Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 30: A Midnight Showdown!

"Ding~ Task triggered:"

【We are the champions (red)】

The last time Ravenclaw won the House Cup was before Snape took over! Can you just sit idly by? Damn it, guys!

Objective: To help Ravenclaw win the Academy Cup.

Rewards: 1300 experience, +1 intelligence, random card.

The last time Ravenclaw won the Academy Cup, it seems like it was the last time...

"What the hell?! You messed with me!" Ted was completely stunned.

With Dumbledore, a graduate of Grand Slam, around, is there any other chance for anyone else to win the College Cup?

Hermione: "Hmm? What's wrong?"

"Oh, it's nothing. I was just happy for Harley and Ron."

"Happy?! You're happy about losing 50 points?" Hermione's eyebrows practically shot up. For her, points were everything!

Ted reassured her, "Well, think about it! They've all lost points, so doesn't that give Ravenclaw a better chance of winning the House Cup?"

"Uh...isn't this a bad idea?" Hermione couldn't help but smile.

"Alright, stop holding it in! We don't want that stuff!" Harley shouted, slamming her hand on the table.

"Exactly!" Ron agreed.

Jerry: Me, the little mouse, whatever you want is fine~

Neville: Actually, I really want it. But I don't dare to say it.

Hermione finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

The auditorium was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

……

Malfoy probably felt extremely embarrassed because the Slytherin trio had been outmaneuvered by a girl in public.

However, it's really disgraceful to go looking for trouble with Harley and "duel" with a girl!

The main problem is that I'm too scared to fight back, I can't beat them, and I still have a psychological shadow. So what should I do?

Choose the softest persimmons to squeeze!

That evening, when there were fewer people around, Malfoy stopped Neville and Ron. "Longbottom and Weasley, if you're men, don't hide behind the girls. Tonight at 11:30, a duel in the third-floor corridor! I'll bring an assistant to fight both of you. Let's have a real wizard duel, not some Muggle-style fistfight. Do you dare?!"

Before Neville could even speak, his face flushed, Ron had already agreed: "Ha! 2v2, whoever doesn't go is a coward!"

Jerry next to him: What about me? What about me? Don't ignore me, feed me!

Of course, this couldn't be kept from Harley, even though Ron wanted to be a real man. Harley immediately saw through the secret between the three of them.

Under intense questioning, Neville remained silent, while Jerry confessed faster than if he had been put on the "confession chair." In the end, Ron could only purse his lips in resentment.

Harley: "Come here, I have a plan..."

The Gryffindor quartet planned to teach young Malfoy a lesson by giving him a Gryffindor-style beating.

When school started, Sirius gave Harley the Invisibility Cloak, a family heirloom. But now, with four people, even Harley's Invisibility Cloak can't fit them all.

Luckily, Jerry has a high stealth stat, allowing him to walk along walls and land silently. Pretty nice!

Harley and her two companions led the way in their invisibility cloaks, while Jerry followed cautiously behind.

In the end, of course, old silver coin lost to the pigeon spirit—Malfoy stood them up, and the Gryffindor four were frozen for half an hour, almost getting caught by Filch. They ran for a long time before finally escaping back.

My first nighttime stroll turned out so disastrous; it was a disastrous start!

The four of them didn't eat breakfast the next day, and Ted and Hermione were worried that something had happened to them.

They talked about being stood up the night before when they met at lunch.

Harley was furious! She wanted nothing more than to give Malfoy a Cruciatus Curse with her eyes!

But after the first major fight during flight class, another public brawl is no small matter.

Finally, Ted offered some advice: "You could spread rumors... no, the truth!"

"It spread among their friends that Malfoy was a coward who wouldn't dare keep the appointment. He tarnished Slytherin's honor. He even admitted he was a coward..."

For Slytherin, betrayal was nothing, it could even be considered a compliment.

But you can't call them cowards, unworthy of being Slytherins, or that they've tarnished the honor.

An old hand with thick skin wouldn't care. Someone like old Malfoy only cares about profit, he doesn't care about face, and honor is utter nonsense to him.

At least for the young Slytherins, it was unbearable.

In just two days, the rumors spread that Harley had a wide network of connections and amazing "fighting power"!

Malfoy was so angry he really wanted to duel, but everyone completely ignored him. They laughed when they saw him, but whispered from a distance that he was a cowardly grandson.

