Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 97 Don't drag me into your bragging~

Ron, with his feet on a stool, lifted the hem of his wizard's robe, surveyed the surroundings, and began to play.

"We've learned that someone harbors ill intentions and plots to steal the Philosopher's Stone that Dumbledore has hidden in the castle, and Dumbledore isn't at the school. In this urgent situation, we certainly can't stand idly by..."

"Actually, we did think about it at the time, and struggled with it for a long time. After all, the danger we were about to face is still frightening to think about now."

Jerry looked at him: You mean you thought for three seconds?

"You should know that the first obstacle we'll face is the extremely dangerous Cerberus! In Muggle mythology, it's the guardian of the gates of the underworld! It can touch the ceiling with its head without even standing upright..."

Jerry: You just heard about guarding the gates of the underworld last night, didn't you?

"In the end, we managed to defeat it after a fierce battle by exploiting its weakness! I can almost smell the stench now... As for what its weakness was, I can't say..."

Jerry: The so-called fierce battle was just Ted's chewing rock-paper-skin cake. And sleep deprivation is Cerberus's biggest weakness~

"The second challenge was set up by Professor Sprout. First, there was an endless web of demons, like countless venomous snakes coiling around you! I almost got strangled to death in just a moment (oral sex)!"

"Then came powder-shrooms of all sizes, seemingly endless, with almost no place to step. They exploded at the slightest touch; we barely escaped with our lives..."

Jerry: That's all thanks to you! You kicked them one by one, as accurate as if you were at the cafeteria during mealtimes!

"The third challenge was completing Professor Flitwick's magical ritual. To be honest, I didn't quite understand it either. Hermione and Ted were the ones who cracked that strange thing. I just helped Jerry, Neville, and the others stop dozens, maybe even hundreds, of magical statues from interfering with them."

Ron waved his hand dismissively.

Jerry: Don't drag me into your bragging!

"The fourth challenge was Professor McGonagall's double test! It was the most exhilarating wizard chess game I've ever played. I'm telling you, I was prepared to sacrifice myself. At that moment, someone had to be sacrificed, and that was me, the chess player!"

Ron looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, his face filled with a bright sadness.

At that moment, he was radiant, dazzling, and incredibly handsome... The girls' eyes lit up.

Jerry: Okay, all I can say this time is that you did a great job!

"The fifth level consists of three bizarrely shaped giant monsters..."

"The sixth challenge consisted of a puzzle and poison set by Snape, but it was useless; Ted broke the spell using his own methods..."

"Finally, it's Dumbledore's turn!"

"Neville and Ted have arrived at the checkpoint Dumbledore set up. Guess who they saw?!" Ron exclaimed in surprise, slamming his fork against the plate with a loud clang.

Ted: Give him a gavel for Christmas this year. Isn't storytelling much more promising than being a wizard?

"Who? Who is it?!"

"Yes! Who is it?"

"Could it really be the mysterious person?"

"No, that can't be, right? Wasn't he said to be dead?"

"Could it be one of his loyal subordinates?"

"Could it be a dark wizard?"

While listening to the story, the students also started discussing it, especially the existence of the mysterious person, which sparked a heated debate.

Ron ignored that and continued, "It's Professor Quirrell!"

"Ah?~" A gasp of surprise rippled through the auditorium.

"You didn't expect that, did you? We didn't expect it either. It was Professor Quirrell, who's usually the most honest and unassuming guy. He's the mastermind behind it all!" Ron said indignantly, like an innocent woman who had been deceived by a scumbag three or five times.

Next, Ron even played three different roles, moving left and right to recreate the scene for everyone:

Quirrell: Didn't expect to see me here, did you?

Neville: Professor, what are you doing here?

Quirrell: What do you think?

Ron: "Guess what Ted said? 'You're just here to take a dump, aren't you?'"

Ted: He's slandering me! He's slandering me! How could someone as refined and easygoing as me utter such vulgar words? I'd just unleash a few curses! Who's going to bother arguing with him?!

……

Ron didn't even make it to the final stage; he made it up on the spot when he got carried away.

Unexpectedly, the "pooping joke" became popular on campus. Whenever an inappropriate person or awkward situation arose, someone would whisper, "Are you here to poop?"

Furthermore, Ron brought up Ted's failed attempt to scrape the powder from the Philosopher's Stone, and despite Ted's threatening gaze, he said that "living for three hundred years is enough."

