Ravenclaw's Blue Gem

"I didn't..." Zoe just wanted to reply when the sound of shoes stepping on the floor sounded."I said I want you to be quiet, even if there are only three of us here." The archivist's stern voice came from the side, she actually held two cups in her hand, and she put the cups away alone."When you feel tired, go back to sleep. I have never seen any student working so hard to do practical homework... And you, madam, the guardian should set an example for the children, such as supervising the combination of work and rest. "

Umbridge smiled at her, and Zoe was flattered.She didn't expect that the lady who had always put on a stern face like Professor McGonagall would care about her."Thank you." The administrator nodded to her."Drink quickly and don't spill things on the papers." After that, she returned to her job.

Umbridge took a look at the cup, snorted contemptuously, and pushed the cup to the other side."Oh, cheap drinks, Muggles can only serve this kind of thing."

"Finally, our Ministry of Magic is reluctant to even pretend to be on the surface?" Zoe looked at her. "If your attitude at this time is taken as a picture, it will be a scandal."

"My dear, you have to know that even the most enlightened people should never regard Muggles as our brothers and sisters. But there is no need to involve my advice on Muggle concepts here, even if you ambush someone and want to sneak a photo. Someone will believe you." Umbridge said, "After all, I am just a little cleaner, and this dirty cup makes me uncomfortable."

"I will find out what you want." Umbridge put the fat hand on Zoe's arm. "Do you think your little movements can escape my eyes? Is it Principal Dumbledore? What tasks have you set up? Will your connector come here to see you?"

"If you're really worried, why don't you just sit across from me and watch me all the time." Zoe sarcastically, "Since you have decided to put me by your side and watch, you can carry out your duties, just like a shit. Chasing behind my ass all day."

"I have to think of a way, Miss Siegel, I am very distressed." Umbridge said, "Like the lady said, I must make you understand the rules, as your guardian , I have a responsibility to bring you back to the embrace of order. For this you have to get rid of the habit of opening your mouth."

"I'm looking forward to it." Zoe said casually, and she put a finished document on the other side.Now she has no mood and energy to fight Umbridge. You must know that she has begun to face the dilemma of lack of sleep. She needs to spend a lot of time on completing tasks every morning, and must be strictly taught by Max at night.

Max doesn’t talk about academic matters at all. Although Zoe didn’t intend to get this from her, she wanted to avoid asking Max for more because she didn’t understand, and she didn’t want to ask her for more. Not performing well in front of her will make her feel humiliated, as if Max will start laughing at her in the next second.

Did Hermione feel the same way she is now in third grade?Tighten your own string tightly and never loosen it.It was not the first time she fell asleep here, but this time she was hit by Umbridge.

Umbridge, as her new guardian, or more bluntly, should call her the watcher. Zoe felt that she was almost digging out her eyes and putting them on Zoe. After dinner, they would eat with her and chew wax. , Umbridge will repeatedly ask her about her experience throughout the day, and ask every place where she has taken her attention thoroughly. As long as Zoe seems to have something wrong with her, she will be more severe. Coerce.

Umbridge should have got some inside information from Fudge, thinking that Dumbledore had gathered a group of people under his own banner (this is a fact), but it was to attack the Ministry of Magic and bring it down.As Zoe had thought before, they regarded Dumbledore's insistence on recognizing Zoe as the prefect as a serious challenge to Fudge's authority.

Zoe believed that Umbridge had kept her by her side since the holidays, not only to observe Dumbledore's reaction, but also to isolate them.Although they arrested Zoe on charges of acting as a dark wizard, they still subconsciously believed that Dumbledore would entrust her with important tasks, and there was nothing to say about this contradictory Zoe except sneer.

"A week later, you and I will go back to the ministry. Let's go to Hogwarts by the Floo Net." Umbridge said strongly.

"I can't do this, madam." Zoe flicked the shiny prefect badge on her chest. She has been doing it since she knew it would make the Ministry unpleasant. "I'm a prefect, I have to To maintain the order of the carriage, the letter stated my duty."

