Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

Chapter 173 "Qingshui Team" wins the championship

"I don't know, I just... suddenly figured out something." Moon laughed at himself, "I felt that my resistance to my uncles was actually just a way of expressing anger, which should not have happened. At that time Seeing Hesper crying, I always feel a little touched. My uncles are actually very good to me. They treat me sincerely, but I have always been indifferent and alienated from them because of this anger."

"It wasn't right, so I changed it."

To express anger, there must always be a source of anger.

In Professor Dumbledore's view, this anger originated from the death of Moon's father, but only Moon himself knew that his anger originated from his previous life, from the father with whom his blood was thicker than water.

But these are all words that can only be kept in the heart.

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Sirius began his journey.

Before leaving, he gave Munn a gift. According to his own words, it was a thank you to Munn for saving him from prison.But the more Moon looked at the gift, the more he felt that it was Sirius's taunt after he admitted that he was not very good at flying broomsticks - the gift from Sirius was a flying broomstick.

Moon was so filled with hatred that he went to see Cedric the day after receiving the gift. He was determined to practice his broomstick skills with Cedric's help so that he could give it to the little boy the next time they met. Sirius put on a good show.

Although Professor Lupine came to Hogwarts to teach a few years early, he still shined in the classroom and won the unanimous approval of most of the young wizards in the four houses. Everyone said that this was the best performance in several years. A Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.There was only one person who seemed quite unhappy with Professor Lupin's arrival, and yes, that was Professor Snape in Potions class.

As a result, everyone gained twice as much happiness in Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and then vomited it all out in Potions class.

In the second week of March, the battle between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff on the Quidditch field began. The two sides competed on the field for a long time, and even the young wizards of the two houses shouted " In the end, Gryffindor narrowly won by 150 points - it sounds outrageous, but the fact is that the scores of the two sides could not widen the gap. One moment, Gryffindor was leading by 10 points, and the other moment, Hufflepuff was leading by 10 points. Leading by [-] points, the final Golden Snitch was also narrowly defeated by Gryffindor, because Hufflepuff's Seeker was only half a body behind.

Fierce applause was given to the players of the two houses. Although the little badgers of Hufflepuff felt sorry, the applause was not half as weak as that of the little lions of Gryffindor. The players shook hands with each other. Encouraged, he left the scene.

On the third weekend of March, the final battle of Hogwarts Four-wizard Tournament finally arrived. The little wizards, whose atmosphere had improved a lot in the past few months, sat around in the great hall and muttered. They are discussing forming a team to participate next year. Look at the situation. The number of registered teams next year will be at least doubled.

Moon was so happy. Compared with when he first came to Hogwarts more than a year ago, the barriers between the four houses of Hogwarts have become much smaller, and the situation of making friends among the young wizards has also improved. Great improvement.The "stubborn little bastards" who originally had the upper hand in Slytherin have now fallen into a slight disadvantage. A few even directly chose to change their minds and join the other faction of Slytherin. They discovered for the first time that it turned out that You can gain more friends by not bullying others - of course, this is actually due to the fact that most of the young wizards in other colleges have gradually let go of their prejudices and no longer sneer at the word "Slytherin".

Of course, such "stubborn little bastards" do not only exist in Slytherin, but also in other houses, but they are mostly in Slytherin, followed closely by Gryffindor, followed by Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. then the quantity is the minimum.

Anyway, everything is going in a good direction.

In addition to Professor Flitwick and Professor Sprout, who were originally determined to be the referees and supervisors of this duel, Professor McGonagall, Professor Lupin, and Professor Sinister also came to watch the game, and Hagrid was also recruited by the school. Everyone who reported to the office pulled over and treated it as a part of the fun.What made everyone even more excited was that Professor Dumbledore also came, which made the game suddenly more realistic.

After the young wizards from the two teams discussed the order of playing and handed the slip of paper with the order to Professor Sprout, Professor Flitwick stood on the makeshift duel platform and loudly said: "Please come first on both sides." The contestants taking their turn in the duel come on stage."

