Chapter 712 Invitation

The relaxing campus life that Ron, or most of the sixth-year students, were looking forward to lasted only a week.

Starting from the second week, the professors gradually showed them why N.E.W.T. was called "super fatigue bombing witchcraft test".

Even those students who only chose at least four courses felt that they were overwhelmed by the heavy workload.

Of course, this did not include Fish.

Because starting from the sixth grade, most of the homework left by the professors tended to be practical. For example, in addition to Snape's Defense Against the Dark Arts class, the Charms class and Transfiguration class also began to require them to use silent spells.

In the common room or at dinner, you can often see the sixth-year students with red faces, secretly competing with themselves. They are all seizing every moment to practice the ability to make magic work without reciting the spell out loud.

In addition to the homework that makes people scratch their heads, the content of their classes is much more profound and difficult to understand than before. Most people can't immediately grasp the content of the day's class. Even Hermione sometimes has to ask the professor to repeat the content once or twice before she can understand it.

Therefore, most of the sixth-year students can only review and consolidate their knowledge by constantly flipping through books after class, or ask classmates with good grades, seniors, and professors to gradually understand the recent courses.

"Now I finally know why those sixth-year students are used to getting together immediately after our training, or running to the seventh-year students..."

At a Cat Club gathering, Harry and other sixth-year students spontaneously gathered together and talked about the content of the recent class.

Although they were in the fifth grade, Ginny still came over and glanced at Harry, saying faintly: "Are you talking about Qiu and Cedric? In fact, you can also go to Qiu now. Her grades are pretty good and she is a Ravenclaw."

"Ahem!" Harry coughed twice and did not continue to talk about it. Instead, he wisely changed the topic, "Ah... Speaking of which, the Quidditch trials are this weekend. Is your flying broom ready?"

Ginny curled her lips, suppressed the jealousy in her heart, and did not embarrass Harry anymore.

"George and Fred are doing good business. They bought me a Nimbus," Ginny was a little excited when talking about Quidditch. "It's the latest model, 2008! Although its performance and price are not as good as the Firebolt, it is the second best flying broom on the market!"

"More than good business, they have begun to threaten the Hopping and Playing Magic Joke Shop, which has been operating in Diagon Alley for hundreds of years!" Ron said enviously, "I want to work there after graduation."

Ginny rolled her eyes speechlessly at this useless brother.

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Time soon came to the weekend again. After breakfast, half of the students from the first to seventh grades of Gryffindor Academy came. Even if there was some drizzle, it could not extinguish their enthusiasm for Quidditch.

Of course, there was definitely no Fei Xu in this. Not to mention that he had no interest in Quidditch at all, just because it was Saturday, it was impossible for the cat to get up so early.

It was not until a little after ten in the morning, when Harry and his team were halfway through their trials, that Fish yawned and sat up from his bed with his messy hair.

"Meow~miamiamiamia..."

(Φω)

The cat rubbed his eyes, smacked his lips, and shook his head vigorously, and his messy hair instantly became much smoother.

Then Fish propped his hands on the bed, raised his butt high, and stretched out in a cat-like posture. Halfway through the stretch, the discomfort caused by the different bone structure finally made the still confused cat realize that something was wrong.

Fish finally woke up completely, and he quickly switched to the cat form. After stretching, he sat down on the bed and began to lick his fur.

After spending nearly twenty minutes combing his hair, Fish regained his human form, changed his clothes in no time, cast a cleaning spell on himself, and then walked out of the dormitory leisurely.

"Fish, good morning." Hermione had been waiting for him in the common room with a book in her arms.

"Hermione~ Good morning meow~"

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The cat pounced on her and hugged her and rubbed her cheek.

"Let's have breakfast first," Hermione took out about three portions of food from her handbag, "It's going to be lunch in a while, you can use these to fill your stomach first."

"Okay meow~"

Fish immediately sat down next to Hermione and, as usual, finished the "breakfast" she brought.

