"Hey, you Slytherins over there! Put down those tomatoes! You're crossing the line!"
"Then what about the white radishes on your side? How about... a trade?"
"Stop arguing! We don't have much time. Just take what's in your assigned area, then we can trade later."
"That's right, that's right! The professors will probably be here soon. Hurry!"
Next to the Hufflepuff garden, compared to the "melee" not far away, the atmosphere here was obviously much more peaceful and orderly, as if it were in another world.
The students from the three houses were separated and didn't interfere with each other, frantically picking vegetables, fruits, and other crops from their pre-assigned areas, occasionally bickering in low voices.
Considering future sustainable development, not only the fruits, but even most of the plants were simply taken away with their roots.
In addition to the students who were responsible for the "stealing" mission in the garden, the students surrounding the garden were not idle either.
They kept waving their wands, creating various signs of battle and explosion sounds around the garden, occasionally letting out a few curses and painful cries, acting as if they were fighting fiercely.
Of course, the main purpose was to raise dust, and to act as a human wall and warning line, ready to deal with emergencies.
After all, for these children, this was the first time they had united to do something big. Although it didn't violate too many school rules in the strict sense, they were still inevitably nervous and uneasy.
"We've cleaned up our side, good luck to you. Bye bye~"
A few minutes later, Penelope scanned the cleared garden and nodded in satisfaction.
Compared to Gryffindor and Slytherin, who wasted some time on entanglement and acting, Ravenclaw, who had been wandering on the edge of the battlefield and was mainly responsible for creating chaos, was the first to clear their allotted area of the badger garden.
Now that they had achieved their purpose, the Ravenclaws, fully loaded, naturally wouldn't continue to linger around, continuing to cover for the other two houses, let alone help the annoying snakes and lions to weed.
You know, the longer you stay at the "crime scene," the easier it is to get caught – even though, theoretically, if everything went according to their plan, this would not happen.
"Let's go, everyone~"
Penelope Clearwater waved happily, greeted the surrounding Ravenclaws, raised her wand and lit a blue raven magic mark in the sky, and quickly retreated towards Ravenclaw Tower according to the previously set route.
After seeing the retreat signal, the Ravenclaw students who were responsible for creating chaos in various parts of the battlefield also stopped one after another, and left the field quietly, scattering towards the castle or tower, as if nothing had happened.
"I knew those Ravenclaw girls couldn't be trusted!"
With Ravenclaw's active departure, the degree of chaos on the battlefield instantly decreased a lot. The Slytherin student leader, who was still in the Hufflepuff garden, thought for a while, waved his wand, and directly lifted a large piece of muddy ground in front of him.
"Never mind! Everyone, just use magic to lift the ground and take it all away in one go, and clean it up slowly when we get back."
In any case, Professor Sprout, the head of Hufflepuff House, was after all a powerful witch at the headmaster level. As the degree of chaos gradually decreased, the time left for them to steal vegetables was getting shorter and shorter. At this time, retreating was the most important thing.
"Let's do the same here! Quickly, quickly, quickly!"
After taking a look at Slytherin House next door, who had overturned the ground and taken it all away, the Gryffindor "stealing vegetables" team also reacted immediately, drew their wands, and waved them wildly like windmills.
Under the effect of magic, countless plants and soil were lifted up together. Hufflepuff's garden was like a violent tornado, and the entire piece of ground even sagged neatly downwards.
"Very good, everything has been packed! Retreat, retreat, retreat!"
Then, a green and a red magic firework bloomed in the sky above the field at the same time.
"No more fighting, no more fighting! Remember this! We'll let you off this time!"
"Hmph, who let go of whom is clear! If you have the ability, don't leave after class tomorrow."
The students who were originally entangled looked up at the sky, looked at each other, and showed a look of excitement and agitation. They stopped almost at the same time, cursing and fleeing in all directions.
At the same time, those "corpses" who had been attacked by spells in the melee and fell to the ground also got up one after another, quickly joining the flow of retreating people, and quickly fleeing the scene according to the original planned route.
"Don't fight, don't fight, eh... where are the people?!"
Seeing the students stop fighting, Professor Sprout subconsciously continued to persuade everyone at first, but looking at the students around who were fleeing without looking back, a strange feeling suddenly surged into her heart.
The students were no longer fighting each other, which was a good thing.
But... it seems...
I feel like something is wrong?!
Before Professor Sprout could react, within five minutes, the "battlefield" that had been in full swing before instantly became empty, leaving no one behind except for the wreckage of the battlefield with potholes.
Oh, no.
It was just that the students of Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw had all run away.
Those few Hufflepuff first years who had followed the crowd out of the castle and witnessed a shocking melee show were still standing in front of the castle gate, looking blankly at the empty field and their head of house.
Glancing at the confused new students like little chicks, Professor Sprout shook her head, seemingly unable to expect these children to help her solve her doubts... If it were those little girls like Ellena, it might be possible.
As Professor Sprout thought, she turned her head to look around, with a look of contemplation and confusion on her face - trying hard to review what had just happened, why did everyone suddenly run away?
The chubby witch looked around confusedly...
No injured students left behind, a fight that broke out and ended in an instant between the three houses, a mess of a battlefield, a bare Hufflepuff garden, students fleeing in all directions... Huh?!
Wait!
A bare Hufflepuff garden?!
Professor Sprout was suddenly stunned, turned around and looked at the large area of the garden belonging to Hufflepuff House not far away, which was once a large vegetable planting area that supplied the daily needs of the entire Hogwarts.
The once lush and abundant vegetable field was now gone, leaving only a pile of pitiful soil "remnants".
The "soil relics" were clearly divided into three areas. Except for the middle one, which still had some plant roots, the other two were particularly miserable, as if they had just experienced a violent magical bombardment, with traces of being violently overturned by magic everywhere.
This is?! The three houses are acting together?!
Professor Sprout only felt a darkness in front of her eyes, and the blood rushed to her forehead, making her lips tremble with anger.
"Outrageous! It's too much! Bullying people too much, bullying people too much!"
Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, Professor Sprout, who had always been kind and gentle, walked towards the castle angrily like an angry badger, gnashing her teeth.
In short, after such a big event happened, she had to tell Professor Dumbledore first to see how to deal with it.
These Hogwarts children are really too outrageous and must be taken care of!
"Pro-Professor... what should we do..."
As Sprout passed by and approached Hogwarts Castle, she heard the voices of several children next to her as if they had lost their souls.
The chubby witch turned her head and looked at the few first-year students beside her, looking at the empty garden and about to cry, and the guilt and anger in her heart increased a bit.
As a Herbology master, Professor Sprout was too clear about the heartbreak and helplessness after the plants she had worked so hard to grow for several weeks were suddenly taken away - without even leaving a few roots.
"Believe me, I'll go to Professor Dumbledore, and everyone will definitely get justice."
Professor Sprout's face rose with a terrifying murderous aura, and she said fiercely through gritted teeth.
Seeming to feel that her tone was a bit terrible, the head of Hufflepuff House paused slightly, turned around and took a deep look at the empty Hufflepuff garden, and her voice slowed down, vaguely with a bit of頹然 (túirán, despondency).
"Well, you go back to the house first and tell everyone the news. As for the school, I will communicate with them. Hogwarts is a reasonable place after all. No matter what, the other three houses will not get away with this!"
Having been the head of Hufflepuff House for so many years, Professor Sprout knew very well how kind and honest the children in her house were. It was too difficult to expect them to actively stand up and fight for their own interests.
For so many years, in most cases, these good children have been silently enduring.
Moreover, this time the situation was really too complicated. Compared with the clear responsibilities in the past, she didn't even know who to specifically point the finger at - three houses, so many students, pretending to create chaos, colluding in secret, jointly dividing Hufflepuff's garden...
This was definitely not the mistake of just one person, or even a few people. If Hufflepuff House wanted to get justice, it would almost need to face the obstruction and prevarication of most of Hogwarts. The difficulty can be imagined.
But this time, as the head of Hufflepuff House, Professor Sprout could not swallow this breath no matter what.
Professor Sprout even thought that even if she had to use force in the end, she would have to get those vegetables and plants back for the children! In any case, she could not let the Hufflepuff students be wronged like this!
After simply comforting a few Hufflepuff freshmen, Professor Sprout's eyes narrowed dangerously, she snorted heavily, and walked towards the headmaster's office upstairs without looking back, her whole body as if shrouded in a cloud of murderous aura.
"Professor..."
Looking at the head of house who seemed to have completely changed, several Hufflepuff first-year students swallowed nervously, silently made way, and watched Sprout disappear with murderous aura at the end of the stairs leading upstairs.
"If Ellena (Ailínà) Big Sister and Hannah (Hànnà) Sister were here, they would definitely know what to do."
Susan Bones murmured, her round face full of confusion.
However, she also knew that Ellena was probably still in the classroom on the first floor, working as a potions class teaching assistant. At this time, it was impossible for her to be by their side.
Justin Finch-Fletchley frowned, gradually came back to his senses, and sighed.
"In short, let's go back to the house first, as Professor Sprout said, and tell the upperclassmen who don't have classes what happened, and let's all think about what to do?"
"I think so too, let's ask the upperclassmen for their opinions first."
Ernie Macmillan nodded, and echoed in a deep voice, "You also saw Professor Sprout's expression just now. She looked almost mad. This matter will definitely not be settled so simply."
...

