My Hogwarts has a serious problem.

Chapter 45. I'm Being Watched

"Are you alright?"

Ian stepped forward and helped Lynn up from the ground.

Lynn patted his bottom and waved his hand to indicate that he was fine.

His eyes lit up, completely ignoring the thick hair on Ian's body, and he put his arm around Ian's shoulder.

Ian felt goosebumps all over his body when he was stared at like that.

"What are you doing?"

"Ian, do you think we're friends?" Lynn asked sincerely.

Ian hesitated for a few seconds, then reluctantly nodded: "I guess so."

"You're lying!"

"How did I lie?"

Lynn just looked at him resentfully, unable to explain why.

He can't say that the system didn't recognize that he had completed the task, so it assumed he was lying.

With just a simple test, Lynn was able to see the difference between his current physique and Ian's after he became a werewolf.

After his physique attribute was unlocked, he already had 2 attribute points. With the 1 point from the side quest reward, he now has a total of 3 points.

Lynn guessed that 3 points of physique was the physical fitness of a normal adult, while the younger wizards at Hogwarts should only have 1 point of physique, such as Cedric.

After Ian becomes a werewolf, his constitution will have at least 5 points!

This is Lynn's conservative estimate, and Ian is not even an adult yet.

An adult werewolf's physical abilities would definitely be much stronger.

Of course, werewolves also have their own limitations.

Even setting aside the fact that ordinary werewolves completely lose their subjective consciousness after transforming, Ian, for example, is unable to use magic after becoming a werewolf.

However, the Lynn system's stat allocation does not have this flaw at all.

If he can obtain the rewards for the second stage of the system's mission, he will gain the same powerful physique as Ian the werewolf after his transformation, and his use of magic will be unrestricted.

Such an improvement would be enormous for any wizard.

Even if you could max out your Constitution points...

Lynn had already started imagining himself turning into a human tank, rampaging through countless beams of magical energy.

As Lynn pondered this, she couldn't help but stare intently at Ian again.

Ian felt uneasy under his gaze and instinctively moved away from him.

……

One month after Christmas.

In the Slytherin common room, Lynn looked on with a headache as Betty, who had just had a fight with her boyfriend, sat next to him complaining incessantly.

"He had an ambiguous relationship with Angela, who was in fifth grade, and I even saw her kissing his cheek once! He explained to me that it was just Angela's way of thanking him for his help and that there was no other meaning behind it, and I believed him."

But now he's trying to make me sever ties with my family just because my brother married a Muggle…”

Lynn is in a real dilemma. He doesn't want to get involved in the love-hate relationship between the two Slytherin prefects at all, but at this point, he can't leave or stay, so he's forced to play the role of a confidante.

"So he's disgusted that your brother married a Muggle?"

"Not only that." The usually strong and capable Betty's eyes were red-rimmed at this moment, as if she was about to cry.

"He actually resents my brother for not marrying his cousin. Our two families had already arranged the marriage, but my brother..."

What a melodramatic family drama! Is your sister-in-law about to have a major conflict with your mother? Then she'll get pregnant, have an abortion, get divorced, and finally be entangled in a messy, messy relationship for another four or five years?

Lynn was internally ranting, but verbally offering words of comfort.

"It's a good thing that your brother has found true love. Senior Williamson will understand."

Lynn felt he was rather ineffective at offering comfort, but he really didn't have much else to say.

"No, he wouldn't understand. His family is an extremely rigid, pure-blooded family. Don't be fooled by his lack of prejudice against you; he's just maintaining his good manners. In fact, he's told me more than once to stay away from you."

Why am I being dragged into this again?

Lynn was completely bewildered. He felt increasingly uncomfortable and knew he shouldn't stay there any longer, so he declined.

"Senior, I just remembered I haven't finished my Transformation class assignment. I have Transformation class this afternoon, so I have to go back and do my assignment. I'm sorry I can't continue chatting with you."

His reasons were valid, and Betty didn't try to stop him, but instead asked in a low voice.

"Are you free tonight? I'm feeling down, could you come with me for a walk near Black Lake?"

Lynn got goosebumps all over and hurriedly waved his hand.

"I'm sorry, senior, Cedric asked me out tonight... to go fishing! Yes! Fishing! So unfortunately, it was arranged in advance, and I really don't have time. I'm so sorry, goodbye senior!"

Lynn fled from the Slytherin common room as if he were escaping.

Lynn didn't care at all about Betty saying that Raphael was talking badly about him behind his back.

He never expected all the young wizards in Slytherin to like him. Maintaining a semblance of harmony and keeping to themselves was enough; there was no reason or need to take it any further.

What horrified Lynn was the meaning behind Betty's words.

Although he was single in both his lifetimes, he'd seen it all, even if he hadn't eaten pork! All those romance dramas he watched in his spare time weren't for nothing.

Betty's words just now conveyed the same meaning—that since there's no possibility between me and Raphael, something can happen between us.

Lynn turned pale with fright, feeling unable to comprehend her thoughts.

He's only twelve years old this year!

Betty is in seventh grade this year, and she's almost seventeen.

They were five years apart in age. Although Lynn usually acted a bit precocious, she still looked very young.

Does this count as pedophilia?

Lynn was in a state of turmoil, so of course she didn't go to the library to do any unfounded homework. Instead, she found Cedric and Ian and made plans to go fishing at Black Lake that night.

"Are you crazy?"

Cedric touched Lynn's forehead, and Lynn slapped his hand away.

"Who are you cursing?"

"What kind of fish would you catch if you weren't crazy enough to go to Black Lake? You can only fish for other fish."

"I don't care, even if you're a fisherman, you're coming with me tonight."

Ian had astronomy class in the evening and couldn't join in their fooling around, so only Cedric accompanied him to bait the fish by the Black Lake in the evening.

"What exactly are you trying to do?" Cedric complained as he hooked the beef he had stolen during dinner onto his fishing hook.

Their actions were hard to ignore; a group of idle wizards watched them from a distance, as if hoping they would catch something.

Lynn had already cast his line into the lake without bait, because he hadn't come here to fish in the first place.

He turned his head toward Cedric and spoke cautiously.

"I think I'm being watched by an old bull."

(End of this chapter)