Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

To advance, or not to advance, that is the question.

Well, maybe this isn't a problem - after all, as long as the little wizard still wants to participate in a real duel, he still has to go inside.

Unless you plan to look at that list of spells and practice them all your life, you will never experience the joy of fighting openly in school (X), no, it is a duel.

However, it is true to say that, but if you want to be the first to eat crabs, it requires a lot of courage.

So it wasn't until 30 seconds passed that the assessment was officially announced to begin.The little wizards are still looking at me and me, but no one has made a decision.

And it turns out that the ones with the most courage are indeed the little lions of Gryffindor.

One minute later, Fred and George were holding hands, shoulder to shoulder, with a "third person" Lee Jordan in the middle. The three of them were applauding and cheering, waving to each other and responding. , while walking to Penello.

"Name?" Penello looked at these three courageous troublemakers with a smile and registered them on the paper.

The three reported their names one by one.

"The house is Gryffindor... providing you with two of the strongest spells at your disposal, which must be on the club's permission list."

So the three of them followed Penello's request and each reported two spells.

"Okay, let's go in." Penello put down the quill in his hand with satisfaction and pointed to the door behind him. "Come on, the problems inside are not so easy to solve."

The nature of the Lion Academy began to take over at this moment. The three little wizards did not take Penello's words seriously at all. They pushed open the door with their heads held high and entered the large classroom.

30 seconds, 1 minute, one and a half minutes, 2 minutes...

Two minutes later, under the expectant eyes of the little wizards outside the door, three people came out of the door with disgraceful faces, and through the gap in the door, everyone heard a huge beast roar coming from the room.Many little wizards were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and their legs even trembled.

"Did you fail?" A sixth-year Hufflepuff wizard asked Fred and the others loudly, suppressing his uneasiness.

Fred and Li nodded together, but George shook his head with a strange look on his face - it seemed that among the three people who went in together, he was the only one who successfully passed the assessment.

No wonder Fred seemed so much more disappointed than Lee even though they were both losers.

Perhaps because of this awkward atmosphere, the three people did not stay here longer and left the corridor immediately as soon as they came out.The remaining little wizards were still at a loss and unable to make a decision quickly.

The next group to bravely come forward are Cedric, Garr and Arling.

After completing the registration at Penello, and listening to the blessings behind him, Cedric gritted his teeth, pushed open the door of the large classroom first, and walked in with Yaerin and Gal -

What appeared in front of them was not the familiar large classroom, but a huge black cloth hanging from the ceiling with white lines drawn on it.The whole piece of black cloth is divided into three equal parts by white lines. The left piece has "reaction" written in the center; the right piece has "machine change" written in the center; and the remaining center piece also has only one word "fight". .

In front of the black cloth, there is still a line of glowing writing on the ground: "One person has one path, think carefully, which one are you best at?"

The three teenagers looked at each other, and Gal was the first to speak: "Let me start by saying, I definitely can't fight, but I think I can try 'reaction'."

Cedric knew that both Arlin and Garlin should be slightly inferior to him overall, so he gave the other right to pick first to Arlin. "What about you, Arlin, which one do you want?"

Yaerlin looked at "Mechanism", then at "Battle", and finally pointed his finger to the right.

"Okay, then I'm going to fight." Cedric took a deep breath - to be honest, he was actually a little beat up in his heart.

The three of them bumped fists with each other and gave each other a final cheer. Then they parted ways, each heading towards the destination of their choice.

The first person to pass the black cloth was Gal. I don't know if it was because of nervousness or something else. He almost ran over in one step. As soon as he put down the black cloth, a javelin suddenly shot out from nowhere, hitting the target. Pointed straight at his head.

Cold sweat instantly soaked through Gal's underwear. He was frightened to death. For a moment, he didn't even bother to take out his wand to cast a spell, and squatted down on the spot.

As a result, two more javelins were shot out from both sides. This time Garr finally saw clearly - Professor Flitwick stood on the high platform in front of him, waving his wand. These javelins were obviously the professor's masterpiece.

He couldn't stop thinking about why the professor tried to "murder" him. Facing the javelins flying from both sides, he immediately rolled forward holding his head.But this played into Professor Flitwick's trick, and a large net suddenly fell from the sky, wrapping Garr completely in it.

"Gall, fail." Professor Flitwick sighed at Garr. "You are a wizard, Garr. You must learn to use your wand well. If you use a spell like the Wind Curse to deflect the javelin, there will be You have more reaction time to do other things instead of being driven into the net step by step by me, so pay attention next time.”

With a wave of his wand, he submerged the net, freeing Garr again.Gal stood up with a blushing face, bowed to Professor Flitwick on the high platform, turned around and walked out from the black cloth.

