HP Star Shining

Su Xingchen was somewhat physiologically uncomfortable with everyone talking so easily about the topic of death, perhaps because she already knew that someone would die in this competition.

She looked at George, who was talking nonstop. She could only speak so casually if she hadn't seen it herself. After seeing Fred being killed, would George still be so nonchalant?

The next morning, the storm subsided, but the ceiling of the auditorium was still covered with gloomy clouds.

Harry and Ron were studying their timetables, Hermione had started eating again, and a few seats down from them at the same table, George, Fred, and Lee Jordan were discussing some magical way to age themselves so they could cheat their way into the Triwizard Tournament.

"It's been a nice morning, all outdoors." Ron ran his finger over Monday's column. "Hybology, with the Hufflepuffs. Care of Magical Creatures... bummer, with the Slytherins again."

"There are two Divination classes in the afternoon." Harry lowered his head and sighed. Divination was now his least favorite class besides Potions. Professor Trelawney always said that he was about to die. Who could like it?

"Xingchen?" Hermione held up a slice of bread and butter covered with jam and looked at the person who suddenly stood up in confusion.

"I have something to do. See you in the herbal medicine class later." Su Xingchen said this and left his seat.

"Where is she going?" Ron asked as he looked at her hurried back.

Harry shook his head, but then he suddenly remembered seeing Cedric leaving the Great Hall just now. He thought, maybe he knew what was going on with Xingchen.

"I won't be with you this afternoon."

"What's wrong with you?" Ron looked away.

"I'm going to the library." Hermione took a bite of bread.

"Hermione, it's the first day of school and there's no homework!" Ron exclaimed.

Hermione raised her eyebrows nonchalantly, with a "so what" expression on her face.

"Cedric, wait!"

Su Xingchen waited until the number of students around him gradually decreased before he spoke and jogged a few steps to catch up.

She wanted to return the handkerchief, but not in front of others. She knew how gossipy her classmates at Hogwarts were.

"Here, as compensation." She took out two folded handkerchiefs from her school uniform pocket and handed them over, one new and one old.

"I've washed it, but the mud and water marks can't be washed away." I originally planned to throw it away, but then I thought it didn't seem like a good idea, so I decided to return it and let the owner deal with it himself.

Cedric was attracted by the furry little head that popped out of the pocket of the little girl's school robe.

Noticing the movement in his pocket, the "ruthless big palm" quickly pressed the increasingly naughty rabbit's head into it.

Cedric said nothing, his eyes returning to the handkerchief.

Um, you shouldn't think she stuffed the handkerchief with the rabbit, right?

Su Xingchen quickly explained: "I put it in the other pocket, it's clean."

Cedric smiled, pursing his lips and reaching out to take it, "I know."

"By the way..." Su Xingchen tiptoed uncomfortably.

She still owed Cedric a thank you. Although she had said she would never thank him, that was just because she was emotional at the time. It didn't mean she was really ungrateful.

"I want to say that that night..."

"Cedric." A gentle female voice interrupted the word "thank you" that had not yet been spoken. Who else could the beautiful girl who was walking towards them be but Qiu Zhang?

Su Xingchen suddenly realized and wondered why Cedric kept walking towards places with fewer people. She wondered if it was a class he had never attended, and it turned out that he was here for a date.

Sorry to bother you, goodbye.

He decisively took a few steps back and said, "Um...it's nothing. I'm going to class."

Saying thank you is not as important as a date.

Cedric looked at the long black hair that quickly disappeared around the corner, and frowned. He looked down at the handkerchiefs in his hands, one for him and the other for her.

I don’t know what’s going on in the little girl’s mind, but it’s definitely not a good thing.

"Cedric?" Qiu Zhang came over.

Cedric stuffed the handkerchief into his pocket. "What's going on?"

The first class of the new semester was not pleasant at all. Gryffindor and Hufflepuff students learned about a new plant called "Babo Tuber".

Su Xingchen swore she had never seen such an ugly plant before. It looked more like a big, slimy, black slug. It emerged from the ground, squirming slightly, and covered with many large, shiny pustules.

"You need to squeeze them with your hands and collect their pus." Professor Sprout told everyone happily.

"What!" said Seamus Finnigan in a disgusted tone.

"Pus, Finnigan, pus," said Professor Sprout. "They are of great value, so don't waste them. Listen, everyone, collect the pus into bottles and put on your dragon-hide gloves. Undiluted babo tuber pus will cause varying degrees of damage to the skin."

Su Xingchen squeezed and moaned, fortunately she was not the only one doing this.

The process of squeezing the tubers is disgusting. When each abscess is squeezed, a sticky yellow-green pus bursts out, along with a pungent smell of gasoline.

But in other words, it gives people a strange sense of satisfaction.

The second class was Care of Magical Creatures.

"Say that again?" Ron asked in horror.

Hagrid pointed to the boxes at his feet. Each box contained about a hundred large, fat worms, wriggling and overlapping.

"Disgusting!" Lavender Brown screamed and jumped back a few steps.

"Disgusting" was the word that perfectly summed up Harry's impression of the skrewt.

They looked like deformed, shelled lobsters, grayish-white and slimy, with many legs sticking out in all directions, and their heads were invisible. They also gave off a smell of rotten fish and shrimp.

"Why should we raise it? What good is it?" Draco said with cold sarcasm, and Goyle and Crabbe chuckled to express their agreement.

Su Xingchen almost agreed with Draco's question with tears in her eyes. Sorry, Hagrid, she stood on the Slytherin side today.

Hagrid opened his mouth wide and thought hard. After a moment, he said in a gruff voice, "That's for next class. All you have to do today is feed them. I've never kept any before, so I don't know what they eat, so I've prepared ant eggs, frog livers, and green snakes. You can try them all."

"First the tuber concentrate, and now this," Seamus complained.

It was out of pure affection for Hagrid that Harry grabbed a handful of slippery dried frogs to lure the skrewt, a move he suspected was pointless, as the skrewt didn't seem to have a mouth.

"Ouch!" Dean Thomas screamed after a while.

Hagrid walked over nervously, looking a little panicked.

"Its tail exploded." Dean angrily showed Hagrid the burn on his hand.

"Ah, that's what might happen when they explode," Hagrid nodded.