Harry Potter and the Temple of Tales

The atmosphere the next day was not much better than the previous day.

Harry was still in a gloomy mood, and people would always point at him when walking on the castle road.

Hermione and Ron quarreled over the house elf hat. It was a cloth hat that Hermione stayed up all night to make, but Ron thought it was a dirty torn bag.

In short, a crisis of trust has begun to appear in the entire school. Most students are unwilling to contact Harry and his gang, not to mention that there is even more severe academic pressure for them in fifth grade.

The O.W.Ls school year is extremely important for any student wizard, and the school's teachers also proved this. Professor McGonagall was more strict than usual in class. She spent a whole hour teaching the students how to use the disappearing spell, and the effect was obvious.

Among the Gryffindor students, only Hermione successfully made the snails disappear on the table.

Professor Flitwick's class wasn't that easy either. After a whole class of Charms exercises, he gave them the most Charms homework ever, which made Harry already impatient.

Becoming more irritable.

While the fifth grade students were "suffering", Louis and the others were studying herbal medicine in the greenhouse.

Professor Sparrowney wears seemingly tattered cloth clothes and a cloth hat. She is naturally optimistic and brings a sense of reassurance. As the head of Hufflepuff, she is a pure Hutch.

Patch is always compassionate and tolerant, and is also a witch with a sense of justice.

In fact, for herbalism, Louise, who knew the basics of potions class, was already familiar with the knowledge of herbal medicine. Sprouni's lectures were also quite lively. She often asked students to cultivate a magic plant by themselves.

"Balbo tubers, you need to know about it," Professor Spruney explained, pointing to a very ugly thing on the table.

That thing didn't look like a plant, but a bunch of big black slugs. It looked extremely disgusting. The Ravenclaw girls who were in class with the Gryffindors were a little shunned. Only

Luna curiously walked forward and looked at the group of different gadgets.

"Does anyone know what this baba tuber is used for?"

"Wiggins, I heard from Professor Snape that your grades in Potions class are very good, and your knowledge of herbology must be no problem."

Louis did not expect that Professor Sprouni would directly ask him to answer by name, so he could only answer:

"The juice inside the baba tubers has great medicinal value. If I remember correctly, it can treat stubborn acne."

"That's right. He is indeed a potions genius. Five points from Gryffindor."

Sprouni was very happy. She clapped her hands to everyone and focused everyone's attention again.

"What we have to do today is to squeeze out the juice from the baba tubers. Wear gloves."

There is a pair of nylon gloves placed in front of everyone's desk.

"Please note that the sap of Babo tubers is extremely corrosive and will cause unpredictable damage to the skin if it accidentally touches the skin."

The students' hands that wanted to move suddenly stopped, especially the girls, who were a little afraid of this.

"As long as you're careful, you'll be fine." Strawney rolled up her sleeves, "Just like this."

She carefully squeezed a pustule, and the juice inside immediately flowed out like a flood. Seeing the pustule burst open, Louis felt a sense of relief from the bottom of his heart for some reason.

Students from both colleges did so, and for a moment, a joyful cracking sound came from the greenhouse.

After the herbal medicine class, Strawney walked towards the school hospital with a large bucket of yellow juice in her hand, a proud smile on her face.

...

Time flew by so fast, and Harry and the others had not yet recovered from the mountains and seas of homework in the first week. It was already Friday, the day of selection for the Gryffindor Quidditch team.

This day was also the only day Harry could be happy. Quidditch was the only thing he could escape from reality. In the past few days, not only was he under academic pressure, but he was also under a lot of pressure in life.

But soon, reality poured cold water on him again. Lucaris found him during dinner in the evening and said that Umbridge's confinement had been moved forward and was rescheduled to tonight.

"What? How could she do this?"

Angelina was very angry when she got the news. She kicked the wooden cabinet door in the Quidditch lounge hard, making a loud noise.

Fred and George, both members of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, seemed to have never seen Angelina so angry.

If there was still a possibility of maneuvering around setting the confinement time on Friday early in the morning, then changing the time temporarily was obviously targeting them, and could even be said to be deliberately targeting Harry.

But Angelina had no choice but to get angry. Time was running out, so Harry had to miss the Quidditch selection.

"Okay, Angelina, it's important." Chaser Arya Spinnet comforted, and several people were about to walk out with brooms.

"Huh? By the way, where is Wiggins?"

Angelina looked around and didn't seem to notice that their substitute was present.

"Louis said he was going to borrow a broom and would come back later." George replied.

"Okay then, let's go out first."

The weather outside was not very good and the wind was a bit strong at night, but this did not affect the large number of people who signed up.

Louis arrived at the venue five minutes after they came out. He never expected that so many people would come to sign up for the Quidditch trials.

This is twice as many substitutes as he had previously selected.

There were many students sitting in the audience. Louis glanced at the stage, saw Astoria's figure, and walked towards the stage.

Sitting with Astoria was the captain of Ravenclaw, Cho Chang.

"Don't you have to go downstairs?"

Astoria felt a little strange when she saw Louis coming.

"It's not my turn yet." Louis sat down next to her, "But it's you, Qiu. As the captain of Ravenclaw, why are you here to see me for the Gryffindor selection?"

"Why aren't you welcome? Are you afraid that I will know all your details?" Qiu Zhang teased, "Don't worry, it was Angelina who asked me to come."

"I'm just here to see you as a friend."

"So what do you think?"

"It is true that some of these people are capable, but it depends on whether Angelina can discern pearls."

Qiu Zhang has a unique vision, and she can already tell something about the candidates even before they show their strength.

"But isn't that your friend? He's here too?"

Louis followed her pointer and saw Ron Weasley's figure among the crowd.

Sure enough, Ron was honest when he said he didn't care about Ron's body, but Lewis was worried about Ron's mental state.

Angelina whistled, and the candidates immediately fell silent. She explained the purpose and process of the selection to everyone, and then divided them into groups and the selection officially began.

The first round of selection was hosted by Arya Spinnet and Katie Bell. Under the bombardment of the two chasers, they almost threw twenty balls to each selector. Soon, the results were divided.

Out of the pros and cons.

Only three people successfully resisted eighteen balls or more, including Ron Weasley. Although it was dangerous, one ball almost passed through his fingers.

"It seems that your friend is quite capable." Qiu Zhang praised, "However, we are still far from becoming the starting goalkeeper."

"You don't believe it? I believe he can do it." Lewis smiled.

"Okay, it's my turn to appear."

He stood up from his seat, let go of Astoria's hand, waved to them, and walked straight down.

"What's he doing in the Quidditch lounge? Does he have a broom too?"

Astoria didn't answer her, and after a while, Louis came out carrying an extremely delicate broom.

"Astoria, you are so skillful." Qiu Zhang shook his head helplessly, not knowing whether to be jealous or envious for a moment.

"Senior, what's mine belongs to him, but I feel that the broom can work best in his hands." Astoria said, with a happy smile on her face.