Hogwarts: What Bad Intentions Could a Little Hufflepuff Have?

"Expecto Patronum!"

A slightly blurry white bird flew from Black's fingertips.

Then it circled cheerfully beneath the room's ceiling.

"Wandless casting isn't that hard after all..."

Black muttered as he rubbed his nose.

All of this felt like a dream...

Black had not originally belonged to this world.

When he had first transmigrated here,

he discovered that he had become a baby!

And he had been abandoned at the entrance of an Orphanage.

By the time he recovered from the shock of realizing he had transmigrated,

he unexpectedly discovered that this was the world of Harry Potter.

It was because the person who had left him at the Orphanage entrance

had taken out a Wand after setting him down.

Black had clearly heard that person softly chant a spell.

"Apparition!"

Then that person vanished...

Abandoned by a wizard,

there was a high probability that he was a wizard too.

So after Black was taken in by Mrs. Marian, the Orphanage director,

he had always been waiting...

Sure enough.

When he was five years old,

his magical power eruption arrived right on schedule.

What surprised him was that

before long,

he could actually cast some ordinary spells without a Wand.

Now, when he tried casting an advanced spell like the Patronus Charm,

he succeeded on his first try!

And it had been wandless casting, too!

Even Black himself found such talent a little outrageous.

Thus, Black had grown somewhat curious about his own background.

However, when he had been rescued,

he had possessed nothing at all except a metal tag.

And there had only been a few letters resembling a name on that tag.

The letters were incomplete, too.

The latter half seemed to have been ground away.

"Black Grin...(Grin...)"

As for what came after Grin,

it could no longer be seen clearly.

Mrs. Marian simply gave him the name written on the metal tag.

"Black Grin."

And the tag was extremely strange.

Because even after Black had become highly proficient with the Repair Spell,

he still could not repair the tag at all...

"My talent is already this strong."

"If I also had the mandatory system every transmigrator gets..."

"Wouldn't I soar to the heavens?"

"Unfortunately..."

Black could not help muttering to himself.

Although he was a transmigrator,

he had never awakened a Golden Finger like a system.

That had always left Black feeling somewhat regretful.

Yet just then...

"Ding! Keyword triggered! Awakening a system for the host!"

Black sat blankly in his room, momentarily speechless.

The reason his system had never awakened

was actually because he had never said the keyword "system"?

"Ding! Detected that the host is emotionally agitated at this stage!"

"Ding! The Emotional Treasure Chest System is binding to the host!"

"Ding! System binding successful!"

Black hid in his room.

It took him only five minutes

to roughly understand the system's functions.

The Emotional Treasure Chest System.

As the name implied,

as long as Black caused others to experience all kinds of intense emotions because of him,

he might receive Treasure Chests.

Treasure Chest quality was divided into five tiers: bronze, silver, gold, diamond, and supreme.

The emotions that could trigger the system included anger, excitement, pleasure, happiness, and so on.

Of course, not everyone's emotions could earn him a Treasure Chest.

More precisely,

the more capable the person experiencing the emotion,

and the stronger that emotion was,

the greater the chance of obtaining a Treasure Chest.

And the higher its quality would be!

For example,

suppose Black angered Dumbledore and Neville at the same time.

And suppose their anger was equally intense.

Then Black would be highly likely to obtain a high-quality Treasure Chest from Dumbledore.

But from Neville,

he would very likely receive no Treasure Chest at all.

Even if he did, its quality would not be as high as Dumbledore's.

Because the difference in ability between those two was enormous.

"Intense emotions... people of outstanding ability..."

Black pondered.

"Of all emotions, the strongest and easiest to trigger should be anger..."

After all, angering someone was often far easier than pleasing them.

"I get it, this should be called the Blood Pressure Surge System!"

"If that's the case... as long as I make people's blood pressure rise..."

A faint, wicked smile curled at the corners of Black's lips...

"Black..."

Just then,

Mrs. Marian called from outside the door.

"What is it, Mrs. Marian?"

After tidying his room,

Black opened the door.

"Take this and buy everyone some desserts, dear. Keep whatever is left as your pocket money."

Mrs. Marian smiled and pressed the money into Black's hand.

"You don't need to give me money, Mrs. Marian... You know I have money."