The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts

Hermione is a very strong person, and has always disliked him, thinking that he is a bit stupid and a bit like making trouble.

On this point, Ron is very clear.

Ron didn't really want to mess with Hermione if necessary.

Especially now that Hermione was so involved.

It's just that the damn roast chicken was too salty, and Hermione was holding the only large teapot for drinks.

Feeling the dryness in his throat, Ron's expression was a little tangled, and he said weakly:

"Hermione, can you give me the teapot, please?"

Ron said it very politely, and Hermione did hear it.

But when Hermione turned his head, Ron only saw Hermione opened her mouth wide and silently said 'Get out', and the ferocious look on her face was completely different from when she faced Link before.

Ron shrank his neck in fear, poked his head next to Harry and complained in a low voice:

"Did you see that? She's such a violent woman. I dare say she won't be able to marry in her life!"

Harry stared blankly at the dinner plate, looking as if he was in a daze, and didn't hear Ron's words at all.

Ron was not bad when he saw this, and continued to complain:

"Anyway, I would definitely not marry, compared to Hermione, I prefer a girl like Emily who is strong on the outside but extremely gentle on the inside.

Oh! I'm not saying I like Emily, that's Link's fiancée, I can't do such dirty things, and people don't like me either.

I mean, I like this type better, at least it should be gentler than Hermione! "

As soon as this remark came out, Harry finally reacted.

He first looked at Ron, then at Cedric who was having a good conversation with George and Fred not far away, and finally bowed his head with some guilt.

He felt himself being hinted at by Ron.

Unaware of this, Ron licked his lips and finally said:

"Harry, can you get me a glass of water? You know, I will probably be laughed at if I go to other people's tables to ask for water with my current appearance."

Harry looked up in horror.

Ron was telling the truth, his previous manipulation of venting his fear on food had left him covered in oil and looking like a beggar.

It's just... next door to Hufflepuff is the long table of Ravenclaw house!

After hesitating for a while, the righteous Harry still felt that brotherhood was more important than his own death. He gritted his teeth, resisted his embarrassment, and turned around to help Ron order a cup of pumpkin from the Ravenclaw table. juice.

Ron drank the drink with joy on his face, took a breath and said to Harry solemnly:

"Okay, I admit I was wrong! Gentle girls are nothing at all, and I'll marry someone like you if I ever marry! It's a pity, Harry, why aren't you a girl? I Dare to say that you would be very beautiful if you were a girl!"

Come on, Ron looked at Harry with deep regret in his eyes.

This gave Harry a chill.

He quickly wiped the goosebumps on his arms, and moved the chair away, only then did he feel a little better.

"Harry, what's the matter with you?"

Link's familiar voice came from the side, and Harry noticed that he had moved to Link's side unconsciously.

Facing Link's smiling eyes, Harry suddenly remembered something, pursed his lips and said:

"Link, thank you, I..."

"It's too nasty, Harry." Link shook his head and interrupted, "Just keep words like this in your heart and don't need to say them."

Harry fell into silence after being stuck like this for a while, nodded awkwardly for a while, and then regained his courage and said:

"I mean, Link, uh, you know Occlumency right?"

Link's action of cutting the steak suddenly stopped, he turned his head and stared at Harry, until Harry felt a little guilty before he said:

"How did you know?"

"Professor McGonagall told me,

She got the news again from Dumbledore. Well, this one doesn't really matter. explained Harry. "What matters is that my old headache of late is back. Not only that, but I also started having precognitive dreams. Before Sirius and the others were ambushed by Death Eaters, and at the scene of the Gringotts heist..."

"you saw it?!"

Link suddenly turned up the volume, and his expression became serious.

This made Harry feel a palpitation, and instinctively avoided Link's sight and said weakly:

"Yes... yes, Dumbledore said that this might be caused by someone hacking into my brain, so he arranged for Professor Snape to teach me Occlumency. It's just that you know how much Snape hates me Yeah, so I thought..."

Harry's voice was getting weaker and weaker, and at last it could not be heard clearly.

