It was already noon and the auditorium was full of people who came for lunch.

At the Hufflepuff table, the team members, including Cedric, were sitting together discussing the new members who had joined in the morning.

After seeing Kyle, Cedric quickly moved to the side, leaving a vacant seat.

"How was your detention with Professor Umbridge? Did she give you no trouble?"

"What did Umbridge ask you to do?"

After Kyle sat down, people around him started asking questions.

"Not bad." Kyle paused for a moment and said, "I wrote the sentence five hundred times."

"Fortunately..." Cedric said, "It's not too bad."

"Yeah." Kyle nodded. "Five hundred times is a bit too much. Ten sheets of parchment. It feels like I've written a particularly long homework assignment."

"It's already pretty good." Kanna comforted him and pushed a plate of pie over: "Would you like some pie?"

"Thanks, I was hungry an hour ago." Kyle cut a piece and put it in his mouth.

The beef patty, with onions and peppers, was pretty good.

"By the way." He looked at Cedric, "How are the new players this year?"

"It's a bit average." Cedric said, "We didn't find any players with amazing talent this year. The only good one is a third-year goalkeeper.

"Five-year student Fropadvi is a pretty good flyer, but she doesn't seem to take Quidditch too seriously. During the tryouts, she made it clear that team training couldn't coincide with her Charm Club training. Otherwise, she would choose the club over training."

"Wait, what club did you say?" Kyle asked, looking up.

"The Charm Club," Cedric repeated.

"Is there such an organization in Hogwarts?" Kyle asked puzzledly.

"Not only that, but there are quite a few." Cedric said, "For example, the Wizard Chess Club, the Gorgeous Robe Club, and the Afternoon Tea Club, etc."

"These have nothing to do with the professors. They are all spontaneously established by students with common interests. They have fixed activity times and locations. I joined the Wizard Chess Club when I was in my fourth year."

"I've never heard of it."

"Do you have time for all this?" Cedric asked.

Kyle was speechless for a moment. He seemed to be quite busy before. Just attending the professors' clubs every week was enough to keep him busy. He also had to find time to participate in team training and study magic runes. The remaining time was also left for homework.

He did have time last school year, but at that time he was the champion representing Hogwarts, and no one would mention such unimportant things to him.

And now that he thought about it, Kyle vaguely remembered that some people had discussed participating in some activities in the common room, but he didn't pay much attention to it at the time.

“I see…” Kyle nodded, looked at Connor and asked curiously, “Have you joined the charm club?”

"No," Connor said, "This is the first time I've heard this name."

"Me too." Kyle smiled and said, "It seems that this club is not as authoritative as I thought."

Kanna couldn't help laughing.

"I advise you to be more careful. You can't assume that others have no authority just because you are not invited."

Cedric said, "There are quite a few people in 'Charm', and it is very difficult to join them. You need to pass a series of tests."

Kyle glanced at him, "So, Qiu is one of them?"

Cedric was silent for a moment. "Well, it's not very authoritative."

As soon as he finished speaking, he couldn't help but laugh.

"But I'm not wrong about one thing, there are really a lot of people." Cedric continued, "In addition to Flo, there is also Vicki from Gryffindor. She is also participating in the selection this time, and she also flies very well.

"I think this may be a deliberate illusion they created... After all, the Weasley family has produced many outstanding members."

"Maybe you're overthinking it." Kyle said, "Besides, perfect coordination can also make up for the individual strength gaps among the players. There's still some time before the first game starts, so we just need to have a few more special training sessions."

"That's what I thought," Cedric said.

In the afternoon, a few people who had nothing to do came to the lawn outside.

Fred and George wanted to go see if Hagrid had returned. Their series of skipping school candy products required some special poisonous berries as raw materials, which could be found in the Forbidden Forest, and they could save a lot of money if they picked them themselves.

But when they walked over, the door of Hagrid's hut was still closed, and there was no sound from inside, and it didn't look like there was anyone there.

"Looks like Hagrid hasn't come back yet," said Fred. "I wonder what on earth he's been doing."

"Don't think about it for now." George looked a little excited. "Don't you think this is a good opportunity? "Hagrid's absence means that the Forbidden Forest is unguarded. Why can't we go in and collect berries ourselves?"

"Hey, let me tell you." Cedric glanced at the two of them, "Is it really okay for you two to say this in front of us?"

Fred and George then realized that there were four prefects around them.

Moreover, the class monitor can ignore the college, which means that as long as someone is caught violating school rules, he or she can still be deducted points even if he or she is not the class monitor of the college.

"Can you just pretend you didn't see anything?" George said with a grin. "After all, it's a rare opportunity, and we just want to pick some berries."

"Really just picking berries?" Qiu was skeptical of their words.

"Of course," said Fred. "We promise."

"You promise to only take berries, but you don't guarantee how far you'll go, right?" Kyle added in a low voice.

The poisonous berries needed to skip class candy are not rare. They can be found on the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest and also in its depths.

With their adventurous nature, they will definitely choose the deepest ones.

Fred and George didn't feel embarrassed to see their thoughts exposed, but before they could argue, a stern voice came from not far away.

"What are you doing!?"

Professor Grubbly-Plank came out of the Forbidden Forest carrying two large barrels and looked at them warily.

"Students are not allowed in the Forbidden Forest. Go back now or I will tell Professor McGonagall."

"No, we're here to see Professor Hagrid." George said quickly, "Where is he?"

"Looking for Hagrid again." Professor Grubbly-Plank muttered, then shook his head and said, "I don't know, but you'd better go back to the castle quickly. Except for the Care of Magical Creatures class, students should not be here at other times."

"Okay professor, we'll leave now," Cedric said.

The group then headed towards the castle, followed by Fred and George.

"She looks so unkind." Fred muttered softly, "I still like Hagrid better."

"Yeah," George agreed.

"That's not what you said before." Qiu looked at them amusedly, "Don't you often complain that Hagrid guards the Forbidden Forest too strictly and you can't sneak in?"

"But he at least listened to us."

"Sometimes I go to the Forbidden Forest and help bring out what we need."

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(End of this chapter)