#128 - Happy Bill

Although Anduin had permission, he didn't rashly venture out to Hogsmeade on the weekend. The school was his safe haven, and with the movements of those pure-blood wizards, even a fool would know they were planning to attack him outside the school.

And it would definitely be a ruthless attack.

"I need to be patient. That item is almost complete. I must remain calm at this time," Anduin thought to himself.

With that thought, he went to the Forbidden Forest cabin and waited quietly.

Soon, Higgs, Charles, Vivian, and others arrived. Charles even brought someone with him: Bill.

"Anduin, Big Brother!" Bill hadn't seen Anduin since the opening ceremony. Seeing him now, he couldn't help but excitedly run towards him.

Anduin had asked Charles to bring Bill. After thinking it over, he felt he should include Bill in his training plan. Since he was at Hogwarts, he had to 'take care' of the Weasley's child for the couple.

Charles, upon learning of Anduin's plan, enthusiastically agreed. He was addicted to being the assistant coach, spending his days bossing Vivian and Velen Higgs around during training. Watching Bill greet Anduin with a smile, Charles wore an ambiguous smile on his face.

After explaining to Bill that he wanted him to participate in the training, Bill readily agreed. In his opinion, this was Big Brother Anduin giving him special attention. Big Brother wanted to hang out with him, so what was there to refuse?

Then very quickly, very quickly indeed, Bill came to regret his decision.

Every morning, while Bill was still dreaming of playing Quidditch, Charles excitedly dragged him out of bed. He didn't know why, but ever since he joined Big Brother Anduin's training plan, this older student had been in a constant state of excitement.

After a simple wash, he followed Charles to the school entrance hall. Big Brother Anduin, along with Senior Higgs and Senior Vivian, who always looked like she hadn't slept, would start running. At first, he and Senior Vivian couldn't keep up at all, usually tiring out halfway through. Then Big Brother Anduin would come over and forcibly help them finish the race, explaining running postures, breathing techniques, and other things along the way. But he was more curious as to why Big Brother Anduin could talk to them while running without even turning red or running out of breath.

After running two laps around Hogwarts, Bill would join the others in the Great Hall for breakfast. After breakfast, it was time for class. At first, he couldn't muster any energy because he was too tired.

In the afternoon, as soon as class was over, that excited Senior Charles would drag him to the Forbidden Forest cabin. Once there, he would start teaching him how to stand in a stance, followed by delayed endurance training. After this series of exercises, he was basically unable to get up.

Meanwhile, Charles, Velen, Vivian, and the others still had to practice footwork, target practice, spellcasting practice, and so on. He was stunned just watching. Was this the training that awaited him? Wouldn't such high-intensity training lead to sudden death?

Regardless of what Bill thought, as soon as Anduin entered training mode, he would immediately transform into a hellish drill instructor. Anyone who made a mistake would be immediately berated, even a girl like Vivian.

However, the effect of this training was quite obvious. Bill found that both his perception of magic and his mastery of spells had improved significantly. And as he gradually managed to keep up with the training rhythm, Bill found that his physical fitness had also greatly improved, and his mental state was also much better than before.

As time passed, the atmosphere within Slytherin became increasingly strange. After being warned by Anduin, Velen Higgs no longer directly opposed the wizards on the committees. Anduin, on the other hand, left early and returned late every day, shrinking back. This made the pure-bloods think they were afraid, and their behavior became increasingly reckless.

When a person gains power, is no longer bound by rules, and lacks a certain amount of self-control, it is the beginning of ambition's expansion.

These guys were clearly not people who understood self-discipline. Since their campaign to remove Muggle items was progressing smoothly, they gradually squeezed the space of half-blood wizards. Wilkes completely controlled the Slytherin Quidditch team and banned those clubs involving Muggles. Besides Vivian's mahjong club, there was also a book club organized by a half-blood wizard, and a Muggle studies club, which was just a learning club organized by a few wizards who had taken the Muggle studies course, but it was also abolished. Wilkes even threatened them to change their elective courses.

Anduin had always been curious as to why their Head of House, Professor Snape, didn't do anything about it, but other than Potions class, he rarely saw this Head of House, who didn't seem to be in school very often.

The entire Slytherin spent more than two months in such a repressed atmosphere, and after such a long time, the conflict finally erupted.

This day, Anduin was still training Charles and the others next to the cabin, but what was strange was that Vivian hadn't come today. Velen said that Vivian had gone back to the common room to put away her books, but she usually wouldn't make people wait this long.

Anduin was wondering if Vivian was slacking off because she thought the training was too hard. After all, she was usually the one who complained the most and often slacked off.

Anduin didn't have much of a solution for this, so he simply let her be the atmosphere group, so he didn't put too much pressure on her during the usual training.

Just as he was thinking wildly, he saw Vivian appear, but she was also accompanied by a young wizard, who was the Ibbie Gamper he had seen before. Ibbie's face still had traces of tears, and she had a sad expression, while Vivian had an indignant expression. Anduin took a closer look and found that one side of Vivian's face was slightly swollen, looking like she had been hit.

"What's going on? Did someone attack you?" Anduin and the others asked as they rushed forward upon seeing this.

After seeing the others, Ibbie seemed to think of something aggrieved again, and burst into tears with a 'wah' sound.

"What else could it be? Those guys are too bullying, not even letting off first-year wizards..." Vivian told everyone the whole story angrily.

It turned out that in the Slytherin common room, those committee guys had searched Ibbie and found a photo of his grandmother. Since his grandmother was a Muggle, the photo was confiscated by those guys. Little Ibbie refused to agree, and argued with them, but Ibbie was just a first-year wizard and had no room to resist. They even threw his grandmother's photo into the fireplace in front of Ibbie and burned it to ashes.