The Wind and the Wings of Hogwarts

Harry asked a question and placed a box of candy on the table.

"I heard you went to the school clinic, this is a gift to visit you," he said with a smile.

"Thank you, I'm fine."

Scott had mixed feelings.

In his words from his past life, it's like the wheel of fortune turning...

But Harry's arrival seems to be just the beginning.

Not long after, Fred and George arrived.

"Scott!"

"Are you alright? I heard you were attacked by Slytherin!"

The two of them had heard a rumor from who-knows-where, and after it had been passed around several times, they rushed over.

Just as Scott was about to explain the truth, Jacob walked in.

As soon as he came in, he asked, "Scott, I heard you were injured in a duel?"

"..."

Scott suddenly didn't want to answer the question.

Fortunately, Roger was there to explain things to him.

Suddenly... well, Scott's hospital bed became incredibly lively.

It wasn't until Mrs. Pomfrey stormed in and forcefully drove away everyone except Scott.

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Chapter 077 An Unexpected Letter

Saturday morning.

When Scott woke up, he felt that he had regained his strength, so he asked Mrs. Pomfrey for permission to be discharged from the hospital.

Mrs. Pomfrey was a very conscientious and responsible therapist. She examined his body carefully again before reluctantly agreeing to let him leave.

“Please remember this, Mr. Trollope,” she warned Scott, “you are not yet an adult, and your magic is still developing naturally. Overworking your body’s potential will have a negative impact on your future!”

“Also, don’t try unfamiliar spells without a professor watching over you!” She stared sternly at Scott.

“Yes, madam,” Scott replied obediently.

After leaving the school hospital, feeling a bit hungry, he went straight to the auditorium.

It was breakfast time.

Since it was the weekend, many students probably preferred to sleep in, so the auditorium wasn't very crowded.

But when Scott walked into the auditorium, he still attracted a lot of attention.

He knew it was because so many people had seen him being taken to the school hospital by Roger, and there were even multiple versions of rumors circulating about it.

At this moment, the students in the auditorium couldn't help but cast inquiring glances at the person in question who was the subject of the rumor.

Fortunately, he was mentally prepared.

He first silently recited a sentence he had seen online in his previous life: "As long as I'm not embarrassed, it's others who are embarrassed."

Then, as expected, he no longer felt embarrassed, smoothly ignoring the curious and teasing glances, and casually walked to the Ravenclaw table and sat down.

He had no intention of clarifying those rumors, because it would be pointless.

Students who spread rumors and gossip are just killing time during their boring free time; they only care about having fun and don't care about the truth.

Moreover, based on Scott's past experience, such news tends to generate buzz for at most a day.

Ignoring their stares, Scott adopted an expression of not wanting to communicate and chose his favorite sunny-side-up egg from the fairly plentiful food on the table.

But he quickly stopped eating.

He turned his head and watched Percy Weasley walk over and stand beside him.

“Trolopp,” Percy said to him, “I have a letter for you here.”

“My letter? Who sent it to me?” Scott was extremely surprised.

He couldn't understand how he ended up with a letter in Percy's hands.

Moreover, he noticed that Percy seemed a little angry.

"This is a letter Bill wrote to you."

Percy simply took out a letter and placed it on the table in front of Scott, speaking in a rather unfriendly tone.

"If you remember, you once wanted me to introduce you two because you wanted to discuss your thesis with Bill!"

Oh!

Scott knew something was wrong.

He had been through a lot recently and hadn't had time to think about his plans to talk to Bill Weasley.

“I’ve been waiting for you to come to me.”

Percy continued.

"You were the one who suggested writing to Bill to discuss Transfiguration and asked me to introduce you two at the Transfiguration Club. So you should write a letter first and let me pass it on to Bill."

“I’m sorry…” Scott said quickly.

But Percy didn't let Scott finish speaking; he gave Scott a haughty look.

“Although you haven’t acted as you said you would, I still mentioned you when I wrote to Bill,” he said. “I told him that you were very interested in his paper.”

He kept talking non-stop, and Scott couldn't get a word in edgewise.

“You should be grateful, Trolop. Bill is a friendly wizard, and even though you didn’t show any sincerity, he still took the initiative to write you a letter.”

Percy raised his chin.

"Now you can reply to Bill yourself, Trolop."

“Thank you…” Scott said.

"Anyway, I hope you have a pleasant exchange. Goodbye."

Before Scott could finish speaking, Percy said goodbye and turned to leave.

"..."

Scott watched his retreating figure, then glanced at the letter on the table, his feelings a mix of emotions.

I got a lecture from Percy first thing in the morning, and I couldn't even say anything back.

Although he was a little annoyed, he admitted that he hadn't handled the matter properly, and he could only accept the criticism...

After finishing breakfast, Scott curiously opened the letter.

He never expected that Bill Weasley would take the initiative to write to him.

This is indeed very rare.

After all, the other party was already an adult wizard, so it seemed a bit too eager for him to write to a fourth-year wizard to discuss the magic meeting.

Scott assumed that wizards would generally be reserved when faced with questions from young people.

He unfolded the letter and read its contents carefully.

Bill greeted him first, then wrote about his paper.

Although the paper was published in the journal Transfiguration Today, it failed to generate much discussion or recognition.

Most wizards who saw the paper simply found Bill's ideas interesting and novel, but they also thought the paper was otherwise worthless.

After all, in the eyes of those wizards, a conjecture that is impossible to realize and only has a certain theoretical possibility is indeed of no research value.

This made Bill somewhat discouraged.

He was originally very confident in that paper, and he wanted to find some wizards who were interested in his conjectures by publishing the paper, and to discuss and research with him.

But the result clearly disappointed him.

No wizard was willing to work with him to study that seemingly impossible conjecture.

It wasn't until Percy mentioned Scott in the letter.

Percy had apparently written down everything Scott had said at the Transfiguration Club that day in the letter.

Bill was delighted by this and, without hesitation, wrote a letter to me.

He expressed his gratitude to Scott for appreciating the paper and was pleased that Scott had once had the same conjecture.

However, Scott was not very happy after reading the letter.

Because at the end of the letter, Bill said that he himself had given up on that conjecture—

I studied it on my own for a while, and even ventured deep into the pyramids several times for this purpose.

Later, I gave up.

Actually, I will not give up as long as there is even the slightest hope of success.

But that's too difficult.

Moreover, my reason tells me that I shouldn't waste too much time on things that are hopeless.

You are the same.

Fred and George both praised you as a genius, and I guess you two are good friends.

I don't want my paper to affect the future of a Ravenclaw genius...

Upon seeing this, Scott realized that Fred and George had probably also written to Bill about that matter.

The real reason Bill wrote this letter was to persuade him to give up verifying the conjecture.

Scott let out a slow sigh.

He was indeed in a bad mood at the moment.