#479 - A code from another world

"Wood." Ronan walked up to him and said seriously, "I want to tell you something. I am here to help you Gryffindors, not to interfere with you, but your team members——"

Before Ronan could finish his words, the playful voices of the Weasley twins came.

"What a coincidence, we meet again." said George.

George: "No, I heard that the witty captain of Ravenclaw was coming, so Fred and I wanted to go take a look."

Fred looked Ronan up and down and exclaimed, "Sure enough, he is indeed a genius who can cast a tracking spell on a broom handle. Why didn't we come up with such a good cheating method?"

George said disdainfully: "Fred, first you have to abandon your conscience."

Fred added: "Not only that, but also the spirit of competition."

George: "Then you also need to be able to conceal your true identity."

Fred: "That way everyone will be kept in the dark."

Ronan said grimly, "Is this the Gryffindor way of hospitality?"

He turned to look at Wood: "If the Gryffindor players keep treating me like this, I won't be able to do my job. I just want to help you defeat Slytherin."

Wood quickly comforted him: "No, no, no, Gryffindor really needs Ravenclaw's help, I will teach them a lesson right now!"

Wood caught up with the twins and told them to go to training quickly and not to make trouble.

They walked away while arguing. After confirming that Ronan's eyes had moved away, Wood restrained the anger on his face and said in a deep voice:

"I know you look down on him, but now is not the time to act on impulse. Gryffindor needs Ravenclaw to come up with some new formations to deal with Slytherin.

I heard that all the Slytherin team members have recently changed into new equipment. Without a strong formation, our equipment cannot match theirs, so there will be a big gap in speed. "

Fred and George looked at each other and made solemn assurances.

"We don't mean to embarrass him."

"Yeah, just making friends, this is how we greet our friends."

Wood looked at them speechlessly. What a good way to greet them. Aren't you ashamed to say this?

Fred said: "Lin Xia told us that instead of relying on Ronan's dedication, it would be better for us to learn to create our own formations."

George added: "That's why we kept following him around, trying to learn from him."

Wood: "...Your behavior is not called stealing, it's called provoking."

Fred and George shrugged and said in unison, "If he wants to think so, there's nothing we can do."

Wood looked at the twins and always felt that they were unreliable.

Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind: "You guys just stay where you are and train. Don't follow Ronan. If you continue, he will probably be driven away by you first. I will arrange for someone else to learn from him."

The twins frowned at each other. "I'm not sure if we can let someone else do this. They're not as smart as us."

Wood whistled, and a broom flew over from not far away and landed in his palm. He stepped on the broom and flew into the air.

"You have attracted his attention. It would be better for anyone to get close to him than you. Don't worry!"

After a while, Wood led Harry to Ronan.

Wood smiled and said, "If you ask who knows the Gryffindor team best, it's the Chasers. If you have any questions about our training methods, just ask Harry, he will answer you everything he knows.

If he doesn't know, just ask me and I will tell you everything I know. By the way, in order to help you understand the team as quickly as possible, Harry has been with you these days."

Ronan looked at Harry, meeting those emerald green eyes.

As a fellow pursuer, he admired Harry's courage and his outstanding flying talent.

But as an opponent, Harry is a very tough enemy.

In the previous match, if the tracking spell on the broom handle had not been splashed with Harry's blood, causing it to lose its effect, it would have been hard to say who would have won or lost the match.

It was also because of the influence of Harry's blood that the broom handle had serious problems after losing the tracking spell, which exposed the traces so obviously and allowed someone to catch it.

So deep down, Ronan has complicated feelings towards Harry.

Reasonably, he told him that it was not Harry's fault that he was caught cheating. It was because the other young wizards had sharp eyes. Moreover, this was against the rules of the competition, so even if he was caught, he deserved it.

But emotionally, he sometimes couldn't help but complain about Harry, if only he hadn't been hurt. If Ravenclaw had won, would the subsequent punishment not have happened...

Ronan felt inexplicably heavy in his heart and somewhat repelled Harry's following.

But when he thought about the purpose of this trip, he finally agreed and said, "Okay, I'll ask him."

The Weasley twins were watching all this from behind.

George said: "Ronan's face looks very reluctant. I guess within half an hour, he will get rid of Harry and act alone."

Fred shook his head. "If he really wanted the data of all the members of our Gryffindor team, he would definitely pretend. I guess he would get rid of Harry after a day."

George: "It can't be taken lightly anyway."

Fred: "Gryffindor's honor is ours to protect."

George: "But if you just follow him, you won't learn his methods."

Fred tilted his head, as if thinking about something, and suddenly smiled: "I thought of a good way. If a person with a dark mentality pretends to be very bright and upright, you use a very roundabout way to communicate with him, and he will pretend not to hear you.

But if you ask him directly, as long as he has something to hide and wants to stay in the team, he will have to answer your questions."

George glanced at him. "Oh, my dear Fred, it seems you have made up your mind."

Fred said meaningfully, "I wasn't sure before, but seeing how much we annoyed him, he just complained to Wood instead of leaving Gryffindor angrily, so I knew Ronan was up to something.

He will definitely not leave the team unless it is absolutely necessary, and his attitude makes it easier for us to learn.”

George guessed his brother's idea in seconds, his eyes sparkling with excitement as he was making a prank, and he chuckled: "Great, let's do it!"

So next, the Gryffindor team had the following scene:

After Harry's introduction, Ronan had a general understanding of Gryffindor's methods. He said in public: "In my opinion, your training methods are very backward and must be reformed.

I will design a more scientific training plan for you, which will empower your body to grow again without damaging your muscles."

Harry, who was following him, listened to him talking in a clear and logical manner with a dazed look in his eyes.

He actually vaguely saw the shadow of Hermione in Ronan.

