Chapter 905: Before the Tournament
In the Headmaster's office, Dumbledore looked at the information sent by Duran uncertainly, and said in a dry throat for a long time, "The information sent by Pettigrew?"
"Do you doubt the authenticity of this information?"
Dumbledore was a little skeptical, but a voice in his heart told him that Duran wouldn't joke about such a thing: "So where is the real Moody?"
"Polyjuice decoction is time-sensitive, and to prepare the decoction, you need to pretend to be something on the subject, and if you prepare it in advance, it may be problematic, so I think the real Moody's is all around us, even in the office of the fake Moody's. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
If you do need to drink a little bit of the compound decoction every hour, thinking that the fake Moody's carries a flask and fills the mouth with liquid at every turn, I'm afraid it's a decoction. Duran made a lot of sense, if Moody's hair or nails were prepared in advance, it was easy to have problems, and the Death Eaters would never allow any mistakes to happen, so the safest way was to imprison the real Moody.
"Little Barty, but how the hell did he get out of prison?" Dumbledore was present when Barty Jr. was captured, and the judge was Barty Jr.'s father, the head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation, Barty Sr., the man who wronged Sirius.
In fact, little Barty had already come out of prison, because when his mother knew that she was terminally ill, she begged her husband to exchange her with little Barty, and she used the function of compound decoction to change her son's appearance to go to prison instead of her son. Little Barty was protected by his father and kept hidden in an invisibility cloak, and was also guarded by his family's house-elves.
However, Barty Jr.'s loyalty to Voldemort prevented him from giving in, and he finally found an opportunity to join up with Pettigrew and return to Voldemort's side once again.
They planned to restore Voldemort's body in this Triwizard Tournament.
Dumbledore didn't know all of this yet, but now that he knew that the real Moody was not in danger for the time being, he couldn't just startle the snake, he had to spy on Voldemort's spies to see their true purpose.
"Then I'll tell you if there's any new information. ”
Seeing that Duran was leaving, Dumbledore said, "Duran, this matter ......"
"I know, I won't tell anyone else, as for the information I receive in the future, I will only give it to you, as for how you decide it's your own business, I'll go first. ”
'Reading the Wizard' has become a well-known tabloid in the school, and this time there has been a series of reports on the history of the Triwizard Tournament that will be launched this semester, and even a **** of the warriors in everyone's minds, and each house has given a different name.
They are all excellent seniors in the school, but they are all male names.
With the popularization of the tabloids, the students' enthusiasm for the Triwizard Tournament has become more and more high, and some students who are not under seventeen are also using their abilities to try to put their names into the Goblet of Fire. However, the age limit magic set by Dumbledore himself, even age potions cannot be mixed, and anyone who dares to break the rules will be punished, that is, becoming an old man for a period of time.
Obviously, male wizards are more looking forward to being warriors than female wizards, and they want to show courage to come out. And from the history of the competition, it can also be seen that basically the final winner is male.
In fact, it's not just the Triwizard Tournament, from the entire history of wizards, well-known wizards are also more male than female.
Harry and Ron also want to be brave like the rest of their age, especially Ron, who is very motivated to find a way to crack the Goblet of Fire. Harry was a little better than Ron, he had at least the impressive strength of Quidditch, but Ron was a complete follower, and he could hardly find any other way to express himself except for some attention by Harry's side.
So becoming a warrior was a very important way for Ron to express himself, but his abilities were obviously not enough to break Dumbledore's magic.
"Why don't you go to the adults to vote for your name?" Hermione was speechless to the classmates, was the wizard's circuit designed to get around the easiest way around?
Harry and Ron looked at each other, "But the only adults in the school are professors, and they won't help us, not even Hagrid." ”
"Then you can find seniors who are over seventeen, and they may be able to help. Hermione turned, hiding her fame.
It seems to make sense, and all the students around him have taken action, but how can a seventeen-year-old student be a competitor himself? The seniors who didn't want to participate put forward very high requirements, which the juniors couldn't complete at all.
So there is a very harmonious picture in the school, the seniors take a group of juniors to follow the class, instruct them to do things, and the juniors are to endure humiliation and do everything, who let them ask for the seniors.
"A wizard who needs the help of others cannot be brave. Watching the junior students curry favor with the older students, Professor McGonagall couldn't help but remind the younger students, "I know you want to take shortcuts, but there can be no shortcuts to growth, and of course there are no shortcuts to breaking Dumbledore's magic." ”
The Professor's words dispel some of the people, and Harry and Ron feel that it makes sense that if they want to be brave, they must make the Goblet of Fire admit themselves, and they must find their own way to fight Dumbledore's magic.
However, it didn't work, because the two of them have limited levels, limited abilities, and limited youth.
The people who could put their names into the two months were basically all cast, and finally one day at the end of October they welcomed the warriors of the other two magic schools.
They'll have to put their names in the Goblet of Fire, too, but the other schools have already selected their warrior candidates in advance before they set off, and they are definitely the best.
Soaring in the Pegasus carriage are the outstanding students of the Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in France, a very large and clean carriage, a high-standard school with elegance and discipline.
When the large, picky Pegasus swept through the skies of Hogwarts, it already drew cheers from the students. This is the magic school of other countries, and the romantic appearance makes them have infinite reverie for the guests.
Duran stood in the office window and saw Pegasus coming from the clouds, and said that Pegasus was more than unicorns, which was a bit interesting.
The Pegasus drifted, crossed the last bend in the sky with a graceful curve, and entered the landing state, the four hooves ran vigorously, several Pegasi neighed, the front hooves landed first, stepped on the blades of grass, and ran towards the front for nearly a hundred meters before finally stopping the carriage.
A lookout mast appeared above the Black Lagoon, accepting only pure-blood wizards, and the Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which taught dark magic, arrived at Hogwarts on time, and the way they came was by water.
From the bottom of the lake came the mast, then the canvas, then the deck, and finally the keel of the whole ship rushed out of the water, as if to fly away from the lake, and the hull was surrounded by a crystal waterfall, and the sparse applause was like a long-lasting applause. It's a retro multi-masted sailing ship, but it appears like a submarine.
Hogwarts students showed enough enthusiasm to welcome their guests. (To be continued.) )