chapter)