Chapter 237

The Torchwood gathering was set for seven o'clock the next evening; evening gatherings had become an unwritten rule of this organization. According to the organization's veteran (Ma Erfu), this was because at this point Crabbe and Gao Er hadn't finished digesting their dinner and wouldn't go crazy eating snacks to the point of not saying a word.

When Harry arrived at the headquarters, he discovered two fresh faces: Hannah Abbott and Ernie Macmillan.

"Hi, Harry," Hannah greeted him.

Ernie stood up subconsciously and said seriously: "Hello Potter, welcome back."

"Alright, have you two joined Torchwood now?" Harry said with a smile.

"Yes, we feel Torchwood lacks the voice of Hufflepuff," Pan Xi walked in from outside. "And Hannah and Ernie happen to correspond to two of the main factions. After they join Torchwood together, they can lead Deng Buliduo's Army together. The original intention of Torchwood is to bridge the differences between colleges and unite as one in the face of the school's righteousness, isn't it?"

"Right, just right, today we have to make up Harry's vote," Ma Erfu added. "Harry, do you agree with them joining?"

"I certainly agree," Harry noticed a hint of something wrong; it seemed the relationship between Pan Xi and Ma Erfu had undergone a subtle change. "It's just that I'm very curious, you had some differences before, but now you have become good friends?"

"Ah ah, not to mention anything else, Hannah is also pure-blood, which determines that we will not truly become enemies," Ernie said.

"Ernie, I've reminded you many times that always hanging bloodline on your lips is easy to be attacked," Hannah was a bit unhappy. "You see, Harry, things are just like this; I have to help him a bit."

"Right, if you don't join Torchwood," Cui Ge interjected. "The 'Muggle-borns' would have scolded you miserably long ago."

"Yes, there are many things we know in our hearts, but it's not convenient to say them out," Ma Erfu said with a hint of emotion.

"Actually, regarding Deng Buliduo's Army, some differences were just me worrying that Ernie couldn't control Dark Magic. If we get some external help, then it's not a worry," Hannah said. "You see Ernie's appearance, how worrying it is."

"Do I?" Ernie scratched his head. "I feel my Dark Magic is still controlled very well, especially the Slug-Vomiting Curse."

Harry blinked; once Dark Magic was mentioned, his mind was full of the Killing Curse and the Cruciatus Curse; he almost forgot that the definition of Dark Magic is very broad.

"We made some changes on the basis of the Slug-Vomiting Curse and invented a new spell," Crabbe said impatiently.

"The spell is 'Cockroach Fly', and the person hit will vomit flying big cockroaches from their mouth," Gao Er added.

After a suffocating silence, Pan Xi spoke: "I am very happy to see you two also tirelessly improving spells and studying magic, but this spell is too dark; I even suspect it will become the fourth Unforgivable Curse."

The two silly big guys laughed happily, as if this were some kind of praise.

After some pleasantries, they pretentiously discussed the school's situation. Now all clubs, or rather, all clubs that included students with combat power, were under the control of Torchwood: Slytherin's Silver Blood family was still held by Ma Erfu, Hufflepuff's Deng Buliduo's Army was currently led by Hannah, with Ernie acting as deputy, Lu Na was chosen as the new guardian of Ravenclaw, and as for Neville who led the Lionheart Society, they felt that was Harry's subordinate.

Cui Ge united a large number of Muggle-borns and pure-bloods who came to show off, Pan Xi and Eve jointly organized the views among girls. Their only weakness was Hermione, the most excellent among Muggle-borns, and Zhang Qiu, who first introduced the Makeup Curse, and these were all in Harry's hands. This was also the main reason why Harry maintained a transcendent status despite not attending meetings for a long time.

When Harry said the important information that Cedric was dating Fleur, everyone suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, which meant this moral model would not have time to point fingers at the current Deng Buliduo's Army. Everyone agreed that Cedric was a person worthy of respect, but also agreed that it was best not to let him know what they were doing.

"We should add some diplomatic relations," Pan Xi suddenly suggested while talking. "Harry has met many people outside this year; I think this is very important. We can open similar clubs in other schools, or directly contact their student unions."

Harry immediately understood her meaning. If Torchwood communicated with clubs in other schools in the name of Hogwarts' guardians, it would completely solidify its status as the number one club. In that way, as long as we put aside the professors (in fact, professors rarely managed student clubs anyway), Torchwood would be the true opinion leader of all students, with one call getting a hundred responses.

