Hogwarts and the Holy Grail War

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"... In summary, I have fully realized my mistakes and have deeply reflected on my actions. I promise to always be vigilant in the days ahead..."

As the review was drawing to a close, Professor Figo, who was sitting at a corner of the long table, keenly noticed that Ethan's mouth curled up into a subtle smile, and he immediately felt something was wrong.

Oh no, this kid is going to cause trouble!

Professor Figo immediately stood up and tried to stop Ethan from continuing.

But it is already late.

"Here, I solemnly promise you all: If I encounter this situation again next time, I will definitely handle it more calmly. I was wrong, and I will dare to do it again next time!"

Ethan finished reading the last sentence that was not written on the paper with a sly smile, put away the apology letter, stepped aside, and waited for the students' reactions with a stern face.

"oh--!"

The Weasley twins, who were mixed in the crowd, were the first to start a booing, and the entire auditorium was soon filled with the noise of the students.

Professor Figo slowly sat back in his seat, holding his ribs with a look of stomachache on his face.

This kid started again.

Cassandra sat quietly on a stool beside the Slytherin table, looking at Ethan who had become the center of attention, and sneered with disdain.

"A guy who is just trying to attract attention."

In her opinion, Ethan on the stage was just a clown trying to attract attention. No matter how nice his words were, they could not cover up the fact that he beat Rozier and the other man.

Although they both deserved it.

And judging from his expression, he shows no sign of remorse. I'm afraid he doesn't even realize how outrageous his behavior is. He might even be complacent about it.

Such a frivolous guy, I really don’t know what Alanna likes about him?

"Quiet!"

' Dumbledore shouted in his deep, full voice.

The auditorium soon became quiet, and hundreds of students sat back in their seats and looked at Professor Dumbledore who had stood up.

"Okay, Mr. Ethan, you go down first." Dumbledore came to the owl podium and nodded to Ethan.

Ethan bowed slightly, returned to the long table for Gryffindor and sat down. He immediately put on a playful smile and clapped his hands to the Weasley twins.

"Due to Mr. Ethan's outrageous behavior in Hogsmeade, although it was intended to protect his friends, it still caused a bad influence. I have to regretfully announce that Gryffindor House will be deducted 20 points for this." Dumbledore looked around at the students looking at him in the audience and said slowly.

There were no Gryffindor students accusing Ethan in the hall, and no booing from other houses. There was only a sparse burst of applause and cheers from the Slytherin table, where a small number of students were clapping and shouting desperately, with Malfoy and his followers being the most enthusiastic.

"This isn't fair!" Ron muttered to Ethan, "Why didn't Slytherin lose points because of Rosier? He did something even worse!"

"We can't help it. After all, Rosier and the others have already dropped out of school," Hermione said. "Didn't Professor Dumbledore say that last night? I'm afraid what they did can't be blamed on Slytherin House."

"But..." Ron's face flushed red, and he hesitated to speak.

"Don't worry, just keep listening." Ethan patted Ron's shoulder and smiled indifferently.

"...However, Mr. Ethan bravely stood up to the troll that broke into Hogsmeade and blocked it. He defeated the troll and prevented the situation from getting worse." Dumbledore glanced at the grinning Ethan and continued, "For this, I will reward Gryffindor House with thirty points!"

Deafening applause and cheers broke out in the crowd. The stars that were created by magic on the ceiling of the auditorium were shaking. Even the long table belonging to Slytherin could be heard cheering loudly.

Alanna blushed and clapped her hands vigorously, which aroused slight dissatisfaction from Cassandra beside her.

"Alanna, why are you so happy? I remember that he didn't defeat the troll alone, right?" Cassandra glanced at Alanna and said coldly, "You obviously participated in the battle, so how come the professor said it was all his credit?"

"It's okay. I didn't put in much effort anyway." Alanna blushed slightly and smiled happily as she looked at Ethan who was surrounded by everyone at the Gryffindor table.

"It's a big deal! What's yours is yours. How can he take all the credit for you?" Cassandra looked at her friend, feeling angry and helpless at her indifference. "If you're too embarrassed to say it, I'll help you report it to Professor Snape."

"It's really okay, Cassandra, don't be so extreme." Alana held Cassandra's hand, looked at Ethan's back with a smile, and said, "Besides, Ethan was injured by Rosier with the Unforgivable Curse. We Slytherins haven't lost points for this, so let's just call it a draw."

"You...ah." Cassandra looked at the disappointing girl in front of her, and a feeling of powerlessness surged in her heart.

