The Two of Them Went to Home Inn!

In just one night, Gryffindor went from second to last place... That certainly doesn't sound good.

But if we rephrase it, wouldn't it be less awkward if the score shifted down by two places?

It's just two people; it's normal fluctuation.

Rounding down, we're third. Rounding up again, we're still second. And then we're first.

Very close.

The lion cubs are really taking this in stride, especially after last year's point deduction battle.

History has already been made; why would we care about trivial matters in ordinary times?

"It's alright!"

On his hospital bed in the Hospital Wing, Ron said these words to Harry was feeling somewhat guilty.

"But..." Harry wasn't worried about his House Points; he was thinking about what happened that night.

Did Aki go to the Prefects' Bathroom with Cedric?

Ron, unaware of Harry's thoughts, continued to comfort him, "It's okay, don't worry, Harry, we'll be alright."

Listening to Ron's words, Harry felt that something was off.

Ron, however, remained calm.

Anyway, he was in the hospital, had just entered the ward, and had nothing to fear.

He can just avoid his Gryffindor classmates. No one here will accuse him of studying Dark Magic.

Ron only stabilized for two days before it started to decline. As the match drew closer, Ludo showed no signs of appearing.

Ron began writing to him, seven letters a day, urging him to come back soon.

However, the letter seemed to have sunk without a trace.

He finally started to panic.

During this time, the twins also came to ask if they wanted to buy the secret of the Golden Egg.

For my younger brother's sake, I can give him a discount.

But Ron insisted that it would be foolish to spend money to buy intelligence if Ludo returned.

Okay... he simply doesn't have money!

Even more panicked than Ron was Karkaroff. He believed Snape and ordered the Champion to smash the Golden Egg.

Since it's an explicit instruction from our own principal, it can't be wrong. Just smash it; if there's a problem, it's Headmaster Karkaroff's fault.

But the image hidden inside the egg, as imagined, did not appear.

Forget maps... there wasn't even a hair's breadth of one.

Durmstrang's students were immediately thrown into a panic.

This isn't what we agreed on. Moreover, the Golden Egg has been smashed and is completely silent.

Karkaroff panicked and rushed to find Professor Snape.

Snape, however, felt that Karkaroff had nothing left to extract from him and would only stick to him all day, wanting to show him some dark thing.

Haven't you heard the rumors about the two of them circulating at school?

He claimed that he and Karkaroff had a secret rendezvous late at night, boating on the Black Lake.

Such outrageous rumors... Snape immediately began to avoid Karkaroff.

After several unsuccessful attempts to impress Snape, Karkaroff also began to think that Snape was not very reliable.

I smashed the Golden Egg because I followed his suggestion. He probably didn't know the second point either.

After much thought, Stark is still the most reliable.

Although he's not a very good person, with the mouth of a shrewd businessman, his intelligence is quite accurate.

And so, Akali's Mysterious Intelligence Shop, always ready to help those in need, is back online.

The contact between the two parties went very smoothly. It was a straightforward transaction: money on delivery, no deception, simple and direct.

But Karkaroff believed that he shouldn't always be the one to pay; the students should also chip in.

The students were immediately unhappy.

If Karkaroff hadn't ordered the Golden Egg to be smashed, they might have already cracked the secret.

With the two sides deadlocked, they began to bargain.

As the competition drew closer, everyone finally compromised and agreed to split the profits 50/50.

All the Champion who knew the second point began to rack their brains, trying to figure out how to survive an hour in the Black Lake.

Two days before the start of the second competition, Hagrid finally returned. He had lost a lot of weight during his absence.

In Hagrid's words:

He survived in some of the world's harshest environments. In these places, without the right survival skills, you wouldn't live more than a day...

Well, it seems Hagrid went to participate in a wilderness survival competition.

He returned, and Professor Grubbly-Plank left. Like William, she was merely a substitute teacher.

After Hagrid returned to the classroom, he finally stopped teaching the Blast-Ended Skrewt.

He can't teach anymore.

Two had already starved to death because they had been gone for so long. Including William's daughter "Goushengzi," there were only three Blast-Ended Skrewt left in total.

This is practically raising a treacherous insect.

Hagrid seemed to be experiencing a midlife crisis, realizing that if things continued this way, he risked being laid off.

So he continued teaching the Unicorn lesson.

Hagrid knew just as much about Unicorn as he did about Troll. He shared many obscure and interesting facts.

However, Hagrid clearly found it disappointing that Unicorn didn't have fangs.

He also displayed Unicorn cub.

Unlike adult Unicorn, baby unicorns have golden fur and look much cuter.

The girls were ecstatic when they saw it. Their previously long faces immediately brightened.

As it turns out, adult Unicorn are indeed old perverts.

The little Unicorn didn't seem to mind the boys... so everyone went up and petted them.

After class,

William spoke with Autumn and Hagrid for a while, then left the cabin and headed towards the Great Hall.

Halfway there, the two unexpectedly ran into Harry.

Hi, Qiu... hello!

Harry was incredibly excited; it seemed like he hadn't greeted his goddess in ages, and he even stammered a little.

"Hello, Harry," Cho nodded and smiled.

Harry paused for a few seconds, then asked, "Have you eaten?"

"Not yet." Qiu shook her head.

"I haven't eaten either," Harry said awkwardly. "The weather's really nice today."

"Really? Wasn't it just raining?" Qiu glanced out the window in confusion.

"Oh, what are you planning to eat tonight?"

"..."

William couldn't stand the awkward conversation any longer; he got goosebumps all over.

"I'm leaving now. You two continue your conversation."

Before he could take more than a few steps, Harry called out, "William, I'm here to see you... Professor Dumbledore wants to see you!"

William turned around, gave him a strange look, and asked, "Who else is there besides me?"

"And Fred, I'm going too... As for the others, I don't know." Harry was also puzzled.

William squinted and thought for a moment; he already knew what he was going to do.

During Christmas, he and Hermione deduced that the treasure hidden inside the Golden Egg... was a certain person.

He's probably going to treat it like a treasure.

Fred is definitely George's darling. As for Harry... he might be Ron's, or he might be Malfoy's.

"Let's go then," William said. "Choi, tell Hermione I went to the headmistress; she'll tell you what happened."

Harry was reluctant to leave and lingered, looking at Cho with longing. Only after William had walked away did he follow.

"William, there's something I want to ask you," Harry said after a moment's hesitation.

"What is it?" William asked.

"That night... the night Ron and I got caught while out for a night out, did Cedric take Cho to the Prefects' Bathroom?"

"No," William said, shaking his head with a smile.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief; he felt alive again.

If William had said yes, he really would have grabbed a cleaver and gone to chop Cedric.

"But they both went to Home Inn," William suddenly said.

Harry looked confused.

William was somewhat disappointed; Harry didn't understand the implication. He should have just said Hilton's name directly.

The two quickly arrived at the Headmaster's Office, where more than twenty students were already standing.

"William!" Gabrielle waved from the crowd and moved closer to him.

"You're here too!" The little girl was delighted to have a familiar face.

"Where are we going?" she asked in a low voice.

"For the Second Task, we need to steal the Golden Egg from the Champion," William said.

"You're going to steal from your sister. If you do, she'll lose."

Gabrielle snorted, "No way! I'm not going to steal!"

William laughed and said, "Whether you go or not is not up to you."

The little girl nodded emphatically.

William flicked her forehead with his finger.

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There's only one chapter today.

I went out for dinner with a friend introduced by a classmate last night... and sure enough, the photos were misleading; she looks completely different in person.

Master, I understand now.