For the first time, I truly understood what the Palace of Versailles meant at Hogwarts Castle.

In particular, the phrase "I don't want to lay flowers at your graves a hundred years from now" has become a common greeting among close friends.

To this, Jerry said: "I, the mouse, have the shortest life!"

The average lifespan of the rat-eared subhumans is 60 to 70 years.

Human wizards can easily live to be eighty or ninety, and those with strong magic can easily live to be over a hundred.

Elves, needless to say, live for at least three hundred years. Dwarves can live for two hundred years too!

In short, Ted and his friends' story spread to a small circle.

Ted and his group were already prominent figures at school, and now they are even more famous.

Neville initially became famous as the savior, while Ted rose to fame by singing the school song, and later caused a great stir on Halloween and Christmas.

There are also rumors of six little wizards battling three monsters at Easter.

Now they're even recreating the year-end showdown with the mysterious figure!

To put it simply, if the school didn't have the Ted Six, there wouldn't be much of a fun thing to do.

Now, not only first graders, but also second and third graders give Ted and his six friends a look of amusement, as if to say: Kong Yiji, you've stolen books again!

This contradicts Ted's initial low-key plan! It just goes to show that plans can't keep up with changes.

Sure, high risk, high reward. Ted is even considering whether to upgrade his Mind Mage level!

……

Ted later wondered if Professor Quirrell had any regrets.

That Halloween monster incident was really far-fetched and suspicious.

This is a brainless thing to do; it's not like someone as cunning as Quirrell would do something like this.

But you say it was an accident? That's absolutely impossible. The monster was definitely released by Quirrell on purpose.

So, what is Quirrell's purpose?

Could it be that he's trying to use this opportunity to ask Dumbledore for help?

Perhaps he regretted it at that time, but with Voldemort stuck to the back of his head, it was impossible for him to turn himself in. At the crucial moment, Voldemort could have killed him directly.

Therefore, he used this method to alert Dumbledore that something was wrong with him, hoping that the other party would investigate him and save his life.

Dumbledore may have noticed something was wrong with him, but ultimately couldn't save him.

Perhaps Dumbledore never intended to save Voldemort after he brought him back from Albania.

Or rather, when the attempt to steal Gringotts failed and Voldemort's face appeared on Quirrell's head, Quirrell's death countdown had already begun.

If he had managed to bypass Voldemort before he was possessed and sought help from Dumbledore, he could still have been saved.

Ted had no idea that he had received a small part of Professor Quirrell's legacy—some papers on magical bloodline transplantation.

He had previously asked a student to send the document to Ted so that Ted could write down his own thoughts.

But because the student was a bit slow and hadn't been delivered yet, Quirrell and Ted entered Dumbledore's game one after the other.

When Professor Quirrell received the paper, he was speechless.

……

Three days after Ted and his friends defeated Voldemort, it was the Quidditch Grand Finale this year—Gryffindor was defeated by Slytherin once again.

When Ted saw Professor McGonagall leave the stage, he staggered and looked utterly dejected, a sight too painful to behold.

She wasn't this heartbroken, even when half the grade failed the transformation course.

She's been smitten with Slytherin winning the Grand Slam for years now, and she's so resentful!

Especially when I think back to my last game before graduation, I was knocked unconscious by a Slytherin foul that knocked me off my broom, leading to the team's crushing defeat.

It's like yesterday is happening all over again, it's double torture!

What a pity, what a pity.

The savior in this timeline is Neville. It's a miracle that Neville can sit steadily on the broomstick; he absolutely hates flying broomsticks and gets panicked whenever he sits on one.

It's definitely a scary broom!

As for Harley, she flies very well.

But she disliked Quidditch at all, finding it incredibly boring and effeminate.

That's right, she thinks the game is all about the Seeker, and the physicality is terrible. So she'll never join the Quidditch team.

Poor Professor McGonagall, who knows how many more years of failure she'll have to endure.

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I can't do it myself; I don't have the time.

I'm sorry, Professor, I can't help you!

Ron was furious about Gryffindor's crushing defeat: they lost to Slytherin, then Ravenclaw, then Hufflepuff, and finally they had nothing left to lose. (Shrugs)

He vowed that if he joined the Quidditch team, he would lead the team to victory!

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