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"It's okay." Kyle paused for a moment and said, "I wrote the sentence five hundred times."
"It's okay..." Cedric said, "It's not too bad."
"Yes." Kyle nodded, "Five hundred times is a bit too much. With ten sheets of parchment, it feels like writing a particularly long assignment."
"It's not bad." Kangna comforted him and pushed a plate with pie over: "Want some pie?"
"Thank you, I was hungry an hour ago." Kyle cut a piece and put it in his mouth.
The beef patty, with onions and peppers, tasted pretty good.
"By the way." He looked at Cedric, "How are the new players this year?"
"It's a bit average," Cedric said. "We didn't find any amazingly talented players this year. The only one who's pretty good is a third-year goalkeeper.
"Fifth grade Vlopa Devi was also a good flyer, but she didn't seem to pay much attention to Quidditch. During the selection, she made it clear that team training could not overlap with the "Charming Club" she joined. , otherwise she would choose the club instead of training."
"Wait, what club did you just say?" Kyle looked up and asked.
"The Charm Club," Cedric repeated.
"Does Hogwarts still have such an organization?" Kyle asked doubtfully.
"Not only are there, but there are many," Cedric said, "such as the Wizard Chess Club, the Gorgeous Robe Club, the Afternoon Tea Club, etc."
"These have nothing to do with professors. They are all spontaneously established by students with common interests. They have fixed times and places for activities. Including me joining the Wizard Chess Club when I was in fourth grade."
"I've never heard of it."
"Do you have time to attend these?" Cedric asked.
Kyle was speechless for a moment. He seemed to be quite busy before. Just participating in the professors' club every week is enough for him to keep him busy. He also has to find time to participate in team training and study magic texts. In the end, the remaining time is left for homework.
There was time last school year, but at that time he represented the warriors of Hogwarts, and no one would mention such unimportant things to him.
And thinking about it now, Kyle also vaguely remembered that when he was in the common room, someone discussed what activities he wanted to participate in, but he didn't pay much attention at the time.
"I see..." Kyle nodded, looked at Kangna and asked curiously: "Have you joined that charm club?"
"No," said Connor. "This is the first time I heard that name."
"Me too." Kyle smiled: "It seems that this club is not as authoritative as imagined."
Kangna couldn't help laughing.
"I advise you to be more careful. You cannot think that others are not authoritative just because you have not been invited."
Cedric said, "There are a lot of people in 'Charming', and it is very difficult to join them. You need to go through a series of tests."
Kyle glanced at him, "So, Qiu is also one of them?"
Cedric was silent for a moment. "Well, it's certainly not very authoritative."
As soon as he finished speaking, he couldn't help but laugh.
"But one thing I'm right about is that there are quite a lot of them." Cedric continued: "In addition to Flo, Gryffindor's Wiki is also one of them, and she also participated in the selection this time. People also fly very well.
"But Captain Angelina did not admit her, and instead chose Ron Weasley, who performed mediocrely in all aspects.
"I think this may be a deliberate illusion...after all, the Weasley family has produced many outstanding members."
"Maybe you are overthinking it, but it's not necessarily true." Kyle said, "And perfect cooperation can also fill the gap in personal strength of the players. It's still a while before the first game starts, so we just need to train a few more times. "
"That's what I thought too," Cedric said.
In the afternoon, a few people who had nothing to do came to the lawn outside.
Fred and George wanted to see if Hagrid was back. Their series of skipping candy products require some special poisonous berries as raw materials, which are found in the Forbidden Forest. They can save a lot of money by picking them by themselves.
But when they walked over, the door to Hagrid's hut was still closed, and there was no sound at all. It didn't look like there was anyone at all.
"It looks like Hagrid hasn't come back yet," Fred said. "I really want to know what he did."
"Don't think about it yet." George looked a little excited, "Don't you think this is a good opportunity?
"Hagrid's absence means that the Forbidden Forest is unguarded. Why can't we go in and collect berries ourselves?"
"Hey, let me tell you." Cedric glanced at the two of them, "Is it really okay for you two to say this in front of us?"
Only then did Fred and George realize that there were four prefects beside them.
And prefects can ignore the college, which means that as long as they are caught violating school rules, points can be deducted even if they are not prefects of the college.
"Can you pretend you didn't see anything?" George said with a smile, "After all, the opportunity is rare, and we just want to pick some berries."
"Really just collecting berries?" Qiu was skeptical of their words.
"Of course," Fred said, "We promise."
"I promise to only take berries, but I don't guarantee how far it will go, right." Kyle added in a low voice.
The poisonous berries needed for skipping candy are not uncommon. They can be found on the outside of the Forbidden Forest, as well as in the depths.
