Chapter 245: New Member

The Gryffindor long table gathered almost all the Gryffindors, including, of course, Harry and Luo En.

At this moment, they were sitting there, eating all the food they could poke with a roasting fork—bread, flatbread, mushrooms—while designing a plan to increase the success rate of their scheme as much as possible, although these plans were very difficult to implement, talking about them was always pleasant.

Luo En also started teaching Harry how to play Wizard's Chess. Wizard's Chess was exactly the same as Muggle chess, but its pieces were alive, so it felt more like commanding an army in battle.

Luo En's set of chess was already very old and tattered. Everything Luo En had originally belonged to others in his family; this set was his grandfather's. However, the pieces being old didn't hinder anything at all. Luo En was very familiar with them and could make them obey his commands without any effort.

Harry was using the set of pieces Seamus Finnigan had left him, and they didn't trust him at all. His level wasn't very high yet, and the pieces were pointing fingers at him from all sides, making his head spin with noise:

"Don't send me there, don't you see your knight? Send him instead, it doesn't matter if he's sacrificed."

"The knight won't do."

Harry rubbed his temples; he forcibly sent the noisy wizard out.

Scattered around them were books like "Great Wizards of the Twentieth Century," "Directory of Famous Contemporary Magicians," "Major Discoveries of Modern Magic," "Research on the Development of Modern Witchcraft," etc., looking as if they were searching for someone.

Unsurprisingly, Harry lost the game, and when he and Luo En looked at each other, they knew they had to face that headache-inducing problem again.

"I guess there must be some kind of test."

Luo En said confidently,

"Remember the Blindfold Secret Passage Club? The one Fred and the others secretly established, ostensibly called the Castle Explorers Club, but actually it was to secretly use the secret passages.

Their test was to run into a wall with your eyes closed; no one knew if there was really a secret passage behind that wall, and everyone who had experienced it said it was terrifying."

Harry remembered; Fred and the others were winking at that young wizard outside the changing room at the time, saying:

"Yes, if you don't close your eyes and run into it, you will never know there is a secret passage behind it."

So Harry's eyes flashed with determination:

"We will pass the test!"

He thought: what could be more terrifying than endless homework?

Professor Marcus Maige had severely criticized their Transfiguration essay, and Professor Sineipu had even coldly deducted five points from their essay.

If this continued, Gryffindor's house points would disappear completely.

The two looked at each other, seeing the determination in each other's eyes.

"What are they doing?"

After finally coming back to his senses, Hermione saw Harry and Luo En walking toward here "passionately."

They walked to the entrance of the Great Hall, then hid quietly behind a suit of armor, waiting for something.

At the entrance of the Great Hall, the four house hourglasses were placed quietly there, among which Ravenclaw's score, after experiencing a roller coaster, had been steadily staying in first place.

Even Luo En said somewhat desperately: if they didn't win the Quidditch Cup, they would never be able to surpass Ravenclaw.

But soon he was happy again: "Slytherin won't either."

The food on the dining table gradually disappeared, and the desserts that appeared later also vanished without a trace.

Sien was holding "The Fifth Element: Exploration," about to head from the Great Hall to the Hope Cottage.

At this moment, he saw the two sneaking around.

"Harry, Luo En?"

They had appeared too many times, Sien asked softly.

"Oh! Sien! We want to join the test, no matter what organization it is, we are all..."

Harry heard this unexpected voice and trembled all over in fright.

When he realized what he had said, Luo En's face was already filled with despair.

"Hmm. I agree. Luo En, you, and Harry. But you have to ask for other people's opinions."

Sien stared at the two, and in an instant, he understood what they wanted to do.

He himself didn't mind; if everyone in Hope Cottage agreed, he wouldn't object.

By comparison, if he could notice news about the mysterious person through Harry and Luo En at all times, that would also be quite good.

"Ah—you mean, ah, I mean... is there no test? Like making us run into a wall or something."

Luo En stammered; the surprise came too suddenly, he hadn't expected it at all. He steered the topic to the field they had already thought out, and it actually went more smoothly as he spoke.

At the same time, his eyes inexplicably reddened; Sien was talking about him, and Harry...

"Run into a wall?"

Sien raised an eyebrow.

"Oh! Luo En means, we'll go ask right away!"

Harry covered Luo En's mouth and left.

"... Luo En, why must we go run into a wall?!"

Harry said somewhat helplessly; he had never seen anyone rushing to run into a wall.

"Oh oh—"

Luo En's face also turned red, appearing very ashamed, and also a bit fearful.

How could he have said everything!

"The two of us were really confused in front of Sien."

Harry said, then the two looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh.

The next day, Wednesday.

Early morning at Hope Cottage.

Sien was sitting in front of the fireplace sorting out his notes.

He had added a lot regarding Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts; when he put things into the wooden cabinet at the entrance, the magical mirror was shouting:

"Neat, clean! But the style is damnably chaotic!"

Sien silently reviewed his entire outfit: scarf, sweater, gloves, robes, and the recent hat... basically all had different sources.

That was very true.

So he returned to his seat by the fireplace and began to continue flipping through alchemy books; after all, he was going to Professor Taila's place in the afternoon.

At this moment, a noisy sound came from outside the house.

"Mr. Fenli, do we really not need to do anything?"

It was Harry's voice.

"Oh—yeah, ah, we don't mind..."

This was Luo En's voice.

"Do you think this is some man-eating place?"

This was obviously Hermione, her voice helpless and amused.

"Of course not, the important thing is, remember one thing—Mr. Owl."

Justin greeted enthusiastically.

At this time, Harry and the others saw an owl wearing gold-rimmed glasses on the wall.

"It's so magical..."

Luo En said to Harry, his voice trembling, obviously very excited.

"Young wizard! More stupid young wizards! Answer my question!"

Mr. Owl glanced over, this time not flapping its wings.

"An owl in a portrait—can talk?!"

Luo En gave a start, almost falling over in fright. ===== CHAPTER 246 =====