A dozen minutes later.

Hufflepuff common room, the atmosphere was particularly heavy.

Since it was still the second class of the afternoon, there were not many students in the common room.

In addition to the first-year and second-year students who had no classes in the afternoon, there were only a few sixth-year and seventh-year students who had not chosen any courses, staying in the common room to play chess or fool around - most of the Hufflepuff students in the other grades were still in class at this time.

Although after the fifth-year o.w.Ls exams, in theory, the wizards could abandon the courses they hated, but considering future work needs, except for a very few salted fish upperclassmen, most children would still choose as many courses as possible.

In other words, most of the upperclassmen who would appear in the common room at this time were the kind of "happy scumbags" and "happy mixers" who had lost their dreams and were ready to be salted fish wizards.

Naturally, as the prefects, outstanding students with high prestige among the students, were not among them.

Therefore, Ernie, Justin, and others' idea of seeking advice from upperclassmen could not be realized for the time being - although most of the students showed great indignation after learning what happened outside, but most people, apart from being unable to do anything but rage, had never had any constructive opinions, until...

After a long period of depressed staring, a Hufflepuff second-year student suddenly slapped his thigh, stood up, and said loudly with a look of indignation.

"It's not a solution to just wait like this, go! Let's go to the heads of the houses to reason!"

It must be said that Ellena's words in Hufflepuff a few weeks ago had left a slight mark after all, at least leaving the most simple truth of "unity is strength" in the hearts of many wizards.

Since Professor Sprout had already gone to Professor Dumbledore to complain, then it was reasonable for them to go to the heads of the houses to complain. Hogwarts wouldn't be without a place to reason, right?!

For the simple-minded badgers, it was normal to tell the teacher that they had been bullied.

After someone took the lead, the badgers in confusion seemed to have found the backbone, and responded with one sentence after another, stood up one after another, gathered together indignantly, and walked towards the door.

"Go! Let's all go together, this matter can't be settled like this!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Go make trouble for their head of house!"

"That's right, that's right! Let their head of house clean them up!"

"That's it, that's it! It's too bullying! They must compensate!"

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