Next, the first place in the standings of the third grade and above chose to give up the challenge of skipping the grade.

It's really because of the first place in the standings in the third grade, he duels with the first place in every standings except for the first grade and the seventh grade, and these firsts in the standings above the third grade can also see the gap between themselves and the first place in the next level through every duel in Xiwen.

Besides, even the junior wizards of the third year were able to complete a few wonderful duels like that, if they couldn't do it, wouldn't they be laughing and generous? Even if they're already laughed at because they've been beaten by a third-grader!

The monthly dueling tournament ended with Shivin obtaining a number of bottles of Professor Slughorn's potions, some of Professor Kettleburn's magical beast materials, a dozen of Professor Billley's herbs, and several borrowing permits in the library's forbidden section.

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After the dueling match, the seven dueling tables were recited by the professors and easily reached under the floor of the auditorium. Immediately, the four college tables pushed to the wall were quickly gathered back in the center of the auditorium, and the table tops were covered with four-color tablecloths representing the college.

Then a group of house-elves appeared in the auditorium with a "bang" phantom shapeshifting sound, and quickly cleaned up the knives, forks and dishes that had been ruined by Xiwen's Transfiguration and replaced them with a batch of brand new utensils.

Xiwen saw that Budi, the house-elf he was most familiar with, also threw a somewhat "resentful" look at him, which made him laugh dryly at this group of house-elves......

The Hogwarts dinner was as lavish as ever, but Shevin wasn't in the mood to eat.

He made a big splash in this duel match.

Slytherin students are likely to be egoists themselves, and if they are not, they are rarely, if not unaffected by egoistic parents, many of whom see making friends as an investment, preferring to make friends with powerful, powerful, or potential wizards.

However, Xiwen, the heir of the Rozier family, has taken all three points......

So at the Slytherin table, there were a lot of students who were looking for him to get closer, and one by one, even with a very blunt excuse, came to congratulate him on winning many dueling matches. This kind of scene made it impossible for Xiwen to concentrate on dinner.

Even Dean Slughorn came over to congratulate Xiwen on his good results in the dueling match, and on the other hand, he handed him the promised reward.

Shivin found a lot of mana recovery potions from the potions that Professor Slughorn had brought, which made him feel a little better.

But as soon as the professor left, the Slytherin students gathered around him, much to his dismay.

At this time, Miranda walked over from the Ravenclaw table, looked at the circle around Xiwen who were almost dressed in a circle, and asked with a smile, "Am I not here at the right time?" ”

"No, Miranda, you've come at the right time!" As if he had met a savior, Shivin quickly stood up from the Slytherin table and followed Miranda out of the auditorium.

Although the Slytherin students were a little unhappy with Miranda's beard, this is the president of this year's Hogwarts Student Council and the first place in the dueling standings of the seventh year. They can't suppress her power at school, and they can't match her dueling strength, so they have to stop it......

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The entrance courtyard of Hogwarts Castle is full of moonlight and starlight.

The moon was a full moon the other night, and tonight it has become a half-full gibbous moon, but it still looks very bright.

The moonlight shone on the railing of the courtyard corridor, casting a silver veil over Miranda's long, light gray hair.

"You seem a little disappointed that you didn't get into this fight with me?" Miranda asked, standing in the silver-white moonlight, with a light smile.

"There must be a little bit of disappointment, after all, there are not many opportunities to receive the first place in the seventh grade duel." Xiwen also laughed and replied casually. "I really didn't expect that a friend of mine would become the uncrowned king of Hogwarts dueling power!"

"What uncrowned king, where did you come up with such strange words?" Miranda said with a smirk. "I'm in seventh grade after all, so it's not surprising to be the first place again. It's you, a little wizard in the third grade, who challenged all the way to the sixth grade, and almost came to the seventh grade dueling ring to beat me! ”

"I've been worried for a long time that you will remove me from the stage, so that I won't even be able to keep my face as the president of the student union!" She teased. "You say, are you more like the 'Uncrowned King' of Hogwarts than I am?"

"I'm just a little bit stronger than them in actual combat application, it's not worth mentioning!" Xiwen said with a smile and shook his head. "Now that the world's great catastrophe is coming, if you can improve your strength a little, you will have more ability to protect yourself."

