From Kamal Taj to Hogwarts

Next, the top scorers in the third grade and above chose to give up the leapfrog challenge.

It's really because the third grader who is number one in the standings has dueled with every number one in the standings except first grade and seventh grade. These number ones in the third grade and above passed Xiwen's

Every time there is a duel, you can see the gap between yourself and the first place in the next level.

Moreover, even third-grade wizards can complete such wonderful duels. If they, the seniors, can't do it, wouldn't it be a source of laughter? Even if they are already laughed at because they were defeated by third-grade students.

no!

So in this monthly duel competition, Sivan finally obtained many bottles of Professor Slughorn's potions, some of Professor Kettleburn's magical animal materials, a dozen of Professor Beerley's herbal medicines, and several library records.

The borrowing permission in the restricted book area has come to an end.

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After the duel competition ended, the professors recited a spell and the seven dueling tables were easily placed under the floor of the auditorium. Immediately, the four long academy tables pushed to the wall quickly gathered back to the center of the auditorium, and the table tops were covered with the representatives of the academy.

four color tablecloth.

Then a group of house elves appeared in the auditorium with a "bang bang" Apparition sound, and used extremely fast speed to put away the unsightly cutlery, forks and dishes that had been ruined by Sivan's transformation spell, and replaced them with new ones.

A batch of brand new tableware.

Xiwen saw that the house elf he was most familiar with, Budi, cast a somewhat "resentful" look at him, which made him feel guilty and laughed dryly at the group of house elves...

The dinner at Hogwarts was as sumptuous as ever, but Xiwen was not in the mood to eat.

He really made a big splash in this duel.

There is a high probability that Slytherin Academy students are egoistic in character. Even if they are not, they are rarely affected by egoistic parents. Many of them regard making friends as an investment and prefer to find powerful friends.

, make friends with powerful or potential little wizards.

However, Xiwen, the heir to the Rozier family, has taken advantage of all three points...

Therefore, at Slytherin's long table, there were many students who were looking for him to get close to him. Even with a very blunt excuse, they came over to congratulate him on winning many duels. This kind of scene made Xi Wen

I couldn't even concentrate on eating dinner.

In the meantime, even Dean Slughorn came over. On the one hand, he congratulated Xiwen on his good results in the duel competition, and on the other hand, he gave him the promised reward.

Sivan discovered a lot of magic restoration potions from the potions brought by Professor Slughorn, which made him feel a little better.

But after the professor left, the Slytherin students gathered around him again, which made him extremely depressed.

At this time, Miranda walked over from the Ravenclaw table, looked at the circle of students surrounding Xiwen, and asked teasingly: "Did I come at the wrong time?"

"No, Miranda, you came at the right time!" As if he had met a savior, Xiwen quickly stood up from the Slytherin table and followed Miranda out of the auditorium.

Although the students of Slytherin were somewhat dissatisfied with Miranda's cutting off, they were unable to suppress him at school because he was the president of the Hogwarts Student Union this year and also ranked first in the seventh-grade duel standings.

Her power is no match for her duel strength, so she can only let it go...

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The entrance courtyard of Hogwarts Castle is full of moonlight and starlight.

The moon was still a full full moon a few nights ago, but tonight it has waned and become a half-full gibbous moon, but it still looks very bright.

The dim moonlight shines on the railings beside the courtyard corridor, covering Miranda's long light gray hair with a layer of silver gauze.

"You seem a little disappointed that you didn't end up in this fight with me?" Miranda stood under the silver moonlight and asked with a smile.

"I must be a little disappointed. After all, there are not many opportunities to receive guidance from the number one duelist in seventh grade." Xiwen also laughed and replied casually. "I didn't expect that a friend of mine actually became a Hogwart."

The uncrowned king of duel strength!"

"What kind of uncrowned king, where did you come up with such a strange word?" Miranda said with a smile. "After all, I am already in the seventh grade, so it is not strange to be the first. But you, a little wizard in the third grade

He challenged me all the way to the sixth grade, and almost came to the seventh grade duel stage to beat me!"

"I've been worried for a long time that you would knock me out, and then I wouldn't be able to keep my reputation as the student union president!" She teased. "Tell me, are you more like a Hogwarts student than me?"

The Uncrowned King'?"

"My actual combat application is just a few hundred million points better than theirs. It's not worth mentioning!" Xiwen smiled and shook his head. "Now a huge disaster is coming around the world. If you can improve your strength, you can protect yourself more."

Ability."

