Chapter 36: Good Guy Card

"Kyle, is it okay for you to do this?"

As soon as Cho left, Cedric, who had been watching from the sidelines the whole time, came over and whispered: "I mean, will new students in Ravenclaw really spend money to buy maps?"

"Who knows." Kyle shrugged and said, "Let's try it first. We have nothing to do anyway."

In Kyle's opinion, there shouldn't be any problem.

There were no signs in Hogwarts. New students need to find the location of each classroom by themselves or ask their senior classmates, so getting lost becomes something they experience every day.

At times like this, a map can often save them a lot of time.

Besides, it's only ten Sickles, which was less than one Galleon, so it's really not expensive.

A young wizard from a Muggle family would have about six galleons of pocket money left after buying necessities such as textbooks every year. Taking out ten Sickles in exchange for a map that marked the changing patterns of most of the stairs was something that many students would accept.

Of course, except for a few people, such as a red-haired freshman next year who doesn't want to be named.

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"By the way, this is for you."

On the way back to the dormitory, Kyle threw the map in his hand directly to Cedric and said: "I will leave the supply task to you from now on."

Cedric wondered: "There's something for me as well?"

"Nonsense, this is what you gave me. Of course, you have to get a share of the benefits. Cho takes half, and the remaining half belongs to both of us."

Kyle said matter-of-factly: "Besides, I just entered school and am not proficient in using the Duplication charm. I can't sell a defective product to others, otherwise, I will be scolded.

So this task is most suitable for you. After all, you don't want others to say that Hufflepuffs are all profiteers."

"Then...alright." Cedric thought for a while and realized that this was indeed the case, so he said nothing more.

"Well, it's settled then. I'll let Cho go find you directly. We'll meet in the Great Hall in the afternoon." Kyle gave Cedric a meaningful look, then turned and walked into his room.

Cedric stood there without moving. He looked at Kyle's disappearing figure, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

Cho was in charge of advertising and selling, he was in charge of providing the map...Then what about Kyle?

Apart from these two things, there seemed to be nothing else that needed to be done.

What Kyle also said just now, "nothing to do anyway", could he be referring to himself?

Cedric fell into deep thought...

On the other side, Kyle took a good nap after returning to the dormitory. He arrived at the door of the Transfiguration classroom on time before class in the afternoon.

In order to keep his and Hufflepuff's dignity, he wanted to prevent the scene that Cho saw happening again, hence, Kyle deliberately dragged Ryan along.

Although the other party repeatedly declared that he would not get lost again now that he had a map.

This time the Transfiguration class was still with Ravenclaw. Since they arrived early, only a few little wizards were sitting in the classroom.

Kyle didn't even need to look at them to know that they were definitely not Hufflepuffs.

In addition, a beautiful tabby cat was squatting on the table at the very front.

Kyle subconsciously put his hand into the pocket of his robe and touched the bag of dried fish he had prepared long ago.

Feeding Professor MeowGonagall dried fish was an achievement he had always wanted to unlock, and for this purpose, he even prepared dried fish in advance.

This was just like moving the trash can in Diagon Alley. Although there was no reward, it felt really good and there was an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.

The trash can could be moved at any time, but there was only one chance to feed Professor MeowGonagall.

This was because Professor McGonagall would only show her Animagus form in the first Transfiguration class of freshmen. Therefore, this was the only moment that Kyle could rely on his identity as a freshman to successfully bluff his way through.

After all, he was just an ignorant little wizard. How could he possibly know that Professor McGonagall could turn into a cat?

As for carrying dried fish with him... That was for Mrs. Norris, to thank her for helping her find the school hospital yesterday.

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Everything was perfect, all it needed was the final push.

There were still too few students in the classroom currently. If he went over now, it would be too obvious, and it would be easy for Professor McGonagall to see through him. He had to wait a little longer.

In order to seize this only opportunity, Kyle was very patient. He asked Ryan to go into the classroom first while he found an excuse to stay at the door.

Coincidentally, Cho happened to appear at the corner of the corridor at this time, and waved at him: "Kyle, I knew you were here."

When Ryan saw this, he didn't think much of it. He said "I'll save a seat for you," and entered the classroom.

"Kyle, you have no idea, things went even smoother than I imagined." Cho ran to Kyle panting and said happily: "I showed them the map I copied, and in just one hour, there were twelve freshmen who expressed their desire to buy it."

Kyle was not surprised and replied calmly: "Not bad, thank you for your hard work."

"What's so hard about this?" Cho looked at Kyle up and down and continued: "Did you bring the maps? I promised them that I would bring them back after class."

"The map was taken by Cedric, the second-year boy who was with me at noon."

Kyle said helplessly: "He was worried that we could not guarantee the quality of the map, so he took the initiative to take over the task of duplicating the map on my behalf. You can just go to him in the Great Hall after class.

By the way, he is number one in the second grade, and he is very good at the Duplication charm."

"Cedric?" Cho thought for a while and asked, "I remember you said that he also gave you the map."

Kyle nodded: "That's right."

"Then, he is really a good person." Cho sighed, and then she seemed to think of something and suddenly frowned: "In that case, I can't take half of the money. It should be divided equally between the three of us."

"If you insist, you can talk to him after class." Kyle spread his hands and said: "There is no problem on my side, I also told him before that I would share the remaining half, but Cedric refused, saying that he was just doing a small favor.

Anyway, I can't persuade him, maybe you can try."

"Okay!" Cho nodded seriously.

In her opinion, as long as they participated, they were a part of it and had to receive an equal share.

Kyle smiled and said: "Then I wish you all the best."

Cho looked at Kyle's expression and frowned: "Why do I feel that your smile is a bit... strange."

"Really? Maybe I'm looking forward to the Transfiguration class." Kyle said seriously: "Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's go to class first. It would be a shame if we are late."

(End of chapter)