Chapter 616: The Many Clubs at Hogwarts
After leaving Umbridge's office, Kyle walked quickly through the corridors and towards the Great Hall.
It was already noon, and the auditorium was full of people coming to have lunch.
Beside the Hufflepuff table, the team members, including Cedric, were sitting around discussing the new players who had joined in the morning.
After seeing Kyle, Cedric quickly moved aside to make a space available.
"How was your confinement at Professor Umbridge's? She didn't make things difficult for you, did she?"
"What did Umbridge ask you to do?"
After Kyle sat down, everyone around him asked.
"It's okay." Kyle paused for a moment and said, "I wrote the sentence five hundred times."
"It's okay..." Cedric said, "It's not too bad."
"Yes." Kyle nodded, "Five hundred times is a bit too much. With ten sheets of parchment, it feels like writing a particularly long assignment."
"It's not bad." Kangna comforted him and pushed a plate with pie over: "Want some pie?"
"Thank you, I was hungry an hour ago." Kyle cut a piece and put it in his mouth.
The beef patty, with onions and peppers, tasted pretty good.
"By the way." He looked at Cedric, "How are the new players this year?"
"It's a bit average," Cedric said. "We didn't find any amazingly talented players this year. The only one who's pretty good is a third-year goalkeeper.
"Fifth grade Vlopa Devi was also a good flyer, but she didn't seem to pay much attention to Quidditch. During the selection, she made it clear that team training could not coincide with the "Charming Club" she joined. , otherwise she would choose the club instead of training.”
"Wait, what club did you just say?" Kyle looked up and asked.
"The Charm Club," Cedric repeated.
"Does Hogwarts still have such an organization?" Kyle asked doubtfully.
"Not only are there, but there are many," Cedric said, "such as the Wizard Chess Club, the Gorgeous Robe Club, the Afternoon Tea Club, etc."
"These have nothing to do with professors. They are all spontaneously established by students who share common interests. They have fixed times and places for activities. Including me joining the Wizard Chess Club when I was in fourth grade."
"I've never heard of it."
"Do you have time to attend these?" Cedric asked.
Kyle was speechless for a moment. He seemed to be quite busy before. Just participating in the professors' club every week is enough for him to keep him busy. He also has to find time to participate in team training and study magic texts. In the end, the remaining time is left for homework.
There was time last school year, but at that time he represented the warrior of Hogwarts, and no one would mention such unimportant things to him.
And thinking about it now, Kyle also vaguely remembered that when he was in the common room, someone discussed what activities he wanted to participate in, but he didn't pay much attention at the time.
"I see..." Kyle nodded, looked at Kangna and asked curiously: "Have you joined that charm club?"
"No," said Connor. "This is the first time I heard that name."
"Me too." Kyle smiled: "It seems that this club is not as authoritative as imagined."
Kangna couldn't help laughing.
"I advise you to be more careful. You cannot think that others are not authoritative just because you have not been invited."
Cedric said, "There are a lot of people in 'Charming', and it is very difficult to join them. You need to go through a series of tests."
Kyle glanced at him and said, "So, Qiu is also one of them?"
Cedric was silent for a moment. "Well, it's certainly not very authoritative."
As soon as he finished speaking, he couldn't help but laugh.
"But one thing I'm right about is that there are quite a few of them." Cedric continued: "In addition to Flo, Gryffindor's Wiki is also one of them, and she also participated in the selection this time. People also fly very well.
"But Captain Angelina did not admit her, but chose Ron Weasley, who was mediocre in all aspects.
"I think this may be a deliberate illusion...after all, the Weasley family has produced many outstanding members."
"Maybe you are overthinking it, but it's not necessarily true." Kyle said, "And perfect cooperation can also fill the gap in personal strength of the players. It's still a while before the first game starts, so we just need to train a few more times. "
"That's what I thought too," Cedric said.
In the afternoon, a few people who had nothing to do came to the lawn outside.
Fred and George wanted to see if Hagrid was back. Their series of skipping candy products require some special poisonous berries as raw materials, which are available in the Forbidden Forest. If you pick them yourself, you can save a lot of money.
But when they walked over, the door to Hagrid's hut was still closed, and there was no sound at all. It didn't look like there was anyone at all.
"It looks like Hagrid hasn't come back yet," Fred said. "I really want to know what he did."
"Don't think about it yet." George looked a little excited, "Don't you think this is a good opportunity?
"Hagrid's absence means that the Forbidden Forest is unguarded. Why can't we go in and collect berries ourselves?"
"Hey, let me tell you." Cedric glanced at the two of them, "Is it really okay for you two to say this in front of us?"
Fred and George realized that there were four prefects around them.
And prefects can ignore the school rules, which means that as long as they are caught violating school rules, even if they are not prefects of the school, they can still lose points.
"Can you pretend that you didn't see anything?" George said with a smile, "After all, this opportunity is rare, and we just want to pick some berries."
"Really just picking berries?" Qiu was skeptical of their words.
"Of course." Fred said, "We promise."
"We promise to only take berries, but we don't guarantee how far we will go, right?" Kyle added in a low voice.
The poisonous berries needed for skipping class candy are not rare. There are some in the outer and deep parts of the Forbidden Forest.
With their adventurous personality, they will definitely choose the ones in the deepest part.
Seeing that their ideas were exposed, Fred and George didn't feel embarrassed, but before they could quibble, a stern voice came from not far away.
"What are you doing!"
Professor Grubbly-Plank walked out of the Forbidden Forest with two large buckets and looked at them vigilantly.
"Students are not allowed to come to the Forbidden Forest. Go back quickly, or I'll tell Professor McGonagall."
"No, we're here to find Professor Hagrid." George said quickly, "Where did he go?"
"Here to find Hagrid again." Professor Grubbly-Plank muttered, then shook his head and said, "I don't know, but you'd better go back to the castle quickly. Students shouldn't be here at other times except for the Care of Magical Creatures class."
"Okay, professor, we'll leave now." Cedric said.
Then they walked towards the castle, and Fred and George followed.
"She looks unkind at first glance." Fred muttered, "I still like Hagrid better."
"Yeah." George agreed.
"You didn't say that before." Qiu looked at them with amusement, "Didn't you often complain that Hagrid guarded the Forbidden Forest too strictly and you couldn't sneak in?"
"But at least he was willing to listen to us finish our words."
"Sometimes he would go to the Forbidden Forest to help bring out what we needed."
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