Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

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They all laughed, except for Hermione, who relentlessly pursued the subject.

"Then the E is followed by an A, which stands for pass. That's the lowest pass, isn't it?"

"Yeah!" Ivan said, after reading Hermione's thesis, I have to say that it is basically impeccable.

"Then after that, P is poor, and then D is bad!" said Hermione.

"There's a T after that," George reminded him.

"T?" asked Hermione, obviously taken aback. "Below a D? What does a T stand for?"

"Troll!" said George without thinking.

Harry laughed, though he wasn't sure George was joking.He imagined himself desperately trying to keep Hermione from knowing that he got a "T" in every subject in 0.w.Ls, and he immediately made up his mind that he must study hard from now on.

"Okay, Hermione, at your level, you don't have to worry about getting grades below E." Aiwen said, "Well, I think you still need to improve in the actual combat of Defense Against the Dark Arts and Charms. This is the direction of learning."

"Now that I've brought this up, I've given it some thought recently and it can be scaled up appropriately," said Hermione. "We all now know what a terrible teacher that woman was, and we can learn nothing about defense from her." The knowledge of black magic, but we have no way to dare her to go now, Fudge guaranteed this. So, we need to learn by ourselves now, and the significance of you teaching everyone how to learn magic has become extraordinarily extraordinary."

"It is indeed necessary to expand the scale and include Colin and Neville!" Aiwen said, looking at Hermione, "What are you going to do? Do you have any good ideas?"

"A few, haven't figured it out yet!" said Hermione, her brown eyes sparkling with the same frantic passion she'd shown for SPEW and OwLs, "but it's really important, as Harry's Umbridge's lesson 1 and we said, we have to be ready for whatever is going to be waiting for us out there. We have to make sure we can really protect ourselves, especially in this situation... "

Next, Harry, Ron, Colin, Ginny, Fred, and George were discussing asterisks, and Ivan and Hermione began to discuss organizing everyone to learn magic with him. It can be seen that Hermione I thought a lot about this matter, probably because Umbridge gave her a lot of stimulation. Hermione attached great importance to the importance of learning magic and Defense Against the Dark Arts from Ivan, and her eyes were not limited to the grid. On these people in Lanffindor School.

Because of the Gryffindor Quidditch team trials at five o'clock, everyone was a little absent-minded throughout the afternoon's lessons.

When the last lesson was over, everyone came out of the castle and onto the school grounds.

Except for Harry, because he had to go to Umbridge for solitary confinement, where he spent seven hours copying the words "I will not lie", and he was not allowed to leave if he couldn't write the required amount.

From the window of Umbridge's office, the Quidditch pitch can be seen in the distance.

If you're lucky, maybe you can see a little bit of Ron's selection, Harry thought so, and separated from everyone...

At five o'clock, Ivan, Hermione, Ron, Colin, and Ginny arrived at the field below on time.

The trials are about to start, and the captain of the team, Angelina, is trying to maintain order. Half of the Gryffindor students from grade one to grade seven have come, and Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw are also here. Many people came.

Because of the asterisks, almost all the first years were there, even the Slytherins.

Chapter 953 The Process of the Selection Competition

The team members and students who participated in the selection gathered in the center of the field, and Ivan, Hermione, and Colin came to the stands.

"I hope Ron won't be so nervous, he looks like he's about to faint!" Hermione said worriedly, looking at Ron in the crowd, "Angelina doesn't let him use the asterisk, it seems to have a great influence on him .”

"From a fair point of view, everyone should use the same type of broom," Ivan said.

On the advice of others, Angelina asked everyone to use the school's sweep or comet broom, and the use of the Nimbus, Firebolt and Star Reacher was not allowed.

After all, it's about picking goalkeepers, not who has a better broom.

The Firebolt and the Star Reacher can be used as Gryffindor's secret weapons, but the key is the driver's skills.

On the field, the first-grade students nervously clutched a few tattered old brooms picked out from the school warehouse, and the students of other ages probably did the same, but they seemed to be stronger, especially the six- and six-year-old brooms. The students in the seventh grade are tall and big, standing out from the crowd, and their aura is strange and scary.

Among all the people involved in the selection, Ron was probably the most nervous, his face turned slightly green.

The more people around and the louder the cheers, the more nervous he looked.

In addition, Ginny did not participate in the selection of the goalkeeper. After thinking about it, she still felt that the goalkeeper was not suitable for her at all. However, Angelina adopted Ivan's advice and recruited Ginny as a substitute. She did not want to miss such an excellent player.

She has to think about the future of the Gryffindor team, which is different from when Wood was there. After she, Alicia, Fred, and George graduate next year, the team will face reorganization. If the players are not trained early, Likely to be devastated.

Therefore, this time, the lower grade students will be the key assessment targets. Even if they are close, it doesn't matter. These substitute players can usually train with the team, and if possible, they can also play games to gain experience.

Angelina asked all the students participating in the selection to fly around the venue first to see everyone's basic skills.

Some of them flew pretty well, but some were obviously just trying to make up for it, and fell into a ball halfway through the flight.

There were also many Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students mixed in, who were angrily chased away after Angelina found out!