No wonder many young wizards think Hermione belongs to Ravenclaw. Is this the style of Ravenclaw?

They always talk about magic, they always talk about reasonable combinations, they always want to adjust the plan and find the so-called optimal solution...

Harry knew that Wood asked him to follow Ronan because he wanted to learn from him.

But faced with such a "realistic" academic master, he didn't know what to do.

Ronan's words not only confused Harry, but also confused the other little lions.

They just feel it is so awesome, so clever, and so reasonable!

Oh my god, are we finally going to change our training methods and no longer have to train ourselves to death like before?

Wow, this is definitely a good method, we should promote it and support it.

But every time the Gryffindor players were about to be fooled, the Weasley twins would jump out in time to interrupt and question whether Ronan's methods were feasible.

The twins insisted that Ronan explain in detail the ideas and principles behind these methods.

Although the twins are naughty in the team, they are popular. As soon as they speak, half of their teammates will follow suit to question them.

Ronan had to spend more time explaining the detailed principles to them, breaking down a lot of knowledge into pieces and telling them.

After the twins understood, they allowed Ronan to proceed to the next step of training.

Because the twins had to explain every time, Ronan would spend most of the time explaining, which seriously delayed the team's training. For this reason, Ronan had to find Wood and said seriously:

"If you continue like this, the Gryffindor team will be seriously lacking in training time, and your physical fitness may not be able to keep up with Slytherin."

Wood shrugged helplessly: "No way, I can't manage the players."

That's what they said on the surface, but privately, after nightfall, when Ronan returned to the common room, Wood would call them out for training.

In order to allow them to train at night, he specially applied to the school for glow candles to illuminate the entire Quidditch field.

Regardless of other people's experiences, Wood felt that under the light of these warm candles, the Quidditch field at night became very safe and they trained with peace of mind.

But Harry felt that their strategy was wrong.

If it is just to keep Ronan unaware of their true situation and allow them to secretly conduct extra training at night, it would be better not to invite Ronan in the first place. The team members would have less trouble and be more focused on training.

And is the training method Ronan designed for them during the day really better than the one Gryffindor used in the past?

Did they learn anything from Ronan?

Maybe I learned something, but those methods and strategies didn't seem suitable for Gryffindor, never from the beginning.

Seeing how excited Ronan and the twins were, Harry didn't express his thoughts in the end. Anyway, all the team members could adapt to the current training intensity.

The scene returns to the night Ronan heads to the Gryffindor team.

Harry was still training, while Mikkel and Percy quickly returned to the castle from the stadium before it got completely dark. The professor guarding in front of the castle was Professor Snape.

I believe that if they dare to come back before dark, Snape will not mind deducting 100 points from Gryffindor again!

When the two saw the professor guarding the castle, they both breathed a sigh of relief, feeling lucky they had made it back.

The two of them quickened their pace and walked through the entrance hall. Professor Snape stood at the end of the stone steps like a statue.

Mikel caught a glimpse of Snape's pale fingers stroking his wand, and immediately fixed his eyes on the tapestry in front of him - Potter had just been deducted 20 points last week for "disturbing the professor's meditation with his breathing."

He was afraid that they would fall behind by a few steps and would be deducted points by Professor Snape for this reason. After all, it was not like he had never deducted points before.

Arriving at the common room, Percy asked Mikel to continue exploring the stadium tomorrow afternoon.

Mikel asked tentatively: "President, are we going in the wrong direction? Maybe there is no hole in the field, and the mouse ran out from the castle?"

Percy frowned, "The guards at the door won't be that lax."

Mikel: "But the mouse I saw before was a bit like the pets that students often keep. It was different from ordinary mice. It looked very smart."

Percy's expression turned cold. "So, all the time we spent investigating and causing Gryffindor to deduct 100 points was in vain?"

Mikel immediately changed his words and said, "Not necessarily. I'm just putting forward a hypothesis, but I trust the president's judgment more in my heart. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been looking for you for so many days."

Percy's tense mouth relaxed a lot and he said, "One week. We will continue searching for another week. If we still can't find any clues, we will suspend the search."

Mikel paused, seeming to want to say something but stopped himself.

It took so much time to investigate a rat hole. Each investigation takes at least two hours. Isn't it too much of a waste of time?

With this time, he might as well think of a few more experiments, or improve a few more attack spells to make them more powerful.

But he had decided to make friends with Percy before, and he felt that his favorability had almost been increased, but the favorability panel in the system had not yet appeared. Mikel still didn't want to waste this line with Percy.

So he nodded and agreed.

"Okay, President, we will definitely find it!"

-

After the disbandment, Mikel did not hang around in the "Room of Requirement" -

Yes, as a book traveler, how could he not know one of the most worthwhile places to visit in Hogwarts, and also one of the golden fingers for the growth and development of the protagonist group: the Room of Requirement!

As early as the beginning of this semester, he found the location of the Room of Requirement, which was on the 8th floor of Hogwarts Castle, directly opposite the tapestry where the troll beat Barnabas with a stick.

He imagined a laboratory in the Room of Requirement where he conducted relevant research experiments. He also locked the laboratory, and only he knew the secret code to unlock it.

Previous sentence: The king of heaven covers the earth like a tiger!

Next sentence: The pagoda suppresses the river monster!

People who believe in the wizarding world will never know the meaning of these two sentences. Even wizards from the mysterious East don’t know how to follow up the previous sentence with the next one.

Mikel traveled to the East on purpose during the summer vacation and found that there was no such famous work as "Lin Hai Xue Yuan" in the East, nor was there this excerpt from "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy".

This is a secret code that only a fellow book traveler can know. It is unique in this world and belongs to him alone.

Mikel went back to the dormitory and saw Ron packing his things. (End of this chapter)