Chapter 92: A Brief Tranquility

When the children returned to the school, it was already very late. If Zhang Qiu hadn't distributed Disillusionment Charms to them, Harry would have had to bring them out one by one with the Invisibility Cloak like when they came out, and he wouldn't know what time it would be to go back to sleep.

They did a great thing tonight, but no one could stop the rule that they still had to attend classes normally the next day. Harry felt that he had no energy for the entire Herbology class, but Ernie took the initiative to ask him when to draft the joint letter.

"Have to find a time to hold another meeting." Harry said with a yawn, "Or if you are willing, you can help us write it."

In the second Transfiguration class, McGonagall announced a piece of news as the acting Headmaster, which almost made Luo En faint.

"Attending class at this time is just to let you continue to receive education," she said sternly, "Therefore, the exams will proceed as usual, and I believe you will review well."

"I strongly suggest adding the cancellation of exams to the joint letter." Walking out of the classroom, Luo En said dejectedly.

"Oh, Luo En, we tried our best to invite Deng Buliduo back, isn't it just so that Hogwarts won't be closed?" Harry persuaded him, "Besides, you don't want Mom to find out that you actually didn't learn anything, right?"

"Can you imagine me taking the exam with just this?" Luo En pointed to his head, "This thing doesn't contain any information useful for the exam."

"Relax, Luo En, relax." Harry squeezed his shoulder, "I will help you review and guess the questions, just like last semester."

The news of the exam occupied most of Harry's mind, and the truth of the Chamber of Secrets was squeezed into the corner. Harry barely managed to find time in his review plan, finished the report on the Chamber of Secrets case, and managed to send it to Cornelius Fudge of the Ministry of Magic. In his cognition, there was only this exam worth paying attention to this year.

After things came to an end, Na Wei proposed to borrow Harry's Invisibility Cloak to continue investigating the truth of the Chamber of Secrets attacks. Harry agreed readily. He knew that under the heavy protection of teachers and prefects, appearing openly in the school would not allow any investigation to be carried out.

Just a few days after they went deep into the Forbidden Forest and submitted the report, Harry saw Cornelius Fudge's response in a Daily Prophet.

That day's breakfast was very lively. Many children saw the front-page headline, which said that the Chamber of Secrets case had been successfully resolved.

"Look here." Percy leaned over to Luo En's side and read dryly, "... As early as the first attack, Deng Buliduo established a special group for the Chamber of Secrets issue under the Student Union."

"I mean, why don't I know anything about it." Percy said this while touching his prefect badge, "The Student Union didn't tell me anything."

"Oh, because it was established secretly." Harry explained with a smile.

"Is this true?" McGonagall leaned to Harry's side with a suspicious face, "It says here that Deng Buliduo instructed you to take the centaurs to wipe out the monsters in the Chamber of Secrets?"

"Of course, this is all thanks to Deng Buliduo's arrangements." Harry felt like he was holding a press conference.

"Deng Buliduo stated that if it weren't for the Board of Governors eagerly wanting to entrust him to do some other things, he could have handled the Chamber of Secrets issue himself. He will finish his off-campus affairs within one to two months and return to school to continue serving as the Headmaster of Hogwarts." Luo En read the end of the report aloud, "Deng Buliduo is coming back soon!"

"Well, I think this is Deng Buliduo." McGonagall breathed a sigh of relief, "He always has a way."

"Professor McGonagall, Professor McGonagall!" Wood ran over in a hurry, "I mean, since the Chamber of Secrets incident has been resolved, can we restart the Quidditch final?"

"Of course." McGonagall said with a smile, "I've also been waiting for this trophy for seven years, but we still have to pick a good day, don't we?"

"How about it, Harry, you haven't forgotten what the Snitch looks like, right!" Wood patted his shoulder hard.

"Of course, I will prove who is the best Seeker at Hogwarts." Harry bumped fists with him.

Then, during lunch, McGonagall announced to everyone that the school-wide lockdown was over, students no longer needed teachers to accompany them to class, prefects no longer needed extra patrols, and the victims of the Chamber of Secrets only needed to wait another month for the Mandrake to mature.

When Harry returned to the dormitory with a spring in his step, he found Hermione waiting for him in the common room with a serious face.

"Tang Nade told me that the spiders in the Forbidden Forest are not the real monsters, we still can't let our guard down." She said.