Among them, Ron's performance is quite satisfactory, at least he can sit firmly on the broom.

Then comes the actual selection, Angelina has all the players on the field, surrounded by three tall goalposts, she is still not happy that Harry can't come to participate in the selection of players, and she hopes to select the players. Everyone is happy with the goalkeeper.

The goalkeepers who passed the preliminary test stepped forward one by one. Angelina, Aliya, and Katie formed a triangle, each responsible for an area, and began to throw the ball into the goal. Fred and George hit the Quaffle to interfere, simulating the game time scene.

The first one to play was a [-]rd grader who did a terrible job, knocked down only [-] out of [-] balls, got hit by Quaffle several times, and ended up being knocked off his broom with a bloody nose ...

He was followed by Rich Gutt, the only first-year student who made it to the final selection.

The boy looked fragile, very thin, but he could fly well and react quickly.

He is not suitable as a goalkeeper, but more suitable as a pursuer. Whenever a ball passes by, his first reaction is to dodge.

In the end, he didn't knock down a single ball, but dodged the Quaffle hit by Fred and George.

It was a big deal, Angelina considered it again and again, and finally absorbed him as a substitute.

Similar to him is a third-grade girl named Demelza Robbins. She also reacts very quickly and moves sensitively, but she never dares to use her body to catch the ball. Angelina also absorbs her as a substitute.

Also, Jeffrey Hooper, a very strong guy, comparable to Gore and Crabbe.

He knocked down nine out of ten balls, got hit twice by the Quaffle, and acted like nothing happened, which is an excellent result, if he hadn't been complaining about the weather, the field, the broom and other trivial things. If so, that would be even better.

Angelina was so annoyed by him that she reluctantly kept him in the end.

However, this guy actually said that he didn't want to be a substitute, he didn't want to waste time.

He wanted to join the team as an official player, but was directly driven away by the angry Angelina.

The next few students did not perform well.

The best performer of the show was Vicky Frobisher, Alvin's roommate, who was really good at flying.Under his control, the old-fashioned Comet almost exploded at the speed of a halo. Amid the cheers of the crowd, he perfectly avoided all the Quaffles and blocked all ten pitches.

This performance is simply impeccable, and even Wood can't perform better than him here.

Ivan couldn't see a reason not to choose him as the goalkeeper, and everyone else thought so, and Angelina even declared him to be the team's goalkeeper on the spot.

But this guy actually said that he didn't have time, he just wanted to participate in the game, and he couldn't participate in the team's training.

Aiwen really knows Vicky very well. He has too many social activities. He has the names of all the girls in the school in his hand. He knows almost all of them. He is dating every day, with different girls, and he also introduces girlfriends to other people in the dormitory. ...

If there was a time conflict, he would certainly put Quidditch on the back burner, and would not budge.

This is unacceptable to Angelina. For players who cannot participate in team training, no matter how good they perform, what good is it?

In fact, so did his sister, Vinnie Frobisher.She is a third-year girl with short hair. She looks very cute and has perfect flying skills, but her mind is not on Quidditch at all, but all kinds of messy social activities.

She didn't have so many boyfriends, but she set up a "charm club" and put charm first.

Colin told Ivan and Hermione that the uncle of the Frobisher brothers and sisters was a professional Quidditch player and the pursuer of the Caerphili Flying Crossbow Team. He trained the two of them to play Quidditch since they were young. The main reason for being so good.

Compared with Geoffrey Hooper and the Frobisher brothers and sisters, Ron's performance is much worse.

He only hit seven out of ten balls on six sides, but he was not hit by the Quaffle, but Ivan was not sure if it was because of Fred and George's mercy. Angelina hesitated for a long time before deciding Announced to make him the team's goalkeeper.

In her words, Ron's performance is not the best, but after some training, there should be no problem.

Especially since he is the younger brother of Fred and George, and Harry's good friend, this is something that has to be considered...

Chapter 954 Scars and Omens

While the trials on the field were going on, Harry was still in Umbridge for the last time, and he kept writing the words "I must not lie" on the parchment, hoping that this would be the last time that this The woman is in confinement.

Umbridge had just told him that she had reordered new black quills, which would be delivered next week.

The subtext of this sentence is that if Harry makes another mistake, it is not as simple as writing a sentence. She will not hesitate to punish Harry with the bloody punishment before, and Harry doesn't care. Threatening without telling the truth.

But as Ai Wen said, there is no need to argue with her, this woman is hopeless.

Umbridge is now focusing on evaluating the professors, and has no time to talk to Ivan and Harry.

One week was enough for her to get a general idea of ​​the situation, and she was a little disappointed that, except for the castle administrator Filch, no professor had taken the initiative to join her or expressed support for her reforms so far. .

The whole of Hogwarts is monolithic, everyone supports Dumbledore, they seem to be dismissive of her assessment and the majesty of the Ministry of Magic.

Umbridge is determined to get rid of a professor as soon as possible, only in this way can he establish his prestige.

And she has a new plan. Lucius Malfoy and some pure-blood wizard families contacted her earlier today. They are very interested in her status as a senior investigator and hope she can do something as soon as possible. Get rid of Dumbledore...

