Halley Wolffer

Chapter 9

The Hog's Wart students remained scrambled for a few days after the announcement, everyone feared that Ireland would lose the Alchemy Crystal and somebody tossed rotten eggs at Vector Grudge, but eventually, life returned to normal at the castle.

Very soon, the entire academy raised in support for Halley Wolffer.

Looney Whakadoodle designed and created special badges that read All Ireland supports Halley Wolffer! with magical colors that would change between silver and blue, also featuring a picture of Halley that would smile and blink with enthusiasm when you looked at her.

Vector and Flor de la Corte decided to study and sleep within their respective carriages, the days were passing and one day Halley and her friends went to have a walk beside the lake...

"Thanks for the badges, Looney" Halley said, her wolf tail moving happily from one side to the other- "They are really nice!"

"It was no problem!"

Looney was wearing her own wolf tail that morning, which had been charmed to move as a perfect imitation of Halley's real tail. She also seemed to be very proud of her fake, furry wolf ears, and her dreamy smile showed the wolf fangs that she had also invented to complete her Halley costume.

"We need to make twenty more Halley costumes this evening" Donald said, trying to adjust his fake tail because it was not moving properly- "They are selling like hot bread! We are going to make a fortune, Looney..."

It seemed that everyone at Raven Tower was desperate to wear a Halley costume, not to mention that they were getting orders from Gryffin Tower and the Badger Basement as well. The Rattlesnakes were trying to forget their rivalry with the Ravens in order to support Halley too, all of Hog's Wart academy truly gathering together for the Tournament.

Halley, Looney and Donald were having a nice and peaceful time, walking by the edge of the lake as they discussed the Halley costumes and the Halley badges like they had been doing the night before. It was a cold but quiet day under a pearly white sky, and then they saw a group of Dreamstrange students gathered under a lonely tree not far from them.

The Dreamstrange carriage was parked nearby, their magical physician looking totally perplexed as she tried to attend a very sickly-looking Vector Grudge...

"Look at Vector!" Looney said in a low voice, trying to not attract unwanted looks- "What do you think happened to him?!"

Halley took a look at her future rival, realizing that the Welsh champion, indeed, looked very sick that morning. His normally brown eyes were bulging and bloodshot, his face was turning rather yellow and he was suffering violent shivers, then unexpectedly coughing up a lot of blood while Halley and her friends were still looking at the group of Dreamstrange students.

"I have no idea!" Halley said, trying to conceal her smile of cruelty and pleasure- "Maybe the Irish weather is not suiting him very well..."

The three Ravens passed the Dreamstrange carriage, and soon after that, they spotted a very happy-looking Flor de la Corte as she was half-dancing, half-jumping her way back to the grounds of the castle... Her deep purple cloak made her look even more surreal than she usually was, at least fifteen Hog's Wart boys trailing fascinated after her.

"I am telling you, that is not a normal girl!" Donald said, shaking his head like he was trying to come back to his senses.

"Yeah, maybe Flor is part Veela or something" Looney pointed out, looking a little annoyed- "My father says that Veelas are rather common at Castile- Hey, Halley... What did the purple letter say? What is coming for the First Task of the Tournament?"