Chapter 397: Stadium Attack

Spending half the night, Harry finally persuaded Luo En to face his inner heart and consider how to face Hermione, so that both of them could have an ending without regrets. Then, Harry had to start thinking about another equally imminent matter: the first Quidditch match to be held.

Regarding the fact that Harry and Luo En transitioned to Beaters, the vast majority of students expressed an attitude of not understanding. Although they expressed support with the slogan "believe first, then believe", Harry knew that if they really lost the game, I'm afraid the slogan in the future would become "question first, then question".

He spent two whole days formulating detailed tactics to ensure that every player could understand, and Harry himself practiced Beater techniques hard—his physical foundation was not bad, and he easily reached a good level. However, on Thursday night, when they dispersed one after another, and McLaggen looked at him with a twisted look, wanting to speak but stopping, Harry remembered that there was one more thing he hadn't done: he still needed to invite Hermione to watch the game.

Harry changed out of the muddy robe, took a shower, and returned to the common room with the scent of soap all over his body, but he scanned around and didn't find Hermione. So Harry found a sofa to sit on, read a book, and until after nine o'clock, when he almost wanted to go back to sleep, Hermione came in holding a stack of books.

"Ah, Hermione," Harry stood up subconsciously, "you came back very late."

"Yes, I just came back from the library." She looked in an average mood, just greeted casually, and walked toward the girls' dormitory.

"Um, I have something to tell you," Harry swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "I want to invite you to watch our Quidditch match, the one on Saturday."

Hermione put down the stack of books she was holding in her hand. She smoothed her hair and asked: "Did McLaggen ask you to help?"

"No." Harry knew that if he dared to say "yes", this matter would never be done.

Hermione looked not surprised at all. She said indifferently: "But you know I'm very busy now, and the Quidditch match is not something that must be watched."

"Yes, this is indeed a disturbance for you." Harry said somewhat hesitantly. "But your arrival can play an immeasurable encouraging role for the whole team. This is something I, as the team captain, want to ask you to help with. You also know that Quidditch is also a very important thing for me."

"Looking at your face, just treat it as mutual help between friends? This is also possible." Hermione looked into Harry's eyes and said. "But are you sure it's not for McLaggen? You know I have already started to hate him."

"Of course not." Harry said decisively.

"Very interesting." Hermione's indifferent expression suddenly disappeared. She smiled, "I will come."

This was definitely good news, very, very good news. Harry returned to the dormitory in high spirits. That night he dreamed of a hearty victory. Although he was a Seeker in the dream, Harry still thought this was a good omen. What made him feel even happier was that Davis from Ravenclaw told Harry that they temporarily canceled the training and were willing to give the stadium to Harry, which meant Gryffindor could practice for one more night.

On Friday evening, Harry led the players to change clothes one after another and walked into the stadium. At this time, he noticed that there were quite a few people in the auditorium—this might also be because he shouted loudly in the common room at noon to summon players, and many students curious about the team were naturally very happy to come and watch when they heard it.

"Very well, then let's consolidate the most secure scoring tactics today, and try to see if we can practice a fast break for Edith... Cormac, are you listening?"

Facing Harry's questioning, McLaggen showed a trance-like expression. "Oh yes, I was just looking at Hermione."

Harry cast his gaze toward the auditorium, but the first thing he saw was the golden-haired Nicola, who waved excitedly toward this side—Harry smiled and signaled to him, and only then found Hermione, who was bowing her head and reading, in the corner of the auditorium.

"That's why you have to perform well!" Harry said seriously. "Now we are ready to take off—"

In the next two hours, Harry felt that they conducted the most effective training ever: McLaggen frequently made miraculous operations, which forced the Chasers and Beaters to conceive more tricky attacks. Harry thought that if they could play at this level in tomorrow's official game, then victory was already within reach.

"Amazing, brothers." When the training ended, Harry said with a glowing face. "It seems everyone's state is great."

"Should we go to the auditorium and say hello to everyone?" McLaggen suggested.

Although Harry knew what his idea was, he still agreed as if he didn't know—after all, Hermione was sitting in the position closest to the exit. If she didn't want to talk to McLaggen, she could leave directly.

Harry deliberately led the players toward the auditorium from another direction, to give Hermione enough reaction time. His eyes kept darting between McLaggen and Luo En, guessing their thoughts with a mentality of watching the fun.