Link didn't answer immediately, but just stared at Harry silently, a faint blue light began to flicker in the depths of his eyes. .

Powerful tentacles of mental power gushed out from his heart, gradually enveloping Harry's brain.

Link knew exactly what happened to Harry's 'precognitive dream'.

The only thing that surprised him was that Harry actually saw the scene inside Gringotts.

Does this mean that Harry actually saw himself fighting Voldemort?

The answer is yes!

But judging from the results of Legilimency, Harry didn't seem to reveal these things.

Although I don't know why Harry did this, in general, this is good news.

Thinking of this, a smile gradually spread on Link's face.

And Harry, who was watched by Link, felt his heart was about to explode.

The intense tension caused his blood to pour continuously towards his head, his face was flushed red, and he almost couldn't help running away.

But at this moment, Hermione on the side suddenly leaned over.

"What are you talking about?" Hermione screamed at Harry. "Occlumency? Healing? Why didn't you ever tell us about it?"

"Because... I'm afraid you will worry."

Harry spoke slowly, but his expression seemed relieved.

Hermione's sudden intervention eased the tension between her and Link a lot.

However, his answer obviously did not satisfy Hermione. Seeing Hermione's eyebrows slowly raised, Ron suddenly intervened and asked:

"What is Occlumency?"

"A spell that you will never learn in your lifetime!"

Hermione roared without hesitation, and then slapped Ron's head hard, making Ron scream.

Hermione shook her hand, frowned and wanted to continue to question Harry, but she heard Link say flatly:

"I do know Occlumency. But if you want to learn, I recommend you to consult Professor Snape. After all...he also taught me Occlumency."

Link's words made Harry's face happy at first, followed by worry.

The combination of the two emotions made Harry's face twitch.

In his opinion, Link was tactfully refusing.

Seeing Harry's appearance, Link chuckled and said:

"But it's not impossible if you want me to teach it. But, I don't guarantee that I will be able to teach you. A spell like Occlumency still requires talent after all. Although what Hermione said just now was not pleasant, But it is still true on a certain level. People without talent, even if they study for a lifetime, they will not be able to learn, I hope you can understand this point."

"Ah? Ah! I understand, I understand!" Harry was about to be stunned by the sudden surprise, and excitedly said incoherently, "Thank you, Link, thank you..."

"I've said it before, don't be like this, it's too nasty." Link shook his head and said, "Let's leave it at that. The specific teaching time will be at the D.A. assembly."

Link slowly stuffed the last piece of pudding into his mouth, then got up and said to everyone:

"It's time for the dinner party to end, the prefects of each college should take people back to the lounge!"

After speaking, Link and Cedric nodded, and the two began to direct the Hufflepuffs to line up.

Looking at Link's busy figure again, Harry hesitated to speak.

He still couldn't answer the question about why Link appeared in Gringotts just now.

It's just that now is indeed not a good time to discuss this issue with Link.

‘Let’s put it next time, anyway, there will be more opportunities in the future. '

Thinking of this, Harry sighed deeply.

...

Ten minutes later, the Hufflepuff team returned to the Hufflepuff common room under the leadership of Link.

This speed of progress made many students a little breathless, after all, they had just had their fill of food.

But Link didn't rush to disband the team and let everyone go back to rest.

Not only that, after waiting for a while, Professor Sprout also walked into the common room under the leadership of Cedric.

"Link, you guys don't go to bed so late, what do you want me to do?"

As soon as he entered the door, Professor Sprout said with a confused face.

Sprout lives more like a farmer than a Hogwarts professor of herbalism.

Even Sprout was worse than the farmer.

Because farmers live relatively leisurely at least during the slack period, but because of the existence of magic, Sprout doesn't need to look at the season to grow things at all.

For her, every day is busy farming.

Ever since, starting at five o'clock and going to bed at two o'clock is her normal life.

Fortunately, she knew that Link had nothing serious and would not disturb her sleep, so she didn't have any thoughts in her mind.

"Professor Sprout, I invite you here today to be a witness."

Link bowed deeply to Professor Sprout and said.

