Harry ran out of the Great Hall and into the bushes before stopping.

Wheezing, his mind finally slowly returned to reason.

Thinking back to his reckless actions, Harry felt ashamed.

"How could I ·········· Suddenly rushed up? She obviously has a boyfriend, and it's the first time we've met·········"

It's really strange when you think about it, as if you don't want anything, you just rush straight up, and you can't even see something so obvious.

"How can I go on a date with him in front of her boyfriend? No matter how you look at it, it's inappropriate·········"

Frustrated, he lifted the weeds at his feet and wandered aimlessly through the clearing.

Now let him enter the Great Hall, he will not do it.

I guess I've become a laughing stock.

He thought so.

At night, the sky is full of stars and no one around, making it look extremely empty.

The cold wind blew through the wizard's robes, making him shiver.

Trembling and pulling out his wand and giving himself a spell to keep warm, he finally warmed up.

"So you're here!"

A mellow male voice came, and he turned his head and smashed a fist into his arm.

Peng, the wand came out of his hand.

Then came a sharp over-the-shoulder fall!

Face to the ground, glasses shattered, cutting his face, warm blood dripping down.

He only felt that the stars were bubbling in front of him, and the sky was spinning for a while, and he had no idea what was happening.

"Get up! Stand up! You only have the courage to ask my fiancée in front of me, why don't you have the courage to fight back now? ”

Harry heard the voice, and finally, with difficulty, he got up.

Sure enough, it was the man next to the girl.

At this time, he was holding Harry's wand, playing with it, the light of magic faintly working in his palm, and the wand vibrated slightly, emitting a wail that only Harry could hear.

"What are you doing?"

He was still dazed, subconsciously holding on to his broken glasses.

That powerful over-the-shoulder fall really shook his brain.

Looking at him with a sneer, the tall black-haired boy opposite just whispered a few words.

Immediately, there was a burst of clouds, and the world in front of Harry's eyes turned upside down!

He was hung upside down in the air!

Hogwarts' long floor-length robe hung upside down, revealing his underwear, but thankfully, he was wearing trousers today.

"You're so level? Oh, dare to rob a woman with your brother? Why are you! ”

Xia Ge looked at him coldly, and it wasn't until a minute later that he swept the boy through the magician's personal system terminal and found that he was about to suffocate, so he lifted the magic.

Fell heavily to the ground, this time with his head on the ground.

"Boy, next time you wipe your glasses with the highlights, it's best to see clearly who you can't provoke!"

He casually dropped Harry's wand, then approached him and whispered:

"If it weren't for this Hogwarts·········· Hmph, there won't be a next time! ”

Glancing contemptuously at the large non-combustible garbage on the ground, Xia Ge held his head high and walked towards the auditorium.

The embarrassed Harry struggled to get up behind him, uncontrollable anger welling up in his chest!

He gasped and shouted with all his might:

"Despicable!"

"Huh?"

Xia Ge raised his sword eyebrows, and he was a little unhappy in his heart.

If it weren't for this Hogwarts············

He turned his head away, his sharp eyes looking like knives.

Harry mustered up his courage and glared back without showing weakness!

Between the two, each saw the other's malice········· And a hint of murderous intent!

"Very good······· You've managed to me off! Filthy wizard! ”

After staring at each other for more than ten seconds, Xia Ge spit out this sentence in a tone that was colder than the number nine cold winters.

"You too, despicable magician! Shameless sneak attackers! ”

"Sneak attack?"

Xia Ge chewed on the word, revealing a strange expression.

Harry didn't know how to describe it, the expression of a circus clown who looked like he had seen some stupid orangutan.

This infuriated him even more, and he hated to rush out right now and punch him.

Fortunately, Xia Ge seemed unwilling to talk to him much, so he just replied coldly:

"Wizard, since you and I both have the idea of killing each other············· So, let's have an unlimited duel. ”

Harry stared blankly.

Xia Ge sneered dissatisfiedly.

"You don't even know your wizarding traditions, do you? Unlimited dueling, a ritual that you wizards have been practicing for thousands of years! ”

"Although I don't really appreciate such primitive and barbaric behavior, I have to admit that only those who survive can continue to speak, don't they?"

"Then, I'll set the time, tomorrow at eight o'clock in the evening, and the location is up to you!"

Harry was-for-tat.

"Tomorrow night at eight o'clock, yes, the location is here!"

