Chapter 83 The First Landlord Fighting Competition
In the past two days, Seamus felt that everyone around him had been very busy, Hagrid was busy taking care of the unhatched dragon eggs and his newest friend Seincarter, almost so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, and his beard that he had groomed became a mess.
Harry and the three of them had been encouraging Professor Quirrell, while Hermione had started her third round of revision with ten weeks to go before the exam. Harry was busy with Quidditch training, and Ron was idle, but unfortunately his two energetic brothers were targeting, and whenever he had free time, he dragged Ron to play cards, which was called to prepare for the weekend's landlord fight.
Time flew by in a hurry, and on the first weekend of the return to school, Saturday was a Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. There is basically no suspense in this game, not only the result, but also the process.
Hufflepuff has a Quidditch player like Cedric, but he is just a chaser and has no way to turn the tide. The relationship between the two academies is also relatively friendly, and the whole game is like a gentleman's agreement, which makes everyone drowsy.
Thankfully, the hypnotic match didn't last long, as Harry quickly caught the Snitch and ended the match and declared Gryffindor a second victory.
Gryffindor have won two games so far, with a goal difference of 270, even if Gryffindor loses to Ravenclaw and Slytherin wins two in a row, as long as Slytherin doesn't win more than 270 points, Gryffindor will win this Quidditch match.
Once Gryffindor had won against Ravenclaw, Slicklin would not have won the match anyway, because Gryffindor had won all of their games, which was an absolute victory. It's a pity that the Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw match is in the final game, and the result of Quidditch cannot be finally decided.
Now that the atmosphere in the entire Gryffindor team has eased, and Wood is not setting up the training plan as frantically as before, which also gives the twins more time, Ron naturally gets even worse.
With the twins promoting the Landlord Fight, the activity became more popular in schools, especially a bottle of Elixir as the final prize, which drove a lot of people crazy. Because those rich people always like to hoard elixirs, the market is often in a state of priceless and unmarketable, although even if they are available, most people may not be able to afford them.
The twins collected about 400 entry forms, and there were only more than 500 students at Hogwarts, and the landlord competition can be said to be the most widely participated competition in Hogwarts. And Seamus also saw Professor Flitwick's name on the stack of registration forms, which may be the first time that a professor and a student have competed on the same stage.
Influenced by that "gentleman's game", everyone began to look forward to another game on Sunday after the game. The Landlord Contest officially began in such an atmosphere of anticipation, the time was ten o'clock in the morning on Sunday, and the venue was set in the Charms classroom.
It was the largest classroom, and Seamus had applied to Professor Flitwick from the beginning, not expecting him to be out in person.
At 10 a.m. on Sunday, all the participants arrived at the Charms classroom, and Seamus had already set up the scene, and the classroom was full of tables to ensure that everyone was able to form a team in the first place.
As the twins announced "the game begins" on stage, Seamus triggered the magic circle that had been set up long ago, and a wave of light surrounded the entire classroom, enveloping everyone in the middle.
The light circled around the field and turned into a curtain of light, on which fifty-four playing cards appeared in turn. The pattern on the playing cards has also been changed to Seamus, the big ghost is Merlin, the small ghost is Vivian, the four kings are the four founders of Hogwarts, and the others have different portraits according to history.
And like the portraits, these portraits are moving, and Seamus imitates the most typical movements of those characters during their lifetimes based on historical rumors. Seamus had asked Headmaster Dumbledore about it, and he was reluctant to get on the card again, as the Chocolate Frog card had already annoyed him.
So after discussing with Dumbledore, except for Nicol Lemay, who is still alive among the fifty-four characters, the other characters have already gone west, and even if they ask him about portrait rights, they can only let ghosts or portraits come.
After the fifty-four playing cards appeared, they filled the circle, and the people sitting in the center of the field seemed to be watching an art exhibition, and after a moment all the playing cards began to move, heading towards the dome surrounded by the light curtain, where there was a palace of light, and the plaque had three large characters of Hall of Fame written on it.
Then a line of words appeared on the light curtain, "The First Hogwarts Fight the Landlord Competition", and after a while, the font disappeared, and the light curtain disappeared with it, only the palace on the dome remained, and Li Jordan took over the twins as the host to announce.
