Hogwarts Card System Chapter 139

Chapter 139: Hagrid: You Smashed My Melon, Didn’t You?

It took about five or six minutes after the song ended for everyone to gradually calm down.

They looked at each other, remembering their unrestrained, joyful dancing from earlier, and felt a little embarrassed. Their cosplay costumes were almost falling off!

So undignified, so undignified. That person flailing around like a giant worm just now definitely wasn’t me, not me~~~

After their wild revelry, everyone felt a slight fatigue and emptiness, so they all sat obediently in their seats, quietly recounting their feelings to those beside them, savoring the unprecedented joy.

Hogwarts is a magic academy, and this castle has stood for a thousand years.

But what power truly supports this castle? It’s the students, generation after generation of young wizards.

The tiny bits of magic that young wizards normally dissipate, accumulating over time, become the castle’s magic.

And collective revelry like what just happened would further strengthen the castle. It could even cause some changes within the castle.

In fact, Peeves was a type of elf born through a similar method…

At this moment, Ted had already examined his newly acquired cards.

[Transformation Candy (Green)]

Item Card

Consume: Transform into another image you wouldn’t expect.

Quantity: 10/10 pieces.

Cooldown: Recovers 1 piece per hour.

Ted tried to use it, and a handful of colorful candies appeared in his hand.

Ted picked one up and saw they were different flavored fruit hard candies!

Jerry, with his sharp eyes, spotted them immediately.

“Hey, Ted, are those Muggle candies too?”

The various candies Ted bought from the Muggle world last year were truly sweet. Jerry, Ron, and the others remembered them vividly.

Ted grinned. “Try them all, there’s a surprise.”

Jerry was the first to take a candy, unwrap it, and pop it into his mouth. “Hmm! Huh? Hmm~”

Poof!

A puff of white smoke, and Jerry transformed. He had a pirate hat with a skull emblem on his head, one eye covered by a black eye patch, and one hand had turned into a hook. But his round ears were still there! A pirate mouse?

“Ah?” Jerry shrieked, looking at his hook hand, startled.

Nearby young wizards looked over at the sound and also shrieked.

This was much cooler than his cheese costume, very awesome!

However, ten seconds later, poof! he transformed back.

The other friends, looking at the candies almost in their mouths, squinted at Ted: Are you messing with us?

The transformed-back Jerry immediately started shouting, “Neville, Ron, come give me a hand, stuff the candy into his mouth!”

The three immediately pounced, trying to feed Young Master Ted the candy.

Ted waved his hands repeatedly. “Stop! You don’t need to, hmph! I’ll do it myself~”

One candy swallowed, and from then on, my fate is in my own hands!

Poof!

Ted found himself shorter; he had to look up at Hermione and the others.

He looked down and saw his hands had turned into bones!

He had transformed into a one-meter-tall Q-version little skeleton.

Ted scratched his skull, a bit bewildered.

The other friends also became interested: So, this thing transforms differently each time?

Harry shouted, “Don’t move, let me try!”

Poof! Harry’s appearance didn’t change, but a pair of huge white feathered wings grew from her back!

She flapped them twice and actually flew!

Everyone in the Great Hall saw her flapping her wings and flying into mid-air. The famous Hogwarts street rogue, Gryffindor’s Punching King, now had an indescribable sanctity—and then the transformation time was up, and she fell, only to be caught by her friends.

Many people were stunned.

Some Muggle-born young wizards even blurted out, “Look, there’s an angel!”

Even the people at the Slytherin table were dumbfounded.

Especially Malfoy, his eyes wide and mouth agape, his wand even dropped.

Next was Hermione, poof!

Two rabbit ears grew on Hermione’s head, one standing up, one drooping. But she wasn’t wearing that rabbit-eared wizard hat!

She suddenly felt a bit strange and looked behind her, only to find a fluffy rabbit tail had appeared!

“Ah~” She covered her tail, her face crimson with embarrassment.

Seeing this, Ted picked up a napkin from the table, shook it, and it turned into a large piece of cloth, which he wrapped around Hermione’s waist, covering her rabbit tail.

Then it was Neville’s turn; he transformed into a furry, bipedal lion.

The Gryffindor students clapped their hands red.

Then Ron, he turned into a puppet? Even his nose became a small wooden peg!

Ron: “I don’t like this look at all!” As soon as he spoke, his nose grew longer~

The young wizards thought this was a carefully prepared holiday performance by the Golden Six.

After all, their performance last year almost scared everyone’s pants wet. This year’s was much better.

The Weasley twins, at this moment, looked at the Golden Six, their eyes practically glowing: This stuff is amazing!

They had seen many young wizards timidly asking Ted for these transformation candies. However, the candies were limited, and some people even offered to buy them!

The twins: A golden door to wealth is slowly opening for us!

…

As the time for the feast approached, the young wizards began to wait patiently.