"Very good······· Well, you can go find your assistant, and if you can, pull in your headmaster who died with your mother and sister! ”

"You are not allowed to insult our headmaster!"

Harry looked like an angry lion cub, but he was covered in mud and had a wound on his face from shards of glass.

"Then kill me in a duel so I can't continue to insult your great headmaster········"

Too lazy to talk nonsense with this guy who doesn't know what to do, Xia Ge patted the non-existent dust on the Hanfu formal suit, turned around and left.

Inside the auditorium, a ball was being held, although the top brass on both sides understood that it was just a formality.

Between the clock tower, as the base camp of magicians, and Hogwarts, the origin of English wizards, almost tore their faces and went straight to work.

Over the years, whether in the open or in the dark, the two sides have clashed more than once or twice.

In the beginning, it was the wizards who had the advantage, after all, they were thousands of years ahead, but the later this advantage became less obvious.

After the establishment of the Clock Tower Business Association, the magicians formed a business alliance, united under the command of the clock tower, led by many financial predators in the Muggle world, and recruited elite talents in various fields to join, successfully forming a business alliance that is second to none in the world.

The wizards did not understand finance, and even put Gringotts, the central bank of the wizarding world, into the hands of the goblins.

The magician, who came from Wall Street, scoffed at this, and then implemented a three-decade plan that succeeded in destroying the entire European wizarding economy.

Gringotts was on the verge of bankruptcy three times, and the estates of eighteen pure-blood families in England shrank one after another, and they were forced to sell many valuable properties under financial pressure.

The magicians waved the pound sterling and bought the Peverell family's Gringotts UK branch, the Malfoy family's three dragon farms, and the Dumbledore family's three properties with protective magic········

The wizards don't know math, they don't know how to manage money, they don't know finance, they lock their gold in the basement and hide it in the Gringotts insurance room, this backward concept of financial management is not at all the opponent of some business predators who are proficient in finance.

The magician's system completely crushes traditional wizards, not only in the realm of magic.

Because anyone can learn magic regardless of their origin, the Clock Tower has a large number of older students from the Muggle world.

They come from a variety of fields, often achieving fame, being exposed to mysterious magic that they have never been exposed to before, and quickly falling headlong into it.

Of course, they did not forget their strengths and contributed to the creation of the clock tower magic system in various fields.

For example, the "Financial Report of the Wizarding World", "Ten Years of Completely Destroying Gringotts" and other plans were submitted by these old and successful people.

Privately, they refer to the wizarding world as the inner world, and the non-magical world as the surface world.

Clock Tower's admissions do not look at family background, do not look at personal talent, but only value perseverance, wisdom and courage, which further enhances their sense of honor.

"Only the true elite can learn in the clock tower."

I don't know when this phrase began, and it has been circulated among European high society.

The existence of magic is already a semi-open secret.

In this case, the Headmaster of Hogwarts invites the students of the Clock Tower to come over and communicate, which is actually equivalent to "summing".

Because even with the wealth accumulated for thousands of years, the entire traditional wizard class cannot withstand the influx of capital from the outside world.

There are only a few tens of thousands of wizards in the whole of Europe, but how many are there in Muggle society?

The magicians are complex, encompassing all walks of life, and are more closely connected with governments, and if necessary, they can use their personal connections to raise money aggressively, using leverage to manipulate dozens or hundreds of times the capital to break down the wizards' finances.

In fact, the clock tower has been slow to move, but has taken a gradual approach to cannibalization.

This is because, after all, this is a world where magic exists.

If you force it too hard, no one can guarantee that these magic families that have been circulating for a long time will have any amazing hole cards.

Take the down-and-out Gangter family, even if they are destitute to that point, and have a Slytherin locket at home.

Another example is Ron's family, which is not very good mixed with the Weasleys, and there is an ancestral magic clock in the house, which can show the safety of each family member.

So, the two sides have not yet officially broken up, but they are almost there.

You must know that there are already eight families in the Hogwarts Board of Trustees who have had to transfer their board seats because of bankruptcy.

No one dared to take over these seats, because it meant investing hundreds of thousands of gold coins year after year, but all that was gained was fame and prestige.

In the end, in order to keep these seats from falling into the hands of magicians, Dumbledore took over the eight seats on behalf of the Dumbledore family, and under the huge financial pressure, he had to turn to his younger brother Aberforth Dumbledore for help.