On the last day of the school year, the Great Hall was redecorated in the red and gold of Gryffindor.
A huge banner depicting the Gryffindor lion hung on the back wall of the teachers' table.
The Gryffindor Little Wizards walked into the Great Hall with their heads held high, celebrating their imminent victory in the House Cup.
No one was surprised by this result, as Gryffindor had accumulated a significant lead in House points this semester.
Without the incident of the three Little Wizards sending Norbert away at night, Gryffindor was spared the deduction of 150 points.
Although Harry had points deducted by Professor Snape in Potion Class throughout the year, and the Weasley Twins also lagged, these deductions were minor.
They didn't add up to much at all.
Furthermore, with Chen Yu and Hermione, two point-earning machines beloved by other professors, coupled with Gryffindor's three consecutive Quidditch victories, which also earned Gryffindor a large number of points, Gryffindor's House points were in a commanding lead.
At the year-end feast, Professor Dumbledore gave a brief acceptance speech, congratulating Gryffindor on winning this year's House Cup.
Chen Yu waited for Professor Dumbledore to finish his speech and sit down, but he didn't hear Professor Dumbledore add extra points for Gryffindor to further extend their lead.
Professor Dumbledore, although our Gryffindor House is currently in first place, you can't just erase the contributions of me, Harry, Hermione, and Ron in resisting Professor Quirrell from obtaining the Philosopher's Stone, can you?
Because there were no point deductions, Dumbledore wasn't going to announce the bonus points from the original story?
Or was it precisely because Gryffindor's points weren't enough that he used Harry protecting the Philosopher's Stone as a reason?
So, in the original story, it was added temporarily because Gryffindor was falling behind, just to make Gryffindor surpass Slytherin, right?
That must have been a lot of trouble for you, Professor Dumbledore; it's truly not easy to be so biased towards Gryffindor House.
Others didn't know about the complaints in Chen Yu's heart.
Hearing Professor Dumbledore personally announce that the House Cup went to Gryffindor, the Little Wizards from the other three Houses were exceptionally excited.
Professor McGonagall even showed a brilliant smile on her face.
Slytherin's previous six consecutive House Cup victories had led to her and the other Head of Houses being frequently mocked by Snape.
Professor Snape's mastery of sarcasm was too profound; even Professor McGonagall found it difficult to parry.
This time, the Gryffindor Little Wizards finally allowed her to feel proud and avoid hearing Snape's snide remarks in private again.
The Little Wizards and Head of Houses of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff were also satisfied with this result.
Although their own Houses didn't win the House Cup, as long as it wasn't Slytherin House, it was fine.
All Houses began their final celebration of the school year, except for Slytherin House.
Gryffindor's ascent meant Slytherin lost both titles—the Quidditch championship and the House Cup.
But the joyous celebration was always short-lived; the exam results were announced the day after the feast ended.
Whether in fear, anticipation, joy, or other emotions, the final exam results would be announced as scheduled.
Some laughed, some cried.
This reminded many Little Wizards of the fear of being dominated by exam scores.
After the exam scores were announced, naturally, the highest score of the semester belonged to Hermione, who successfully topped the grade, with Chen Yu closely following in second place.
Although Chen Yu's and Hermione's written answers were impeccable, Chen Yu's handwriting, which looked like ants had crawled over it, clearly led the professors to deduct some presentation points.
But Chen Yu didn't care.
Looking at a row of all 'O' ratings and hearing the system prompt: 【Main Quest: Hogwarts First Year Journey】 completed.
With the system rewards issued, five cards suddenly appeared in Chen Yu's hand.
He quickly flicked his hand and immediately put them into his system backpack.
As Harley's fame grew, his actions were always mentioned by others.
All progress for 【Main Quest: The Coolest Kid in Hogwarts First Year】 had been completed.
Coupled with the accumulated daily quests, Chen Yu could now enjoy a pleasant ten-pull.
He just didn't know if this ten-pull would yield anything interesting.
"I thought my exam results wouldn't be ideal, but I actually got first place!"
Hermione, holding a thick book, looked at her ranking, a slight smile on her lips, her eyes narrowed, revealing her white front teeth, and said with a hint of Versailles-like humility, "Chen Yu, if you wrote a little neater, you'd probably be first."
Looking at Hermione, who couldn't even suppress the smile on her lips, Chen Yu teased, "If I got first, then you'd be busy during the holidays, secretly studying to try and surpass me next time."
"How could that be? Even if I got first this time, I still plan to finish reading this book during the holidays."
Hermione finished speaking and held up the book, which was a full ten centimeters thick.
Looking at the thick book in Hermione's hand, Chen Yu could only give a thumbs up in admiration.
"Harley, Ron, how were your scores?"
Ron held up his parchment, clearly happy with his results: "Though not as high as yours and Hermione's, they're not bad."
Harry looked at his report card and was somewhat surprised to see that both Potion Class and Defense Against the Dark Arts Class were rated 'E'.
"During the Defense Against the Dark Arts Class exam, I only made Professor Snape take one step back, and I thought I would definitely fail this time! I didn't expect to still get an 'E' rating. It was the same for the Potion Class exam; Professor Snape's expression when he saw me brewing the potion made me think I'd never see you all again!"
Harley looked at her current report card; once the weaknesses in Potion Class and Defense Against the Dark Arts Class were addressed, her exam scores were actually in the high-scoring range.
Harley felt that Hogwarts' final exams were quite strict; if one failed more than two subjects, they could truly be held back a year.
If her exam scores were too poor and she couldn't enter the second year, she would truly become the laughingstock of the entire school.
Perhaps The Daily Prophet would even publish a special issue discussing why she failed to advance.
But now there's definitely no need to worry about that, and Harley felt much more relieved.
However, Harley was now a bit worried about how to explain to her aunt's family about herself, Harry, turning into Harley.
Chen Yu clearly said he could turn back, but she'd been studying for almost a week and still hadn't figured out how to make the Ring of Contract change her back.
"E?"
Chen Yu looked at Harley's grades; the rating for Defense Against the Dark Arts Class was actually 'E'.
He clearly remembered that during the Defense Against the Dark Arts Class exam, Professor Snape's quill only moved twice when grading Harley, and looking at the trembling strokes of that quill, it didn't look like an 'E' rating at all.
Could it be that Professor Snape liked to write in a connected style, just like him?
Surely Professor Snape wouldn't secretly change grades, would he?
That would be too exaggerated.
Chen Yu tilted his head, looking at Harley's report card with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
Whoosh~ Never mind, his main quest was completed anyway. He'd go to the Serenitea Pot later and try a ten-pull to test his luck.