"It doesn't matter, Hermione, let's think about it this way, why did the opener of the Chamber of Secrets launch the attack?" Harry said, "If she really wanted to attack Muggle-borns regardless, then this frequency is too low. But if it was for some political purpose, then everything we did has successfully shattered his conspiracy."

"But, we still don't know who planned those attacks, if he intends to continue attacking—" Hermione said worriedly.

"Na Wei is still investigating, I will try my best to provide him with help." Harry had had enough of endless guessing, reasoning, and screening lies, worrying all day long and racking his brains without any progress, "For me, I can't find any direction for investigation anymore."

"Hermione didn't put her mind on the exam, that's a rarity." Luo En said with a sarcastic tone.

"Shh, that's because you are not on the attack list." Harry poked Luo En with dissatisfaction, "For Hermione, she still has to worry about whether she will be the next victim."

"Should be fine, after all, didn't you say that continuing to attack now has lost its meaning." Luo En scratched his head, "And when Penelope was attacked, the diary was kept well, and you were with me, isn't the only suspect left the spiders?"

"Who knows." Harry really didn't want to think about the Chamber of Secrets anymore, "You have to take a good look at this section, Emeric the Evil and Egbert the Egregious, these two are easy to confuse..."

"Come on, the exam is still two hundred years away." Luo En copied notes reluctantly, he was still more interested in adventure.

If this year's exam week is still at the end of June, there are indeed two months of review time. For Luo En, this is no different from two hundred years. It's just that Harry doesn't want to rack his brains for the Chamber of Secrets anymore. Through reviewing for the exam, he tried hard to return to normal campus life.

Soon, Wood got the news that Professor McGonagall decided to set the Quidditch final on May 8th. Divination shows that it will rain on this day, but Gryffindor can still maintain good combat effectiveness in the rain. Wood believes this is McGonagall's care for them.

In fact, because of the rainy climate in the UK, a considerable part of Quidditch matches are held in the rain, but Hogwarts, in order to take care of the children's health, tries to arrange official matches on sunny days.

If other house teams encounter rain on the scheduled training day, except for occasionally biting the bullet and training as usual, most of the time they will give up, and Wood took advantage of this to force a large amount of extra training in the rain for the Gryffindor team.

Thanks to this, Harry is also very proficient in flying skills in the rain. He can now fly as fast in the rain as on a sunny day. With the help of glasses, even if the raindrops soak the players, he can still quickly find the trace of the Snitch in a very short time.

Rainy days are also very suitable for late-stage operations. Both the ball and the broom will become slippery, which slows down the rhythm of the game. Wood analyzed the tactical system of Hufflepuff. Unlike Slytherin, which occasionally uses Chasers and Beaters to protect the Seeker to play four-protect-one, Hufflepuff's Seeker often needs one-protect-four. If Cedric cannot suppress the opponent's Seeker and force him to call for Beater support, their Chasers will always be at a disadvantage.

"Being a goalkeeper on that kind of team is like being in prison." Wood said so.

Harry actually admires Cedric very much. If it weren't for his existence, the Hufflepuff team would be difficult to achieve today's achievements. In fact, counting the winning experience of this team, none of them relied on the Seeker to win. When the enemy team was eager to crush the Hufflepuff team from the front and score more points, Cedric, who was not targeted, could always find the Snitch first.

However, Wood is very confident about this game. Because Harry is one of the few Seekers who can compete fiercely with Cedric, the two's flying skills are about the same. Harry might be more talented in finding the ball, but Cedric has richer game experience and team awareness. If they are left to find the ball themselves, then who will win is really hard to say. But this time Wood's task for Harry is just to suppress Cedric so he can't catch the Snitch. Gryffindor needs to get at least 210 points before the end of the game, so as to exceed Slytherin in total score.

The Gryffindor Chasers, who have been tempered in many rainy days, against the Hufflepuff Chasers who are weak in the front, Wood emphasized to the players countless times that they must not get hurt before the game. He perhaps intuitively realized that the school was not really safe yet, so he was very careful and didn't leave the common room much except for training.

Zhang Qiu heard that Harry was going to participate in the crucial final, and happily proposed to make him a bowl of traditional Eastern "Lucky Beef Noodles," which was met with Ginny's tip-off and Wood's ruthless obstruction. He felt that this might make Harry have an upset stomach.

Finally, the final that Gryffindor had been waiting for for seven years opened on that rainy day in May. Harry could feel his hair sticking to his forehead, and his robes were almost soaked, but his heart was more excited than ever. ===== CHAPTER 93 =====