Chapter 181: Everlasting Friendship

The Christmas holiday was spent in a calm manner.

The day before the holiday ended, Lu Yunkai gathered all the Quidditch players (actually boys above the third grade of Slytherin) together and announced his decision.

As for Malfoy, the new Quidditch captain, there must be some people who are not so convinced, but after thinking about the behavior of Malfoy standing up to tidy up the team atmosphere every time Slytherin lost in the last half of last year, no one stood up to oppose it.

He likes it, so let him do it.

Malfoy, who fulfilled his duties as he wished, was extremely excited. Almost immediately, he took out the "sense of responsibility" as the captain and began to reform the team drastically...

But this has little to do with Lu Yunkai. Anyway, under the name of "preparing for the Triwizard Tournament", he successfully escaped from Malfoy's control.

The Quidditch team just became a passing guest in Lu Yunkai's life.

Time ran fast again.

Moody, the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, who had just started the class after the adjustment, had originally forbidden Lu Yunkai to attend the class. The crazy man disliked Lu Yunkai almost as much as he disliked the Death Eaters.

But he was just a professor, and above him, there was the headmaster...

Dumbledore hoped that Lu Yunkai would continue to attend the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and then he personally found Moody.

Moody offered his price: Lu Yunkai publicly admitted his mistake and promised to be absolutely obedient in class in the future.

But Lu Yunkai simply refused.

"He was the first to attack me in class, and he hasn't apologized yet, why should I apologize!"

When Snape found Lu Yunkai to convey Dumbledore's intention, his back was very straight.

For this, Snape was very angry, and the consequences were also serious: he had to assign Lu Yunkai a lot of potion papers to ensure that Lu Yunkai "didn't run around when he was not in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class."

However, Lu Yunkai didn't care much. After he wiped the badge of the Magical Apothecary Association in front of Snape, the dean of Slytherin changed his mind.

Instead, he began to worry that if Lu Yunkai wrote two papers that could be published in the Daily Prophet, he might not be able to control this brat in the future.

However, something interesting happened.

After Lu Yunkai publicly refused to apologize, no one knew what happened (Lu Yunkai didn't think it was Snape who told Dumbledore about Lu Yunkai's badge), but Moody changed his mind. He took back his words and asked his "favorite disciple" Harry to inform Lu Yunkai that he could go back to the classroom to attend class.

Lu Yunkai didn't want to see Moody again, but he couldn't bear Harry's face and had to agree.

After that, the class was peaceful. Moody seemed to treat Lu Yunkai, who was sitting in the last row of the classroom, as air, and Lu Yunkai was happy to do so.

To be honest, apart from what this madman did when targeting Lu Yunkai, he is indeed a knowledgeable expert in Defense Against the Dark Arts, and even compared to the excellent Professor Lupin last year, what he teaches is more practical.

And cooler.

It's fine as long as you can learn something, as for not liking Moody... just bear with it, right?

In addition to the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Lu Yunkai's extracurricular activities have also changed after the Christmas holiday.

This matter has to start with the passer-by in his life.

Malfoy, who kicked off the Quidditch training again, also took away the bored Slytherin boys in the Slytherin lounge who were always eager to get some words from Lu Yunkai, and Lu Yunkai found that even if he didn't go to the training, it seemed inconvenient to stay in the lounge: Lu Yunkai was really awkward staying in the lounge with only a bunch of girls on weekends.

This was not so obvious during the Christmas holidays, but after returning to the normal semester, he was the only boy in the lounge on weekends, and a bunch of girls were writing papers and chatting on the tables around him. There were even lower-grade female students who always came to ask him something...

To be honest, if there were a few more boys around, this would not be a problem, but the problem was that there were no boys!

So, he finally chose to stay near the Quidditch field.

Not to mention participating in training, anyway, he was there to "prepare for the Triwizard Tournament"...

And I don't know if it was because of Lu Yunkai's "halo of bravery" or something else, originally no one cared about Slytherin's resumption of Quidditch training. More people just regarded it as a leisure and entertainment for Slytherin boys during the intervals without the Triwizard Tournament, but Lu Yunkai also appeared nearby, and the nature of the matter changed.

Soon, people from Durmstrang appeared nearby...

Speaking of Quidditch, they have a lot to say! After all, Krum!!

It was unknown who from Durmstrang (Chris thought it might be Karkaroff himself) came up with the idea to instigate the three warriors Lu Yunkai, Harry and Krum to play a Quidditch version of the "Triwizard Tournament Qualifying Round"...

Lu Yunkai felt that he would not agree even if the water of the entire Atlantic Ocean entered his brain.

