Chapter 24: This Thing Even Flobberworms Won't Eat

The Hufflepuff common room is located in the basement of Hogwarts Castle. The entrance is among a pile of large barrels in the right-hand corner of the kitchen corridor.

The way to enter is also very simple. Just tap the bottom of the second barrel in the second row of the pile of barrels according to Helga Hufflepuff's rhythm, and the barrel lid will rotate open, revealing a passage that allows people to crawl in and enter the common room.

Unlike the frequently changing passwords and riddles that are updated every time, Hufflepuff is also the only college in Hogwarts that uses a fixed password to open the door. Remember it once, and you can use it for seven years, which can be said to be quite worry-free.

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"Remember, it's Helga Hufflepuff, the order must not be wrong."

Hufflepuff prefect, Cadogan Harris, stood in front of the new students and demonstrated the correct tapping sequence three times slower.

"That... what if I tap it wrong?" A little boy in the crowd said timidly, "I... my memory has always been bad, if I tap it wrong, will I not be able to enter the dormitory?"

"Worse than that!"

Harris walked to the barrel, casually tapped on it a few times, and then quickly dodged back.

Almost at the same time, a stream of vinegar with a strong sour smell poured down, just on the spot where he had been standing before.

"As you can see," Harris said after waving his wand to clean up the vinegar on the ground, "if the tapping sequence is wrong, another barrel lid will burst open, dousing the intruder with vinegar."

"If you don't want to smell sour all day, you must remember the correct sequence, it's not that difficult."

Next, Harris demonstrated the correct sequence two more times before leading them into the passage.

At the end of the passage was a simple, round room, which was the Hufflepuff common room.

Compared to the Great Hall, the ceiling here was very low, only about three meters high. There were black and yellow sofas around, and the walls were decorated with many interesting plants.

Kyle looked around with interest.

In addition to the common ornamental plants, there were many valuable and rare plants here. He recognized rue, dittany, gold-threaded hoya, wind whispering grass, and wind-chime sunflowers.

Especially the wind chime sunflower placed in the center of the common room. If Kyle remembered correctly, the market price of this thing should be around 300 Galleons, and it was very rare.

The gold-threaded hoya next to it was a little cheaper, and it was available in Diagon Alley for only 279 Galleons.

Using rare plants worth two or three hundred Galleons as decorations, Professor Sprout was truly worthy of being a famous Herbology master in the wizarding world. This was a true understated luxury.

Kyle resisted the urge to move them all away and turned his head to look at the side with his iron will.

Against the wall was a large, honey-yellow wooden fireplace carved with a badger, with some jars and other things on it.

According to Prefect Harris, the jars contained candies and other snacks that the little wizards could take at will.

Above the fireplace hung a portrait of Helga Hufflepuff.

It was a witch holding a golden cup and smiling brightly.

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At this time, other Hufflepuff students from other years also came in one after another. They greeted the new students warmly and gave them various snacks as welcome gifts.

Kyle also received a lot, his robe pockets were filled with colorful candies and candied fruits, enough for him to eat for more than a month.

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"How is it? The Hufflepuff common room is nice, right?"

Cedric came to Kyle's side and patted him on the shoulder, "Other houses don't have such a comfortable environment."

"Oh, it's Mr. Diggory." Kyle patted the hand on his shoulder with a disgusted look and said indifferently, "What, aren't you afraid of being misunderstood by Professor Snape now?"

"Don't be like this, Kyle, that was just for show." Cedric said with a smirk, "Our friendship is unbreakable, I swear."

After listening to this explanation, Kyle became even more disgusted and quickly moved further away from Cedric.

But he also knew that Cedric was just joking, so he wasn't really angry.

Although what he just said was annoying.

He even said it was for show, did Cedric think he was Harry Potter, always getting Snape's attention?

What was he thinking...

Kyle curled his lip in disdain, but he didn't know if it was an illusion, he always felt that Cedric's performance just now was a bit familiar, especially the shameless style of changing his stance with the wind and shifting the blame, it seemed like he had seen it on someone else.

Who was it?

Kyle thought hard, but he still couldn't figure it out, so he could only give up in the end.

Maybe, possibly, perhaps... it was the Weasley brothers.

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As more and more people came into the common room, Harris asked the new students to sit on the sofa, saying that he would tell them about the Hogwarts school rules in advance at the request of the professors, and it would also allow everyone to get to know each other.

Then he and another female prefect went to the kitchen next door and brought back some cookies and a few large glasses of fresh juice.

This was because the Hufflepuff common room was close to the kitchen, the other three houses did not have this kind of treatment.

Soon, the table in the common room was piled high with various snacks.

Harris said enthusiastically, "Welcome to Hufflepuff. There aren't many school rules at Hogwarts, as long as everyone remembers the following few points, it will be fine."

"First..."

While Harris was talking, Kyle looked around and quickly found Kanna on the outermost edge of the crowd, then quietly moved over.

"I was out of line before." Kyle whispered, "I apologize to you."

Kanna was startled. After looking up and seeing that it was Kyle, she whispered, "No, no need, it was my fault too, I was too stupid, I should have guessed you were joking."

"How could Hogwarts use... use... that curse to sort people?"

Kyle shook his head and said seriously, "That's different, a joke has to be funny for both people. It was definitely my fault for scaring you, so I have to apologize."

Seeing Kyle's serious look, Kanna bit her lip and raised her head to say seriously, "Then I accept your apology."

After saying that, she even punched Kyle.

"Now we're even."

The strength of this punch... it was barely enough to dust off ashes.

"Not quite, wait a minute."

Kyle smiled, then picked out all the most beautifully wrapped brown candies from his pocket and handed them over, "This is a gift of apology, we're not even until you accept it."

"Okay, okay..."

Kanna took the candy and popped one into her mouth in front of Kyle, then stretched out her little hand holding the candy towards Kyle and smiled, "I'll treat you to candy."

"No, no." Kyle shook his head repeatedly and muttered, "What kind of normal person eats licorice? Even flobberworms won't eat this thing."

"Crunch!"