As Hagrid brought a group of budding newcomers into the auditorium, everyone fell silent. This year's freshmen are shaking harder than previous freshmen, and this can have something to do with the fact that each of them is soaking wet.

The thousand-year-old Sorting Hat was taken out again, followed by a new song. But seriously, this kind of stinky, long, and out-of-tune song is really tormenting to the ear.

Finally, at the end of the song, everyone applauded to express their happiness that their ears were back to peace. As one newcomer after another was called up, Ryan began to whisper about the freshmen.

Colin's brother was assigned to Gryffindor, and as soon as he ran to the table, he excitedly told him about his miraculous experience of falling into the lake and being rolled up by a large squid and put back on the boat. After that, Colin began to introduce seniors to his younger brother.

Naturally, the first to be introduced was Harry, who was a must as the backbone of Harry's fan club. Of course, this enthusiasm embarrassed Harry, and he turned his gaze to the Sorting Hat to stare at it carefully, as if there was something on it that attracted attention. When Colin introduced Ryan, Ryan smiled and nodded, and then wiped Dennis's clothes dry with a wave of his wand.

"Thank you, senior. Dennis politely thanked him.

Soon the sorting ceremony was over, but fortunately, there were no speeches from the leaders. Dumbledore stood up and just looked at all his classmates with a smile and opened his arms in a welcoming gesture.

"I have only two words to say to you," he said, his voice echoing through the Great Hall, "Eat!"

No wonder Dumbledore was a respected headmaster, knowing that what was needed in such a situation was a hot dinner rather than some tirade. For a moment, the entire auditorium fell silent, except for the sound of knives and forks colliding against plates and chewing.

Hermione learned from Nick that there were hundreds of elves at Hogwarts. This time, though, she paused for a moment, and then resumed eating the steak in front of her. It seems that both Ryan's influence and Harry's almost killing of Dobby have changed Hermione's perception of house-elves.

Soon everyone was full, and as the final dessert was put away. Dumbledore's voice rang out in the Great Hall again.

First, a few items of contraband were routinely added and explained where they were not allowed. Ryan didn't listen to any of these things, though, as he was covered in stuff that didn't quite conform to the school rules, and he would go to the Forbidden Forest to see his friends on average once a month.

After introducing Moody, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor for this year, there was only sporadic applause below, and Ryan glanced at Moody above, seeing his magic eye scanning the students below and the professors next to him.

Ryan observed Moody on the stage for a few seconds, and Moody turned his eye as if he sensed something. Ryan could only quickly turn his gaze elsewhere. Anyway, after a short observation, Ryan couldn't tell if this Moody was real, so he could only wait for the next class.

At this time, everyone felt a little tired after eating, and many people even fell asleep. At this time, Dumbledore released an explosive message.

"I'd also like to regret to inform you that there will be no House Cup Quidditch this year!"

Boom, the whole auditorium was in an uproar. As we all know, the sport of wizarding is Quidditch. Dumbledore's words meant the equivalent of a secondary school principal telling his classmates that all physical education classes had been cancelled this year. If it weren't for his high enough prestige, it is estimated that the audience would be full of protests by now. Soon everyone fell silent, waiting for Dumbledore to explain further.

Fortunately, Dumbledore did not disappoint everyone, and he quickly cleared his throat and explained.

"That's because a big event is going to start in October and continue throughout the school year, taking up a lot of time and energy from teachers – but I'm sure you'll all have a lot of fun doing it. It is my great pleasure to announce that we will be honoured to host a wonderful event over the next few months at Hogwarts this year, which has not been held for more than a century. I'm pleased to report that Triwizard Tournament will be held at Hogwarts this year. ”

Probably finding that everyone was more impatient, Dumbledore simply said this passage in one breath.

"Oh no—are you kidding?" Fred shouted in shock.

"I'm not kidding, Mr. Weasley," Dumbledore smiled, "but since you mentioned joking, I heard a funny joke about a troll, a dominatrix, and a leprechaun, all in the same tavern......"

Well, this shows that Dumbledore was a very humorous man, but it was obviously inappropriate to say that at this time. Fortunately, Professor McGonagall's cough rang out at the right time, saving the headmaster's conversation from the fork in the road.

Under Professor McGonagall's supervision, the Headmaster finally popularized the story of the Triwizard Tournament for those who didn't know much about the game - of course, Ryan, who even knew the content of the game, was not impatient at all, and listened carefully to the whole speech word by word.

After all, after more than three years of accumulating strength, he has reached a certain level, and after a series of thoughts, Ryan decided to give up his previous state of fishing. After all, on the one hand, now that his own strength has improved greatly in the past, he can have the capital to directly participate in the plot and obtain more offset points.

On the other hand, unlike the introverted people of the East, the West prefers people who can express themselves well. Just like in Western schools, the most conspicuous thing is the captain and cheerleader of the football team, not the top students who study best. Now that Ryan has assembled an organization, he must find a way to demonstrate his leadership skills. And the Triwizard Tournament is the best stage.

As for the last mention of the principal, the restriction on applicants to be over 17 years old was directly ignored by Lane. He now had several possible ways to break through that magic detection, and if none of those methods worked, Ryan would simply give up.

After all, the principal's age circle is actually a test, if Ryan can't break through, it means that there is a certain gap between his strength and his self-assessment, which means that his own strength cannot guarantee the safe completion of the game. In this case, Ryan will not be embarrassed to play.

After saying this, Dumbledore hurried everyone to bed. Hermione approached Ryan on her way back to Gryffindor Tower and asked, "Will you be in this race?"

After all, Hermione remembered how Ryan had taken her alone to penetrate the entire Pyramid Temple copy last year, so she asked this question. In her eyes, Triwizard Tournament was no more difficult than dealing with a bunch of dark wizards and evil magical creatures.

"All I can say is that I'd love to participate, but I don't know what Dumbledore will do to limit everyone's age. Ryan shrugged and replied to Hermione.

On the way, the Weasley twins loudly said that they would use the age booster to fool them around, but Ryan felt that at least this solution would not fool Dumbledore.

After a heated discussion, everyone went to bed, after all, everyone was tired after a day of traveling in the wind and rain today. Ryan also followed the crowd back to his dormitory, but instead of going to bed immediately, he began to think about how to deceive Dumbledore's age circle.