Under everyone's curious eyes, Heathcote Barbary, the senior member of the "White Cardboard Team" led by Heathcote Barbary, personally stepped onto the duel stage; on the other side, Penelo ·A first-year Hufflepuff wizard emerged from the "Clear Water Team" [Note 1] led by Crevat.

At this moment, the little wizards watching the game in the auditorium burst into laughter, and even several professors couldn't help but smile. Barbary's face suddenly turned green, and Penelo Cree stood in the audience. Watt's face was full of happiness.

Now Tian Ji is racing.

After Professor Flitwick suppressed a smile and waved his arm and announced the start, the two bowed far away. Before the first-year wizard could figure out how to use his wand, Barbary knocked him down with a blocking spell. land.

"I surrender!" The first-year Hufflepuff admitted defeat simply and neatly. Barbary won, but he was not happy at all. He was replaced by the weakest one on the opposite side, which meant that their team's The chance of victory fell by a large margin in an instant.

Sure enough, just as Barbary thought, in the next two games, Miss Clearwater won easily, defeating a Slytherin boy who was in the same third grade as her, and then, Team Clearwater and White Cardboard The last members of both teams took the stage and contributed to the best duel of the day.

These two little wizards are both fourth years, one is from Hufflepuff and the other is from Gryffindor, and they are both from Muggle families. There is not much difference in the amount of spells mastered by the two, and their mastery level is also about the same.It was precisely this comparison of strength that made the two of them match up, and they would meet talented people. In the end, the Gryffindor wizard of the Clearwater team was slightly better, blocking the opponent's attack with an iron armor spell, and then won the victory in one fell swoop.

In the eyes of the professors, today's duels were obviously childish, but in the eyes of other young wizards who came to watch, the last duel was actually very exciting.Besides, the first game was pretty funny.Therefore, in the next few days, no matter where you go, you can almost hear discussions about the first Hogwarts Four-wizard Tournament.

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[Note 1] Penelope Clearwater, whose surname "Clearwater" literally translates to "clear water", their team was too lazy to name, so they directly used the captain's surname as the team name.

Chapter 174 Strange Club

After the Hogwarts Four-wizard Tournament was officially concluded, it has still maintained its popularity for a period of time. There is no doubt that when it is held again next year, the number of participants will greatly increase - maybe it will be completed in four days by then. Not enough anymore.

Of course, it’s true that the popularity has been maintained for a while, but that’s all.After entering April, Hogwarts has entered a new period of calm.Because not only was the Final Four over, but the Quidditch game also happened to be in the offseason. There was not a single Quidditch game in the entire month of April, and the last two games were all placed in May.

Without large-scale activities, students had to start their own small activities.Perhaps the school newspaper office, Wizard Chess Club and Gobstone Club jointly organized such a large-scale competition so that everyone could see the novelty. Therefore, using various clubs in the school as a carrier, one after another, some interesting or boring The activities began to unfold.

Among the interesting ones, such as the handmade candy competition held by the Candy Club, the competition itself attracted the participation of quite a few little wizards.Although they don't have any generous prizes, the "handmade sugar" thing is interesting enough after all.Even with the success of the competition, the Candy Club was featured in the school newspaper and attracted more club applications.

But those boring ones...

There are no prizes or gimmicks, and the competition itself is even more boring, just like the "Charcoal Prediction Contest" [Note 1] organized by the Divination Club. Not only did no little wizards sign up to participate, but even after such a competition was launched, Even the few club applications had been withdrawn - probably because they felt that joining such a club would be a bit... embarrassing.

Therefore, the mixed results caused by this wave of activity once again suppressed the thoughts of most clubs in Hogwarts that were ready to move.They finally realized that it wasn't just any activity that could make their club popular, it required ability.

But during a chat between the Wizards Chess Club and the presidents of other clubs, the leaders of these clubs got to the real core of the problem.

