#254 - Thinking Trap (asking for monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

"You!" Wendy's expression changed drastically as she listened to Anduin's words, and she became increasingly alarmed the more she heard. Read the latest chapters on shuba69.М

"How do you know all this?" It wasn't pleasant to have her privacy exposed in public, especially her deeply hidden emotional life. Wendy stared at Anduin with a displeased expression.

Anduin didn't answer Wendy directly, but turned to look at the other two, reading from the clipboard:

"Louis Ollerton, sixth-year student, pure-blood. Your family's ancestor was one of the Ollerton brothers who founded the 'Cleansweep Broom Company.' Your parents, as direct descendants of Barnaby Ollerton, own a portion of the Cleansweep Broom Company's shares. Top subjects: Astronomy, Transfiguration. Secondary subjects: Charms, Arithmancy. You passed the exams in all of these subjects. Hobbies: Quidditch, but you haven't been selected for the Quidditch team due to your average skill level."

"For a sixth-year student, you're not bad," Anduin said with a rather objective evaluation.

At the same time, he didn't pay attention to Louis's unsightly expression, and turned his head to look at the last fifth-year female prefect:

"Jenny Moria, fifth-year student, half-blood. Your mother is a Muggle, and your father is a pure-blood wizard currently working in the Muggle Liaison Office in the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes at the Ministry of Magic. Top subjects: Charms, Muggle Studies. Secondary subjects: Ancient Runes, Potions, Transfiguration. You have a very good chance of passing the exams in these subjects. Hobbies: You almost exclusively like reading, and perhaps due to your parents' influence, you have a strong interest in Muggles."

"From an academic standpoint, you're one of the most outstanding in your year. Professor Flitwick also mentioned you to me, and you'll be invited to join the Charms Club this year." Anduin smiled at Jenny, this female prefect was one of the most studious witches he had ever tracked.

Upon hearing this, Jenny, unlike the other two, didn't show any embarrassment. Instead, she blushed shyly and lowered her head bashfully, not knowing whether it was because of Anduin's praise or because she heard that she was invited to join the Charms Club.

"What exactly do you want by investigating us so thoroughly?" Louis felt a chill in his heart as he watched the other party reel off everyone's details so easily, as if he knew them like the back of his hand.

"These are just some basic facts, not really thorough. More in-depth magic value detection, physical fitness tests, and stress tests haven't been done yet." Anduin shook his head helplessly. After all, he had only intervened for a relatively short time, and he couldn't spend too much time on these people, so the information he collected wasn't very detailed.

"We're asking you what you want, not questioning whether you know things clearly," Wendy said, unconsciously standing on the same side and in the same camp as Louis, questioning Anduin together.

"You don't need to worry about what I want to do. All you need to know is that from now on, you will obey my arrangements and act according to my instructions. I value execution and efficiency," Anduin said, his eyes sharply sweeping across the three people in front of him, taking in all their expressions.

"Why should we? Just because you're a war hero? But that was a year ago, and isn't it excessive to snoop into other people's privacy at will?" Wendy, ever since Anduin exposed her love affair, had been very angry, and directly retorted coldly.

"That's right, we're all prefects, and we're a year older than you. Why should we listen to you?" Louis was very dissatisfied with Anduin's attitude, and then echoed Wendy's rebuttal.

Jenny, on the other hand, lowered her head and fiddled with her fingers without saying a word. As a bookworm, she wasn't very good at socializing, so she didn't join the argument.

"You still know you're prefects?" Anduin raised his head and looked at the two coldly. "I'd like to know, as prefects, what responsibilities have you fulfilled?"

"Wendy, besides dragging a group of girlfriends to study beauty potions every day, you're also flirting with Nold Beron in the school, and using the Student Council's arrangements to have romantic dates during night patrols. And your secret love affair, which you consider precious, is almost universally known among the Slytherin girls."

"Want to know who leaked the secret? It's your stupid owl. Every time it sends love letters back, it mistakenly stuffs them into the room next door, and your classmates next door, afraid of embarrassing you, secretly put them back in your room every time. Moreover, your love letters are almost never sealed, and by the time you see them, they've already been circulated among all the girls in the house."

"What?" After hearing Anduin's words, Wendy froze on the spot, feeling stiff all over. She originally thought that Anduin's revelation of her little secret today would cause her to die of embarrassment on the spot, but she didn't expect that she had actually been dying of embarrassment in front of the entire house for a long time, and only she didn't know it.

"As for you, Louis," Anduin cast a cold glance at the male prefect next to him. "Every day, besides playing with celestial models in the astronomy tower, you run to the Quidditch players in the school to show off your family's experimental Cleansweep Six flying broom. But unfortunately, your flying skills are so poor that even if the Quidditch team captain gave you a back door, you wouldn't be able to get a substitute position."

"And every time it's time for night patrol, you just slack off and run to the astronomy tower to look at the stars. Wendy's dereliction of duty as a prefect can be said to be because of love, but what about you? You simply don't take the prefect's job seriously, you're just lazy."

Anduin unceremoniously reprimanded the two fellow housemates who were a year older than him.

Louis, whose sore spots had been poked, blushed at this time and argued loudly: "What do you know? You don't know anything about the situation in Slytherin. Do you think I want to be like this?"

"In Slytherin, just last year, not to mention us, the older prefects didn't care about anything, and the head of house was often absent. We're just newly promoted prefects and can't make decisions."

"Moreover, the students in the school don't care at all and don't listen to the prefects. Everyone only cares about themselves. Even if we do our duty conscientiously, what can we change? Instead of wasting time on them, it's better to do our own things."

Louis roared with a flushed face. Obviously, he was extremely disappointed in the current Slytherin. This was also the idea of most Slytherin students, and in this relatively selfish house, this kind of thinking easily resonated.

That is, just take care of yourself, why bother about the life and death of others? And it seems that these prefects have fallen into this kind of thought trap.