The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 223 Malfoy
In the following days, the Lockhart incident continued to ferment, and the Defense Against the Dark Arts became a joke in less than a week. Lockhart was helpless, and he tried to restore his "popularity", but the students did not buy it unless he gave up the fan meeting in class and really performed his exquisite magic.

The only magic Lockhart was good at now was the Oblivion Charm, but unfortunately, he could not show his superb Oblivion Charm to his students, as this was his livelihood and it was a bit shameful.

The first weekend at Hogwarts arrived as scheduled. This morning, before daybreak, the girls' dormitory was already busy. Angelina and Alia were putting on their team robes, and little Katie was sitting on her bed, nodding her head, neither her soul nor her body was awake.

Angelina, who had just changed into her team uniform, yawned loudly, walked over to Katie, woke her up, and allowed her to change into her own uniform.

Ada was awakened by the noise in the dormitory. She squinted her eyes and looked out the window. The pink and light gold sky was covered with a thin layer of mist. She said dazedly, "Isn't today Saturday? Why did you get up so early?"

"Oliver, that damn Oliver Wood, he asked us to go to the stadium for training!" Alia's voice was weak, but full of resentment, "It's Saturday, why can't we get a good night's sleep!"

Winning the Quidditch Cup last school year allowed Wood to experience the joy of victory. Once you have tasted victory, you will not want to experience failure again, so in order to successfully defend the title, Wood came up with the idea of ​​training more and training earlier.

This was only the first week of school, and the Quidditch tryouts hadn't even officially begun, but Wood had already started training with Gryffindor, which showed his determination to defend his title.

Angelina and the other two complained about Wood for a few more times, then went to the training helplessly. Ada, who was woken up, was the only one left in the dormitory.

After sitting for a few minutes, Ada lay down again, wrapping herself tightly in the quilt. She wanted to sleep for a few more hours, but she couldn't fall asleep again after tossing and turning in bed for a long time.

When the sun rose, Ada finally left her warm bed. After washing up, she found a thicker cloak and put it on before heading to the auditorium.

After breakfast, Ada walked along the grass slope to the playground. She met Ron and Hermione who were also going to the playground, and the three of them walked together.

Ada suddenly asked, "Ron, why are you always avoiding me recently? Have you done anything wrong?"

A week into the new semester, Harry was doing better, but Ron was always avoiding Ada. Every time he saw Ada, he would leave in a hurry without saying a word. It was fine once or twice, but after a few times, Ada became suspicious. Why was Ron always in a hurry every time she saw him? Ada felt that there must be a reason for Ron to do this.

"No, I just feel guilty about my dad's affairs, so I act like this." Ron's face turned the same red as his hair. "Why are you always so suspicious lately, or are you girls all like this?"

Ada and Hermione looked at Ron at the same time, their eyes cutting into him like knives. He also realized that he might have said something wrong and offended two girls at once, so he quickly shut up and stopped talking.

When they arrived at the stadium, they did not see Gryffindor practicing, but saw Gryffindor in red robes confronting Slytherin in green robes. Every Slytherin was arrogant, holding brand new flying brooms in their hands.

"That's the latest Nimbus 2001. It's very expensive. How come every Slytherin has one?" Ron whispered. "Compared to the Nimbus 2001, our broomsticks are like fire sticks."

The three of them walked down the lawn, reunited with the Gryffindor team members, and asked their classmates what had happened.

The Slytherin team also saw Ada coming over, and their faces turned ugly. If we were to vote for the most annoying Gryffindor student, Ada would definitely win an overwhelming advantage, with most of the votes coming from Slytherin.

Seeing the newcomers coming, Draco Malfoy began to show off his family's wealth again. Seven Nimbus 2001s were just gifts from his father to the team, and he also became the team's new Seeker.

"Where's Terrence Higgs?" Ida suddenly asked, "He probably hasn't graduated yet? What a pity, he and Puse are the only ones in your team who look like human beings."

The Slytherin team members said nothing. They didn't think Ada really wanted to know whether Higgs had graduated or not. Instead, they were saying that they had abandoned their former teammates for a broom.

Malfoy looked at Ada with a bad face. Ada's words just now not only interrupted his boasting, but also indirectly criticized Higgs. She asked Higgs openly, but was actually talking about herself, saying that she was a person who bought into the team with money. "It's a pity, but you should still worry more about yourselves," Malfoy said, "Maybe the Gryffindor team can get some gold to buy a few new brooms. You can sell those sweeping five stars in exchange for prizes. I think the museum will offer them."

In the Gryffindor team, except for Harry who used Nimbus 2000, the rest of the people used Crosssweep or the similar Comet. The twins had the older Crosssweep Five Stars in their hands, which were decimated by Nimbus 2001 in seconds.

Malfoy smiled triumphantly, happy about his own wonderful joke, but the team members behind him did not laugh with him, and Flint even protected Malfoy behind him.

"At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way into the team," said Hermione tartly. "They got in purely on their own merit."

Malfoy's smug expression darkened, and he said fiercely: "No one asked you, you stinky little mudblood!"

This sentence caused an explosive reaction. It was an extremely vicious swear word, and it insulted two people at once.

Flint quickly protected Malfoy behind him to prevent Fred and George from getting close. The other Slytherin team members also protected him and separated Malfoy from the remaining Gryffindors.

Alia demanded, "How dare you!"

Ron reached into his robes and pulled his wand out, shouting, "You're going to pay for this, Malfoy!" He pointed furiously at Malfoy's face from under Flint's arm.

But before Ron could recite the spell, his hand was held by Ada, who asked, "Ronald Weasley, can you tell me what happened to your wand?"

"Forget it, I'll talk about it later."

Ada stood in front of Flint. She was much shorter than the tall and strong Flint, but her eyes made Flint unable to look directly at her. Ada said, "Get out of the way."

The Gryffindor team members all stood behind Ada and expressed their support for her with actions. Fred and George were even more eager to fight, as they almost beat Malfoy just now.

Compared with the high-spirited Gryffindor, Slytherin was obviously weaker. Except for the talkative Malfoy, every team member was staring at Ada, fearing that she would take out her wand.

Flint was about to speak when he was interrupted by Ada, who continued, "Get out of the way while I can still talk!"

Originally, Ada didn't want to interfere in the conflict between Harry and Malfoy, because Malfoy was a bad boy. But Malfoy repeatedly touched her bottom line, which was no longer something that could be described as a bad boy or a bad mouth.

Flint did not move and still protected Malfoy behind him. Whether it was because of family ties or the new flying broom, Flint could not hand Malfoy over to Gryffindor, so he had to at least pretend.

At this moment, the other Slytherin team members also thought so. They could fight with Gryffindor for Malfoy and the new flying broom, but it would not be worth it to get beaten up.

If Malfoy wants to blame someone, he should blame himself! As a Slytherin, he has no sense at all, and does things according to his own will. He offends someone he cannot afford to offend in school. How can he be a Slytherin at all?

The Slytherin team members even thought it would be great if Drizzt was a pure-blood, and it would be great if she could be sorted into Slytherin. It was a pity that such an outstanding witch was not a pure-blood.

(End of this chapter)