Willow Springs joined Dumbledore, Beauxbatons Headmaster Maxime, Durmstrang Headmaster Igor Karkaroff, Barty Crouch, Professor McGonagall, Mad-Eye Moody, Severus Snape, and others into the room next to the Great Hall.

On the downward ladder, the three headmasters continued to erupt into a series of arguments, and the headmasters of the other two schools apparently thought that Hogwarts had used the hosting rights to deliberately seek illegitimate and irregular benefits for their own side, deceiving the Goblet of Fire and adding an extra Warrior to the tournament to increase their chances of winning the championship.

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips, and it was clear that she trusted Harry's innocence and supported Harry unconditionally, but even she couldn't explain why this was happening. Barty Crouch, the highest-ranking official present at the Ministry of Magic, was pale and didn't know what he was thinking. Mad Eye Moody strode down the stairs, the MONOCULUS spinning and sweeping across Harry.

Snape walked beside Willow Spring, slightly half a step ahead of Willow Spring, and when she quietly glanced sideways at his expression, she found that his face was tense, as if he was thinking about all these unexpected changes in his mind, as if he had not thought of anything.

Willow Spring had known that no one here could stand in the way of a powerful plot - Harry was going to officially compete as one of the Hogwarts warriors after all - and the only thing she was puzzled about was that she couldn't remember the details of the year, at most the contents of those three games, and that Voldemort would be resurrected at the end of the year. But how he was resurrected, how he was resurrected, and what he did after the resurrection, she couldn't remember the slightest bit of it.

The frustration probably came to her face, as Snape glanced at her and said with a little impatience, "Why? Don't you understand how Potter deceived the Goblet of Fire?"

Liu Quan was slightly startled, and suddenly raised his head to look at him. A mocking smile tugged at the corner of Snape's lips, and he quickly walked over to the fireplace and stood beside a confused Cedric Diggory and a grim-looking Mr. Barty Crouch.

Willow Springs, taking a look at the room and carefully choosing a place next to Professor McGonagall before replying, "No, I believe Harry didn't cheat the Goblet of Fire. ”

Snape made an impatient voice of disbelief in the shadows.

Maybe he just wanted to be in the limelight, so he asked an older classmate to help him put his name in the Goblet of Fire. ”

Harry heard his malicious speculation and exclaimed excitedly, "No!"

"Ah, he must be lying!" exclaimed Madame Maxime, the headmaster of Beauxbatons. Snape shook his head and pursed his lips.

"There's no way he's going to cross that age line," Professor McGonagall snapped, "There's no way Harry could have crossed that line himself, and as Professor Dumbledore believed, Harry didn't convince the seniors to do it for him, and I think everyone else should believe that!"

She glared at Professor Snape angrily.

So the adult wizards present once again quarreled fiercely. Except for the four little wizards, only Liu Quan looked like he was out of the way. She seemed to sense Harry's gaze and turned her face away, only to see Harry looking at her pleadingly, as if silently begging the men to believe his words. Although she couldn't prove the child's innocence in public, she could still stand on his side to show support when everyone was arguing. So Liu Quan smiled kindly at him. Harry's eyes lit up behind the lenses.

In the end, Mr. Barty Crouch decided to follow the magical pact made by the Goblet of Fire and recognize Harry's eligibility. The decision made the faces of the headmasters of the other two schools even worse, Professor McGonagall was worried, Snape's brow furrowed, Moody's face showed a hint of playfulness, and Dumbledore's expression was almost more grim than ever.

Liu Quan had known about this result for a long time, so she was not so surprised by it. But several of the Hogwarts professors and Headmaster Dumbledore apparently needed a little more time to digest the sudden incident. They came out of the room next to the auditorium and moved directly to the principal's office on the eighth floor.

Dumbledore didn't invite everyone to "try Duke Honey's new sweets", as he usually did.

He just propped his hands on either side of the meditation basin, letting the silvery streaks of water in the basin reflect the drifting light on his face.

Professor McGonagall said eagerly, "It can't go on like this, Albus. First the Dark Mark and then this?"

Dumbledore calmly asked, "Minerva, what are you hinting at?"

Professor McGonagall said cheerfully, "It's over." Don't let Potter race!"

Dumbledore replied with a blank face, "You heard what Barty said, the rules are clear-"

"To hell with Barty and his rules!" Professor McGonagall, who had always been mild-mannered, was indignant as she walked up to Dumbledore in a few steps, "Once upon a time, you started pandering to the Ministry of Magic?!"

The accusation is too strong. Willow Quan quietly changed his center of gravity support foot when he was standing a little uneasily.

But Snape's voice immediately rang out, interrupting Professor McGonagall.

"Headmaster, I think it's hard to say that it's all a coincidence—" His hands were fingered at each other in front of him, as if playing with them unnaturally, as if to hide something, but he soon strode over to Professor McGonagall and said in a slick tone, "But, if we want to unravel the mystery of this series of events, we should probably ...... For the time being—"

He stopped suggestively, staring at Dumbledore's back. Dumbledore's expression lit up and down in the light of the meditation basin's water.

