Harry Potter and the Old Ones

"Okay then, this is my final decision. If any of you disobeys the goalkeeper's instructions, I will cast a spell on him!" Harry roared hard, trying to look fierce.

Katie, Robbins, Ginny and dropout Avgergrunia, who have now joined the team, are watching the final selection of their team members from the stands.

Harry deliberately put the goalkeeper assessment at the end. He thought that the somewhat empty stadium and lighter pressure would be more conducive to their performance.

But unfortunately, all the unsuccessful contestants and some young wizards who had finished their lessons joined the crowd, making the audience even bigger.

The crowd booed and jeered as each goalkeeper flew towards the goal.

Harry glanced at Ron, who Harry knew would be nervous on a regular basis.

Harry had hoped that winning the last game of last term had cured him of this problem, but apparently it hadn't -

Ron's face was pale and his whole body was shaking. Ron was not as nervous as he looked now when they faced Voldemort a few months ago.

None of the first five players saved more than two penalties, and much to Harry's dismay, McLean saved four of five.

When he played the last ball, he completely missed the ball. The crowd booed and laughed, and McLun landed back to the ground with gritted teeth.

By the time Ron came on the scene, he looked like he was going to faint.

"Good luck!" shouted a voice from the crowd.

Harry looked around and saw the shaggy-haired Lavender Brown in the stands.

He was so embarrassed that he wanted to bury his head in his hands, but as a captain, he should be more capable, so he looked up at Ron.

But obviously his worries are unnecessary——

Ron saved a ball, two, three, four, five!

Harry was delighted and tried not to join the cheering crowd. He turned around and wanted to tell McClane that it was a shame that Ron had beaten him.

However, he discovered that Maclean's face was flushed, which made Harry give up his plan to comfort him and hurried over to join the crowd celebrating Ron.

…

"Speaking of..." In the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets, Horace Slughorn, who was familiar with the process of refining the Sorcerer's Stone with Tiera, suddenly raised his head and asked doubtfully, "I remember that today it seems that Gran Don’t you need to take the selection test for the Findor Quidditch team?”

"Why should I participate?" Tiera asked.

"Um, because, because, because. Forget it, it's okay." Horace Slughorn said hesitantly, then lowered his head and continued to read the alchemy notes given by Tiera.

"What you are wondering is that Harry and I are good friends. At this time, whether it is for the purpose of supporting Harry or for the purpose of further binding Harry, I should appear on the Quidditch pitch, even if I don't do anything. Don't care about Quidditch, or don't understand Quidditch at all." Tiera said calmly.

"Well...yes, that's what it means..." said Horace Slughorn.

"And you also think that this is what a mature politician should do." Tiera added, "You should not give up any opportunity to show yourself and promote your reputation."

Horace Slughorn nodded again.

"Oh, Professor Slughorn, this is just an appearance." Tiera smiled and said, "There is only one aspect that determines a politician's true influence -"

"His control over the military, politics and economy." Tiera said, "Having achieved this, no matter whether he puts on a show or not, there will be no change in his influence. To be more precise, at this time he is doing Everything will be right. If he upholds diplomatic rhetoric, then everyone will say that he is gentle, they will say that he is knowledgeable and courteous, and they will say that he is highly qualified and highly cultivated; if he is full of vulgar words, then everyone will think that he is a good person. He is straightforward, has a true nature, and is not hypocritical or pretentious.”

"And if you put it on a wizard, then the so-called military, political and economic control means power." Tiera said, "Or we can go one step further, superb magical strength, superb magical skills, profound magic Knowledge."

"I have all of these." Tiera shrugged and said, "Power will naturally come to me."

After hearing this, Horace Slughorn looked at Tiera strangely——

"Sometimes, I almost forget that you are only a sixteen-year-old boy," Horace Slughorn said unnaturally. "More often, you remind me of Tom Riddle."

Tiera smiled and said no more.

Tiera does not deny that in the process of planning and seizing power, he hurt many lives and changed the fate of many original characters, but Tiera has no regrets.

Whether you say he has a clear self-positioning or that he is indifferent and inhumane, in fact Tiera has always had a slight sense of alienation and fear from the very beginning when she came to this world——

Just like the uncanny valley theory, when humans reach the level of "close to humans", their favorability will drop off a cliff. Humans will have uncontrollable fear of some species and images that are similar to humans but are obviously different from humans. Emotions, such as clowns, orcs, zombies, overly anthropomorphic robots, etc.

This was how Tiera felt when she first came to this world——

This world is very similar to his original world, but under a similar background, it is very different from his original world. This difference far exceeds Tiera's imagination and logic, even if he was the last person in his previous life. Horrible nightmares don't dream of this difference.

This makes this entire world feel like a super-sized uncanny valley for Tiera.

Tiera's presence in this world is like being in a short and peaceful horror game. On the one hand, he hates this world and is afraid of everything in this world, but at the same time, he has to rely on those who bring him Horrible knowledge has to survive in this world.

So it was like he was clearing a horror game, using his tragic life experience to make huge profits from Harry without any scruples or psychological burden, using Hagrid's compassion to steal the Sorcerer's Stone from him, and going back on his word and killing the only one. The horned beast brought disaster to the Malfoy family, controlled Dobby's personality, treated Gilderoy Lockhart as a living sacrifice, and repeatedly jumped on Dumbledore's bottom line.

Because in Tiera's eyes, these behaviors are similar to those when playing P Club games. In order to gain greater advantages or benefits in the game, they chose a dictatorial system, and in order to maintain the vitality of the city, they regularly released floods...

Because only these behaviors can bring Tiera a sense of security.

But at the same time, when getting along with them, Tiera would unconsciously treat them as real living people, be polite to everyone in a contradictory manner, carefully help Harry avoid all tragedies, and share with Hermione Use your own knowledge and magic skills to create a perfect and dreamy Christmas Eve for Dumbledore...