Obviously, I don't have such a good temper normally, but I just can't get angry with her, such a good friend.

It's all because of that guy named Ethan!

Look at how he has deceived Alanna. It's only been a few days and she's already starting to become unfaithful!

The blonde girl secretly made up her mind to tear off Ethan's disguise and reveal his disgusting true face, so that Alanna would completely give up on him.

With the reputation of her Wo Lei family at stake, she must protect her friends!

"A-choo!" Ethan, who was sitting on the bench, suddenly sneezed.

"Ethan, what's wrong with you?" Harry asked concernedly, "Is your body not recovered yet?"

"Someone must be talking about me... It's okay." Ethan rubbed his nose, took a deep breath, and signaled Harry not to worry about it.

"That's good. Otherwise you would have to take another leave for Transfiguration class tomorrow, and plus you would have to make up for it, it would be hard to catch up." Harry breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself.

"What did you say?" Ethan's smile froze on his face, and he slowly turned to look at Harry, who was relieved.

"Transfiguration class." Harry blinked, looking at a loss.

Did I say something wrong?

"Oh my god!" Ethan slapped his head. He finally remembered a very important thing that he had forgotten 31 chapters ago.

Transfiguration paper assigned by Professor McGonagall!

I still have two articles to finish!

Fortunately, I remembered it now. I had forgotten everything because so many things happened these two days.

I have to work overtime tonight, otherwise I'll have to report to Professor McGonagall in the Transfiguration class tomorrow.

"Hello, Professor. I have completed all the papers. I just forgot to write them down on parchment. Now they are all in my head. Do you want to check them directly with Legilimency?"

I'm afraid that Professor McGonagall would be so angry that she would whip herself with her wand on the spot, then turn herself into a human stand and hang herself at the door of the classroom for three days and three nights for public display.

Ethan, panicking but pretending to be calm, quickly finished the food on his plate, left the auditorium in a hurry, and ran towards the library.

One person, one pen, one night, one miracle!

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Regarding the characterization of Cassandra.

In fact, there are some problems with the portrayal of Cassandra in Magic Awakening. For example, in the first year, Cassandra did bad things just for the sake of doing bad things, just to fit the label that Slytherins are all "evil".

So, since I'm writing a fan fiction, I thought I could remove all these confusing character attributes. Anyway, this book doesn't need Xiaoka to be the villain, right?

Of course, my writing is terrible, so it may not be that good if I write it (sad). If you can't accept it, just part ways amicably and don't make personal attacks on me (paralyzed).

Chapter 85 Deadline is the primary productive force

Monday morning, Hogwarts Great Hall.

Ethan, with his panda eyes and a listless face, attracted the attention of several people around him.

"Ethan, what's wrong with you?" Harry asked first.

Harry hadn't seen Ethan since he returned to the dormitory last night. If he hadn't run into him in the auditorium this morning, Harry would have thought that Ethan was unwell and had been admitted to the school hospital again.

"I stayed up late last night to catch up on my homework." Ethan yawned and said listlessly.

Last night, after dinner, I rushed to the library, borrowed some materials, and started working on my paper. I finally finished it after sunrise today, which means I met the deadline.

I didn’t feel this tired even after staying up late to browse the banned books section and fighting with the Armor Hero in the underground.

"What homework? Oh, I remember now." Ron frowned, then suddenly realized, "Is it the Transfiguration paper assigned to you by Professor McGonagall?"

"Yeah, I had planned to write it on the weekend, but I didn't expect to go straight to the school hospital after going out for fun. I didn't have time to write at all." Ethan yawned again.

"Then you can explain the situation to Professor McGonagall. Maybe she'll take pity on you and give you two days." Ron suggested, "Then you don't have to rush like this."

"If I said that, Professor McGonagall would definitely say something like, 'Why don't you finish it within a week?'" Ethan shrugged and said, "If it's not finished, it's not finished. What excuses are there?"

"That's right." Ron shrank his head. "Professor McGonagall is really hard to fool."

Hermione, who was sitting opposite them, opened her mouth, looking as if she wanted to say something.

"Hermione, do you have any comments?" Ron raised his eyebrows. "I think what I said is correct?"

Hermione shook her head frantically, her face filled with horror.

"Mr. Ethan, please come with me." Professor McGonagall's voice sounded from behind Ethan.

"Okay, right here, Professor."

Ethan swallowed the food in his mouth, patted Ron's shoulder who had an "I'm done" expression on his face, stood up and followed Professor McGonagall to the door of the auditorium.