“…… Let it go. He finished the last paragraph word by word, and even his mouth stayed on the last word "go" without moving.

Professor McGonagall immediately became astonished, turned her head to glare at him, and asked, "What?!

Snape didn't move, and he didn't respond. The same is true of Mad-Eye Moody on the side. Liu Quan noticed that his whole body was hidden in the shadows, leaning on the crutch, but his eyes were on the meditation basin.

Professor McGonagall became even angrier when she saw that no one in the room had responded to her. "I mean, Potter is a kid, not a piece of meat!"

Dumbledore stared at the meditation basin and was silent for a moment before saying, "I agree with Severus. ”

Professor McGonagall seemed incredulous, so surprised that she didn't know what to say. She also seemed to be trying to convince her adventurous colleagues, so she turned to the silent Liu Quan, "Lily, don't you think so?"

Liu Quan sighed.

"Minerva, it's not a question we can change if we think so......" She tried to convince Professor McGonagall without alarming the "inertia of the plot" and the fake Moody on the sidelines, "We all believe that Harry didn't do this, so who threw Harry's name into the Goblet of Fire? What was his purpose?Why did Harry have to participate in the Triwizard Tournament?Is there a master behind him?...... There is no answer to all these questions. We've got to figure out what's going on......"

"We have so many adult wizards here, but in order to figure out what's going on, we're going to push a child out of those dangers?!" Professor McGonagall asked, causing Willow Spring to feel a little embarrassed for a moment. Her concern for Harry was indeed unmatched by anyone else - it was the care of a real elder for a child, without any conditions or restrictions, and without any impurities.

Liu Quan lowered his eyes, avoided her gaze, and whispered, "We have no choice...... Harry will be fine, Minerva. As you said, we have so many adult wizards here, there's no way we're going to let him ......"

Even she felt that her words were very pale, but Dumbledore seemed to be satisfied, he nodded in the direction of Willow Spring, and finally spoke, but it was to the mad-eyed Moody on the side.

"Alasto, can you help keep an eye on Harry?"

Moody finally removed his hands from the crutches and limped over with the cane. "Of course. He replied crisply.

“…… But don't let him know. Dumbledore immediately added, "He must already be nervous knowing the tribulations ahead." And we're the same—"

He used his wand to pull a bundle of silver-white memories from his mind, and with a flick of the tip of the wand, he shook the bundle of memories into the meditation basin. The scene of getting the parchment with Harry's name on it from the Goblet of Fire resurfaced in the stone basin with Runiven carved all around.

When everyone had retreated, he stopped the last Willow Spring.

"Lily, my dear child, would you like to stay a little longer and accompany me to taste Duke Honey's new sweets?"

Snape, who was walking in front of Willow Springs, paused, turned around and quickly glanced at Dumbledore and Willow Springs. But he didn't say anything, and walked down the spiral staircase outside the door.

"Oh, Severus seems to want to try the candy too. Dumbledore waved his wand, and a large tray of candy suddenly appeared in front of Willow Spring.

Willow Springs' lips tugged at the corners of her mouth, thinking that the old wizard must have deliberately brought up Snape—Snape probably hated sweets the most?—— but Willow Springs' bad taste for him had always been helpless, so she could only pretend not to hear him, and sat down in the chair in front of her desk, grabbing a piece of pear hard candy from her plate.

"I've had too much of a sweet tooth with you lately, and I think I'll have to get some potion for teeth cleaning or tooth protection if I continue like this—Duke Honey's latest novelties are always sweet for my toothache. She replied as she peeled off the wrapper of the pear candy.

Dumbledore, apparently satisfied that tonight's solitary conversation had begun with a sweet tooth after a long night of surprise, disbelief, argument, and unpleasantness, and he put the meditation basin back in the cupboard, turned around, and walked back to his desk, his blue eyes glinting happily behind his half-moon glasses.

"I'm guessing you also had a toothache when you talked to Alastor last night?" he looked at Willow Spring amusedly, "That might explain why Alastor wasn't very pleasant all day today after talking to you......"

Liu Quan replied in a rigid tone, "I just reminded him not to deliberately frighten those poor children. Trying to get this group of kids to experience the Imperius Curse in class is not a good or enjoyable experience. ”

Dumbledore's eyebrows raised in surprise for a moment, and then he quickly hid his surprise and said with a smile, "You know, Alastor was never a man of good intentions - he was probably just anxious to let these children know what dark magic was and how to defend against it. And...... Speaking of deliberately scaring those kids," he winked at Willow Spring, "Severus is good at this, too—"

"Well, so you think it's not enough for one person to scare them at Hogwarts, so you got another one?" Willow Quan couldn't help but make a small sarcasm at the old headmaster, who was always unpredictable about what he was really thinking. "Besides, Severus wouldn't have used the Unforgivable Curse on these children. ”

Dumbledore looked at her through the lens, as if to say, "Oh Lily, I know you're going to defend Severus".

Liu Quan swallowed the piece of pear hard candy in a deflated gulp.