Although she has no supporters in this castle, the strength behind her is not comparable to this magic school.

If this is a war, she is confident that she can win the final victory.

Seeing that Umbridge had left him alone, Harry ventured a glance out the window.

He could see the figures of the Gryffindor Quidditch team flying up and down the field in the distance, and there were a dozen or so dark figures standing under the three tall goalposts, obviously waiting Be a goalkeeper.

It was impossible to see which one was Ron because they were so far away.

Harry wrote a few more words, pretending to move closer to the table, and he could hear Umbridge's quill writing.

He looked up again, and whoever was defending the goalposts was doing badly.

In the few seconds Harry mustered up the courage to peek, Katie Bell scored twice.

He lowered his gaze, looked at the long parchment that was less than a fifth written, and wished that the goalkeeper wasn't Ron.

In this way, Harry looked up secretly for a few seconds while writing "I must not lie" from time to time.

He saw a goalkeeper save all the balls, and there was a cheer erupting from the field, which could be heard faintly from the castle, and Harry wasn't sure if it was Ron, because the guy was acting too All right!

Based on his understanding of helping Ron in training these days, it is a bit difficult for Ron to do this.

Just like that, the sky gradually darkened, Harry couldn't see anything, and his parchment was full of the words "I must not lie", his wrist was so sore, and he didn't have the strength to write any more.

"Mr. Potter, I hope you can remember this sentence. If there is another time, it will not be so simple!" Umbridge said softly, walked over, and took the bag from Harry's hand. piece of parchment.

Harry touched her stubby, ringed hand and felt a sudden, burning pain from the scar on his forehead.

At the same time, somewhere in his upper stomach he was having a very strange sensation.

Harry woke up instantly and stared straight at her.

She looked at him too, with a smile on her face that stretched her wide, puffy mouth wide.

"Okay, Mr. Potter, you can go!" said Umbridge, not noticing anything unusual about Harry.

Harry picked up his schoolbag and left the room as quickly as possible, his heart beating loudly and quickly.

His scar hasn't hurt for a long time, and Ivan said that his scar pain can only be related to Voldemort.

Some terrible thoughts popped into Harry's mind, and he kept his cool, saying to himself as he ran up the stairs in threes and twos, keep calm, it doesn't have to be what you think it is.

Anyway, he had to talk to Ivan, and tell him the news as soon as possible.

"Meebo Meebo!" Harry gasped to the Fat Lady, and the portrait opened up again.

He froze for a moment, and was greeted by a commotion.

Ron came running towards him, all smiles on his face, tall wine glass in hand, butterbeer spilled all over his chest.

"Harry, I succeeded, I was selected, and I'm the goalkeeper!" Ron cried in his voice.

"What? Oh, that's great!" said Harry, trying to smile naturally, his heart still beating wildly.

"Have some butterbeer!" Ron slipped him a bottle. "I can't believe it..."

"Where did Ivan go?" Harry asked hurriedly.

"Oh, he's there, with Hermione." Ron said, looking a little overwhelmed, not paying attention to Harry's tone, "I was selected, and Ivan's star-seeking was also successfully produced, Gran Double happiness for Fendo today, we will definitely win the Quidditch trophy this year."

"Yeah, we will definitely win." Harry looked up and saw Ivan and Hermione sitting on the sofa by the fire, Ivan was holding a piece of cardboard in his arms, and was writing something quickly on it with his head down. Hermione dozed off next to him, her glass tilted to one side, ready to spill.

Harry wanted to go, but he and Ron were surrounded by Lavender and a group of girls, and everyone was very happy.

"Harry, you're back!" Angelina and Katie walked over, "We have a new goalkeeper."

"Come on, Ron, see if Oliver's old robe fits you well, Oliver gave it to me when he graduated and I just turned it out." Katie said with a smile, "We can take his Take the name off and put yours on it, he will certainly agree, and we can write to him and tell him about it."

Ron walked over, and Angelina walked up to Harry.

"I'm sorry I was rough with you earlier, Potter," she said abruptly, taking a few sips of butterbeer. "It's stressful to be a boss, you know, and sometimes I feel a little like Wood gone."

She looked over the rim of the goblet at Ron, frowning slightly.

"Well, I know he's your best friend, but I can definitely say he's not ideal!" she said bluntly. "I chose him for your sake and Fred and George's sake." , I think with some training he should be fine, he's had some good Quidditch players in his family. To be honest, I hope he'll be more talented in the future than he is today. The Frobishers and Jay Free Hooper flew better than him tonight, but Hooper whined and whined and complained endlessly about trivial things. Vicky and Vinnie had too much social activity, and they By my own admission, I can't even go to the team's practice. Anyway, we have a practice tomorrow at two o'clock in the afternoon, the first practice this semester, and this time you must go, bring your Firebolt. We will arrive at It’s time to test Ivan’s Asterisker and compare it with the Firebolt. By the way, I have one more thing to ask of you, to help Ron as much as possible, okay?”

Harry nodded, and Angelina slowly walked back to find Alicia.