After Hermione ran away crying, the atmosphere in the kitchen suddenly became a little awkward.

Scott's three roommates and Luna all stopped eating and turned to look at him.

Harry and Ron awkwardly stood up from their seats.

"Oh, don't care." Ron said unnaturally, "Hermione always had some weird ideas. ”

"Yes...... Oh, yes. Harry was also a little unnatural.

Scott was still very calm.

He shook his head, "Speaking of which, it's not surprising that she thinks well, being kind and compassionate is a good thing." ”

Ron and Harry looked at him with vague, strange eyes.

Scott smiled, "Although we have different ideas, we are just discussing each other. I don't accept her ideas, and I don't intend to have her accept my ideas. ”

"That'...... That's good. Harry forced a grin, "I'll talk to Hermione, and besides, she's only a little angry for a while." ”

"Come on, she's always wanted to put her own thoughts into everyone's heads." Ron muttered under his breath.

Although his voice was small, everyone present could hear it.

Hearing him say that, Harry almost couldn't keep the smile on his face.

He touched Ron with his elbow, "Let's go back and continue the celebration, everyone is waiting for us, oh and food!" ”

He turned and ran to the stove, said hello to the group of house-elves hiding there, and hurried back to say goodbye, pulling Ron to leave.

"Congratulations again on your victory." Scott waved his hand, "That's right." ”

Harry and Ron stopped again.

Scott looked into Harry's eyes, "Harry, have you learned, I mean, the magic Sirius is responsible for teaching you?" ”

Looking at Harry's current appearance, he guessed that the boy should no longer be haunted by the nightmares that Voldemort brought him.

"Oh, I have to say it was really hard." Harry nodded, and genuinely laughed, "But there's been some improvement. ”

Scott said, "Congratulations, you're going to be better off after you learn it." ”

"Thank you!"

Once the two of them had left the kitchen, Scott began to continue eating.

"Oh, Scott, is everything you said during your debate with 'McGrid' true?" Eddie asked him.

"What do you say?"

"I don't know. Of course, maybe you're just trying to stun her. ”

Scott shrugged his shoulders and didn't speak again.

He said so much, but it was really just a response to Hermione's accusation.

As for whether what he said made sense, he didn't think much about it himself.

Milton on the side said, "Speaking of which, house-elves are indeed a little pitiful, but I never felt anything was wrong. ”

Roger said: "I think as long as you don't deliberately abuse them, the rest should follow their own wishes." ”

"You're right." Milton thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

At this time, Luna, who was sitting next to Scott, put down the knife and fork in her hand.

"Full?" Scott asked.

Luna nodded.

"I'm full."

Her eyes wandered, as if she was in a fugue again.

After a while, I heard her speak again, "I don't have any house-elves in my house. ”

There was no beginning or end to this, and Scott said "um" as a response.

"They're having a great time at Hogwarts." Luna said again.

Her gaze shifted to the house-elves who were busy again.

"It's going to be hard to change their mindset." She said softly.

Scott let out another "um".

"What if their mindset really changes?" Luna suddenly turned to Scott and asked, "What if they ask for pay and vacation themselves?" ”

"Then give them to them." Scott said indifferently, "Those goblins don't also control Gringotts, and they mix well in the wizarding world." ”

"Oh." Luna nodded.

Scott asked her curiously, "What do you think?" If Hermione invited you to join in the efforts to improve the rights of house-elves, would you say yes? ”

Luna tilted her head in thought, nodded, and shook her head again.

Eddie, who had been listening to the two of them, couldn't help but ask Luna curiously, "What does it mean to nod and shake your head?" ”

Luna glanced at him and didn't answer.

Her eyes began to drift again.

"I guess." "A nod means you can say yes, and a shake means you don't think you can do anything about it," Scott said. ”

Luna's eyes refocused and nodded.

"What do you mean?" Eddie asked again.

"The most difficult part of this matter is not to fight for the rights and interests of this group, but to awaken their own minds." "If you can't change their ingrained beliefs, no amount of anything else is useless," Scott said. ”

Luna nodded again.

Scott added, "This can be done, and maybe even make the wizarding world more prosperous." But it can also lead to worse outcomes, such as awakening them becoming enemies of the wizard. ”

Milton spoke again, "All I know is that elves are generally hostile to wizards. ”

"Everybody has to find something to do, something that they think is meaningful. No one can judge whether the outcome is good or bad until it is completed. Luna spoke, too, "If that's what Hermione wants to do, I can help her if she needs it." ”

"Is she your friend?" Eddie asked.

"Not friends now." "But maybe we can be friends." ”

"I hope you can make more friends." Scott said.

"Yes." Luna nodded earnestly.

After this late lunch, Scott said goodbye to a few of his companions and went to the room alone for class.

Lately, Scott has been increasing his combat prowess, further improving the use of Transfiguration in combat under the guidance of Mentor Ravenclaw.

At the end of the week, he already had some new results.

In the empty room where the portrait of Ravenclaw remains, Scott stands by a lone desk in the center of the room.

He looked at the iron on the desk, chanting the Transfiguration Spell in his mouth while waving his wand firmly.

The black iron moved.

The originally hard piece of metal softens into a liquid form and takes shape quickly, taking on the shape of a crow.

Subsequently, with the deformation of various details, the image of the crow began to become more and more vivid and realistic.

At the same time as the transformation, a complex magic circuit began to take shape, and fiery red magic words flowed across the crow's surface.

Coax!

As the magic circuit became more and more dazzling, the flames finally burned on the surface of the crow's body.

"Gah!"

The crow wrapped in crimson flames opened its mouth and chirped, its black feathers trembling in the flames, but it was unharmed.

"Gah!"

It chirped again, spread its wings and flew up.

The black crow was covered in crimson flames and flew in the air like a ball of fire.

