Maple succeeded!

A sophomore actually succeeded!

Silence, after a brief silence, Gryffindor was the first to let out a loud cheer.

Professor McGonagall was both delighted and relieved, as if she was not 100% sure that the Maple she had high hopes for would succeed.

Dumbledore and Snape didn't show much surprise on their faces, but they were in very different moods, the former expressing relief and pleasure, the latter having a stinky face.

Hermione looked proud and proud, and Harry clapped desperately, smiling on his face. Although the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students also gave applause, the smiles on their faces were not as sincere and eager as those of the Gryffindor students.

Not the honor of their own academy after all!

The students of Ravenclaw College, in particular, have a strong unwillingness in their hearts. They probably felt that the honor of the first contract unicorn should be theirs, if Celia was present.

Celia is their pride, she is the first student to enter the Ravenclaw Chamber in recent years, and she is their Ravenclaw pride. The Ravenclaws were sure that if it were her, she would easily pass the unicorn test!

As for the area where Slytherin was, there was a deathly silence. Seeing that their sworn enemies had gained new glory, they were extremely unhappy and at the same time a wave of envy, jealousy, and hatred.

"Congratulations to Mr. Maple and his buddies for being the first wizard-unicorn friendship we witnessed today, congratulations!" Dumbledore said passionately, and after he had finished, the crowd applauded Maple for the second time.

"We are honored to be a witness to their friendship, and let us sincerely wish Mr. Maple and his partner a long and lasting friendship!"

After the crowd cheered again, Professor McGonagall coughed a little, and Dumbledore finally didn't continue, allowing the next student who couldn't wait to make a contract to play.

With Maple's successful precedent, after he stepped down with his unicorn partner, the students after him felt a boost of confidence.

But what awaited them was the same disappointment as the students in front of them.

"Harry Potter!" After Harry Potter took the stage, he received a lot of applause before the contract ceremony began. Harry used his efforts to take out the basilisk, and the applauding students felt that Harry deserved it.

It's just that at this moment, Maple didn't notice that Rita Skeeter, the reporter of the Daily Prophet, suddenly shook her spirit like a shark smelling of blood when she heard Harry's name.

After glancing at Harry's forehead to confirm the scar, Rita Skeeter's gaze bit Harry and she didn't let go.

At the same time, the shorthand quill in her hand suddenly sped up several times faster, and almost instantaneously there was more than half a piece of writing on her parchment.

Perhaps inspired by everyone, Harry grew in confidence and shouted with confidence, "Protect the gods!" ”

"Calling the gods to protect you, what kind of spell is this, why have you never heard of it?"

"It's a Patronus Charm, a very advanced form of magic that can ward off Dementors, and it's so difficult that even older students won't be able to master it."

"He's only in the second grade, so he didn't expect to learn such advanced magic!"

"Damn, I didn't think of the Patronus spell. With this spell, it should be easy to win the unicorn's favor. ”

Harry had not yet used the Silent Charm, and as soon as he recited the Patronus's incantation, there was a murmur of voices from the audience.

Apparently, they didn't know until now that Harry wasn't the first to use the Patronus Charm.

In Harry's happy mood, the Patronus Charm he cast at the moment was even better than the best state of practice, and the Patronus that Harry's wand spewed out already had the general appearance of a stag, and his Patronus in this state was very close to the realm of the physical Patronus.

Rita Skeeter's eyes brightened, and her shorthand quill was rustling with swift handwriting.

Harry's Patronus didn't know how powerful he was against the Dementors, but on stage, Harry was already impressive.

Harry's admirers burst into applause once again.

However, when Harry and the unicorn shook each other's horns, the scene that everyone expected did not happen.

They rubbed their eyes and looked at the stage again, but the result was still the same, Harry didn't make the contract.

Gryffindor and Harry's admirers were disappointed, but the Slytherin snakes whistled and cheered Harry on.

Harry walked down with a vaguely disguised sense of frustration, leaving the stage for the next one, Dumbledore's encouraging look that he hadn't even noticed.

After Harry's defeat, Rita Skeeter, who was ready to make big news about Harry, was not disappointed, but even more excited.

After Harry stepped down, Rita Skeeter never looked at the rest of the event, even though her partner, the photographer, was still dutifully recording every shot.