"The competition officially begins, the winner will receive a magic potion, and the top seven players will be inducted into the Hall of Fame. ”
This is the result of Seamus's meditation in the past few days, because it is pre-set, like a program, and it is much more difficult to make this effect than magic, but it makes him return to the feeling of being a programmer in his previous life.
Of course, Seamus himself also participated in the competition, and with his more than ten years of experience in fighting landlords, he may be able to fight in this competition.
Seamus faced roommate Dean and another Hufflepuff student in the first round, and the three took turns to be the local host, with the winner advancing to the top. Dean became the first landlord, and the playing cards were placed in the center of the table, where there was also a magic circle, and as the magic circle was activated, the playing cards began to fly up and down, and then the cards were automatically dealt to everyone.
Seamus had good luck in the first game, three 2-of-a-kinds, quickly established an advantage with the top card, and the Hufflepuff students followed suit, and finally the two of them won the first game.
Then it was the turn of the owner of Seamus, the game went on like this, every three rounds will be promoted, Seamus with more than ten years of experience in fighting landlords than others, although sometimes unlucky, but also by reading cards and shouting to advance to a few rounds.
With two dozen people remaining, Seamus bumped into Harry and Penelope, who had also advanced to the next few rounds. Penelope's technique is very good, she has been used to playing high-quality games in Ravenclaw for a long time, and her technique is higher than expected.
I thought that Harry would be out of the control of the two of them, the first game was Harry's landlord, and Seamus had all the big cards in his hand, but the cards at the bottom were extremely unsmooth, and it was a mess. Just as Seamus was about to slow down and take the lead and go slowly, Harry simply threw away more than half of his cards, leaving only four cards in his hand.
Seamus gave up the struggle, and Harry won the game, and the next two games were much the same, with Harry always having the best luck to beat both of them. After three rounds, Seamus and Penelope together had only two chances to play, and the two of them stared at Harry as they won and left the table like kings.
Could this be the legendary dog luck? If it weren't for the shuffling of the magic array designed by Seamus himself, he would have wondered if Harry was cheating, and the three cards beat Seamu, who had just been complacent, to doubt his life.
With such luck, what prize does Harry want? Isn't the elixir superfluous to him?Or is it that he and Penelope are too unlucky, and this table forms the legendary conservation of luck.
He decided to follow Harry to see if he was like this with every hand, and he didn't usually see that Harry was so strong, so what was the point of holding this game, was the Savior really so scary, then Dumbledore's choice was right.
Seeing that Harry finished the round as fast as he could, he stood aside and drank the free butterbeer, waiting for others to advance.
Soon the next round begins, and Harry meets the duo of Cedric and Akihari this time, and Seamus stands behind Harry, intending to watch the whole thing.
"Why do you keep following me?" Harry couldn't help but look back at Seamus a little hairy.
"It's nothing, you continue, I'll just see. Seamus didn't mean to get out of the way, still standing behind him, watching the magic array put the cards in front of him.
There must be no problems with the magic array, such a simple operation, there is no problem, and the service life of the magic array is not long and not so short. Then the problem must be Harry, fortunately Harry is only eleven years old now, if in a few years, this game has Qiu Zhang sitting at the table, no matter how lucky Harry is, he will definitely lose this game.
As Harry sorted out, he had another "heavenly card", standing next to him and watching, Harry won all three games again, and the expressions on Cedric and Qiu Zhang's faces were the same as those on Seamus's faces just now, they were full of ghosts.
Seeing Harry stand up, Seamus patted him on the shoulder and pulled him aside, "Playing less cards in the future is not good for your health." ”
After saying that, Seamus stepped aside, nestled in the corner and watched the others play, the result of the first Hogwarts vs Landlord competition was no longer in doubt, whether this kind of suspenseless game would be held in the future, or whether Harry should be restricted from participating.
The twins, who had sworn before the game, finally had problems, and Fred failed to advance, leaving George alone and the cooperation between them was gone. Soon the game came to an end, and the game went faster than Seamus had imagined, expecting to fight until late at night, and informing the house-elves in advance to prepare their food.
But now it's only four o'clock in the afternoon, and only the last table on the field is still playing, and everyone else has been eliminated. Originally, the number of participants was half male and half female, but the remaining three were all men.
Harry, George, and Professor Flitwick, who stood on a chair and competed with them, following the magic circle......