"Miss Siegel, you want to defy me?"

"But I am also a student of Hogwarts. Even the Ministry of Magic cannot interfere with my duties. This is not a scandal that can be easily resolved after seeing the newspaper, right?" Zoe said with a smile, looking very relaxed. .

"...I understand. Then within this week, as a poor guardian who is about to lose you, I desperately need you to calm my heart with your charming recitation, at least ten letters a day." Umbridge is sinister Said, and smiled happily when he saw Zoe resisted it.

Chapter Thirty Prefect Box (Part 1)

"A cup of Gordigan tea?" The pungent smell that Luna deliberately placed under her nose caused Zoe's fatigue to fly away like a bird."No, if I really drink that thing, I won't have to leave the box." She declined Luna's thermos out, "but you reminded me-I should go to the prefect box."

She rubbed her eyes and yawned.In order not to continue hypocrisy with Umbridge, she took her luggage on the express train early in the morning.She doesn't need to bring a lot of things. Even Lloyd, who is probably the most bulky luggage, has long been used to making homes in the owl shed in Hogwarts.

"We didn't say a few words. We haven't seen each other for the whole vacation." Luna complained, but she didn't seem to care too much."When I have been to the prefect box and listened to the lectures with a few strangers, and then taught the unruly students, I will be able to come back...but I may have to sleep for a while." Zoe slapped again. Yawn.

"Did you sleep well?" Luna looked at her."There have been a lot of things recently. Umbridge changed his methods every day to torture me, mainly to crush my spirit... Of course, I was pressing harder myself." Zoe sighed, "I I don't want to be in the same room with that guy at all."

"I really should go." She found that the corridor had gradually become crowded, which was not a pleasant signal, which meant she needed to spend more time squeezing past these people."If Hermione... uh, you saw her—"

"I will say hello to her on your behalf." Luna answered.

"Thank you." Zoe squeezed her cuffs. She knew she would meet Hermione in the prefect box, but double insurance is always good. If Hermione can't say a few words to her, it will be very impressive. Embarrassed.Even if Zoe is 80% guaranteed to turn Hermione into her carriage.

She passed through the crowd lightly. The train was slowly moving forward. Through the window, the family members who were seeing off on the platform could be vaguely seen. They all waved to the train, and those figures were gradually left behind.The corridors are very noisy, and some students always like to gather in such places to talk loudly and exchange fun things that happened during the holidays without knowing it will cause trouble to people passing by.

In the past few years, Zoe's process on the train was completely getting on the train, finding a box, getting in, and finally getting off.But now she had to shuttle through the crowd, and began to miss the leisure time that would never appear again.The letter that Hogwarts sent with the badge gave some precautions, and the prefect box was in the front section.

"Hey, are you going to the front too?" She was stopped by an unknown boy in the middle. She glanced at the badge on the boy's chest and nodded."Anthony Goldstein." The boy smiled and stretched out his hand, and Zoe touched it politely."Zoe..."

"I know you, we are from an academy and are still students at the same level." Anthony looked a little shy, and Zoe looked ruddy when he looked at him."Well, yes. This is Zoe Siegel." But Zoe still introduced himself.

After that, the two of them walked forward together. Anthony looked like he wanted to find some topics, but he didn't know what to say, his mouth buzzing silently.But since he hasn't spoken yet, Zoe is happy not to speak actively.When they reached the box at the end, several students were already standing there, looking a little nervous.

"Hermione." As soon as Zoe spoke, Hermione turned her head and ran over to hug her."You're a little late, Zoe." After she let go of her, she said a little condemningly, "the person in charge has already come out once before."

"Overslept." Hermione drew closer worriedly (she almost ran into it)."Your complexion is very bad, very bad, sure enough, I shouldn't have let that woman take you away. You must know that your body hadn't fully recovered at that time!"