But just at this time, an untimely scream interrupted everyone's train of thought.

That Rider with bat-shaped eyes appeared at the edge of the stadium at some point, and was walking toward them.

Luo En walked quickly to Harry's side, then took out his belt.

"Everyone leave, leave quickly!" Harry shouted. "Ginny, help evacuate the audience!"

The team members didn't seem to understand the seriousness of the matter, but they chose to listen to Harry and began to guide the students in the auditorium to move slowly out of the stadium.

As the irrelevant students began to retreat slowly, the bat monster also began to accelerate slowly, and then, he leaned down and started running quickly in a very strange posture.

"FlamingUnsheathed!" Luo En completed the transformation with the fastest hand speed, then raised his sword and greeted him.

The Gryffindor students who liked to watch the fun suddenly became noisy. They slowed down their pace one after another, and couldn't stop looking back at the two people who were fighting.

"Leave quickly!" Harry waved his hand toward the crowd anxiously. "This is not a fun show, it's dangerous here!"

"We'll go find the professor." The little fat boy Quinn from the first grade shouted loudly.

"Good, big help!" Harry nodded at them.

Seeing the first-grade children running to move the rescue soldiers, the bat monster suddenly became anxious. He pulled out that blue saber, forced Luo En back after a few moves, and ran toward the children quickly.

"Impedimenta!" Harry released a spell trying to block him, but clearly, conventional spells had no effect on the Rider armor. He easily broke through Harry's Impediment Jinx, and his speed didn't even change.

"Stupefy!" "Expelliarmus!" "Full force Repulso!"

The enthusiastic students who were watching the fun threw out various spells, but none of them had any effect, until Harry threw out a spell he rarely used.

"Sectumsempra!"

The invisible blade pulled a string of sparks on the bat monster's armor. Although it didn't leave even a trace of a scratch, it also successfully made him pause. Luo En finally caught up with him. He pounced on the bat monster from behind, hugged him, and rolled away from the crowd.

Harry was panting in shock. He found that Edith was still looking back, so he immediately shouted angrily: "Leave quickly! Go find the professor! Don't watch the fun here!"

In fact, when Harry discovered that a spell could have even a tiny bit of effect, the situation was not that critical. Although Luo En looked completely at a disadvantage, with Harry's auxiliary support from time to time, he could catch his breath when in danger, and he could barely hold on.

Just when Harry felt his magic power was about to run out, he saw Edith running toward here, and behind her was Professor McGonagall who was running wildly while holding her long skirt.

"Piertotum Locomotor!" Professor McGonagall waved her wand fiercely. "Phew, don't you think Hogwarts has no way to deal with you!"

Following her spell falling, the two stone gargoyles on the tower nearby suddenly came to life. They dived and attacked the bat monster.

Yes, Professor McGonagall is a Transfiguration master, and Transfiguration is one of the few magics that can deal with the Rider system, Harry thought happily.

But he was happy too early. After forcing Luo En back, the monster rolled to dodge the dive of the gargoyles, and then he took out a green pistol and smashed the heads of the gargoyles with two bangs.

This time even Professor McGonagall was a bit lost. Fortunately, she reacted quickly, waved her wand, and the rubble returned to the head of the stone statue, condensed into a head again, and launched an attack on the monster again.

After dodging the slash of the gargoyles again, the bat monster released a puff of red smoke, and then disappeared.

Harry looked at the professor's side. He couldn't help but want to praise the four first-grade children loudly—they not only found Professor McGonagall, but also brought Professor Tsugami and Zhang Qiu. Perhaps this was the reason why the bat monster ran away.

"This is too dangerous, Potter." Professor McGonagall asked with concern. "Is anyone injured?"

Harry looked around. Except for Luo En being a bit exhausted, everyone else was fine.

"That's not Night Rogue, it's a guy I don't know at all." Zhang Qiu said anxiously. "He must be much more dangerous than we imagined."

"We have to consider letting Aurors come to the school." McGonagall didn't understand her words, just said to herself. "Twice, malicious attack incidents, I have to talk to Severus properly."

"Aurors might not be able to play a role." Harry shook his head. "Ordinary magic has no effect on Kamen Riders."

"Aurors also purchased the Rider system." Snape didn't know when he arrived at the scene. "If you don't mind them delaying Mr. Weasley's heroics, I can invite one over." ===== CHAPTER 398 =====