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At the opening feast, Hermione still hadn't seen Harry or Ron come in by the time the Sorting Ceremony began.

"Why aren't they here yet?" Hermione grumbled as she took out her phone. She always kept it on silent so it wouldn't distract her as easily when she was doing other things.

Only then did she discover that Ron and Harry had sent her messages a long time ago.

Wants to Make Friends: Hermione! We're trapped! The entrance closed!

What's Wrong with Eating More?: We're doomed, we're definitely going to miss the train!

The messages had been sent quite a while ago.

A tiny bit of guilt flashed through Hermione, and she asked where they were now.

There was no reply for the moment, so Hermione turned her attention to the Sorting Ceremony. Some of this year's new students looked familiar.

Unsurprisingly, Ginny was sorted into Gryffindor. As soon as she sat down, she looked around and asked, "Isn't Harry Potter here?"

Fred glanced at his phone. "Maybe they'll fly over any minute now." George nodded.

"Fly?" Ginny was full of questions.

Fred and George didn't answer Ginny's question. Instead, they smiled mysteriously. Ginny didn't press them and turned to chat with another new student who had just been sorted into Gryffindor.

"Luna Lovegood." Professor McGonagall had reached Luna's name.

The Ravenclaw students immediately craned their necks to look at the new student. After a whole term of curiosity, were they finally going to meet her in person?

Meanwhile, Luna, now the center of attention, thought, Hm?

Why is everyone looking at me?

[Admin] Yan: Welcome, newcomer!

Kerun: Tossing flowers to welcome you!

Stepmother Literature: @summer, welcome!

Proprietress Number Two: The newcomer isn't talking?

Bug Ming: Come to think of it, a lot of newcomers don't like talking...

Why Hasn't My Owl Arrived Yet: True. Speaking of which, it's September again...

Magpie: Time for everyone to go back to school.

James-Brand Shampoo: Don't remind me, let me keep living in my dream qwq

Snape's Shampoo: Haha, my classes are online.

Bug Ming: Haha, I'll still have online classes after the New Year, and then school starts as usual.

Bug Ming: (sadly steals your mom.jpg)

Ced Is Mine: Finally off work... Another day of overtime today, so annoying (clenches fists.jpg)

Kerun: Thanks for your hard work. Come get a whiff of Ced to perk yourself up!

Kerun: (beautiful photo of Cedric.jpg)

Ced Is Mine: Thanks, I've come back to life on the spot (peaceful.)

Then they returned to their little group chat.

[Group owner] Ced Is Mine: Ced, we wanna see the Sorting Ceremony live QAQ

A Little Badger Watching the Drama: I wanna see Hogwarts! Or the Hufflepuff Common Room qwq

Mrs. Diggory: Ced, Ced, who's being sorted now?

Cedric's Underpantz: I'm so happy I can actually chat with Ced~

Miqiu: Trust me, Ced would be happier if you changed your name. Don't think I don't know who you are just because you changed Underpants to Underpantz!

Miqiu: (Voldemort has long seen through everything.jpg)

[Admin] Cedric: Hm? The Sorting Ceremony is almost over.

[Admin] Cedric: But do you really want to see our house's common room?

[Group owner] Ced Is Mine: Yes, yes!!!

[Admin] I Am Ced's Dog: Who's wriggling on their bed like a maggot? It's me!!! Ced, I'm your dog, aaaaah! (going healthily feral)

Mrs. Diggory: ? Stop going feral

[Admin] Cedric: The Sorting Ceremony just ended. I can show you Hogwarts after the feast.

[Admin] Cedric: /smile

[Group owner] Ced Is Mine: !!!! I'm going wild cheering for Ced! I don't want to either, but he said he'd show us Hogwarts, waaaah...

Cedric then put his phone aside and began eating dinner.

Everyone in the group immediately switched venues.

In the little group without Cedric:

Cedric's Underpants: Holy crap, guys, I added Harry!!!

Cedric's Underpants: Waaaah, I sent Harry the methods for dealing with Horcruxes. I don't know if he believed me qwq

[Group owner] Ced Is Mine: It's okay! The plan has already taken its first step!

A Little Honey Badger: So exciting! This time it's our turn as badgers to save someone by taking the long way around!

Little Badger Who Loves Good Food: Yeah, yeah! I just don't know if Harry and the others have the diary yet, or if it's still with Ginny.

Cedric's Underpants: Speaking of which, Ginny and Luna both start school this year, right? According to Ced's timeline.

Miqiu: So you're not pretending in this group, huh?

A Little Badger Watching the Drama: Will Ginny get a phone too?

[Group owner] Ced Is Mine: She probably can? After all, Ginny should be one of the main characters too.

Mrs. Diggory: So are we really going to keep it from the main group the whole time?

Miqiu: Ced told us before that Fred and George seemed to be discussing keeping their identities hidden until the end to give us a surprise. Even though we found out first, we can't deprive everyone else of their surprise, can we~

[Group owner] Ced Is Mine: www true. So come on, little badgers! This time! The badgers are winning big points!

