Only students who have made significant contributions to Hogwarts can receive the Special Contribution Award for the school. This is also the highest personal honor for young wizards during their school years.

Fifty years ago, a famous noseless wizard, the originator of the Defense Against the Dark Arts curse, Mr. Tom the Soul Splitter, won this award when he was in the fifth grade.

But Kyle is only in the first grade now, four years ahead of him.

From this aspect alone, Kyle could point at the other person's nose...maxilla, and say very frankly, you are so lame.

As for what happens after that, that’s another story.

"Thank you for your evaluation, Principal." Kyle smiled.

What he was thanking was not any special contribution award, but what Dumbledore had just said.

Especially the four words "noble spirit"...

It is said that Old Deng was qualified to be the principal because his inner qualities could be seen at first sight.

You have to accept it.

"You deserve this, you really deserve it." Dumbledore blinked and said, "Few people have the courage to face two adult wizards alone in their first year, not to mention that you defeated one of them.

The school directors all agreed that awarding you the Special Contribution Award was the best decision I made this year."

They are probably afraid of trouble, Kyle thought to himself. He didn't think the school directors would think so much.

Unlike Dumbledore, who devoted himself to the school, they cared more about their own interests.

If Kyle really died in the Forbidden Forest, it wouldn't take long for the entire wizarding world to know that the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts would kill students.

By then, even if Hogwarts doesn't close, it will still be in a lot of trouble, and the school directors naturally don't want this to happen.

Fortunately, Kyle is okay.

They probably wanted to use this special contribution award to get rid of Chris and Diana.

But Kyle didn't care what they thought. At least he was satisfied with the current result.

"Principal, there is one more thing."

"Just ask."

"And Hagrid? I noticed he wasn't in the room."

"In fact, Hagrid was the first person attacked yesterday." Dumbledore said: "Oren tricked him into drinking undiluted Winged Demon venom, and then hid Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest after he fell into a coma."

"And Hagrid now..."

"Don't worry, Kyle. Hagrid is in better health than an ordinary wizard. He is not in danger of death."

Dumbledore comforted him, "And I also got the method to eliminate the venom of the Winged Demon from Newt. He will be back from St. Mungo's soon."

Kyle breathed a sigh of relief. He almost forgot that Hagrid was a half-giant with high health and defense.

Moreover, the venom of the Winged Demon is a bit special. Compared with being sprinkled on the body, it is not so serious to drink it.

"Principal, I have one last question."

"Tell me about it."

"That witch..." Kyle said, "Why is she hiding next to Kanna?"

"Ah, I've been wondering when you'd ask about that."

Dumbledore said, "I'm sorry, Kyle, because this matter concerns the Prince family, I can't tell you too much. I can only tell you that the witch does have bad intentions and her goal is a key."

"key?"

"Yes, the key to Gringotts' vault." Dumbledore said quietly, "Her identity is very special. As long as she can get the key to the vault, she can take away all the inheritance left by the Connor family openly."

Kyle frowned. The word "legacy" reminded him of something instantly.

He looked at Dumbledore, but received no response.

"If you like it, I can pass it on to you." Kyle said sincerely.

There was no falsehood in what he said; he really wanted to get rid of those piles of cockroaches.

But Dumbledore refused.

He stood up and said, "Finally, I have to ask you to forgive me. Because of something, I was not in the castle yesterday, so I did not show up in time when you were in the most danger. This is my dereliction of duty as the headmaster."

"It's okay, don't worry about it."

…

Kell did not stay in the school hospital for too long. Shortly after Dumbledore left, Madam Pomfrey agreed to his request to be discharged.

Thanks to his good popularity, Kyle was surrounded by a group of people as soon as he returned to the Hufflepuff common room. He had to respond to their concerns one by one.

An hour later, it was still the familiar abandoned classroom.

"Kyle, I heard you killed a grown wizard?!"

As soon as they met, Fred couldn't wait to ask, "Is this true?"

"Don't try to deny it." George said, "When the strikers left the Forbidden Forest, someone heard their conversation. The witch brought back by Professor McGonagall was beaten like that by you."

“…”

Does the striker have such a poor sense of confidentiality? Why didn't they let the Aurors do such an important task? Kyle rubbed his forehead. Fortunately, he didn't want to hide it . "It's just luck. The opponent is too weak." Kyle said, "I guess she definitely didn't go to Hogwarts."

"Come on, he's an adult wizard who can use dark magic, don't make it sound so easy."

Cedric joked, "It will make us look useless."

"Okay." Kyle said readily, "I actually had a near-death experience, and only then did I wait for rescue with great difficulty and survive the dark wizard's hands."

George nodded in a serious tone, "That sounds much better."

"But I didn't realize at all that Professor Oren was also a dark wizard."

Cedric exclaimed, "And his class is very interesting, much better than last year."

"Watch out, Cedric." Fred warned, "Oren is no longer a professor. He almost killed Kyle."

"Sorry, I'm just used to it," Cedric apologized quickly.

"No one expected this." Qiu said, "Even Davis couldn't believe it was true. He thought someone else was using Polyjuice Potion to impersonate Oren.

By the way, Davis is the boy who wanted to complain about Oren before, and he almost got into a fight with you Gryffindors."

"I know him." Fred sighed, "He's right, we all got the wrong guy."

When it came to Oren, everyone fell silent, even Fred and George, who were usually the happiest, became quiet.

They had liked Oren very much before, and had expected him to break the curse and stay in Hogwarts next year.

But now everything has changed, Oren is actually a dark wizard!

They will probably never meet a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who is humorous in class and doesn't check homework.

For a while, the classroom suddenly became quiet and none of the five people spoke.

That’s right, there are only five people coming here this time, and the missing one is Kanna.

The incident with Pochi...or rather the witch, had dealt her a heavy blow. She had been locking herself in the dormitory for the past few days, and only came out to take a look when Kyle was discharged from the hospital and returned to the common room.

But the others didn't know this. Cedric and the others thought Connor was frightened and that was why she was hiding in the dormitory.

………

(End of this chapter)