Noah: "...Is this your experience?"
"Of course." Montague looked proud.
Noah: “…”
Although he didn't plan to adopt Meng Tai's opinion, Noah did plan to rest for a few days.
Keya is also somewhat tired of "hunting", and Noah has to refine alchemy items recently, so he won't run around anymore.
So he reserved his energy for schoolwork.
Well, based on his current knowledge, the second-year coursework does fall into the category of "recreation".
One of the symptoms of temporarily focusing on studying lessons is that Noah is no longer invisible.
He was mysterious during this period, and you could hardly see him except when eating.
But now he is not only walking leisurely in the corridor with a book in his arms, he is also in the mood to admire the "murals" on the wall.
Yes, the mural that Administrator Filch had worked hard to clean all day had reappeared.
Ignoring Administrator Filch who was sitting on the tall wooden ladder and yelling, Noah calmly walked through the corridor and went up the stairs.
He planned to go to the library to kill time, but he didn't expect to be stopped after walking a few steps.
"Noe?"
Noah looked up at the stairs: "Cedric."
There were several Hufflepuffs standing directly behind Cedric, looking at Noah with undisguised surprise.
The expression was like seeing some rare creature that was rare to see in ten years.
Noah: "?"
Cedric walked down the stairs. The stairs they walked up and down were not the same, but parallel ones, so Cedric stopped at the same level as Noah: "Are you going to the library?"
"Yes, I'm going to return the book." Noah raised his hand to reveal the book in his hand.
Cedric blinked: "By the way, will you join the snowball fight this afternoon?"
Noah: “…”
What snowball fight?
He looked confused. Wasn't the snowball fight over?
Cedric laughed: "Slytherin and Gryffindor had another quarrel the day before yesterday and decided to have another snowball fight this afternoon, and our house also chose to join in."
Of course, Hufflepuff is here to join in the fun, while Gryffindor and Slytherin are the protagonists.
But I heard that the quarrel this time was because of Gryffindor's defeat to Slytherin in Hogsmeade. It was said that Noah played a major role in that.
Noah: "?"
Noah didn't know what expression to show at this moment: "I probably won't participate."
They had second grade classes in the afternoon, and presumably no one told him about it for this reason.
Cedric looked a little disappointed: "I heard you defeated Gryffindor when you were in Hogsmeade."
"...You also said you heard it," Noah, who was actually paddling the whole time except for the last moment, said with a cold expression, "It's just an exaggeration."
Cedric didn't know whether to believe it or not, but he was right to nod anyway.
…
After class in the afternoon, Noah heard the result of this "house duel". Slytherin and Gryffindor both lost, and Hufflepuff gained.
Noah: “…”
Hufflepuff was in a happy mood at the dinner table, and the Slytherins were reluctant to accept the result, as long as it was not Gryffindor who won.
Well, Gryffindor thinks so too, as long as Slytherin doesn't win anyway.
But this did not ease the relationship between the two parties, and the atmosphere between the two parties became even more tense. Even across the dining table, they would stare at each other several times, wishing that what they were eating with their own knives or forks was not food but the food on the other side.
Noah lowered his eyes to eat, choosing to turn a blind eye to the "hot" atmosphere.
But that doesn't mean he can really stay out of it.
Warrington next to him poked his arm: "Noe."
Noah turned his head to look at him and saw him motioning for him to look at the Gryffindor table. Noah looked up and met someone's gaze.
The provocation he saw in it.
Noah: "?"
"Noah, do you have any grudges with Grant?" Montague asked in a buzzing voice.
Noah thought about it carefully and firmly denied it: "No."
He felt that his acquaintance with Grant was limited to the Potion Club. Except that this guy seemed to be here for him, they didn't have much interaction.
"But that guy seems very hostile to you."
Warrington and Montague told Noah some things about Grant. For example, he seemed to go out of his way to inquire about Noah.
"Oh." Noah, knowing that the other party was coming for him, took a bite of the steak and responded casually.
This cold attitude obviously did not meet the expectations of several people, so after making eye contact, they changed their tone.
"Do you know that genius who appeared in Gryffindor recently?"
"What?"
"Recently, a 'genius' came out of Gryffindor. It is said that in just one week, Gryffindor got seventy points. Every professor is full of praise for him."
Although this point was later deducted by other Gryffindors, this point was already very powerful.
"So?" Noah frowned. Does this have anything to do with him?
Seeing Noah's overly calm look, his roommates were momentarily stuck: "Aren't you worried?"
"worry about what?"
"You are the most powerful genius!"
"And that's Gryffindor! They're being provocative!"
Noah: “…”
Okay, now Noah finally understands what these two guys mean: "So you want to say that the 'genius' is Ward Grant?"
The three of them nodded like garlic.
Noah: "..." What's going on with this look of wanting him to go up and meet the hard steel on the other side? ? ?
Noah hasn't been with anyone else for too long, so he's missed out on a lot.
For example, in the quarrel the day before yesterday, someone in Gryffindor belittled Noah in the name of Grant, saying that Noah was inferior to Grant.
Grant is a wizard from a Muggle family, so some Slytherins immediately expressed disdain, and even made insulting remarks like "Mudblood".
The other young wizards who were also from Muggle families immediately quit their jobs, saying that Slytherin was just relying on their family background. They even said that Noah's current achievements were due to his exposure to magic since childhood, and Grant, who only learned magic after entering school, naturally Even more powerful than Noah.
The two sides once pulled out their magic wands, but it was not until Professor Ulysses noticed this that they forcibly stopped the conflict from escalating.
But the professor obviously couldn't completely prevent this situation, so Professor Ulysses simply suggested that they have a snowball fight to solve the problem, and even invited Hufflepuff to join in to avoid accidents.
Noah, who didn't expect that his name was included in it, had a complicated expression. No wonder Cedric suddenly asked him if he would participate in the morning.
And hearing it this way, it seemed as if he was directly in opposition to Grant.
Noah, who found that he still had strange enemies in his absence: "...So why didn't you tell me about this yesterday?"
What's the use of talking about it after the snowball fight is over? ? ?
