Chapter 180 The Heat Has Not Diminished

The second event of the competition was not watched by anyone. The judges’ scores were actually based on the mermaids’ reports and summaries. Therefore, the audience on that day only saw how the warriors entered the water and the order in which they left the water with the hostages.

So, after the second event, this kind of scene appeared - everyone was eager to know what happened under the lake, so Ron and Daphne became the subject of almost everyone’s questioning in Hogwarts.

For the first time in his life, Ron became the center of attention, just like Harry. He told the story over and over again, each time slightly different. At first, what he said was quite true - in Professor McGonagall’s office, Dumbledore used magic to hypnotize the hostages and first assured them that they were absolutely safe and would wake up as soon as they came out of the water.

However, a week later, Ron told a thrilling kidnapping story, saying how he fought fifty fully armed mermaids with his bare hands, and they had to force him to surrender before tying him up.

Daphne became Xie Lin's most cherished person, and everyone made fun of her all day long. But at this time, she had long since shed her shyness and immaturity as a girl, and showed the demeanor of a noble family hostess. She always thanked everyone for their condolences and responded to everyone's concern for her. She was not shy about admitting that she was Xie Lin's official girlfriend.

According to Xie Lin's original prediction, since he was already in a relationship, it was reasonable that his popularity should slowly fade, and at least he should give up the top spot on the girls' dream lover list - but it didn't happen.

Xie Lin's relationship with Murray and Astoria suddenly spread, and everyone knew that Xie Lin had more than one girlfriend, and the rumors about Xie Lin and several girls who had close contacts, such as Zhang Qiu, Luna, and Susan, also began to spread.

This created a strange phenomenon - the girls seemed to smell a hidden opportunity. Well, if you can't be a regular girlfriend, isn't it exciting to be a secret lover?

As a result, the popularity of the "Warrior Xie Ling Fan Club" has increased again, and the number of female fans is extremely strong, accounting for more than 80% of the entire fan club.

This is hard for male students in Hogwarts. In the past, in Hogwarts, once male students reached the fifth grade or above, they could extend magic... no, extend the hand of friendship to the girls in the lower grades, and then slowly enhance their feelings through daily interactions, and finally develop into lovers.

In this year, many senior male students suddenly found that their advantages as seniors were gone, and the junior girls didn't care about them at all. As a result, they only had a few years left before graduation, and suddenly realized that they were going to become single dogs and missed the necessary experience of campus love in youth.

Cedric Diggory has always been interested in Zhang Qiu, a junior girl from Ravenclaw. After hearing about her and Xie Ling's scandal, he could only shake his head helplessly and gave up the idea of ​​pursuing her. Fortunately, he is good-looking, and he turned around and got together with Johnson from Gryffindor.

After being dumped by Fleur on Christmas Day, Roger Davis suddenly found himself in a dilemma. He could no longer find another girlfriend. The third place on the dream lover list was actually unpopular. So he tried to find his blonde ex-girlfriend like a dog, trying to reconcile with her and rekindle the old relationship, but he didn't expect that she would directly invite him to eat a cold shoulder and didn't even look at him.

Although Valentine's Day had passed, Xie Lin still received countless confession cards or date cards, some of which suddenly appeared in his dormitory (Xie Lin set up a defensive magic in the dormitory, but it was ineffective against inanimate objects), some were delivered by owls at breakfast, and some bold ones were handed to him directly in the corridor...

The content inside was either confession of affection, requesting to develop a secret lover relationship, or inviting to date in some secret corners on weekends... Xie Lin looked at a card with a bright red lip print printed on the bottom, and was really shocked by the boldness of the girls.

Brothers, it's not that I want to pick up all the girls in the school, but the girls want to pick up me! Xie Ling hypocritically apologized to the majority of male compatriots in his heart, especially those who are about to graduate but have not found a girlfriend...

This year's graduates are estimated to be the one with the most singles in history. I wonder if it will be recorded in history and be infamous for thousands of years?

After a few days like this, the heated discussion gradually faded, and everyone's life returned to their usual daily life.

Xie Ling became busier.

It was only the second day after the game ended, and Hogwarts broke out a very serious case of mysterious disappearance of students, and four students disappeared at once.

What was really weird was that all the missing students were Slytherin students, including the male and female prefects of the 7th grade, the female prefect of the 6th grade, and the Quidditch goalkeeper of the 6th grade. Gallup had been infected with the werewolf curse earlier, so he took a leave of absence. This time he entered Hogwarts secretly from Hogsmeade Village, so he was not counted as a missing person.

This made it impossible for Dumbledore to suppress the incident. During the second-year basilisk incident, all the victims were wizards of Muggle descent. Their families had no idea what happened in Hogwarts. Apart from the children's daily letters home, there was no other channel to learn about their children's recent situation.

However, now that the children of these pure-blood families are in trouble, the situation is very different. Almost the next day after the children disappeared, their families received news.

The Foley family, the Slughorn family, the Selwyn family, and the Bletchley family jointly put great pressure on Dumbledore in the Ministry of Magic and the media, and even went to Hogwarts to make trouble, insisting that Dumbledore give an explanation. Just kidding, the missing are all the direct elite children of their four families, the future pillars of the family. It would be a lie to say that they are not panicking.

The Ministry of Magic has also intervened in the investigation. Although Fudge still has to give Dumbledore some face, he still has a bottom line in his actions. After all, he needs the resources of the pure-blood family to get to the top.

After some negotiations, he finally sent two elite Aurors to stay in Hogwarts for a long time to investigate this strange disappearance. Among the Aurors sent, one was Scrimgeour's confidant, that is, Gadwin Robards. This guy knew the friendship between Scrimgeour and Shearing very well, but under Dumbledore's nose, the two had no contact at all; the other Auror was Fudge's confidant John Dawlish.

Dumbledore was also puzzled by this bizarre disappearance.

These missing students are not weak at all. As the headmaster, although he dare not say that he knows every student, he still knows the strength of those prefects.

Even Miles Blatche, who has the most inconspicuous background and grades, is also well-known in Hogwarts. He is a man who is unwilling to be lonely. Before the Quidditch finals, every time Slytherin and Gryffindor broke out a series of conflicts, he can almost be seen. He was very good at casting curses and poisonous spells, and every time he cast them, the little wizards from Gryffindor would be sent to the school hospital for a few days.

After Dumbledore and two Aurors had searched for them, it seemed that someone had seen the missing people on the day of the second event. However, the next day, all of them disappeared without a trace.