Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 41 [Halloween Howls (Green)]

Ted returned to his dorm, put down his backpack, and took his guitar to their usual spot.

Sure enough, before the piece was even finished, Helena appeared.

"Did you discover something last night?" she asked urgently, her voice still carrying a hint of etherealness.

Ted hesitated. "I'm not sure. It could be some kind of magic left behind by Lady Ravenclaw..."

"Mother..." Helena could no longer hold back her emotions, and bright silver tears slid down her cheeks, dripping onto the ground and disappearing.

"I miss her so much. I want to apologize to her. I let her down..." Helena's sadness welled up in her eyes, dripping and disappearing.

How should one comfort a ghost that has existed for thousands of years?

With Ted's limited knowledge of psychic powers and the less than 100 years of psychological research by Muggles, neither could have touched upon this issue.

He could only listen silently to her sobs and recount events from a thousand years ago.

She recounted how she had been jealous of her mother's reputation and wanted to become smarter and more famous than her, believing that stealing her mother's crown would grant her wisdom. This led to her tragic death in Albania, never having the chance to see her ailing mother one last time.

He even mentioned being deceived by a Slytherin student forty or fifty years ago, who told him the whereabouts of the diadem. That is, Voldemort…

Ted could only watch her with his guitar, unable to even offer her a handkerchief to wipe her tears.

"Okay, it feels much better to say it out loud. I've had these words bottled up inside for so many years... Let's talk about my mother's statue. For so many years, no one has realized that she's been bewitched." Helena steeled herself.

It was indeed a very ordinary statue, a half-length statue of Ravenclaw without the legendary crown, with his hair loose.

The reason it has survived for thousands of years is partly due to its high-quality materials and partly due to the magic of the castle that maintains it.

Ted touched his face. "It might not be ordinary magic; it's more like a jumble of thoughts..."

He couldn't quite pinpoint what it was, but rather sensed a peculiar emotion through his subconscious mind, rather than a normal fluctuation of magical energy.

Otherwise, every Ravenclaw Headmaster would be a top talent and couldn't possibly be completely unaware. It can only be said that it's a field very different from the current magic system, even closer to psychic abilities.

These words seemed to stir up some memories for Helena. She was silent for a moment, then said, "In her final years, Mother did indeed put aside rune casting and many ancient spells, and instead studied some unusual magic. I think I need some time to look into it..."

"Thank you, Ted." She thanked Ted, then turned and walked through the wall.

……

The afternoon class went by so quickly that it seemed to slip away unnoticed by the young wizards as they eagerly awaited the evening.

Even as soon as get out of class ended, Ron and Jerry, who were in the hallway, forgot what class they had just had!

But don't worry, because the first festival and banquet will be coming two months after enrollment.

The air inside the castle was thick with excitement and tension.

Dinner will be later tonight due to the banquet.

When Ted and his six friends arrived at the auditorium, they were stunned.

The entire auditorium was illuminated by countless candlelight and braziers, making it appear magnificent.

A large swarm of bats flew around the ceiling of the auditorium, and every now and then a lone one would crash into the wall and disappear.

They were all created by magic.

A large pile of pumpkins carved into ghost faces was placed against the wall and on the table, and some jack-o'-lanterns floated in mid-air, turning around.

The pumpkin pancakes on the table were already piled high, steaming hot, and a special sweet aroma was desperately trying to get into your nostrils, making your saliva involuntarily accumulate, and then you swallowed them with a "gulp".

"Ding~ Festival quest triggered:"

[Halloween Howls (Green)]

That's it? That's it? That's it? Eating some pumpkin pie, drinking some pumpkin juice, watching bats fly around, and touching jack-o'-lanterns? This isn't how Halloween is supposed to be! In the Muggle world, the school would be furious! Let them see what a real Halloween is like!

Objective: To frighten 10 people before the dinner party ends.

Progress: 0/10.

Reward: 200 experience points, card [Ghost Cloak (Green)].

Wearing a pumpkin hat, good fortune surrounds you; donning a ghost costume, good luck resides on you; wearing Superman pants, happiness cannot be hidden; stepping into big boots, happiness abounds!

Ted was startled awake by the system. He carefully read the task, pondered for a moment, and whispered to his friends, "Friends, I think this is too ordinary..."

"This is normal?" Ron's eyes widened—aren't your expectations a bit too high?!

Ted said, "As the new generation of wizards, we have a responsibility to make Halloween more fun, and I have a plan..."