On the other side, Cedric has also arrived behind the "battle" black cloth.Like Gal, before he could clearly see the scene behind the black cloth, a familiar voice shouted "Impedimento!"

It was obviously the first time for Cedric to face this kind of battle. Fortunately, he was more talented in this area, and he had been around Munn for several years, which allowed him to react, jump directly to the side, and pull out He picked up the wand he had prepared and "Colloportus (quickly imprison)!"

Sirius, who launched a sudden attack on Cedric, flicked his wand and shot out a spark, directly destroying Cedric's spell, and then another spark shot towards Cedric's right hand holding the wand.

"Very good, Cedric, keep going!"

Cedric also responded with sparks and passed the first level. He also had a smile on his face. The two of them held their wands and started fighting back and forth.

Sirius obviously had some reservations. Apart from two sudden changes in speed and casting spells, he almost didn't ask any difficult questions.And Cedric became more and more skillful in fighting, and in the end he even almost succeeded in knocking away Sirius' wand with a concealed disarming spell.

After twelve rounds, Sirius took the lead in putting away his wand and nodded to Cedric with a smile, "That's great, Cedric, you passed the test."

"Thank you." Cedric bowed and grinned. "I didn't expect that this level of assessment would actually involve confronting you."

"Ha, remember not to tell anyone else after you go out." Sirius blinked, "Okay, go out, your friends probably can't wait."

Cedric responded, turned around and walked out of the black cloth area. As soon as he walked out, he saw Arlin and Gal standing face to face with the same pained expression on their faces.

"Uh...you all failed?" he asked curiously.

"Failed." Garr sighed, "I didn't even have time to draw my wand, and I was caught by Professor Flitwick."

"I'm a little worse off than Gal." Yaerin rubbed his hair into a mess. "I didn't even see Munn's face, and he drove him out with two palm-sized birds."

"This..." Cedric was stunned. He didn't know how to comfort his two roommates for a moment, so he could only pat them on the shoulders gently and pulled them out of the large classroom.

Once again, three people entered and one succeeded. After seeing this familiar scene, the little wizards outside the door suddenly had an idea in their minds.

"I seem to have caught some patterns..." A young Slytherin wizard said to his two other friends from other colleges: "The people conducting the assessment should be Moon, Professor Flitwick, and Assistant Black. The three of them Maybe there will be separate assessments, and one of them will be easier - I think it should be the assessment of assistant coach Moon or Black, maybe at least one of the three people can pass the assessment."

"Then let's go in and try?" The little Ravenclaw wizard next to him was eager to try. "No matter who among the three of us passes the test, one of us will pass, right?"

The remaining little Gryffindor lion made the decision directly, "Let's go in!"

The third group of young wizards who participated in the assessment also appeared. As a result, only 2 minutes later, these three young wizards walked out dejectedly.

"We are too naive." The Ravenclaw eagle's eyes were blank, and he said to those who had just heard the discussion between the three of them: "Don't think that anyone among them will be merciful... They One is more cruel than the other."

In this way, the assessment reached a deadlock again - people from the four colleges have entered, and there are also senior students among them, but even in this case, the chance of passing is still only nine out of nine.

This is not good news.

After a while, Percy came out with two other senior Gryffindor students, becoming the fourth group of students to take the assessment - their results gave the anxious little wizards a shot in the arm. Tonic, two of the three people passed the test, and only one failed.And judging from his unwillingness to admit defeat, it seemed that he was only a little bit close to succeeding.

Then, the fifth group of Pathfinders appeared, three young wizards from Slytherin.

As a result, their clearance rate dropped back to the familiar one-third.

With the five groups of fifteen people exploring the way, some young wizards began to be persuaded to retreat and decided to wait until they went back to practice their spells before taking the next assessment.The remaining little wizards no longer waited. They lined up one after another, registered one by one, and then walked into the large classroom.

The eighth group of people who took the assessment were Violet, Angelina and Aaliyah.Aaliyah chose 'Reaction', Angelina chose 'Fight', and Violet walked behind the black cloth with 'Change' written on it.

This was a space filled with wooden boxes stacked everywhere. The huge boxes formed walls directly in front of Violet.Just when the little girl looked at the boxes curiously, suddenly, the lid of a box on each side was popped open out of thin air, and two small birds suddenly rushed out and swooped straight towards Violet.

Violet was startled by this sudden change. She waved her wand and cast a barrier spell, breaking the two birds into two feathers that exploded.

But that was not the end. Immediately afterwards, a rather high box suddenly fell from above and hit Violet on the head.At the same time, Moon's voice began to float from the surrounding area: "Start running in!"

Hearing Moon's voice, Violet instinctively wanted to take steps and do as she was told, but when she looked at the gap next to the "box wall" in front of her, she always had a bad feeling in her heart.

