Chapter 286 Sequelae
After Umbridge left, everything in the school seemed to be back on track.
The professors quickly resumed their familiar teaching rhythm, and the students returned to their former laughter and joy.
Morning and evening self-study classes were cancelled, but the original student organizations and clubs continued to operate.
——Even some new "running clubs", "free fighting clubs" and so on have been added.
Jian Yu felt that everything looked very normal.
It’s just that ever since the thrilling “Muggle performance” at the Parents’ Open Day—
She always felt that the little snakes she was familiar with had become strange, as if they had contracted some Muggle syndrome.
The first person to act out of character was her roommate, Daphne.
"I have an extremely valuable tool." Daphne lowered her voice and said seriously, "It can change the world, and it can also save me."
Jian Yu looked at her in doubt and suspicion, always feeling that her roommate would mutate in the next second, take out some world-changing family heirloom from her wizard robe, and then cause a bloody storm in the wizarding world, and finally succeed in killing herself and entrusting the treasure to the right person.
"I read in a book that this item can think faster than a human, and can finish thinking in one second."
"It is said that the answers it gives are always certain, so I guess it is invincible in prophecy and divination."
"I want to entrust it to you. I don't think anyone else can use it well except you, and I don't want anyone else to find it."
Jian Yu took a deep breath. Everything was developing according to the worst-case scenario.
She was about to refuse, but Daphne stared at her with pleading eyes:
"Only you can save me, Jade! If you can open it and make it work, my life and property will be saved!"
Jian Yu sighed, closed her eyes and thought about countermeasures.
If she really couldn't find the secret to such a heavy thing, she would leave it to Dumbledore.
You can't just watch your roommate, who you've been with for so long, pass away!
She reached out her hand and felt a hard rectangular object fall into her hand, with buttons of different shapes on it...
Whose treasure looks like this?
Jian Yu realized something was wrong and opened his eyes, but was stunned!
—It was a Muggle calculator!
She twisted her face, recalling Daphne's words: "Thinking faster than humans", "The answer is always certain", "Divination is invincible"...
She wanted to give the other person a blow first, and then give herself a blow, so that both of them could wake up.
Brain stuffing is a disease and must be treated.
"Help me, Jade!" Daphne's eyes were filled with tears, and she bowed her head. "Save me! I'm going to fail my Arithmancy class! This school year is the OWL exam! I don't expect that I can get an O, but at least I can't go home with a P or a D or a T, otherwise I will be the first person in Slytherin to receive a Howler Letter from my parents!"
She felt Jian Yu's look as if he was looking at her like a giant monster, choked up, and continued to cry and shout:
"This calculator may be just a Muggle gadget that is not worthy of the table in the eyes of most wizards, but in my eyes, it is comparable to Merlin! It is the hope of saving my Arithmancy! I must be the first person to eat crabs before it appears on the list of banned items in the exam! This must not be known to others!"
Seeing her like this, Jian Yu felt that the world had become magical.
She had a hard time associating Daphne with a Muggle calculator.
Her intuition told her that if Daphne failed the exam, all she would get would be a simple yelling letter from her parents; but if she passed the exam with the help of a calculator, she might get a mixed doubles match from her parents.
But she was still willing to help and took the calculator apart and modified it.
With the foundation of the game console in hand, this task of replacing circuits with magic words is not difficult.
Daphne, with a dreamy and happy smile on her face, took a calculator and immersed herself in the Arithmancy homework.
Jian Yu decided to go to the common room to get some fresh air.
She was not sure whether she was hallucinating due to lack of oxygen.
Otherwise, how could she see Greengrass, who came from a pure-blood family, passionately kissing a calculator?
......
Everything in the common room was normal...seemingly normal.
Green light shines on the students who are reading, a fire is burning in the fireplace, and the squids in the black lake outside the window are moving slowly...
It creates a beautiful, peaceful and lazy picture.
Jane Yu sat down on a sofa. Opposite her, Draco was reading a book called "Advanced Potion Making" with a serious expression. It seemed that he had understood the importance of previewing the teaching content of the next year in advance. Theodore was reading a book called "The Fifth Element: Exploration" attentively. Both of them showed a desire for new knowledge and looked like good students.
“Sunk costs…are costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered…When making decisions, rational decision makers should exclude the interference of sunk costs…”
She was a little unsure if there was something wrong with her ears.
How else would she have heard a string of economic terms coming out of Draco's mouth?
"That makes sense...my parents' investment in that person is a sunk cost..."
Jian Yu felt like something was wrong.
