The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 401 Football Game
October ended with a storm, and November arrived, cold as iron, with a layer of frost every morning and icy winds cutting hands and cheeks. The sky and the ceiling of the Great Hall turned a light blue-gray, the mountains around Hogwarts wore snow caps, and the temperature in the castle dropped so much that many students wore thick dragon-skin gloves when they rested in the corridors between classes.

"Why do wizards like to hold Quidditch matches at this time? It's already cold enough on the ground, and it must be even worse if we fly in the air." Hermione rubbed her hands and complained as she walked towards the Quidditch field. Today was Gryffindor's first game, but Ron's nervous performance at the dinner table was really worrying.

After sitting on the platform next to the Quidditch field, Ryan grabbed Hermione's hand and covered it with his own. At this time, Ginny also sat next to Hermione with an unhappy look on her face.

"What's wrong Ginny? You don't look very happy." Hermione asked helpfully.

"Don't mention it, my brother is such a disgrace." Seeing that her friends were willing to listen, Ginny immediately complained about her dissatisfaction. "In the hall, I hugged Harry and Ron. Harry looked full of fighting spirit, but my brother had cold hands and was even shaking. It was really embarrassing."

"Maybe I'm just a little too nervous for my first game," Ryan consoled. "Maybe I'll be able to adapt to the environment after I get on the court."

The game started, and Slytherin started singing Weasley is our King. It was obvious that this song was extremely lethal to Ron, who was nervous on the field. Warrington successfully broke through Ron's interception in his first attack, and the Quaffle flew under his armpit and went straight through the goal ring in the middle.

After losing four goals in a row, Angelina finally scored one. But the situation became worse and worse, until Harry finally caught the Golden Snitch and Gryffindor won the first game. Of course, at the end of the game, Crabbe hit Harry's lower back with a Bludger. Once again, the quality of this group of purebloods was perfectly demonstrated.

Later, Harry, the twins, and Malfoy got into a fight after Malfoy insulted Weasley's mother, until Madam Hooch separated them.

"These purebloods are simply--" Hermione cursed in the common room after learning what Malfoy said on the field and that Umbridge and Fudge had issued the "Educational Decree No. 25" to obtain the highest authority over all punishments, sanctions and deprivations of rights involving Hogwarts students, and had the right to modify such punishments, sanctions and deprivations made by other teachers, and directly banned the twins from playing with Harry. It was unknown whether she was cursing the pureblood families behind the Ministry of Magic or the Slytherins.

"Oh, sorry, I'm not talking about you." After scolding, Hermione saw Ginny standing beside her.

"I understand. Those pure-bloods in Slytherin keep saying that our family is a disgrace among pure-bloods. But in fact, what they do is what truly ruins the reputation of pure-blood families." Ginny also seemed very angry about what the Slytherin group did.

"That's not fair," Alia said, shaking her head. "What about Crabbe hitting a Bludger after the buzzer? Did she ban him?"

"No," Ginny said through gritted teeth. "He was only made to write sentences. I heard Mrs. Monty laughing at that at dinner. That nasty toad."

"Fred didn't do anything but was banned!" Alia said angrily, pounding her knees. "This is not fair."

"It's not my fault that I didn't do it," Fred said with a very ugly expression. "If you three hadn't stopped me, I would have beaten that little bastard into a pulp."

Finally, because everyone was in a bad mood after what happened today, everyone in the common room went back to bed early, leaving only Ryan and Hermione sitting in front of the fireplace to accompany Harry.

"There is a saying in my hometown, 'Good fortune lies where misfortune lies, and misfortune lies where good fortune lies.'" After reading this sentence in Chinese, Ryan explained, "This was proposed by a great philosopher more than 2,000 years ago. It means that under certain conditions, good things and bad things can be transformed into each other. You are a little unlucky now, but this bad luck cannot accompany you forever."

"Thank you for your comfort. I won't be so fragile." Harry patted Ryan's shoulder gently. "By the way, I haven't seen Ron all afternoon. Where has he gone?" "I think he's hiding from us," Hermione said, "After all, he was on the field today-" Just then, there was a creaking sound behind them, the Fat Lady turned forward, and Ron climbed in through the portrait hole. He was very pale, and there was snow on his head. Seeing the three people sitting by the fire, they were stunned.

After some questioning, they found out that Ron had gone for a walk right after the game and had only just returned. And when he saw Ryan and the others, he yelled that he wanted to quit the team because today's game was too much of a blow to him. Especially after Ron knew what happened when he left the field today, his sense of self-blame became even more serious.

Fortunately, Harry found that the light was on in Hagrid's hut, so he took Ron to find Hagrid, while Ryan and Hermione stayed in the common room to make preparations for the next reading club.

It was very late before Harry and his friends returned, and they told Ryan and Hermione about Hagrid's failure to contact the giant.

"This must be bad," Ryan said after hearing about the giant.

"Indeed, giants have very high magical defense, probably second only to dragons. And they are very good at fighting, making them very difficult opponents to deal with. During the summer vacation, I heard from Sirius that Voldemort used giants in the last war -"

"That's not the problem." Ryan raised a hand to stop Hermione from continuing. "Those giants committed many massacres of Muggles in the last war. What's worse is that under the banner of Headmaster Dumbledore's forgiveness, many giants with many lives on their hands escaped trial and live freely outside."

"Is that true?" Hermione covered her mouth with her hands and looked at Ryan with surprise, "But, but I didn't see any of this in the information!"

"This was done by Dumbledore." Ryan lowered his voice and said, "Because Dumbledore said that it is our fault that there are so few giants left now. It was the wizards who drove them far away. They had no choice but to stay together in order to survive. As a result, they killed many of them. So the headmaster was against killing the last batch of giants in Britain."

"Then, what about the Muggles who were killed? What did they do wrong?" Hermione asked puzzled.

"They did nothing wrong, but unfortunately they lack power, so they are just insignificant numbers in the eyes of wizards." Ryan's mouth curled up slightly. "In the eyes of some wizards, dead Muggles may be far less important than these endangered magical creatures. Even if these magical creatures are very cruel to wizards, he can even let go of those giant criminals who caused massacres in Britain-"

"Okay, stop talking." Harry interrupted Ryan. "It's late now, everyone should rest."

Ryan knew that as a follower of Dumbledore, Harry recognized everything about Dumbledore and could not accept Ryan's accusations against Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore had been hiding a lot of things from him before, and his inner judgment of basic good and evil also made it impossible for him to refute what Ryan said. In this case, he could only interrupt Ryan in a blunt way.

"Okay, good night then." After saying good night to each other, several people went to bed. But Ryan, lying in bed, thought about the massacre caused by the giants in the West during the summer vacation at the end of the fifth grade in the original book, and decided to do something.

Thinking of this, he stood up and quickly wrote a letter to the staff of Weasley's Joke Shop, and after confirming that there were no mistakes, he put it in the envelope and prepared to mail it out on the next Hogsmeade Day.

(End of this chapter)