"It's okay, she didn't dare to go too far. It's not time when she can mess around." They couldn't be as gentle as when they were only two together. After they were separated, Zoe directly ran into the boy's weird eyes .

"Ah, this is a public area." He looked a little uncomfortable, as if he didn't know where to turn his eyes—some clumsy insiders usually reacted like this.

"I know, Weasley." Zoe said coldly.She saw Ron standing beside Hermione wearing a badge, but she didn't show any surprise, and glanced at him indifferently.

"What fascinating soup did you put on the professors? They would actually choose you as the prefect. Longbottom is better than you, although you Gryffindor only have these three things." Draco proudly Coming from the other side, he would definitely attack him as long as he saw Ron, but he seemed somewhat unnatural when he saw Zoe. Pansy walked beside him, also wearing the sparkling Slytherin. The prefect badge.

"Shut up, Malfoy." Hermione said flatly. She glanced at Ron. The boy's ears turned red and his expression was distorted. Hermione took his arm and whispered, "Don't be fooled, Luo. Hmm! If you do it here first, they will take care, and you have to ignore them." After a lot of words, Ron didn't rush forward, but still clenched his fists.

"I don't think there is any problem." Zoe said directly, and after drawing the attention of those few people, she frowned. "Why are you looking at me like this? Dumbledore confirmed the list, since he Finally, I agree with Weasley, which shows that he must have something to be admired, and that he can complete the prefect's task."

"Have you heard? Calm down, Ron. Don't be dazzled by Malfoy's provocation." Hermione then advised. Ron also looked stunned. Both he and Malfoy looked at Zoe with dull faces. At the same time, he didn't expect Zoe to say such a thing.But he was calmer, he just shook his fist challengingly at Malfoy, and said nothing more.

"Thanks to you." Hermione breathed a sigh of relief and sneaked over again, knowing that their current responsibilities made them have to know how to restrain."I'm serious. Since it was the person chosen by the deans and Dumbledore, there must be reasons for him to be chosen, no matter what the reason." Zoe shrugged.

Hermione sighed: "It would be nice if Ron could figure this out himself." She was a little frustrated. After all, she had always thought that Harry would become the male prefect, so she saw him become the prefect. After it was Ron, her attitude must have hurt him.

Draco was sulking on the side, and Zoe could of course see it.But before she could say a few more words to him, the box door opened and the person walking out was Cedric. This is not surprising. He was originally the prefect of Hufflepuff, and even the whole Hogwarts has supporters, outstanding appearance, excellent grades, honesty and politeness, not to mention that he played for Hogwarts last year, is one of the two warriors of Hogwarts, and finally won the tri Finals. The champion of the game.

"Come in directly and sit down." He said gently, "Strictly speaking, we are just working together, so don't be so nervous... But I was just like you two years ago. I stood outside the box and didn't dare to come in." He guided them into the box. The two prefects of Hufflepuff were the most relaxed except Zoe. Hermione tightened her lips, and Zoe leaned over and patted her back.

There are already many people in the boxes. The prefect box connects the passage between the boxes, which makes it look more than doubled. Those who have been sitting in the boxes before look up and they wear them on their chests. Prefect badge."They are the prefects of the sixth grade, you know, the fifth and sixth grades are re-elected." Cedric introduced, "If you don’t understand, you can ask the chairperson of the male and female student council, or you can directly ask them, they I can give you some valuable experience." Those few people also greeted Zoe and others friendly, but they seemed a little alienated.

"I always thought there were only two prefects in each college." Hermione said in surprise."The main reason is that there are some differences in the scope of responsibility. Generally speaking, the sixth-grade prefects are more in charge of the management of the upper-grade students because they are more experienced and know how to cope-you know, those who are more sophisticated and naughty Students who have a good reputation are also better able to hold them.” Cedric smiled and said, “Of course, this is not a hard standard. Generally speaking, the prefect’s duty is to assist the professors and the chairman of the student council to maintain the stability of the college and help Students, solve the problems for the students, and warn the students who do not follow the rules. To this end, Hogwarts will also give you some permissions... Doris, do you want me to do everything alone? Have you finished talking?" The sitting sixth graders laughed kindly.

