Chapter 113: Abnormal Percy

At Mercus's request, Rolf and his friends had a dinner at the mermaid tribe.

Although mermaids, like centaurs, refused to be classified as "human" by the Ministry of Magic, they are indeed a species with high intelligence similar to wizards. They eat cooked food and are not raw and bloody.

Mermaids use a special magical fuel to boil food in water.

Most of the dinner was river food. The best one was the mixed squid liver. The method was also very simple. Peel, cut into strips, remove the intestines, mix with cooked wine, and season with salt.

The steamed clams and ark shell sashimi were also good. The grilled fish was salty and fresh with a little curry flavor; the baked crab with ginger and scallion had a strong aroma of ginger and scallion, and the crab meat was extremely tender... Rolf was very satisfied with the meal.

During the dinner, there were also mermaid singing and dancing performances. Although they were all ugly, they had beautiful singing voices. Anyway, they looked the same with their eyes closed.

Myrcella was ill, but to express her gratitude, she still showed up at the dinner and had a good chat with Rolf.

In the next few weeks, he had to help her with follow-up visits many times until she was completely cured.

Since it involved Gryffindor, one of the Big Four, Rolf also began to pay attention to Myrcella, which was also the main purpose of Dumbledore bringing him to treat the disease.

As for Lockhart... it was just a bonus.

After returning to Hogwarts, Rolf plunged into the library and began to look up information about mermaids.

Mercus called Myrcella a golden mermaid, and she was also a mermaid with two tails. These two characteristics alone were enough to investigate a lot of information.

Sitting in the library, Rolf held a book "Distribution and Species of Mermaids" in his hand and read it carefully.

According to the book, the so-called golden mermaids have golden hair and scales, and they have special double fish tails.

They are famous for their beauty and live in the Aegean Sea between the Greek Peninsula and the Anatolian Peninsula.

Myrcella was able to swim from the Aegean Sea through the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Black Lake, which was quite amazing.

The book also mentioned that this tribe had a word of mouth that they guarded an island and used magical songs to seduce sailors who tried to land on the island, causing them to eventually run aground and sink.

Of course, the credibility of this myth is not high, after all, every tribe has similar legends.

The Jews also firmly believed that God would eventually send a "Messiah" to revive the Jewish nation; the Celts also said that King Arthur would return as a king.

Rove was busy for several days, but he did not find more valuable information. After reading the last book, he left the library.

The boy walked west along the stairs and passed through a vaulted corridor, and happened to meet the twins and Percy.

Percy was chasing Fred and George, and the three of them ran around the pillars, making a lot of noise.

When George saw Rove, he threw an object from a distance.

Rolf reached out to catch it. He looked down and found that it was the prefect badge, but the words on the badge had been changed to "idiot" by the twins using magic.

Percy changed direction and ran towards Rolf. Fred shouted loudly: "Hurry up and throw it to me, Rolf."

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The boy didn't throw it over. He stood there and waited for Percy to run over, then threw the prefect badge back to him.

"Thank you, Rolf!" Percy didn't notice that the words on it had been changed. He hung the badge on his chest again.

Percy calmed his breath and quickly regained his composure. He straightened his chest, fiddled with the badge on his chest with his hand, and said sternly:

"George, Fred, because of your prank, Gryffindor will deduct ten points. I hope this will teach you two a lesson and let you know how to respect an excellent prefect!"

George and Fred walked over, with a look of indifference on their faces.

Seeing the expressions of the two, Percy was furious. He shouted:

"I will write to my mother and tell her... Gryffindor is already at the bottom of the list for your behavior at Hogwarts. You have no sense of honor and you deducted points from the house... I am really ashamed of you!"

Rolf looked at Percy and suddenly thought of Mrs. Weisley... The tone was exactly the same.

"It's not our fault that Gryffindor is at the bottom!" George retorted loudly:

"How many points did we lose... Look at how many points Ron and Harry lost?"

"That's right." Fred nodded and said, "They both lost at least four or five hundred points. Compared with them, we are not worth mentioning at all."

This is true. Compared with Harry and Ron, no one is worth mentioning... Not long ago, just for feeding Malfoy poisonous mushrooms, the two of them were deducted 200 points.

And most students may not lose 200 points in seven years.

Others are scoring machines, but Harry and Ron are ruthless deducting machines. Even the twins are inferior to Harry and Ron!

"I will make them behave themselves recently, and so will you two! Anyway, I will continue to keep an eye on you!" After Percy finished speaking, he strode away.

"How did you get involved with him?" Rolf asked curiously.

"Percy has a problem with his brain." George snorted, "We were just about to send a letter, but he stopped us from going, and said that the owl shed caught a bird snake last time, and it is very dangerous there."

"Then I will lend you my owl?" Rolf suggested.

"No, no, your owl will be recognized." Fred grinned, "We must use a public owl to avoid exposing our whereabouts."

"Who are you writing to? You're so cautious." Rolf raised his eyebrows.

"A pure little boy who has done something wrong recently and needs encouragement." George smiled, "Of course, we seem to have encouraged him too much, and he fell in love more than ever before."

"Anyway, this is the greatest pleasure we have had during this period." Fred grinned.

"Are you going to the Owl House later?" Rolf asked.

"Go, just avoid Percy." Fred sneered, "He's just worried that we will play a prank and ruin his chance to be the male student union president."

"I heard from Ginny that Percy got twelve certificates last year. With such good results, he will definitely be the next male student union president." Rolf said noncommittally:

"No matter how many pranks you play, it won't affect him."

To be able to get twelve certificates, he is a super academic master. Hogwarts hasn't had such a student for many years... The last one was Bill Weiss.

"It's hard to say." George shook his head and said, "If it was really so certain, Percy wouldn't be unhappy at all."

"What do you mean?" Rove raised his eyebrows.

"During the summer vacation, Percy got twelve certificates, but he didn't show off at all, and didn't look very happy." George replied:

"He also locked himself in the room all day and refused to come out."

"What is he doing?" Rove asked curiously.

"I don't know. We blew up his room, leaving him with no place to sleep for several days." Fred smiled:

"But even so, we couldn't find out what he was doing hiding in the room all day."

Rove narrowed his eyes. This means Percy is indeed a little abnormal... The diary can't really be in his hands, right?

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(The second chapter will be posted at around 1 o'clock.

PS, the original book says that Percy got twelve certificates, but it didn't mention twelve "O"s (excellent). This is a classic rumor. Some people like to say that Percy got twelve O's to belittle Hermione's poor grades. Passing A is considered a certificate, and the standard is not that high.

Similarly, Bill and Barty Crouch Jr. both got twelve certificates. Dumbledore definitely didn't get twelve, because he didn't choose Divination when he was in school.)