"Are you talking about the war started by Grindelwald?" Miranda didn't know about Death, so she thought Xiven was talking about the recent war, so she asked softly. "Speaking of this, Principal Dippet has some ideas.

Let us seventh-year students at Hogwarts join the Allies of the International Confederation of Wizards."

"He thinks that we are adults after all, and we need to shoulder the important responsibility of protecting the magic world."

"Let you join the coalition against the Wu Cui Party?!" Xiwen opened his eyes wide and couldn't help but ask in a louder voice.

"Shh... keep your voice down!" Miranda glanced in the direction of the auditorium and found that no one was paying attention, and then continued. "The principal also knows that this idea will cause a lot of controversy, so now he only tells us

Several seventh-grade prefects have not informed other seventh-grade students yet."

"This kind of decision will definitely arouse opposition from a large number of parents, especially those pure-blood families of Slytherin Academy who have a strong say in society." At this point, she couldn't help but glance at Xiwen. "This will

It will bring a lot of pressure to Hogwarts, but our joining will definitely add a lot of new strength to the International Federation of Wizards."

Xiven didn't react at all to the words of Slytherin Academy's pure-blood family, and just frowned silently.

"What do you think about this plan?" He looked at Miranda's beautiful blue eyes behind the lenses and asked softly.

"Actually, I really want to go to the battlefield and experience it." Miranda's tone was very soft, but very firm.

"Why is this?" Xiwen asked in surprise. "You should know that the battlefield is very dangerous, right?"

"Well, I know." Miranda said. "But this kind of danger between life and death cannot be encountered all the time. I must seize this opportunity!"

"For the study of magic, the more knowledge you learn and the deeper the field you study, the more you will feel your ant-like insignificance in front of the vast magic."

"I used to specialize in magic spells, but after learning more and more spells, I felt like I had hit a bottleneck. No matter how many uncommon spells I learned, I could not improve my strength to the next step."

"So I dispersed my energy and studied transfiguration, herbalism, protection of magical animals, etc. I even studied black magic for a period of time, and the Bat Spirit Curse was during that time when I studied black magic. Created. But I still feel that my magical path is getting narrower and narrower, as if there is an invisible wall blocking me."

"But in fact, your ability is far beyond that of ordinary wizards, Miranda." Sivan said softly.

"But my goal is an existence at Dumbledore's level, Sivan." Miranda sighed lightly and said angrily. "I hate magic, something that relies entirely on talent! It seems that I didn't have it when I was born. With Dumbledore's talent, it is destined to be impossible to become a top wizard like him."

Speaking of which, Miranda is indeed very smart and quite talented, otherwise she would not have been able to become the number one in the seventh grade duel competition.

But at the same time, her talent is not that strong, and she is far less outstanding than Dumbledore, Grindelwald, or even Riddle. This innate problem limits her development, and this problem also traps her. Outstanding wizards in history.

Xiwen opened his mouth, but didn't know how to comfort her.

Can you tell her that you can increase the upper limit of your own bloodline through blood fusion spells? Stop making trouble, the risk of this kind of bloodline fusion is much greater than going to the battlefield!

Or tell her that your current achievements are already quite good and you don’t need to work harder? But with Miranda’s pride, how could she succumb to this innate threshold?

"Did I talk a bit too much today?" Before Xiwen could comfort her, Miranda came to her senses first, blinked her eyes, and seemed to have regained her usual confident look. "I just feel it. Just sending it, thank you for listening, Xiwen."

"Let's talk about it later when we have a chance. We should go back to the common room."

After that, without waiting for Xiwen's reply, she walked straight onto the stone bridge from the entrance courtyard to the teaching area, and walked towards Ravenclaw Tower.

"Wait a minute!" Xiwen gritted his teeth and finally shouted.

Miranda turned back to look at Xiwen, her eyes were red at this moment.

Xiwen looked at Miranda's reddish eyes, made up his mind, and shouted loudly:

"Miranda, if you want to learn animagus one day, remember to tell me first!"

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In fact, I admire Miranda very much. Here is her ability page:

Spell Mastery: Published the "Book of Spells", later revised into the "Standard Spells" series;

Herbal Mastery: Study of plants and fungi from the wizarding and Muggle worlds, and wrote an extensive encyclopedia on the subject called Goshawk's Guide ty;

Care of Magical Creatures: Author of three books in the Which Owl? series;

Transfiguration: There are records that she can easily turn people into toads;

Dark Magic: The Book of Spells covers some dangerous black magic.