Sitting on the sofa on the side of the box, a black-haired girl with a messy haircut, but with surprisingly white skin.Her uniform was a little wrinkled, and she could see that she had fallen asleep directly on the sofa before, because she was completely sleepy."What time is it, are we at school?" she said vaguely, "it's too early, I can't get up..."

"If you reverse day and night as Qiu said every day-you must admit that your biological clock is completely messed up." Cedric sighed."Do you use this attitude to face your matchmaker, Cedric?" The girl murmured, "Wait, wait, I'm about to wake up... I've got used to it until the morning during the whole vacation. I just fell asleep, I can't recover all of a sudden, the hell new semester..." She squeezed the words out of her throat with pain.

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Rowling’s prefect system is roughly like this: "After the prefect is elected in the fifth grade, the sixth grade will be re-elected."

This leads to a situation. If the number of candidates for prefects is fixed at two, what will happen to the fifth grade next year?Is it possible to choose singles and doubles? It is totally unreasonable to not choose every other term. Then it is another situation, that is, two in the fifth grade. After they are upgraded, there will be two in the next fifth grade, which is four grades in each college. long.But in Rowling's original Gryffindor, only Percy showed his face, and did not raise any more information about the prefect.I explained it myself in this book so that I don’t want to blow up my mind

In fact, there is also the case of the president of the student union. James (Hadi) is not the prefect, but he became the chairman. In other words, the election process is not selected from prefects. The election conditions should be more complicated and diverse, and ordinary students also have Opportunity... But this is not important. At first, I thought that every college had a student union chairperson. Because there were long-term disputes between colleges, I was worried that there would be "no discharge". But then I thought about it. Non-school level, it will cause too many people and decentralized power (think about the most terrifying situation, two chairpersons in charge of two prefects, it’s too pitiful), so it’s the school election after the college election, and the final election will allow Most people are satisfied with the candidate, but the presidency is a plus point.Two chairpersons manage the sixteen prefects, and the prefects are responsible for assisting in the management of students.

The last is the number of students in Hogwarts. The term used in this book is that the number of new students per year is indefinite, but assuming that the 30 people in the Harina Lions Academy (from the first class of Umbridge in the Order of the Phoenix) are the standard, the whole school There may be more than 30*7*4 800 people, but more or less. There are indeed very few two prefects with more than 200 people in a courtyard.

Finally, for the first time, I deeply felt the pain of being hurt by Rowling’s setting, even though I am not a setting party.

Chapter 31 Prefect Box (Part 2)

She really didn't lie. After saying that, she seemed to be completely frozen. She kept pressing her forehead motionlessly, showing an uncomfortable expression. She seemed to be second to those who were drunk. The person who had to have a splitting headache was exactly the same."Okay, Doris, you can, just hold on, you can stay awake..." Ron looked at her sitting there in surprise, muttering to himself in a voice everyone can hear, turning his head to follow Hermione spoke."I don't think this person is too ill." Hermione gave him a push."You can choose to shut your mouth first." But her face is also very strange.

The performance of the newcomers is similar to Ron, but the prefects of the sixth grade seem to be quite familiar. Even Cedric just shook his head helplessly and waited quietly for the girl to recover."This is the president of our school's female student council? Don't you think she looks like a drug addict?" Someone muttered to her companion like this.

"Sorry, guys, I could have spared one to two weeks to adjust my biological clock, but our family has been banqueting during that time, and there have been many people, they are very energetic and very noisy..." The girl named Doris was obviously a little bit ridiculous, and she gushed out without asking her, but her frowning eyebrows were stretched out, and she seemed to have regained her energy.

"You can try to yell at them:'Don't bother me to sleep, you damn cockroach balls!'" Cedric rolled her eyes as soon as she teased her."Impossible, my parents will unscrew my arm-besides the accident, how many times are you going to laugh at me?"