Hogwarts Kryptonian - Chapter 268

c268 Slug Club

Although he rejected Hermione’s proposal to help the Muggle-born students find a solution, Lu Yunkai did not take it lightly for the Carlo brothers and sisters’ insidious trick against Muggle-born students.

In fact, all the professors at Hogwarts, except those two brothers and sisters, showed great disgust towards this behavior.

Even Slughorn, the head of Slytherin House, who always valued blood and birth as his main characteristic, expressed opposition to this.

The way he does it is even direct.

“You are the Miss Granger that Yun Kai mentioned to me before! In his mouth, you are the smartest and most outstanding person in your grade! I hope you can come to a small party I have prepared on the weekend, no Did you know you were interested?”

Um.

In the first Potions class of the sixth grade (the class after Lu Yunkai and Hermione discussed whether to send Muggle-born wizards to the Room of Requirement to hide), Slughorn spoke in front of all the sixth graders. Students who took the NEWTS Potions course invited Hermione to the weekend Slug Club gathering.

And the smartest and most outstanding sentence he said in public quickly spread throughout Hogwarts.

The whole thing made many people very excited, of course, not including the Carlo brothers and sisters who were busy collecting student information.

Then they found a fault and accused Hermione:

As the female prefect of Gryffindor, Hermione failed to manage the Gryffindor students, causing a student named Harry Potter to miss nearly a week of classes for no reason…

Well, although it is a bit unreasonable and absurd, people familiar with the matter, including Lu Yunkai, have stated that Hermione does not seem to be unjust in taking the blame…

Of course, the two tried to use this as an excuse to remove Hermione from her prefect status, but were stopped.

Lu Yunkai established a school rule: only the deans of each college have the right to appoint prefects, and only the principal has the right to appoint the student president.

In fact, this was originally an unwritten rule of Hogwarts: no professor has ever wanted to interfere in the management of each college, and the prefects of each college have always been appointed by the dean on a merit basis.

But Lu Yunkai jumped out and told the Carlo brothers and sisters clearly: If you have the ability to go to Snape to appoint you as the head of Gryffindor, otherwise, you will not be able to say who the prefect of Gryffindor is.

This was finally the end of their second round of confrontation.

But in this round, the Carlo brothers still won.

Lu Yunkai was successfully hung with a Sword of Damocles on his head.

And in the blink of an eye, it was Saturday evening, and Lu Yunkai, wearing a formal dress, came to the Potions classroom.

The first meeting of the Slug Club.

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“Let’s go say hello to my adoptive father.”

“…Can you not go?”

“The day will come. How can you keep hiding?” Lu Yunkai looked at Daphne, who was wearing a beautiful evening dress but with worry written on her face, and smiled helplessly.

There were not many people in the newly decorated classroom. Because it was the first gathering of the reopened Slug Club, Slughorn did not invite too many people. There are even some people at the prefect level who are not on the invitation list.

For example, Ron Weasley, the male prefect of Gryffindor, and even Pansy Parkinson, the female prefect of Slytherin.

However, Daphne was still semi-forced by Lu Yunkai.

“It’s a day to hide…” Daphne muttered, squeezing her head on Lu Yunkai’s arm.

Lu Yunkai could only smile helplessly.

Daphne didn’t know how she found out that Lu Yunkai had secretly summoned the Demon God behind her back during the summer vacation. After she came back from Southeast Asia, she only saw Lu Yunkai once and ignored him angrily.

Everyone else (including Astoria) felt that Daphne was completely overreacting to this matter. Even Pansy and Millicent had said something about Daphne because of this matter, but Lu Yunkai never said anything more. .

Not even an apology.

Because he understood that the reason why Daphne had such a big reaction to summoning the Demon God during the summer vacation, besides worrying about his health, was that she knew that Slughorn had arrived at Hogwarts.

She was really unsure whether the curse issue that she had been worried about would become the final obstacle to the relationship between her and Lu Yunkai.

Daphne was not so much angry because Lu Yunkai didn’t listen to her, but rather felt inferior because of the curse… How could Lu Yunkai persuade her? The more she tried to persuade her, the worse she felt.

Even after returning to Hogwarts, although she met Slughorn several times in the auditorium, Daphne has always avoided Lu Yunkai’s adoptive father. In order to avoid him, Daphne even got an O in Potions from OWLS. I don’t even plan to take Potions this school year.

But as the old saying goes in the East, an ugly daughter-in-law always has to meet her parents-in-law. Lu Yunkai was going to pierce the last layer of window paper today, so even though Daphne used the ultimate trick of “I have my period today and my stomach hurts and I don’t want to go” in the afternoon, Lu Yunkai still forced her to come.

And it really wasn’t as bad as she thought.

“Are you Daphne? Well, what a beautiful lady! Lu Yunkai is a lucky boy.” Slughorn looked at Daphne who was dragged to him by Lu Yunkai, and nodded with a smile, “Your Potions OWLS is obviously O, why don’t you prepare for NEWTS? Remember to come to class next week! And… Yunkai!”

“…Ah!”

“There are a lot of people today, I can’t take care of them, can you help me take care of them? Let Daphne help me sometimes. I’m old, and sometimes I still need a helper.”

“…Yes!”

With just a few simple words, Lu Yunkai, who was worried about Daphne, was sent away under Daphne’s bitter face and eager eyes.

Afterwards, although Lu Yunkai was chatting with the people attending the party, his attention was almost always on Daphne.

And this worry soon turned into admiration.

Slughorn didn’t show too much concern for Daphne (like he did in front of Lu Yunkai), nor did he show aloofness.

