Hogwarts: I am Harry's eldest cousin

Wizards don't have many entertainment activities to begin with, and the wide audience of wizard cards has formed a unique social circle. In fact, just like the Quidditch social circle, many wizards don't really like Quidditch, but because everyone else likes it, they also "like" it.

Going with the flow is a universal human condition.

The key is that compared to Quidditch, which has extremely high requirements for physical fitness, Wizarding Cards is much simpler and suitable for all ages.

In addition, the European Wizarding series of card packs were officially launched during this period, and almost the whole of Europe was boiling with excitement. Wizards from other places even came from other places to participate.

Sales of Wizard cards were pushed to the peak.

Things go far beyond that. With the release of the famous wizard series, those wizards who claim to be of noble status feel that it is a shame that their names are not included in the celebrity series of wizard cards.

People's desire to compare exists all the time and cannot be avoided anywhere.

Previously, famous wizards in England were invited by Dudley to authorize them, but now wizards come to him and ask for their own cards to be made.

Even Mr. Lucius, who always looked down on others, visited the Carlo family one night.

Even Minister of Magic Fudge was not immune to this.

So they printed another wave of expansion packs featuring celebrities from various countries and added them as DLC.

The Wizard Card Tournament is so popular that even the young wizards far away in Hogwarts know about it, and many senior students are already gearing up and preparing their own decks.

"The Wizard Card Contest is about to begin again. Brother D, do you want to participate?"

At dinner, Ron sat at the Slytherin table, holding two lamb chops on each side.

With him were Harry, Hermione, Neville and others.

Although there are still occasional frictions between Gryffindor and Slytherin, they are no longer as confrontational as before.

Anyway, the college cup is for disciplinary groups, and the four major colleges can't even think of getting involved. Without competition, there are naturally fewer conflicts. It's just like ranking first, second, and third in Quidditch, but it's all healthy competition.

As I said, even if a child has been taught incorrectly at home since childhood, it can be corrected in school.

How many days do these little wizards stay at home after going to school?

Most of the time it happens on campus. As long as the campus atmosphere is good, there won’t be so many trivial matters.

It has become the norm for them to visit each other's tables during meals. Today Hufflepuff goes to Gryffindor, and tomorrow Gryffindor goes to Slytherin. It is completely different from the clear division of the four colleges when they entered school as first-year students.

The relationship is more like that of Classes 1, 2, 3, and 4 when Dudley was in elementary school in his previous life.

"No, I don't have that much time." Dudley shook his head decisively.

During this period of time, apart from practicing Ripple Qigong, he was studying Den Den Mushi, or learning spells, ancient magic runes, etc. He really had no energy to do anything else.

"Just have fun, guys."

We cannot just study at a high intensity all the time. Humans are not machines. Even machines need cooling to relieve mechanical fatigue. So Dali agrees that we should relax occasionally. We cannot force ourselves to study if we don’t have much time, as that will only reduce our learning efficiency.

"Where's Hermione?" Neville turned to look at Hermione.

Hermione also shook her head: "I'm not going either."

For Hermione, if she is tired of learning spells, she can learn ancient magic runes to relax. If she is tired of learning ancient magic runes, she can learn Transfiguration to relax.

She really feels relaxed.

Plus, she wasn't that interested in wizard cards to begin with, and was only interested because they were made by Dudley. Now that Dudley wasn't participating, she naturally didn't want to participate either.

It's a pity that she had such a powerful deck built with hidden cards.

Dudley patted Harry on the shoulder and said, "Harry can go on our behalf."

Although he didn't have the time and wasn't that interested, Harry was different. He loved wizard cards and would practice with Draco and Neville in his spare time.

After all, it was a game created by Dudley himself.

As for why we didn't look for Ron, this guy's performance is too unstable. When he is strong, he is very strong, but when he is weak, he has no fighting power at all.

It's all about luck in the fight.

Then he took out a deck of cards and handed it to Harry: "This deck is for you. It contains the cards I put together. I hope it will be helpful to you."

When Harry heard that it was a deck of cards that Dudley had put together himself, he took it and put it away with great delight.

On the other side, Sirius, who was released by the Ministry of Magic, was staying in Lupin's lounge.

Fudge continued to repeat Sirius' deeds and squeezed his value until his support rate could no longer be increased, and finally closed the case and cleared his name.

"Remus, what are wizard cards?" Sirius asked curiously.

The word he heard most recently was the wizard card, and he was very curious about what it was.

"It's a card game that's very popular recently." Lupin gave a brief introduction.

To be honest, he also thinks this game is very interesting. Not only is it easy to get started and easy to play, it also has a strong strategic element.

It’s a pity that his living conditions are not affluent, so he can’t buy more expansion card packs and can only use the basic version.

Sirius was just curious, and when he heard it was a card game, he lost interest.

In his opinion, it was boring to use your brain to play a trick. He didn't like anything that involved using your brain.

"It's hard to believe that Harry didn't make the Gryffindor Quidditch team."

"He doesn't like Quidditch!"

Sirius complained to Lupin about Harry, saying that he preferred competitive sports like Quidditch to cards.

Simple and crude, just do it.

"That's nothing strange, not everyone likes Quidditch."

Lupin said he understood Harry and that his feelings about Quidditch were just average.

Unlike his other two friends, James and Sirius, who were die-hard Quidditch fans.

"But James likes it."

Sirius emphasized this and once again expressed his incomprehension of Harry's dislike of Quidditch: "What's the fun in not liking Quidditch?"