You know, the Wizard Chess Club used to be called "half-dead" among students, but in fact it was pretty much the same. No matter how much the Wizards Chess Club members claimed that they were an "elite club", they even started to claim that the reason for the small number of people was " Maintaining the pure bloodline of the Wizard Chess Club" cannot hide the problem that there are only a few of them.And now?After several successful events, coupled with Ian's almost mandatory reforms, the Wizards Chess Club has successfully become the most popular club in Hogwarts.

And who is the biggest contributor to all this?Is it Ian?

No, in the eyes of the club presidents, Moon should be the biggest contributor.The Wizarding Chess Club has held activities before and thought about expanding its enrollment, but it never succeeded. How come it has taken off smoothly now?Didn’t you get a free ride on the school newspaper?

As a result, everyone ran to the school newspaper office to find Moon.

There is no doubt that for most clubs, their behavior will only be rewarded by Moon's words: "It can't be cured, there is no hope, so say goodbye."

Because they completely failed to notice that although the wizard chess club took off with the help of the school newspaper, Moon and the school newspaper were also involved in the two successful events.But the problem is that these can push the Wizard Chess Club to the door, but they cannot help the Wizards Chess Club make the final kick.What really made the Wizard Chess Club make the final move was Ian, who finally made up his mind, and the "reliability" of the Wizards Chess Club itself.

What is the "reliability" of the Wizard Chess Club itself?

Moon looked at the chairman of the troll club in front of him, and then thought about the chairman of the goblin club who came to see him yesterday. One head was about to become two heads.

The little wizard joins the Wizard Chess Club to learn about Wizard Chess and find people to play Wizard Chess with.What about joining the troll club?Research trolls?Know about trolls?Defense Against the Dark Arts and the excellent Professor Lupin are obviously more reliable.But if it's not these two...it can't be just to play happily with the troll, right?

The tapestry of the troll beating Barnabas is still hanging on the wall!

As a result, everyone in the school newspaper office watched several club presidents arrive one after another excitedly, and then "leave" one after another in dejection.Later, everyone even started to make bets, betting that several club presidents would come to Moon today, and how many would successfully get advice.

More than a week later, Moon, who was beginning to be troubled, was really helpless. He had no choice but to withdraw his "Bian Que Three Series·Fake" [Note 2], really giving it to these weird clubs. Come up with a good idea.

This Friday, April 4th, in a sense, has become another day that can be recorded in "Hogwarts: A School History".Because on this day, Moon came to Professor McGonagall with a bunch of club presidents.

"What? Club merger?" Professor McGonagall looked at the students representing all kinds of strange clubs in surprise, and it was hard to accept it for a while.

Club mergers are not completely unprecedented before, but they are not only rare, but usually two or three clubs merge. It is really unprecedented for a large number of clubs to be merged together.

This is really...

so comfy.

Professor McGonagall often complained about these "bizarre" behaviors, including three or five people in a club occupying a table.The most important thing is that it is too troublesome to manage so many clubs, and the workload is completely doubled.

The club presidents looked at me and I looked at you. No one knew who should negotiate with Professor McGonagall. In the end, they simply pushed Moon, who organized them, to the front.

"Yes, Professor, they want to merge the clubs." Moon looked back helplessly, and then said to Professor McGonagall: "We have already thought of a name for the new club, let's call it 'The Strange Club'."

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[Note 1] According to the divination club’s own introduction, a group of people gather together to use the ashes left by burned coals to perform divination and predict the future.

[Note 2] Bian Que San Lian: an old Internet meme, the original version is "can't be cured, wait to die, say goodbye", the above was modified by Moon to "can't be cured, can't be saved, say goodbye", so it is called Bian Que Three even pseudo

Chapter 175 The last two battles

The Strange Club was established in this way, and as Moon had previously estimated, after its official establishment, as soon as it was mentioned in the school newspaper because of the "super large number of club mergers", there was immediately a large wave of applications to join. .

Firstly, the fact that so many clubs merged into one club is very interesting in itself; secondly, it is because of the new declaration of the Weird Club.

The reason why these clubs couldn't recruit people in the past is actually very simple - they are all too niche, those who study this, those who study that, those who do this together, those who do that together...