In a flash, the girl made the final decision. She took two steps back, stopped the falling box with a beautiful floating spell, and then cast a most powerful obstacle spell against the wall of the box in front of her.

The wall of the box that suffered a heavy blow was knocked down and scattered to the side. Moon, who was standing behind the wall, had a look of surprise and admiration on his face, and applauded Violet from a distance, "That's great - wait..." Wait——!! You have already cleared the level, you don’t need to duel with me.”

Violet, who was about to cast a spell, breathed a sigh of relief, but still did not take back her wand. Instead, she looked at Munn warily and confirmed: "Have I passed the test?"

"Yes, you can pass the test if you see me. It doesn't matter whether you bypass the wall, pass through the traps set, or directly knock down the wall like you just did."

"Okay." Violet put away her wand and smiled sweetly at Moon, "Then I'll go out first?"

"Well, go ahead." Munn nodded in agreement, watched the girl walk out of the black cloth, and then began to restore the place.

The final result of the eighth group was "two wins and one loss". Both Violet and Angelina successfully passed the test, but Aria was more unlucky - her reaction was very quick and her spell casting was decisive, but unfortunately Unfortunately, she didn't notice Professor Flitwick's last sneak attack from behind, so she didn't even have a chance to react and was declared a failure.

After the three girls left, the assessment continued again - the ninth group, the tenth group...

Many familiar faces also participated in the assessment one after another. Hesper and Quaid, who had not waited for Harry and Ron to arrive, dragged their friends from the same school into the large classroom. As a result, Quaid successfully survived under Sirius After ten rounds, Hesper was successfully tricked by Moon's box puzzle; Nash also chose Moon's assessment, and finally passed the obstacle and stood in front of Moon.

Oliver took the rest of the Gryffindor team into the big classroom, and even became the first "combat" passer to successfully disarm Sirius; Terrence and Bert pulled the trigger during the assessment Fucked Anthony, who was new to the school newspaper office this year - embarrassingly, both of them passed the level, but Anthony ended up in failure.

The remaining Doreen siblings, Garforth, and Larria also basically succeeded. The only one who failed was Qiu Zhang. Her performance was only slightly better than Gal's - fortunately, she successfully pulled out the wand. However, when she was casting the spell, she panicked and chanted the wrong spell again, and finally fell into Professor Flitwick's net.

There were fewer and fewer people who had not yet taken the assessment. Little Malfoy, who had not been able to wait for Harry and Ron for a long time, pouted. Of course he didn't want to be here waiting for those two people to take the assessment together, but he really wanted to After seeing those two people defeated and walking out of the big classroom in disgrace, he would stride in and win the victory crown, severely humiliating his two mortal enemies.

But now, he could only watch Neville Longbottom sulking as he cowered there, not daring to go in and not wanting to leave.

He had no choice but to curse. Although most of the people who had accepted the assessment chose to leave, there were still many people staying here.And they also included people from the school newspaper office, and Gryffindor's particularly nosy prefect, Percy Weasley.

After much thought, Draco Malfoy pulled Crabbe and Goyle into the large classroom.

If you can't wait, then don't wait. Anyway, there will be no results if you wait any longer.

There were still those three pieces of black cloth blocking the front, and little Malfoy was attracted by the middle piece at a glance (in fact, he didn't pay much attention at all).However, when he actually walked into it and saw Sirius Black jumping out, poor Master Malfoy even regretted it in his intestines.

After only resisting two sparks, Malfoy was pushed out of the range of the black cloth by Sirius with a barrier spell, and was declared a failure with a confused look on his face.

Unfortunately, if Moon hadn't specifically told Sirius not to hurt anyone, Sirius would have wanted to petrify Draco Malfoy and carry him out.

He still remembers it - Harry crashed like that yesterday, and all the young players on the Quidditch field were concerned about Harry, except Malfoy, who was smiling with his molars almost exposed.

That smile can't possibly be because you lost the game, right?The Malfoys haven't become so perverted yet?

"Damn, damn failed assessment, if I hadn't been prepared." Malfoy muttered, leading Crabbe and Goyle, who also failed, out of the big classroom again. Then, he saw at a glance the people who were already in line. Among the team, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley were looking at the door of the large classroom with curiosity.

At this moment, Draco Malfoy suddenly felt that he might never be able to smile like yesterday again in his life.

Chapter 51 He’s just a bad old man

As we all know, many times, smiles don’t disappear, they just move.

For example, right now, the smile on little Malfoy's face suddenly appeared on Harry and Ron's faces - and if you count it like this, the smile changed from one to two. Not only did it not disappear, it even doubled. (double) a moment.

It’s a good deal…

Fuck!

Draco Malfoy's eyes were about to burst into flames. He glared at Harry fiercely and cursed "Scarhead!" in a low voice as he walked past Harry.

