Chapter 496: In My Life

The Phoenix brought them back to Hogwarts, and after Bai Lang said goodbye to the Headmaster, he went back to sleep. "Will that old honeybee Dumbledore use Legilimency on me? Who knows, but he shouldn't be able to find anything—although I don't know Occlumency, wanting to break through the mind of an Innate Expert? Hahahaha."

Bai Lang was still wondering if Dumbledore would pull him into his ridiculous Order of the Phoenix, which was mainly composed of various "empty" meetings. It seemed quite likely—after all, there weren't many warriors who dared to confront Voldemort head-on and could kill Death Eaters by force. Many people, even if they had the heart, didn't have enough strength. For example, more than half of the people in the Order of the Phoenix were like this...

It wasn't that Bai Lang looked down on them, but these people were far inferior to the core Death Eaters in terms of decisiveness and cruelty when taking action. If Dumbledore wanted to fight Voldemort hard, then recruiting Bai Lang would indeed greatly increase his combat power.

However, Bai Lang also knew that Moody's visit last time might have been an observation, and it was very likely that after evaluation, they found recruiting Bai Lang too dangerous—this teenager was like a double-edged sword; his level of despising the law and being lawless might be even stronger than Voldemort's. Voldemort wanted to hold the British magical world in his hands, while Bai Lang—he really didn't know what he wanted to do.

Bai Lang didn't care about such things. The core of the Order of the Phoenix was always Dumbledore, Dumbledore was always "love," and the highlight was Harry Potter—the destined Savior. Bai Lang dealing with Death Eaters was just because these people were fun to kill and there were no worries afterward—incidentally, this was also a righteous cause.

Harry Potter seemed to have discovered the existence of the Room of Requirement, and the so-called Dumbledore's Army began its activities. These people sneaked into the Room of Requirement to learn Defense Against the Dark Arts from Harry—and they actually thought others didn't know? Even Zabini had already told Bai Lang about the traces of the secret organization Harry had formed.

How could Umbridge not know? She must have been watching the wind, and after discovering that Bai Lang was completely motionless, she also launched an investigation into Harry Potter's organization. The Slytherin students, especially Malfoy, once again became the vanguard against Harry. "Like child's play." Bai Lang muttered.

The first round of the Quidditch match was Gryffindor versus Slytherin. Although Bai Lang still didn't want to watch, Neville and Seamus finally summoned the courage to drag him to the scene to watch—the key was that the weather was nice, and Bai Lang felt that he hadn't watched his own house's match since he started school, which was a bit...

He went, and then he saw Ron Weasley's ugly performance—this person's psychological resilience was a bit poor; he lost himself amidst the thunderous mocking songs of Slytherin, and as a goalkeeper, he became a sieve... And Harry still caught the Golden Snitch and won the match. Next was the fight that broke out after Malfoy's insults upon landing.

Harry and the Weasley twins were fighting fiercely with the Slytherin team, and Harry hit Malfoy with all his might and knocked him down—as for the Weasley brothers, they were being beaten... Finally, Madam Hooch used magic to end the brawl, and Professor McGonagall took Harry and the others back, presumably to punish them properly.

As usual, Snape wouldn't punish his students, while Bai Lang was laughing out loud—at those clumsy fights; he was just watching the fun. Anyway, Harry and the others would at most be in detention for a week, and Umbridge had already left a step ahead—Bai Lang glanced at her back. "At most, it's just banning Harry from the game; it's nothing at all."

Bai Lang wouldn't intervene in this conflict because Zabini was also laughing out loud—he pointed at the beaten Malfoy and was also enjoying making fun of him. Malfoy's two followers had played a big role in the brawl just now, but even they didn't dare to make any moves against Zabini's mockery.

Malfoy was the same; he could only glare at Zabini, but he was helpless...

When Bai Lang returned to the castle, the punishment situation had already been posted in the Great Hall. "Harry Potter and the Weasley brothers are banned for life? Umbridge is ruthless enough." Bai Lang muttered. Hagrid had also returned, and Harry Potter and the others went to him immediately—luckily they weren't caught by Umbridge.