Jerry: That sounds like something a Gryffindor would say.

Harley: Did you steal my lines?

Ted: Come closer, let me tell you how we do it, and so on...

Soon, not only Ted and his six friends, but also the Weasley twins and their best friend and roommate Lee Jordan joined the plan.

Just as most of the students had arrived, started tasting the pumpkin pie, and were waiting for the dinner to officially begin.

Suddenly, a scream rang out.

Caught off guard, the students all turned to look at the location where the scream had come from.

A bloodstained face appeared at the entrance of a side door. It was impossible to tell who it was, but judging from the clothes and figure, it was clearly a student.

He seemed to be trying to escape, but a dark blue, muscular ghostly claw grabbed the back of his neck, and then a bloodstained axe cleaved down on his head!

"Bang!" The boy's "corpse" fell to the ground with an axe on his forehead, and blood spread beneath him.

A terrifying ghost face, as big as a car wheel, peeked in from outside the door!

At the same time, a chilling gust of wind swept in from somewhere, and all the students who were still in a daze immediately shivered.

Then, as if waking from a dream, a dozen or twenty screams rang out simultaneously, almost piercing the transparent ceiling of the auditorium!

In an instant, the light in the entire hall dimmed, and under the flickering lamplight, countless little wizards howled and wailed, crawling all over the place trying to escape.

"Ding~ Quest completed [Halloween Howling (Green)], reward: 200 experience points, card [Ghost Cloak (Green)]."

【Ghost Cloak (Green)】

item card

Wearing: Disguise as a ghost, moving silently.

Note: No matter how similar it looks, it can't pass through walls, so there's no need to try.

Then, a voice rang out: "Quiet!"

The voice was familiar to everyone, and it seemed to have a calming power, instantly stabilizing the students who were terrified.

It's Dumbledore!

He and several professors had silently appeared on the professors' desk at some unknown time.

Ted quickly waved to his friends from the shadows: Hurry up! It'll be too late if we're too late!

He was prepared to take the blame and take the fall, since the mission was already accomplished.

However, Snape was not about to let the brats get away with it! He wished he could put them all in a cauldron and boil them.

So, no one escaped, including Hermione.

"Oh, it's our Miss Know-It-All and Mr. Know-It-All, and..." He glanced at Harley, a look of disappointment welling up inside him.

"And there's a bunch of trolls from Gryffindor!"

"Let me think about how to punish you. Scaring students and attempting to disrupt the school's Halloween party—I recommend expulsion!"

Damn it, Ted rolled his eyes – have you no shame? Why don't you just sentence Azkaban to life imprisonment!

The professors, of course, couldn't let Snape do that.

Dumbledore pointed his wand to his throat, silently casting a megaphone spell (to make his voice boom): "Quiet, students. This is just a little joke my friends played on you on Halloween Eve. I think it's quite funny."

At this point, the students finally realized that they had been tricked!

The "corpse" being hit by the axe was played by Jerry.

The monster with the split head is Ron riding on Neville's neck; the two of them co-starred.

That big ghost face was created by Ted using Transfiguration, with Harley controlling it from behind.

Ted really did watch a lot of horror movies; that wheel-shaped ghost face is genuinely scary.

When it first appeared, Neville and Ron, who witnessed it firsthand, were both terrified.

The "bitterly cold wind" was created by Ted using the Freeze Charm to generate coldness, and Hermione using the Hurricane Charm to create air movement.

The Weasley twins then used the Extinguishing Charm together. Although it could not completely extinguish the large number of candles and braziers in the Great Hall, it could suppress the flames for a short time, greatly reducing their brightness.

Lee Jordan was part of the atmosphere team, responsible for screaming in the crowd and inducing panic so that people couldn't think rationally.

If the professors hadn't suddenly appeared, Ted and his friends might have scared the students so much they wet their pants.

Ted's task was completed in an instant; he didn't choose to scare people one by one, but instead did something big. There must have been at least a hundred people who were frightened just now.

Yes, we exceeded the target!

At that moment, Professor McGonagall stepped forward: "You lot almost ruined the Halloween party! Gryffindor loses 20 points!"

Professor Flitwick, of course, also had to make an appearance. Although there were only two students from his house, based on Ted's confession, he was the mastermind. Therefore, Ravenclaw also lost 20 points!

Ted looked at the task: [A student life without deductions is incomplete (blue)], and the progress was already 75/100!

Ted: I really want to laugh~

Could you give me two monthly passes?

(End of this chapter)