Cedric's Underpants: Even though I was sorted into Gryffindor, that doesn't stop me from being proud of Hufflepuff House!

A Little Honey Badger: Ohhhhh! Speaking of which, it's been close every time...

Hufflepuff's Great Food Thief: The things Harry and the others say in the group when they're not even past first or second year make them sound just like fake Harry Potter fans...

Little Badger Stunned by Angst: Every day I'm afraid they'll ask questions that seem strange to us and get kicked out by their own fans (wry smile.jpg)

[Admin] Hufflepuff House Cub: Speaking of which, did anyone notice the new member summer in the main group? He hasn't said anything since joining. It's the same situation as that day. Do you think he could be one of them?

While the discussion was heating up there, Harry and Ron had finally reached Hogwarts and watched the battered car drive all the way into the Forbidden Forest.

I can't bear to imagine Mum and Dad's faces... Ron thought despairingly. Harry sighed and pulled the phone from his pocket. Luckily, it was all right. "Good thing someone suddenly added me and reminded us to make the car invisible beforehand. If we'd been spotted, we'd probably be in even worse trouble."

Then Harry noticed the message from Hermione.

"Oh no... The Sorting Ceremony might be almost over." Harry saw the time on the message and immediately sensed trouble. "Ron, we need to hurry."

Ron had no time to be sad. He hurriedly gathered up the luggage scattered all over the ground with Harry, and they ran toward the castle.

Peter Pettigrew was still locked in his cage. Ron had decided not to let him out until Harry's godfather got out next year; he was easily frightened.

Come to think of it, why was Harry's godfather getting out next year? How was he getting out of Azkaban?

Before Ron had finished thinking about it, Filch spotted him and Harry.

Ron felt that no day could be sadder than this one.

Then they were caught and taken to Snape.

Ron: Let it all be destroyed, haha.

Harry really was afraid of being expelled, because Hogwarts was his home. He also truly didn't understand why Dobby was going to such lengths to keep him away from Hogwarts. So far, everything Dobby had done had only made Harry dislike him.

If it was about that diary belonging to Voldemort, it was already in their own hands and couldn't possibly be stolen.

Harry felt terrible. He and Ron stood before Snape, whose face was stern. In his hand was not a newspaper, but that all-too-familiar phone.

"Well, I was wondering why the famous Mr. Potter and his Weasley friend arrived at Hogwarts so late. As it turns out, you went for a drive." Snape's tone dripped with sarcasm in every sentence.

Harry raised his head, his eyes full of defiance. "We weren't seen, and Professor, someone closed the entrance at the station, so we couldn't catch the train."

"Quiet!" Snape suddenly darted in front of Harry. "But you still risked being seen..."

Before Snape could finish, Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall came over. Dumbledore coughed, interrupting him. It looked as though the feast was over.

In the end, Harry and Ron were given detention, and Professor McGonagall would write to their guardians.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he wasn't expelled, it was fine. The Dursleys generally didn't care what he did at school. Ron had it worse... When he learned their families would be told, he was almost in despair.

"Mum's going to shout me to death..."

In stark contrast, Cedric was chatting peacefully in the Hufflepuff Common Room, sharing things about Hogwarts with the group.

He also showed them the sights of Hogwarts. The Hufflepuff Common Room was full of new students at the moment, so Ced decided to show it to them when nobody was there.

The fans were ecstatic.

They had actually seen the real Hogwarts! That was Hogwarts! The staircases really did move around!!! Who wouldn't be excited?

Quite a few Ced fans held their phones and screamed silently at their screens or laughed wildly as they writhed on their beds. Wasn't that just like you in front of the screen right now?

Come on, that was Cedric! Their favorite had become a tour guide and shown them Hogwarts.

[Group owner] Ced Is Mine: Guys, I'm fine, it's just that I can die without regrets now (lies down peacefully)

Ced's Second Life: Waaaah, Ced's voice sounds so good! It's still a youthful boy's voice, I love it so much!!! (screams) (writhes) (crawls healthily)

Cedric's Underpantz: I've already recorded it and am playing it on repeat by my ear. It's like he's whispering right beside me, who gets it?!!

Mrs. Diggory: If Ced ever leaves the group, it'll definitely be because you people scared him off.

Miqiu: I'm actually more curious about what would happen if the twins' identities were exposed in the twins' group next door... The twins would instantly become like sheep fallen among wolves...

Daily Question: Where Is Ced?: After all, Proprietress Number Two is a fan of the twins...

[Admin] Hufflepuff House Cub: But knowing the twins' personalities, I feel like they'd fit in really well. Look, nothing they normally say in the main group feels out of place.

Little Badger Who Loves Good Food: So I'm really looking forward to their identities being exposed~

In the middle of the night, Harry held the diary as he looked at the list of ways to destroy Horcruxes that "Cedric's Underpants" had sent him.

