While Ye Ting was diligently studying Ancient Runes to craft his own flying broomstick, news spread through Gryffindor: Harry Potter had acquired a Nimbus 2000.
This broomstick, a latest model from Nimbus Racing Broom Company, a renowned European broomstick company, represented the pinnacle of flying broomsticks.
Currently, the mainstream broomsticks used by the Quidditch teams of Hogwarts' four houses were the old-fashioned Cleansweep Five. Only a few individuals could wield the Cleansweep Six, but even it couldn't compete with the Nimbus 2000 in performance.
Upon hearing this news, Roger visited Ye Ting once, proposing to crowdfund within the house to buy Ye Ting a Nimbus 2000 as well, but Ye Ting declined.
"Quidditch isn't just about the performance of your broomstick," Ye Ting scoffed. "Even with a Comet 260, I could defeat any opponent."
Though he said so, he truly believed buying a Nimbus 2000 was a waste. He could craft his own broomstick within this semester, and any Nimbus 2000 bought now would only gather dust later.
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Before he knew it, Ye Ting had been living at Hogwarts for two months.
His two months of study and life in the castle, along with his friendships—especially with Hermione, Cho Chang, and Penelope—made Hogwarts feel like a home to him.
In the first ten years of his current life, his time at Wool's Orphanage wasn't bad, but being reborn and separated from the emptiness of his past life and the loneliness of living among younger children had always made him feel out of place in this world.
Until that day he met Dumbledore, learned about the true nature of the world, and came to Hogwarts. The magic and the presence of familiar faces like Hermione, Harry, and Cho Chang ignited a greater passion for life and a subtle warmth within him.
Though he still occasionally looked down on these people, treating them like NPCs in his heart, some had genuinely entered his life and earned his serious attention.
For Hogwarts' teachers, having a student like Ye Ting was both a blessing and a pain.
In any class, he could grasp the content before it was even taught.
In fact, Ye Ting's learning progress had already reached the third-year level. This made the teachers feel somewhat ashamed—except for Professor Snape—as they felt they couldn't teach him anything new; he had mastered everything through self-study.
Having fully mastered the first-year curriculum, all assignments were a piece of cake for him.
Every night after assignments were assigned, Ye Ting would provide the answers, which his three dormmates would often reference and copy, spreading them throughout Hogwarts the next day.
For a considerable period, Hogwarts professors faced a pile of nearly identical, perfectly correct assignments every week.
However, this joyful copying didn't last long. After learning the situation from some Slytherins who disliked Ye Ting, Professor Snape led the way in exempting Ye Ting from doing homework. This special treatment elicited a chorus of lamentations from the first-year students—not out of jealousy, but because they could no longer obtain such perfect reference answers.
Of course, many other stories unfolded for Ye Ting during these two months. In summary, before he knew it, Hogwarts' first festival, Halloween, was upon them.
On the eve of Halloween, Ye Ting woke up to the sweet and enticing aroma of roasted pumpkin wafting through the corridors.
That morning, Ravenclaw was to attend Professor Flitwick's Charms class with Gryffindor.
During the class, Professor Flitwick announced that he believed they were ready to make objects fly.
Since the previous lesson where students watched Professor Flitwick control Neville's toad to fly around the classroom, they had eagerly awaited the chance to try this magic.
Professor Flitwick divided the class into pairs for training.
As usual, Ye Ting was self-studying. The book he was currently reading was "Magical Hieroglyphs and Logograms." Although he hadn't finished "Advanced Runes Translation," basic books like "Magical Hieroglyphs and Logograms," "Rune Dictionary," and "Spellman's Syllabary" no longer posed a challenge for him.
As for Hermione, recognized as another academic star by the teachers, she was arranged to practice alone as usual. In fact, the teachers knew that her solo practice meant sparring with Ye Ting.
"Alright, don't forget the delicate wrist movement we've been practicing!" Professor Flitwick stood on his pile of books as usual, his voice piercing. "A flick and a wiggle, remember, a flick and a wiggle. Pronouncing the spell correctly is also crucial—never forget Baruffio the wizard who said 'f' as 's' and found himself lying on the floor with a buffalo standing on his chest."
The students burst into laughter, filling the classroom with joyous air.
Suddenly, with a loud "Bang!" a huge buffalo appeared in the classroom out of thin air, startling the young wizards. Everyone scattered but soon gathered around the smelly beast.
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