Hogwarts: I'm Harry's older cousin

Chapter 210, Question 208: What's so interesting about Quidditch? Even a dog wouldn't go!

The Magical Creatures Protection class is the second most popular course after Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Because this course is also a practical course.

The first lesson was highly anticipated after Hagrid brought the hippogriffs, and the second lesson did not disappoint. Hagrid brought the father of the hippogriffs, a strong griffin.

Although the griffin's personality differed from that of the hippogriffs, and it did not allow anyone other than Hagrid to approach it, preventing the young wizards from successfully riding it, the mere close observation was enough to excite everyone.

Griffins are such powerful and handsome creatures.

The third lesson was about Dudley, Harry, and their old acquaintance—Fluwell the Three-Headed.

Its enormous size gives people a great sense of oppression; even just standing in front of it makes you feel immense pressure.

Until Lou Williams saw Dudley.

It turns out that the Cerberus has an excellent memory.

The moment the three-headed dog saw Dudley, it immediately changed its expression from fierce to ingratiating, and its three heads began to take turns rubbing against Dudley.

Perhaps in Lou Williams' mind, Dudley and Hagrid were already synonymous.

They are on the list of people who should absolutely not be messed with.

"Dali, have you met before?" Hagrid asked curiously.

Dudley gently pushed the three enormous heads aside and replied to Hagrid, "I guess so."

The Cerberus is a very popular magical creature, and with Hagrid protecting him, many young wizards have successfully touched Fulwei, which makes everyone even more excited.

Each time they encounter a new magical creature, and occasionally they can even handle it, which the young wizards naturally love.

Its popularity naturally grew gradually.

Incidentally, the previously hybridized carnivorous slug eggs have not yet hatched.

The agreed-upon three weeks have passed, and Dudley has successfully submitted a satisfactory report to Snape in this Potions class.

He successfully improved the formula for the shrinking potion.

A new type of shrinking potion has been created.

The medicinal properties are more stable. More importantly, the taste is not as unpalatable, and it even has a hint of the unique fragrance of water chestnut.

"Perfect answer. Then, as agreed, Mr. Dursley may conduct his own research in Potions class starting today."

Snape proudly showed the young wizards the new potion Dudley had created.

"If any one of you can do it, then I can grant him that power as well."

"Of course, if you fail, you'll have to clean all the toilets in the school."

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When the bell rang, Dudley and Hermione got up from their seats and began to tidy up their textbooks on their desks.

This lesson is in ancient magic script.

The professor was a witch named Bathilda Babling, with a serious and earnest expression.

A few scattered figures emerged from the classroom.

Not many people choose this subject; in fact, very few. Even fewer people take the divination class taught by that conman, Betley Laurie. At least in the divination class, you can get extra points just by saying you saw death and giving a simple description.

Most of those who choose this subject are from Ravenclaw and Slytherin; the other two houses would never choose it, except for Hermione, who is the only Grand Duchess in the entire Hogwarts who chose this course.

It's worth mentioning that after taking Divination, Divination of Arithmetic, and Muggle Studies, Hermione finally took Dudley's advice and gave up on all three courses.

Choose the Magical Creatures Protection course and Ancient Runes with Dudley.

Human energy is limited. As Dudley said, it is better to specialize in a few things than to be broad but not deep.

Ancient magic script sounds impressive, but it's actually a very dry and boring subject.

Unlike what Dudley remembered from fan fiction, where students immediately learn rune combinations and spellings, although those topics are covered later in the course, you can forget about learning them before graduating from Hogwarts.

The initial lessons were quite tedious, even more so than the history of magic.

The most basic part of this course is to first learn a language, the language system of ancient magic.

Translating ancient magical texts into modern language is a task that is required in every class of this course.

Describe the tasks of ancient runes in simpler terms: language learning + translation + archaeology.

Dudley and Hermione listened very attentively.

Ancient magical languages ​​are the foundation for using ancient magic. If you want to use runes, you can't even fart if you don't understand ancient magical languages.

It's like you get the Nine Yin Manual, but you don't know the meaning of the words in it. Let alone refining the Nine Yin Divine Claw into the Nine Yin White Bone Claw, you can't even master the Chicken Claw Madness.

"Today's classes are finally over."

Dudley twisted his neck slightly, making a "crackling" sound.

This made the young wizard sitting behind him and Hermione feel a chill run down his spine, fearing that he might accidentally twist his neck.

"Dudley, what are your plans for tonight? Want to go see Quidditch?" Hermione suggested as she put her textbooks into her bag, which was enchanted with a Stretch-Invisibility Charm. "I heard it's Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff today, and Harry's been invited by Gryffindor's captain, Wood, to be a special guest."

Dudley's interest immediately waned upon hearing it was Quidditch, and he promptly shook his head: "What's so interesting about Quidditch? Even a dog wouldn't go."

Instead of watching Quidditch, why not play a game of Wizards or do a set of pull-up exercises?

More and more wizards are enjoying this game; according to incomplete statistics, their numbers are no less than those who enjoy Quidditch.

The money from the Galleons was pouring in.

"Yeah."

A hint of disappointment flashed in Hermione's eyes, which Dudley keenly noticed.

For the past three years, Hermione has spent most of her time in the library, except for her daily training, occasionally sneaking off with Dudley to the Forbidden Forest to play wizard cards.

She had never even played Quidditch, the most popular sport among wizards.

Hmm. Dali did go there once, and even wrote down two things that needed to be rectified in his notebook.

"Hermione, do you want to go see Quidditch?"

"Well, not really. It's just that the two of us haven't watched Quidditch matches together."

Hermione wasn't particularly interested in Quidditch; she wanted to go with Dudley.

The point is to watch it together, not to play Quidditch.

"Let's go together then."

Dudley clapped his hands and stood up.

"Didn't you say even dogs don't watch Quidditch?"

"Yeah, I'm not going to see Quidditch."

"Then what are you going to see?"

Hermione realized her mistake halfway through her sentence, and her face instantly turned bright red, making one want to take a bite.

If he and Hermione weren't going to see Quidditch, what were they going to see?

Surely we can't be going to see Dementors, can we?

(End of this chapter)