The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 79 Trial Doll
Ada sighed as she looked at the doll in front of her. Long golden hair, fair skin, emerald eyes, wasn't that herself? Couldn't the system model properly? Didn't it have to create such a "real and fake Ada" for her?

This puppet with her own face still spoke in a machine-generated voice, which made Ada even more uncomfortable. Couldn't they just bring in Snape? This would at least help to relieve her anger. How could she beat herself up?

Ada's mind was busy, so she didn't make any moves. The puppet standing opposite her didn't have so many thoughts and directly fired a spell, which went straight to Ada with a red light.

Unexpectedly, the puppet would launch a sneak attack. Ada quickly dodged and was almost hit by the spell. While dodging, Ada also cast a stun spell at the puppet. The puppet raised its wand and directly blocked Ada's attack.

In the huge underground room, the real Ada and the "puppet Ada" kept waving their wands, spells flying around the room, and the gravel on the ground rolled around with the waves caused by the collision of the spells.

After a few exchanges, Ada had her own judgment about this ordinary puppet. The puppet's strength should be comparable to last year's welfare, but the puppet's fighting style is more diverse, and he will not underestimate his opponent like welfare, so Ada feels this puppet is more difficult to deal with.

Compared to last year, Ada has made great progress. She can fight back and forth with the puppet. Although she does not have the advantage, she is not always suppressed by the puppet.

After resisting the puppet's attack, Ada cast a disarming spell, and the spell flew towards the puppet with a dazzling red light. But the puppet was faster, not only did it cast the stun spell in advance, but when Ada's disarming spell reached it, it could also cast the armor spell to block the attack.

Ada rubbed the back of her head and slowly sat up from the cold ground. She was unable to dodge and was knocked to the ground by the puppet's stun spell. The back of her head made close contact with the ground and it hurt.

Although the puppet's stunning spell hit Ada right on her chest, Ada did not faint. Apart from hitting her head when she fell to the ground, she suffered no other injuries. She didn't even feel any pain from the chest that was hit by the spell.

Although there was a collision of magic during the battle, the magic lost its effect the moment the spell hit Ada, and it only knocked her down without causing more damage.

After all, the purpose of the puppet is to train Aida, not to kill her.

The system allows Ada and the puppet to use any fighting method to conduct the trial, without any rules. This means that Ada can use a spell to cover herself, then rush to the puppet and punch it, or directly grab its wand.

As long as the puppet is knocked down or loses the ability to resist, Ada wins.

Ada stood up and dusted off her robe. She and the puppet raised their wands again at the same time, and a new round of training began.

After about ten minutes, Ada fell down again, and this time she fell down even faster because she was asking for trouble. Ada wanted to show off her weakness, lure the trial doll into a trap, and then fight back and knock it down.

The idea was good, but something went wrong when it was put into practice. Although the trial doll was "tricked", the doll had the strength to be fooled, and Ada did not have the strength to fight back, so she lay on the floor again.

When Ada left the secret passage, she felt pain all over her body. She could not count how many times she had been knocked down by the "cruel" puppet that night.

Every time she was knocked down, Ada would fall to the ground. This whole night was simply a compilation of her fancy falls, which could probably be edited into a film of more than an hour.

Falling down over and over again will naturally hurt your body. It seems that you should take protective measures before practicing with the doll next time, otherwise what if someone dies? Even if you don’t die, your body will not be able to bear it if you keep falling down like this.

Ada held her waist and returned to the common room. She didn't see the twins there, and she didn't know where the two brothers had gone. She hoped that there would be no news of Gryffindor deducting points tomorrow morning.

Ada, who failed to return the Marauder's Map, returned to her dormitory. Her three roommates were not in the dormitory. Angelina and Alia were chatting with several senior classmates in the lounge. Little Katie ran to another dormitory to play with her classmates.

Ada was the only one in the five-person dormitory. She stood in front of the dressing mirror and took off her robe. Her originally fair and flawless skin was covered with purple bruises, making her look like she had been tortured.

After changing into pajamas, Ada took out a book called "Practical Magic Combat Theory and Techniques" from her schoolbag and read it carefully while leaning against the bed. This was a book she found among the piles of books in the library. In addition to describing theories and techniques, it also analyzed some duel competitions. This book is just like its title, it is really practical, not only is the content detailed, but it is also suitable for using as a table leg pad after reading it.

After Ada drank two glasses of water, her roommates came back one after another. Angelina and Alia were very excited and kept chattering when they returned to the dormitory.

Quidditch players from each college can now register. After Charlie finishes the statistics, he will report it to Madam Hooch for review. Those who pass the review will participate in the Gryffindor selection on Friday afternoon of the second week.

Angelina and Alia have already reported their names to Charlie. They are confident in their abilities and believe that they will be able to pass the review and selection and eventually become Gryffindor Quidditch players.

Little Katie, who is only in the first grade this year, also likes to play Quidditch. She now looks the same as Angelina and Alia last year, complaining about why she can't participate in the selection.

Last year, Ada had experienced the scene of four people complaining together, but this time there was only Katie, so it was really a small scene and not worth mentioning.

"When we go on stage, Katie, you can cheer us on!" Alia said, "Just like Ada."

Ada was stabbed in the back for reading a book. She said, "This is just my small contribution to the Quidditch Cup."

Katie didn't want this kind of contribution. She still liked the thrill of riding a broomstick rather than standing in the crowd cheering. Ida completely understood this mentality. How could someone who was capable of doing it be willing to sit on the sidelines?

"Where are Fred and George? They're not in the lounge or the dormitory." Angelina said, "The selection is about to start, and they're still running around."

"I don't know either, but I will try my best to stop them from getting into trouble." Ada said, "I will bring Katie to watch the selection on the day, so you two should not embarrass yourself!"

The Quidditch selection is approaching, and Ada doesn't want the twins to miss the selection because of her. Once they miss this time, the two brothers will have to wait another year, which is really not worth it.

Ada secretly looked at the Marauder's Map and found that the twins were walking towards the Gryffindor tower. She planned to wait for them in the common room and talk to them.

Ada, wrapped in her robe, sat in the armchair for a while, and then she saw the twins sneak into the lounge, with Fred holding a square package in his hand.

"Fred, George!"

The twins heard Ada's voice and came over to sit down opposite Ada.

"What's that?" Ada asked, pointing at the package next to Fred.

"Nothing much, just some new stuff we got," George said. "Some new magic tricks we bought."

"Let me see." Ada reached out to take it. The fact that the two of them didn't tell her directly meant that there was something fishy going on.

Normally, Ada had no interest in the magic tricks the twins bought, so George said that. But this time, Ada was so interested that she had to see them.

Fred quickly took the thing in his hand and prevented Ada from taking it. He said, "To be honest, there are books in it..."

(End of this chapter)