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Chapter 1034: No Comment
🕑 Added 2024-03-01 06:27:22 +0000 UTCIn short, all the students in Hogwarts learned quickly about Elaine’s presence, and she gained a lot of popularity.
Almost everyone, including the Slytherins who were hostile to Gryffindor, had a favorable impression of Elaine.
This was the advantage of being beautiful. There were not many girls with Elaine's charm at Hogwarts, and her status as an exchange student also helped her gain some extra points.
There were always people coming to say hello to Elaine, many of them even Evan didn’t know.
Elaine didn't expect that she would be so popular, but she wasn't good at dealing with it yet.
If someone mentioned Beauxbatons to her, she would have no idea what to say because she had never been there.
Most of the time, she would hide behind Evan or Hermione, giving the impression of being timid, shy, and cute, which seemed quite appealing.
If those guys deceived by her appearance knew Elaine's identity, who knows how they would feel.
Especially those boys who had ulterior motives, planning to ask Elaine out, they might not be prepared for a bite on the artery.
"I don't like those people!" That was what Elaine said about the students who gathered around her.
As she said this, she revealed two sharp vampire fangs.
If it weren't for Evan holding her back, she would probably use the common vampire methods to deal with those students!
Elaine gave the same evaluation to Umbridge.
The next morning in Defense Against the Dark Arts class, they met Umbridge.
She still looked the same as before, wearing a pink suit, staring with scary toad-like eyes and with a disturbing smile on her lips.
"Really looks like a toad!" Elaine whispered to Evan, sticking out her tongue.
"Be careful, she's looking at you," said Evan, noticing Umbridge's gaze.
After telling everyone to continue reading, Umbridge walked over to them.
She said nothing about Evan’s sudden disappearance before the Christmas vacation, as if it didn't happen.
She was obviously interested in the newcomer Elaine and asked a lot of questions.
"I heard from the headmaster that a foreign exchange student came to the school, it must be you," said Umbridge, maintaining a gentle smile. "Dear, could you tell me why you suddenly applied to Hogwarts?"
"Cannot," Elaine replied in a slightly hoarse voice, without looking at her.
The professor suddenly became quiet, making no sound at all. Everyone turned their heads and looked at her in surprise.
They had never seen a student speak to Umbridge like this since she came to school.
"I'm sorry, dear, I didn't hear you clearly," said Umbridge in a sickly sweet voice.
"I said cannot," said Elaine. "This is my private matter and has nothing to do with the content of this class."
“I hope you understand that this is not a request, but an order!"
"Even if it's an order, I refuse to comply," said Elaine. "I don't need to tell you my private affairs, I don't want to talk to you, and besides the reason for coming to Hogwarts to study, you might ask about Beauxbatons, my family situation, and other questions. To avoid trouble, I'm letting you know in advance that I have no comment about all of these, because you really seem annoying, that's it. So please don't ask again!"
She provocatively stared at Umbridge, that expression practically challenging her: ‘Don't agree? Come bite me.’
Anyway, compared to biting, Elaine had never been afraid of anyone!
Evan helplessly closed his eyes, imagining the scene at that moment in the classroom with Umbridge standing in front of Elaine, maintaining a stiff smile. Everyone else was staring at them, with mouths wide enough to fit an egg.
Elaine, this girl, really had no reservations. She directly tore into Umbridge without giving her any face.
"Very well," said Umbridge stiffly. "I will talk to Dumbledore and the headmistress of your school about this."
She looked at Elaine for a while, then turned and returned to her desk.
She didn't say anything until the end of that class; she just maliciously glared at Elaine and Evan next to her.
The feud between Umbridge and Elaine was thus forged, but she could not do anything to Elaine because she was not a student of Hogwarts.
All the point deductions, detentions, and expulsions did not apply to her, and the only thing Umbridge could do was to suggest that the Headmaster terminate Elaine's exchange qualifications. Or, write a bad review about Elaine to Beauxbatons, but who cared?
Maybe someone would care, but certainly not Elaine.
This incident that happened in the fourth-year Defense Against the Dark Arts class spread throughout the castle immediately. Elaine suddenly became a hero in the minds of many people, daring to confront the cruel and vicious Umbridge and making her suffer.
That was a great feat that many students wanted to do but didn't dare to. Elaine's popularity in the school had become even higher!
Some things just happened this way. Elaine clearly didn't want to attract attention, but she unknowingly became the center of discussion at Hogwarts, the hottest focus, even replacing Harry and Evan. All the comments about her were positive.
The story of her refusal of Umbridge's demand became more and more exaggerated, and in the end, some even said that Elaine gave Umbridge a severe beating in the classroom.
Of course, that was indeed her original thought, yet it was not to beat her up, but to be more direct and make Umbridge disappear.
Not just Umbridge, according to this girl’s ‘philosophy’, most of the people in the castle should disappear.
Because she thought they were all annoying, hanging around her all day long...
The road to nurturing Elaine was really long and arduous, and Evan felt it was necessary to teach her to be low-key.
Elaine just looked timid and seemed to be easy to bully, but in fact this was not the case at all.
Compared to Elaine, Harry was really scared. He spent most of Monday dreading the evening.
His morning Potions lesson did nothing to dispel his trepidation, as Snape was as unpleasant as ever.
And the way others looked at him when they knew he was going to Snape's Remedial Potions in the evening...
Snape had never tutored any student, and for the majority, such tutoring seemed more like a form of punishment.
But it was not without good news. That evening, Evan and the others learned about Harry and Cho from Ron.
It happened when Harry and Ron went to Divination class, parting ways at the entrance to the Great Hall.
Hermione went to her Arithmancy class, while Evan led Colin, Ginny and Elaine to their History of Magic class.
"Elaine is really amazing, daring to speak to that old toad like that," said Ron. "Didn't expect her to seem so delicate, but her personality is even stronger than Hermione's. Directly confronting Umbridge, considering her background, it's not that surprising, is it? I heard..."
Ron stopped, and Harry wasn't in the mood to listen to what he had to say. They saw Cho coming out from around the corner.