"This is disrespectful to Fleur, so I refuse."

Lu Yunkai's reason was very reasonable.

This made Krum, who was originally eager to try, embarrassed.

Indeed, the Triwizard Tournament has four champions. You three men are competing in this and that. Where do you put the only lady?

However, this Quidditch competition seems to have turned on a strange switch.

Although they originally lived in Hogwarts, the students of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, who basically only interacted with students from their own schools, seemed to have finally found some friends in Hogwarts after the Christmas ball.

For example, many students of Durmstrang became familiar with some Slytherin students, and the girls of Beauxbatons also liked to associate with those smart and beautiful girls from Ravenclaw...

Once they became familiar with each other, they naturally talked more and did more things.

If we can't compete in Quidditch, then we can compete in something else! !

Potions... ahem, no, it's boring, bottles and jars can't be considered magic.

We compete in spells! Compare knowledge of the history of magic! Divination, Herbalism, Muggle Studies...

Anyway, when these cross-school friends get together, they always argue about whether your school's representative is stronger or my school's warrior is stronger.

Anyway, as long as it doesn't hurt feelings, everyone can argue.

Then Lu Yunkai would be stopped in the corridor by people from the other two schools from time to time, and asked if he had the confidence to compete with Fleur in Transfiguration, or if he dared to compete with Krum to see who knew more ancient magic runes...

And sometimes even Fleur and Krum didn't know about this kind of competition, and Lu Yunkai found out that it was a mistake after he went to find them. And when they found Lu Yunkai here, they found that Lu Yunkai was unaware of the challenge from the Hogwarts students...

But this is also another way to enhance the atmosphere of the Triwizard Tournament, so whether it is Dumbledore, or Madame Maxime and Karkaroff, they didn't jump out to say that these students' "nonsense" would affect the warriors' preparations for the second round of the game, but instead watched these children fighting happily.

In this harmless competition, Lu Yunkai quickly formed a friendship with the other two warriors.

Let’s not talk about Furong. Since she helped Lu Yunkai to inquire about alchemy, the two of them could barely be considered friends. After Gabrielle couldn’t help, Chris was very "powerful" and didn’t associate with the little girl, causing the little girl to think that she had done something to make Chris angry. She begged her sister to find Lu Yunkai and let Lu Yunkai allow Chris to continue to visit her...

God has mercy on her, Chris hates being hugged and touched the most. You don’t have any benefits for it, why should it let you rub it! !

But looking at the pitiful little girl crying, Lu Yunkai, who had no idea what Chris’s charm was, could only personally "escort" Chris to play with Gabrielle.

Chris saw that Lu Yunkai frowned every day in search of Voldemort's secret (Lu Yunkai did not tell him that the method Voldemort used might be about Horcruxes, because he hoped that he was wrong), so he reluctantly agreed to Lu Yunkai's request.

During this process, Lu Yunkai and Furong naturally became familiar with each other. During their casual chat, Lu Yunkai even learned that Furong planned to come to England to work after graduating from Beauxbatons this year. She has already submitted her resume to Gringotts, indicating her desire to work in Gringotts after graduation.

And if everything goes well in this trip to England, she may not return to France after the competition...

Now she doesn't speak English very well, and she really needs someone to teach her how to speak authentic British English. She thinks that if Lu Yunkai is free...

Lu Yunkai recommended Daphne to her.

Seeing that Lu Yunkai actually cared so much about his girlfriend's feelings, Furong, who was politely rejected, was not angry, but admired Lu Yunkai more and more, thinking that he was a "reliable and sincere gentleman"...

Hmm.

As for Krum, it was even more natural for him to have a good relationship with Lu Yunkai.

Because Krum didn't know why (even though they had been together for a long time, Lu Yunkai couldn't get anything out of Krum), he liked Hermione, and Lu Yunkai was at the top of Hermione's friend list. Even compared to Harry and Ron who were ahead of Lu Yunkai, Lu Yunkai knew Hermione much better.

After all, only Lu Yunkai interacted with Hermione not completely out of likes and dislikes, but out of appreciation...

Hmm, maybe Ron knew Hermione a little more than Lu Yunkai? But he would definitely not tell Krum anything about Hermione, even if he was actually a die-hard fan of Krum...

Anyway, I talked to Furong about English, my sister, and cats, and talked to Krum about Quidditch and Hermione, and time quickly came to the end of February.

Barty Crouch reappeared in school, and Ron's third brother Percy Weasley followed behind him, and Lu Yunkai realized that Ron had graduated when he saw him again, reminding the students of the three schools who had been fighting to enhance their relationship that the real Triwizard Tournament was going to continue.

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