Dumbledore Requests Your Presence

"Wizard Card's popularity is gradually slipping. You should have gone and hosted the Wizard Card Club yourself last month. You should have seen how disappointed those girls were when they found out you hadn't shown up. A lot of them think you've already abandoned Wizard Card."

By the window in the Gryffindor Common Room, Lee Jordan, who was playing Wizard Card with Fred, kept grumbling to Albert about dumping the Wizard Card Club on him.

"If Wizard Card stops being popular with players, then the game is doomed not to last." Albert stroked Tom's head as he leafed through the manuscript in his hands, helping Isobel check parts of the Ancient Runes Guide. Every so often, he picked up his wand to make revisions on the manuscript, marking them in different colours.

"I think you should give Wizard Card a hand." Feeling that Albert himself did not care much about Wizard Card anymore, Lee Jordan reminded him, "Don't forget, we'll be in seventh year next semester. We'll graduate soon, and once we lose your support, with no one to take over the Wizard Card Club, Wizard Card will quickly disappear from the school and be forgotten. All our efforts over the past few years will have been for nothing."

"Weren't you already dealing with that last semester?" Albert asked in confusion.

"My words don't carry as much weight as yours. So I think it would be best if you handled it personally." Lee Jordan was rather frustrated, but he had to admit that a large part of Wizard Card's popularity at school came from Albert. Once Albert washed his hands of it, there was no telling how long the club could last.

"Maybe we should start preparing the tournament now, so it won't clash with the Triwizard Tournament later. As