"Based on our conversation yesterday, we have arranged a new schedule for you." Professor McGonagall handed over a piece of parchment. "From today on, you will go to class with the fourth-year students. And don't forget the make-up classes after class."

"Although it seems a bit hard, and I have to use the evening curfew time to give you extra lessons, but this is all for your safety, and I still have to overcome the difficulties."

"I know. Thank you for your concern, Professor." Ethan smiled at Professor McGonagall. He took the parchment and saw the full course schedule from morning to night. The smile quickly disappeared from his face.

It should be mentioned here that the first-year curriculum is actually very loose. Unlike the curriculum arrangements of all other grades, the first-year students basically have no more than three classes a day (potions classes are counted as one class).

This is because freshmen do not know the way and have short legs, so we basically avoid connecting two different classes together and the venues are far apart, so as to give them enough time to find a place.

For details, please refer to Harry and Ron who got lost and were on the verge of being late on the first day of school.

Of course, once students reach the second grade, their full course schedule will quickly fill up, which must be very pleasant.

Not to mention the elective courses arranged for third grade and above on this basis.

In addition, after you enter the sixth grade, the course arrangement will be correspondingly looser because the NEWT course requires you to pass a certain threshold in the OWLs exam in order to continue attending classes.

However, this situation does not apply to top students.

This situation is reflected in Ethan's clear course schedule from morning to night. The fourth-year courses are not as loose as the first-year courses. He has to go through all the elective courses this week to confirm which subjects he will choose in the future, not to mention that he has to attend private tutoring by each professor. It can't be said that there is no free time at all, but it can be said that it is almost non-existent.

What a mind-boggling time planning.

Ethan's eyes moved away from the parchment and he looked at the distant scenery with melancholy.

I can only say that it is fortunate that they have not been so crazy as to schedule classes for themselves on weekends. This is really cause for celebration.

No, this is a corridor, where does the distant scenery come from?

"By the way, Mr. Ethan, I just heard you discussing the Transfiguration paper." Professor McGonagall pushed her glasses, looked at Ethan meaningfully, and said, "Although I don't think so, I still want to ask you: You should have finished the paper I assigned, right?"

"Of course, of course." Ethan smiled and looked extremely harmless. "Professor, do you think I'm a bad student who doesn't complete his homework?"

"You'd better not." Professor McGonagall glanced at Ethan.

Ethan: ...

Here it comes again, this feeling of being frustrated and angry.

How come all of you professors don't trust me? Am I that crazy?

On the other side, inside the auditorium.

Ron looked pale as he watched Ethan and Professor McGonagall disappear out of the hall door. He turned stiffly to look at Harry and Hermione and wailed, "I'm done."

"Well," Harry nodded with a gloating look on his face, agreeing with Ron's opinion, "you're finished."

"Professor McGonagall will kill me." Ron covered his face and trembled.

"I...wanted to remind you." Hermione said weakly, "Professor McGonagall has been standing behind you for quite some time."

"When did it start?" Ron began to struggle.

"It started from the time you gave Ethan the idea to fool Professor McGonagall." Hermione nodded firmly.

"Stop talking. I want to use the Hour Reversal Spell to go back in time and strangle myself five minutes ago." Ron looked sad.

"Hey, Ron, you've made great progress." Ethan suddenly appeared and put his arm around Ron's neck, saying, "You even know the Hour Reversal Spell. You have a bright future!"

"Ethan?" Ron swallowed, "Why did Professor McGonagall call you out?"

"Give me the new schedule." Ethan slapped the parchment on the long table and sat down on the bench. "From today on, I will officially take classes with the fourth graders. I won't be able to accompany you anymore."

"Ah?" Harry looked desperate. "Does that mean I won't be able to be in the same group with you in Potions class from now on?"

There's no way to curry favor with others anymore. I don't want that kind of thing!

"That's right, you will have to face Professor Snape by yourself from now on." Ethan looked gloating and laughed wickedly, "The Potions class is on Friday, so there's still time to make up for it now."

"I always feel like I can't handle it." Harry lay weakly on the table, drawing circles on the plate with his fingers. "Professor Snape is too strict. If I do it myself, I'm afraid he will scold me to death."

"Professor Snape is just ordinary and strict. As long as you strictly follow the operating procedures and don't make any mistakes, he won't find any reason to embarrass you." Ethan patted Harry's head and comforted him, "And as long as you use the method I taught you to deal with Professor Snape, he will definitely not be angry with you."

"Really?" Harry turned his head from the table to Ethan, looking hopeful. "You're not lying to me, are you?"