"Sirius."

Lupin rarely changed his tone to a serious one: "James is James, and Harry is Harry."

"If you really want to have a good relationship with your godson, you'd better remember this."

"He admires his brother very much, at least more than he admires James."

Chapter 241 Come out! Blueswaitolagon!

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"The fat Dursley"

Sirius opened his mouth to curse, but restrained himself when he saw Lupin's stern look.

"I advise you not to say such things again if you still want to stay in Hogwarts."

"The whole school admires him."

"And he is my benefactor."

"What's so great about that?" Sirius said in a low voice with a wronged look on his face: "Didn't you just stop a fight between a few kids? Didn't you just set up a disciplinary group? Didn't you just get better grades and be number one every year? Didn't you just solve the Chamber of Secrets crisis fifty years ago? Didn't you just get the Order of Merlin, level three or level one? Didn't you just create a restoration spell? Didn't you just become the youngest Wizengamot?"

Sirius' voice became quieter and quieter until it was almost inaudible.

These deeds would be extraordinary even if any one of them happened to any other little wizard.

Sirius scratched his head and said angrily, "Hey, Lupin, where are you standing? Why do you always speak for outsiders?"

“I’m on the right side.”

This time, Lupin did not indulge his old friend.

After a moment, Sirius walked out of the office angrily.

He wandered aimlessly in the Hogwarts Castle. The young wizards did not pay much attention to him and just thought he was a new professor of a certain course.

'If only James was here, he would definitely be on my side. '

Sirius thought as he walked.

Unfortunately, the best friend who always stood by me is no longer in this world. It was all my fault for thinking of exchanging the Fidelius Spell, which ended up killing him.

'No, James has left and I have to be nice to Harry.'

This guy is a complete show-off. He does whatever he wants. Otherwise, he wouldn't have given up on himself and stayed in Azkaban for twelve years.

At that moment he had not thought of Harry at all.

"But Harry doesn't want to see me now." Thinking of this, Sirius felt a little discouraged again.

As for Dudley's warning to him, it had long been forgotten.

Maybe you have to beat him up before he remembers it.

The best way to build good relationships is to please them.

Sirius suddenly remembered something James once said when he was pursuing Lily.

What does Harry like?

"It seems to be that card? Yes, the wizard card."

Sirius, who had figured it out, was delighted and quickly turned around and rushed back to Lupin's lounge.

Under the bewildered gaze of Lupin, he sprinkled a handful of Floo powder through the fireplace in his room and left the room.

'What the hell is wrong with Sirius?'

Three days later, a rumor spread among the second-hand wizard card scalpers in Diagon Alley that a wealthy tycoon from nowhere had bought up all the wizard card packs from the scalpers at a high price.

As a result, the second-hand prices of The Witcher card expansion packs have risen again.

The scalper wizards, like greedy cats smelling blood, began to raise the prices to buy up the expansion packs, hoard them, and then sell them at high prices.

As a result, within a few days, news came from the Wizard Brand Store that there was no limit on the purchase of Wizard Brand card packs.

The scalper wizards suffered heavy losses, and some of the greedy ones even lost their entire pants.

These scalper wizards realized that they were cheated by the so-called rich man and threatened to teach the rich wizard a lesson, but unfortunately the man could no longer be found.

At the critical period when Dudley was researching Den Den Mushi, the preliminaries of the Wizard Card Tournament officially began in full swing.

Since the competition was on a weekend holiday, the teachers at Hogwarts didn't care and allowed the students to participate.

There were more than five thousand people who registered in the early stages alone, and other wizards continued to arrive from all over the place, not to mention the number of spectators.

Even the organizers did not expect it to be so popular. The original competition venue could only accommodate 10,000 people, which was definitely not enough.

For this reason, they had to spend a huge amount of money to temporarily rent the large venue originally used for the Quidditch World Cup, which could accommodate 100,000 spectators.

The qualifying matches are boring. Thousands of wizards compete by randomly selecting opponents. As long as they win twenty games in a row, they will be considered the winner. Only the top sixteen winners who win the games the fastest will complete the preliminaries and enter the top sixteen.

Since the strength of the players varies, sometimes the winner is decided in one or two rounds, and sometimes others have played four or five games while the other side has not even finished the first game.

It's not because both sides are too strong, but because both sides are too weak. It's just a fight between weaklings, and neither can do anything to the other.

After half a day of preliminary selection, wizards passed one after another.

Don’t think that just because the first Wizarding Cards was held at Hogwarts, it means that young wizards are better at playing cards. In fact, adults are better at it.

There was only one little wizard among the top five who passed the pre-selection.

"What? This game is too easy." The person who spoke was Sirius. He used a high-powered deck of cards to easily win twenty games and successfully qualified for the top sixteen.

Yes, the rich wizard who bought the expansion pack at a high price was Sirius Black.

As the owner of the entire Black family business, he is a well-deserved rich man. In his own words, he is now so poor that only money is left.

You should know that the Black ancestors even surpassed the Malfoy family at one point and became the richest family in the wizarding world.

A certain ancestor even spent a huge amount of money to "donate" a first-class Order of Merlin.

Even though it has declined a lot now, it is still enough for Sirius to squander for a lifetime.

Due to the complicated rules of wizard cards, Sirius was too lazy to study tactics, but he did know a simple truth: the rarer the card, the more powerful it was.

High-power cards must be powerful, so he decisively resorted to the krypton gold method and made a deck with high-power cards for all members.