After the final exams ended, all the students had a good time for two days. But before long, some of them could no longer laugh, because the final results were released.
After the entire student body spent two days happily playing Auto Chess in the common rooms, the results for every subject came out at lightning speed, letting everyone experience the suffocating dread of grades being posted.
The average scores of the four Houses were roughly the same, as were the proportions of good and poor students. If there was any difference, it was probably how students from different Houses reacted to their results.
Most Slytherin students let out helpless sighs when they saw disappointing grades. Some Ravenclaw girls even cried, while most of Gryffindor's jokers wailed to the heavens. As for Hufflepuff?
Hufflepuff students had only one principle: passing was enough, and not passing was fine too.
Since anything was fine, then everything was fine. And since everything was fine, what was there left to say? Time to play.
As for first place in the year, many people had assumed before the exams that it would be Roy, but that was not the case. Cedric ultimately claimed the honor of first place, opening up quite a gap between himself and Roy in second.
The reason was simple. Although Roy was not bad at History of Magic, he was not particularly outstanding either.
His O, or Outstanding, in History of Magic had barely made the cut, while Cedric had scored nearly full marks. In every other subject, Roy and Cedric had both earned almost perfect scores, which left Roy quite a few points behind Cedric overall.
Even after taking first place in the year, Cedric remained humble. This was truly a case of quietly making a fortune. Faced with everyone's