Chapter 17: The Great Change

"Four?" Harry's look incredible?

"Five in total?" The two faces of the twin brothers are exactly the same, and they all say Are you bluffing me?

"Ten people?" This is Daphany, and she's also demented.

Not only them, but all the students in the entire auditorium, all the students of the four academies were amazed.

It was a weekend dinner in mid-October, and Dumbledore had just announced that the other students and faculty members from the Tournament House would be coming to Hogwarts next weekend. This is something that everyone has known for a long time, in fact, after waiting for almost two months, everyone has been looking forward to it for a long time. But Dumbledore's words surprised everyone. Because, this year is not the Triwizard Tournament, but the Final Five!

Yes, there are a total of five colleges to participate in this tournament. In addition to the three traditional European houses: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrand, there is also the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the United States and the Nagud Inafer School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Australia. Not only that, but the number of contestants has also increased from one to two! In other words, the so-called Triwizard Tournament suddenly became the Ten Warriors Tournament!

What's going on? How is this going to work? Daphine looked confused. This is definitely the biggest change she has ever faced. But she had no idea why this was happening. Although it is true that her little butterfly flapped its wings, she really couldn't think of any action that could cause such a thing.

But no matter what Daphany thought, it was a foregone conclusion. And, in fact, the other students were surprised, but more delighted. After all, it didn't matter to them that three houses had become five. However, the number of contestants in one academy has changed from one to two, which is great news.

If he was the best student in the school, no student since Percy Weasley graduated with this self-righteous mentality. But if the two best students are selected from the school, is there a chance?

All of a sudden, the students were excited. Gearing up for the upcoming tournament.

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For almost two months, the academy has been relatively peaceful.

Except that Moody's way of teaching is a little uncomfortable. For example, when teaching students to resist the Imperius Curse, his way is to have the students come forward one by one and try to resist his Imperius Curse.

Barty Crouch Jr. is not the best Dark Wizard, but he is more than the average Death Eater. Daphany couldn't take him down at the beginning. Although the time is still short, Daphany estimates that even if it takes a little longer, she can defeat him, but it will be difficult to keep him. After all, it's better than the werewolf Fenrir.

Barty Crouch Jr. at this level, his Imperius curse is certainly not something that ordinary students can resist. In fact, with the exception of Daphany, Harry was the only one who actually resisted.

Harry's Occlumency Technique had been practiced for more than two months, and this spell was the best means of resistance to all kinds of spiritual magic, and although Harry's attainments were far from profound, they could barely resist the Imperius Curse that Crouch Jr. did not care too much about. As for the other students, they were barely able to resist only after Crouch Jr. had reduced the effect again and again.

As for Daphany, there's not much to say. Barty Crouch Jr. may have penetrated Daphine's first layer of mental defense if he did it with all his might, but Daphine's mental defense has three layers. In terms of magic power, the two are almost the same, but they are more than spiritual power...... Daphany looked down on little Crouch at all. In fact, apart from the White Wizard and the Old Bat, Daphne looks down on everyone right now.

Students' evaluations of Moody's teaching methods vary widely, but one thing is unanimous. It's that the things that Moody's teach are really useful. Mastering those methods is very useful to yourself. Therefore, although many people don't like his teaching methods, they still study what he teaches very seriously. Of course, it's not okay if you don't take it seriously......

The thing used Transfiguration to turn a disobedient fifth-year Slytherin into a toad in class, and shut up in a glass beaker for an entire class. Although he was said to have been severely reprimanded by Professor McGonagall afterwards, there were no other after-effects. I don't know if the student didn't dare to tell the parents, or if the parents didn't dare to provoke Moody after learning the news, anyway, nothing happened after that.

It's the first time the students have seen such a wild professor. No one wants to be the next toad, or whatever.

Fourth-grade homework skyrocketed, and students found out about it in the first week. However, they later discovered that that was just the beginning! As the semester progresses, there are more and more assignments.

A Gryffindor student reported this to Professor McGonagall, who was then scolded by Professor McGonagall. 12345

"You are entering an important period of your magical education!" In one Transfiguration class, Professor McGonagall replied when students asked similar questions, her eyes gleaming majestically behind square lenses, "Yours. LS exams are approachingβ€”"

"But, Professor! We won't be taking the wizard level exam until the fifth grade! Dean Thomas said incredulously.