Now, after merging into the Weird Club, their external publicity standard has become "As long as you have niche hobbies, you are welcome to come in and find your own hobbies."

club?No, no, no, after Moon’s suggestion, the Weird Club has become an “online dating platform for Hogwarts niche fans.”

You don’t have to spend any money to apply for a club, and you can also find people who share your niche hobbies here. There are no disadvantages at all. Of course, many people will want to join and give it a try.

Even the original members of these merged clubs were very happy. The reason was very simple. Many of them discovered that there were quite a few people in Hogwarts who had the same hobbies as them, just because of the names of their previous clubs. It's so funny that I'm just embarrassed to join in.

Now everything is fine, everyone is happy, the club members are very satisfied, the little wizards of Hogwarts have a platform to make friends, the club presidents have witnessed the prosperity of their clubs, but what about Moon?

Not only could he no longer be harassed by these club presidents in the school newspaper office, but he also received a lot of candies, prank props, and stationery such as quills from these club presidents.

The quantity is large enough to open a small shop.

Of course, there are always good and bad news, and everyone else is happy, so Moon is destined not to be "happy".

Although the presidents of the merged clubs will no longer harass him in the school newspaper office, they will instead be likely to harass Moon in more places because Moon has become the president of the weird club.

Just like when we faced Professor McGonagall, everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and decided to push him out to face Professor McGonagall; later when faced with the question of who should be the president of the club, everyone You looked at me, I looked at you, and then pushed Moon up.

In fact, Moon has no objection to being the chairman of the Weird Club, because to him, this thing is quite fun.But when he thought about the possibility that a lot of vice-chairmen would come to talk to him every day, his two-big head swelled to four.

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Not to mention Moon's joy and joy, nor the waves of novel experiences brought by the Weird Club.After countless lingering spring rains, May, the month most young wizards at Hogwarts have longed for, has finally arrived.

Why do we miss May so much?

Some little wizards do it because Professor Lupine promised them that he can take them to see new, living "little monsters" in May (the kind that will not be killed by the righteous Ultraman [Note 1]). Some little wizards do it because Professor Sprout will announce in May that the herbs in their care are officially grown.But more little wizards are because the arrival of May means that the last two Quidditch matches are about to begin.

So why do most of the little wizards think about it, but not all of them?

Tonks said, that's because our NEWT has taken another step closer! ! !

Of course, Tonks is actually not as anxious as she was before. A month or two before the exam, she seems to be slowly relaxing - at least now you can see her in the school newspaper office again. .However, the problem is that she also likes to quarrel with Gemma more and more. It is difficult for people to doubt whether she uses "quarreling with Gemma" as a means of reducing stress.

Compared to Tonks, many fifth- and seventh-grade students who were less pressed for time some time ago became more anxious and more fond of frolicking in the library.As for whether this cramming behavior is useful...

Mainly it depends on the people.

After all, some people are extremely anxious and want to go to the library to see beautiful women and handsome men.Or else I spent four hours in the library one day, and ended up zoning out for three and a half hours, admiring my wand for 10 minutes, and picking my fingernails for 5 minutes - did you think you would spend the last 5 minutes reading a book? ?No, those 5 minutes were spent looking for books.

Well, Oliver said he had a fifth-year Gryffindor friend who did exactly that [Note 2].

On the weekend of the second week of May, the competition between Hufflepuff and Slytherin officially started.

Although the little wizards of Hufflepuff were already working hard to cheer for their players, in the end, under Slytherin's powerful offensive, the Hufflepuff team was still widened by the score gap. Ten points, two points Ten points, thirty points... When Slytherin won in the end, even not counting the 150 points of the Golden Snitch, they were a full eighty points higher than the Hufflepuff team.

However, the Slytherin team received boos that they had not encountered in the last few games for a long time. Two of their main players had to come off the field and be replaced by substitutes due to physical reasons. One of them is now in the same fourth year as Oliver. Marcus Flint [Note 3], and just as Oliver is the captain of the Gryffindor team next year, he was originally the captain of the Slytherin team, just because he was the captain of Moon in the two years. Due to the unremitting efforts to rectify the atmosphere, and the fact that the most vocal Slytherin group was Gemma and her group, he was temporarily demoted to the bench.