After finishing the "breakfast", the cat was obediently caught by Hermione to do homework together.

Although Fish only had five courses and not much writing assignments, Mao Mao still dragged his feet and didn't finish his homework until lunch time, while Hermione had already finished the writing assignments for seven courses.

"It's time for lunch, meow!"

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When lunch time came, Fish immediately dropped the quill in his hand, pulled Hermione and ran to the Great Hall.

After lunch, he would be able to move around freely. It would not be until after dinner that Hermione would pull him over to do homework for two hours...but at least half of the time would be wasted by Fish, so The actual homework time is only about an hour.

As long as there are no special circumstances, such as taking the new members of the Cat Club to play in the Forbidden Forest last week, Fish's daily routine on weekends is basically like this.

Originally, today would be no exception, because neither Fish nor Hermione had any other plans.

However, after finishing lunch while listening to other students talking about the morning trials, Fish and Hermione were blocked by Slughorn.

Also stopped by him were Harry and Ginny.

"Fish, Harry, just the man I was hoping to meet!" he shouted enthusiastically, playing with the tips of the walrus's whiskers and bulging his belly with his fingers. "How about coming over to my place for a potluck tonight? We have a It was a small party, just a few rising stars. I invited McLaggen, Malfoy, Shabini, and the charming Melinda Bobin... I don't know if you know her, she. The family owns a large chain pharmacy...and, of course, I very much hope that Miss Granger and Miss Weasley will also enjoy it."

At the end of his speech, Slughorn bowed slightly to Hermione and Ginny, but turned a blind eye to Ron and Neville, who were also on the side, and did not even look at them.

"Didn't you invite Neville Meow last time?"

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Maomao frowned and pointed at Neville beside him.

"Ah... Mr. Longbottom..." Slughorn raised his eyebrows as if he had just seen Neville, then glanced at him quickly and looked away, and continued to say to Fish kindly: " Of course, if you want to bring a few friends with you, that’s no problem.”

He still didn't invite Neville, but classified him as Fish's "accessory".

Although Neville's performance in school was getting better and better after his parents recovered, his foundation was still too poor after all, so after two weeks of getting to know him, Slughorn quickly gave him excluded from their own goals.

Neville has always had a good temper, which can even be said to be a bit soft, but even with such a good temper, he could not bear to be so despised by Slughorn.

So he said with a cold round face: "It's not necessary, I still prefer to have dinner in the auditorium."

After saying that, Neville nodded from Fish and the others, and then walked upstairs without looking back.

"Wait for me, Neville, I'll go back with you."

Both his friends and sister were invited, but he was directly ignored by Slughorn. This made Ron, who was already somewhat vain, very embarrassed and uncomfortable, so after seeing Neville leave, he kept a dark face from just now. Ron immediately chased after him.

However, Slughorn was completely unmoved by the two people's reactions. He even hesitated to give them a look and still looked at Fish with a smile, waiting for his response.

Fish, who didn't like his behavior, was about to refuse again, but suddenly felt her ribs being quietly nudged by Hermione with her elbow.

So the cat, who had already opened his mouth, immediately changed his words and said: "Okay, Fei Xu will come over tonight."

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It's just that his tone and expression were not very good, and he looked reluctant and reluctant.

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In the original book, Slughorn did not invite Malfoy, not even when they were on the train, and stayed away from him, but that was because in the original book, Lucius had been exposed as a Death Eater and was arrested by the Ministry of Magic.

And here Voldemort has not been exposed yet. With the prestige of the Malfoy family among pure bloods, it is impossible for him not to invite him, and Lucius is probably also a member of the Slug Club. At least that's the case in the movie version. There is a picture of Slug. There is a group photo of Professor Horn and several students, but only Lucius and Slughorn in their student days are seated, and everyone else is standing behind them.

PS: In that photo, Lucius is still pouting and looking cute.