Anxious to go back and figure out the complete function of these Emotion Points, Kate didn't even want to eat anymore and prepared to stand up and leave.
However, just as she stood up, she saw several owls flying in from outside the Great Hall.
With a thwack, a copy of the Daily Prophet was dropped into her lap.
Kate opened the newspaper in confusion; she had never subscribed to the Daily Prophet. This copy must have been specially sent to her by Grandpa Rand.
After searching for a while, she finally found a news item in a corner of the paper.
"LATEST REPORT ON GRINGOTTS BREAK-IN:
Investigations into the break-in at Gringotts on 31 July continue. It is widely believed that this was the work of an unknown dark wizard or witch.
Gringotts goblins today insisted that nothing had been taken. The vault that was searched had in fact been emptied the same day.
A Gringotts goblin spokesperson said this afternoon: 'I'm not going to tell you what was in there, so keep your noses out if you know what's good for you.'"
Is the news of the Gringotts theft only being exposed now?
In the original works, Harry's first visit to Diagon Alley was led by Hagrid.
It was on that very day that Hagrid took away the Philosopher's Stone hidden in the Gringotts vault.
The reason she saw Quirrell appear at the Leaky Cauldron when she went was also because Voldemort, who was behind him, was investigating the whereabouts of the Philosopher's Stone.
However, Old Man Dumbledore was still one step ahead. Before Voldemort could force his way into Gringotts to find the Philosopher's Stone, Dumbledore had already moved it in advance.
From this, Voldemort should also be able to guess that Dumbledore had hidden the Philosopher's Stone at Hogwarts.
Only then would the entire story of the Philosopher's Stone unfold.
Now that the Daily Prophet has reported it, the entire magical world will know this not-so-new news.
Mr. Savior should also pretty much know that the underground vault he visited before had been burgled.
Right now, he's probably still guessing what exactly Hagrid took away back then...
Looking back thoughtfully at the two brothers burying their heads in their food at the Gryffindor table, Kate shook her head and got up to leave the Great Hall.
Old Man Dumbledore could worry about the Philosopher's Stone himself; right now, she just wanted to figure out how to use these Emotion Points.
Walking quickly back to the Slytherin Common Room, she unsurprisingly did not see Malfoy.
Kate had no mind to think about how he would tattle to his old dad. Anyway, she didn't have a dad, so he couldn't find anyone to complain to even if he wanted.
Heading straight back to the dormitory, Fluffball did not jump into her arms the moment she entered the door as usual.
Kate walked to the birdcage with some curiosity. The water and food added in the morning had been eaten clean.
As for Fluffball itself, it was still hiding deep in the cage, sleeping soundly.
How strange. She hadn't seen it being this lethargic before.
Was it sick, or had it started developing?
After thinking about it, she decided to write a letter to Newt later to ask what was going on.
She sat at her desk and opened the System.
[Current Emotion Points: 1]
According to the System's description, Emotion Points could be stacked without limit, but there would be a cooldown period of three days where magic could not be used after using them.
If one day she had no choice but to face Voldemort, and she directly used a few hundred Emotion Points, wouldn't she be absolutely unstoppable?
[System Prompt: Theoretically, there is no upper limit to the use of Emotion Points, but based on the Host's current constitution, a maximum of 6 Emotion Points can be stacked.]
Kate paused. So this thing still had a limit!
True enough. If such a potent thing didn't have a limit, it would be heaven-defying.
Her current Vitality was 61 points, so Emotion Points could only stack up to 6, which could boost current attributes to 160%.
Not to mention anything else, even if 53 points of Mana were boosted by 60%, that would only be 84.8, which still couldn't compare to Dumbledore.
She estimated that Voldemort's Mana at his peak was at least over 90 points, and his other attributes were even more unfathomable.
Even if he was only a remnant soul now, he was definitely not someone the current her could deal with.
"So... I still have to solidify my base attributes." Slumping back into her chair, Kate just felt like tearing her hair out.
In the original works, spells like the Patronus Charm could indeed use emotions to increase their power.
The System likely adopted this principle, expanding the applicability of emotions to all spells.
Thus, Kate could use the collected Emotion Points to enhance the power of all her attributes.
It was just that she thought this was a shortcut, but facts proved there was no free lunch in the world.
In the absence of Main Quests, Attribute Points were hard to obtain. Last year, she struggled sleeplessly for a whole year to barely get 20 Attribute Points.
Distributed evenly among several attributes, that was roughly equal to no increase.
From this, it could be seen that obtaining these Emotion Points would probably be even more difficult.
According to the System's nature, the first completion of every standard task would be relatively simple, and the difficulty would skyrocket afterwards.
She couldn't very well catch Malfoy, this one fat sheep, and fleece him to death every day. That minor villain from the original works would be scared into mental illness by her sooner or later.
So stressful. Having a cheat code was like not having one at all.
[System Prompt: There are various ways to obtain Emotion Points. The Host does not need to stick to one method or one emotion.]
"You mean... I can obtain different emotion points from other people and convert them into Emotion Points?"
[Yes. The Fear Point just now was a newbie gift for triggering the unlocking of Emotion Points.]
[If the Host wishes to collect Emotion Points quickly, the difficulty of collecting positive emotions is slightly lower than negative emotions.]
That is to say, emotions like joy, happiness, and love would be easier to collect than fear, sorrow, and hatred.
Kate's eyes lit up, and she slapped her thigh.
"Then I can find Hermione to collect emotions!"
Hermione had just reconciled with her. It was the time when feelings were strong. It shouldn't take much effort to collect Emotion Points, right?
Although saying this made it sound like she had ulterior motives, compared to guys like Malfoy, she genuinely wanted to stay with Hermione more.
[Understood. Setting Hermione Granger as the priority target for Emotion Points collection.]
"System, your tone really sounds like the Xiao Ai at my old home..." Kate couldn't help but roast it.
After this analysis, she finally understood the positioning of Emotion Points.
Collecting them was just an extra task. The most important thing was still to study hard to improve herself and get Attribute Points to raise her base attributes.
Only when the base number was high could she use fewer Emotion Points to exert a greater effect; otherwise, no matter how many she had, it would be useless.
Recalling the dedicated behavior of Voldemort visiting Hogwarts every year in the original works, Kate clutched her hair in a headache.
The Emotion Points she collected would probably bottom out every year.
Boohoo, her insufficient firepower phobia was acting up again.
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