Hogwarts and the Holy Grail War

"Hmm, a typical template of a bullied disadvantaged group." Ethan nodded, thoughtfully.

Children who grow up in single-parent families without male elders are most likely to be bullied at school. Their incomplete family situations are extremely easy to be ridiculed, and even become the target of malice venting by small groups on campus.

Moreover, even if they go home to complain after being bullied, female elders are usually not as strong as male elders, and in most cases they will just keep things quiet and tell the children not to take it seriously, and it is difficult for them to be a solid backing for these children. If this continues for a long time, it will develop into a vicious cycle where the more they are bullied, the more helpless they become, and the more helpless they become, the more they are bullied.

"Poor child, he must have suffered a lot in the past few years."

Ethan lowered his eyelids, as if he remembered something, and sighed to himself.

"That's not necessary. She has a sister." Percy waved his hand.

"His sister? Is she a witch?"

"No, his sister is also a Muggle. But..." Percy seemed to recall something and said in amazement, "Her sister is...oh, she is so tough."

"Hardcore?" Ethan repeated the word Percy used. "What do you mean?"

"When Alanna was in her first year, a Slytherin freshman called her a mudblood. The little girl had never been so wronged before, so she wrote an owl letter to her sister that night to complain. My goodness, when her sister found out, she rushed to school without saying a word and scolded the girl who had cursed for an hour in the principal's office. When the girl's parents heard about it, they rushed to support their child, but were also scolded by her sister for three hours. According to the portrait in the principal's office, the words used were not repeated."

"Oh my god, her sister is such a tough guy." Ron exclaimed, "Didn't the principal and professors come to persuade her?"

"Well, after all, it's an internal conflict within Slytherin, so the headmaster and the dean of Slytherin went to administer justice.

"Then Professor Snape arrived and just wanted to mediate the fight, but before he could say a few words, her sister pointed at him and started to scold him. The strange thing was that Professor Snape lost his temper after being scolded. He apologized to her sister and left the principal's office."

Ethan raised an eyebrow and coughed twice to hold back his laughter.

This old snotty Snape must have had his fragile heart touched by Alanna's story about school bullying. After all, in his eyes, he was bullied by Harry's father James all the way until graduation, so he could empathize with him to the fullest.

Although these two guys hurt each other.

"By the way, Professor Dumbledore was there the whole time, but he was just watching from the side. When her sister was thirsty in the middle of the lecture, he even went up to her and handed her a cup of tea.

"Since then, Alanna's reputation has become famous. No one dares to call her a mudblood anymore, and no one who overestimates their own abilities dares to bully her."

"No one bullies her?" Ethan was a little puzzled. This was inconsistent with what he encountered today.

"Well, that was originally the case. But at the beginning of this year, her sister fell ill, and I heard it was quite serious. When Professor Snape heard about it, he paid for her sister to be sent to St. Mungo's. He then pulled a few of us prefects out and told us to be more careful.

"And then I don't know which loud speaker spread this matter - I personally think that this must have been intentional by the Slytherin prefect, he himself is a pure-blood supremacist. Now everyone knows that her sister has fallen, and no one is backing her up. And her sister has indeed not been discharged from the hospital yet, so..."

"Then you prefects won't do anything about it?!" Harry slammed his fist on the table and roared in indignation.

Ethan looked at Harry. This boy could be said to be the one who could empathize with Alanna the most. After all, as the targets of bullying, he naturally couldn't bear to see others suffer the same pain as himself.

Because I have been through the abyss, I don’t want others to fall through it with me.

"I did, how could I not?" Percy sighed, looking unusually melancholy, "But I couldn't do anything about it. By the time I got the news and rushed over, the bullying had already started a long time ago or even ended. Not to mention the Slytherin prefect who was interfering, so most of the time I couldn't even find the perpetrator.