"But people are not always rational." Theodore suddenly said something meaningful. "Abandoning sunk costs is like me brewing a potion. Even if I know there is something wrong with the ingredients I added, I still want to continue brewing instead of brewing a new pot."
Draco sighed, and the two of them looked so heavy that they seemed like two little old men.
Jian Yu rubbed her eyes, and her eyes scanned the books the two people were reading——
It's the cover of "Advanced Potion Making" and "The Fifth Element: Exploration"...
But the content on this inner page...does it have anything to do with potions and spells?
She snatched up Theodore and Draco's books, turned to the first page and saw -
"economics"?
Facing her incredulous look, Draco let out a series of awkward coughs.
"These are all lowly thoughts!" He waved his hands hurriedly, his pale face flushed with shame, "I have no mutual respect for these Muggles! However, for our bright future, for our business territory, for more wealth for our family, I endure the humiliation..."
He quickly stuffed the two volumes of "Standard Book of Spells: Level 5" that were lying around into his robe.
Jian Yu wasn't sure what was inside, but seeing how flustered he looked...
"Management and International Trade," Theodore answered her questions. "They are the books you left here before you left. He's addicted to them."
Faced with Draco's blushing "I didn't" and "You're talking nonsense" arguments, Jian Yu expressed her understanding.
Perhaps this is some kind of family heritage. Draco has inherited something from his ancestors and is extremely talented.
But she politely excused herself and decided to go to the Quidditch pitch to get some fresh air and clear her mind.
......
But the Quidditch field had become something she could never have imagined.
Almost the moment she saw the person, she realized:
This Hogwarts is really crazy.
On the court, Warrington and Montague were conducting point-to-point attack and defense training...playing back and forth with the Weasley twins.
The location and characters seemed reasonable, as they were all members of the Quidditch house team and loved the sport.
Unfortunately, what is unreasonable is that——
What was going back and forth was not the Bludger, but their fists and feet.
He was not wearing a wizard robe, but a Muggle T-shirt and jeans, with boxing gloves on his hands.
Jian Yu couldn't help but rub his eyes again to make sure he was not dazzled.
But she felt that apart from her eyes, her ears seemed to be really broken.
Because she couldn't be sure whether they made the "Ola Ola" and "Muda Muda" sounds for a while.
"This is our exciting combo skill!"
Before Jian Yu could even ask, "Did someone get on the wrong channel?", a figure flew out with a roar from Warrington and Mrs. Montgomery, and a heavy punch.
That was probably Fred, maybe George...
But it doesn't matter who it is, that's not the point.
The key point is that Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape rushed over angrily and launched just sanctions against several people.
The first to roar like a lion was Professor McGonagall. She looked so angry that she could eat a Weasley in one bite:
"Weasley, it's you again! Gathering to fight in private!"
"The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office that you blew up has not been restored yet. I thought we could have a few days of peace, but you guys have no intention of changing your ways and are in the mood to fight here! I think I have to write to your mother and let her know what you did at school!"
The person who got up from the ground, Fred or George, shuddered inwardly, with an aggrieved expression on his face:
"Professor, we didn't fight! We just agreed to practice Quidditch!"
"Yes, Quidditch. The practice was very good." Professor Snape's face was particularly dark. In his eyes, nothing good happened when it came to Weasley. "Quidditch doesn't use brooms or balls. There are only... Muggle gloves. Perhaps this is your unique Quidditch rule?"
His sharp eyes swept over the two of them, and Fred and George glared at Warrington and Montagh fiercely.
Who knew that their real intention was just to play Quidditch?
But as we kept discussing it, things started to change.
The two sides discussed muscle growth, which they both had experience with, and practiced free fighting on the spot.
"We really just want to exchange some... Quidditch... er... Lucha Libre!"
"Shut up." Fred and George wanted to argue, but were stopped by Professor Snape. "I think I must propose to the headmaster to ban the practice of free fighting in school to prevent Quidditch, a traditional wizarding sport, from being lost after your wizard robes."
"Detention!" Professor McGonagall pronounced the sentence. "Four people! I never thought that one day I would find Umbridge's education to be worthwhile. At least under her guidance you wouldn't be so undisciplined and unrestrained!"
The four people seemed hesitant to speak.
They really just wanted to practice this new sport!
Jian Yu pressed his temple and felt a little dizzy.
The parents of these little snakes...will not attack Hogwarts one day in the future -
With the slogan "Give my mother snakes back" and the banner "Eliminate Muggle Behavior"?
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