Pan Xi looked at Harry with a pleading look, but Harry also saw ambition in that look.

"I will talk to Ailina. For Beauxbatons, it just so happens that Fleur and Cedric are dating; if not, I still have Donna," Harry said while calculating. "Krum is undoubtedly the soul figure of Durmstrang, but he may not be smart; I have to talk to him properly."

"As long as you have an idea," Pan Xi smiled. "I'll leave it to you."

The next time entered the chatting and gossiping session. A series of interesting things at Hogwarts made Harry unable to help laughing, and the children also curiously asked about everything at Beauxbatons. They discussed enthusiastically for a long time, long enough for Crabbe and Gao Er, who had finished a whole snack rack, to have their stomachs growl again.

"Alright, I think we should also adjourn the meeting," Pan Xi said. "If we haven't had enough, we can come to chat tomorrow."

"Right, the business is finished, tomorrow there will only be chatting left," Lu Na said goodbye with a smile.

When the students filed out, Harry, Pan Xi, and Ma Erfu remained in their seats. They all knew in their hearts that there was still a private conversation coming up.

Harry looked at them seriously; he found that Pan Xi seemed to be pleasing to the eye again, compared to her after the overlapping Makeup Curse before. If compared to her face like a pug in the second year, the current Pan Xi could simply be said to be a different person.

"Harry, I am very grateful to you for helping to mediate the relationship between us," Pan Xi spoke first. "Ma Erfu has become much gentler; I think he loves me more."

"It's okay, a small effort," Harry first exchanged pleasantries, then asked, "Is the relationship between you two a bit different? I feel... more harmonious?"

"Ah right, I also have to thank Tang Mu for his suggestion," Pan Xi suddenly blushed.

"Yes, we, did that," Ma Erfu said stumblingly. "In short, I think I should give Pan Xi more tolerance and more sense of security; I have to spoil her a bit."

"And I have to be responsible for her, Harry," Ma Erfu said seriously. "I don't want to ask about Eve's affairs anymore."

Harry didn't quite understand which 'that' was, but he guessed it might be some kind of magical ritual. In short, after a blink of an eye, Ma Erfu and Pan Xi were really locked together.

After a brief conversation, Harry didn't probe who was going to be the main one between them. Seeing that it was getting late, he said goodbye and went back. After leaving, Harry put on his Invisibility Cloak and returned, quietly asking what suggestion Tang Mu gave.

"Any girl can wear a set of underwear and suspender black silk, even Pan Xi is no exception." Only this sentence appeared on the diary, leaving Harry a bit confused.

However, Harry had no time or heart to delve into what happened between this pure-blood couple. Seeing that the Easter holiday was about to end, the four students who sneaked out of Beauxbatons had to pack their things and sneak back to Beauxbatons.

After arriving at Beauxbatons, Harry conveniently interviewed Fleur and Donna. Fleur was not interested in student clubs, but Donna seemed very willing. Under her repeated persuasion, Fleur agreed to this point and prepared to win over another widely welcomed girl, Kate Stewart, to help them.

Ailina almost didn't think and proposed to return to Ilvermorny to rebuild the Destiny organization. According to her, this idea shocked Donald, but he immediately clapped his hands and cheered, and promised to do his best to support her.

After these two things were settled, Harry thought a little. Renata's relationship with him was already very stiff, and he didn't think those people at Koldovstoretz would have any common topics with the people in Torchwood. Moreover, since Harry used the Ocean-Opening Curse to cleverly resolve the condition of leaving 15 minutes late, Renata seemed to have never come to find him again.

Regarding whether to discuss establishing diplomatic relations with Durmstrang with Krum, Harry thought repeatedly and felt he should still find him. Although Krum didn't seem very smart, he always had smart friends, and it didn't matter if these friends were reliable or not. Actually, Harry didn't care who the leader of Durmstrang was; he just felt they needed an organization with enough prestige, and Krum just happened to be a very easy-to-use big flag at the current stage.

After figuring this out, Harry pretended to talk to Krum about professional Quidditch, asked a Durmstrang student to pass him a note, and told him he was waiting for him in the woods near the big ship.

What surprised Harry was that Krum came alone, and Renata was not by his side. But Krum seemed completely uninterested in organizations or anything; he was still trapped in his strange thoughts about 'conspiracy' and couldn't walk out.

The first sentence Krum said when he saw Harry was: "You finally contacted me, Harry; I was just about to tell you, I feel Karkaroff's recent actions are very wrong..."