With her head down, Rita Skeeter began to rustle her manuscript for the Daily Prophet, and in a matter of minutes she was filling several pieces of parchment.

"Hermione Granger!"

Hermione put on the full display of the moves she had learned from Maple -

"The flames are blazing!" Hermione unleashed a cloud of flames that flew into the air, and then the flames split into a dozen.

Hermione then cast a transfiguration, and a dozen flames turned into a dozen flame birds flying in the air.

Then the flame birds, under Hermione's control, resembled a flock of geese, changing formations and postures, sometimes circling, sometimes diving.

Eventually, all of the flame birds flew in unison to the lead one, and all of the flame birds converged in one place, turning back into a single flame and returning to nothingness under Hermione's finishing spell.

After performing the wonderful magic, Hermione stepped forward and took the unicorn's horn in her hand.

Although it took a little slower than Maple, Hermione was eventually recognized by the unicorn and successfully lit up the contract magic array.

"Hermione, good job!" Maple was the first to cheer for Hermione, but this time it was clearly not as enthusiastic as Maple's applause.

Gryffindor took the lead, and Professor McGonagall was happier, but Gryffindor had won so many honors that it had caused displeasure among the other houses.

Slytherin wasn't going to applaud Gryffindor, but Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw were much less applauded this time.

"Why does she wear a veil all the time, it can't be disfigured, right?" Slytherin's ugly monster Pancy Parkinson said bitterly.

After putting on the veil that Maple had given her, Hermione covered the scars on her face and cast a spell on the veil so that the other students could not see the slightest trace of the scars on her face.

However, the strange behavior of not taking off the veil for several months also aroused the suspicion of many students, but after getting used to it, they didn't care too much.

But I didn't expect that Pansy Parkinson's words under jealousy now happened to be the truth.

Hermione completely ignored the sour words of the students who couldn't eat the grapes, and happily returned to her seat with the unicorn she had contracted, giving Maple a smug look—

"Look, I did it too!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, their eyes full of ambiguity.

Now the Gryffindors around them are also sour, it's not enough for the two of you to take a unicorn alone, and it's too much to openly sprinkle dog food in front of us!

The activity continued, and after a few hours, most of the students who had already participated in the contract were hungry, but those who had not yet signed the contract were still waiting anxiously, not feeling hungry at all.

The third and fourth graders have done it once, but the third winner has not yet appeared. At this time, the students' expressions changed when they looked at Maple and Hermione-

Is their magic beyond the level of a fourth grade?

The third and fourth graders were all wiped out, but the fifth graders were still confident in themselves until they too declared defeat.

After slipping down from the stage, the fifth-grader's stomach, which had not felt anything, instantly gurgled.

By the time none of the fifth-graders had succeeded, the eyes of the crowd looking at Maple and Hermione had turned to horror.

By the time the sixth and seventh graders got on the field, they breathed more than the desire to contract a unicorn.

If there is not even a single one of them who has successfully signed a contract, then it doesn't mean that they are not as good as a junior who is four or five years younger than them.

Maple and Hermione didn't challenge them, but now they had to fight. Once they lose, their seniors are really disgraced.

But the reality is always so cruel, and despite the desperate efforts of each of them, the result still does not change.

Even Harry, who has the aura of the protagonist, has been defeated, let alone them?

Alas, the protagonist's aura can't be hung on the wall!

Come with the excitement and return with the defeat! Then, even more frustratingly, when they went back, they learned that their exams for this semester were going on as usual.

Only then did they discover to their horror that first the Basilisk in the secret room, then the contract unicorn, alternating with joy and sorrow, had not spent much effort to learn at all.

"I envy Ron!" Seamus couldn't help but say at this time. Because the mandrake still takes a while to mature, Ron and the petrified Justin don't have to take the final exam.

Hermione, however, was very excited about the exam and was very obsessed with the rankings, and she seemed to be haunted by last year's No. 1 spot, and this time she was determined to pull back the game from last year's practice score.

Not only did she have to get the first place overall, but she also had to score at least the same as Maple on the practical exams, so that she felt that her first place was worthy of her name.

After Maple used Li Xiaoyao's card for Hermione last time, the gap between the magic of the two was greatly narrowed, and this time Hermione seemed to be full of confidence.

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