Chapter 75 - Old Man (1/2)

After the old man closed the door, he gave a wide grin

”Welcome to my humble abode ladies and gentlemen,” The old man said. ”We'll need a little more time to finish the preparations. After we are done, you can all make a plan. I have a tent with an extension charm applied to it in the room over there. It can easily fit every single one of you,”

”Thank you sir,” Luthor said with sincere gratitude.

”You the leader of this group?” The old man asked.

”I am the leader,” Luthor said proudly.

”What are you proud of? You're dealing with ragtags and a third of your team is a group of kids who probably just recently stopped drinking their mum's milk,” The old man said with a condescending tone.

Hearing this made Luthor's face turn red in anger, but he decided not to say anything.

”At the very least you can control yourself,” The old man said nonchalantly. ”That's a good step towards leadership. Maybe you can be promoted to be a leader in a team of actual ȧduŀts in the future well if the battle is still going that is,”

Luthor didn't say anything and quickly turned to where the door was and entered. The rest of the group followed.

Luthor wasn't the only angry one however. The students excluding Chris and 'Harry' were all fuming.

”What is wrong with that old man? I know that people can be really unreasonable sometimes, but he's saying that we... I can't even say it,” Augustus said.”It's not like we're complete amateurs on the battlefield. We've been fighting for a long while too,”

”Calm down Augustus,” Chris said. ”You can't get emotional over every single provocation. Are you going to start getting angry if Death Eaters say something you don't like. If you do, you'll die within the next 5 seconds. Also, I get what he is saying. He's a man that has experienced war before and is currently experiencing another one. He has the right to say that we're greenhorns. Let's just give our respects and move on,”

Hearing this made Augustus quiet although he and a couple of other students were still a bit angry.

Looking at Augustus' expression made Chris sigh.

'Looks like they still have some ways to go,' Chris thought as he entered the room. The room had a shabby tent that looked like it was about to fall over at any second. However, when Chris went inside, it was a large living room with a large table surrounded by many chairs. There were also many sofas around for resting and there was even a small bed. No one went on the bed as they ȧssumed that it was for the old man and either sat on the various sofas or chairs around.

Obviously, the ȧduŀts huddled on one side while the students hung around on the other. No ȧduŀts went to try to talk to Harry which surprised most of the students as they were so used to seeing people go to Harry and ask him questions about his scar or about his fight with Voldemort.

”Well, at the very least, there was still Harry who didn't get angry over what that old man said,” Augustus said after calming down from his outrage earlier. ”Normally, Harry would be easy to provoke especially by people like Snape or Malfoy,”

”Are you trying to say something Augustus?” 'Harry' asked jokingly.

”No, just complimenting you although it feels like you're kind of leaving us,” Augustus said with a chuckle. ”Well I guess having Gin-”