NABC Chapter 29 Adventurers' Club
Chapter 29 Adventurers' Club
Harry learned two important pieces of information from Hagrid.
One was that he saw in the Daily Prophet that Gringotts had been robbed, and the stolen vault was the same one where Hagrid had taken that dusty little package.
Another point is that the previous night, Ryan went to the Forbidden Forest with Professor Flitwick and Dumbledore, and the next day, news came that Professor Quirrell was seriously ill.
"I knew it was him." Ron was excited and planned to take the news back to the Gryffindor common room to tell his 'fans'.
Since he started making up all sorts of "unofficial histories," Ron has believed he has a talent for storytelling and often pulls together first-year students from ordinary families to tell them all sorts of anecdotes about wizards.
He believed that the news of Ryan's trip to the Forbidden Forest would definitely attract a lot of listeners.
He enjoys the feeling of being surrounded by people.
"Ron, Hagrid just made it very clear: someone wants to hunt unicorns. Senior Ryan foresaw this and went with the Headmaster and Professor Flitwick to stop that dark wizard!"
Harry was exasperated. He had time to reflect on Hermione's words and realized that there might actually be some truth to what she said.
Ron muttered to himself, kicking at the pebbles on the side of the road.
Harry and Ron were standing very close and could vaguely hear things like, "Why?", "Why should I?", and "It's me again!"
During this time, Harry heard Ron tell him many times how outstanding his brothers were as the youngest wizard in the family, and how little he was valued at home.
Harry could understand Ron's feelings, but he felt that Ron's approach was wrong and that he shouldn't have expressed his attitude in that way.
He always remembered what Lane had said at Ollivander's wand shop: "To give all regrets and injustices a deserved ending is the very reason I study magic."
He thought that was so cool, something only a true wizard could say.
But now, Harry can't accept what his best friend has done.
What should I do... Harry asked himself.
Ron is wrong to do this... Harry told himself.
4:40 PM.
Harry set off for the Adventurers' Club.
At the far end of the second floor, he saw the Adventurers' Club with a large black and gold armband logo hanging on the door.
As soon as you step inside, you are greeted by all sorts of strange and unusual items, each with a unique aesthetic that differs from the mainstream of the wizarding world.
It was quite fantastical. Just as he was about to greet the people who had already arrived, he suddenly heard a mechanical voice in his ear: "Welcome to the Adventurers' Club."
He looked around for the source of the sound but found nothing. It wasn't until something touched his ankle that he suddenly noticed a small doll hitting him.
"What is this?" Harry picked up the palm-sized, cute doll that looked like an ordinary person dressed as an astronaut.
"Penelope said these are astronaut models made by Lane," Hermione, who had already arrived at the Adventurers' Guild, answered Harry's question. "She said these little models have their own magical source and can autonomously absorb free magic to recharge themselves."
"These models are unlike anything in the wizarding world today that requires wizards to draw magical patterns or perform alchemy to solidify them! You know that, Harry, we're witnessing history!"
Harry noticed that Hermione was very excited.
By this time, the Adventurers' Club was already quite large, with people from various academies and grades, chatting in small groups.
He actually saw Malfoy here!
Malfoy was talking to a tall, handsome upperclassman dressed in Slytherin robes.
If Ryan were here, he would tell Harry: Vio Selwyn is a typical snake-like beauty. Don't worry about whether he's male or female, just ask him if he's beautiful or not.
"No need to call me Mr. Selwyn, just call me Vio, Draco," said Selwyn, fiddling with a Niffler model and marveling at the magical source within it.
"Vio... I still don't understand why Ryan invited me," Malfoy said.
"You might as well ask him directly," Vio said with a smile. "I'm in the same grade as him, I know him very well, and I really like something he once said to me."
"There's nothing you can't tell anyone," Vio said somewhat awkwardly, then translated for Malfoy: "It means you can tell anyone, openly and honestly. He can tell you about his own affairs, as long as you dare to listen."
