Chapter Twenty-Four: The Guests (!) )
Xingzhe also stepped forward and looked at it, and the information on it was
Triwizard Tournament
Representatives from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will arrive at 6 p.m. on Friday, 30 October. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The afternoon session will end half an hour early, when students are invited to return their school bags and textbooks to the dormitory, gather in front of the castle to meet our guests, and then participate in the welcome banquet.
"Great!" Harry said, "The last lesson on Friday is Potions class!" Snape didn't have time to poison us all! ”
"Snape has threatened you, too, he's going to poison you, isn't he?" Seung-cheol walked over to Harry and greeted each other.
"Looks like you're Lo too." Ron spoke.
"It's only been a week!" A Hufflepuff student squeezed out of the crowd, his eyes sparkling, and said, "I don't know if Cedric knows." I'm going to tell him......"
"Cedric?" After Ernie hurried away, Ron said a little dazedly.
"It's Diggory," Harry said, "and he's definitely going to compete." ”
"That idiot wants to be a Hogwarts warrior too?" Ron said. They pushed away the chattering crowd and headed for the stairs.
Xingzhe smiled, it seemed that Ron had a deep-seated prejudice against Cedric....
Hermione chased after her, and Seizhe vaguely heard her say, "He's not an idiot. You didn't like him because he beat Gryffindor in Quidditch..."
"Don't mind." Harry was a little embarrassed to say to Xingzhe, and then followed.
"Triwizard Tournament...."Luna said to Seong-cheol, "Aren't you going to participate?" ”
"How did I get there, Luna, that's an age limit...."
The appearance of this notice in the foyer had a noticeable effect on the people who lived in the castle. For the next week, no matter where people looked, there seemed to be only one topic to talk about: Triwizard Tournament. Rumors spread quickly among the students, like highly contagious germs: who would be the Champions of Hogwarts, what the Championship would be, and how the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students would be different from them.
Seong-cheol also noticed that the castle seemed to be being thoroughly cleaned. Several sordid portraits were scrubbed clean, and the scrubbed figures were very unhappy about it. They sat hunched in the frame, muttering sullenly, grinning in pain each time they touched the tender pink flesh of their faces. That caused the armor to suddenly become shiny and shiny, and it no longer creaked when it moved. When the janitor, Argus Filch, saw that a student had forgotten to clean his shoes, and he was furious, causing two first-year girls to go into hysteria.
Because he was busy, Dobby didn't go to help that week, and Lupin was busy enough.
The other faculty members also seemed nervous.
This manifests itself in the form that each teacher treats students harshly, and Seong-cheol's roommates are often scolded, but Seung-cheol behaves well, except for Trelawney's class.
On the morning of Oct. 30, they went downstairs for breakfast to find the auditorium renovated overnight. Huge silk banners hung on the walls, each representing one of Hogwarts houses: Gryffindor with a golden lion on a red background, Ravenclaw with a bronze eagle on a blue background, Hufflepuff with a black badger on a yellow background, and Slytherin with a silver python on a green background. Behind the teacher's desk, hung the largest banner with the coat of arms of Hogwarts: a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake linked together with a large letter H around it.
Xingzhe, Penelope, and Luna sat at the Ravenclaw table, talking and laughing, but Xingzhe was more concerned about what Harry was talking about, and he deliberately used Taoism to eavesdrop on their conversation.
"It's not pleasant, I admit," said George to Fred in frustration, "but if he doesn't speak to us in person, we'll have to send him the letter." Or put the letter directly into his hand. He can't hide from us forever. ”
"Who's hiding from you?" Ron said, sitting down next to them.
"I hope you can avoid us." Fred said, seemingly unhappy to be disturbed.
"What's not pleasant?" Ron asked George.
"There's a silly brother like you who meddles with things." George said.
"Do you two have a way to deal with the Triwizard Tournament?" Harry asked, "Do you still want to sneak in?" ”
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“....... House-elves! Hermione said, her eyes sparkling, "In the thousand-plus-page book Hogwarts, a School History, there is not a single mention that we are oppressing a hundred slaves together!" ”
“.... There's no useful information at all! Xingzhe retracted his consciousness full of grooves, but in his heart he thought, if they were all like this, how would he gather useful information?
The norm of the trio is to chat and blow water, Hermione also wants to make a mysterious organization and liberate the elves, thinking of this, he thinks of some tragedies in the original book, full of slots....
That day, there was a sense of anticipatory joy in the air. In class, no one was paying attention, and everyone thought that Beauxbatons and Durmstrang were coming tonight. Even the history of magic class wasn't as unbearable as usual, because it had to end half an hour early. When the bell rang early, the students hurried to their respective lounges, laid down their school bags and textbooks, put on their cloaks, and rushed down the stairs to the foyer in three steps and two steps.
The deans of the college are ordering their students to line up.
"Bartlett, put your hat on," Professor Flitwick reminded Joe, and said to Parvady, "Miss Padma, take that thing out of your hair, and believe me, it doesn't look good." ”
Parvati frowned unhappily and removed a large butterfly headdress from her braid.
"Please come with me," Professor Flitwick said, "and the first-year students are in front...... Don't crowd ......"
They walked down the steps and stood in front of the castle in a line. It was a cold, airy evening, and night was falling, and a white, translucent moon was already hanging over the Forbidden Forest. Xingzhe saw many junior students, and they were all trembling with excitement.
They excitedly scanned the darkening field, but saw no movement. Everything was silent and peaceful, no different from the usual. Seong-cheol began to feel cold. He wished they could be faster...... Perhaps foreign students are preparing for a dramatic entrance ceremony......
At that moment, Dumbledore, who was standing in the back row with the other teachers, shouted-
"Ahh If I'm not mistaken, Beauxbatons' representatives have arrived! ”
"Where?" Many students asked eagerly, looking in different directions.
"There!" A sixth-grader shouted, pointing over the Forbidden Forest.
A behemoth, much larger than a broomstick—or a hundred—was speeding across the deep blue sky toward the castle, growing larger and larger.
"It's a dragon!" A first-year student screamed, unsure of what to do.
"Don't talk stupid...... It's a house flying! ”
As the black behemoth skimmed over the treetops of the Forbidden Forest, illuminated by the lights of the castle window, they saw a great powder-blue carriage flying towards them. It was the size of a house, and twelve winged horses flew through it, all of them silver-maned horses, each about the size of an elephant.
The carriage flew even lower and was descending at an incredibly rapid pace, and the students in the first three rows hurried back - and then, with an earth-shattering bang, Neville jumped backwards and stepped on the foot of a Slytherin fifth-grader - only to see the horses' hooves slam to the ground, all the size of a vegetable plate. In the blink of an eye, the carriage also landed on the ground, vibrating on the huge wheels, and the golden horses shook their huge heads, their big fiery red eyes dripping.
As soon as Xingzhe saw a coat of arms (two golden cross-crossed wands, each with three stars popping out of it), the door opened.
(To be continued.) )