"And even if we find them, all we prefects can do is to scold them and then report to Professor Snape. You know what kind of people they are. They are submissive in front of the professor, but they are even more aggressive in private.

"Later, several prefects discussed and decided to split into several groups to take turns secretly protecting her. However, this offended Alanna in some way. After being discovered, she said she would not let us do this no matter what. She also said that she would rather be bullied than be protected like a baby. If she found out that we were following her, she would report to the principal and say that we were plotting against her. Her tone was so determined. We had no choice but to give up. Alas, she is as stubborn as her sister.

"But we have to say that Alanna has made her sister proud. She has always been one of the best students in her class since she entered the hospital, and she has never been biased in any subject. Even though her sister was bullied after entering the hospital, her grades never fell out of the top three. What a pity..."

Percy's eyes were filled with sadness, both sympathy for Alanna and regret for being unable to prevent the tragedy. He stopped talking and ate the pudding on the plate.

"..."

Ethan's fists clenched unconsciously. In his previous life, he had watched his best friend being bullied at school, but he was powerless to stop it and was even bullied as well. If school bullying is not stopped, it will cause irreversible psychological trauma to the victim. In the end, his friend was bullied to the point that his academic performance plummeted and he had no intention of studying. He had to drop out of school early and go to a big city to work, and he has never heard from him since then.

Since I have encountered such a thing again in my life, I will never sit idly by. Alana is definitely not the only victim. There must be many students who are bullied by Neil and his group of psychopaths who I don't know about.

The best approach is to address the root of the problem and eliminate the perpetrators.

"Percy, one last question. Who are the people that you know who bullied Alanna?"

"Well... from what I know, they are all the same group, led by Abby Anderson - the same grader who called Alanna a mudblood before - yes, that's the one."

Percy's hand quietly pointed at a Slytherin girl. Ethan looked closely and saw a big pancake sprinkled with sesame seeds... Oh, no, it was a big pancake face covered with freckles. Abby had thick eyebrows, thick lips, a short nose, and a fierce look on her face, as if her own father's ashes were scattered.

Ethan silently looked away, unable to bear to continue watching this human tragedy.

"So Neil and Alanna don't have any grudges, right? I saw Neil and his group punching and kicking Alanna today." Ethan asked.

"How come you met Neil and the others? You didn't have any conflict with them?" Percy noticed the details in Ethan's words and asked with concern.

"Don't worry, of course not, they didn't even notice me - so did they celebrate or not?" Ethan waved his hand to signal Percy not to worry, and then silently added the second half of the sentence in his heart.

Not yet, but who knows in the future.

"I don't know about that. As far as I know, Neil has always ignored Alanna. It's better to say that he is quite nice to her. He never found fault with Alanna after her sister was hospitalized." Percy held his chin and began to think.

"We do know the answer to this question," Fred, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Neil likes Abby, so he's been trying to please her."

"So we dare say that it was probably her who instructed Neil to do this," George added.

"Huh?" Ethan's face twisted again.

You're a dog licker, right?

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Chapter 29 A Strange DNA Sequence Awakens

"So, Ethan, have you figured out what to do?"

Harry asked Ethan on his way to the greenhouse for herbology class that afternoon.

"What do you mean?"

Ethan asked Harry nonchalantly.

"It's about Alanna. You haven't forgotten it, have you?"

Harry was a little anxious when he saw that Ethan didn't seem to take Alanna's matter to heart, and his voice unconsciously rose.

"Alanna, to be honest, I haven't figured out what to do yet." Ethan became serious when he mentioned Alanna. "Harry, this kind of thing can't be rushed."

"Why not? If we don't take action now, who knows when Alanna will be..." Harry became even more anxious, "Why don't you find a way to teach Neil and the others a lesson and let them know how powerful you are?"

After spending the past few days together, Harry and the others have already regarded Ethan, who is a few years older than them, as a leader. Whenever something happens, they subconsciously ask for Ethan's opinion and, to a certain extent, do things based on his suggestions.

