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"The principal wanted to see me. I went to the principal's office." Kyle explained briefly and asked again, "Don't worry about me for now. How is Cedric?"
Speaking of this, Ryan's face turned red with anger, "It's all because of those shameless guys in Slytherin. You don't know that Cedric was almost catching the Snitch at that time. We were just one step away from winning...
As a result, the Slytherin captain took advantage of Cedric's attention being on the Snitch and punched him on the head, knocking Cedric off his broom."
"That's right." Mikel said angrily, "Do you know what his reason is? That shameless guy actually told Mrs. Hodge that he mistook Cedric's head for a Quaffle!
This rude fool, a half-developed gorilla, he is not worthy of participating in this kind of game, he should be sent off!"
"This isn't football, Mikel," Ryan reminded, "You can't send someone off the field in a Quidditch match..."
Mikel stiffened his neck and said: "You can't just give Hufflepuff a free kick, that's too unfair!"
With Ryan and Mikel's explanations, Kyle quickly understood what had happened.
Just as he thought before.
If you find that you can't win under normal circumstances, then use dirty tricks. That's fine. That's very Slytherin.
Soon, the group arrived at the school hospital.
"Merlin's beard, what the hell happened!"
Madam Pomfrey looked very angry. "The nose bone is broken and the right leg is completely broken. I don't understand why Hogwarts would hold such a dangerous competition."
"Every year, people are sent here, every year..."
Madam Pomfrey fixed Cedric's broken leg in a second and then drove everyone out.
But Kyle was kept by her.
The newly connected bones cannot be moved for the time being, so Cedric needs someone to take care of him now. There are other patients in the school hospital, and Madam Pomfrey is definitely too busy to handle them all.
Among this group of people, Madam Pomfrey only had some impression of Kyle, so this task naturally fell on him.
As the door was closing, she continued smacking her lips, complaining that the sport was too dangerous and the teachers were incompetent.
Kyle sat beside the bed and poured Cedric a glass of water, "How do you feel?"
"My legs still hurt a little." Cedric moved his shoulders and said, "But it's much better now."
Madam Pomfrey's ability is of course beyond doubt. If Cedric had broken his arm instead of his leg, he would have been discharged from the hospital right away.
"It's a pity that the game was lost. We were leading by 30 points."
Cedric leaned back against the pillow and sighed in frustration, "I wish I had paid more attention to what was happening next to me."
"It's okay. This is just a game. Winning or losing is not important." Kyle comforted him. "Besides, fouling in games is a Slytherin tradition. Even if you can avoid it this time, they will come after you. If you keep avoiding them, you won't be able to catch the Golden Snitch."
"That's true." Cedric scratched his hair in annoyance, "What about the future games?"
There will be more than one match between Hufflepuff and Slytherin. Normally, they will meet at least three more times.
Cedric didn't want to be hospitalized three more times.
"It's okay." Kyle thought for a moment and said, "Just take care of your injuries and leave the rest to me."
"Are you going to join the Quidditch team?" Cedric asked in surprise, "What position are you going to play, a beater?"
"You think too much." Kyle curled his lips and said, "Now the game has started. Unless a player voluntarily withdraws, it will be impossible for me to join the team even if I want to."
The rules of Quidditch at Hogwarts clearly state that each college has only one chance to recruit new students, and only in the first two weeks of school.
However, under normal circumstances, the captains of each college would select their candidates at the end of the first week, and then report the names to Mrs. Hodges at the specified time of the second week.
This way, the new players will have three more opportunities for group training, and the professors will not bother with such trivial matters.
But after the second week, Mrs. Hodge will no longer agree to add new players, unless someone withdraws and the team is short of players.
However, this situation generally does not happen because exiting is not that simple.
Madam Hooch would only allow a team to make a substitution mid-match if there was an irresistible reason such as transferring, dropping out, or being unable to play Quidditch due to physical reasons.
Otherwise, there is no point in discussing this.
Mrs. Hodge was very resolute on this point.
"Then you said you would give it to me...wait, you are not going to cause trouble for Slytherin, are you?"
Cedric seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and said seriously, "Don't do anything that violates school rules. I just broke a leg, it's not that serious.
Besides, you are only a first-year player, and the Slytherin players are basically above the third year. They are eager for you to cause trouble for them.
And Professor Snape wouldn't..."
"Well, stop for a moment."
Seeing that Cedric was getting more and more outrageous, Kyle interrupted him and raised his eyebrows, "What first and third graders? You don't think I want to duel with them, do you?"
"Uh, isn't it?" Cedric was stunned.
"You wish." Kell gave him a look of disdain. "I think it's necessary to ask Madam Pomfrey to come over again and help you check your brain."