"It's incredible," Malfoy said, unable to imagine what kind of mindset that was.
Hermione was chatting enthusiastically among the Ravenclaws, and the words she uttered gave Harry a headache.
He finally found the three redheads: "Percy, George, Fred, you're all here."
At 4:55, amidst the somewhat noisy discussion of more than twenty people, Ryan walked in from outside: "Sorry, I was a little delayed, but fortunately I'm not late."
As he spoke, he waved his wand, forming a circle around the twenty-odd people in the room, along with the tables and chairs.
Amidst the shock and disbelief of the crowd, he also sat down among the Ravenclaws, only to find a little witch who was not a Ravenclaw sitting next to him.
Could it be that Hermione, you're Ravenclaw's spy in Gryffindor?
He smiled at Hermione, thinking to himself, and said, "Let me think, where should we begin when we first meet?"
"Since we all come from different grades and different colleges, why don't we start by introducing ourselves?"
"Let me start," he said, walking through the gap in the table to the center of the circle. "Lane Welsh, a fifth-year student at Hogwarts from Ravenclaw, is here to gather more talented wizards to set their sights on the frontiers of magic and explore entirely new magical territories."
After Ryan took his seat, Penelope followed closely behind: "Penelope Crivart, a fourth-year student at Hogwarts from Ravenclaw, I agree with Ryan's ideas and therefore follow in his footsteps, hoping to create a history called ours together with everyone."
After several Ravenclaws, Percy, representing Gryffindor, stepped forward: "Percy Weasley..."
In the area where Gryffindor and Slytherin meet, Harry looks at Malfoy beside him, the two of them glaring at each other.
Harry had always thought that his dislike for a boy could never match Dudley's, but after meeting Malfoy, he realized he was wrong.
Malfoy grew up under the name "Harry Potter," receiving daily education from his father, Lucius Malfoy, which consisted of denouncing Harry Potter and believing that Harry Potter was hindering the pure-bloods' rule over the British wizarding world.
Over time, it seems natural to hate a little wizard named "Harry Potter" whom you've never met.
As Percy finished his self-introduction, Malfoy scoffed, "Listen to this, Potter! Weasley wants to get into the Ministry of Magic and gain power! Too bad, my father wouldn't approve, and the Weasley family doesn't have the ability to help him."
Harry was about to retort when he heard the handsome Slytherin speak up: "Draco, after Percy joined the Adventurers' Club, he no longer had the once-declining Weasley family standing behind him."
Vio turned his head and looked seriously at Malfoy and Harry: "Standing behind Percy are us!"
Harry and Malfoy were both stunned by those words.
One of them never imagined that she could become a supporter of an outstanding senior.
Another reason was that he had never compared himself to a pure-blood wizarding family; in his mind, no wizard was more than a wizarding family. But now Vio was telling him that neither the declining Weasleys nor the flourishing Malfoys mattered; what mattered was "us"!
"We..." the two freshmen from opposing academies said in unison.
There were only about twenty people in the room, and the circle they formed was not large; you could hear a few people talking.
Originally, George and Fred wanted to team up with Harry to attack Malfoy, but after hearing Vio's last words, they also thought of many things.
"Oh, George, shouldn't we be more tolerant of young people?"
"Of course, Fred, these are qualities we should all possess."
Then the two said in unison, "Even if it's a Malfoy."
Vio smiled and looked across at the other side. Ryan raised his wine glass with his finger and smiled as he raised his glass to Vio.
Vio also picked up his pomegranate juice and drank it with Ryan. The reason it was pomegranate juice was because Ryan claimed that drinking alcohol was harmful to health and could easily lead to the failure of magical research, so the Adventurers' Club did not provide alcohol.
Then he stood up and walked to the center: "Vio Selwyn. A fifth-year Slytherin student, one of the Twenty-Eight Holy Families. Of course, there are quite a few members of the Twenty-Eight Holy Families present. But the Selwyn family is different; according to Lane, they are a true-blue Death Eater family."