The sickly, iron-fisted beauty in Harry Potter

"Your father... I remember he wasn't a Muggle, was he?"

Cho Chang nodded and said, "That's right, but because he gave birth to me with my mother, he is also a legitimate insider in the magical world. He not only knows about the magic here, but has also visited the magical world of other countries."

"So he can access the magical world in the East. Perhaps he can try to find a way. Don't forget that our headmaster's phoenix comes from the East."

A glint flashed in Hermione's eyes. If it were a magical creature like a phoenix, it would surely be of some help to Dolly's situation, wouldn't it?

But could Qiu Zhang's father really do such a thing?

Hermione expressed doubt, but Cho Chang, seeing her hesitation, laughed and said, "It's always better to try than to have no hope, isn't it?"

“What may be very difficult for us is nothing more than a spell in the eyes of some wizards.”

Hermione was now truly wavering.

She glanced at Dolly, and although she still didn't want Dolly and Cho Chang to get too close, she had no choice but to let go of Dolly's hand.

She always felt that Cho Chang was different to Dolly.

Although she couldn't quite put her finger on what this difference was.

Even though Dolly and she ate and slept together every day, and she didn't need to worry about losing time with Dolly, she always had a feeling that Cho Chang would become very difficult to deal with later.

Cho Chang noticed Hermione's change of heart and a happy smile appeared on his lips.

I've finally made it a little easier to overcome Hermione's hurdle.

When Cho Chang was selecting the Seeker, she wanted to get past Hermione, but her methods were too rigid and almost led her to oppose Hermione.

Then Hermione used Dolly's illness as an excuse, catching Cho Chang off guard and almost causing him to become withdrawn, thinking that he would never have the chance to be friends with Dolly again.

However, the Nimbus 2001 that Dolly later gave her revitalized Cho Chang, and she figured out exactly how to get between Dolly and Hermione.

That's where we started by getting to the bottom of Dolly's illness, which Hermione herself revealed.

As long as everything is for Dolly's sake, Hermione has no reason to refuse, and caring for Dolly was something Cho Chang wanted to do anyway.

In this way, at least in terms of intelligence, Cho Chang and Hermione are back on the same starting line.

"Alright then, but whatever you get for Dolly to try, you must tell me at the same time."

“I need to make sure it’s safe; we can’t use Dolly as a testing ground.”

I agree with that.

Cho Chang's perfect, warm smile left Hermione with no faults.

Qiu Zhang now finally understands why his grandfather loved practicing Tai Chi so much.

When facing someone like Hermione, using a strategy of constantly deflecting and neutralizing attacks is indeed much easier than directly confronting her head-on.

Next, it was just regular lunchtime.

Cho Chang happily helped Dolly pick up food, knowing that Dolly ate a lot, until Hermione, unable to bear it any longer, also started picking up food for Dolly, and Dolly's plate became a small mountain before she stopped.

Hermione then realized she had taken too much food and turned to look at Dolly, hoping she would make a choice.

Dolly's choice was to open her mouth and devour all the food by herself.

There's no way around it, she's just sickly, weak, adorable, and has a huge appetite!

Hermione rolled her eyes in exasperation and could only tell Cho Chang that Dolly shouldn't be given so much food in the future.

Even if Dolly doesn't gain weight, her stomach might still get damaged from overeating, right?

Cho Chang readily agreed, giving an answer that Hermione couldn't find fault with.

But Dolly could tell from Cho Chang's happy, smiling eyes that she was thoroughly enjoying herself.

Stop?

Let's fatten Dolly up first.

Fortunately, Dolly had no classes in the afternoon, so she could find a sunny spot to lie down and rest.

Cho Chang has already gone to training; she can't stay by Dolly's side like Hermione does.

Being able to sit and chat with Dolly during mealtimes is her greatest source of enjoyment in life, besides Quidditch.

Hermione was also somewhat distracted, feeling that her accustomed life was something she could hardly maintain for even this semester, let alone seven years.

The next morning, Miss Fei had the hair growth serum delivered by owl, registered the two of them at the store, and left a prepayment so that Dolly could order the serum directly from the store from now on.

That evening, Dolly tried using some of it, and when she checked the next morning, it had grown to about one centimeter in length.

If you use it every day, you'll probably get about 2 attribute points per month?

Dolly was initially quite happy, as she now had another stable source of attribute points.

This means she can now earn 6 attribute points each month.

But seeing the lingering worry on Hermione's face every time she helped her use the hair growth potion, she realized that in other people's eyes, she was already a fragile girl who needed two kinds of potions to maintain her health.

If this continues, she might actually be forced to go to St. Mungo's for testing and treatment.

While St. Mungo's wouldn't be able to detect the existence of the cheat code, being forcibly admitted to the hospital isn't a pleasant experience.

After some deliberation, Dolly ultimately decided to put everything else aside for the time being.

Let's get some attribute points first, just in case.