Moreover, the rumors have evolved, saying that he was hiding under the covers trembling with fear, and even wrote a letter to his father asking to drop out of school, saying he was too scared to stay there any longer.

After all that, Malfoy was viewed differently by everyone in Slytherin.

After all, children are easily influenced by collective opinions and care a lot about what others think of them.

Now, Malfoy really wants to write to his father to pour out his sorrow and distress.

……

The second Saturday arrived quickly.

Nobody did much during the first weekend after starting school, since there was a lot of homework.

Aside from the library, people would meet in the auditorium to play Wizards Chess, chat, or sleep in.

Apart from Ted, who gets up early every day to run, what child doesn't need a lot of sleep?

Hermione also tried to run with Ted, but she couldn't keep it up on the third day and kept dozing off in class, so she had to give up.

When it comes to doing homework, Harley Ron and her friends have already found a good method.

Besides referencing Hermione and Ted's homework, it's all about water!

That water!

Even if Yu the Great were resurrected, he still couldn't control the situation, yet two people could supply water to a hydroelectric power station!

Ted glanced at it once; five inches of content, and he couldn't find a single sentence of substance. It was just like an official document!

Go work at the Ministry of Magic from now on, it's a promising career!

This weekend was a little different; everyone had become much more familiar with the school, and things started to get restless.

In the morning, just as Ansu flew near the auditorium, Harley called out to her, "Ansu, where are you going?"

Ansu landed on the lamp stand and replied, "Hehe, go to the kitchen and get some fries~"

In just two weeks, Ansu had found the dining hall at Hogwarts and befriended the house-elves, allowing him to eat there privately. Quite the social butterfly!

"Stop eating! Quickly call Ted and Hermione over, there's something fun to do!"

Ansu could only go back and deliver the message.

When Ted and the other two arrived, Harley told them to hurry up and follow. When they reached the third floor of the second tower on the left, there were already more than a dozen young wizards there.

Ted spotted three redheads in the crowd: Ron and his two twin brothers.

"What's going on? What's going on?" Ted asked.

Ron blurted out, "This staircase can change!"

Hermione scoffed, "Half the staircases in the castle change shape, what's so interesting about that?"

George leaned closer—Ted could tell the two apart; although they looked and acted the same, there were differences in their minds, which couldn't be hidden from the mind sorcerer.

He said, "This isn't just a minor change; you'll see for yourselves!"

As he spoke, he walked up the stairs, and when he reached the thirteenth step, the stairs suddenly turned into a flat surface with a "click"—or rather, a slope!

All the steps flipped, turning the upward steps into a ramp, and George slid down them in a flash. The young wizards watching cheered in unison.

A young wizard exclaimed, "It's my turn! It's my turn!" and excitedly climbed the restored stairs.

Ted and Hermione exchanged bewildered glances as they watched Harry, Neville, Ron, and the others having a great time. A question crossed their minds—is that all? Don't the wizarding world have slides?!

When Ted returned from his run on Sunday morning, he witnessed another strange sight—a knight in armor singing.

The humming sounded a bit off-key, but it seemed to enjoy it.

The problem is that its two brothers on either side are clearly getting impatient, glancing at it several times, but it stops for a few seconds and then starts singing again.

Finally, the two suits of armor got angry and rushed up, each punching the singing armor to pieces!

Ted, run! Don't let Filch see and say you did it. That old man Deng would do something like that!

However, this aroused Ted's curiosity, and he began to study the armor inside the castle.

Ted knew quite a bit about the moving portraits from the original story, but no one had ever talked about the moving armor in the castle in detail.

What are their principles and responsibilities?

Through his observation, he discovered that not all armor pieces could move.

Some are decorative armor or souvenirs.

For example, the Elf Armor—a cruel wizard wanted his elves to protect him in battle, so he created this armor.

Unexpectedly, this thing could be considered "clothes." The little elf put on the armor and immediately Apparated away.

There are also centaur armor and troll armor, and so on.

Secondly, there are regular armors that move to specific locations at specific times, usually in cycles of several days or hours, like patrols.

Finally, there are the more autonomous armors, such as the Humming Armor and the Beat-Up Humming Armor. They resemble the portraits quite a bit and offer a high degree of freedom. However, they are rare…

(End of this chapter)