Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 149 Snape Beats Peacock
Now that Christmas break is coming, there are a lot of parchments with messages on the bulletin board, all of which are messages from students.

After Ted finished his morning exercise that day, he went to the auditorium for breakfast with Neville and saw Luna sticking parchment on the bulletin board.

"Huh? Did you lose something too?" Ted asked curiously.

Generally, the notes posted here are about lost and found items, missing property notices, and pet search notices.

When Ted looked at it, he saw a foot-long piece of parchment with a long strip of item name on it.

"You lost all that stuff?" Ted asked.

Luna blinked, looked at the sign, and whispered, "People always play tricks on me and hide my stuff. It's almost holiday time, so I have to ask them to return my stuff to me."

Luna's expression was calm, but Ted and Neville looked unhappy.

This is bullying!

"The first-year girls' dormitory is so evil? I see. I will ask them to return your things to you."

Ted later asked Hermione to help find out what happened.

It turns out that Luna is often the target of jokes from her classmates because of her weird behavior. People call her Crazy Girl Lovegood behind her back.

Classmates were always stealing her stuff, like her weird Butterbeer bottle cork string necklace and carrot-like blimp earrings…

In short, she became the object of everyone's teasing and ridicule.

So, she is a Ravenclaw, but her best friend is Ginny from Gryffindor.

Humans are social creatures, so they always feel hostility towards individuals who are different from others, isolating or even bullying them in the name of the collective. This is a manifestation of lack of tolerance.

……

In the Ravenclaw common room, there was a group of first, second and third year Ravenclaw students, about twenty in total.

Ted stood in front of the bust of Ms. Ravenclaw, his face a little serious.

"I didn't expect to hear such a thing in our Eagle House, which is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom. I always thought that such a thing would only happen among those divisive Slytherins... This is shameful school bullying!"

"Look at those who took advantage of legal loopholes and those financial criminals in Azkaban. More than 80% of them came from our Eagle House. And most of them were sent there by wizards who also graduated from our house! They take advantage of the rules and take advantage of loopholes in the rules, and call themselves smart people."

"We pursue wisdom and respect knowledge, but I think that now that we are standing in front of the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw, we should seriously reflect on whether we really have extraordinary wisdom..."

"If we can't even accept and tolerate the classmates we spend every day with, I think we have not only strayed from the path of Ms. Ravenclaw, but also humiliated Hogwarts!"

Ted spoke for about ten minutes, and everyone present knew what had happened.

Several first-grade girls were on the verge of tears.

When new students enter school, they suddenly find themselves in an unfamiliar environment and tend to stick together in groups.

This behavior also includes xenophobia.

Luna, a maverick girl, is usually the target of exclusion. The freshmen use this exclusionary behavior to form a group.

Ted has already shown signs of being a leader of this generation of students, and his prestige is very high. Therefore, this internal meeting of the Eagle Academy's juniors was quite successful.

Afterwards, Ted comforted Luna: "Many wizards are not wise enough, even those who are sorted into Ravenclaw..."

For example, Quirrell, Lockhart, and beetle reporter Skeeter...all of them graduated from Ravenclaw.

"Don't take these too seriously. They are just a small embellishment in a long life. Everyone should live as themselves, right?"

The little girl blushed, nodded as if she understood, and thanked Ted.

Her things had been returned by the naughty classmates, and two of them apologized.

Hermione looked scrutinizing: "You are quite good at comforting people!"

Ted: Don't you know me yet?

……

It is mid-December and the weather is getting colder. The weather has been bad these days, it is gray and it may snow at any time.

Ted and the others all put on thick winter coats and wore scarves and gloves.

Harley has given up on night swimming, after all, the invisibility cloak cannot keep out the cold.

But Jerry still finds time to go for a walk every night - he can be called a Hogwarts night walker.

At breakfast that day, Jerry said to his friends in a somewhat strange way, "I was in the main tower last night and found a lot of spiders crawling out of the window through the cracks. It's winter and it's about to snow. Isn't crawling out like seeking death?"

Hermione looked at Ted curiously: "Don't spiders need to hibernate?"

Ted nodded. "Yes, spider species that don't need to hibernate can't survive the winter. It's a strange phenomenon..."

"Hey!" Ron shouted in pain, "Can we not talk about spiders? I can't even eat." As he said that, he took a bite of the chicken leg and ate one third of it in one bite.

"Okay~"

Ted knew that this might be because the basilisk was active and alarmed the spiders in the castle.

They even defied their nature and preferred to die in the cold rather than stay in the castle. They were indeed natural enemies!

It is said that if you look into the eyes of a basilisk, you will die, and spiders have eight eyes without eyelids, so they cannot close their eyes or turn their heads away. Therefore, the basilisk has become the natural enemy of spiders.

It's a bit outrageous, but understandable in the magical world.

No one mentioned the spider anymore because tonight at 8 o'clock was the first public event of Professor Lockhart's Dueling Club.

All interested little wizards can participate.

Lockhart asked Dumbledore directly for permission to hold a duelling club in the Great Hall.

What a grand scene!

Now, although it was still morning, Lockhart had already started dressing up in his office. He had picked out seven or eight sets of wizard robes and kept changing them. Then there was the bow tie, hairstyle, and perfume...