Jerry and Neville asked what Ted and Hermione had been up to recently. Their schedules hadn’t aligned for a while, so their group activity time had been greatly reduced.

And Ted and Hermione kept going to the kitchen, seemingly working on something new.

Hermione smiled. “You’ll see it in a bit!”

Ted, meanwhile, told Neville, “I’ve been researching a new magic recently that I think would be very suitable for you. I’ll teach you once I’ve thoroughly researched it.”

Jerry and the others on the side egged him on, asking Ted to demonstrate it.

Ted couldn’t refuse and agreed.

He didn’t pull out his wand but extended one hand, muttering, “Grant me strength, I am Ted~”

Then, with a whoosh, he delivered a hand chop that split the decorative large pumpkin beside him.

The giant pumpkin Hagrid grew with an Engorgement Charm was truly enormous, and now it was split in half by Ted’s single hand chop!

The friends’ eyes were wide with shock, speechless for a moment: What kind of magic was that?

Actually, this wasn’t really magic; it was an application of psychic energy to strengthen the body.

Ted was trying to figure out how to convert it into magic, possibly starting from Transfiguration.

Ted flashed a sunny smile. “You know, we wizards rely too much on our wands. If one day our wands aren’t in hand, we’d be at anyone’s mercy. So, I developed this magic that doesn’t require a wand. Then we can directly engage in hand-to-hand combat with enemies, beat them to death, or be beaten to~ death~”

Put a few points into Lumos, the rest into combat skills. Gandalf, I understand!

But Ted saw that his friends’ expressions weren’t quite right.

Jerry kept winking at him, Neville’s lips trembled violently, Ron’s mouth was slightly open as if he’d turned to stone, and Hermione’s eyebrows twitched frantically.

Ted felt something was off and turned around. Woohoo~

Behind him were all the professors, the heads of houses, and Dumbledore.

And even Hagrid!

Hagrid looked at Ted, then at the giant pumpkin split in half on the ground: You smashed my melon, didn’t you?!

Ted hadn’t expected to perform a one-handed melon chop right in front of all the professors, and with the melon’s owner, Hagrid, present.

Fortunately, Dumbledore was quite open-minded about this.

He didn’t say anything, only that the feast was about to begin and for the students to sit properly, as the show would start soon.

The young wizards were still wondering: A show? Didn’t Ted and his friends just perform? If they do it again, our energy might not be enough to shake!

Soon, the performance began, and it was a skeleton dance troupe!

Last year, it was rumored that the school had invited them to perform. But that was just a rumor.

Unexpectedly, Dumbledore, being flexible, actually invited them this year!

Old Dumbledore is considerate!

However, Hermione and Ted didn’t appreciate the two rows of skeletons swaying and dancing to the music.

In Hermione’s eyes, these skeletons weren’t as cute as Ted’s Q-version little skeleton.

Hermione watched Ron and the others engrossed and excited, and couldn’t help but ask, “What’s so good about this? I can’t even tell their gender.”

Ted pointed out to her, “Look, we can actually tell males from females by the size of their pelvises. Females have larger pelvises because they give birth.”

Hermione tilted her head, furrowed her brow, and looked at Ted with a puzzled expression. “How do you even know that?!”

Ted: …My knowledge is all over the place!

After the performance, the food began to be served.

As soon as the dishes appeared, there was another wave of suppressed gasps in the Great Hall.

“What’s this dish?” Ron pointed to a plate of red and yellow scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Jerry, meanwhile, was trying to pick up some hot candied sweet potatoes with his fork.

The young wizards discovered that many of the dishes at this year’s feast were new to them, and after tasting a bite, they all praised them.

They rarely ate stir-fried dishes.

In addition, there were several new pastries, whose shapes alone were very appealing, made into the forms of magical creatures.

There was a unicorn-shaped cake that no one dared to cut into.

There was even a new drink!

Dumbledore ate the candied sweet potatoes and praised, “This is truly excellent. It seems this year’s feast is exceptionally successful!” Though he’d have to be careful not to get his dentures stuck if it cooled.

Professor Flitwick also cheered loudly, and Professor McGonagall didn’t speak but smiled; she had a unique fried rice that was particularly to her liking~

Snape was trying to spear a piece of Mapo Tofu, but his fork just couldn’t pick it up. He tried twice, and it kept sliding off, making his face turn dark with frustration. He directly pulled out his wand and flicked it, making the piece of Mapo Tofu jump into his mouth…

***

Previously, I mentioned house-elves being good and working hard, and I was reprimanded for it.

I thought university principals would say such things during sports days and military training, just to enjoy being a leader. I didn’t expect only my school to be odd.

I originally wanted to emphasize Ted’s status among the house-elves…

It has been deleted.

I apologize, this content was written before, and when the “laughing fruit” incident happened, I didn’t realize the danger and didn’t promptly delete sensitive content. My political sensitivity is lacking, and I will pay more attention in the future.

(End of chapter)