"Connor, listen to me. If you have time, you'd better take Snape to the school hospital to let Madam Pomfrey have a look. I think he seems to have drunk the wrong potion."

In the Hufflepuff common room in the evening, Kyle was trying earnestly to persuade Connor to pay more attention to Snape's situation.

But his kindness did not elicit any response. Kanna just kept doing her homework and had no intention of talking at all... Sometimes when she got tired of listening, she would even look up and glare at Kyle.

“I’m serious,” Kyle said.

He has been in Hogwarts for five years, and from his first year to now, Snape has always deducted points from him, in every class, without exception.

To be honest, Kyle was still feeling lucky that he only lost one point this time. It was not until he left the classroom and saw the resentful eyes of the Slytherins that he realized that Snape was not talking about losing points, but adding points...

Snape, who was addicted to deducting points, actually gave him extra points for the first time? Kyle's first reaction was disbelief. Such an abnormal behavior must be caused by drinking the wrong potion.

That's why he wanted to persuade Connor to take Snape to the school hospital. After all, he was Connor's only family member, and even if he didn't like him, he couldn't just sit there and watch.

But Kanna doesn't think so.

"Is there anything wrong with getting extra points for completing the professor's requirements well?" Seeing Kyle still chattering, Connor looked up helplessly, "Professor Snape is just a little stricter than usual, but this is an advanced class and the difficulty has increased a lot, so it's normal to give you extra points."

"No, no, no." Kyle shook his head frantically, and at the same time complained in his heart:

"This would be fine if it happened to any professor, except Snape. Everything about him is weird."

Of course, he didn't dare say this directly.

And the strange things don’t just end there.

The next day, Professor McGonagall gave him an extra 30 points in the Transfiguration class, which was also a rare occurrence under normal circumstances.

Although Professor McGonagall is fair, in order to ensure that there is not too big a gap in the scores of each college, the maximum number of extra points she gives in class is only ten.

This score will only increase when learning particularly difficult new content, but even so, 30 points is already rare.

With these points plus the points given by Umbridge, Hufflepuff jumped to first place in the house within less than a month after the school started, leading the second place Slytherin by more than 20 points.

"This is incredible." Cedric looked at the gems in the hourglass in the hall and exclaimed, "I really hope this ranking can last until the end of the school year. In that case, our Hufflepuff can break the record set by Slytherin and become the sixth consecutive champion."

There was some longing in Cedric's eyes, he would graduate next year, so he really wanted to see Hufflepuff be full of honors and do something for it.

For example, leading the team to win this year's Quidditch Cup...

If he could do that, not only would he get a large number of house points, but he would also be able to win the Quidditch Cup for five consecutive years, which would be killing two birds with one stone.

"Hurry up, it's time for training." Thinking of this, Cedric suddenly felt his blood boiling, and turned back and shouted, "We only have three hours to use the field, everyone take your brooms and gather at the field."

After saying that, he rushed out of the auditorium first, completely ignoring the drizzle outside.

"Really, I feel like Cedric is becoming more and more like Oliver Wood." Fred came over and patted Kyle on the shoulder, trying not to laugh.

"Yeah, the pressure of being a leader is always great." George said, "Wood was much crazier than him before he graduated. He wanted us to stay on the court every night, but unfortunately Professor McGonagall didn't allow it."

"But you still lost." Kyle said with a smile.

The two men's faces immediately darkened and they glared at Kyle with gritted teeth.

It has to be said that although Kyle's words sounded harsh, they could not refute them, and it was Hufflepuff who shattered their hopes of winning the championship.

"That's enough. You won't be so lucky this year."

"We'll see."

Although they are very good friends, when it comes to Quidditch, there is only winning and losing, no friends.

"Are you still going to participate in Quidditch this year?" Kyle asked curiously. "As far as I know, aren't you busy running the Weasleys' Joke Shop?" " Developing products, stocking up, choosing store locations... these are all things that take up a lot of time and energy."

"Oh, yes, but it's okay. If I only attend training three times a week, I can still cope with it." Fred rubbed his head.

It was their dream to open a joke shop, but when they started to realize this dream step by step, they found it was so troublesome.

The first problem is the goods. Although they have made many inventions, the quantity is still too little to open a store.

So they have to rack their brains to research more gadgets. Whether they are popular or not is another matter, but at least they have to have them.

There are almost two hundred kinds of products in Joko's Joke Shop, and they can't be too different.

Then there is the store location, which is also the most troublesome point.

Sirius originally said that he could help run the store, but now he is a bit overwhelmed by the Ministry of Magic, and we can't let him be distracted by such a matter.

So the two of them wanted to do it themselves.

They decided on a location in Diagon Alley, but the rent there was prohibitively high.

Although they are rich now and can rent two rooms without any problem, those are all golden Galleons, so they still have to save as much as possible.

They have been discussing this matter recently, trying to find a store with a good location and relatively inexpensive... but the results were not ideal.

But think about it, if there really was such a good place, it would have been occupied by someone else long ago. How could we possibly let them get it?

So they plan to add a little more start-up capital, so that they can find a suitable one.

It was a shop selling owl nuts, but now most people would choose to buy a small snack when buying a pet, so their business was not very good and they were ready to move to another place.

But the location of that place is very good, at 93 Diagon Alley, right next to Gringotts.

After the little wizards withdraw their money, they are always generous... especially in the few days before school starts.

So the two of them have been hesitating recently.

Fortunately, they still have a year before graduation, so they have plenty of time to think about it slowly.

Kyle looked at Fred and George, who suddenly looked worried, and asked, "Do you need my help?"

"Ah, no need, we can handle it ourselves." Fred shook his head, then he seemed to have thought of something and said vigilantly: "Don't try to use this trick to make us go easy on you, it's useless."

"Yeah." George raised his eyebrows. "No matter what, we can't give the Quidditch Cup to Hufflepuff this year!"

"I should be the one saying this." Kyle said with a smile, and did not ask any further questions.

Just then, most of the other team members had already left the auditorium with their brooms. Mikel, who was walking at the back, urged them outside the auditorium, and Kyle hurriedly followed.

(End of this chapter)