Gentle, kind.

When chatting with every student who attended the party, he would take care of Daphne intentionally or unintentionally.

And that position, in fact, would generally belong to Lu Yunkai. Daphne’s appearance in this place actually means that he never regarded this future daughter-in-law as an outsider from the beginning…

This made Daphne, who had been worried about being criticized by Slughorn (especially the family curse), breathe a sigh of relief.

And Slughorn’s handling of Daphne was only a small part of Lu Yunkai’s admiration. What really made Lu Yunkai feel in awe of Slughorn was how he smiled and chatted with Hermione.

That was simply textbook-level.

As a muggle-born Gryffindor, Hermione was actually invited by the headmaster of Slytherin to attend. It was a bit unexpected, so she was somewhat uneasy when she went to greet Slughorn.

But Slughorn calmed Hermione’s anxiety with just two or three words, and even chatted with her about the House-Elf Rights Association that few people cared about, and praised Hermione for being an upright and kind person.

Of course, Lu Yunkai understood that what Slughorn wanted to say was definitely not just a compliment to Hermione, because he heard from his adoptive father that “the Ministry of Magic should indeed consider the status of house-elves, but no one is taking the lead.” Considering that Slughorn had persuaded Lu Yunkai to stay away from the Ministry of Magic before…

Lu Yunkai believed that if he attended such gatherings three or five more times, Hermione, who originally did not like the Ministry of Magic at all because of Umbridge, might set the Minister of Magic as her life goal.

But from beginning to end, Lu Yunkai didn’t even hear Slughorn say “You are suitable to work in the Ministry of Magic”.

This “silent” influence made Lu Yunkai finally understand why Slughorn was not a particularly good professor of potions compared to Snape (Lu Yunkai, who had already attended a NEWTS potions class, can responsibly say that compared to Snape, his adoptive father really couldn’t explain some potion issues clearly), but there were so many students who respected him so much and even regarded him as a life mentor.

He seemed to have a kind of ability that made people willing to believe in him, and he seemed to be very good at using this ability.

So, when the party ended and returned to the lounge, Daphne, who was originally trembling with fear, began to praise her future father-in-law in front of everyone.

Even Blaise, who attended the party with him, couldn’t stand the compliments.

However, considering Lu Yunkai’s face, he didn’t say anything to Daphne. Instead, Daphne’s best friend Pansy, who was not invited, jumped out and ridiculed Daphne.

In fact, Pansy didn’t have much opinion about not being invited to the party. After all, she knew that although she was the head girl of Slytherin, she was at the bottom of the class in terms of OWLS scores. Not to mention that she was not as good as Daphne, even Millicent was much better than her.

But what she couldn’t tolerate was that even Malfoy was not invited.

That day she had a temper with Malfoy. She originally thought that Malfoy would be like usual, at least comfort her a few words under Lu Yunkai’s persuasion, and then the two of them would be able to reconcile. But she never expected that this time Lu Yunkai didn’t know whether he didn’t persuade her or didn’t persuade her. When she got angry, Malfoy ignored her directly.

Pansy persisted for three days and panicked.

After that, she took the initiative to try to find Malfoy to repair the relationship, but Malfoy showed his indifferent attitude.

This made Pansy start to worry about the relationship between her boyfriend and herself.

Now there is a chance to show her loyalty to Malfoy with confidence, of course she will not give up.

When Lu Yunkai, Daphne, and Blaise, who were also invited, returned from the Slug Club, Pansy sneered at Daphne for a while.

“It’s really good to follow Lu Yunkai! You can go to such occasions.”

“Did he introduce you to everyone as his daughter-in-law? Mrs. Lu? By the way, aren’t you going to give your first child the surname Greengrass? Did Professor Slughorn agree?”

“I heard that Slughorn hired several people to help serve, like Longbottom from Gryffindor… Did you help carry the plates? Oh! You helped carry the wine glasses! I thought so!”

Finding faults in various ways.

So much so that Daphne, who knew she was in a bad mood and had no intention of arguing with her, was finally furious and dragged Millicent back to the room.

But when she complained to Malfoy, who had returned to the lounge very late (even later than Lu Yunkai and the others who had attended the party), with a bit of a credit mentality, she got a comment from Malfoy.

“You have so many things to do.”

This made Lu Yunkai, who had been watching the whole process silently and was originally thinking about saying something to Pansy to vent his anger for his girlfriend, no longer angry at Pansy for picking faults with Daphne.

Don’t you know that your boyfriend… um, ex-boyfriend has been worried about how to fix that broken cabinet recently, and his hair is almost falling out?

Well, I definitely don’t know.

Naturally, they would not know that it was Lu Yunkai who suggested to Slughorn not to invite Malfoy because Malfoy had some “unspeakable work” on his hands, so Slughorn did not invite the only son of the Malfoy family!

They would not know that Malfoy was very grateful after learning about this from Lu Yunkai and getting some guidance from Lu Yunkai on the knowledge of magic circle research…

So, lovers have to communicate! And communication is not something that you can do just by having a communication mirror in your hands.

Looking at Pansy who was stunned by Malfoy’s words and then ran away crying, he really felt that this girl who was always mean and cunning in front of others, but gentle and considerate to Malfoy, was so pitiful…

If her father had not previously reported the matter of Mrs. Malfoy giving the bracelet to Voldemort, to be honest, Lu Yunkai would have wanted to help her again.

But now…

How to say it, it’s not meant to be!

So… just say a few words! Anyway, Daphne should be very happy tonight and won’t bother with her.

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