Room of Requirement

At Hogwarts, the Easter holiday was probably the most impartial of all, because regardless of year—even for first-years who had just enrolled—everyone had to face enough homework to pile into a mountain.

Even Silvan had no choice but to put his original plans aside for the time being, getting up early every day to do homework in the library and not returning until evening.

Harry had even more on his plate. Besides his homework, he also had to think about the Quidditch team.

After the Easter holiday, Gryffindor would play their final Quidditch match—Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff. This match would also determine the Cup standings.

If Gryffindor could lead Hufflepuff by three hundred points, they would take the Quidditch Cup.

Honestly, that was still somewhat difficult. Before graduating, Cedric Diggory had trained several highly capable substitutes for the team. This year, they had happened to step up as starters and helped Hufflepuff achieve an excellent second-place result.

Even with the Firebolt, the fastest broom in all of Hogwarts, Harry could not guarantee that Gryffindor's Chasers would be able to get fifteen goals ahead.

And he could not help but keep wondering what would happen if they not only failed to win, but fell behind by a hundred points instead. In that case, Gryffindor would drop below Slytherin and become dead last.

Then his name would be forever remembered at Hogwarts. Everyone would remember that it was Harry Potter who had led the Gryffindor team to its first last-place finish in two hundred years.

Harry finally understood why Oliver Wood and Angelina Johnson had both led the team through such frenzied extra practice before the final match.

The pressure of coming last was simply too great.

So Harry made the same decision they had.

During the Easter holiday, he not only had