[HP] Hogwarts Muggle University

At the end of James' first year, two big things happened.

One is that Tom Riddle, who is so famous, became a joke in people's mouth overnight.Hogwarts made public the results of his treatment.He was formally expelled just over two weeks before graduation, all previous honors were withdrawn, and his cheating, plagiarism, and invasion of privacy will remain permanently on his file.

Riddle quietly left Hogwarts.It is said that before he left, he wanted to find Slughorn to apologize to him, but Slughorn rejected the former favorite student with silence.Riddle's incident almost completely ruined Slughorn's good reputation that he had worked so hard to build for half his life. Although he was not directly affected, since then, Hogwarts students will never follow him again. He heard the name "Tom Riddle".

The other big event is that James finally manages to have his first upcoming date with Lily.

"Lily!" One day during the exam week, James accidentally caught Lily who was rarely alone in the restaurant, "When are you going home?"

"I'm not in a hurry to go home." Lily replied with a smile, "I'm going to meet my parents in New York."

"Confluence?"

"Yeah. We're going to...um...to watch a special program...uh..." Lily blushed inexplicably under James' strange and enthusiastic gaze, "Well, we're actually going to watch ANTM Finals. My sister is one of the top two—you don’t tell anyone, spoilers aren’t allowed until the show airs.”

"Wow!" Even though James hadn't even watched a season of ANTM, he let out a coordinated exclamation, and then changed the subject, "What a coincidence. I'm going to New York too—to find Sirius— You see, we are really destined. Fate, wonderful..."

What am I talking about? ? ?James suddenly wanted to slap himself backhanded.

"Really?" Lily was taken aback for a moment, her smile was a little embarrassed, but she still suggested naturally, "Then we can go out and play together—"

The promise of going out to play together is too vague and unrealistic.James hurriedly answered the call, trying his best to finalize the matter as soon as possible: "Let's just meet at the ANTM finals. Sirius and I will also go to see it."

"Are you going to watch the final too?" Lily asked suspiciously.It's okay for Sirius, she doesn't really believe that a straight steel man like James would watch a boring talent show.

"Ah, the young master of the Black family also wants to create an image of being close to the people. I'm just following along." James made it up, completely ignoring the little conspiracy behind the lie with his smirk, "In short , so it’s decided, how about it?”

Lily had no choice but to cooperate with his performance: "...OK."

"What's the matter? What nonsense are you making up again, James?"

"Sirius!" James jumped up and pushed him to the seat with extra enthusiasm, "When do we leave tomorrow?"

Before Sirius had time to ask back, someone stomped on his foot severely: "Hiss——"

James blinked desperately: "Is it the plane at eleven o'clock in the morning? I remember correctly, right?"

"Um……"

"Then shall we take a taxi to the airport? Or let your cousin pick us up along the way?" James' eyelids were about to twitch.

"Uh...you choose." Sirius was sure that James was completely unaware that his flamboyant performance had been ruined, so he changed the subject with a good conscience, "Speaking of which, do you think we will see Remus again? ?”

James had already told a few people who knew Remus well what Tom had told him.After Dorcas carefully checked all kinds of news online, they were almost sure that Riddle was telling the truth.

"Ah." Mentioning Remus, James could not help but sigh.

"Of course. Why not?" Lily asked back, "Two weeks ago, everyone thought that Riddle would graduate with a bright light, but now he is not so cold."

"On the bright side," James managed to respond to Lily's words, "maybe we'll meet him downstairs in the dormitory as soon as next semester starts."

"Oh, speaking of which, you have an extra assignment next semester."

"What?"

Sirius smiled: "Reapply to join the football team!"

James froze for a moment, and Sirius gave him a quick wink and glanced at Lily.As if honey had exploded in the air, the heavy feeling that had weighed on James' heart just now disappeared.

While it's been an up-and-down and crisis-ridden year, it hasn't been too bad.Just as Remus could flash at any moment, there's more to look forward to next term.Such as football, such as Lily.

James grinned: "Highfive!"

The author has something to say: This article has two parts: parent generation and child generation.