There is no other way. You can't refuse a big brother who can play with you and play with you, who may cheat you occasionally but is extremely reliable at critical moments and can also help you out.

I can only say that it’s a good thing this is not the Trigger Studios set, otherwise Ethan would have to be sent away sooner or later.

So, now seeing that Ethan seemed a little indifferent about this matter, Harry naturally became a little anxious.

"Teach him a lesson? What about after that?" Ethan asked, "Can you guarantee that Neil will change his ways and stop causing trouble? Not to mention that he has his parents' support behind him. I'm not afraid if they come to me, but what if they put pressure on Alanna to trip her up?"

"This..." Harry was suddenly speechless and lowered his head to fiddle with the dragon leather gloves in his hand.

"And Neil is just the leader of the bullies. Even if he falls, there will be others who will take his place and continue to cause trouble." Ethan continued to ask Harry, "What will we do after that? Are we going to beat them up one by one? That will never end!"

Therefore, if it really comes to my turn to suffer the same fate, I must find a way to do it all at once, making it impossible for them to ever stand up again, and serving as a deterrent to others.

"..."

Harry stopped talking and walked, thinking about something.

"So we must plan this matter carefully before we act. We must not act rashly." Ethan patted Harry's shoulder. "As for Alanna, you don't have to worry about her for now. Someone is taking care of her."

These words were not just to please Harry. After dinner, Ethan asked Percy to find all the prefects except Slytherin. They got together to discuss and decided to start the tactic of taking turns to follow the leader again.

However, this time, the ones following were not Alanna, but Neil and Abby. Once they found out that they were about to cause trouble, they pretended to pass by and gave them a stare from the class leader.

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Of course, this is not a long-term solution. This method is just an excuse for Ethan to the prefects. Ethan's real plan is to take advantage of the gaps when the prefects are following him and deliberately show his presence in front of Neil and Abby. After a while, Neil and his friends, who are stared at by the prefects and unable to vent their malice, will find that when they appear around him, there is always no prefect watching him, and conflicts between the two are almost inevitable.

In this way, firstly, they will shift their attention to me and will not bother to continue looking for Alanna. Secondly, it will also be convenient for me to fight back in the name of self-defense.

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But how to appear in front of them is also a problem. Starting from next week, many elective courses will be added to my schedule, which basically do not overlap with the fifth grade schedule. That is to say, when I have free time, Neil and his group are basically in class, and when they have time to cause trouble, I start my class again.

Well, I have to ask the professors of each subject when I can start attending classes directly according to the fourth grade schedule. Abby and Alanna are both fourth graders, so I can keep an eye on them while I am in class. Also, the fourth grade and fifth grade courses basically overlap, so it is convenient for me to do things after class.

As they were talking, they had already arrived at the greenhouse area of ​​Hogwarts. There were three long greenhouses lined up against the outer wall of the castle, which were specially used for their classes. There were other greenhouses and gardens of different sizes distributed next to them, which were not used for classes for the students attending Hogwarts.

"We should go to the first greenhouse, right?" asked Simo.

"Yes, all first-year students go to Greenhouse One for classes," Ron said, "but the plants in Greenhouse One are very boring. I heard from Fred and George that the things in Greenhouse Three are more interesting."

"But it's also more dangerous," Hermione said as she walked up to them. "The plants in the first greenhouse are all mild and harmless, so we have to start with them first."

"Yes, yes, thank you for your reminder." Ron said perfunctorily.

Hermione looked at Ron with disdain and wanted to say something, but in the end she just sighed, took two quick steps to the greenhouse door, and pushed it open.

Ethan patted the depressed Ron on the back with some amusement, and came to the door of the greenhouse first. He pushed the door open and held it open to let Harry and the others go in one by one, and then he closed the door and entered the greenhouse.

The greenhouse was filled with the smell of damp earth and fertilizer, as well as the rich fragrance of flowers.

