Chapter 370 There Is No Normal Person
After coming out of the principal's office, Kyle did not go directly to Hagrid's class. Instead, he went to the kitchen first and asked the house elves to buy some things for him.
It's the tables, chairs and furniture in Professor Lu Ping's office.
Although these items can be found as spares in the storage room or the Room of Requirement, Kyle thought about it and decided to buy new ones directly.
Professor Luping also helped him cover up. Although he didn't succeed, at least he tried hard... He was too embarrassed to fool him with those second-hand goods.
The new ones are not expensive anyway, just a few badges.
The house elves came back in the evening, and Professor Lupin's office was also decorated. Facing the shiny new furniture, he still looked a little embarrassed, and he was careful about everything he did, for fear of bumping into it.
Kyle spent the remaining money to buy candies and gave them to the house elves as thank-you gifts. The elves were so happy that they stuffed Kyle's hands with various snacks.
When he returned to the common room, his pockets were as bulging as if they had been stuffed with two Bludgers.
Originally, Kyle thought this incident would just go away.
But unexpectedly, just one day later, on Friday morning, the news that he blew up Professor Lupin's office because of a Boggart spread among the young wizards.
"There really are no secrets at Hogwarts." Kyle sat at the dining table and took a helpless sip of pumpkin juice.
So far, in less than half an hour, more than a dozen people have come to ask him about the details of the incident.
But fortunately, they didn't know it was Li Huo, and just thought it was a more powerful fire spell.
"Hey Kyle, is this true?"
As soon as he put down the cup, Fred and George walked over, arm in arm.
"It's so touching." Fred sat next to him and said with an exaggerated expression.
George squeezed out two tears, "I heard that you blew up the Boggart when you saw us dead."
"I didn't expect you to value us so much..."
"It's just that there's an obstruction next to him..." George glanced sideways at Cedric, who was eating stew, "Really, why is he there too!"
"Is this a good thing?" Cedric said speechlessly.
Looking at the appearance of Fred and George, people who didn't know better thought they were competing for Quidditch tickets... It was a bit strange to actually blame him for occupying a death quota.
"But after you are added, we won't know who the dead person is!" Fred said matter-of-factly.
"Nearly Headless Nick only said there are two people, besides you, and then one of us..."
"We argued about it all night..."
"Wait a minute." Kyle interrupted the two of them, "You just said, Nearly Headless Nick?"
"Yes." Fred nodded, "He said that he drifted into the Defense Against the Dark Arts office when he was thinking about the problem, and happened to see the whole process."
Kyle was stunned.
He had always found it strange before. He and Professor Lupine were the only two people in the office at that time, and everyone else came over after the incident was over. Logically speaking, no one should know about the Boggart.
As a result, what they passed on was so detailed. Except for the part about Professor Lu Ping giving him money, everything else was not missed at all, as if he was standing next to him at that time.
Kyle always thought that some professor had let the news slip, but he didn't expect that it was Nearly Headless Nick.
And it's really right next to it.
"So, Kyle..." Fred stared at him with burning eyes, "Who is that person, me or George?"
"This is very important!" George also came over.
Cedric's eyes twitched as he looked at the two of them. He could guarantee that neither of them had been so serious during the final exam.
"It's okay for both of you." Kyle was too lazy to pay attention to them and said casually, "Nearly Headless Nick saw it wrong. There were actually three people, but he didn't see the other one."
"Really?" George didn't believe it.
"Really." Kyle nodded, "If you don't believe it, you can ask Professor Lupin, he saw it."
Fred and George stared at Kyle for a while to make sure he didn't seem to be lying, then returned to the Gryffindor table with satisfaction and started to show off.
Suddenly there were sounds of envy from all around.
"I really don't understand what they are happy about." Not far away, Hermione closed the book with a snap.
The surroundings were so noisy that she couldn't even see.
"You're right." Ron nodded beside him, "And it's just a Boggart, so why bother? A simple spell can solve it."
Ron looked happy. This was the first time he felt he had surpassed Kyle, and that was in learning.
But the next second, Harry poured cold water on him.
"But you have to admit that Kyle's method does work, and it is definitely much faster than ours."
Harry poured himself a glass of pumpkin juice, "Do you remember what Nearly Headless Nick said? The Boggart was eliminated in an instant, and nothing was left."
"It's just the fire spell. I can do it, but I didn't think of it at the time." Ron muttered softly.
Hermione frowned beside her. The book didn't say that you could use fire spells when dealing with Boggarts.
And she didn't think that Headmaster Dumbledore would deduct 100 points from Hufflepuff just because of an ordinary spell.
On the other side, just as Fred and George left, Connor's head suddenly came over from the side.
"What about me, where am I?"
Kyle raised his hand expressionlessly and pushed her head aside.
"Without you, go play somewhere else, don't join in the fun!"
Then he looked at Qiu who was eager to try, "You too..."
"Humph!"
"Tsk!"
The two looked very unhappy, as if they felt they were being left out and treated unfairly.
Obviously everyone was friends, Cedric, Fred and George were all there, but they were not. Isn't this partiality?
Qiu snorted coldly and pulled Connor to the Ravenclaw table.
Kyle felt a little toothache.
He didn't understand either. What good thing was this? Why did he force his way in?
Fred and George are fine. They are unreliable and their focus is usually different from others. It is not surprising that they do outrageous things.
But how come Qiu and Connor are like this?
Is there really no normal person around him?
Oh, no, there is another one... Kyle turned his head and glanced at Cedric.
After noticing his gaze, Cedric, who was eating pumpkin pie, hesitated for a moment and suddenly asked in a low voice: "How did I die?"
"I was killed by pumpkin pie!" Kyle sneered.
Well, there is no normal person around him.
"Ha, how could it be..."
Cedric obviously did not believe Kyle's statement and waved his hand and said: "You must be kidding."
Although he said so, looking at the half-remaining pumpkin pie in his hand, he still pushed it aside calmly and picked up a baked potato instead.
...
More and more people were around, and everyone seemed to want to get first-hand information from Kyle.
Fortunately, the messengers came at this time.
A large group of owls flew into the auditorium and began to throw letters and packages to everyone.
While everyone was reading the letters, Kyle ate the last piece of pumpkin pie in a few bites and hurriedly left the auditorium.