As it got closer, Scott could feel the scorching heat of the flames.

"It worked."

Scott laughed.

He pulled a piece of wood out of his pocket and threw it out.

"Attack it!"

Hearing Scott's order, the flame that wrapped the crow's body gradually fell silent and extinguished.

"Gah!"

The crow, who seemed to be back to normal, opened its mouth and spat out a scorching line of fire, accurately hitting the block of wood that Scott had thrown out.

The wood immediately burst into flames and was scattered into ashes in a very short time.

"Gah!"

The crow chirped happily, flew around twice more and landed again on the desk, leaving a few charred footprints on the wooden plank on the surface of the desk.

Not long after, about a minute, the surface of the crow's body burned again.

"There was no mistake!"

Scott said happily, re-wanding the crow into a bare piece of iron.

By this time, the iron had been burned red, and the wooden planks of the desks were sizzling and almost ignited.

With a wave of his wand, Scott moved the iron block to a stone slab on the floor in the corner of the room.

"Looks like you've really succeeded."

In the portrait, Ravenclaw, who had been watching Scott's operation, smiled slightly.

"And thank you, mentor, for your help." Scott turned to the portrait and bowed, "You helped me parse the [Arson Ring]'s magic circuit, and guided me to make the appropriate modifications to the magic circuit. ”

[The Ring of Arson] is an alchemical recipe that Scott decoded with the help of his Ravenclaw mentor from the gift that Michael gave him at Christmas 1994.

The gift was a tattered piece of parchment, the contents of which appeared to be a menu, which seemed to come from a somewhat lame cooking enthusiast, but was actually left by an alchemist, written in a special encryption method.

When the [Ring of Arson]'s magic circuit was cracked, Scott had been trying to incorporate it into his Transfiguration.

Through continuous efforts, this idea has finally been completely realized today.

From now on, his transformation products will no longer only have a solid defense effect, auxiliary effects such as listening and camera, but also have an attack effect similar to that of a fire spell.

With the "Arsonist Raven" with its own flame heat and the ability to spit out scorching fire from a distance, his options in battle will increase, and his tactics will be greatly enriched.

While Scott was happy, of course, he couldn't forget that Ravenclaw was a great help to him.

"It's also the result of your own efforts." Ravenclaw said lightly, "Keep up the good work after that, my apprentice." ”

Scott straightened up and smiled, "Obey your teachings, my mentor." ”

It's a new week and Hogwarts students are moving away from the hustle and bustle of Quidditch finals and into their normal school life.

But this week has been anything but ordinary.

First of all, it's the last week before the year-end exams.

Many students who are afraid of exams, or who are not sure, start to revise frantically, or try their best to find some strange potions and cheating props in an attempt to take advantage of the loopholes.

Eddie has washed his hands and hasn't sold counterfeit medicine for a long time, but someone still asks him if he wants to buy a few bottles of Bafei Sober.

You know, the Ba Fay Brain Awakening Agent that Eddie secretly sold in the past is actually fox droppings.

"It's like this every year, there's always some little fool trying to find a way to cheat." Eddie lamented in his dorm, "But they don't know that even the real Buffy Brain Booster can't make their grades better." ”

Roger smiled, "Professors can tell that a student is not cheating, that's too easy, at Hogwarts, cheating is simply not possible." ”

"But every year during exam week, the professors always catch a few cheaters." Eddie said with a grin.

"Oh, Scott, Roger, how are you doing?" Milton asked, "I'm worried about myself. LS scores. ”

In the dormitory, three people in the fifth grade are also confronted. LS, and Milton alone, was very anxious.

"Almost." Roger thought for a moment and said, "I don't have high expectations for my grades, I just need to get 5 or 6 certificates." ”

Scott told the truth: "I didn't worry about my grades, although I won't have 12 certificates, as long as I take the subject to the exam, I should be able to get it." ”

Milton hurriedly picked up the book, "I need to review harder." ”

Scott and Roger looked at each other and both shook their heads.

Although Milton's grades are not top-notch, they are not bad, but he is extremely anxious and unconfident when he encounters exams, which is the result of his personality.

Experience has taught them that any persuasion and comfort is useless at this time, but only makes him more nervous.

The best thing to do is not to disturb him and let him immerse himself in the effort.

In this way, he doesn't have time to think too much.

In addition to the exams, there is another unusual thing about this week.

Miss Graplan, the teaching assistant for the Conservation of Magical Beasts class and a popular among the students, suddenly leaves quietly.

Scott didn't notice this at first, until he heard other students who had already taken the class talking about it.

It seems that Dumbledore launched an investigation into the previous attack in the Forbidden Forest?

Scott just thought about it, and didn't have the energy to go into detail about it for the time being.

He's going to get through exam week first.

Although he was confident in his learning, he couldn't take it lightly and took some extra time to sort out what he had learned over the past five years.

Also, he found out that he might be in another trouble.

The name of this trouble is Hermione.

The girl who ran away crying in front of him and returned home was obviously unconvinced, and kept trying to get back on the field.

Faced with her request to "debate" again, Scott first had to deal with the rejection of the exam.

Because Hermione herself took the exam seriously, she didn't say anything more.

But she obviously couldn't resist the urge to "debate".

Every time she saw Scott, her expression was one of eagerness, and she was eager to rush up and refute Scott's arguments with her reprepared arguments.

At this time, Harry and Ron, who were following Hermione, always looked at him with sympathetic eyes.

Roger, who knows the inside story, will also gloat.

"Her desire to win is too high."

Luna found it funny.

She smiled and said, "If she hadn't won back the debate, she wouldn't have given up." ”

Scott nodded.

He muttered with some distress, "We've talked to each other and confirmed that we can't reach a consensus, so isn't it good to respect each other's points of view after that?" ”