Harry ignored him and just smiled happily.After trying to attack but ultimately failing, Malfoy could only leave the corridor outside the large classroom in despair, accompanied by Crabbe and Goyle.

"I don't feel nervous all of a sudden." Ron commented, "It seems that Malfoy can still make some contribution, right, Harry, now it seems that even if I fail, the result doesn't seem to be unacceptable. Yes. I mean, maybe even if I fail, I'm still better than Malfoy, right?"

Harry, who finally stopped smiling, was so amused by Ron's witty remarks that he couldn't straighten up for a long time.

A short while later, when Harry had regained his composure, the group in front finally walked out of the door of the large classroom. The two of them immediately stepped forward to catch up. Hermione didn't come, so they thought they were going to do it themselves. Unfortunately, we can only go in together to take the assessment.Unexpectedly, in the middle of registration, Neville suddenly trotted over and asked in a low voice: "Hey, Harry, Ron, can I go in with you two to take the assessment?"

Ron didn't hear clearly, and was about to ask "What" with a blank look on his face, when Harry nodded quickly, and then asked Neville with a bit of surprise, "Neville, so you are still here?" Why didn’t you go in and take the assessment?”

Neville's slightly round face turned red from suppressing it. He shook his head and muttered, "I didn't dare to go in."

This time he spoke so quietly that even Harry didn't hear it. Fortunately, the two of them didn't pay much attention. They quickly took Neville and gave Dawn their names, and then quickly walked into the large classroom. .

Facing three pieces of black cloth, the three little Gryffindor lions hesitated unsurprisingly.Neville looked left and right, and finally, with the deliberate humility of the other two, pointed to the piece of black cloth with "Battle" written on it.

As if he saw Harry and Ron's confusion, and as if he just wanted to explain himself, Neville swallowed and took out his wand, "I think... although I'm not very good at fighting, But compared to the other two, maybe this one can be... uh, better for me..."

Ron shook his head helplessly at Harry. Harry didn't know what to say, so he simply chose not to speak and set his target at Professor Flitwick's "reaction" level.

Having made up their minds, the three of them walked into their own assessment venue with their own thoughts.

The content of the assessment was still exactly the same as before. Therefore, at first, when he saw Neville walking into the venue with vigilance, holding a wand, Sirius was really surprised - as a result, after two attacks, Neville's wand ran into Sirius's hand, which made Sirius score twice and was surprised again.

How should I put it...it's quite bald.Although Neville was holding a wand, he couldn't say any spells. Sirius shot twice in succession, but he didn't even spark a spark in return, and was immediately disarmed by Sirius.

On the other hand, Ron's experience was indeed better than Neville's, and he did last longer than Malfoy, but the problem was that the length was limited.Before Munn could finish his deceptive words, Ron had already rushed towards the empty space next to the wall of the box with full power. Then, a dozen or so gloves popped out of the box and they were suddenly kicked out. His whole body was shaken. Blinded.

In this way, Harry became the only seedling left among the three.

It has to be said that his reaction speed is indeed astonishing - there is no doubt that this is one of the magic weapons he relies on to navigate the Quidditch field. In the face of several blockades by Professor Flitwick, he was almost all dexterous. He avoided it; and he was also very good at "seeing six directions and hearing all directions", and the two behind-the-back attacks failed to successfully hit him.

The only drawback was that Harry forgot to take out his wand.

Fortunately, just when Professor Flitwick almost thought that Harry was about to fail, facing the two large nets covering the front and back, Harry finally remembered that he was not only a Seeker, but also a wizard.So he had an idea, immediately pulled out his wand, and cast a levitating spell on the large net in front of him, breaking Professor Flitwick's "fatal" blow.

"Not bad, Harry." Professor Flitwick clapped his wrist and said with some admiration: "The reaction speed is simply impeccable. It would be better if we could think of using the spell earlier. But... … Anyway – you passed.”

Just listening to the first half of the sentence, Harry felt more or less uneasy.When Professor Flitwick finished speaking, he almost jumped up from the floor.

After finally calming down, Harry quickly thanked Professor Flitwick twice, and then walked out of the black cloth with a cheerful face, wanting to share the good news with Ron and Neville.

It's a pity that Hermione is still lying in the hospital bed, otherwise with her intelligence, she would definitely be able to pass... maybe?

The dejected looks of Ron and Neville made Harry, who had just been imagining the scene of the battle between him and his friends, quickly restrain his delusions, and at the same time restrain his smile - but it was a bit too late. , Ron and Neville, who left the assessment venue first, had already seen the smile on his face.

"Oh... damn Moon." Ron grimaced, and while congratulating Harry with Neville, he complained: "I thought he wanted to give him something for the sake of our relationship. I gave you a hint, who knew he would actually plot against me!"

Harry scratched his messy hair and blinked, "Well, Ron, this is an assessment after all..."