The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 401 Ball Game
October ended in storms, and November came, cold as iron, with a frost every morning, and icy winds cutting hands and cheeks.The sky and the ceiling of the Great Hall had turned a pale blue-gray, the mountains around Hogwarts had put on snow caps, the temperature in the castle had dropped so much, and many students were wearing thick coats while resting in the corridors between classes Thick dragonhide gloves.

"Why do wizards like to hold Quidditch matches at this time? It's so cold on the ground, it must be even worse in the air." Hermione rubbed her hands and complained as she walked towards the Quidditch pitch.Today was the first game in Gryffindor, but Ron's tense performance at the dinner table was really worrying.

After sitting on the table next to the Quidditch pitch, Ryan grabbed Hermione's hand and covered it with his own.Ginny also sat next to Hermione at this time, with a displeased look on her face.

"What's the matter, Ginny? You don't seem to be in a good mood," Hermione asked enthusiastically.

"Don't mention it, my brother is really embarrassing." Seeing that a friend was willing to listen, Ginny immediately vented her unhappiness. "I hugged Harry and Ron in the auditorium. Harry looked full of fighting spirit, but my brother's hands were cold and even trembling. It's a bit embarrassing."

"Maybe it's just a little too nervous for the first game." Ryan comforted. "Maybe I can adapt to that environment after playing."

The match started, and the Slytherins went straight to singing that Weasley is our king.Obviously, this song was extremely lethal to Ron who was nervous on the field. Warrington successfully broke through the interception of Ron who seemed to be in a hurry in his first attack. The Quaffle flew past his armpit and went straight through the man The central goal ring.

After conceding four goals in a row, Angelina finally pulled one back.But the game got worse and worse, and it wasn't until Harry finally caught the Snitch that the first game ended with Gryffindor's victory.Of course, at the end of the game, Crabbe hit Harry in the lower back with a Bludger.Once again, it perfectly embodies the quality of this group of purebloods.

After Malfoy insulted Weasley's mother, Harry, the twins and Malfoy fought until Mrs. Hooch separated them.

"These purebloods are simply—" After learning what Malfoy said on the field and Umbridge and Fudge issued "No. Hermione scolded directly in the common room .I don't know whether he is scolding the pure-blood families behind the Ministry of Magic or the Slytherins.

"Oh, sorry, I'm not talking about you here." Hermione saw Ginny standing beside her after she finished scolding.

"I understand that those purebloods in Slytherin always say that our family is a disgrace to the pureblood family. But in fact, what they have done is really ruining the reputation of the pureblood family." Ginny seemed to agree Very angry at what the Slytherin gang had done.

"That's not fair," Arya said, shaking her head. "What about Crabbe hitting a Bludger after the whistle? Did she ban him?"

"No," said the word through Ginny's teeth. "He was only made to write sentences, I heard Montague laughing at dinner. That nasty toad."

"Fred got suspended for not doing anything!" Alicia said angrily, pounding her knee. "It's not fair."

"It's not my fault that I didn't do anything." Fred's face was very ugly. "If the three of you don't stop me, I will beat that little bastard to a pulp."

In the end, everyone in the common room went back to bed early because today's events made everyone feel bad.Only Ryan and Hermione were left with Harry sitting in front of the fireplace.

"There is a saying in my hometown, good fortune is followed by misfortune, and misfortune is the basis of good fortune." After reading this sentence in Chinese, Ryan explained: "This was put forward by a great philosopher more than 2000 years ago. , which means that under certain conditions, good things and bad things can be transformed into each other. You are a little unlucky now, but this bad luck cannot always be with you."

"Thank you for your comfort, I won't be so vulnerable." Harry patted Ryan on the shoulder lightly. "By the way, I haven't seen Ron all afternoon. Where did he go?"

"I think he's avoiding us," said Hermione, "he was on the field today after all—" Just then there was a creak behind them, the Fat Lady turned forward, and Ron crawled through the portrait hole. came in.He was very pale, with snowflakes on his head.Seeing the three people sitting by the fire was stunned.

After some questioning, they learned that Ron had gone for a walk right after the game and hadn't come back until now.And as soon as he saw Ryan, they clamored that they wanted to quit the team, because today's game hit him too hard.Especially after Ron knew what happened when he left the field today, his sense of self-blame became even more serious.

Fortunately, at this time Harry found that the lights in Hagrid's cabin were on again, so he took Ron to find Hagrid.While Ryan and Hermione stayed in the common room to make plans for the next reading session.

Harry and the others didn't come back until very late, and told Ryan and Hermione Hagrid about the failure to contact the giant.

"It must be bad," Lane said after hearing about the giant.

"Indeed, giants have very high magic defense, which may be second only to giant dragons. And they are not low in combat. They are very difficult opponents. During the summer vacation, I heard from Sirius that Voldemort used giants in the last war— "

"That's not the problem." Ryan held up a hand to stop Hermione from continuing, "Those giants caused a lot of muggle massacres in the last war. To make matters worse, after Headmaster Dumbledore pardoned Under the banner of , many giants with many human lives in their hands escaped the trial and lived freely outside."

"Is there such a thing?" Hermione covered her mouth with her hands and looked at Ryan with surprised eyes, "But, but I don't see this in the information!"

"Dumbledore did this." Ryan lowered his voice and said, "Because Dumbledore said that it is our fault that there are so few giants left now. It is the wizard who drove them far away. They have no choice but to survive. Just staying together, and they ended up killing each other and killing a lot of them. So the headmaster objected to killing the last giants in Britain."

"Then, what about the murdered Muggles? What did they do wrong?" Hermione asked puzzled.

"They didn't do anything wrong, but unfortunately they lack power, so they are just insignificant numbers in the eyes of wizards." Ryan's mouth turned up slightly. "In the eyes of some wizards, dead Muggles may be far less important than these endangered magical creatures. Even these magical creatures are cruel to wizards. Giants, even he can spare those who caused carnage in Britain The giant criminal--"

"Okay, stop talking." Harry interrupted Ryan's speech. "It's late now, everyone should rest."

Ryan knew that, as Dumbledore's follower, Harry recognized everything about Dumbledore, so he couldn't accept Ryan's accusations against Dumbledore.However, Dumbledore had been hiding many things from him before, and his inner judgment about basic good and evil also made him unable to refute what Ryan said.In this case, he could only interrupt Ryan's words in a blunt way.

"Okay, then good night." Several people said good night to each other and went to bed.But Ryan, who was lying on the bed, thought about the massacre caused by the giants in the west during the summer vacation at the end of the fifth grade in the original book, and decided to do something.

Thinking of this, he got up and quickly wrote a letter to the staff of the Weasley joke store, and put it in the envelope after confirming that there were no mistakes.Going to mail it out next Hogsmeade Day.

(End of this chapter)