And Flint was quite dirty when it came to playing football. He played dirty tricks on the field several times and even injured Hufflepuff's Seeker, which naturally attracted a lot of boos - others The complexions of many members of the Slytherin team continued to deteriorate visibly to the naked eye. By the time the game was over, Flint was the only one in the audience who looked normal.

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[Note 1] "We are all little monsters, and one day we will be killed by the righteous Ultraman." This comes from the dialogue between Hui Liyi and Lu Mingfei in Dragon Clan. This is just a casual whipping of an old Jiangnan thief.

[Note 2] The fifth grade friend mentioned here does not mean that Oliver himself is already in fifth grade this year. In fact, he is only in fourth grade this year.

[Note 3] Marcus Flint had an age issue in the first version of the original novel. In the first part, he was in sixth grade, which resulted in him having to be "forced" to repeat the grade for a year in the third part; however, In later revisions, this problem has been corrected. In Philosopher's Stone, Marcus Flint's grade was adjusted to the correct fifth grade, which means that he is exactly in fourth grade this year like Oliver.

Chapter 176 Final Exam

At the end of the game, Marcus Flint became the person who felt worse than the Hufflepuff players who lost the game - although he would not be expelled from the Slytherin team, there was no doubt that next time There is a high probability that a captain will miss him.

Yes, their current captain will leave the school next year, and the position of captain will be vacant. But the problem is that if no one will value his ability and confidence to dominate the family, what will happen in the future? Without those dirty little tricks, in a fair competition, he would never be the captain, because the only thing he can do is to strike harder and harder than others.

Within a few days, Flint even began to complain about why he couldn't help but play so dirty. If he hadn't done those things, maybe he would be more hopeful next year.

Of course, no matter how much he regrets it, the thing has happened after all, and there is no point in regretting it.

Two weeks later, the last game of the year, the game between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, was officially announced.

For the team members of the two colleges, this game was not very exciting. Instead, it really felt like friendship came first and competition came second.The reason is simple, because no matter who wins or loses in this game, the final outcome is the same - the championship of this semester has been taken away by Slytherin, who has completely won.

Fortunately, both players maintained a good competitive spirit. While playing the game in a friendly manner, neither player blatantly took advantage of the situation on the court.

Don't have to say anything...

In the end, Wood probably wanted to prevent Ravenclaw from losing too ugly (Ravenclaw repeated the tragedy of Hufflepuff earlier this semester. The team members were playing very hard, but because the fifth-year members were too Many players were in worse shape than the other in this game, so the score gap between the two sides was a bit wide), so they secretly let go of a ball and deliberately allowed Ravenclaw to score a few more points.

Well, but this can’t be considered fishing, right?

The end of the Quidditch match means many things, such as the birth of the annual Quidditch champion, the team members of each college can take a good rest for a few months, and for example...

This semester has come to an end unknowingly.

The last Quidditch match was on the fourth weekend of May. Then, after a week of classes, June came quietly, followed by the final exams for the little wizards.

"Ha... Moon, how do you think I did in the exam?" Yaerlin tightened his face, as if others couldn't tell that he was about to cry.

"..." Moon rubbed his hair and said helplessly: "It's okay, Yaerlin, just cry if you want. We won't laugh at you."

As soon as Moon finished speaking, Gal next to him let out a short funny laugh, which sounded a bit like a duck quacking.

If Munn could speak for himself, he felt that Garlin was obviously better at comforting Yaerlin than he was, because after he said those words, Yalin's expression did not improve at all.But Gal just laughed, and Yaerlin looked like he didn't want to cry almost immediately.

Because he was angrily running over and preparing to strangle Gal.

"You are unkind and I am unjust! Gal Fuller! If you have anything to say, tell the God of Death! Today I will let you know what the power of the eagle's claw is!"