Professor Garrick, who taught them herbology, was tiptoeing back and forth at the entrance of the greenhouse with a wicker basket in her hand, greeting every student who came in. Her forgiving-colored outfit blended perfectly into the lively atmosphere of the entire greenhouse, like a Vietcong.

Professor Garrick is a young witch with a ruddy complexion and delicate features. She wears a lush green wizard hat decorated with flowers and vines. Her thick chestnut hair is braided into two fluffy pigtails that hang from the front to her waist, set off by a light green dress.

"Okay, students," Professor Garrick said in a brisk tone, seeing that almost all the students had arrived, "Stand in your seats, we will start the class now - have you brought your dragon-skin gloves?"

"Yes, professor," the students answered in unison.

"Very good." Professor Garrick said with a smile and satisfaction, "Put on your gloves. Today we are going to learn how to grow dill. Who can tell me the characteristics of dill?"

Hermione raised her hand so suddenly that she almost knocked Harry's glasses off.

"Dittany is a plant with magical properties. It has a strong healing effect. The invigorating potion made from Dittany leaves is the most common healing potion on the market." Hermione answered in a clear voice.

"Very good," Professor Garrick said, smiling even more, "Ten points for Gryffindor."

Ethan was wearing gloves and staring silently at the soil in the flowerpot on the operating table. He had already read the relevant textbooks on herbal medicine. In his opinion, this course was just an agricultural course with more extra precautions, which was not a problem for him with Chinese ancestry.

After all, growing vegetables is an instinct engraved in the DNA of every Chinese.

Compared to this, the greenhouse vegetable garden next to it and the large uncultivated land on the playground were more attractive to him.

Well, maybe I can talk to Professor Garrick and see if I can carve out two pieces of land for myself to satisfy my craving.

What should I plant?

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Chapter 30: Elbow, Follow Me Into the House

After a brief explanation, Professor Garrick walked down from the podium, came to a large flower pot, and began to demonstrate to the students how to sow seeds.

"Students, please pay attention. First, put a thick layer of compost soil in the flower pot."

Professor Garrick shoveled eight or nine shovelfuls of soil into the flowerpot as he spoke.

"Then use a shovel to level the soil and dig a shallow hole in the center of the pot, being careful not to dig too deep."

After Professor Garrick finished speaking, he cast a levitation spell on the flowerpot, sending the flowerpot to each student so that each of them could see the depth of the pit clearly.

"Put two or three white radish seeds in the hole, fill it with soil, and then sprinkle a thin layer of soil on it. Finally, pour a circle of water on it. Be careful not to pour too much water here." After pouring the water, Professor Garrick patted the soil in his hands, put his hands on his hips, and smiled, "Okay, that's it. Let's get started."

The students, who had been eager to try, put on their dragon leather gloves and began to work on the flower pots in front of them. Professor Garrick also walked back and forth on both sides of the operating table, occasionally guiding students who had problems with their operations.

Ethan quickly finished his pot of white fresh radish, stood there in a daze for a while, and then began to give instructions to Harry and the others on their operations.

"Alas, Harry, you've dug too deep a hole. Be careful that the seeds don't grow and just rot inside."

"Oh, Ron, why do you compact the soil so tightly? The seeds feel like they can't breathe!"

"Hermione, stop, stop, why are you watering it so much? It's just a child. Where did you hear that Dictamni can tolerate drought or waterlogging?"

"Shut up!" The three people, unable to bear it any longer, yelled at Ethan.

Hard, hard, fist hard.

Ethan shut up and quietly stirred the unused compost on his counter with a shovel, occasionally glancing at the progress of Harry and the others.

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By the time the get out of class was over, everyone except Ethan, who finished the work at the beginning and then slacked off, was sweating and covered in mud.

"Heh, noobs." Ethan laughed mercilessly at the three people who had been in a mess and made themselves look embarrassed until just now.