Even if she doesn't accumulate enough attribute points to upgrade her magic to level 2, at least she can learn some magic at any time to deal with various situations.

Life returned to normal once again.

Dolly's hair grows a little bit every day, which has attracted the attention of some friends. Dolly also openly admits that she is using hair growth products and wants to try different hairstyles.

Anyway, once she grows back, she can slowly accumulate attribute points by sacrificing 1 centimeter of hair every day, and then she can maintain her normal appearance.

The bustling September is gradually leaving, and in the blink of an eye, the quiet October is also about to end.

Before she knew it, Dolly had been at Hogwarts for two months.

In the past two months, the first thing to mention is that she has accumulated 14 attribute points.

Of these, 12 points come from sacrificial blood, snowflake cotton, dying cells, and hair.

The remaining two points came from the two teeth that were about to fall out.

Dolly only remembered this after her teeth became loose, and she quickly asked Hermione how many more teeth she needed to replace.

After Hermione helped Dolly count the beads one by one, she told Dolly a sad answer.

Most of her teeth have already been replaced, with only four second primary molars remaining, placing her in the category of those who started losing their baby teeth relatively early.

This means that Dolly can only gain two more attribute points from her teeth.

Unless Dolly loses her already grown teeth and then tries to find a potion to make them grow back...

Oh well, it's not that bad.

Looking at the 14 attribute points in front of her, Dolly no longer felt so eager.

They even wanted to increase other basic attributes, such as stamina and intelligence, to test what the effect would be.

Although 14 attribute points cannot be used to increase magic power, they are quite considerable when used to improve these basic attributes and upgrade skill levels.

Dolly's base attributes are only 3 points in Strength, 2 points in Willpower, and 5 points in Charisma, with the rest being 1 point.

Clearly, two months was not enough time for Dolly to develop to the point where she could passively increase her attribute points.

This is also why Dolly really wanted to add some and see the effect, since for Dolly, growing up slowly was indeed a bit difficult.

As for Dolly's magical abilities, they have improved somewhat.

Although Dolly's magic power is only 1, it does not prevent her from learning basic first-year spells. Many of her spells have already reached the beginner level of lv1.

Although she was far inferior to Hermione in both quantity and quality, she was not at the bottom of the Ravenclaw House, which was enough to satisfy Dolly.

After all, if she wanted to, she could spend all 14 attribute points at any time and instantly become the number one in Ravenclaw. Isn't that enough?

Halloween is in two days.

As is customary, Hogwarts holds a Halloween party.

The auditorium will be decorated with a Halloween theme, and school ghosts will perform at the end of the banquet.

Hogwarts usually has very few entertainment activities, so the students are naturally very excited about this, as are Dolly and Hermione.

In the original story, during Halloween, Quirrell would release a troll into Hogwarts to cause chaos, while he himself would take the opportunity to check on the Philosopher's Stone.

At that moment, Hermione, having been mocked by Ron, ran to the bathroom to cry, where she bumped into the wandering troll.

Of course, it's also possible that Quirrell deliberately had the troll block Hermione's way so that the professors would focus on Hermione and ignore him.

With this in mind, and considering the current situation, Quirrell's plan to release trolls into Hogwarts to create chaos is highly likely to continue.

Since Quirrell said he had a specific method for dealing with trolls, and the trolls were a method he, as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, had arranged to protect the Philosopher's Stone in response to Dumbledore's call, it's highly unlikely that he could change it temporarily.

But surely Hermione wouldn't run to the bathroom and cry again, would she?

Hermione and Ron barely have any opportunities to attend classes now, and they're practically nodding acquaintances. Dolly certainly wouldn't let Hermione suffer.

So, for this Halloween party, Dolly can just watch the fun?

Just as she was thinking this, another person appeared beside Dolly—it was Cho Chang.

Cho Chang didn't sit down, but looked at Dolly with a smile, then extended his hand to Dolly and said, "Come with me."

Dolly was speechless, and then looked around, only to find that Hermione was not there.

She went to return the books she had borrowed during the time between the end of get out of class and the library closing. Dolly was too lazy to go with her, and Hermione wouldn't let Dolly help carry the books anyway.

So here's the question: is Cho Chang pulling her away now a coincidence, or is it because Hermione isn't there that Cho Chang came over?

Dolly felt she couldn't just leave like that, because she had promised Hermione she would wait for her there.

But her body was honest; faced with Qiu Zhang's slender, warm hand, she couldn't help but follow him out.

Especially when Qiu Zhang pulled her into the women's restroom, and then led Dolly to an empty shower room and closed the door.

Both of them had flushed faces, and they looked at each other's cheeks in the dim light, as if some unpleasant emotions were brewing within them.

Dolly immediately became alert. It was one thing for her to be like this, but why was Cho Chang like this?

She wasn't so arrogant as to think she had completely captivated Qiu Zhang and that he had fallen in love with her.