The Heartthrob and Studying Hard

In fact, unlike what Ye Ting had imagined, Orianna's appearance still caused quite a stir within a certain circle.

After all, as a figurine doll, she was simply too exquisite and beautiful.

All three of Ye Ting's roommates wanted to take a closer look at her. Michael Corner even wanted to hold her in his hand and play with her, but Ye Ting refused without hesitation. Orianna shyly crawled beneath Ye Ting's cloak and slipped into his jacket pocket, leaving only her head exposed to "observe in secret."

From then on, Ye Ting became the most popular student in Ravenclaw—among both boys and girls.

The boys lined up to see Orianna with their own eyes, while the girls were drawn in by his appearance and the adorable Himari.

Thus, whether in the Ravenclaw common room or at the dining table, he was always surrounded by people, their incessant chatter wearing away at his patience.

There were exceptions, however—Hermione usually acted together with him under the pretense of studying together, while Cho Chang constantly drifted back and forth between her original circle of friends and his side. Yet these two girls did not annoy him.

There was also Penelope, the beautiful female prefect, who did not join in gawking at him.

Although she made no effort to hide her fondness for him, she never did anything that would make him dislike her.

Having been harassed for so long, Ye Ting had no choice but to keep a cold expression most of the time, hoping strangers would recognize they were unwelcome and back off.

The result was that, in most people's eyes, he developed an aloof and frosty image. The boys and girls finally stopped crowding around him, but contrary to his wishes, Ye Ting only became even more popular among the girls.

Some of them even called him a "male god" and a "heartthrob."

Whether these people had Stockholm syndrome or were masochists, he had no idea.

As for the boys, so far only his three roommates had truly become friends with him.

Especially after learning that he was a Muggle-born from an orphanage, the Slytherin boys began deliberately excluding him.

"You're nothing but a Mudblood with a pretty face." Draco Malfoy had once said this to his face. As a result, he spent an entire break hanging upside down from the corridor ceiling under the Levicorpus spell, only to be rescued by Professor Snape after class began.

Ravenclaw lost ten points over it, but no one blamed Ye Ting. The young wizards of Gryffindor liked him even more because of it.

But to Ye Ting, neither the welcome nor the hostility meant anything. Apart from studying the "plot," his greatest goal was learning magic.

In fact, to the professors, Ye Ting was unquestionably an excellent student. Whether it was Transfiguration, Charms, or Potions, he could perfectly complete every task assigned by the teachers, and no question asked in class could stump him.

Of course, there was also the famous Miss Know-It-All. This inseparable pair of top students was dearly loved by the teachers, and Ravenclaw's house points had never risen so quickly before.

They were also frequent visitors to Madam Pince. After class, the two of them would always go to the library together to continue studying. Cho Chang would study with them as well, until they finished their homework.

For Ye Ting, this kind of studying reminded him of his high school years, and it made him feel a little nostalgic.

He had always been someone capable of patiently settling down to study. And when the subject was not the somewhat tedious high school curriculum, but fascinating magic instead, he wished he could spend every moment immersed in it.

Even Hermione felt inferior to such enthusiasm for learning. Combined with his natural talent, Ye Ting's progress soon reached the level of upper-year students.

Of course, his studies were not entirely without obstacles.

In his view, the way technical and academic books were written in the wizarding world was remarkably unreasonable.

Every author wrote with great freedom, spending long passages on ornate but useless wording. They even mixed in extensive psychological descriptions and records of their own actions, making the books feel less like magic texts and more like the authors' autobiographical novels.

Moreover, masters of the wizarding world were equally casual in their choice of technical terminology. In their academic circles, there was no concept of formal scientific names; most academic terms relied on conventional usage.

For the same spell, different authors described it differently, and often quite arbitrarily, frequently leaving readers at a loss.

They also had no concepts resembling technical names or academic language. As a result, after finishing a book, Ye Ting often had to spend a considerable amount of time organizing the knowledge—because he needed to remove the useless flourishes and day-to-day accounts that made up eighty percent of it, while also comparing potentially overlapping material mentioned in other books. It was common for two books to discuss the same spell using different names and descriptions.

Then, he would record his findings in relatively "professional" and concise language.

Less than a week had passed since the start of term, and he had already filled nearly half a notebook.

He believed that his notes, recorded in the manner of academic papers and through a technical terminology system he had constructed himself, were more concise and effective than these magic books.

He estimated that once he completed the goal he had set upon entering school—reading every book in the Ravenclaw common room library and the Hogwarts library over his seven years at school—the notes he recorded would be enough to fully encompass most of the wizarding world's body of knowledge.