As Karl anticipated, Saturday arrived. Today's Quidditch match was between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor.
Actually, according to the original plot, Hufflepuff should have been defeated by Gryffindor in this match, because Harry would catch the Golden Snitch and end the game in an extremely short amount of time.
However, due to Karl's encouragement and threats, Cedric and his teammates trained diligently, sweeping through the matches, making rapid progress, and once again aiming for the championship.
This led to a change in the rankings of the four house teams, so today it was Ravenclaw versus Gryffindor.
But this actually didn't have much of an impact, because Slytherin was also beaten by Hufflepuff.
So, as long as Gryffindor could win this match, their ranking would surpass Slytherin, and then they would compete with Hufflepuff for the championship.
In the House Championship, this was the first time in seven years that Gryffindor had defeated Slytherin, causing not only the young Gryffindors to be eagerly anticipating and excitedly hyped up,
but even Professor McGonagall was no exception.
During this time, whenever Karl went to Professor McGonagall, no matter what topic they discussed, it would eventually turn into a Quidditch match.
Pfft! She truly is a fanatic!
For the current Gryffindor, who wins this year's Quidditch championship is not important, but winning this match and defeating Slytherin is very important.
They were ready; if Professor Snape, who was serving as the referee, didn't play fair, then they would — boo him to death! Hmph!
Before the match even started, Cedric once again pulled Cho, Karl, and Nina to the stadium stands early.
"Ahem!"
He cleared his throat to get their attention, then spoke with a particularly serious expression: "There was a small accident last time, but this time there will definitely be no problem."
"Huh?" x 3
Cedric didn't respond to their confusion, but instead glanced at the cheat sheet in his hand, then began to recite in broken Chinese: "Sun Tzu said — uh — the art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting is the best; to subdue the enemy by fighting is the next best—"
Karl: (°°;)
Are you serious, bro?
Last time you messed up badly, but this time you're showing off?
And how did you manage to skip learning Mandarin and go straight to Classical Chinese?
Cho looked utterly resigned: Who am I? Where am I? Why am I listening to him recite this? I don't understand it at all!
"Ah~ Be gentle!"
Nina raised her hand and gave Karl a punch, quickly rescuing her ponytail from his hand.
"Sorry, sorry! It's all Cedric's fault! I was startled by this guy!"
Karl was glared at by Nina, "What's so surprising about this? If you want to listen, I can recite it too!"
"Huh? Didn't you not even know 'know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated' last time?"
"That's why I went back and learned it!"
Looking at the matter-of-fact Nina, Karl was momentarily speechless.
Who gave you the courage? How dare you challenge the hellish difficulty of Chinese? That woman hasn't even released her song yet!
And Cedric is doing this to show off in front of Cho, so why are you learning this?
Is life too idle for you?
By the time the match started, Cedric had finally finished his show-off.
After a charming smile at Cho, he came and sat next to Karl, confidently asking, "How was my performance this time?"
Karl: (one_one")
"Bro, I'm just saying, is there a possibility that even though Cho is of Chinese descent, she's not an international student? She can't even remember a spring couplet, do you think she'd be interested in an ancient text?"
Cedric showed an expression of everything being under control, "I know! Precisely because of that, I need to learn more Eastern culture to gain Cho's approval and admiration!"
Karl:
You look at her utterly clear stupidity, are you really sure you want to do this?
"Just focus on your Quidditch, that's enough. Listen to me, brother, Chinese culture is vast and profound, the waters here are too deep, you can't handle it."
"No! I want to try!"
Seeing Cedric's resolute attitude to 'try', Karl was speechless.
He took the guy's cheat sheet and looked at it, immediately laughing in exasperation. No wonder he could recite Classical Chinese directly; it was a phonetic transliteration of each character? What's the difference from when I learned English back then? F***ing bro!
Just then, Nina poked Karl,
"Look over there."
She handed the binoculars to Karl while pointing to the Gryffindor stands.
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