He really had tried his best to ignore the name.

It said Basilisk fangs could be used, as could Fiendfyre, and it also came with an explanation of what Horcruxes were and how they were made.

Cedric's Underpants had made a huge contribution.

Little Harry's head hurt, so he sent it to Hermione.

The only thing Harry could make sense of was the Basilisk fangs, but where was he supposed to find a Basilisk?

Then, as if by some damn telepathy, Underpants Brother sent information about the Basilisk the very next second, noting that only Harry could open the Chamber of Secrets. There was also a PS: If you don't want that much trouble, you can just go to Dumbledore and have him cast some Fiendfyre~

Cast some Fiendfyre?

What a novel phrase.

Harry felt as though his brain was working a little over capacity.

But looking at it this way, didn't that mean someone already knew their identities?

And yet they had actually believed them? They had even sent information to help them.

Harry felt a little warmth well up inside him. It was just that the name was far too immersion-breaking.

Hermione was also looking for information about Horcruxes at that moment. When she saw the detailed information Harry had sent, she was startled and immediately asked where he had found it!

Wants to Make Friends: Cedric's Underpants sent it.

Knowledge Is Power: Are you joking?

Wants to Make Friends: No, it's true. He added me as a friend and sent me a whole bunch of messages.

Hermione couldn't help feeling sorry for Cedric for a second.

But the information was indeed useful.

After joining the group, Grindelwald felt a little bewildered as he watched the messages refresh.

And after watching the group for only a short while, a message from another group chat suddenly popped up. His finger moved instinctively and tapped it. The first thing he saw was the group name at the top: The Midsummer of That Year.

[Admin] Oh My Mother: Oh my god, it's finally finished. I drew until my eyes went blind... (lies down)

GGAD's Kid: ! Teacher Di, you finally finished?

[Admin] Oh My Mother: Yep! It took me the whole holiday (wipes sweat.jpg)

Acolyte Keqinxi: !! It's finished? I want to see!!

Bug Ming: +1!!!

[Admin] Oh My Mother: Wait a moment! The file's a little big and it's still uploading!

[Group owner] Holy Crap: ? How big is it?

[Admin] Oh My Mother: Just... over seventy MB?

Bug Ming: ?

Acolyte Keqinxi: ?

Sherbet Lemon: Hm? A new drawing?

Sherbet Lemon: (Dumbledore ate too much strange candy version.jpg)

[Admin] Oh My Mother: OK! Uploaded!

[Admin] Oh My Mother: [.Midsummer and Deep Winter.jpg]

The group fell silent for a while. Grindelwald blinked slowly, then tapped the file with a finger made rough by age. After the screen remained white for a few seconds, a painting slowly appeared.

The upper half of the painting was summer, with two young men in the scene. Grindelwald recognized the red-haired man as Al at first glance. His fingers were interlaced with those of a blond man, who was smiling at him, though his eyes were closed. Around them was a summer scene, and Grindelwald could recognize almost everything in it at once.

Summer in Godric's Hollow.

In the middle were ripples like a mirror, and the lower half seemed to need to be viewed upside down. Only then did Grindelwald seem to recognize the blond man as his younger self, because the scene below was one he knew all too well...

That day in 1945 when everything changed...

In the lower half, snow was falling. His middle-aged self had closed his eyes and put away his wand, while Al held his wand high, his eyes open and tears at their corners.

It had been so many years...

There was some nostalgia on Dumbledore's face, but also some grief.

Gellert and Albus's Marriage Certificate: Oh my god!!!! QAQ

Kerun: What did I do to deserve seeing such a divine masterpiece for free?

Bug Ming: Teacher Di, did you sneak out of the Louvre? How can you be so godly!

Acolyte Keqinxi: The details are incredible... I spotted Ariana standing beside the tree trunk in the upper corner qwq

Acolyte Keqinxi: And the tears in the corners of Albus's eyes, wahhh, I'm crying my eyes out!

Dumbledore Huadao: I'm really crying to death. Why did they have to get a bad ending? QAQ

Bug Ming: Give me a happy ending for GGAD qwq!

[Administrator] Oh My Mother: There's... nothing left anymore... (collapses and gives up the ghost.jpg)

Kerun: Please put this painting in your next art collection, Teacher Di. I'll buy the hell out of it, seriously qwq

[Administrator] Yan: Too amazing, kamisama... (kneels.jpg)

I wanna be as badass as Teacher Di too QAQ...

Damn it, when will my pen learn to draw by itself?

Also, GGAD will definitely make up. If those two don't make up in the book, I'll chop my legs off.

And finally, Hufflepuff House Cedric fans score big!

Thanks to Underpants Brother for the passionate effort!

Edited at 8:05 p.m. on the 16th:

Something came up tonight, so the update is postponed until tomorrow afternoon. Everyone, get to bed early tonight (´•ω•̥`)