Explosion Curse

"What? What old cow?"

Cedric's head was full of little question marks.

Lynn sighed mournfully and explained in a ghostly tone.

"At noon today, my house prefect—the one who fought with her boyfriend—suddenly asked me to take a walk by the lake tonight. She even tattled to me that her boyfriend had talked badly about me behind her back before."

Cedric looked like he had seen a ghost.

"What does she mean?"

"What do you think she means?"

"She... she couldn't possibly want to..."

Lynn rested his chin on his hand gloomily, a faint sorrow in his voice. "It's all my fault. My fault for being so handsome and having such outstanding charisma. If I were a girl, I'd probably be charmed too."

Cedric: "..."

"But she has a boyfriend now. Wouldn't that count as cheating?"

Cedric stammered, "Probably not? Isn't she fighting with Raphael every day? It looks like they're about to break up."

"Help me think. How can I turn her down without hurting her too much?" Lynn suddenly asked.

"You don't like her?"

Lynn rolled his eyes.

"Big brother, I'm only twelve, okay? What's wrong with all of you? Why do you always instinctively ignore my age?"

Only then did Cedric realize that Lynn's face was still very youthful. Not to mention Lynn, even Cedric himself was only fourteen.

"Sorry. The way you usually act always makes me feel like you're already eighteen. Wait, what's wrong with being twelve? She's only five years older than you. It's not like you two are impossible."

Lynn gave Cedric a strange look.

Well, liking kids was an old Western tradition too.

"To be honest, I only see her as an upperclassman. Nothing more."

"Then you asked the wrong person. I don't have any experience rejecting a girl's confession," Cedric said expressionlessly, stating a painfully cruel fact.

Lynn tapped his forehead with a headache. Pushing that worry to the back of his mind for now, he suddenly remembered Cedric's future girlfriend.

"Do you have anyone who left a deep impression on you among the first-years in Ian's house?"

Cedric did not know what Lynn was getting at. He tilted his head back and thought seriously for a while before shaking it.

"No. I don't know any of this year's Ravenclaw first-years."

Lynn shook his head regretfully. Maybe Cho Chang was still too young, and her features had not filled out yet. He guessed Cedric would finally get the idea in their third or fourth year.

They sat by the Black Lake with fishing rods for an hour, and naturally, they did not catch a single fish.

That night, Lynn ran into Raphael while returning to the Slytherin common room.

Raphael saw Lynn as well. He snorted coldly, his expression far from friendly.

Lynn could not help feeling wronged.

Why are you being so fierce? Your girlfriend was the one who made the first move.

Two days passed.

Ever since Betty had invited him that day, she had not spoken to Lynn again, as though she had forgotten he even existed.

However, at noon on Saturday, Cedric secretly told Lynn some information.

"Your two prefects seem to have officially broken up today."

The pumpkin juice in Lynn's mouth nearly sprayed onto Ian's face across from him.

"How did you know?"

"This morning, they had a huge fight on the grass during Flying class. A lot of people saw it. Betty was the one who brought up the breakup first. They said Raphael looked awful at the time, but he agreed in the end."

Lynn's face darkened. "I suddenly have a bad feeling about this."

Ian, who had been silently cutting his steak beside them, had not understood what they were talking about from the beginning. Still, it did not sound like anything good, so he did not ask.

Lynn hid in his dormitory for the entire weekend and did not go out.

However, on Sunday afternoon, when he returned from Professor Foxx's office after studying dark magic, Betty still intercepted him.

"Lynn, have you been avoiding me lately?"

Lynn calmly showed her the book in his hands.

"No, Senior. Aren't final exams coming up soon? I've just been studying harder, hoping to get good results on the final exams."

His explanation was reasonable, and Betty believed him.

"Then are you free next Saturday? Professor Snape needs two students to help process potion ingredients. You'll go with me then."

Her excuse was reasonable too. Lynn did not believe it, but he had no way to refuse.

He could not exactly say that he had plans to go fishing with Cedric again, could he?

"Senior, I'm a little afraid of Professor Snape. Can I not go? You can find someone else. Mark and Michel seem very suitable."

"No! Professor Snape specifically named you."

Since Betty said so, Lynn did not dare ask.

His close relationship with Professor Foxx was no longer a secret at Hogwarts. He should count his blessings that Professor Snape had not deliberately made things difficult for him; how could he dare take the initiative to approach him?

Unable to resist, Lynn could only accept weakly.

However, he had made up his mind. He had to find an opportunity to make things clear to Betty.

He really was not interested in her.

Although matters of the heart were troublesome for Lynn, they were only a minor interlude in school life.

The main theme of his life at Hogwarts was still studying.

Whether it was dark magic or light magic, the feeling of absorbing knowledge made Lynn feel wonderful.

As for the task involving Ian, he could only let nature take its course for now.

This underage werewolf clearly had some knot in his heart. On the surface, he seemed to have a decent relationship with Lynn and Cedric, and they could be considered friends, but in truth, he had not genuinely opened up to them.

But Lynn was not in a hurry either. If those three physique points were really that easy to obtain, then something would be seriously wrong.

Every day, aside from Hogwarts's regular classes, Professor Foxx also set aside some time to teach him dark magic.

Lynn had actually mastered the Sectumsempra Professor Foxx taught him at Christmas on the very same day.

It was only because of his magical power threshold that the Sectumsempra he cast was far weaker than Professor Foxx's.

That was even with his seven points of dark magic talent, which enhanced the effects of dark magic.

Otherwise, it would have been even weaker.

Lynn had no particularly good solution to the problem of insufficient magical power. Aside from the magical power he gained as rewards for completing system-issued tasks, he could only wait for his age to slowly increase, allowing the magic within him to grow along with him.

Of course, he would not stop practicing dark magic during that time.

The effects of his spells were greatly reduced, but at least he could still cast them.

After Sectumsempra, Professor Foxx taught Lynn another new dark spell: the Explosion Curse.

The incantation was Thunderclap Explosion. It could cause the target struck by the spell to explode violently, with the strength of the explosion depending on the caster's ability.

Is my book title bad, or is the synopsis not appealing enough? The results after I got recommended last week were pretty mediocre, and I didn't advance. I'm so upset. Please give me some votes to comfort me. (_)