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

"Are you talking about the Great War that Grindelwald provoked?" Miranda didn't know about the Grim Reaper, and thought that Xiwen was talking about the recent war, and asked softly. "Speaking of which, Headmaster Deppert has an idea for us seventh-year Hogwarts students to join the International Confederation of Wizards."

"He thinks we're adults after all, and we need to take on the responsibility of protecting the wizarding world."

"Let you join the coalition against the Witch Mass?!" Xiwen's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but ask in a loud voice.

"Shh......h Be quiet! Miranda glanced in the direction of the auditorium and saw that no one was noticing, so she continued. The principal also knew that this idea would cause a lot of controversy, so he only told a few of our seventh-grade prefects for now, and did not inform the other seventh-graders for the time being. ”

"This kind of decision will definitely cause a lot of opposition from parents, especially those Slytherin House pure-blood families who have a strong voice in society." Speaking of this, she couldn't help but glance at Xiwen. "It's going to put a lot of pressure on Hogwarts, but we're going to add a lot of new strength to the International Confederation of Wizards."

Shivin didn't react to Slytherin House's pure-blood words, just frowned silently.

"Do you have any thoughts on this square?" He looked at Miranda's beautiful blue eyes behind his lenses and asked softly.

"Actually, I really want to go to the battlefield and see it." Miranda's tone was soft, but firm.

"Why is that?" Xiwen asked in surprise. "You should know it's dangerous on the battlefield, right?"

"yes, I know." Miranda said. "But this danger between life and death is not always encountered, and I need to seize this opportunity!"

"For the study of magic, the more knowledge you learn and the deeper the field you learn, the more you can feel the ant-like insignificance in front of the vast magic."

"I used to specialize in spells, but after learning more and more spells, I felt like I had hit a bottleneck, and no matter how many unknown spells I learned, I couldn't improve my strength to the next step."

"So I spread my energy and went to delve into Transfiguration, Herbology, Magical Beast Protection, and so on. I even studied the dark arts for a while, and the Bat Spirit Charm was created during that time when I was studying the dark arts. But I still felt that my path of magic was getting narrower and narrower, as if an invisible wall was in front of me. ”

"But you're far more capable than the average wizard, Miranda." Xiwen said softly.

"But my goal is Dumbledore's level of existence, Sven." Miranda sighed lightly and said with some resentment. "I hate magic as a matter of talent! It seems that being born without the talent of Dumbledore is destined to become a top wizard like him. ”

Speaking of which, Miranda is indeed very smart and talented, otherwise she would not have been able to become the first in the standings of the seventh-grade dueling competition.

But at the same time, she was not as talented as she was, far less outstanding than Dumbledore, Grindelwald or even Riddle. This innate problem has limited her development, and this problem also does not know how many outstanding wizards in history have been trapped.

Xiwen opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to comfort her.

Did you tell her that she could increase the upper limit of her bloodline by fusing the blood spell? Don't make a fuss, the risk of this bloodline fusion is much greater than going to the battlefield!

Or tell her that your achievements are already good, don't you need to work harder? But with Miranda's pride, how could she succumb to this innate threshold?

"Am I talking a little too much today?" Without waiting for Xiwen to comfort her, Miranda came back to her senses first, blinking her eyes, as if she had regained her former self-confidence. "I'm just feeling it, thank you for listening, Xiwen."

"Let's talk again later, we should go back to the common room."

Without waiting for Shewin to reply, she walked straight onto the stone bridge that led to the teaching area in the entrance courtyard and walked in the direction of Ravenclawa.

"Wait a minute!" Xiwen gritted his teeth, but finally shouted.

Miranda looked back at Xiwen, her eyes reddening at this moment.

Xiwen looked at Miranda's reddish eyes, made up his mind, and shouted loudly:

"Miranda, if you want to learn Animagus one day, tell me first!"

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------Off topic------

In fact, I admire Miranda very much, and here is a page of her abilities:

Spell Mastery: Published the Book of Spells, later republished as the Standard Spells series;

Herbalist mastery: studied plants and fungi in the wizarding and Muggle worlds, and wrote an extensive encyclopedia on the subject, called Goshawk's Guide;

Caring for Fantastic Beasts: Author of Which Owl? three books in the series;

Transfiguration: She has been documented to be able to easily turn people into toads;

Dark Arts: The Book of Spells has some dangerous dark arts covered.