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 62: The School Hospital Full of Tension
In the school hospital, Cedric and Kyle stared at each other, and the scene was a little awkward for a moment.
To be more precise, Cedric was embarrassed. If he hadn't been lying on the hospital bed, he would probably have dug out a second Hogwarts castle on the ground.
"That's good." Cedric turned his head to the other side and said calmly.
Kyle coughed dryly and said earnestly, "Cedric, why do you want to duel with them? Don't forget that we are Hufflepuffs, well-known honest kids and model students in Hogwarts. This idea is very dangerous.
Think about Professor Sprout. She would be disappointed if she knew you had become so impulsive and unruly."
"I'm not, I haven't thought about it that way." Cedric said angrily.
The main reason was that when he was sent here, he kept hearing people talking about going to find the Slytherins for a one-on-one real man battle, and there were quite a few of them.
But at that time his legs and head were hurting so much, and his consciousness was a little fuzzy. He wanted to persuade them not to be impulsive, but he couldn't say anything.
He just thought about this again, and subconsciously thought that Kyle thought the same way.
"You don't have to explain so quickly. I understand."
Kyle didn't even look at Cedric, and said to himself: "After all, he was injured so badly, it's normal to say something angry. Just remember to be more careful in the future. Come, have a chocolate frog."
Just now, before leaving the school hospital, the little badgers left behind some gifts. There weren't many of them, and they were all common snacks, which they should have been planning to eat while watching the game.
Kyle picked out a chocolate frog, unwrapped it and handed it over.
"I've already said it, I haven't thought about it that way. Wait a minute."
Just as Cedric was about to explain, he suddenly noticed the Chocolate Frog card in Kyle's hand.
"What is that in your hand..."
Kyle put his hands in his pockets and said calmly, "It's just an ordinary card. Nicolas Flamel, I just happen to not have him."
"No." Cedric sat up. "I saw it. It wasn't Nicolas Flamel. It was Agrippa."
Although it was just a casual glance, Cedric still saw that the card in Kyle's hand was gold.
This is a special alchemical process, which was specially added by a master alchemist at the Chocolate Frog Company in order to prevent people from counterfeiting the cards.
With this layer of protection, those copying spells or flying spells are useless, and the effect is much better than that engraved on gold galleons.
There is only one card in the entire set of Chocolate Frog cards that uses this technique, and that is the rarest Cornelius Agrippa.
Thinking of this, Cedric immediately stretched out his hand and said, "Give it back to me, that's the chocolate frog you gave me, and the card inside is naturally mine too!"
Seeing that he couldn't get away with it, Kyle simply stopped pretending and said confidently: "But I took it apart. If it were you, it would probably be a Dumbledore at most."
"It doesn't matter who takes it apart. It's right there. Whoever takes it apart is Agriba!" Cedric said angrily, "Give it back to me now. I only need this one to complete the set!"
“No.” Kyle clutched his pocket tightly. “This is the only one I need!”
Just like on the train, the two glared at each other and the air was filled with tension.
But this time Kyle clearly had the upper hand. He looked at Cedric provocatively, then walked to the door of the school hospital, opened it and walked out.
Then came in again...
Go out and come in again.
Cedric was stunned, he didn't expect Kyle to be so unsportsmanlike as to deceive and mock him, a patient with a broken leg.
"Okay, no kidding."
Seeing that Cedric was having trouble breathing, Kyle walked back to the bed and took out the note of Agrippa from his pocket.
"I really can't give this to you. I need it." Kyle said seriously, "I have to say, Slytherin is really lucky. I was originally a little worried about what to do, and this card came at the right time."
"Slytherin?"
Cedric calmly put down the shoes in his hand and asked in confusion: "Is your plan related to this card?"
Kyle nodded.
"This is Agrippa." Cedric's face was full of pain, and he whispered: "If I can get an Agrippa, I can fall a few more times."
"It's just a card, look at your useless look." Kyle looked at him with contempt, "This is just a small way to vent your anger, but it's related to whether Hufflepuff can win the Quidditch Cup.
Is an Agribar more important than the Quidditch Cup?"
"That's not the case..." Cedric said in a low voice.
"That's it."
"That's what you said." Cedric looked at Kyle thoughtfully.
He always felt something was wrong. Kyle's expression was too serious, which was abnormal in itself.
Cedric seriously suspected that Kyle was fooling him, or that in Kyle's original plan, he didn't need that Agrippa at all.
But he has no evidence.
"Why don't you give me Agrippa?" Cedric thought for a moment and said, "Even if it's just for one night, I'll have him.
I'll give it to you after I'm discharged from the hospital tomorrow, or we can proceed with that plan together."
"No need, just leave this dirty work to me." Kyle patted his chest and said righteously: "Your task now is to recover from your injuries."
"..."