Seeing this, Professor Sprout became even more confused, and the students around him were also very puzzled.

They didn't feel that there was going to be any big event in Hufflepuff that they all needed to be in place to witness, and their days had been easy and slow.

Link didn't say anything more, just took out a gold cup with a lot of badger-shaped patterns engraved on the cup surface from the traceless stretching charm pocket at his waist.

The moment the golden cup appeared, the entire Hufflepuff common room fell silent.

Everyone stood there as if the pause button had been pressed, only the fire in the fireplace was still flickering and jumping.

As a Hufflepuff, who hasn't heard the legend about the Hufflepuff Gold Cup?

"Ah this..."

Professor Sprout was the first to exclaim.

Suppressing the excitement in her heart, she stretched out her trembling hand, pointed to the gold cup, and then pointed to Link. She kept opening and closing her mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Link smiled when he saw this, and took two steps forward to hand the gold cup to Professor Sprout.

This move seemed to bring Professor Sprout back to his senses. She stared at a pair of red eyes, moved closer to the golden cup and began to look at it, stroke it, and even licked her mouth twice.

In the end, she took out a section of herbal medicine from nowhere, crushed it in her hand, and sprinkled it directly into the golden cup.

This is a very necessary means of inspection.

There used to be a Ravenclaw guy who came back with a crown and said he found Lady Ravenclaw's relic.

This made Professor Flitwick's face so happy that he couldn't close his mouth for several days, and directly offered the crown to the Ravenclaw statue.

As a result, after being confirmed by Dumbledore and Ms. Gray, the crown was determined to be a fake.

This shamed Professor Flitwick and the entire Ravenclaw house.

Hufflepuff couldn't afford to make a mistake like that.

There was a rustling sound like silkworms gnawing on mulberry leaves.

The herb debris in the golden cup immediately began to dissolve continuously, and finally turned into a pool of green juice, as well as some leaf stems and roots that were difficult to dissolve.

There is no splendor or brilliance in the whole process, just like the purpose of the Hufflepuff school, it is as simple and unpretentious, but it is especially magical and important!

Professor Sprout finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Tears kept gushing from her eyes, blurring her vision.

She wanted to wipe away the tears, but she was afraid that the tears would drip on the golden cup, so she could only twist her shoulders and rub her cheeks in the end.

"This... This is the real Hufflepuff gold cup! Ms. Hufflepuff's relic..." Professor Sprout broke down in tears, "Link, where did you get it!"

Sprout was like a bomb.

The originally silent crowd exploded with a bang.

Everyone's drowsiness caused by eating too much dissipated in an instant. They shouted "don't squeeze, don't squeeze" in their mouths, but they rushed forward to squeeze Professor Sprout, wanting to Get a closer look at what the Jinbei looks like.

Link glanced at the students around him who had already entered a state of frenzy, smiled and deflected the topic to Professor Sprout:

"Although it took a lot of effort, it doesn't matter. Professor Sprout, can I personally offer the gold cup to Ms. Helga Hufflepuff?"

Professor Sprout obviously didn't expect Link to say that, he was stunned for a moment, but he was still distracted as Link expected, and excitedly stuffed the gold cup back into Link's arms and said:

"Of course, go, kid, this is your glory!"

Link took the gold cup with both hands, and the expression on his face finally became serious.

Facing the portrait of Helga Hufflepuff, he slowly stepped forward under the breathless gaze of everyone, and finally carefully placed the gold cup on the table under the portrait.

Hum——

A slight humming sound came from the golden cup.

The flames in the fireplace below exploded, and Ms. Hufflepuff's smile seemed to grow brighter in the portrait.

Professor Sprout was already weeping.

The students around her were also overwhelmed with excitement and kept cheering.

The Gold Cup, which has been adhering to Hufflepuff's will for many years, has finally returned to Hogwarts, the land where Hufflepuff worked so hard.

At this moment, perhaps only the original Professor Flitwick could understand Sprout's mood at the moment.

At the same time, Link, under the gaze of Hufflepuff's portrait, slowly closed his eyes, and began to observe the golden bullet screens floating across his retina.