29 Chapter 29

After my exit from the great hall, I went to my room in Ravenclaw dorms and called it night since it's already late and I have a lot to do tomorrow.

Next day, I woke up bright and early and packed up all my stuff. After a while, I was all packed up and ready to leave.

I shrank my trunk and put it in my pocket. I went to great hall for my last meal as a Hogwarts student.

When I entered the great hall, everyone went silent and looked at me. Many students were pointing at me and conversing with others in a hushed voice.

'What are these sheep up to now?' I thought to myself. But then I saw that almost everyone had a copy of Daily prophets newspapers. I ignored the stares of all sheep and went to sit at my usual seat. After sitting down, I grabbed a copy of the newspaper from nearby and started to read it. Oh, the reporters sure are fast. It's not even been a day, but my NEWTs scores have already made the headlines. Well, guess that explains all the attention I am getting from the rest of the sheep.

I focused back on the newspaper. There was a big picture of me on the front page. Headlines above my pictures read, " HOGWARTS CHAMPION SCORES HIGHEST NEWT SCORES AND BREAKS 230 YEARS OLD RECORD" Well so good so far, good thing I got rid of Skeeter or she would have called me rising dark lord just to get publicity. I continued to read," our ministry sources from Department of Magical Education (DOME), reported a piece of sensational news last night and informed this reporter that Hogwarts champion, Aiden Canis, took all of his NEWTs exams yesterday. That's right, dear readers, all 12 of his NEWTs exam, back to back, without any break. As everyone knows that NEWTs, being practical oriented exams are exhausting. In fact, even one NEWT takes a lot of magical strength to perform and leaves almost every student exhausted. But Hogwarts Champion has not only taken one, but 12 NEWTs together and even then our source reports that Mr. Canis still didn't look exhausted and even waited for his scorecard. Many experts speculate than Mr. Canis should have already had his first magical maturity for some time now. For more information about magical maturities and their respective magical strengths read page 12. This reporter is also astonished that our Hogwarts champion took 12, a staggering number of NEWTs. On average, students select 5-6 NEWTs due to their difficulty level. These 12 NEWTs also contained specialized and rare subjects like Alchemy, Healing, and Warding. After finding about this astonishing news, I simply couldn't believe what I was hearing and this reporter personally went to Department of Magical Education (DOME) to confirm for myself and requested a copy of Mr. Canis's scorecard, since they are public records and anyone could access them.

And after reading his scorecard, I was shocked yet again. His scorecard read, "

Transfiguration(O+), Potions(O+),

Charms(O+),

DADA(O+),

Herbology(O+),

Arithmancy(O+),

Ancient Runes(O+), Alchemy(O+),

Healing(O+),

Warding(O+),

Dueling(O+),

Care Of Magical Creatures(O) "

" Yes, dear readers, you read correctly, all Outstanding and 11 of which were outstanding with distinction. Mr. Canis has broken the last 230 years of NEWT score record. To read more about NEWT score records continue to page 13. But, Dear readers, that not all. Since Mr. Canis scored such good scores in his NEWTs, this reporter also requested a copy of his OWLs scorecard. And dear readers, I was shocked yet again, I would have never guessed what I saw. This reporter found out that Mr. Canis also broke last 200 records for highest OWL scores with a staggering 17 Subjects and all 17 Outstandings with distinction. Keep in mind that Hogwarts only provide 12 courses even including all electives. That means, even if a student were to take all Hogwarts subjects including electives, He/She can take a maximum of 12 OWLs. Means Mr. Canis self-studied for 5 extra subjects and even got O+ in them. In conclusion, this reporter can confidently say that Mr. Canis getting chosen for Triwizard champion was no fluke."

### POV : Hermione Granger ###

I saw sitting beside Harry and Ron in the great hall when owls arrived with today's Daily Prophet. I took my copy and started to read the newspaper.

What caught my attention was that on the front page, there was a big picture of Aiden Canis, 7th year Ravenclaw. A rude boy in my opinion. I haven't talked to him much, I fact, the only time I talked to him, was on Hogwarts express at the start of my first year. I only pointed out his mistake and told him that he was breaking the rules by locking the doors but he rudely shut the door in my face. Even after I shouted and pounded on the door for a while, he didn't open the door again. Even when I complained to Professor McGonagall about his rule-breaking after sorting, she did nothing and told me that he must be studying and locked his doors to get privacy.

There is also that thing with his homework. Even after using a time turner and writing for more than 10 hours straight, I can barely match the amount of homework he gives out. I suspect that he also uses a time turner every day for hours to do his homework. But I won't lose to him, I will show him that he is not the only smart guy around and I am smarter than him by doing more homework than him.

Another thing that irks me about him is that he also enslaved an innocent house elf, just like Malfoys. I wanted to confront him about this after the first task but when I told everyone in Gryffindor about this they stopped me every time. Poor creatures, Yes, I will start a protest to free those poor creatures.

Anyway, I started to read the article, the more I read, the angrier I got. Here, I am working hard every day, even using time turner for hours and cutting my sleep so much, but I am barely managing to study just the 12 courses Hogwarts provide. There is no way he can study for 17 OWLs and even get O+ in every one of them. He must be abusing his pureblood status to stay so far ahead. Yes, there is no other way he can study so much, not to mention getting such good marks, even on subjects not taught at Hogwarts. I heard that the Canis family is some Pureblood family. Yes, his family must be providing some illegal potion or something to boost his learning speed and providing private tutoring in summer for him to learn subjects not taught at Hogwarts. I need to confront him in front of everyone here and expose his cheating. Yes, it's not fair that he is so far ahead of everyone else just because he is a pureblood.

Thinking this I stood up and confidentially walked up to Aiden Canis to confront him.