He was still practicing his smile in front of the mirror. To highlight his expertise. Lockhart was now full of pride but also a little nervous. He was quite excited and felt like no one else could do it.

Lockhart: Do you dare to fight me?

Dinner ended at around seven in the evening.

Many young wizards stayed in the auditorium, waiting for the show to begin.

Although Lockhart is a bit of a loser, school life is really boring.

The young wizards lacked ways to entertain themselves, and now there is such a large-scale reality show to participate in. Even if they don’t think it’s very good, they can’t miss it.

It's human nature to watch the fun.

It was almost eight o'clock and there were quite a lot of people in the auditorium, probably about a hundred or so.

This is the number of students in four grades.

Senior students like those in fifth and sixth grades had heavier academic workloads and were even more disdainful of Lockhart, so few of them came.

As time approached, the little wizards became restless, whispering, laughing and cursing to each other.

At this time, the door of the auditorium opened.

Lockhart, wearing a flashy purple robe, took the lead and walked in with big strides, his arms open as he walked. His bangs fluttered in the breeze, looking very energetic.

The young wizards were about to laugh or applaud, but they saw Snape following behind him, walking silently, with his robes barely moving, just like he floated in.

The expression on Snape's face was as if he had just eaten a giant monster alive, disgusted and full of disgust.

"Ha! Hello, students! I am your dear Professor Lockhart!" Lockhart opened his hands and posed neatly.

"Some bad things have happened recently. So Dumbledore entrusted me to start a duel club and teach you some extra knowledge. So that you can protect yourself calmly in any situation, just like me~"

The deliberately drawn-out tone, the rhythm and cadence, was like singing an opera. God knows how long he had practiced in the office.

His expression was as if he was already invincible and Dumbledore had to come to him personally three times to invite him to come out of retirement.

Lockhart ripped off his expensive robe and threw it at the girls in the crowd.

"Then~ let's start!"

Lockhart: Damn it, I'm getting excited!
Following his voice, the long tables in the auditorium suddenly came together, turning into an extra-long and wide platform with a carpet on it.

This scene was still very handsome. Lockhart had the house-elves rehearse it five or six times.

Lockhart leaped onto the platform, at least nimbly.

"Next, let me introduce my assistant, Professor Snape." He stretched out his hand and motioned to Snape.

Snape still had that gloomy expression on his face as he slowly walked onto the platform.

He crossed his arms across his chest, still holding his wand in his hand, and his black robe loomed like a dark cloud.

Lockhart didn't care and continued with his performance: "Professor Snape has generously agreed to help me demonstrate it to you. Of course, I will never hurt him~" Lockhart's grin.

Ted and the others under the stage looked like they had eaten chili peppers, their faces turned red and they could hardly hold back their anger.

Neville lowered his head in embarrassment. He was embarrassed for Lockhart and his feet were about to dig through the floor.

Harry sneered at Lockhart and whispered, "Although Snape is not a very good person, judging from the level of Peacock, I doubt he will die on the stage!"

The Gryffindor boxing champion thought that this round would be best decided by both winning and losing. She was extremely annoyed with the peacock.

Ted smiled and said, "Didn't Professor Lockhart say that he would never hurt Snape? This shows that his understanding of himself is still very accurate."

Hermione snickered at that.

Ron muttered grimly, "It's best if we die together!"

Jerry patted Ron's shoulder hard and tried to hold back his laughter: My good brother, what you said really hits the spot.

Soon, the two began.

He first walked away with his back to both parties, then turned around and raised his wand in salute.

This is a duel after all, it has to be aristocratic, look good and have some class.

If it is a life-and-death battle, then of course it is better to strike first. It is best to attack by surprise, poison if possible, and kill the enemy with a mud truck if possible. Just implement the concept of unlimited fighting!
The two men distanced themselves from each other, took stances, and raised their wands.

"1~"

"2~"

"3~"

"Expelliarmus~" Snape's spell was so fast that it was inaudible, as if it was completed in a flash.

Lockhart probably didn't even react because his body position didn't change when he was hit.

The whole person flew backwards three or four meters, fell on the platform with a "thump", and stared blankly at the sky...

Fortunately, the carpet is thick, otherwise it would be easy to fall to death~
His wand flew high into the air and fell into the crowd. Ron looked down to find it, hoping to break it with a kick!

The scene was very quiet for a while. Some distracted little wizards didn't even see what happened before the duel ended.

There were still some good students who were interested in the professor. They came close to Lockhart and called softly: "Professor? Professor Lockhart?"

Professor Lockhart, you're not dead, are you?
"Uh~" Lockhart took a breath and groaned, as if he came back to his senses.

He pretended to be cool, but in fact he struggled to sit up: "Ah! I just set a wrong example for you. You should be careful not to be ambushed like me in the future. If I'm serious..."

At this moment, he saw Snape's eyes and the wand stretched out in his hand - if he farted, he would duel again!
Lockhart quickly shut up: "Now, let you experience it for yourselves, start the duel!" He quickly slid down the platform.

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment: Huh? Why are you asking us to duel? You didn't teach us anything? Are you here to take a shit? !

(End of this chapter)