With their adventurous nature, they will definitely choose the deepest ones.
Seeing that their ideas were exposed, Fred and George didn't feel embarrassed, but before they could quibble, a stern voice came from not far away.
"What are you doing!"
Professor Grapeland walked out of the Forbidden Forest carrying two large buckets and looked at them warily.
"Students are not allowed to come to the Forbidden Forest. Go back quickly, or I will tell Professor McGonagall."
"No, we are here to find Professor Hagrid." George said quickly: "Where has he gone?"
"We're here to find Hagrid again." Professor Grapeland muttered in a low voice, then shook his head and said, "I don't know, but you'd better go back to the castle quickly. Students should not attend the Care of Magical Creatures class at any other time. Show up here.”
"Okay Professor, let's leave now," Cedric said.
The group then walked towards the castle, and Fred and George followed.
"She looks inhumane." Fred muttered in a low voice, "I still like Hagrid better."
"Yeah." George agreed.
"That's not what you said before." Qiu gave them a funny look, "Don't you often complain that Hagrid is too strict with the Forbidden Forest and you can't sneak in?"
"But he was at least willing to hear us out."
"Sometimes we go to the Forbidden Forest to help bring out the things we need."
……
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 617 Extra points in potions class?
Weekends always go by quickly.
On Monday morning, the sun shone through the window into the dormitory, replacing the alarm clock and waking up Kyle.
Mikel and Ryan were still sleeping soundly, breathing slowly and evenly. Kyle did not wake them up, quietly changed his clothes and left the dormitory.
On the way to the Great Hall, he also met Filch.
After what happened last year, the castle guard seemed to have become a different person. He no longer had the arrogant attitude that he had before, wanting to take all those who violated school rules to the dungeon and hang him up. Instead, he became timid and cautious. stand up.
After meeting someone, his first reaction was not his duty. Instead, he subconsciously hid behind an armor. He didn't come out again until he saw Kyle's appearance clearly.
It looked like he must have been quite frightened before being knocked unconscious by Barty Crouch Jr.
But there are advantages to this. At least Hogwarts students no longer have to worry about being scolded if they speak louder.
The first session in the morning was Defense Against the Dark Arts.
After Kyle finished breakfast, he went to the classroom with Connor.
At first, Connor was a little worried that Kyle would continue to confront Umbridge like he did in the last class.
Although she didn't like this person either, Umbridge was a professor after all, and it would be very difficult for a student to go against her.
But unexpectedly, Kyle was quiet throughout the class, and even Professor Umbridge seemed to have completely forgotten what happened a few days ago.
This was undoubtedly a relief to Connor.
But correspondingly, some students who wanted to watch the fun were extremely disappointed.
Slytherins were in class with Hufflepuff this time. Ever since they heard about Kyle slamming the door and leaving, they had been looking forward to today and wanted to see the excitement up close.
The new Defense Against the Dark Arts is so boring. I just read books, copy notes, and have some fun every time.
It turned out that this class was too normal. What was even more unbelievable was that when the get out of class was about to end, Professor Umbridge gave Hufflepuff five points because Kyle answered a question.
This made some people wonder whether the so-called "slamming the door and leaving" was a rumor deliberately spread by Hufflepuff and Gryffindor to trick them.
They felt that there was no difference between this class before, they were all so boring. The only difference was that Umbridge had a little habit. They didn't know whether it was due to injury or other reasons. She would rub it from time to time. The back of his hand.
……
After Defense Against the Dark Arts, there is an advanced course in Potions.
This time there were more people than the Transfiguration class, sixteen people in total, but half of them were Slytherin students.
Kyle didn't think that all their O.W.L. scores met the requirements. After all, he knew more or less about Slytherin, who were once big clients.
The potion skills of most of these people are average, not bad, but certainly not excellent.
But they are still here, so it is obvious that Snape's performance is as stable as ever in terms of bias.
The underground classroom was still as cold as ever.
Also cold was Snape's expression. His face looked worse than usual, a little pale, and his eye sockets were sunken, as if he hadn't slept for a long time.
The two Ravenclaw students had just walked to a table and were about to sit down when Snape suddenly spoke.
"Sit separately." He said coldly: "You don't think that in the improvement class, you have to complete a potion together. If you can't even complete the potion alone, it's best to leave here now. .”
One of the Ravenclaw students immediately took two steps forward and came to another table.
The others did not gather together and each found a table.
Although the space in the underground classroom is limited and the number of crucibles is not large, due to the small number of people, even one crucible per person is enough.
"Advanced class." Snape said in his emotionless voice: "You are all the best students I have selected..."
When he said this, Snape suddenly paused and glanced at Kyle in the corner intentionally or unintentionally.