"Perhaps, Mr. Thomas, but trust me, you need to be well prepared! In this class, only Miss Granger and Miss Lestranzi can turn the hedgehog into a satisfying needle pad. Mr. Thomas, I should remind you that your needle pad will still curl up in fear when someone approaches it with a needle! Professor McGonagall replied coldly.

Andy Thomas was speechless.

Hermione's face flushed as she listened to Professor McGonagall's compliment, trying not to look too smug. Daphine didn't care about it, she didn't care about such a compliment for a long time.

In addition to the Defence Against the Dark Arts class, which some people love and some hate, the Potions class, which almost everyone hates, the Transfiguration class, which makes almost everyone's head hurt, and the massive amount of homework that makes all students except Hermione headache, there is one small thing, and that is Hermione's change.

After talking to Daphany that day, Daphany put away all the badges she had before. He even took back the three badges he had sold (Harry, Ron, and Neville) and returned the money. Then there is no mention of the rights and interests of house-elves.

Instead, there is a frenzy of learning. Previously, Hermione's studies were theoretical-focused, but Hermione's studies were more practice-oriented. Originally, she didn't like to go to the dueling club very much, and occasionally she went to see the excitement. However, since talking to Daphany, she has participated in almost every club event. And very actively practiced. And always find Daphany to practice. Although her strength is really not very good, she is subdued by Daphany in a few clicks every time. However, Daphne also sensed that Hermione's methods were getting more and more sophisticated. If this continues, I can't say that I will be able to really compare myself in a few months.

Hagrid started raising his fried snails anyway. Thankfully, however, there was no harm to the younger students. Rather, it is used as a practical homework for students in the sixth grade improvement class. Since they were able to choose magical creatures as their improvement class, they naturally really liked these things, so those students had a lot of fun. But it was a bit of a pain for Madam Pomfrey, and since Hagrid introduced the fried snails, the students had been sent to the infirmary every once in a while to deal with minor issues.

If these things are put in the past, in fact, a considerable part of them can be used as talking points for students. This year, however, it has all become a thing of the past. Because everything has to make way for the tournament. Especially after learning that this year's tournament was unprecedented without any academy participating, with ten warriors participating.

In the last week before the other houses came to Hogwarts, the deans of each branch carefully told the students of their houses to be careful about their words and actions in front of the teachers and students of the other houses, and not to disgrace Hogwarts (the deans were actually talking about Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin).

Among them, Neville is definitely the most advised. No way, although with Daphany's help, Neville performed much better than in the original plot. However, performance in most courses is still far from the average for students.

In addition to these advices, teachers of various subjects began to frequently give small stoves to students above the sixth grade. The reason is simple, I hope that the students of the academy can perform well in the competition.

In view of the large number of competition items in the competition, I don't know which ones will be used this year. Professors don't have any very good special teaching to do. However, there is always nothing wrong with improving the overall strength of the students.

Originally, at the end of the last semester, the professors of the college vaguely knew about the competition. But I didn't know that the rules had changed so much. At that time, all the professors thought that Daphany must be representing the college. At Daphany's level, it is unlikely that anyone of her age or even all the students in school will be her opponent. So the professors are very peaceful.

However, in September, I got the accurate news that it turned out to be ten contestants from five schools, and most importantly, it was even restricted to students under the age of 17. Many students felt that this was restricting Daphany, and this thought was contagious to the professors.

As a result, all the professors began to focus on cultivating their favorite students. All kinds of tips for pressing the bottom of the box have been taken out.

Most of the students don't know about the professors' small movements. However, it is not impossible for them to notice the change, in fact, the change is very obvious.

The entire castle has been cleaned, sparing every corner.

Several sordid portraits were scrubbed clean, and the scrubbed figures were very unhappy about it. They sat hunched in the frame, muttering sullenly. The armor in the hallway suddenly became shiny and shiny, and it no longer creaked when it moved.

Filch patrolled every entrance to the castle and lashed out at every student who forgot to wipe their shoes clean. Several first-grade girls were even scared to tears by him.

Everything is in preparation for the upcoming reception of the other four colleges!