Chapter 30: Prelude to the Competition (2)
"Hello, Mr. Ollivander. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info I thought I had gone back to Diagon Alley. Dumbledore greeted the old man in front of him who was a little distracted.
"Ah, Dumbledore, you're back. ”
"Well, Mr. Ollivanders, is there anything you have to do in my office?"
"Hmm...... I think there are two things I should tell you. Dumbledore. Ollivanders seemed to have made a difficult decision, and finally spoke up.
"About today's wand check?"
"Hmm. ”
"If it's about Harry's wand, I guess there's nothing I don't know, right?" Dumbledore waved his wand, and two cups of coffee floated in front of them (Dumbledore and Ollivander).
"Perhaps, but by the way, Mr. Potter's wand, its 'twin' wand, seems to have been used lately. ”
"Really?"
"Well, it should be, of course, if there are any big changes in Fawkes lately, there may be something that affects the vitality of that rod core. ”
"And then?"
"The rest is about Miss Parker's wand. ”
"Holly's wand? Oh, by the way, Ollivander, you seem to be vaguely trying to fool around with something when you check?"
"That's what I'm going to tell you. Ollivanders' expression became serious.
"What's wrong?
"The core of that wand is not a simple unicorn tail feather. Rather, the unicorn tail feathers soaked in the werewolf's blood. ”
"Is that okay? Anything has changed?" Dumbledore asked, frowning.
"I don't know, but I remember where the tail feather came from. It was a wild werewolf who took advantage of the night of the full moon to kill almost an entire unicorn tribe, knowing that in the end, he lost to the strongest unicorn in the tribe, however, the unicorn did not survive in the end. After the werewolf went berserk, the blood splashed all over his body to the unicorn's wound, and only then did the unicorn finally kill the werewolf, but after that, the unicorn was also stained with the werewolf's blood...... But eventually, by the time I got there, the unicorn seemed to be still struggling with werewolf blood all over the ground...... Finally, I plucked that tail feather ......"
"And then?"
"That wand...... Has a special effect on black magic. Ollivanders paused and said, "If, if someone really uses that wand to perform dark magic, I think they might be able to bridge the power gap." ”
"Really?" Dumbledore seemed to hear a dangerous piece of news, and instantly became serious.
"I think so, and I have to say, Miss Parker, and that wand, really fit. Maybe one day, she might be able to achieve the most perfect wand. "If there ever is a day, I think all the wandmakers in the world will go crazy about it." ”
Odlivander shook his head and left Hogwarts through the fireplace in the headmaster's room.
"Leapfrogging strength?" Dumbledore muttered to himself, no one noticing the cold glint in his eyes, only the phoenix, which seemed to sense something, moved to the other side of the shelf.
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Rita Skeeter's interview with Harry Potter was soon published in the Daily Prophet, and even took up the vast majority of its pages. In the report, there is hardly much news about the game, and even the news of Durmstrang and Beauxbatons has been compressed to the last line, as for the relevant information about Holey, it has not been mentioned at all, which makes Holey, who has been following the "Daily Prophet" to prevent any information from being leaked, but there are also disadvantages, Harry Potter, who was originally a replacement player, was almost recognized as the only representative of Hogwarts, but this was clarified in each student's letter to his family.
From the day the story was published, Draco Malfoy and his followers found a new activity—reading newspapers. Whenever they met with Harry Potter or Hermione Granger, they would always pull out a copy of the Daily Prophet out of nowhere, with a picture of Harry Potter on the front page, and almost all of them would have heard the calloon in their ears about what they were going to read.
As a byproduct, the Gryffindor trio began to have conflicts, Harry Potter, who was made the best student of Gryffindor by Rita Skeeter, and Ron Weasley, who was recognized as Gryffindor's megalomaniac, were seen by other students more than once in the Gryffindor common room, on the way to class, and even in class, no longer as close as before, and even sometimes quarreled, as for Hermione Granger, she received instructions to follow Harry Potter as closely as possible, and she had to stand on Harry Potter's side at similar times, and this blatant team behavior made the distance between the three widen more and more。 But fortunately, due to Ron Weasley's bad past, even the rest of the Weasley family did not show much intimacy with his family members in school.
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The Triwizard Tournament still had a certain impact on Hogwarts, and the most intuitive manifestation was the addition of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students in the school. During the year of the competition, students from both schools will have to class, study, and live in the same way as Hogwarts students. Although they stayed in their own carriages or on ships in the Black Sea, they still haunt Hogwarts regularly.
Thereupon...... Whereas Delacour haunts always find a group of disgruntled male creatures, and the areas where Victor Krum has visited always leave a group of girls drooling when they are sick.
In the library, Holly and Erinka were still sitting in their seats, and of course, Holly would occasionally peek at Harry Potter and Hermione Granger not far away.
"What's wrong, why are you so inattentive today?" Irinka noticed Holly's small movements from time to time.
"What else could there be. Well, there's still a minute. Holly flipped through the book a little boredly, and estimated the time over and over again. "Half a minute ......"
Just when Erinka didn't understand what Holly was talking about, the door to the library opened, and Victor Krum strode in, followed by a group of girls curled up and slipped into the library one by one.