And when Umbridge came to watch Hagrid's first class for the second time, this silly half-giant was taking Slytherin and Gryffindor students to watch the tamed Thestrals—did this fool not think that the vast majority of young wizards couldn't see them at all?

Bai Lang could see them clearly, as could Harry Potter and Neville, and Zabini could see them too—but others couldn't; they could only see the meat on the half-dead cow Hagrid had put out constantly disappearing. Umbridge stood there calling out to Hagrid, and Hagrid's performance was extremely stupid—that was what Bai Lang thought. And when Dio landed with a gust of wind and rubbed its big head against Bai Lang's hand, Umbridge cleared her throat loudly, pretending she hadn't seen anything at all.

This beast was so magnificent and dangerous, and the Thestrals didn't run away—presumably because Dio never preyed on them. Bai Lang thought it was because the Thestrals had no meat... Dio nudged Hagrid with its head, and Hagrid immediately revealed a stupid smile. Bai Lang waved his hand at Umbridge, and Umbridge disappeared quickly...

If she wanted to "drive out" Hagrid just like that Professor Trelawney—although it hadn't happened yet, Bai Lang felt that Professor Trelawney was in bad shape. If Umbridge wanted to do that, at least with Hagrid, her plan had already gone bankrupt. Many Slytherin students felt dissatisfied, but no one dared to show even a trace of dissatisfaction with Hagrid in front of Bai Lang.

Although Malfoy was a prefect, the person whose words carried the most weight in Slytherin now was Zabini.

As the holiday was approaching, for some reason, Angelina—the new Gryffindor Quidditch captain who had almost never spoken to Bai Lang before—took the initiative to find Bai Lang. In the common room, facing Bai Lang, who was sitting on the sofa and politely asking her to sit opposite him, Angelina took a big sip of tea before speaking with a bit of nervousness—she was much more relaxed than she had been just a moment ago.

"You know, Lang-en. Harry and the others have been banned for life." She said. Bai Lang nodded. "I know this, and then? Do you want me to go to Professor Umbridge to cancel these punishments?" He saw Angelina's face begin to glow. "Oh, Miss Angelina. It is impossible for me to openly oppose the decision of Professor Umbridge, who was stationed at Hogwarts by the Ministry of Magic—not to mention she has the authorization of Educational Decree Number Twenty-Five."

Bai Lang shook his finger. "In the final analysis, Harry and the others didn't control themselves and beat Malfoy hard—by the way, I think Harry's move was too weak; he should have hit harder. However, they were seen and caught in front of everyone—this is hard to handle. Professor Umbridge has every right, she has every right to sentence Harry and the others to a lifetime ban—my personal suggestion is that Harry had better go for arbitration and request to change this verdict to a lighter one."

Bai Lang added, "But I'm afraid there's no chance this semester. So, Miss Angelina, what else do you want to say?" Angelina's expression changed with Bai Lang's words, and finally, she sighed. "I hope you can join the Quidditch team as a Beater. I ask you to join, Mr. Lang-en—you have the talent of a Beater."

Bai Lang looked at Angelina, who was nervous again, and he smiled. "Okay, no problem. I promise you, Miss Angelina. This can be considered my small contribution to Gryffindor House; after all, I am a member of the house. I personally suggest you can go find Neville for the other Beater..." Angelina was already very happy; if they weren't all sitting on the sofa, she might have come up to hug Bai Lang.

"Then please allow me to say one more thing, have you found a Seeker?" Bai Lang was a little curious. Angelina nodded. "Ginny Weasley. She's very good; I've tested her." Bai Lang smiled. "Actually, it's really hard for you to find me, someone who can't even ride a broomstick well."

Bai Lang knew one thing very clearly, and that was that he would mostly have to rely on his wand to fly; this broomstick thing had never listened to him... ===== CHAPTER 497 =====